Article 19

1. By 31 August 2029, each Member State shall establish a register of producers, or use an existing register of producers, which shall serve to monitor compliance of producers with the requirements of this Chapter. The register shall provide links to other national registers of producers’ websites to facilitate, in all Member States, registration of producers or authorised representatives for the extended producer responsibility and, if available, to the national websites containing information on the registration procedure. By 31 August 2029, the Commission shall establish a website which contains the links to all national registers of producers to facilitate registration in all Member States. Member States shall inform the Commission about the links to their national registers of producers within 30 days of the launch of those registers. 2. Producers shall register in the national register referred to in paragraph 1. They shall to that end submit an application for registration in each Member State where they make a vehicle available on the market for the first time. Producers shall submit the application for registration via an electronic data-processing system as referred to in paragraph 8, point (a). Producers shall only make available vehicles on the market of a Member State if they or, in case of authorisation, their authorised representatives for the extended producer responsibility, are registered in such Member State. 3. The application for registration shall include the information listed in Annex IX. Member States may request additional information or documents, as necessary, to use the register of producers in an efficient manner. 4. By way of derogation from paragraph 3 of this Article, the information referred to in point 1(d) of Annex IX shall be provided either in the application for registration under paragraph 3 of this Article or in the application for authorisation under Article 18. 5. Where a producer has appointed a producer responsibility organisation in accordance with Article 17(1), the obligations under this Article shall be met by that organisation mutatis mutandis unless otherwise specified by the Member State in which the vehicle has been made available on the market for the first time. 6. The obligations under this Article may be fulfilled on a producer’s behalf by an authorised representative for the extended producer responsibility. If more than one producer is represented in a Member State by one authorised representative, that authorised representative shall provide the name and the contact details for each of the represented producers separately. 7. Member States may decide that the registration procedure pursuant to this Article and the authorisation procedure pursuant to Article 18 constitute a single procedure, provided that the application for authorisation meets the requirements set out in paragraphs 3 to 6 of this Article. 8. The competent authority shall: make available on its website information about the application process via an electronic data-processing system; grant registrations and provide a registration number within a maximum period of 12 weeks from the moment that all the information required pursuant to paragraphs 2 and 3 is provided. 9. The competent authority may: lay down modalities with regard to the requirements and process of registration without adding substantive requirements to those laid down pursuant to paragraphs 2 and 3; charge cost-based and proportionate fees to producers for the processing of the applications referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article and in Article 18(1). 10. The competent authority may refuse to register a producer or withdraw the producer’s registration where the information referred to in paragraph 3 of this Article and related documentary evidence are not provided or are not sufficient, or where the producer no longer meets the requirements laid down in point 1(d) of Annex IX. The competent authority shall withdraw the producer’s registration if the producer has ceased to exist. 11. The producer, or, where applicable, the producer’s authorised representative for the extended producer responsibility or the producer responsibility organisation appointed on behalf of the producers it represents shall without undue delay notify the competent authority of any changes to the information contained in the registration and of any permanent cessation as regards the making available on the market within the territory of the Member State of the vehicles referred to in the registration. 12. The producer or, where applicable, the producer’s authorised representative for the extended producer responsibility or the producer responsibility organisation shall report to the competent authority responsible for the register on the performance of extended producer responsibility obligations. Where the information in the register of producers is not publicly accessible, Member States shall ensure that providers of online platforms allowing consumers to conclude distance contracts with producers are granted access, free of charge, to that information.

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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.