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Guidance

Extended Producerproducer Responsibilityresponsibility (EPR) for Packagingpackaging (pEPR) producer data requirements:requirements for 2024 and 2025: RPS 330

Environment Agency regulatory position on collecting and reporting nation of salesale, and self-managed organisational waste and plastic and paper bags data for 2024 and 2025.

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Environment Agency
Published
11 February 2025
Last updated
16 December 2025 — See all updates

Applies to England

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Extended Producerproducer Responsibilityresponsibility (EPR) for Packagingpackaging (pEPR) producer data requirements:requirements for 2024 and 2025: RPS 330

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This regulatory position statement (RPS) does not change your legal requirement to: 

  1. Report 2024 nation of sale and self-managed organisational waste data, in line with the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) Regulations 2024 (the Packaging regulations), to the Environment Agency.regulations).

  2. Collect and report 2025 nation of salesale, and self-managed organisational waste dataand inplastic lineand withpaper thebags Packaging regulations.

  3. Report the data fromin pointline 2with to the EnvironmentPackaging Agency. Regulations.

TheHowever, the Environment Agency will not normally take enforcement action if you do not comply with these legal requirements. requirements if you meet the requirements in this RPS.

This regulatory position does not apply to any other legal requirements under the Packaging Waste (Data Reporting) (England) Regulations 2023 (the Data regulations) or the Packaging regulations.requirements.

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Published 11 February 2025
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  1. RPS now includes statement on plastic and paper bags supplied in England.

  2. First published.

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Update history

2026-08-25 15:55
This RPS has been updated to reflect collecting and reporting nation data, self-managed organisational packaging waste data for 2024 to 2027 and bag data for 2025 to 2027. This RPS will next be reviewed by 31 December 2028.

2025-12-16 15:59
RPS now includes statement on plastic and paper bags supplied in England.

2025-02-11 09:30
First published.