Razvan Toma is the founder of EPR Germany Rep and of EPR France Rep, the French sister service. He has worked in waste management and recycling since 2009, running waste-separation programmes inside large B2B organisations in France for clients including Chanel, Microsoft, Decathlon, Pirelli, IKEA, Vinci, Capgemini and E.Leclerc. He reads the statutes and the regulator's own guidance directly, and publishes what they say — including when it means telling a visitor they do not need to buy anything.
Razvan on LinkedIn ↗What we do
We act as Bevollmächtigter für die erweiterte Herstellerverantwortung under VerpackDG § 5(2) for companies that sell packaged goods into Germany and have no German establishment. €149 a year for packaging, no setup fee, dual-system participation passed through at the scheme’s own rate. We also run open datasets on what this market charges, when the statutory dates fall, and which bodies are approved to recover packaging.
Our commercial interest, stated
We are one of the providers in our own price table. A comparison written by a competitor is worth nothing unless you can check it, so every competing row links to that provider’s own published page and our price sits in the same table under the same headings. We publish no ranking and we do not claim to be „best“. The one claim we do make is checkable: ours is the lowest published annual price in a dataset we date and source.
How we source
- Primary law first. VerpackDG and the Kreislaufwirtschaftsgesetz from gesetze-im-internet.de; Regulation (EU) 2025/40 and Commission proposals from EUR-Lex. Quoted in German, with a translation, never paraphrased into a claim.
- The competent authority second. The Zentrale Stelle Verpackungsregister for anything about LUCID, registration, roles and fulfilment.
- Providers only for their own prices, read from their own pages on a stated date.
- No provider marketing as a source for law. Not ours either.
- Where something is unsettled we say so rather than picking the convenient reading. Two examples live on the site: whether a shipping label makes a seller the Erzeuger, where ZSVR and the Commission FAQ differ, and whether a marketplace listing makes the platform the Hersteller, where practice is still forming. One example came off this list: we read § 5(1)–(3) as moving the § 9 reporting to the Bevollmächtigter and said so as our reading — ZSVR has since answered it in its own FAQ, so it is now quoted as theirs.
Corrections
Every dataset carries a changelog and a last-checked date; every guide carries a Rechtsstand line. If a figure here is wrong, tell us and we will change it and log the change: hello@eprgermanyrep.com. Text and data on this site are reusable under CC BY 4.0 with attribution to eprgermanyrep.com.
Legal entity
EPR Germany Rep is the service brand of EPRGermanyRep GbR, a German Gesellschaft bürgerlichen Rechts. The company is established — trade registered with the Gewerbemeldestelle Köln on 1 October 2026 — and is not a company in formation (i.G.). A GbR has no Handelsregister number; the Gewerbeanmeldung is its registration.
We ask you to check this of every provider, and the same question applies to us: VerpackDG § 5(2) requires a Bevollmächtigter to have a Sitz or Niederlassung in Germany. We are EPRGermanyRep GbR, Im Mediapark 5, 50670 Köln — the details are in our Impressum. Anything else you need before appointing us, we answer in writing.