Every PPWR and EPR term, explained plainly.

Packaging added or changed by a third-party logistics or fulfilment provider.

Important The actor that first makes this transport packaging available may differ from the producer for the product's sales packaging.

Confirmation from the relevant authority or scheme that it accepted a result.

Important Not the same as acknowledgement.

Evidence that an external party received a submission.

Important Receipt does not always mean acceptance.

A country workspace with imported sales or current registration, AR, reporting, or evidence work.

Important The subscription terms define how inactive or archived countries are treated.

A declaration based on the final measured or recorded quantities for the reporting period.

A material used to bond packaging parts or labels. It can affect material classification or recyclability even when it is a small mass share.

A new version submitted to correct or replace information in an earlier declaration.

Also used as correction declaration · corrected declaration

The date from which a specific legal rule starts to apply.

Important It can differ from entry into force.

A responsible reviewer has authorised a source, rule, or output for its stated use.

The market for authorised-representative, registration, reporting, and managed-compliance services, separate from the EPR contributions themselves.

A verified group of locally established authorised representatives that can be matched to country-, entity-, and stream-specific client needs.

Independent evidence that reported data, calculation, process, or controls were reviewed under a stated assurance scope.

A reproducible record of who changed, reviewed, approved, or submitted something, when, and on what basis.

An EU-established person or legal entity with a written mandate to perform specified PPWR product-compliance tasks for a manufacturer.

Also used as product compliance AR

Important This general product-compliance role is different from an authorised representative for EPR.

A locally established person or entity appointed in writing to perform specified EPR duties for a producer.

Also used as AR · EPR AR · authorised representative for extended producer responsibility

Important The mandate and duties are country-specific.

The response from an authority or scheme after submission, such as acknowledged, accepted, queried, or rejected.

A request from an authority or scheme for clarification, correction, or additional evidence after a filing.

A sale from one business to another.

Important B2B does not automatically remove packaging EPR; the recipient may still be an end user.

A sale from a business to a consumer.

The separate producer-responsibility stream for batteries under EU and national battery rules.

Malta's Beverage Container Refund Scheme for specified beverage containers.

Also used as Beverage Container Refund Scheme

The quantity of drink contained in a beverage package, often recorded in millilitres or litres for DRS classification and reporting.

Plastics made from biological resources such as biomass, organic waste, or by-products, whether or not they are biodegradable.

A dated version of a packaging bill of materials. The relevant version follows the order or reporting event date.

Customer acquisition cost: total sales and marketing cost divided by the number of customers acquired for the measured cohort or period.

The state of a calculation, such as not run, warnings, calculated, approved, or superseded.

A dated record of changes to a country service level, the evidence supporting each change, and the person who approved it.

Gathering waste, including preliminary sorting and storage, so that it can be transported to a treatment facility.

A route where several producers transfer specified EPR operations to a shared organisation, usually a PRO.

Packaging associated with commercial or professional use under the applicable national classification.

Important The exact boundary from household or industrial packaging is country-specific.

The public body responsible for registration, supervision, enforcement, or reporting in a country.

The operating record that links one client's entity, country, obligation stream, legal basis, provider route, tasks, documents, decisions, and evidence.

A product that connects source data, country rules, registrations, representatives, calculations, reports, tasks, costs, and evidence.

Packaging made from different materials that cannot be easily separated by hand.

The assessment of whether a packaging unit contains different materials that cannot be easily separated by hand.

Important Labels, varnishes, paints, printing inks, adhesives, and lacquers are disregarded for this specific test; that does not make them irrelevant to packaging data or recyclability.

A country service route delivered by several disclosed legal entities under one coordinated client offer.

Also used as composite route

Packaging capable of controlled industrial biodegradation without disrupting separate collection, composting, or anaerobic digestion.

The process used to demonstrate whether packaging meets applicable PPWR sustainability, safety, labelling, and information requirements.

A natural person acting outside their trade, business, or profession.

Important A consumer is always an end-user type, but a professional business can also be an end user.

Packaging intended for regulated products where contact safety matters, including food, feed, cosmetics, medicines, and certain medical products.

A later version has addressed identified errors or omissions while preserving the earlier version in the audit trail.

The period and procedure during which an earlier declaration can be amended through the relevant authority, scheme, or filer.

A controlled process that creates a new version, explains the correction, and preserves the earlier report and evidence instead of overwriting them.

An action taken to bring non-compliant packaging or an economic operator into compliance or to remove the related risk.

Versioned logic that maps a shared order and packaging model to a national category, unit, and output.

Evidence that a provider or smbf.me workflow can perform a named role for a stated country, EPR stream, entity type, and period.

Important An office address or a general partner conversation is not enough.

Turning establishment, destination, recipient, channel, and product facts into a country-by-country work plan.

Important A destination alone is an input, not a final legal conclusion.

The operating record that keeps one country's applicable company facts, local actors, registrations, deadlines, reports, costs, and evidence together.

The principle that packaging, batteries, WEEE, textiles, and other EPR streams can apply at the same time and must be handled separately.

A symbol or other data-capture medium that can be read automatically, such as a QR code or another machine-readable identifier.

The trace from a source order through mappings, packaging versions, calculations, report rows, and filing evidence.

A fixed, versioned snapshot of the source data used for a calculation, approval, or report.

The source and transformation history of a specific data value.

A report package has been sent to the intended client, AR, PRO, or filer.

A defined refundable amount collected from the end user when buying packaging covered by a national deposit-and-return system.

Important The deposit is not part of the product price and is not the same as an EPR contribution.

Packaging covered by a deposit-and-return system for which a refundable deposit is collected and returned.

A system that charges and returns a deposit for specified packaging.

Also used as DRS · deposit and return system

Important A refundable deposit is not the same as an EPR fee.

Designing packaging and its components so established collection, sorting, and recycling processes can recycle it in an operational environment.

The country from which a shipment is sent.

Important It does not by itself determine the packaging EPR country.

A contract concluded with a consumer through an organised distance-sales system without the parties being physically present together.

A seller concluding contracts without the parties being physically present together, often through a website or marketplace.

A supply-chain actor, other than the manufacturer or importer, that makes packaging available on the market.

A controlled group of forms, mandates, company records, calculations, confirmations, and other evidence assembled for one registration or report.

Work that is still being prepared and has not yet passed the required review or approval.

A field showing whether a packaging unit is in scope of a deposit-and-return system for the relevant country and period.

A report for packaging and transactions covered by a deposit-and-return system.

The German private-system model for packaging subject to system participation.

Important It is separate from the LUCID register.

A structured check of a provider's legal identity, authority, experience, insurance, service countries, roles, and evidence before approval.

Transport packaging used to deliver products sold online or through another distance-sales channel to an end user.

Also used as e-commerce mailer · shipping mailer

Standard trade-item identifiers commonly represented by a barcode and used to match products, orders, and packaging data.

Also used as EAN · GTIN · barcode

An adjustment to a producer contribution based on packaging characteristics.

A broad PPWR category for a business actor in the packaging supply chain.

Austria's electronic data-management environment for environmental registration and reporting processes.

The date from which a particular rule or tariff version is used.

A regulated entity authorised to issue electronic money and provide permitted payment services.

Also used as EMI

A recipient that does not make the received packaging or packaged product available again as such.

Important An end user can be a consumer or a business.

The formal date on which a legal act enters into force.

Important A specific provision can apply later.

The identifier format issued through Spain's packaging section of the Product Producer Register.

Important It is country- and register-specific.

The aggregate payments producers make into national EPR and PRO systems.

Important It is not the same as the revenue of the entire packaging or waste-management industry.

An identifier for a particular country, register, or regulated stream.

Important There is no interchangeable EU-wide packaging EPR number.

A declaration based on forecast or provisional quantities before the actual period data is final.

A document or recorded event supporting a specific action or status.

A policy and legal responsibility model that assigns organisational and/or financial duties to a producer for products or packaging at the waste stage.

Also used as EPR · extended producer responsibility scheme

Important EPR is not one EU-wide certificate or one standalone law. Packaging EPR is implemented through the applicable EU and national rules, registers, schemes, and reporting routes.

A set of measures through which producers bear financial or financial-and-organisational responsibility for the waste stage of products.

Also used as EPR scheme

A safety rule that keeps an uncertain result in research or review instead of presenting it as not required, compliant, or zero.

Also used as fail closed

An attempted processing or submission action did not complete successfully and needs resolution or retry.

The person or entity that technically submits a declaration through the agreed channel.

Also used as submitter · filing party

Important The filer is not automatically the producer, AR, PRO, or legal adviser.

A record of how a required filing is currently available: published template, published instruction, portal-only form, PRO-specific format, or not yet confirmed.

The operational state of an external filing, such as prepared, delivered, submitted, failed, corrected, or acknowledged.

The supply-chain actor that delivers packaged products, including through re-use, or refill products to the end user.

The first supply of packaging or a packaged product on the relevant market in the applicable commercial scenario.

Packaging whose shape readily changes, such as films, pouches, wraps, and many bags.

A business offering at least two logistics services such as warehousing, packaging, addressing, or dispatching without owning the products.

Also used as 3PL · fulfilment provider

A file or report output has been created from the current data, but it may still need review.

Packaging that groups several sales units for sale, shelf restocking, stock keeping, or distribution and can be removed without changing the products.

Also used as secondary packaging

A report package has been transferred to the client, representative, or filing party.

Important It may not yet have been submitted.

A European standard adopted on a Commission request and capable of supporting a presumption of conformity when cited for that purpose.

Recycling that preserves technical quality so the recycled material can replace primary raw material in packaging or another quality-sensitive use.

Packaging capable of biodegrading in non-industrial composting conditions managed by private individuals for their own compost.

Accommodation and food-service activities, commonly described as hotels, restaurants, and catering.

Also used as HoReCa

Packaging normally generated as waste by household end users, subject to the exact national definition.

A French unique identifier connected to a specific EPR stream.

Important One IDU does not cover every EPR stream or every EU country.

A usable legal rule tied to a jurisdiction, topic, actor or scenario, evidence source, and effective period.

Important A general statement without those boundaries is not sufficient for a country decision.

A person or legal entity established in the EU that places packaging from a non-EU country on the EU market.

A route where a producer performs the permitted EPR obligations itself instead of joining a collective system.

Also used as self-compliance · individual compliance system

Packaging used in industrial supply or production contexts under the relevant national classification.

The first declaration version created for a reporting period before any correction or replacement.

A printed substance applied to packaging. It can matter for composition and recyclability even when it is not treated as a separate main material.

Packaging made with new materials that materially improves packaging functions and produces demonstrable environmental benefits.

Important A cosmetic redesign made mainly for presentation or marketing does not qualify on that basis alone.

A component integral to a packaging unit and its function that normally does not need to be separated before use and is typically discarded with the main body.

A state used to manage work inside smbf.me, such as in review or ready for handoff.

Important It is not a legal conclusion, authority acknowledgement, or authority acceptance.

Official requirements and changes are tracked for the country.

Important L0 does not mean that smbf.me has assessed a company or can execute a registration or report.

L0 Monitoring, L1 Assessment, L2 Calculation, L3 Report preparation, L4 Assisted filing, and L5 Managed compliance.

Important A country level is the maximum evidenced service level, not an unconditional promise for every company or case.

The likely obligation and next checks can be assessed against the available facts.

Important L1 does not include calculation, report preparation, or filing.

Packaging data can be normalised and calculated using the reviewed country logic.

Important L2 does not mean that a national report has been prepared or submitted.

A reviewed country file, form, or working output can be prepared for the responsible filer.

Important Prepared does not mean submitted, acknowledged, or accepted.

smbf.me or a named partner coordinates a defined submission route and retains the acknowledgement or other filing evidence.

Important L4 is not authority approval, automatic statutory representation, guaranteed acceptance, or fully managed compliance.

A contractually defined country process is managed through smbf.me or a confirmed partner for the stated stream, period, roles, and exclusions.

Important L5 does not remove the producer's legal responsibility or guarantee a legal outcome.

A packaging component attached to a product or another packaging unit to carry information or identification.

Professional legal advice on a specific set of facts.

Important A general smbf.me assessment is not a legal opinion unless explicitly delivered as one.

The evidence class attached to a requirement, such as adopted law, official guidance, draft measure, contractual scheme rule, or secondary commentary.

A control that prevents unknown, conflicting, expired, or unapproved research from being shown as a legal conclusion or execution-ready route.

A regulated external payment provider used to execute money movement where smbf.me does not itself hold the required payment licence.

The linked stages of packaging from raw-material acquisition through manufacture, distribution, use, repair, re-use, and end of life.

Also used as life-cycle

A plastic carrier bag with a wall thickness below 50 microns.

Germany's official packaging producer register operated by ZSVR.

Important LUCID registration is separate from system participation.

A two-person control in which one person prepares a rule or output and another independently reviews it before approval.

Also used as four-eyes review

Supplying packaging, empty or with a product, for distribution, consumption, or use on the EU market as part of a commercial activity.

Supplying packaging, empty or with a product, for distribution, consumption, or use within a particular EU Member State as part of a commercial activity.

Important This national-territory concept is central to packaging EPR analysis and is not the same as first placing packaging on the EU market.

An agreed operating service for stated countries, streams, periods, roles, and exclusions.

The French term used for a locally established representative appointed for specified EPR duties.

A written appointment authorising a named person or entity to perform specified tasks for another party.

Also used as PoA · power of attorney · written mandate

Important An AR mandate is country-, entity-, role-, and scope-specific.

An actor that makes packaging or a packaged product, or has it made under its name, under the applicable definition.

Important It is not automatically the EPR producer in every country.

Activities and measures by public authorities to ensure products comply with applicable requirements and do not endanger protected public interests.

A national authority responsible for carrying out market surveillance in its territory.

An online service through which third-party sellers offer products. A marketplace can have separate verification, information, or mandate-based duties.

Reporting packaging quantities by weight, normally in kilograms or tonnes.

A variable contribution based on material, weight, item, or category.

Reprocessing waste into materials or substances, excluding biological treatment, energy recovery, fuels, and backfilling.

A reporting grouping based on packaging material, such as paper and cardboard, plastic, glass, metal, or wood.

The minimum viable product: the smallest real product that can deliver and test the core customer outcome.

Also used as minimum viable product

A country's official register of producers.

Important It is separate from a PRO account and VAT registration.

A producer or seller established outside the European Union. Its obligations depend on the destination country, sales route, importer or fulfilment arrangement, producer role, and applicable representative rules.

Important Non-EU status alone does not determine every packaging EPR duty.

A field or rule does not apply to the assessed scenario.

The available facts and approved rule show that an action is not required.

A regulated workstream assessed separately for a company and country, such as packaging EPR, DRS, SUP, batteries, or WEEE.

The strategic risk that future regulatory harmonisation or centralised services reduce the need for separate national intermediaries.

An online intermediary covered by the Digital Services Act definition, including relevant marketplaces that allow consumers to conclude contracts with producers.

A workflow has been tested, or its signed scope, authority, portal evidence, and responsible owner are recorded.

Important A provider conversation alone is not enough.

Bringing order records from a supported source or file into a structured workspace with validation and import evidence.

A German operating organisation for specified packaging not subject to system participation under the current transition model.

A Slovak or Czech abbreviation commonly used for a producer-responsibility organisation operating a collective compliance system.

Also used as organizácia zodpovednosti výrobcov · organizace odpovědnosti výrobců

An item used by an economic operator to contain, protect, handle, deliver, or present products to another business or an end user.

Important Whether something is packaging depends on its function and the PPWR criteria, not only on its material.

A versioned list of packaging components, materials, weights, and functions linked to a product or SKU.

Also used as BOM · packaging BOM

A combination of material and packaging design used to determine recyclability against established collection, sorting, and recycling processes.

A distinct part of packaging with its own material, weight, and function.

The country where the packaged product reaches the relevant recipient and the packaging is expected to become waste.

Important It can differ from the dispatch country or the seller's establishment.

Extended producer responsibility applied to packaging and packaging waste.

Also used as pEPR · packaging extended producer responsibility

The functional layer assigned to packaging, typically sales, grouped, or transport packaging.

Also used as primary secondary tertiary

Linking each SKU or order line to the applicable packaging components, materials, weights, functions, and versions.

Packaging whose non-compliance with a PPWR requirement could harm the environment, health, or another protected public interest.

Packaging presenting a risk where the severity of non-compliance or harm requires rapid market-surveillance intervention.

Evidence supporting a packaging BOM, mass, material, component, function, or category assignment, such as supplier specifications, measurements, or product records.

A regulated packaging category or use stream.

Important It is not the same as the category of the product inside the packaging.

Packaging or packaging material that has become waste, excluding production residues.

Measures taken before packaging becomes waste that reduce the amount of packaging needed or extend its useful life, including re-use.

Packaging waste collected separately, sorted, and recycled through installed infrastructure at or above PPWR material-specific EU scale thresholds.

Important The PPWR threshold is at least 30% for wood and 55% for the other listed materials.

Evidence that a specific payment instruction completed, tied to its payer, beneficiary, amount, currency, purpose, and date.

A regulated entity authorised to provide specified payment services.

Also used as PI

Coordinating payment instructions, providers, currencies, beneficiaries, statuses, and evidence through one operating layer.

The first making available of a product or packaging on the Union market in the applicable context.

Important For national EPR, separately assess first making available in the relevant Member State.

A material based on a polymer, possibly with additives, that can function as a main structural component of packaging; unmodified natural polymers are excluded.

A plastic bag, with or without handles, supplied to consumers at the point of sale.

A large-molecule material forming the basis of plastics; polymer type can affect reporting, fees, and recyclability.

Plastic waste generated from products that had already been placed on a market or supplied for distribution, consumption, or use.

Regulation (EU) 2025/40 on packaging and packaging waste. Its general application began on 12 August 2026, while individual rules can have different dates.

Also used as PPR · Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation · Regulation (EU) 2025/40

The conflict rule under which PPWR requirements prevail for packaging when they conflict with the Single-Use Plastics Directive.

Important This is a conflict rule, not a general cancellation of SUP duties.

A report or output has been produced for review.

Important Prepared does not mean submitted.

Checking, cleaning, or repairing products or components that became waste so they can be used again without further pre-processing.

Packaging designed for unprocessed products from primary production, such as agricultural or fishery products before processing.

The party holding the main client contract and coordinating any disclosed local providers or subcontractors.

A report from a PRO on collection, treatment, recycling, and target performance across the producers it represents.

Important This is not the same as an individual producer declaration.

The party that carries the relevant EPR responsibility for a particular packaging item, country, and supply chain.

Important It is not always the company that manufactured the box or product.

The core unit used to keep one responsible legal entity, one country, and one regulated stream tied to the correct registration and workflow.

An amount paid to an EPR scheme, normally based on packaging volume, category, or another tariff rule.

A declaration of packaging placed or made available in scope by a producer, normally used for EPR reporting and contribution calculation.

An organisation that collectively performs specified EPR activities and normally collects producer contributions.

Also used as PRO · collective EPR scheme

Important It is not the regulator and not automatically the producer's representative.

The exact legal entity contracted to perform a defined service.

Important A commercial brand or referral partner is not proof that the same legal entity can act as an AR or PRO.

The approval process and recorded decision that determine whether a provider may be offered for a specific country and role.

The disclosed chain of legal entities and roles used to deliver a country service, including any prime contractor, AR, PRO, filer, or subcontractor.

A contract awarded by a public buyer under the applicable EU public-procurement rules.

An authority, scheme, or reviewer has asked for clarification or additional information.

A provider's or scheme's list of charges, units, conditions, and effective dates.

Also used as price list

Using reusable packaging again, multiple times, for the same purpose for which it was designed.

The organisational, technical, and financial arrangements and incentives that make repeated use of packaging possible in a closed or open loop.

A measure intended to obtain the return of a product already made available to an end user.

Operations needed to restore reusable packaging to a functional state so that it can be used again.

Compatibility of packaging with separate collection, sorting, recycling at scale, and use of the resulting recycled material instead of primary raw material.

The share of material in packaging that comes from recycled feedstock rather than primary raw material.

A recovery operation that reprocesses waste into products, materials, or substances for the original or another purpose; energy recovery is excluded.

Filling a container owned or bought by the end user with one or more products purchased from the final distributor.

A place where a final distributor offers products that end users can purchase through refill.

The country workflow for establishing the required producer, scheme, DRS, or representative registration and retaining its evidence.

Spain's national Product Producer Register; packaging is handled through its packaging section.

The receiving authority or scheme has refused the submission or outcome under the stated reason.

Creating and reviewing a reporting output.

Important It does not mean that a report was externally filed.

An immutable version of a report tied to a specific source-data lock, calculation, review, and filing event.

The month, quarter, year, or other interval covered by a report.

The exact authority, national register, PRO, DRS operator, or other body that receives a declaration.

Important One country can have different recipients for different streams or reports.

The recurring country workflow that moves approved source data through calculation, review, delivery, submission, and authority outcome.

Information that has not passed the approval required for a public legal claim or calculation.

Packaging conceived, designed, and placed on the market to complete multiple rotations through a re-use system.

Packaging that largely retains its shape, such as many bottles, jars, cans, tubs, and boxes.

One full cycle of reusable packaging from supply with a product until it is ready to be used again with another product.

An approved, versioned set of rules for a stated country, actor, period, and packaging stream.

Software delivered as an online service, typically through a recurring subscription.

Also used as software as a service

The public area used to display and sell goods and allow customers to circulate; for e-commerce packaging, it includes the storage and dispatch area.

Packaging designed to form the sales unit offered to the end user at the point of sale.

Also used as primary packaging

Serviceable available market: the part of the total market that the product and operating model can actually serve.

Materials obtained through recycling after the necessary checking and sorting that can replace primary raw materials.

Collection in which a waste stream is kept separate by type and nature to facilitate a specific treatment.

A component distinct from the main body that needs to be fully and permanently removed and is normally discarded before or separately from it.

The highest smbf.me service level currently evidenced for a country and workflow, from monitoring through managed compliance.

Important A capability level is an operational ceiling, not a legal conclusion or an outcome guarantee.

Packaging designed and intended to be filled at the point of sale so that a product can be dispensed.

The exact countries, streams, periods, roles, actions, and exclusions covered by an smbf.me engagement.

A contractual service target that defines timing, measurement, scope, and exclusions.

Also used as SLA

A reduced dataset under a specific rule.

Important It does not by itself remove registration, representation, scheme, or payment duties.

One operational workspace connecting country questions, data, approvals, reports, evidence, and handoffs while keeping the client, smbf.me, authority, PRO, and representative roles distinct.

Packaging that is not reusable packaging.

A single-use beverage bottle covered by the bottle category in the EU Single-Use Plastics Directive.

The EU and national rules addressing specified single-use plastic products and related reduction, labelling, collection, and EPR duties.

Also used as SUP · Single-Use Plastics Directive

The Spanish term for a collective producer-responsibility system.

Important It is not the national register or the competent authority.

A stock-keeping unit used by a business to identify a sellable product or variant.

Also used as stock-keeping unit

Serviceable obtainable market: the part of the available market a business can realistically capture in the chosen period.

A declaration submitted to a national authority or public register rather than only to a private compliance scheme.

Transfer of a report through the defined external channel.

The exact route used to file information, such as an authority portal, PRO portal, API, email, post, or a named local filer.

The report has been transmitted through the defined external channel.

Important Submitted does not mean acknowledged or accepted.

A substance with hazardous or sustainability-relevant properties that meets the applicable EU ecodesign definition.

A report required for products or packaging covered by national Single-Use Plastics rules.

A version kept for history but replaced by a later approved or submitted version.

An earlier legal or operational rule retained for history after a newer effective version replaces it.

A person or legal entity that supplies packaging or packaging material to a manufacturer.

A store, marketplace, ERP, API, or file format for which the import route, required permissions, fields, and validation have been confirmed.

The ADEME information system used for French EPR producer and identifier processes.

Joining or contracting with the relevant packaging EPR scheme where required.

Important It is separate from government registration.

Service packaging filled at an attended point of sale with a drink or ready-prepared food for transport and prompt consumption elsewhere.

Total addressable market: the full theoretical demand for a product or service if every relevant customer could be served.

A versioned record of rates, fees, units, conditions, and effective dates.

A document that sets technical requirements for a product, process, or service.

A separate producer-responsibility stream for textile products where introduced by applicable EU or national rules.

A plastic carrier bag with a wall thickness from 50 to 99 microns.

A condition that can change a duty, dataset, or frequency.

Important A threshold is not a universal exemption.

A defined period between legal or operational regimes.

Packaging that makes handling or transport easier and protects one or more sales units or grouped units from damage.

Also used as tertiary packaging

Important Road, rail, ship, and air freight containers are excluded from this PPWR definition.

Recovery or disposal operations, including preparation before recovery or disposal.

The movement of packaging from filling or loading to emptying or unloading, either within a rotation or on its own.

A complete unit, including integrated and separate components, that performs one or more packaging functions.

Reporting packaging or product quantities by number of items or sales units.

Information is missing or still requires review.

Important Unknown must never be silently converted to zero.

A logistics or fulfilment operator that can become the producer for packaging it removes, adds, or replaces before the goods reach the end user.

Also used as repacking producer · unpacking producer

Important The role depends on the exact transaction and packaging action; being a 3PL alone does not decide it.

A French sales-unit concept used in some EPR declarations and simplified contribution models.

Also used as unité de vente consommateur

Checked using the stated source and method; not necessarily approved for legal, calculation, or public use.

A plastic carrier bag with a wall thickness below 15 microns.

A plastic carrier bag with a wall thickness above 99 microns.

A substance or object that its holder discards, intends to discard, or is required to discard under EU waste law.

Important Reusable packaging sent for reconditioning is not treated as waste merely because it enters that process.

Collection, transport, recovery, including sorting, and disposal of waste, together with supervision of those operations and certain after-care activities.

A receptacle used to store or collect waste, such as a container, bin, or bag.

The separate EPR stream for waste electrical and electronic equipment.

Also used as waste electrical and electronic equipment

A measure intended to prevent a product in the supply chain from being made available on the market.

An Austrian central register used within the EDM environment for specified environmental roles and processes.

Germany's Central Agency Packaging Register, which operates LUCID and publishes official packaging-register guidance.

A checked quantitative value of 0.

Important Zero is different from unknown, not applicable, and not required.

A required declaration that explicitly reports zero in-scope activity for a period.

Important It is not the same as having no registration or leaving a report missing.