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If you鈥檙e obligated under EPR for packaging, you鈥檒l have to register your organisation with the environmental regulators and pay a registration fee.

Find out if you have to collect and report packaging data.

The deadline for registration and payment was 1 April 2025.

Who has to register听

Organisations who are obligated under EPR for packaging must register with the environmental regulator.

Large producers and small producers, also known as 鈥榣arge and small organisations鈥�, have to register by April 2025.

Large organisations must register for the following year by October 2025. Small organisations must register for that year by April 2026.

Find out if you are a small or large organisation.

Using a compliance scheme

You can either register yourself on the report packaging data service or join a compliance scheme.

If you register yourself, you will be responsible for registering with the environmental regulator, reporting your packaging data, getting evidence to meet your recycling obligation and submitting your certificate of compliance each year.

If you join a compliance scheme, it will register you with the environmental regulator, report your packaging data, get evidence to meet your recycling obligation and submit the certificate of compliance each year.

What you鈥檒l have to pay听

You will have to pay a registration fee each year.听

The amount you鈥檒l pay depends on what kind of organisation you are:

• small organisation: 拢1,216听
• large organisation: 拢2,620

Find out if you are a small or large organisation.

If you use a compliance scheme听

You鈥檒l be charged a different fee if you use a compliance scheme:

• small organisation: 拢631听
• large organisation: 拢1,685听

You will also have to pay the compliance scheme. Contact your compliance scheme for details of their fees.

Groups and subsidiaries听

Groups can register:

• as one group - the holding company can do this even if it is not a packaging producer
• individually by subsidiary
• as a combination of individual subsidiaries and the holding company

For subsidiaries within a group registration, each subsidiary must pay a registration fee.听

The first 20 subsidiaries pay 拢558 each.听

Subsidiaries 21 to 100 pay 拢140 each.听

Online marketplaces听

Under EPR for packaging, you鈥檙e classed as 鈥榦wning an online marketplace鈥� if you operate a website or app that allows non-UK businesses to sell their goods into the UK.听

鈥疧nline marketplaces must pay an additional 拢2,579.

Deadlines for registration听

You must have submitted your registration data by 1 April 2025.听

Before you register

Regulators will not review a registration application until you have submitted both your first set of packaging data, your registration data and paid your registration fee.

How to register听an organisation

1. Create an account.听

Create an online account on the 鈥榬eport packaging data鈥� service.听

2. Check what details you need to supply听

To register your organisation with the regulators you鈥檒l have to upload details about your organisation to the EPR for packaging service.听

These organisation details include things like:听

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• packaging activities听
• contact details听
• the people who鈥檒l be verifying and submitting your data听

You may also need to report your organisation鈥檚:听

• brand information - if you supply goods to the UK market in packaging under your own brand听
• partner information - if you鈥檙e registered as a partnership on Companies House听

There is separate guidance explaining all the organisation details that you need to supply, and how to structure the information.听听

If you鈥檙e registering subsidiaries, there is a separate journey in the service and you will submit a separate CSV with subsidiary details. Full guidance will be published later in the year but you can see how to structure a groups and subsidiaries file.

3. Prepare your data as a CSV file: download templates

You鈥檒l need to submit your data as a CSV file.听

A CSV is a kind of simple spreadsheet. You can open and complete CSV files in any spreadsheet program.听

There are templates to help you do this.听

Download the template to create the CSV file for your organisation.

You can also download templates for:听

• brand information - you need this if you enter a packaging activity as 鈥榮upplied under your brand鈥� in the organisation details file听

• partner information - you need this if you enter an organisation type of 鈥榩artnership鈥� in the organisation details file听

Read more about how to prepare a CSV file.

This guidance is aimed at government employees, but the sections from 鈥楽etting up your CSV file鈥� onwards contain useful general information.听

4. Fill in the CSV templates听

The separate guidance on organisation details explains what you must put in the templates or CSV file.听

That guidance explains:听

• all the information you need to supply听
• any codes you must use听
• which columns are mandatory, and which are not听
• which information must be submitted by the deadline听

Make sure your spreadsheet software saves it as a CSV - you will not be able to upload other kinds of spreadsheet file, for example Excel鈥檚 .xls or .xlsx formats.听

5. Upload your organisation details

You can upload your files in the area on your dashboard called 鈥榬egistration鈥�.

If you need to submit separate CSVs for brand details or partner details, you must do this at the same time.听

6. Submit the details you have uploaded 听

Once you鈥檝e uploaded the files, you will then use your online account to submit them to the relevant environmental regulator.听听

Only people with the right account permission can submit the files.听

The information you submit needs to be as accurate as reasonably possible on 1 April 2025, even if you submit earlier than that.听

7. Receive confirmation of your registration fee, pay it and submit your registration application

The report packaging data service will show you how much you have to pay and how to pay.

Your payment options will depend on your environmental regulator but can include:

• online payment using 伊人直播 Pay (Environment Agency only)
• card
• BACS
• cheque

After you鈥檝e submitted your registration application听

You must keep any information you鈥檝e submitted up to date.听

You need to report any changes within 28 days of them happening. Do this by submitting new files to the regulator.听

You may need to pay a resubmission fee. This depends on whether you registered directly or through a compliance scheme. The fees are:

• direct registration: 拢714
• registration through a compliance scheme: 拢430

After you鈥檝e registered

Once you鈥檝e registered you must meet your obligations under EPR for packaging. These can include:

• paying waste disposal fees
• meeting recycling obligations by buying PRNs
• keeping your registration details up to date

Financial difficulties听

Tell your environmental regulator immediately if your business has:听

• a winding up order, or a resolution for voluntary wind-up听
• entered insolvency, receivership or administration

If you do not comply with the regulations听

Your registration as a producer can be cancelled if you:

• fail to comply with the agreed conditions听
• provide false information.听

You鈥檒l get written notice before your registration is cancelled.听

Get help听

If you have any questions, contact your regulator or the EPR customer service team.

Environment Agency听

Email: packagingproducers@environment-agency.gov.uk听

Natural Resources Wales听

Email: packaging@naturalresourceswales.gov.uk听

Scottish Environment Protection Agency听

Email: producer.responsibility@sepa.org.uk听

Northern Ireland Environment Agency听

Email: packaging@daera-ni.gov.uk听

Defra EPR customer service听

Telephone: 0300 060 0002 Monday to Friday, 8am to 4:30pm听听

Email: EPRCustomerService@defra.gov.uk