System participation requirement: using the catalogue data base to verify compliance
You have to register with the LUCID Packaging Register because you are handing over packaged goods to customers. Retail, grouped or shipment packaging typically accumulates as waste with private final consumers. You are required to pay for the recycling of that packaging. This is called 'system participation'. Search our catalogue database for your products to find out if their packaging is subject to system participation.
What does 'typically' mean?
Who is a private final consumer?
The Verpackungsgesetz (Packaging Act) defines private final consumers as private households and comparable sources of waste generation such as restaurants, hotels, hospitals, canteens, amusement parks, garden centres, laundries, libraries and schools. Comparable sources of waste generation also include craft enterprises and agricultural holdings where packaging waste is collected at the rate that is normally associated with private households, i.e. at 14-day intervals and in a waste bin that does not exceed 1,100 litres per collection group. A list of comparable sources of waste generation can be found here.
Help on using the catalogue
Guidelines
The guidelines can help you use the system participation requirement catalogue as an administrative regulation. They also include further information about the structure and legal background of the catalogue as well as answers to frequently asked questions.
Heads-up: Search results and product sheets must always be used together with the catalogue guidelines, never on their own.
Couldn't find your product?
That does not mean that the packaging of that product is not subject to system participation or that you are exempt from packaging law obligations. The catalogue is not exhaustive.
Here's what else you can do:
Look for analogies. In other words: search the catalogue for products that are similar to yours – especially similar as to how and in which packaging they are distributed and whether they accumulate as waste with private final consumers or comparable sources of waste generation. The result is transferable.
To fulfil your producer responsibility, you must classify the packaging yourself, i.e. you must assess whether your packaging is subject to system participation. For case-based specialist advice, please reach out to qualified experts, environmental consultants, system operators or auditors. You will find the ZSVR's registers of auditors on the public registers page.
The ZSVR decides upon application whether packaging is to be classified as (i) packaging subject to system participation, (ii) reusable packaging or (iii) single-use beverage packaging subject to deposit. These are general decisions. The results can be transferred to comparable packaging by analogy.
Heads-up: To be sure that you are acting in compliance with the law, please check for yourself whether your packaging is subject to system participation. If it is, enter into a system participation agreement with a system operator. You can choose one from this list of system operators.
You can download the catalogue's product group sheets individually or collectively as PDF files.
Overall view catalogue
01-000 Beverages
02-000 Dairy products
02-020 Preserves
02-030 Frozen food
02-040 Confectionery, snack foods
02-050 Meat, sausage, fish
02-060 Agricultural products
02-080 Baked goods, semi-finished products
02-090 Coffee, tea, cocoa
02-110 Dry goods
02-120 Other foods
02-130 Fats and oils
05-500 Pets
06-000 Crop protection and agricultural supplies
08-010 Construction chemicals
08-020 Building materials and installations
08-030 Flooring
08-040 DIY and gardening
12-000 Adhesives
13-010 Lubricants and fuels
13-020 Motor vehicles
14-000 Toiletries
15-000 Surface finishes
16-000 Chemicals for professional use
17-000 Commercial salt, industrial salt, de-icing salt
18-000 Health
19-000 Furniture
21-000 Textiles, shoes, leather goods
22-000 Household goods
23-000 Leisure and sporting goods
24-000 Tobacco products
28-010 White goods
28-020 Small appliances
28-030 IT and consumer electronics
31-000 Office supplies
33-000 Print media
40-000 Other technical products