Packaging data: check reporting periods and submission deadlines
Find out when large and small organisations affected by Extended Producer Responsibility for packaging (EPR) must collect and submit packaging data.
Reporting periods (when you must collect packaging data) and deadlines for submitting your data depend on:
- whether you’re considered a large or small organisation (also referred to as large and small producers under Extended Producer Responsibility for packaging (EPR) regulations)
- the year you’re reporting on
Check if you’re a large or small producer.
You must collect and submit packaging data:
- every 6 months, if you’re a large producer
- yearly, as a small producer
Check data you must collect and report as a large or small producer.
You should submit your data through the ‘report packaging data’ service.
The next deadline for submitting data is 1 April 2025. Both large and small producers must submit data.
If you miss a submission deadline, you should contact your environmental regulator. This is:
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the Environment Agency (EA) in England
Large producers: when to collect and submit data
You must collect and submit your packaging data on a 6-monthly basis.
2024 data
The next submission deadline is 1 April 2025. This is for data you collected between 1 July and 31 December 2024.
This page will be updated when you can start to submit your data.
The deadline for submitting data collected from 1 April to 30 June 2024 was 1 October 2024. Contact your environmental regulator if you missed the submission deadline.
The data you collect and submit for 2024 will be used to calculate your recycling obligations and any waste management fees you must pay in 2025.
2025 data
You will need to submit data you collect for the first half of 2025 (1 January to 30 June) by 1 October 2025.
Small producers: when to collect and submit data
You must collect and submit your packaging data yearly.
2024 data
The deadline for submitting your 2024 packaging data is 1 April 2025. This page will be updated when you can start to submit your data.
When creating your data file, you’ll need to select the reporting period from January to December 2024, even if you did not start to collect data until April.
You can submit all the data you’ve collected under this reporting period.
2025 data
The deadline for submitting data you’re collecting for 2025 (1 January to 31 December) is 1 April 2026.