Guidance

Organisation details: how to create your file for extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging

This guidance explains how to report organisation details for extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging. This is a legal obligation for organisations that are affected by EPR for packaging.

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If you’re an organisation that supplies packaging to consumers and businesses in the UK, you may have to take action to comply with extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.

Find out if you’re affected by EPR for packaging

You may need to submit information about your organisation, including things like:

  • address
  • turnover
  • packaging activities
  • contact details

The deadline for submitting some organisation details to the regulator is 1 October 2023.

This document explains:

  • what information you need to supply
  • how to structure it
  • how to submit it
  • when to submit it

There are templates to help you structure your data

You may also need to submit data about your packaging. There’s separate guidance explaining how to create your packaging data file.

Submit your data using the ‘report packaging data’ service.

You can give feedback about all the EPR guidance. Let us know if anything is unclear or incorrect.

Published 14 August 2023
Last updated 16 August 2023 + show all updates
  1. This update adds links to the 'report packaging data' service, which has just gone live.

  2. First published.