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The definition of producer seeks to identify the economic operator who is responsible for EPR obligations, whether it is the manufacturer, importer or distributor, in the Member State in which the packaged product is made available for consumption and thereby is expected to become waste. Consequently, the manufacturer and producer may not always be the same economic operator, and the producer of packaging will depend on 1) the type of packaging made available on the market, 2) whether it is in the same Member State as it is manufactured, and 3) whether the packaged product is sold to the end user or is further distributed.

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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.