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Austria guide · source reviewed 27 Aug 2026

Everything we hold on Austria,

and where we read it.

The register, the schemes and the legal texts behind every figure we publish for Austria — with the gaps left in plain sight. The long-form guidance lives on epraustria.com, which we run too; this page says what stands behind it.

What we hold

The register is public. The scheme is private. They are not the same thing.

BMLUK oversees the Austrian register, with EAK and VKS coordinating the stream-specific routes. Foreign distance sellers use an Austrian authorised representative and EDM. We prepare each registration and keep the three files separate in your dashboard. A register and a scheme remain separate: the public side records the producer, while the private side bills the contribution. Completing one does not complete the other.

EDM is the electronic filing environment and ZAReg is its master-data register. Packaging, WEEE and batteries stay separate inside that system, and each stream also requires participation in an approved collection and recovery system.

  • Packaging

    Register
    EDM · ZAReg
    Scheme
    Approved collection and recovery system

    A foreign distance seller supplying Austrian end users appoints an authorised representative established in Austria. The representative is recorded in ZAReg and reports the packaging mass.

  • WEEE

    Register
    EDM · ZAReg
    Scheme
    Approved collection and recovery system

    Electrical equipment is registered and reported as its own activity. A packaging registration does not cover it.

  • Batteries

    Register
    EDM · ZAReg
    Scheme
    Approved collection and recovery system

    Battery activity is recorded separately, including batteries incorporated into equipment.

Legal basis

The texts we read. Named, so you can read them too.

These are the references the authority and the schemes cite. We do not paraphrase them into a summary and call it guidance — we name them, and we say the day we last read them.

  • AWG 2002 · Waste Management Act
  • Verpackungsverordnung · packaging
  • Elektroaltgeräteverordnung · WEEE
  • Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 · batteries

What we don't hold

The gaps, named. “We have no source” is not “you owe nothing”.

A seller who reads a blank as “nothing to do here” does not register, and finds out when a listing comes down. So every blank on this page is written out, with what it does and does not mean.

  • Textiles

    No register and no scheme documented for this stream in Austria. That is a gap in our sources, not a statement that you owe nothing — the two are different, and only a person closes the distance.

  • Declaration deadline

    Our sources for Austria do not publish one. We would rather leave this blank than print a date you might plan around.

  • Indicative time to file

    We have not measured one for Austria, and an invented figure is the fastest way to lose the one thing this page is for.

  • Thresholds and exemptions

    None published in the sources we hold. Most EPR rules trigger on the first unit placed on the market rather than on a turnover threshold, and the scope check says whether an exemption applies to you.

We publish a source ledger for all 10 countries we run. The other member states stay listed without a promised opening date. See all countries

The long version lives on epraustria.com.

We run that site, in the local language, and it carries the full guidance for Austria. This page is the ledger behind it — what we hold, where it comes from, and what is still blank. The canonical for the national detail points there, not here.

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Austria is one row. Here's the rest of what you owe.

Every country you ship to runs its own register, its own scheme and its own calendar. Tell us yours and you'll get an indicative map of the lot, on screen, before anyone asks you for a card.

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shippeu.com is an independent private service. It is not a government office, an authority, a register or a collective scheme, and it is not affiliated with, authorised by or endorsed by BMLUK, EDM, EAK, VKS. Each authority and each scheme decides independently whether and when to accept an application.

Figures on this page come from published guidance. Last source review: 27 August 2026. Rules change — the scope check is reviewed by a person before any quote.