Article 17

1. Producers may choose to fulfil their extended producer responsibility obligations either individually or may appoint a producer responsibility organisation authorised in accordance with Article 18 to fulfil the extended producer responsibility obligations on their behalf. Member States may adopt measures to require that producers appoint a producer responsibility organisation to fulfil their extended responsibility obligations on their behalf. 2. Producer responsibility organisations shall ensure the confidentiality of the data in their possession as regards proprietary information or information directly attributable to individual producers or their authorised representatives for the extended producer responsibility. 3. In addition to the information referred to in Article 16(4), producer responsibility organisations shall make publicly available the information on the selection procedure applied in accordance with paragraph 5 of this Article. 4. Producer responsibility organisations shall ensure regular dialogue between stakeholders pursuant to Article 8a(6) of Directive 2008/98/EC. Waste management operators active in collection and treatment of end-of-life vehicles shall designate observer members to the executive boards of the producer responsibility organisations. 5. Waste management operators shall be subject to a non-discriminatory selection procedure, based on transparent award criteria, carried out by producers or producer responsibility organisations and which does not place a disproportionate burden on small and medium-sized enterprises.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-14 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.