EPR in Germany: LUCID, VerpackG and WEEE for Amazon sellers

Until August 2026 most sellers held two packaging registrations, Germany and France, because those were the two Amazon actively verified. The rest of the EU sat in a grey zone nobody enforced.

Since 12 August 2026, under the PPWR (Regulation (EU) 2025/40), online marketplaces must verify seller EPR registration, and Amazon now checks a packaging registration in every EU country where you sell or hold stock. It was a hard date, not a phased rollout.

There is no single EU-wide registration. Each country issues its own number, and a missing one means the listing is deactivated in that country, or you are enrolled into Amazon Pay on Behalf and charged for it. Pan-EU sellers are caught most often, because stock is placed in countries they never chose to sell in: check your inventory placement, not your marketplace list.

Registration lead times are long and vary widely by country, and in several cases they exceed the deadline that has already passed. If you are late, register anyway and keep the dated proof that you started: an unfinished registration you can evidence is a very different conversation with an authority than no registration at all.

Under the Verpackungsgesetz (VerpackG), you must register your packaging in the LUCID register run by the ZSVR and license your packaging volumes with a dual system.

Amazon checks for a valid LUCID number for sales into Germany. Without it, listings can be deactivated.

If you sell electrical or electronic products, ElektroG requires WEEE registration with stiftung ear before you place them on the German market.

Batteries carry their own registration duties under the battery rules.

EPR non-compliance penalties in Germany reach up to €100,000, on top of lost sales while listings are blocked.