Better-qualified introductions
Receive a concise brief with the producer entity, countries, sales route, packaging scope, current registrations, and known deadlines.
For local EPR specialists
Become a verified smbf.me authorised representative partner.
smbf.me’s partner programme is designed to connect verified local packaging EPR representatives with cross-border sellers and prepare a cleaner data and reporting handover for each country case.
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Freeapplication and onboarding
Yoursscope, price, and client contract
Preparedcountry brief and data handover
Verifiedbefore any public partner claim
The operational problem
Good local work gets slowed down by incomplete client inputs.
Cross-border sellers often arrive with mixed order exports, missing packaging weights, unclear producer entities, and a vague request to “cover Europe”. That creates unpaid discovery work before the legal engagement can even be scoped.
smbf.me’s role is to turn that first contact into a country-specific working brief. Your team keeps control of the mandate, local interpretation, approval, and authority or PRO communication.
Why partner with smbf.me
Spend more time reviewing the case—and less time reconstructing it.
The programme is designed for firms that can accept the local statutory role and want a repeatable operational layer around it.
Cleaner operational inputs
smbf.me structures order and packaging data before handover, so your team can review the case instead of rebuilding spreadsheets from scratch.
Your commercial relationship
You define your service scope and prices, contract with the client, and receive your professional fees directly from the client.
A visible evidence trail
Country, stream, mandate, data version, deadline, submission, and receipt remain separate and traceable throughout the work.
Can your local entity accept a packaging EPR mandate?
Start the partner reviewOne case, two clear roles
The partner remains the representative. smbf.me runs the preparation layer.
You own the statutory role
- Accept and sign the country-specific mandate
- Confirm legal scope and local formalities
- Exercise professional judgement and approve filings
- Communicate with the client, register, authority, and PRO as agreed
- Issue your agreement and invoice directly to the client
We organise the operational work
- Qualify the producer, countries, sales route, and packaging scope
- Prepare and normalise order and packaging data
- Build reviewed working files for the relevant country format
- Track deadlines, approvals, submission status, and evidence
- Support onboarding, exceptions, and recurring data questions
An EPR authorised representative is not automatically a PRO, a product-compliance representative, the filer, or the invoice recipient. The signed scope names each role.
How joining works
A profile is published only after the capability is checked.
- 01
Apply
Tell us the exact legal entity, establishment country, and claimed country scope.
- 02
Verify
Share company, mandate-capability, risk, privacy, pricing, and workflow evidence securely.
- 03
Agree scope
Confirm the countries, packaging streams, responsibilities, service levels, and commercial model.
- 04
Onboard
Set up the working process for briefs, data, approvals, deadlines, and evidence return.
- 05
Receive introductions
Review qualified cases and decide independently whether to accept each engagement.
Document checklist
Prepare one company verification pack. Keep each client mandate separate.
This is smbf.me’s universal onboarding checklist—not a claim that every item is a legal filing requirement in every country. Local forms and signature rules are checked for each appointment.
Partner verification pack
- A recent company-register extract or equivalent official record
- Legal name, registry number, VAT or tax ID, and registered address
- Evidence that the exact applying entity is established in each country claimed
- Authorised signatory details and the basis of their signing authority
- Evidence of packaging EPR AR capability: an authority or register reference, or a suitably redacted accepted mandate where available
- Professional indemnity insurance certificate, or a clear liability and coverage statement
- Draft service agreement, mandate or PoA, terms, and termination or handover process
- Country and packaging-stream scope, fee schedule, service levels, and escalation contacts
- Privacy or DPA terms, security and retention information, plus a sample reporting and evidence workflow
- Contracting entity and invoice contact; payment details are requested only at contracting and are not proof of AR capacity
Appointment and operating pack
- A written, country-specific mandate or power of attorney signed by the producer and accepted where required
- Producer legal name, register and tax identifiers, registered address, and authorised contact
- Named country, packaging stream, statutory role, scope, start date, and validity period
- Sales-route facts: destination, end-user type, distance-sale or importer scenario, producer role, and packaging categories
- Relevant authority, producer-register, or PRO forms for that country
- Appointment confirmation, portal ID, authority receipt, or registration number where the local workflow provides one
- Local language, signature, notarisation, or apostille formalities only where the current local rule requires them
- Operational inputs such as order data, packaging composition and weights, prior registrations, and reporting periods
Why the checklist varies
The written mandate is the baseline. National workflows add their own details.
For example, Germany specifies its agreement and LUCID confirmation route, Denmark uses its national producer register, and Spain requires the representative to retain proof of representation. These examples are checked again at the time of appointment.
EU PPWR · Articles 44–45 and Annex IX (opens in a new window)Germany · ZSVR representative guidance (opens in a new window)Denmark · Producer Responsibility register (opens in a new window)Spain · Royal Decree 1055/2022 (opens in a new window)
General programme information, not legal advice or confirmation that an applicant may act in a particular country.
Questions before joining
Clear answers before you apply.
Who can apply?
A locally established legal entity that can accept a packaging EPR authorised-representative mandate in at least one country. A PRO, consultant, or referral partner is not treated as the AR unless the exact signing entity and legal capacity are confirmed.
Does applying make us an official smbf.me partner?
No. An application starts verification. smbf.me publishes a partner profile or sends client introductions only after the entity, country, packaging stream, role, and operating documents have been reviewed.
Is there a joining fee?
The partner application, profile review, and onboarding are currently free. Any future commercial change would need to be agreed explicitly before it applies.
Who sets the representative fee?
The partner sets its own scope and professional fees. The client contracts with and pays the partner directly. smbf.me currently takes no commission from the representative service fee under this programme.
What does smbf.me prepare?
smbf.me can qualify the case, organise producer and sales facts, normalise order and packaging data, prepare country-format working files, track deadlines, and retain the evidence trail. The partner reviews and approves anything that depends on its mandate or professional judgement.
Can one entity cover every EU country?
Not automatically. Capability is verified as an exact legal entity, country, packaging stream, statutory role, and confirmed scope. Subcontractors or sister companies must be disclosed rather than presented as one blanket coverage claim.
Does an AR mandate replace a PRO agreement or producer registration?
No. The authorised representative, PRO, register account, filer, signatory, and invoice recipient can be different roles. Each required appointment, registration, fee, report, and receipt remains separately tracked.
When do we upload documents?
The first form contains no file upload. If the initial scope fits, smbf.me sends a secure request with the relevant verification checklist. Client mandates are collected separately for each appointment and should not be included in the first application.
Apply to the partner programme
Start with the entity that will actually sign the mandate.
We will review the first application, confirm whether the route fits, and then request only the documents relevant to your entity and country scope.
- No joining fee
- No automatic public listing
- No client files in the first form
- One verification record per exact legal entity