ALERT: Effective June 15, 2022, your listings may be blocked for non-compliance with EPR packaging law in Germany
If you send packaged goods to Germany or sell goods on Amazon.de in any form of packaging (product or shipping package), you need to provide your LUCID number for the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) Packaging category by June 14.
Amazon will start blocking non-compliant listings on June 15, 2022, to comply with the EPR legal requirement that comes into effect on July 1, 2022.
If you’re already registered for EPR Packaging in Germany, submit your LUCID registration number on Seller Central.
If you’re not registered for EPR Packaging in Germany, learn more about Amazon’s free and paid solutions to help you meet your EPR compliance requirements.
We recommend that you register as soon as possible to ensure your listings aren’t blocked. It may take up to four weeks to register in addition to five working days for Amazon to validate your LUCID number.
To confirm your EPR obligations:
- Go to the EPR Reports page to download detailed information on sales of your products subject to EPR regulations, including packaging for Germany.
- Check the Verpackungsregister guide to determine if your packaging is also subject to system participation. You may be required to enter a contract with one or more packaging schemes (also referred to as “system participation contract”).
If you are subject to system participation, you must declare your packaging both to the schemes and to the German authority Zentrale Stelle Verpackungsregister (ZSVR). In addition, you will need to pay fees to your respective schemes for the applicable reporting periods.
For more information, go to Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) Education.
25 replies
Seller_ZxGppo5ZZQmLd
I have my listings set to holiday settings for Germany as I only sell in UK. Will this new rule mean that all my listings will be blocked? Many thanks for any replies.
Seller_IvVwEd8qUuYlP
Hi, I’ve just noticed I’'m connected to 4 other non-UK marketplaces: Spain, France, Italy and Germany. I never signed up for this. How can I withdraw from all non-UK marketplaces?
Seller_sQhTCu98deOXD
Just closed our German listings just in case, there is a 100,000 euro fine allegedly for non compliance !
This new German law though only comes into effect on 01/07/2022 so do not know why Amazon are enforcing it now ?
Seller_YUakS29fOXogL
Hello,
Would anyone here maybe know, if i delete all my German listings, will they still stay live on my UK account?
Thanks
Seller_gufP0gQiogCGX
I sell very little in Germany now anyway since the ridiculous delays and demands to my customers for repeat VAT payments (despite clear IOSS markings on my packages) caused by Customs in the EU created a flood of claims for refunds for non delivery from customers. I now require every customer in France, Germany and Italy to pay for tracked shipping to give me some small degree of protection from these claims, resulting in customers having to pay (for example) £9 shipping for an item costing £1. No surprise then that hardly anyone in those countries orders from me now… but the claims have stopped. There isn’t anything to stop customers in Germany ordering from our Amazon UK listings though so putting your DE listings in Holiday status won’t stop all orders from Germany. I bit the bullet today and signed up with Lizenzero, registered with LUCID and reported my estimated packaging use. All legal again (until I have to do the same again and pay again for France).
