{
 "licence": "CC BY 4.0",
 "updated": "2026-09-21",
 "name": "Who is approved to recover German packaging",
 "source": "https://eprgermanyrep.com/data/approved-bodies/",
 "routes": [
  {
   "packaging_type": "Household and e-commerce packaging (systembeteiligungspflichtig)",
   "who_recovers": "A <b>duales System</b>. § 20 requires it to be set up across the whole Land, to hold agreements with the public waste-management bodies, and to have the sorting and recycling capacity to put what it collects through pre-treatment and high-quality recycling. Producers participate under § 7 and pay per material type and mass.",
   "approved_by": "Competent Land authority",
   "approval_time": "18 weeks",
   "source_url": "https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/verpackdg/__20.html"
  },
  {
   "packaging_type": "B2B and other non-system packaging",
   "who_recovers": "Either the producer organises § 39 take-back itself, or it hands the responsibility to a <b>sonstige Organisation für Herstellerverantwortung</b> approved by ZSVR under § 22. RIGK, GVÖ, KBS and their joint venture PACKLIANCE are the established operators here.",
   "approved_by": "ZSVR",
   "approval_time": "3 months",
   "source_url": "https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/verpackdg/__22.html"
  }
 ],
 "dual_systems": [
  "BellandVision GmbH",
  "Der Grüne Punkt – Duales System Deutschland GmbH",
  "EKO-PUNKT GmbH & Co. KG",
  "Interzero Recycling Alliance GmbH / Lizenzero",
  "Landbell AG für Rückhol-Systeme",
  "Noventiz Dual GmbH",
  "PreZero Dual GmbH"
 ],
 "industrial_takeback_systems": [
  "RIGK GmbH (Wiesbaden)",
  "GVÖ mbH (Hamburg)",
  "KBS Recycling",
  "PACKLIANCE GmbH (RIGK · GVÖ · KBS, founded November 2025)"
 ],
 "streams": [
  {
   "stream": "Packaging",
   "register": "ZSVR / LUCID",
   "representative_mandatory": "Since 12 August 2026",
   "who_registers": "You register in LUCID yourself; the representative does everything else",
   "source_url": "https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/verpackdg/__5.html"
  },
  {
   "stream": "Electrical & electronic equipment",
   "register": "stiftung ear",
   "representative_mandatory": "Since 2015 (ElektroG § 8)",
   "who_registers": "The representative registers for you — you cannot self-register",
   "source_url": "https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/elektrog_2015/__8.html"
  },
  {
   "stream": "Batteries",
   "register": "stiftung ear",
   "representative_mandatory": "Yes (BattG § 26(2))",
   "who_registers": "The representative registers for you",
   "source_url": "https://www.stiftung-ear.de/themenwelten/bevollmaechtigter-werden-fuer-den-deutschen-markt"
  }
 ]
}