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Packaging EPR in Latvia
The State Environmental Service states there is no packaging producer register and it issues no EPR or PPWR numbers. The register is being drafted.
Checked 2026-09-15 · 2 sources · 5 open questions
- Register
- no packaging producer register yet — registration with the VVD regional environmental board under the DRN regime
- Authority
- Valsts vides dienests (VVD); tax administered by VID
- Law
- Dabas resursu nodokļa likums; MK noteikumi Nr. 983 (19.10.2010)the duty is a natural resources tax (DRN), not a filing to a producer register. Registration is with the VVD regional environmental board within THREE MONTHS of the calendar-year volume passing 300 kg. Above 300 kg — deposit packaging counted in — you must either join a packaging manager's system or run your own. Deposit drinks packaging has its own 150 kg threshold and its own contract with the deposit system operator, mandatory since 1 Feb 2022; a producer who should be in that system and is not pays the tax on deposit packaging at FOUR times the rate. VID names wooden pallets explicitly as taxable packaging. Tax on packaging removed when goods are unpacked or repacked before sale is paid for the period in which they were unpacked; but if you import goods in packaging, unpack them and then take that packaging out of Latvia — or use it to pack other goods that leave — and can document it, no tax is due where the import and the export fall in the same tax period, and where they fall in different periods the tax already paid counts as an advance payment.
- Who registers
- Whoever first places packaging on that market, foreign sellers included
- Threshold
- 300 kg a calendar yeara packer whose used packaging exceeds 300 kg in a calendar year registers with the VVD regional board within 3 months of exceeding it
- Household packaging schemes
- Latvijas Zalais Punkts (LZP), Latvijas Zala Josta, Zalais Centrs, and AJ Power Recycling
- Industrial packaging schemes
- Latvijas Zalais Punkts (LZP), Latvijas Zala Josta and Zalais Centrs.
What is not settled
- Register No register yetThe State Environmental Service states plainly that Latvia has no packaging producer register and issues no EPR or PPWR registration numbers. The register is still being drafted; the natural resources tax regime applies meanwhile.
- Threshold Sources disagreeWhether the tax is owed at all below 300 kg is not settled by a single source. Two of the three engines asked said the tax is calculated and paid by the company itself below the threshold, with membership of a manager's system optional; the third said a company under 300 kg is released from calculating, filing and paying. MK noteikumi Nr. 404 point 76 implies the duty continues, because it provides a flat 120 EUR a year for a taxpayer under 300 kg who cannot document material and weight — but that is an inference from a special case, not a direct statement. 300 kg is confirmed as the line above which a manager's system or one's own system becomes obligatory.
- Authorised representative Not established at sourceNo authorised-representative route was found. The State Environmental Service issues no EPR registration numbers at all, so the question has no national answer yet.
- Reporting Not established at sourceTwo figures that a payer needs are not confirmed here. First, the current per-material rate table: a VID information sheet from December 2023 gives plastic at 1.22 EUR/kg before the change, while widely repeated current figures say 1.25 EUR/kg; the same amendment set foam polystyrene at 44 EUR/kg and expanded polystyrene at 24.40 EUR/kg. Second, the penalty for not joining a packaging manager's system: VVD states four times the rate for the DEPOSIT system specifically, and a doubled penalty for volumes concealed from the operator, but no source read here states the multiplier for the ordinary packaging system. The list of authorised managers also differs between sources — three names, four, or a fifth; the VVD register decides it.
- 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.
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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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