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Producers and manufacturers are defined under the PPWR for different purposes. The producer is responsible for paying the costs for the collection and recovery of packaging waste in the respective Member State (Article 45(1)). To this end, a producer must register and report to the relevant national authorities as specified in Article 44 and pay the extended producer responsibility (EPR) fee in the Member State, in which the packaging is expected to become waste. If fees are paid in a Member State, and afterwards a distributor makes the packaging available for the first time on the territory of another Member State, the fees must be reimbursed. The manufacturer, on the other hand, must ensure that the packaging complies with the sustainability and labelling requirements specified in Articles 5–12, as specified in Article 15(1), before it is made available on the Union market for the first time. There is only one manufacturer throughout the EU (see section 3 above).

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-09-07 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.