1. Introduction to EPR Management:

If you are selling products within the scope of the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE) in Germany, you are required to comply with the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) requirements.

In Germany, compliance carriers are obliged to check the WEEE information of incoming products and will not provide services for products without proper WEEE registration.

Effective from August 20th, 2024, CIRRO will implement a new restriction: if your products fall within the scope of the German Packaging Act (VerpackG) and the German Electrical and Electronic Equipment Act (ElektroG), and the relevant registration information of these products has not been maintained in our system under “Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)”, the system will automatically prevent the creation of inbound orders.

  1. System Guideline for the EPR Management：

2.1 You can directly go to Create EPR.

CFD- Product- EPR Management- Create

– The review status of the maintained EPR can be checked in the list；

– Once you select “Country” and “Regulations”, the system will automatically display the fields that require filling.

 

2.2 When you submit a new product in the Product list, there will be a tip.

CFD- Product- Product list- Draft- Submit to verification

– When you submit an SKU for review, the system will check whether you have maintained the regulatory information of the corresponding country as per the [Importing Country & Regulations] in the SKU；

– If the regulatory information of the corresponding country is not maintained, a pop-up window will appear with a reminder.

– Note: This pop-up reminder is only for the purpose of giving a reminder. Even if you fail to maintain the relevant regulatory information, the SKU can still be submitted for review successfully；However, it will have an impact on whether the submission review of your order can be successful.

2.3 When you submit the inbound order, an error will occur if the regulations for the product have not been maintained.

CFD- Inbound- Inbound list- Submit to Verification

– When you submit the inbound order for review. If an error is reported due to unmaintained regulatory information, the system supports you in downloading the error reason.