Packaging Compliance
Ensuring Compliance with Regulation (EU) 2025/40
Packaging Regulation at a glance
EU packaging legislation sets requirements for how packaging is designed, placed on the market, and managed at end-of-life. It aims to prevent packaging waste, increase reuse and recycling, and ensure that producers finance the collection and treatment of packaging through Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) systems. While the framework is set at EU level, many obligations are implemented and enforced nationally, with country-specific rules and processes.
What does packaging compliance typically involve?
Packaging compliance typically starts with determining whether you place packaging on the market and which packaging types and material streams are in scope. Companies then need to set up the required registrations, assign the correct material categories, and establish processes to track packaging volumes (often by material and weight) across countries. Ongoing compliance usually includes periodic reporting, fee management with the relevant schemes, and maintaining documentation to demonstrate compliance during audits or authority checks. Depending on the market, additional obligations can apply – such as labelling requirements, take-back or information duties, and specific rules for online/distance selling.
Who needs to comply with packaging requirements?
Packaging obligations generally apply to organisations that place packaging on the market, including:
- Manufacturers/brand owners selling packaging under their own name or trademark.
- Importers bringing products into a country.
- Packers/fillers who package goods for sale (including private labels).
- Distributors, retailers, and e-commerce sellers, including distance sellers shipping cross-border.
Весаuse packaging ERP is administered nationally, the exact 'producer' definition, registration steps and reporting formats can differ by country.
What we do to keep you Packaging Compliant
Detailed regulatory obligations analysis
Registrations with authorities and PROs
Submission of mandatory declarations
Financial Services
Continous Compliance guidance
Questions and Answers - Packaging Compliance
Packaging compliance usually means meeting Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) obligations when you place packaged products or packaging on a national market—so the packaging waste is properly financed and managed.
If you are the responsible “producer” in a country, you typically need to register with national authorities and join a national take-back scheme (and in some cross-border setups, appoint an Authorized Representative).
Reporting is mainly about submitting volume data (sales data, declarations/forecasts) and, depending on the country, additional recycling-related declarations or documentation – often linked to scheme fees.
In most setups, yes – packaging EPR typically includes paying recycling fees to national schemes based on your reported volumes and categories.
It usually means offering a compliant way to manage packaging waste and ensuring it goes to proper recycling/treatment routes, while financing the related processes under the EPR model.
Requirements can include product/packaging labelling and making your registration details available (for example, displaying WEEE/BAT/PACK registration numbers on your website or invoices), and in some cases showing recycling fees on invoices.
Because EU rules are implemented through national laws and local scheme processes – so the practical requirements (registration steps, reporting formats, timelines) can vary by Member State.
Depending on the country, risks can include fines, administrative corrections, commercial disruption, and lost business when customers or partners request proof of EPR registrations.
viron can manage the full workflow: producer scoping, registrations, scheme coordination, reporting processes, take-back readiness, and keeping documentation organised for audits and partner checks.
Yes – viron supports customers across a broad international footprint (70+ countries), which is helpful if you want one consistent compliance approach across multiple regions.
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