Dual systems (market-negotiated) — household packaging in Germany
Dual systems (market-negotiated) covers household packaging in Germany; this library holds no rate row for it, because licence prices here are agreed with the scheme rather than set by statute. Last verified 2026-08-25
What this scheme is
Dual systems (market-negotiated) — Competing private dual systems listed by the Central Agency Packaging Register (ZSVR); from 2026-08-12 the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) together with the German Packaging Law Implementation Act (VerpackDG) replaced the Packaging Act (VerpackG), and producers register in the public LUCID register run by the ZSVR.
Germany has no statutory packaging EPR tariff. Packaging subject to system participation carries three obligations — registration in the LUCID Packaging Register, participation in a dual system and data reporting — while the price paid per kilogram is set in a contract with one of the competing dual systems rather than by a published tariff. This site therefore lists no per-kg rate rows for Germany: the German facts it can carry are the registration side and the directory of dual systems below.
Declaration basis: EUR per kg, agreed per contract with a dual system — no published tariff. Official site: verpackungsregister.org ↗.
How the charge is set here, in full, on this country's rate page:
What it covers, and where the rows are on this site
This library holds no rate row for this scheme, so there is no schedule to point to. What it does hold about this scheme is on this page.
Only years with a page on this site are listed. A year this library holds but does not publish free of charge is not shown here and no figure from it appears on this page.
What it costs before the first kilogram
This scheme is the one the rule library names for this country:
Registering with the authority is free: its own page states that registration carries no charge. What the scheme side costs is a separate question, below. Dual systems (market-negotiated): no published minimum — priced by contract. What the scheme side costs in Germany is agreed case by case, and no public tariff sets a floor we could quote. A third fixed cost is an authorised representative, where one is required. For Germany this library records: Settled — a representative is required; the representative question above has the detail. The price of a representative is commercial, quoted per provider, and no official source publishes it, so this library holds no figure for it. None of the above is the per-kilogram fee: that one is on the rate page and in the calculator.
- Registration fee: verpackungsregister.org ↗, read 2026-09-04 · official source
- Scheme minimum: verpackungsregister.org ↗, read 2026-09-04 · official source
Where to go next
Provenance
This scheme's own pages — Addresses as recorded in this library's scheme entry. The read date behind every figure on this page is on the source that figure came from.
How to cite
EPR Rates (2026). Dual systems (market-negotiated) — household packaging in Germany. https://eprrates.com/schemes/de_dual_systems/ · Retrieved 2026-09-17. CC BY 4.0.
@misc{eprratesschemesdedualsystems,
title = {Dual systems (market-negotiated) — household packaging in Germany},
author = {{EPR Rates}},
year = {2026},
url = {https://eprrates.com/schemes/de_dual_systems/},
note = {Retrieved 2026-09-17. CC BY 4.0}
}
Rate figures are extracted from the official publications listed under Sources; those source documents remain under their publishers' terms.