# EPR Authorised Representative Checklist 2026 | EU Packaging & PPWR > Free EU27 EPR Authorised Representative checklist for packaging. Determine whether representation is required, verify the representative, execute the written mandate and retain operational evidence under PPWR Article 45. Reviewed: 2026-09-09. ## When is an EPR Authorised Representative required under the PPWR? For a Producer within Article 3(15)(c) or (d), Article 45(3) requires a written-mandate EPR Authorised Representative in every Member State where that Producer first makes packaging or packaged products available, other than the Member State where the Producer is established. For Producers established in third countries, each Member State may make the appointment mandatory under its national implementation. The Article 45(3) suspension proposal, procedure 2025/0395(COD), remains an ongoing legislative proposal as of 9 September 2026 and is not treated here as adopted law. ## The trigger has two legal layers. ### EU cross-border Producer Where the Producer is established in one Member State and falls within Article 3(15)(c)/(d) for another Member State, Article 45(3) requires a written-mandate EPR AR in the destination Member State. ### Third-country Producer Article 45(3) allows each Member State to require a Producer established in a third country to appoint an EPR AR. Do not infer one EU-wide answer: use the current national rule and country operating source. ### Suspension proposal is still pending COM(2025) 982 / 2025/0395(COD) proposes suspending the EPR-AR appointment rules. EUR-Lex still records the procedure as ongoing on 9 September 2026, so this checklist continues to apply the current Regulation. ## Three roles that must not be mixed ### EPR Authorised Representative A destination-Member-State role for Chapter VIII extended producer responsibility obligations. ### PPWR Article 17 authorised representative A manufacturer-appointed role for specified product/conformity tasks. It is not the EPR AR. ### PRO, filing agent or tax representative These can support compliance but are not automatically the statutory EPR AR unless the applicable law and mandate make them so. ## One legal decision, then an auditable mandate. 1. **Confirm the packaging EPR Producer** — Identify the legal entity that is the Producer for the actual transaction and destination. Evidence: Producer-status conclusion, legal entity and transaction facts. 2. **Confirm destination and transaction route** — Record the Member State, recipient type and whether an independent reseller or local selling entity changes the Producer analysis. Evidence: Destination, recipient route and entity-structure evidence. 3. **Resolve the current representation rule** — Apply the binding PPWR rule and the destination-country rule for third-country Producers. Evidence: EU legal source plus current national source or country-page review. 4. **Verify representative eligibility** — Check that the proposed representative is established in the destination Member State and satisfies any current national eligibility or conflict rules. Evidence: Representative legal identity, establishment and eligibility evidence. 5. **Prepare and execute the written mandate** — Record the parties, territory, Chapter VIII scope, delegated tasks, effective date, formalities, signatures and termination terms. Evidence: Signed mandate and any national formality or registration acknowledgement. 6. **Allocate operating responsibilities** — State who registers, contracts with the EPR system, reports, receives regulatory invoices and makes regulatory payments. Evidence: Responsibility matrix, register/PRO records and operating acknowledgements. 7. **Review liability and regulatory funding** — Record only liability supported by the controlling legal source and keep regulatory funding separate from professional-service revenue. Evidence: Controlling legal clause, accepted mandate scope and funding arrangement. 8. **Close the representation evidence file** — Retain the mandate, acceptance, register evidence, PRO acknowledgement, reports, payments and review/renewal dates. Evidence: Dated evidence bundle that another reviewer can verify. ## For third-country Producers, the national route still matters. This matrix reuses the current EPR AR Checker country-source layer. “Verify national route” means the available reviewed source set does not justify a blanket mandatory conclusion for every third-country transaction. - AT · Austria — Mandatory in reviewed route — [Official source](https://edm.gv.at/edm_portal/cms.do?get=%2Fhilfetexte%2FerasregJSF%2Fhilfe%2Fregistrationapplication%2Factivityprofilewastespecific%2Fauthorisedrepresentativeforforeigndistancesellerspackaging.main&ubastyle_lang=en&ubastyle_nav=true) — [Country guide](https://beyogluprofessional.com/countries/austria) — Country-source review: 2026-08-29. - BE · Belgium — Mandatory in reviewed route — [Official source](https://www.ivcie.be/fr/nouvelle-faq-questions-frequentes-sur-le-ppwr/) — [Country guide](https://beyogluprofessional.com/countries/belgium) — Country-source review: 2026-08-29. - BG · Bulgaria — Verify national route — [Official source](https://www.moew.government.bg/) — [Country guide](https://beyogluprofessional.com/countries/bulgaria) — Country-source review: 2026-08-29. - HR · Croatia — Verify national route — [Official source](https://www.fzoeu.hr/en/register-of-producers-with-extended-responsibility-rppo/10208) — [Country guide](https://beyogluprofessional.com/countries/croatia) — Country-source review: 2026-08-29. - CY · Cyprus — Verify national route — [Official source](https://www.moa.gov.cy/moa/environment/environmentnew.nsf/page21_en/page21_en?Click=&OpenDocument=&print=) — [Country guide](https://beyogluprofessional.com/countries/cyprus) — Country-source review: 2026-08-29. - CZ · Czechia — Verify national route — [Official source](https://mzp.gov.cz/cz/pro-media-a-verejnost/katalog-sluzeb/zverejneni-seznamu-osob-ktere-jsou-nositeli-povinnosti-zpetneho-odberu-nebo-vyuziti-odpadu-z-obalu-s18918) — [Country guide](https://beyogluprofessional.com/countries/czechia) — Country-source review: 2026-08-29. - DK · Denmark — Verify national route — [Official source](https://producentansvar.dk/en/products-and-responsibility/packaging/) — [Country guide](https://beyogluprofessional.com/countries/denmark) — Country-source review: 2026-08-29. - EE · Estonia — Mandatory in reviewed route — [Official source](https://kliimaministeerium.ee/en/extendedproducerresponsibility) — [Country guide](https://beyogluprofessional.com/countries/estonia) — Country-source review: 2026-08-29. - FI · Finland — Verify national route — [Official source](https://rinkiin.fi/en/producer-responsibility/) — [Country guide](https://beyogluprofessional.com/countries/finland) — Country-source review: 2026-08-29. - FR · France — Mandatory in reviewed route — [Official source](https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/article_lc/LEGIARTI000054403121) — [Country guide](https://beyogluprofessional.com/countries/france) — Country-source review: 2026-08-29. - DE · Germany — Mandatory in reviewed route — [Official source](https://www.verpackungsregister.org/en/knowledge-bases/authorising-a-representative) — [Country guide](https://beyogluprofessional.com/countries/germany) — Country-source review: 2026-08-29. - GR · Greece — Verify national route — [Official source](https://www.eoan.gr/) — [Country guide](https://beyogluprofessional.com/countries/greece) — Country-source review: 2026-08-29. - HU · Hungary — Verify national route — [Official source](https://mohu.hu/hu/epr-rendszer) — [Country guide](https://beyogluprofessional.com/countries/hungary) — Country-source review: 2026-08-29. - IE · Ireland — Verify national route — [Official source](https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-climate-energy-and-the-environment/publications/extended-producer-responsibility-epr/) — [Country guide](https://beyogluprofessional.com/countries/ireland) — Country-source review: 2026-08-29. - IT · Italy — Verify national route — [Official source](https://www.mase.gov.it/portale/autovalutazione-della-qualifica-soggettiva-ppwr) — [Country guide](https://beyogluprofessional.com/countries/italy) — Country-source review: 2026-08-29. - LV · Latvia — Verify national route — [Official source](https://www.vvd.gov.lv/lv/iepakotaji-un-pienakumi) — [Country guide](https://beyogluprofessional.com/countries/latvia) — Country-source review: 2026-08-29. - LT · Lithuania — Verify national route — [Official source](https://www.gpais.eu/) — [Country guide](https://beyogluprofessional.com/countries/lithuania) — Country-source review: 2026-08-29. - LU · Luxembourg — Verify national route — [Official source](https://environnement.public.lu/fr/emweltprozeduren/rep.html) — [Country guide](https://beyogluprofessional.com/countries/luxembourg) — Country-source review: 2026-08-29. - MT · Malta — Mandatory in reviewed route — [Official source](https://era.org.mt/topic/packaging-and-packaging-waste/) — [Country guide](https://beyogluprofessional.com/countries/malta) — Country-source review: 2026-08-29. - NL · Netherlands — Verify national route — [Official source](https://www.verpact.nl/en) — [Country guide](https://beyogluprofessional.com/countries/netherlands) — Country-source review: 2026-08-29. - PL · Poland — Verify national route — [Official source](https://bdo.mos.gov.pl/) — [Country guide](https://beyogluprofessional.com/countries/poland) — Country-source review: 2026-08-29. - PT · Portugal — Mandatory in reviewed route — [Official source](https://apambiente.pt/residuos/registo-de-produtores-de-produtos) — [Country guide](https://beyogluprofessional.com/countries/portugal) — Country-source review: 2026-08-29. - RO · Romania — Verify national route — [Official source](https://online.afm.ro/) — [Country guide](https://beyogluprofessional.com/countries/romania) — Country-source review: 2026-08-29. - SK · Slovakia — Verify national route — [Official source](https://www.isoh.gov.sk/uvod/registre/zoznam-vyrobcov-obalov.html) — [Country guide](https://beyogluprofessional.com/countries/slovakia) — Country-source review: 2026-08-29. - SI · Slovenia — Mandatory in reviewed route — [Official source](https://www.gov.si/zbirke/storitve/evidenca-proizvajalcev-embalaza-in-plasticni-proizvodi/) — [Country guide](https://beyogluprofessional.com/countries/slovenia) — Country-source review: 2026-08-29. - ES · Spain — Mandatory in reviewed route — [Official source](https://www.miteco.gob.es/es/calidad-y-evaluacion-ambiental/temas/prevencion-y-gestion-residuos/prevencion-y-gestion-residuos/registro-productores-producto-seccion-envases.html) — [Country guide](https://beyogluprofessional.com/countries/spain) — Country-source review: 2026-08-29. - SE · Sweden — Verify national route — [Official source](https://www.naturvardsverket.se/en/guidance/extended-producer-responsibility-epr/producer-responsibility-for-packaging/) — [Country guide](https://beyogluprofessional.com/countries/sweden) — Country-source review: 2026-08-29. ## Questions businesses actually ask ### Is one EPR representative enough for all EU countries? No. The PPWR definition is Member-State specific: the representative is established in the Member State where the Producer first makes the packaging or packaged product available. ### I sell from one EU country into another. Do I need an EPR AR? If you are the Producer under Article 3(15)(c) or (d), Article 45(3) requires a written-mandate EPR AR in the other Member State. ### I sell from Türkiye, China, the UK or the US. Is an EPR AR always mandatory? Not by one automatic EU-wide rule. Article 45(3) lets Member States make representation mandatory for third-country Producers, so the destination-country rule must be checked. ### Is an EPR AR the same as the GPSR or product-safety representative? No. Product-safety/economic-operator roles and PPWR Article 17 representation are legally distinct from the Chapter VIII EPR AR role. ### Can my PRO be my EPR AR? Only if the applicable country rules permit it, the organisation is eligible and the written mandate actually appoints it for that role. PRO participation alone does not create the statutory appointment. ### Does the representative take over every Producer obligation? No automatic blanket transfer should be assumed. The Regulation, national law and written mandate determine which tasks the representative performs and which obligations remain with the Producer. ### Does a local branch remove the need for an EPR AR? It can affect the establishment analysis, but the result depends on the actual legal entity and national implementation. A warehouse, VAT number or address alone is not enough. ### What evidence should I keep? Keep the signed mandate, representative identity and establishment evidence, national registration or acknowledgement where applicable, PRO records, reports, payments and review/termination records. ### Is the Article 45(3) rule suspended already? No. Procedure 2025/0395(COD) is still recorded by EUR-Lex as ongoing as of 9 September 2026. ### Does completing this checklist prove legal compliance? No. It is a preparation and evidence workflow. Legal effectiveness depends on the actual appointment, current national requirements and completed authority/PRO actions. ## Primary legal and operating sources - Regulation (EU) 2025/40 — Article 3(20), Article 44 and Article 45: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2025/40/oj - Commission Notice C/2026/3084: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:52026XC03084 - 2025/0395(COD): https://eur-lex.europa.eu/procedure/EN/2025_395 ## Machine-readable discovery - HTML: https://beyogluprofessional.com/ppwr/checklists/epr-authorised-representative - Working checklist: https://beyogluprofessional.com/ppwr/checklists/epr-authorised-representative/work - Markdown: https://beyogluprofessional.com/ppwr/checklists/epr-authorised-representative/index.md - llms.txt: https://beyogluprofessional.com/llms.txt - llms-full.txt: https://beyogluprofessional.com/llms-full.txt