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Packaging EPR in Ireland
Compliance runs through Repak; there is no producer register and it is not confirmed which Irish body will run the PPWR one.
Checked 2026-09-03 · 3 sources · 4 open questions
- Register
- no packaging producer register yet — compliance runs through Repak, the only approved body
- Authority
- Department of Climate, Energy and the Environment; local authorities enforce
- Law
- European Union (Packaging) Regulations 2014, as amendedself-compliance under local-authority oversight was REMOVED on 1 Jan 2023. A major producer must now join an approved body, and Repak is the only one — so scheme membership is effectively the price of market access. Exports and production waste are not counted as packaging placed on the market.
- Who registers
- Whoever first places packaging on that market, foreign sellers included
- Threshold
- 10 t a yearTWO tests, BOTH must be met to be a ‘major producer’: more than EUR 1 million annual turnover AND 10 tonnes or more of packaging placed on the Irish market. Below that you are a minor producer with lighter duties. This makes Ireland unusual — in Germany or France the duty starts at the first gram.
- Reporting
- Annual declarationpackaging weights by material, recorded in grams and reported in tonnes, from production or sales figures. Weights may come from suppliers or be weighed in-house; similar products may be grouped and given a shared packaging weight.
- Also required
- Membership of the approved body
- Household packaging schemes
- Repak LTD
- Industrial packaging schemes
- Repak LTD
What is not settled
- Threshold Sources disagreeWhether the two tests are cumulative is stated both ways: the department and Repak describe turnover AND tonnage together, while one county council states turnover OR tonnage. Read as cumulative until confirmed.
- Threshold Not established at sourceSeveral advisers say the 10-tonne exemption is being phased out under the PPWR from 12 Aug 2026, so that every producer would be registrable. No Irish instrument confirming this has been read.
- Authorised representative Not established at sourceIrish packaging law has no authorised-representative mechanism today, and it is not confirmed which Irish body will run the PPWR producer register.
- 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
Countries with the same answer
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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