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EPR for Packaging compliance tool

SI 2024/1332 · United Kingdom · Binding instrument

Name anyone on your staff. The system makes them your compliance person.

A member of your own staff, with no compliance background, reads the training module, answers the interview, and finishes with your EPR for Packaging documentation cited article by article. The knowledge stays in the business.

Every account level runs inside a dedicated Claude account. Anyone can try a toolkit in their own Claude account; compliance work runs in a dedicated one. The Claude Max plan is £90 a month, paid to Anthropic, and is not included in any level.

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EPR for Packaging is SI 2024/1332, a binding instrument in the United Kingdom. UK extended producer responsibility: packaging data reporting and fees above the turnover and tonnage thresholds.

The free assessment screens for EPR for Packaging when a business places packaged goods on the market and has turnover above 1 million pounds. The Regulations bite when it also handles more than 25 tonnes of packaging a year.

Size screen: turnover above £1 million.

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• Your exact position under EPR for Packaging: what is in place, what is missing, and what to do about each gap.
• Documentation with article citations, ready for auditors, insurers, customers and public buyers.
• A trained person inside the business who understands what the regulation requires, and stays.
• A dated record of every section completed, with the reports themselves staying in your own Claude account. The toolkit is carried by an account level, see the plans.
• All of it completed in-house, at your own pace, without booking a single meeting.

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Does EPR for Packaging apply to my business?

You are caught if you are a producer established in the United Kingdom who handles packaging as a brand owner, packer or filler, importer, first UK owner, distributor, online marketplace operator, service provider or seller, and you are above the size thresholds. A producer below both thresholds has no obligations under the instrument. Corporate groups aggregate turnover and tonnage across all relevant group members when testing these thresholds (Schedule 9, paragraphs 2(1) and 2(2)).

Who does EPR for Packaging apply to?

The instrument applies to producers established in the United Kingdom, compliance scheme operators, reprocessors, exporters, and relevant authorities handling household packaging waste. It also reaches holding companies and relevant group members, licensors and pub operating businesses in Scotland, and any person performing a substantive regulated act. Charities are excluded from producer responsibility obligations under regulation 25 and Part 3.

Does EPR for Packaging apply to a small business?

Only above a size threshold. A small producer has turnover of more than £1,000,000 and supplied more than 25 tonnes of packaging, without meeting the large producer test, and a producer below both thresholds has no obligations. A large producer has turnover of more than £2,000,000 and supplied more than 50 tonnes of packaging.

When does EPR for Packaging apply from, and what are the deadlines?

The citation and commencement provisions came into force on 12 December 2024 and all remaining provisions on 1 January 2025. For 2026 and later years, large producers in classes (i) to (vi) register by 1 October in the preceding year, while large producer sellers only and small producers register by 1 April in the relevant year. Data reports are due 1 October and 1 April, and the certificate of compliance by 31 January each year.

What does EPR for Packaging require me to do?

You must establish producer status and register, collect Schedule 4 data and carry out the recyclability assessment, and report data and compliance to the regulator. A large producer must meet its recycling duty only through PRN or PERN acquisition against Schedule 5 targets, and pay disposal and administration fees to the scheme administrator. Every registered producer must notify the appropriate agency of an approved person under regulation 132.

What records or documents does EPR for Packaging require me to keep or produce?

You must keep evidence for 7 years under the data collection and record-keeping duty, and produce periodic data reports, recyclability assessment reports and the annual certificate of compliance. Reprocessors and exporters must keep records and submit monthly, quarterly and annual reports. Every registered producer, holding company, scheme operator, reprocessor and exporter must notify the appropriate agency of an approved person under regulation 132.

What happens if I do not comply with EPR for Packaging?

The criminal offence route under regulations 115, 116 and 118 carries an unlimited fine on conviction on indictment, an unlimited fine on summary conviction in England and Wales, and a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum on summary conviction in Scotland or Northern Ireland. The civil sanctions route under regulation 121 and Schedule 13 allows a fixed monetary penalty of £1,000, a variable monetary penalty, a compliance notice or an accepted enforcement undertaking. Registration may be cancelled under regulations 32 and 54 and scheme approval withdrawn under regulation 49.

How do I start complying with EPR for Packaging?

The first practical step is to establish producer status and register, which the toolkit settles first, together with mergers, transfers and approved persons. For 2026 and later years, large producers in classes (i) to (vi) register by 1 October in the preceding year, and large producer sellers only and small producers register by 1 April in the relevant year.

Which ComplianceSME account includes the EPR for Packaging toolkit?

The EPR for Packaging agent toolkit is included from the Small level.

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