This law applies to any business person who puts products with packaging into circulation in Germany.
Which packaging is affected by this Act?
The Packaging law applies to 'Business to Consumer' packaging. This concerns all packaging, for both flowers and plants, that is intended to reach the consumer. This includes, for example:
- Sleeves or wrapping foil
- Labels
- Stickers
- Cardboard packaging
- Plastic plant pots that are removed by the consumer immediately after purchase (as with garden plants)
From 1 January 2022, ‘Business to Business’ (B2B) transport packaging will also be part of this legislation. This means that anyone who puts products into circulation in Germany that are in ‘B2B’ transport packaging (trays, boxes, buckets, etc.) must record the following:
- Volume
- Material type
- Return or recycling after use
Mandatory registration as of 1 July 2022 due to expansion of German packaging legislation
As of July 1, 2022, the Packaging Act VerpackG has been further extended in Germany. For anyone putting products in sales and/or transport packaging on the German market, registration with LUCID-Packaging Register is mandatory as of this date. For sales packaging, a contract with a recycling company is also required. In addition, from July 1, 2022, marketplaces (including Veiling Rhein-Maas) are required to check whether suppliers comply with VerpackG. Avoid fines or exclusion from sales and start the necessary actions in time. Read the important information on this and what this extension of the law means for you.
Who is responsible for compliance with the act?
If you deliver products from outside Germany to German customers, it is important for compliance with this legislation who owns the product including the packaging at the time of crossing the German border:
| Situation | Responsible for declaration |
| Supply for sale through VRM | Supplier |
| Direct sale to German customer: | |
| 1. Is the supplier the owner when crossing the border? | Supplier |
| 2. Is the customer the owner when crossing the border? (purchased directly from the nursery) | Customer |
| Supplier sells to exporting trading company | Trading company |
- Register in the Zentrale Stelle Verpackungsregister (Central Packaging Register). Zentrale Stelle Verpackungsregiste
- Close a licensing agreement with a recycling company for the quantity of sales packaging that you intend to bring into the German market. You will be charged for the total weight that you put into circulation. Approved recycling companies
Calculate your costs as a result of the packaging law quickly and easily (to be opened in Google Chrome): Landbell calculation tool
Advantageous collective recycling contract
Your five benefits at a glance:
- Easy and quick digital registration with Landbell for a recycling contract (in German or English).
- Two-year contract at competitive price and conditions. There is also an attractive rate for subsequent years
- Only declare the volume of packaging you bring to the German market once a year.
- Two settlement times with Landbell:
I. After conclusion of the contract, you will receive an invoice for the lump sum amount for the first two years.
II. After the end of the calendar year (after issuing an annual statement based on the actual volume of packaging), you will receive the final settlement. - Sharper rates and conditions compared to standard prices in the (recycling) market.
In order to make use of this collective offer, you register directly with Landbell:
This message is informative in nature. You yourself are, and remain, at all times responsible for proper compliance with legislation and regulations in this regard.