Organisation details: how to create your file for extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging
This guidance explains how to report organisation details in order to register for extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging. This is a legal obligation for organisations that are affected by EPR for packaging.
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If you’re an organisation that supplies packaging to consumers and businesses in the UK, you may have to take action to comply with extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
Find out if you’re affected by EPR for packaging
As part of registration for EPR for packaging, you need to submit information about your organisation, including things like:
- address
- turnover
- packaging activities
- contact details
- organisation size
This document explains what information you need to supply and how to structure it.
There are templates to help you structure your data
You may also need to submit data about your packaging. There’s separate guidance explaining how to create your packaging data file.
Submit your data using the ‘report packaging data’ service.
You can give feedback about all the EPR guidance. Let us know if anything is unclear or incorrect.
Updates to this page
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This updates clarifies that a leaver code is mandatory when reporting 'leavers' in mid-year groups and subsidiary changes. Corrected 'residual type code', 'turnover' and 'tonnage' to show these are also mandatory.
Update history
2026-02-19 16:00
Compliance schemes can now register small producers. They must submit separate organisation, brand and partner files for each size of producer that they are registering, small and large.
2025-09-09 16:44
This updates the codes used for updates to organisation details during the reporting year. There are now more codes and these must be used when reporting leavers or joiners.
2025-08-12 14:38
This updates clarifies that a leaver code is mandatory when reporting ‘leavers’ in mid-year groups and subsidiary changes. Corrected ‘residual type code’, ‘turnover’ and ‘tonnage’ to show these are also mandatory.
2025-06-20 14:37
The ‘leaver codes’ for mid-year changes added to the last edition were incorrect. Check the updated guidance for the correct codes.
2025-06-12 09:46
This adds information about reporting updates to organisation details during the reporting year, with codes for parent companies to report their changes
2025-03-18 09:28
This updates an error in the information about the new column header: it should read ‘organisation_size’ not ‘Organisation size’.
2025-02-28 12:46
This adds information about the new ‘organisation size’ column for 2025 registration. Separate guidance on registration has also been published so this update removes overlapping content.
2024-08-15 12:29
This adds some information about the file verification that now takes place when you upload a file. It also updates dates and deadlines for 2024 and 2025.
2024-07-31 13:08
This update clarifies an issue around the service of notice address: it should only be given where it differs from the registered address.
2024-05-17 14:35
This update adds more detail about what turnover and total tonnage mean, as well as disambiguating between ‘primary and secondary packaging’ and ‘primary and secondary packaging activities’.
2024-05-14 16:15
The organisation type code, organisationtypecode in section 8 (H), is required for 1 October 2023 and 1 April 2024.
2024-04-23 16:50
This update adds some additional information about how to report as a group with subsidiaries. It also adds some details on formatting your organisation ID and Companies House number
2024-01-23 14:09
Added full dates of period for sending update: between 1 January 2024 and 1 April 2024. In HTML publication:1) spelled out both reporting dates in full (‘You must report some information by 1 October 2023 and by 1 April 2024’), to avoid confusion. 2) clarified that large producers can submit the organisational data file between 1 January 2024 and 1 April 2024.
2023-12-19 11:27
Adding new reporting period deadline 1 April 2024 throughout (both in the intro page and the HTML doc), and information about non-enforcement until 31 May 2024.
2023-08-16 14:37
This update adds links to the ‘report packaging data’ service, which has just gone live.
2023-08-14 12:01
First published.