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 was 1 October 2023. The deadline for submitting an update to these details was 1 April 2024.
You should make your best effort to meet these deadlines but no enforcement action will be taken about late submission if your data is submitted by 31 May 2024.
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.
Updates to this page
Last updated 15 August 2024 + show all updates
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This adds some information about the file verification that now takes place when you upload a file. It also updates dates and deadlines for 2024 and 2025.
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This update clarifies an issue around the service of notice address: it should only be given where it differs from the registered address.
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This update adds more detail about what turnover and total tonnage mean, as well as disambiguating between 'primary and secondary packaging' and 'primary and secondary packaging activities'.
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The organisation type code, organisation_type_code in section 8 (H), is required for 1 October 2023 and 1 April 2024.
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This update adds some additional information about how to report as a group with subsidiaries. It also adds some details on formatting your organisation ID and Companies House number
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Added full dates of period for sending update: between 1 January 2024 and 1 April 2024. In HTML publication: 1) spelled out both reporting dates in full ('You must report some information by 1 October 2023 and by 1 April 2024'), to avoid confusion. 2) clarified that large producers can submit the organisational data file between 1 January 2024 and 1 April 2024.
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Adding new reporting period deadline 1 April 2024 throughout (both in the intro page and the HTML doc), and information about non-enforcement until 31 May 2024.
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This update adds links to the 'report packaging data' service, which has just gone live.
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