EPR, PPWR & DPPOne platform for EU product compliance.

These are two different things. PPWR-Ready is software for EU product compliance: it keeps your products, suppliers, evidence and target markets, and shows which requirements apply and what is missing. An authorised representative, by contrast, is a named person or company that represents you before an authority in an EU country. Roles such as the “responsible person” under Art. 16 GPSR or an authorised representative are kept and documented in the platform — but PPWR-Ready does not sell that representation. The software tells you where such a role is required; whom you appoint is your decision.

That depends on the regulation and on the country, and cannot be answered in general terms. Extended producer responsibility is implemented nationally: registers, competent bodies and the question of who may register there differ from Member State to Member State. The same company may therefore need a representative in one country and not in another. The platform keeps, per target country, which registration is required there and what its status is, and states explicitly what has not been checked for a country.

The consequences differ from Member State to Member State, because penalties are governed nationally. Two points are documented. First, registration is expressly a precondition for placing on the market in several legal acts — under Art. 16 of the WEEE Directive, for instance, every Member State must keep a producer register, and in Germany the Packaging Act prohibits distribution without a LUCID registration. Second, marketplaces increasingly check their sellers’ registration themselves and block listings without proof. We do not quote specific fine amounts here — they differ by country and procedure.

What is reported, per reporting period, is what was actually placed on the market — separated by material class and target country. PPWR-Ready calculates the quantities from your packaging master data and the shipping or order quantities transmitted from shop, CSV import or API, and checks them for plausibility. What has to be retained are the bases the report rests on: packaging data with material weights, the quantity basis, the declaration of conformity under Art. 39 PPWR and the technical documentation under Annex VII. The platform archives reports together with the audit trail and the corresponding document versions.

An authorised representative is your appointed representative towards the relevant authority — Verpact in the Netherlands, LUCID in Germany. Companies without their own establishment there need such a representative to register.

EU product compliance means a product meets every requirement EU law places on it before it is placed on the market in a member state. Which ones apply depends on the product — the same coffee grinder can be covered at once by packaging law (PPWR), electrical equipment law (WEEE), substance restrictions (RoHS, REACH), product safety (GPSR) and battery law. These separate rules often ask for the same details about the same components.

PPWR (Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation) is the EU regulation on packaging and packaging waste. It applies to businesses placing packaged goods on the EU market — even if you are based outside the EU and sell into Europe via an online shop or marketplace.

Extended producer responsibility means whoever places a product on the market stays co-responsible for its disposal — financially and organisationally. In practice: registration in a national register, regular volume reporting and fees paid to a scheme. In Germany the Zentrale Stelle Verpackungsregister foundation runs the LUCID register for packaging; in the Netherlands Verpact fills that role. Electrical equipment and batteries have their own registers in each member state.