Extended Producer Responsibility (packaging, electrical equipment, batteries, textiles)
Directive 2008/98/EC (as amended by (EU) 2025/1892); Regulation (EU) 2025/40; Directive 2012/19/EU; Regulation (EU) 2023/1542
EPR makes the company that first makes a product available in a country pay for its collection and recycling, usually by joining a producer responsibility organisation. Registration is national: a seller registers, reports and pays separately in every country it sells into, including cross-border online sales. Textiles and footwear get mandatory EPR from 2028.
Who is covered
Producers: EU manufacturers or brand owners, importers or first distributors in a country, and distance sellers selling to end users in another country. Online platforms must collect registration numbers; fulfilment providers must check them. Packaging: simplified reporting under 10 tonnes a year per country.
Your duties
- Map your sales by country and by stream (packaging, electrical equipment, batteries, textiles)
- Register in each national producer register before selling there
- Appoint an EPR authorised representative where you sell at a distance without an establishment
- Join a producer responsibility organisation or run your own scheme; pay eco-modulated fees
- Report quantities placed on the market (packaging: by 1 June each year)
- Give registration numbers to marketplaces and fulfilment providers
Product data it needs
- Countries of sale and sales channel
- EPR registration number per country and stream
- Producer responsibility organisation and authorised representative per country
- Quantities placed on the market per country per year, by material or category
- Eco-modulation criteria (recyclability, recycled content, durability)
How xProduct helps
- Packaging, battery and product data used for EPR reporting
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