Guidance

Extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging producer data requirements for 2024 and 2025: RPS 330

Updated 16 December 2025

Applies to England

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This regulatory position statement (RPS) does not change your legal requirement to: 

  1. Report 2024 nation of sale and self-managed organisational waste data in accordance with the Packaging regulations, for the period 1 January to 31 December 2024 or 1 July to 31 December 2024 as appropriate to the Environment Agency on or before 1 April 2025 or 1 December 2025 as appropriate.
  2. Collect 2025 nation of sale and self-managed organisational waste data in accordance with the Packaging Regulations for the period 1 January to 31 December 2025.
  3. Collect 2025 plastic and paper bags data in accordance with regulation 38 of the Packaging Regulations for the period 1 January to 31 December 2025.
  4. Report the data from points 2 and 3 to the Environment Agency, either on or before 1 October 2025 or on or before 1 April 2026 as appropriate.

The Environment Agency will not normally take enforcement action against you if you do not comply with these legal requirements provided that your activity meets the description set out in this RPS.

1. Activity this RPS applies to

This RPS applies to producer obligations to collect and report data relating to nation of sale, self-managed organisational waste and plastic and paper bags. 

If you are a member of a compliance scheme or group registration, the obligation to report your data falls to your scheme operator or holding company, as set out in the packaging regulations. 

This RPS does not apply to any other data collection or reporting obligations under the packaging regulations.

2. Things to note

This RPS delays the introduction of self-managed organisational waste data collection until 1st January 2026 and reporting on or before 1 October 2026.

This RPS delays the introduction of nation of sale and plastic and paper bags data collection until 1st January 2026 and reporting on or before 1 April 2027.

This will reduce the regulatory burden of data collection and reporting obligations that have no bearing on producer disposal fees and recycling obligations for producers, compliance schemes and holding companies. 

Nation of sale and self-managed organisational waste data is for use in determining individual UK nation recycling targets. This data will be of limited value until data from other upcoming legislative reforms is reported.

3. When you must check back

The Environment Agency will review this RPS by 31 December 2026.

The Environment Agency can withdraw or amend this regulatory position before the review date if it considers it necessary. This includes where the activity that this RPS relates to has not changed.

You will need to check back from time to time, including at and before the review date, to see if this RPS still applies.

This RPS remains in force until it is removed from GOV.UK or is otherwise identified as having been withdrawn.

You can subscribe to email updates about this RPS. These will tell you if the RPS has changed and when it has been withdrawn. 

4. Contact the Environment Agency

If you have any questions about this RPS email packagingproducers@environment-agency.gov.uk and put RPS 330 in the subject.

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