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I sell only to restaurants, hotels or offices. Is that B2B packaging?

Usually household. § 3(7) VerpackDG treats hospitality, offices, hospitals, schools and similar places as comparable to private households.

Since 12 August 2026, § 5 VerpackDG, implementing Article 45(3) of Regulation (EU) 2025/40, requires a producer with no establishment in Germany to appoint an authorised representative before it first makes packaging available in Germany. Read § 5

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Usually not. § 3(7) VerpackDG counts as comparable to private households: hospitality (restaurants, canteens, snack bars, cafés, hotels), administrations, barracks, hospitals, schools, charities, professional offices, cinemas, operas, museums, leisure parks and stadiums. Farms and craft businesses count too when household-size bins, at most one 1,100-litre bin per collection group, take their packaging waste. Packaging that ends up there is licensed with a dual system like household packaging. VerpackDG § 3

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