EU PPWR
The German model in which competing private schemes collect and recycle household packaging alongside the municipal waste system.
Germany's dual system predates most EPR law in Europe. Producers licence their packaging with one of several competing dual systems, which then organise collection and recycling of household packaging in parallel with municipal waste services. Competition between systems keeps licence pricing visible and negotiable in a way that single-PRO markets are not.
Registration in the LUCID packaging register is a separate and prior step. A producer must be registered in LUCID before it may licence with a dual system, and the volumes reported to LUCID must match the volumes licensed. Mismatches are the most common trigger for enforcement by the Zentrale Stelle Verpackungsregister.
Because the licence fee is negotiated and the register entry is public, German compliance is unusually transparent: a competitor's registration status can be checked in LUCID.
Germany's mandatory public register where producers declare themselves and their packaging volumes before licensing with a dual system.
A collective scheme that producers join to discharge their EPR obligations, handling registration, reporting infrastructure, fee collection and recycling contracts.
Germany's packaging law, requiring LUCID registration, dual-system licensing and volume reporting for all packaging placed on the German market.
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