Free Regulatory Tool
Turn your EU markets into a country-by-country compliance map.
Select the Member States where you sell packaged products. The checker maps producer registration, EPR-system, reporting and authorised-representation work for each country — while clearly separating verified national rules from data still awaiting verification.
Build your country profile
No company name, email address or contact details required.
What is the producer position for these sales?
Use the result from the Producer Status Checker where available.
Where is the legal entity making these sales established?
This matters particularly for cross-border authorised-representation analysis.
How do you sell into the selected countries?
Direct end-user sales and sales through an importer can produce different regulatory results.
Where does the packaging normally become waste?
This helps distinguish household-facing and professional packaging systems.
Which EU countries do you want to check?
Select every destination market relevant to this sales model. ✓ marks national datasets already verified for this public version.
Do you have local legal presence in the selected countries?
A subsidiary, branch and no local establishment are not always treated identically.
How the checker works
EU-level rules define the framework. National systems determine the operation.
The checker deliberately keeps those two layers separate. This prevents a harmonised EU rule from being mistaken for a single harmonised administrative system.
Country registration principle
PPWR Art. 44Producers register in each Member State where they first make packaging or packaged products available or unpack packaged products without being end users.
EPR costs follow the waste destination
Commission GuidanceProducer responsibility is linked to the Member State where the packaging is expected to become waste. A multi-country seller can therefore have several separate national EPR relationships.
Cross-border EU producers and representation
PPWR Art. 45Where the PPWR cross-border direct-to-end-user producer route applies to an operator established in another Member State, country-level EPR authorised representation becomes part of the compliance analysis.
Third-country producers
National verificationFor producers established outside the EU, national implementation must be checked. The checker therefore does not invent one universal third-country AR answer for all 27 Member States.
National operating layer
Register / PRO / ReportThe actual register, producer responsibility organisation, reporting calendar, fee system and mandate procedure must be mapped from current national sources.
Public dataset status
Country results are published only when we can show what the result is based on.
The first operational dataset covers the initial European rollout markets. Additional Member States will move from verification pending to verified as their legal and administrative workflows are completed.
Germany
LUCID registration, system participation, reporting and foreign-seller authorised representation reviewed against current ZSVR material.
VERIFIEDFrance
ADEME REP/IDU structure, household packaging, professional packaging transition and national mandataire rule reviewed.
VERIFIEDAustria
EDM registration architecture, collection and recovery systems and foreign distance-seller representative workflow reviewed.
VERIFIEDSpain
RPP packaging register, producer responsibility systems, annual reporting and foreign producer representation reviewed against MITECO guidance.
VERIFIEDContinue the calculation
Once the countries are known, calculate what actually enters those systems.
Country compliance FAQ
Why the country layer still matters.
No. Producer registration and EPR operations remain linked to the Member State in which packaging or packaged products are first made available or packaging is unpacked by a producer that is not the end user.
Article 44 of Regulation (EU) 2025/40 requires producers to register in each Member State where they first make packaging or packaged products available or unpack packaged products without being end users.
No. National registers, producer responsibility organisations, reporting procedures, fees and authorised-representation arrangements still require country-specific implementation and verification.
No. We visibly distinguish national datasets verified against current official sources from countries whose operational data is still being verified.
No. It is an operational regulatory assessment tool. Final obligations must be verified against current national law, official systems, the producer position, sales route and packaging profile.