How to register with the LUCID Packaging Register

If you are a producer as defined in the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), you must register with the LUCID Packaging Register. Registering is free of charge. Read on to find out what information you should have at hand when registering.

Heads-up

The PPWR, which enters into force on 12 August 2026, reorganises the responsibilities for packaging. Please note you are responsible for checking whether this requires any changes for your registration with the LUCID Packaging Register; if so, please update your information immediately. You have an ongoing duty to ensure that the information on file is always correct and up to date.

Change your registration

Are you a producer under the PPWR?

As a first step, please check which role you have in your supply chain. If you are a producer under the PPWR, you are responsible for financing packaging recycling and for the associated registration and reporting obligations.

Distinguishing between manufacturers & producers

Registration guide

Start registration

Start the registration process as a 'producer'. 

What information do you have to file during registration?

1. Master data

Your master data includes general information about your company such as an address, telephone number, VAT number, taxpayer reference number and national identification number.

Please note: technical reasons and an automated check prevent producers from entering more than one VAT number or taxpayer reference number in the LUCID Packaging Register. Please enter the same data you used when entering into your system participation agreement or when working with a marketplace.

Heads-up: Are you a company based abroad that sells empty packaging – or packaged products – directly to end users in Germany, and do you not have a branch in Germany? Then you must appoint an authorised representative who assumes the extended producer responsibility obligations for you. If you do not provide this information in the 'Authorised representative' section, you will not be able to complete your registration with the LUCID Packaging Register. Further  information can be found in our knowledge base dedicated to authorised representatives.

2. Packaging types

There are two different packaging categories: packaging subject to system participation and packaging not subject to system participation. Choose your relevant packaging type from these categories and tick the appropriate box.

During the registration process, you can choose between:

  • Packaging subject to system participation
    If you are using various types of packaging subject to system participation, the box you need to check during the registration process is 'Sales or grouped packaging, primary production packaging or transport packaging that – relative to the total market for packaging of the same type – for the most part typically accumulates as waste with private households or comparable sources of waste generation after use, and service packaging'.
    If you exclusively purchase unfilled pre-participated service packaging and do not make any other empty packaging or packaged goods available in Germany, the box you need to check during the registration process is 'Exclusively pre-participated service packaging'.

  • Packaging not subject to system participation
    If you distribute single-use beverage packaging subject to deposit, primary production packaging, sales packaging, grouped packaging or transport packaging that does not accumulate as waste with end users, or if it is sales packaging for hazardous contents or reusable packaging, you have to check the corresponding box during the registration process.

3. Brand names

This is where you are required to enter the brand names visible on your packaging. If the packaging does not bear a brand name, please enter your company name. For pre-participated service packaging, please enter the company name of your supplier, wholesaler or importers from which you source the pre-participated packaging.

4. Declarations

If you have indicated that you are distributing your packaging that is subject to system participation, you have to check a box to confirm that you are fulfilling the system participation requirement to finish registering.

Technical requirements

There are a couple of technical requirements that you need to tick off if you would like to use the LUCID Packaging Register.

XML interface for data transmission

To make it easier for companies to enter or change their brand names and report their packaging volumes to the LUCID Packaging Register, the ZSVR has created an interface that allows for data to be transmitted as XML files.

Public registers

The ZSVR publishes the names of registered companies, experts and other auditors, and of companies that have submitted a declaration of completeness.

Brand names

You must enter the brand names you use to make your packaging or packaged products available in Germany for the first time in the LUCID Packaging Register.

Do you have any further questions about registering within the LUCID Packaging Register?

In our help centre, you’ll find answers to frequently asked questions about registration.

Are you ready to register with the LUCID Packaging Register?

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System participation and data reporting

If your packaging is subject to system participation, you will not only need to register with the LUCID Packaging Register, but you will also need to conclude a system participation agreement and regularly report packaging volumes (data reporting).

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