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Below you will find selected information and releases from the Stiftung Zentrale Stelle Verpackungsregister (Foundation Central Agency Packaging Register – ZSVR) on the Verpackungsgesetz (Packaging Act) and the work of the ZSVR.

For all information and press releases on our German website please click here.


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System participation requirement catalogue: consultation for 2023 edition now open

Is your packaging subject to system participation – or is it not? The system participation requirement catalogue helps you find out.

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Don't miss the deadline! Companies must submit their 2022 declarations of completeness by 15 May 2023

Time is running out: companies only have until 15 May 2023 to file an audited declaration of completeness with the ZSVR for the previous year.

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System participation and data reporting – here’s what you need to know!

Registering in the LUCID Packaging Register is just the first step. Are you distributing your goods in retail, grouped and/our shipment packaging, which are generally subject to system participation? If the answer is 'yes', then you must pay for…

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Food producer fined for not filing declarations of completeness – ZSVR publishes new case report

A Dutch food producer that places considerable packaging volumes on the German market every year together with its goods repeatedly failed to file a declaration of completeness. The company has been fined several thousand euros for this breach of…

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Gunda Rachut re-elected as Chair of the ZSVR

Gunda Rachut will remain at the helm of the Zentrale Stelle Verpackungsregister (Central Agency Packaging Register – ZSVR) for another five years, after the ZSVR's Board of Trustees unanimously voted to extend her contract until 2028 in its most…

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