The EU producer register map: every national EPR register, stream by stream

There is no such thing as "the EU EPR register". There are national registers, one or several per member state, split by waste stream, run by different authorities on different data models with different update rhythms. If your platform or fulfilment network has to verify sellers under PPWR Article 45 or under the national laws that preceded it, this map is the terrain. It also shows something encouraging: much of the map is already publicly searchable, and the PPWR pushes the rest that way.

The structural rule: per state, per stream

A producer selling packaged electronics with batteries into Germany, France and Poland does not have one registration. It has a stack of them: packaging, WEEE and batteries registrations in each country whose consumers it reaches. Germany alone splits that stack across three authorities. France collapses it into one identifier system with a separate number per stream. Poland puts everything in one database behind a marshal-office process. Verification means knowing which register answers which question.

Country by country

The table below maps each register to the authority that runs it and to whether you can search it from outside. The country notes that follow fill in the detail and the friction.

Germany: three registers, three authorities

Packaging lives in LUCID, run by the ZSVR; the public LUCID register is searchable by name, brand or number and is updated once daily. The scale is real: according to EUWID's reporting, LUCID had grown past 421,000 registered producers by mid-2022. WEEE and batteries sit with stiftung ear, whose register is free, updated daily, and retrievable fully automatically via an IT interface. Single-use plastics contributions run through DIVID, the platform of the single-use plastics fund launched by the Umweltbundesamt on 1 April 2024, open to foreign producers since 1 August 2024 and estimated to concern around 56,000 obligated manufacturers. Three authorities, three data models, one country. See how to check a LUCID number for the packaging workflow.

France: one IDU per filiere, best-in-class open data

France routes everything through ADEME's SYDEREP: one unique identifier (IDU) per EPR filiere, across more than 15 streams (packaging and papers, electronics, textiles, toys, sport and leisure, building products, and more). There is a public search engine and, better, a full open-data list of producers with their IDUs, updated daily under Article L.541-10-13 of the environmental code. Marketplaces must record the IDU per seller. Details in our IDU explainer.

Poland: BDO, public search, high-friction registration

Poland's BDO (the products, packaging and waste database) is publicly searchable by NIP. Getting into it is the hard part: registration runs through the provincial marshal office, in Polish, with up to 30 days of processing and an e-ID or trusted profile, and there is no de minimis threshold, so the obligation starts from the first sale. Fines range from PLN 5,000 to PLN 1,000,000.

Spain, Italy, and the consortium problem

Spain runs the Registro de Productores de Producto under MITECO; the registration number must appear on invoices, and failing to register is a serious infringement under Ley 7/2022. Italy splits by stream: WEEE has a searchable RAEE register via the Chambers of Commerce, but packaging compliance runs through CONAI consortium membership, which is not a classic public register and is materially harder to verify from outside.

Benelux, Nordics, Baltics

The Netherlands works through Verpact, the packaging PRO (registration and reporting above 50,000 kg), rather than an open register, with an authorised representative mandatory for non-residents from 12 August 2026, per business.gov.nl; it has also run textile EPR since 1 July 2023. Belgium splits household packaging (Fost Plus) from industrial (Valipac), both membership-based. Sweden's Naturvardsverket requires producer registration before market entry and has applied an environmental sanction fee for late registration since 1 January 2024. Estonia, useful proof that the long tail is real, runs PAKIS for packaging and PROTO for problem products, and PROTO publishes its list of registered producers online.

Searchability is a spectrum

The map ranges from excellent open data (France's daily IDU dataset, Germany's daily LUCID search, Poland's BDO lookup, Estonia's public list) to consortium opacity (Italian packaging, Dutch and Belgian PRO membership). That spectrum matters legally: where a register is public, free and machine readable, checking it is cheap, and not checking it is hard to defend as best efforts. PPWR Article 44(13) makes that the norm going forward, requiring every national register to be publicly accessible, free of charge and machine readable, as DIHK's guidance note sets out.

The map keeps growing

This is not a static integration project. National registers must be available in each member state by 2027, and the implementing act defining the registration format was still pending as of late March 2026, per Reverse Logistics Group's analysis, which stretches national adaptation into 2027. Textile and footwear EPR schemes are due in every member state by roughly April 2028, as ERP Global reports. Batteries registers came online per member state from 18 August 2025, per Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer. Every new stream adds a row per country. The EPR compliance calendar tracks the dates.

Verify the map as software

EPR Clear maintains this map as software: one API that knows which register answers which question, per seller, stream and member state, with a live coverage matrix showing status and freshness per register. Try a free check or get a free exposure scan of your whole seller file.

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