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Germany guide · source reviewed 27 Aug 2026

Everything we hold on Germany,

and where we read it.

The register, the schemes and the legal texts behind every figure we publish for Germany — with the gaps left in plain sight. The long-form guidance lives on eprdeutschland.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.

Zentrale Stelle Verpackungsregister (ZSVR) runs LUCID for packaging. stiftung ear runs the WEEE and battery registrations. We prepare the separate files and keep their numbers together without pretending one registration covers the others. 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.

LUCID covers packaging only. WEEE and batteries go through stiftung ear. A LUCID number cannot be used for the ear registers or for another country.

  • Packaging

    Register
    LUCID Packaging Register
    Scheme
    Approved dual system

    Registration with LUCID and a system-participation agreement are separate steps. Packaging volumes are then reported to both.

  • WEEE

    Register
    ear-Portal
    Scheme
    Depends on your product category

    stiftung ear registers each brand and equipment type and issues the WEEE-Reg.-Nr. DE.

  • Batteries

    Register
    ear-Portal
    Scheme
    Depends on your product category

    Battery producers register with stiftung ear before placing batteries on the German market. Batteries inside equipment still count.

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.

  • VerpackDG · packaging implementation
  • ElektroG · WEEE
  • Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 and German battery law · 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 Germany. 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 Germany 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 Germany, 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 eprdeutschland.com.

We run that site, in the local language, and it carries the full guidance for Germany. 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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Germany 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 ZSVR, LUCID, stiftung ear. 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.