Malta's authority-held registers
Malta keeps its producer registers with the environment authority itself. ERA is the Maltese EPR register, holding the lists for packaging, electronics, batteries, single-use plastics and fishing gear, and the number it issues must appear on invoices and fiscal receipts.
Registration renews each year by 31 March. You comply through an authorised PRO, or individually where the stream allows it: electronics with a financial guarantee, packaging only for transport packaging and refillable gas cylinders.
What ERA covers
- Packaging: join a PRO such as GreenPak or Green MT, which is compulsory for sales and grouped packaging, with a beverage deposit scheme run by BCRS Malta.
- Electronics: ERA draws up the producer register, with a late-renewal fee of 20 euro a month.
- Batteries: rules in force since October 2025 implement the EU Battery Regulation.
- Single-use plastics: join a packaging PRO with a unique SUP number, tobacco filters added in 2025.
- Fishing gear: ERA registration since July 2025, with a collective scheme to follow.
Who must register
Producers that first place a covered product on the Maltese market, importers and distance sellers included.
How registration works
- Identify your streams.
- If a distance seller or foreign producer, appoint a Malta-based authorised representative (see below).
- Join an authorised PRO for the stream first. ERA's registration sheets ask for your PRO membership number.
- Your PRO submits your ERA registration within a month of you joining, and ERA issues your registration number. A producer allowed to self-comply files with ERA itself.
- Show the number on invoices and receipts, and renew by 31 March.
Foreign sellers and the representative
A Malta-based authorised representative appointed by written mandate is mandatory for distance sellers of electronics and packaging, and for foreign producers of batteries and fishing gear.
Beverage containers and BCRS
Drink containers have their own scheme. BCRS Malta runs the beverage container refund scheme, and producers of non-refillable containers register with it separately from ERA.
Frequently asked questions about ERA
Short answers to what producers ask most.
Who must register with ERA?
Any producer, importer or distance seller that first places packaging, electronics, batteries, single-use plastics or fishing gear on the Maltese market.
Where does my ERA number go?
On invoices and fiscal receipts, and it renews each year by 31 March, with a late-renewal fee for electronics.
How do I comply?
Through an authorised producer responsibility organisation for the stream, which you join before your ERA registration. Electronics producers may instead self-comply with a financial guarantee, and packaging only for transport packaging and refillable gas cylinders.
Do drink containers register with ERA?
No. Beverage containers register with BCRS Malta, the deposit-refund scheme operator, separately from the ERA registers.