Just getting started? Check here if you have any obligations under German packaging law – and what you need to do.
If you are distributing packaged goods in Germany, you have to be registered with the LUCID Packaging Register. We'll show you everything you need to know.
Registration alone is not enough for certain types of packaging. Learn more about how to fulfil the system participation requirement and report your packaging volumes.
Explore this section for more guidance and information, definitions and general help in complying with the law, no matter your sector, distribution channel or logistics solution.
All about the ZSVR's work as an authority, from published decisions and information about the ZSVR Foundation to the minimum standard for recycling-friendly packaging.
I would like to know how my compliance with obligations is monitored
… ... registration requirement: up to 100,000 euros system participation requirement: up to 200,000 euros data…
Application procedure
… whether packaging is classed as being subject to system participation (section 26 (1) no. 23 VerpackG), …
Declaration of completeness
… they have duly participated their packaging with a system, paying for the recycling of their packaging and…
Service packaging
… on your circumstances: If you are fulfilling the system participation requirement yourself, enter your…
About the catalogue
… are looking for essential information about the use of the system participation requirement catalogue, this page is…
ZSVR strikes off expert from the register of auditors
… and gross breaches of the audit guidelines on systems' volume flow records and declarations of…
I am running a food and beverage business
… for that packaging's recycling. This is called 'system participation'. Service packaging and shipment…
Minimum standard
… ecological design. It is primarily aimed at systems that have to create financial incentives in three…
Checklist_Determining_relevance.pdf
… pay for the recycling of that packaging. This is called ‘system Private final consumers = participation’. …
ZSVR launches consultation on the 2022 edition of the minimum standard
The Stiftung Zentrale Stelle Verpackungsregister (Foundation Central Agency Packaging Register – ZSVR) has prepared and updated the minimum standard for determining the recyclability of packaging
