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Packaging rules in Germany
The EU-wide rules apply in Germany the same way they apply everywhere else — those are on the rules page. This page carries its producer register and what it asks for beyond the EU rules.
Where businesses register
Germany keeps its list of packaging businesses in LUCID, operated by the Zentrale Stelle Verpackungsregister. The rules call this a producer register. Being on it is what allows packaging to be made available in Germany at all, so it is usually the first thing a business shipping there deals with.
Source: LUCID, operated by the Zentrale Stelle Verpackungsregister — read from this source on
What Germany asks for on top
A business that sends packaged goods straight to customers in another EU country has to appoint someone based in that country to handle its packaging duties there. The rules call this person an authorised representative for extended producer responsibility. It has to be done in writing, and separately for each country. For businesses based outside the EU the picture is different: each country decides for itself whether to require one.
Source: Regulation (EU) 2025/40, Art. 45(3) — read from this source on
The rules use the same phrase, authorised representative, for a different job to do with product paperwork. Same words, different role.
National divergences recorded for this rule
In Germany an authorised representative takes on every extended producer responsibility duty except one: entry in the LUCID packaging register. Registering, and later changing those registration details, stays a duty of the business itself and cannot be handed over.
Source: Zentrale Stelle Verpackungsregister (ZSVR) — Packaging Act: Authorised representatives — read from this source on
A business based outside Germany that sells empty packaging or packaged goods straight to end users in Germany, with no branch there, appoints an authorised representative. That representative is entered in the LUCID register before anything is first made available on the German market. The German rules set out no exemption.
Source: Zentrale Stelle Verpackungsregister (ZSVR) — Packaging Act: Authorised representatives — read from this source on