Does LUCID registration cost anything?

No. ZSVR states that registration is free of charge and done online.

Can my representative or a marketplace register for me?

No. Registration is a personal duty of the producer.

LUCID registration in Germany: what it is, who does it, what it costs

LUCID registration: the German packaging register

What the LUCID packaging register is, why every producer registers itself, what it costs (nothing), how a company outside Germany names its representative, and where the LUCID number goes afterwards.

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

Checked: 6 November 2026 — the date every statement on this page was checked against the sources below.

Quick answer

LUCID is the German packaging register run by the Zentrale Stelle Verpackungsregister (ZSVR). Every producer registers itself, online and free of charge. Registration is a personal duty: nobody can do it for you. A company with no German establishment cannot finish the registration without naming an authorised representative, so it needs the representative's LUCID ID before it starts.

What LUCID is for

LUCID lists who puts packaging on the German market. Marketplaces and fulfilment providers check sellers against it, and the register is matched automatically. Your registration number has the form DE followed by 13 digits.

ZSVR VerpackDG § 13

Who does what

Step	Who	Cost
Create the login and register	You	Free
Name the authorised representative	You, in your LUCID entry	Free
Confirm the appointment	The representative, then ZSVR	Included in our €149
Data reports	The representative	Included in our €149

VerpackDG § 5 VerpackDG § 6 ZSVR

The registration, in short

You create a producer login, activate it within 24 hours, then have seven days to enter your details and submit. Have four things ready: your company name exactly as registered, the person in charge, a contact email and your VAT number, plus your representative's LUCID ID. Each screen is in our step-by-step guide.

ZSVR help

Already registered before 12 August 2026?

Producers registered in LUCID before the new law had until 12 November 2026 to have a representative named. If you are in that group and have not named one, do it now.

VerpackDG § 68

After registration

Enter your LUCID number in every marketplace account that asks for it: Amazon, eBay, Kaufland, OTTO, Etsy. The marketplace rules show where each one asks.

Amazon eBay Kaufland Global Marketplace

About the authorRazvan Toma

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.

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