Producer responsibilities regarding packaging waste

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This article provides links to information on producer responsibilities regarding packaging waste.

Extended Producer Responsibility for Packaging (pEPR)

Legislation

The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) Regulations 2024

The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) (Amendment) Regulations 2025

NIEA Compliance Monitoring Plan

2025 Compliance Monitoring

We delivered our compliance and monitoring duties in 2025 through a range of desk and site-based inspections and audits.

Our work helped ensure businesses in Northern Ireland are complying with their pEPR responsibilities.

NIEA pEPR Packaging Compliance Monitoring Plan 2026 | Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs

Guidance

Guidance covering extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging for producers, reprocessors, exporters, compliance schemes, material facilities and other groups.

Extended producer responsibility for packaging - GOV.UK

Guidance for organisations who may need to report packaging data because they are affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.

Extended producer responsibility for packaging: report packaging data - GOV.UK

Guidance for organisations who need to register or wish to become accredited under extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/packaging-waste-apply-for-registration-and-accreditation-as-a-reprocessor-or-exporter

The following documents include the interpretations and agreed positions of the Regulators (Environment Agency, Natural Resources Wales (NRW), Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA), and Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA)) relating to extended producer responsibility for packaging (pEPR) compliance.

https://npwd.environment-agency.gov.uk/public/Guidance.aspx?CategoryId=41fc1dbb-47a2-47fd-bb82-4938d83729e0&ReturnUrl=%2Fpublic%2FNewsAndGuidance.aspx

Regulatory position statements

Position statements providing guidance on the regulatory requirements associated with Extended Producer Responsibility for Packaging.

NIEA Regulatory Position Statements

Public registers

The public register of producers for EPR for packaging. Find businesses and other organisations ('producers') who have registered for extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.

Public register of producers for EPR for packaging

The public register of packaging compliance schemes. Find businesses (‘producer compliance schemes’) who are approved under extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.

Extended producer responsibility for packaging: register of packaging compliance schemes - GOV.UK

The public register of reprocessors and exporters for EPR for packaging. Find businesses (‘reprocessors’ and ‘exporters’) who are registered and/or accredited under extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/epr-for-packaging-list-of-registered-and-accredited-reprocessors-and-exporters