Glossary
EPR, defined.
Extended Producer Responsibility itself: who counts as a producer, who you register with, and how fees are set.
7 terms
Authorised Representative (EPR/PPWR)
An authorised representative is a legal entity appointed to act on behalf of a foreign producer in a European country where that producer has no local corporate presence, handling registration, dat...
Drop-Shipper Liability (VerpackG)
Drop-shipper liability under the German Packaging Act refers to the legal principle that online merchants cannot outsource their environmental compliance duties.
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is a policy principle that shifts the cost and operational burden of end-of-life waste management from municipalities and taxpayers onto the businesses that p...
Free-Rider
A free-rider is a company that places goods on a regulated market without registering or paying its statutory recycling fees, unfairly avoiding the environmental costs that compliant competitors ca...
Household Packaging
Household packaging is any packaging that typically ends up as waste in private residential households, as opposed to commercial or industrial settings.
Marketplace Gatekeeper Liability (EPR)
Marketplace gatekeeper liability refers to environmental rules that hold online platforms legally responsible if their third-party sellers skip compliance obligations.
Producer Responsibility Organisation (PRO)
A Producer Responsibility Organisation (PRO) is an approved collective body that producers pay to organise the collection, sorting, recycling, and reporting of their packaging waste under national...