Starting in 2022, if you sell your products in Germany and/or France, operators of Marketplaces must ensure that you are fully complying with the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) in these countries. The Marketplace will therefore collect and validate your EPR registration number(s).

If you cannot prove your EPR compliance to your Marketplace, you can expect the following actions:

Germany: Marketplace will be obliged to suspend your non-compliant listings under the relevant EPR product categories:
Packaging: all listings from July 1, 2022
Electrical and Electronic Equipment (EEE): all listings falling under EEE from January 1, 2023
Batteries: currently not in scope within German regulations

France: Information from the French regulators has not yet been announced. Once this information is made public, it will be displayed on this page: www.landbell-marketplace-seller.com

Whoever puts the sales packaging into circulation first, is the “initial distributor” according to the Packaging Ordinance (as of 1 January 2019 Packaging Act) and is therefore obligated to contract this with a packaging scheme (“Duales System”). It is not just cardboard packaging that must be licensed but also films, bubble wrap, natural materials, glass etc. This does not just apply to large companies but also to small manufacturers and distributors of goods, even if they are not using their own online shop for sales but platforms such as Amazon, eBay or DaWanda. Even the smallest quantities have to be licensed. Anyone who does not meet this obligation is threatened with warnings and penalties of up to EUR 100,000.

Our Head of Sales and packaging expert Ellen Hitschler explains the most important responsibilities and duties for online retailers in an interview with e-tailment.

With Landbell EASy we are offering online retailers, shop operators and small stationary retailers a transparent and above all simple online solution for licensing sales packaging.

Advantages for you:

• We take on your waste disposal obligations for at least two years.
• You receive a loyalty bonus from the third year.
  Full legal security.
• Simple transparent administration on the Landbell EASy online platform.
• Packaging can also be licensed for dispatch to Austria, if required.

1. Initial distributors
   If you are the first to fill packaging with goods and distribute them to private end consumers, you are the initial distributor.
2. Registration
   Obtain information and register at www.shop.landbell.de in just two steps.
3. Agreement
   Conclude your participation agreement straight after registration. For an annual flat rate of EUR 75 (plus VAT) you license up to 150 kilograms of paper/paperboard/cardboard (equals roughly 400 medium dispatch boxes) for Germany with Landbell EASy.
4. Quantity reports
   You really easily submit your quantity report through the EASy shop retrospectively. You simply enter the quantities you put into circulation per material type (paperboard, paper, cardboard, glass, aluminium etc.).
5. Payment
   You can conveniently pay by credit card, PayPal or on account.