German EPR open data

Four things about the German market are hard to find in one place and easy to get wrong: what a representative actually costs, when each duty bites, who is approved to recover the packaging, and what the fines are. We publish all of it as open data, each figure carrying the official source it came from, free to reuse under CC BY 4.0.

Regulation (EU) 2025/40 (PPW VerpackDG § 5 ZSVR ZSVR

What German EPR representatives charge

Published annual fees, setup charges and first-year totals for every provider we could find with a public price, plus a feature-by-feature comparison of what each fee actually includes.

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Every German EPR deadline, and the penalties

The statutory dates from PPWR and VerpackDG with a live countdown — including the § 19 and § 22 Zulassung dates in 2027 and 2028 that we have not seen published anywhere else — and the maximum fine for each offence.

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What a duales System charges per kilogram

Per-kilogram licence rates for eight material fractions across five German dual systems, derived from their own calculators and shown with the discount each one applies — plus a calculator that turns your weights into a yearly range.

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How many producers are registered in LUCID

A counted figure for the size of the German packaging register, the method so you can repeat it in a minute, and the one split the public register will not give you.

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Who is approved to recover German packaging

The two statutory routes, the authority that approves each, the approved dual systems and the industrial take-back organisations — and what the per-kilogram licence fees actually pay for.

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Marketplace requirements

What Etsy, Amazon, eBay, Kaufland and OTTO ask sellers for under German packaging law, from their own help pages.

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We sell German EPR representation, so we are not a neutral party in the price dataset. That is exactly why every competing row carries a link to the provider's own published page — check the numbers at their origin rather than taking them from us.

Free to use and cite under CC BY 4.0. If you quote a figure, please link the provider's page as well as this one.

Sources: ZSVR — Bevollmächtigung · ZSVR — manufacturer vs producer · ZSVR — Systembetreiber · VerpackDG § 5 · VerpackDG § 6 · VerpackDG § 7 · VerpackDG § 19 · VerpackDG § 20 · VerpackDG § 22 · ZSVR — Zulassungsverfahren · VerpackDG § 39 · VerpackDG § 66 · VerpackDG § 68 · Regulation (EU) 2025/40 (PPWR) · ElektroG § 8 · ElektroG § 37 · stiftung ear — Bevollmächtigter · BGBl. 2026 I Nr. 207 · RIGK — VerpackDG solution · PACKLIANCE (RIGK · GVÖ · KBS) · VerpackDG § 9 · VerpackDG § 10 · VerpackDG § 13 · ZSVR — Erzeuger oder Hersteller? · ZSVR — Versand- und Onlinehandel · ZSVR — Versand- und Onlinehandel · 2eu.brussels — ENVI vote, 6 October 2026 · Packaging Insights — 6 October 2026 · ZDH — 6 October 2026 · Council of the EU — 24 June 2026 · Directive (EU) 2025/794 · Regulation (EU) 2024/3234 · Code de l'environnement, art. L. 541-10-9-1 · European Parliament Research Service — Extended producer responsibility: 2026 turning point · Council of the EU — Qualified majority · European Parliament — Legislative Observatory, 2025/0395(COD) · Council of the EU — 30 September 2026 · COM(2025) 982 final · European Parliament — Legislative Train · BMUKN — 7 September 2026 · European Commission — 11 August 2026 · packaging-compliance.de · take-e-way.de · get-e-right.de · ZSVR help — Authorising a representative · ZSVR help — Registering in LUCID · ZSVR help — Data reporting in LUCID · ZSVR help — Declaration of completeness · ZSVR help — Roles and responsibilities · ZSVR help — System participation · ZSVR — Mail order companies and online retailers · ZSVR — Guideline: when to submit which reports to LUCID (August 2026) · EPR Germany Rep — dual-system licence rates dataset, read 21 September 2026 · Etsy Seller Handbook — VerpackG requirements for shops selling to Germany · Etsy Seller Handbook — New EU packaging and EPR rules (3 September 2026) · Amazon — Extended Producer Responsibility compliance · eBay — Erweiterte Herstellerverantwortung bei Verkäufen in Deutschland · Kaufland Global Marketplace — EPR general information · OTTO Market — onboarding guide · rep-germany.de · verpackgo.com (Green Dot Rep) · ecosistant.eu · lizenzero.com (Interzero) · epr.eldris.ai · ZSVR — one million LUCID registrations (9 April 2024) · ZSVR — LUCID registration · maincompliance.de · ecocomply.ai · authoriseme.eu

Frequently asked questions

Can I reuse these datasets?

Yes. Everything on these pages is published under CC BY 4.0 — reuse it commercially or otherwise, with attribution to eprgermanyrep.com. Each dataset also has a Markdown and a JSON twin for machine use.

You sell German EPR representation. Why trust your price table?

You should not simply trust it, which is why every competing row links to that provider's own published page. Check the numbers at their origin. We include our own price in the same table under the same headings.

Who actually recovers German packaging?

Two routes. Household and e-commerce packaging goes to a duales System, approved by the competent Land authority under VerpackDG § 20, which must have nationwide collection, agreements with the municipal waste bodies and its own sorting and recycling capacity. B2B packaging is either taken back by the producer under § 39 or handed to a sonstige Organisation für Herstellerverantwortung approved by ZSVR under § 22.

Do I need a contract in each Bundesland?

No. VerpackDG § 7(1) requires participation in one or more systems im Bundesgebiet — the federal territory. The per-Land approval in § 20 is the system's burden: to sell nationwide participation it must hold all sixteen. You sign once.

Selling into Germany from abroad?

Your German authorised representative from €149 a year: help with your LUCID registration, dual-system contract and annual report included. No setup fee.

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