Just getting started? Check here if you have any obligations under German packaging law – and what you need to do.
If you are distributing packaged goods in Germany, you have to be registered with the LUCID Packaging Register. We'll show you everything you need to know.
Registration alone is not enough for certain types of packaging. Learn more about how to fulfil the system participation requirement and report your packaging volumes.
Explore this section for more guidance and information, definitions and general help in complying with the law, no matter your sector, distribution channel or logistics solution.
All about the ZSVR's work as an authority, from published decisions and information about the ZSVR Foundation to the minimum standard for recycling-friendly packaging.
Minimum_standard_Packaging_act_2022.pdf
… Agency (Umweltbundesamt) Osnabrück, 31…
Minimum_standard_Packaging_act_2021.pdf
Minimum_standard_Packaging_act_2020.pdf
Minimum_standard_Packaging_act_2019.pdf
… Agency (Umweltbundesamt) Last updated: 22…
Amendments_to_the_minimum_standard_2024.pdf
… of application added under 1 (page 4) The…
Minimum_standard_Packaging_act_2024.pdf
… Agency (Umweltbundesamt) Osnabrück, 29…
Factsheet_packaging_recycling.pdf
… packaging turned around in 2022 and has 9,000 kt…
A note on terminology
… and should not be understood to be…
3.6 Can an upstream distributor of service packaging to whom the system participation requirement has been shifted pass on the system participation requirement?
… such packaging) to undertake system…
3.1 Where should system participation be undertaken?
… System participation must be undertaken with one or more…
