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How to assess household and non-household packaging from 2024 onwards if you’re a UK organisation affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
Find out which plastic packaging components are exempt or excluded from the tax, and if the packaging counts towards the 10-tonne threshold for registration.
How UK organisations that supply or import packaging should comply with extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
A guide to collecting data about your packaging. This is for UK organisations affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
If you use, produce or supply wood packaging material (WPM) to move goods to or from the EU or the rest of the world, you must make sure it meets international standards.
Obligated packaging producers must register and meet their waste packaging recycling responsibilities.
A guide to documenting how you’ve collected your packaging data, known as your ‘methodology’. Online marketplaces affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging must submit a methodology. This is also recommended for all producers as part of their ways...
You can get relief on exported and converted packaging in the same accounting period or claim a credit for them on a later tax return.
How to apply for accreditation, comply with your accreditation and packaging waste technical information.
Use the case studies to help you decide when your goods may (or may not) go beyond insufficient production.
Requirements for solid wood packaging used to import or export goods
Check what classifies as plastic, recycled plastic and packaging components, and if the packaging you manufacture or import is subject to the tax.
How to package medicines for sale and what information you must provide to consumers and healthcare professionals.
Extended producer responsibility scheme deferred for a year until October 2025
Scheme to help cover the costs to prepare for phase 1 labelling requirements under the Northern Ireland Retail Movement Scheme (NIRMS).
Financial support for traders and farmers from intervention and Private Storage Aid schemes
How to apply for PCS approval, register, take on packaging producer responsibilities and comply under the approval.
Packaging regulations: environmental requirements, recycling
What to do if someone registered for Plastic Packaging Tax dies or becomes incapacitated.
Find out how to decide what checks to make if you manufacture, import or buy plastic packaging from another business, and examples of checks you can carry out.
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