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Packaging EPR in Finland
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Checked 2026-09-03 · 3 sources · 4 open questions
- Register
- Tuottajarekisteri (producer register)
- Authority
- Pirkanmaan ELY-keskus — the producer-responsibility authority for all of Finland except Åland
- Law
- Jätelaki 646/2011, § 48; valtioneuvoston asetus pakkauksista ja pakkausjätteistä 1029/2021the turnover limit was REMOVED at the start of 2024 — packaging producer responsibility now covers every professionally operating company, which brought in roughly 30 000 more. ⚠️ Åland is outside this authority’s remit.
- Who registers
- You register yourself in the national system
- Reporting
- Annually, by 30 Juneproducer communities report the monitoring data on behalf of their members. Three routes to compliance: join a producer community for your sector, set up a new one, or apply to the producer register directly — the last only in exceptional cases.
- Also required
- Membership of a producer community
- Household packaging schemes
- Suomen Pakkaustuottajat Oy; SUMI Oy
- Industrial packaging schemes
- Suomen Pakkaustuottajat Oy; SUMI Oy
What is not settled
- Authority The authority contradicts itself\ud83d\udd34 THE AUTHORITY CONTRADICTS ITSELF. Our row names Pirkanmaan ELY-keskus as the producer-responsibility authority, taken from its own pages. EUNR, the network of national registers, names the Finnish Supervisory Agency (lvv.fi) as Finland's participating body and TURRE as the register. Establish which is current before acting.
- Penalties Not established at sourceThe neglect charge (laiminlyontimaksu) is described by an advisory body as one per cent of the company's previous-year turnover. Not read in the law itself.
- Authorised representative Not established at sourceThe ELY pages read do not set out an authorised-representative route for foreign producers; producer responsibility is stated to reach distance sellers selling directly to end users in Finland.
- Authorised representative Sources disagreeThe authorised-representative duty is under review. On 10 December 2025 the Commission published COM(2025) 982, part of the Omnibus VIII environmental simplification package, whose Article 2 would suspend Art. 45(3) until 1 January 2035; COM(2025) 983 proposes the same for the Single-Use Plastics Directive. The suspension as drafted covers producers ESTABLISHED IN THE UNION selling cross-border directly to end users. Producers established in third countries are not covered — member states may still require a representative or ensure traceability by other means. European Parliament committee reports of May 2026 would narrow the relief to micro and small enterprises. PROPOSAL, AND NOW LARGELY STOPPED: on 24 June 2026 the Council decided not to proceed with the suspension, opposed by a large majority of member states. A Parliament committee vote is expected around October 2026, and even the Parliament's narrower approach would keep the framework for producers outside the EU. Article 45(3) applies as written today, and for a producer established in a third country nothing in this proposal ever applied.
The same in every EU country
- PPWR Art. 44 — registration is a precondition for placing packaging on that market
- PPWR Art. 45(3) — a producer under Art. 3(1)(15)(c)/(d), i.e. one making packaging available in another Member State DIRECTLY TO END USERS, must appoint an authorised representative there. From 12 Aug 2026.
- set nationally, Art. 68; national rules due by 12 Feb 2027
- Art. 44(14) implementing act still pending; central EU register not before 1 Jan 2029
Sources
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We do not register you, we are not your authorised representative, and we do not pay a scheme. This is public information gathered in one place and checked on the date shown. Confirm with the national authority before acting.
Tarafex
The number these registers ask for is kilograms by material for one year of deliveries. If your shipments are recorded as they go out, that number already exists.
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