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Will a marketplace ask for your EPR number?

Country by country, stream by stream.

Two answers for each of the 10 countries we run. First, whether a law makes the marketplace collect your registration number before you sell. Then, whether Amazon's public pages say it already asks, and since when. Each answer names its source and the day we read it. Where we couldn't read one, the answer says so.

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Italy · Packaging

The law

The law makes the marketplace ask

Since 12 August 2026

Regulation (EU) 2025/40, Article 45(4) and (6) · EU rule, since 12 August 2026

RENAP, Italy's national register, has no packaging section yet.

Amazon

Amazon asks for your number

Since 12 August 2026

Amazon's notice names this country among its nine EU stores and asks for a valid packaging registration number, including from sellers who use its Pay on Behalf service.

Sources: EUR-Lex · Amazon Global Selling. Read 11 Nov 2026.

The law26 of 32country and stream pairs where the law makes the marketplace ask
Amazon14 of 32pairs where Amazon's public pages say it asks
To confirm18pairs with at least one answer we could not read at the source

Every country we run

Two answers per cell: the law, and Amazon.

The law says what a marketplace must do. Amazon's pages say what Amazon does. They are different answers with different dates. A dotted mark means we could not read a source for it, not that nobody will ask.

For each country we run and each stream: whether the law makes a marketplace collect your EPR registration number, and whether Amazon says it asks for it.
Country	Packaging	WEEE	Batteries	Textiles
Italy	Law · since 12 August 2026 Amazon · since 12 August 2026	Law · no duty found Amazon · to confirm	Law · since 18 August 2025 Amazon · to confirm	No documented source
Spain	Law · since 10 April 2022 Amazon · since 2023	Law · since 10 April 2022 Amazon · to confirm	Law · since 10 April 2022 Amazon · to confirm	No documented source
Portugal	Law · since 12 August 2026 Amazon · to confirm	Law · to confirm Amazon · to confirm	Law · since 18 August 2025 Amazon · to confirm	No documented source
Austria	Law · since 1 January 2023 Amazon · to confirm	Law · since 1 January 2023 Amazon · to confirm	Law · since 1 January 2023 Amazon · to confirm	No documented source
Belgium	Law · since 12 August 2026 Amazon · since 12 August 2026	Law · Wallonia, since 1 October 2026 Amazon · to confirm	Law · since 18 August 2025 Amazon · to confirm	No documented source
France	Law · since 1 January 2022 Amazon · since 2022	Law · since 1 January 2022 Amazon · since 2022	Law · since 1 January 2022 Amazon · since 2022	Law · since 1 January 2022 Amazon · since 2022
Germany	Law · since 12 August 2026 Amazon · since 15 December 2021	Law · since 1 July 2023 Amazon · since 2022	Law · since 18 August 2025 Amazon · since 18 August 2025	No documented source
Netherlands	Law · since 12 August 2026 Amazon · since 12 August 2026	Law · no duty found Amazon · to confirm	Law · since 18 August 2025 Amazon · since 18 August 2025	Law · no duty found Amazon · to confirm
Poland	Law · since 12 August 2026 Amazon · since 12 August 2026	Law · no duty found Amazon · to confirm	Law · since 18 August 2025 Amazon · since 18 August 2025	No documented source
Greece	Law · since 12 August 2026 Amazon · to confirm	Law · to confirm Amazon · to confirm	Law · since 18 August 2025 Amazon · to confirm	No documented source

Yes, from the date shown
No marketplace duty in the texts we read
To confirm: no source we could read and cite

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Where the duty comes from

Two EU rules make a marketplace collect your number. For WEEE and textiles, the country decides.

A regulation applies in every member state on the same day. A directive waits for each country's own law. That is why the packaging and battery columns read the same from Italy to Greece, and the WEEE column does not.

Packaging · Since 12 August 2026

Every member state, through the PPWR

Before a marketplace lets you sell packaged goods to consumers, it obtains your registration number in the country where the buyer is, and your self-certification that you meet your EPR obligations there. It then makes "best efforts" to check that the information is complete and reliable.

Regulation (EU) 2025/40, Article 45(4) and (6)
Batteries · Since 18 August 2025

Every member state, through the Battery Regulation

The same duty for batteries, including a battery built into a device: the marketplace obtains the register you are in, your registration number and your self-certification.

Regulation (EU) 2023/1542, Article 62(6)
WEEE · national law

Spain, Austria, Belgium, France and Germany have rules of their own

The WEEE Directive puts no duty on marketplaces. Where one exists, it comes from national law, and the table says which countries have one and since when.

Directive 2012/19/EU
Textiles · national law, then the EU

France already has one

The 2025 revision of the Waste Framework Directive will make every member state require it. Each country has until 17 June 2027 to write it into its own law; until then, only a national rule applies.

Directive (EU) 2025/1892, new Article 22a(13)

What the check means for you

A marketplace collects the number. A register issues it.

The marketplace is usually the first to tell you the obligation exists. It doesn't carry it, and it can't give you a number.

One number per country, per stream

The PPWR asks for your registration in the country where the buyer is. A number from another country, or from another stream, doesn't answer that question.
Pay on Behalf is not a registration

In some countries Amazon declares and pays the fees for you, for a charge. Its notice on the PPWR says that from 12 August 2026 it still wants a valid packaging number from sellers who use that service.
You can check the number yourself

Several registers publish who is registered. Before you paste a number into a marketplace, or accept a supplier's, look it up where the country publishes it.

The register decides. The marketplace checks. Check a number in its public register

Beyond Amazon

eBay asks too. Its pages give fewer dates.

We list a marketplace here only when its own public pages say it clearly. eBay's do. We haven't read the others' pages closely enough to say what they check.

Packaging, every EU country it sells into

From 12 August 2026, eBay says it collects your packaging registration numbers and asks you to self-certify. Without them, your listings may be hidden to buyers in those countries.

EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation · eBay UK Seller Centre
Batteries, country by country

You add a battery number for each country where you have one. eBay says your listings may be hidden until you add the numbers you need.

EU Batteries and Waste Batteries Regulation · eBay Help
Germany: packaging and electrical equipment

eBay asks for your LUCID number for packaging and your WEEE number for electrical equipment, and says listings may be hidden without them.

Extended Producer Responsibility selling in Germany · eBay Help

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Two answers per cell: the law, and Amazon.

Two EU rules make a marketplace collect your number. For WEEE and textiles, the country decides.

Every member state, through the PPWR

Every member state, through the Battery Regulation

Spain, Austria, Belgium, France and Germany have rules of their own

France already has one

A marketplace collects the number. A register issues it.

One number per country, per stream

Pay on Behalf is not a registration

You can check the number yourself

eBay asks too. Its pages give fewer dates.

Packaging, every EU country it sells into

Batteries, country by country

Germany: packaging and electrical equipment

Know who will ask. Then get the numbers.

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