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Selling into Ireland? Here is what you need.

Packaging register, recycling scheme, representative and reporting for Ireland — with the official source and the date each rule applies.

Check my obligations for Ireland

At a glanceIE

No PPWR producer register yet (Repak membership)

Scheme

Repak

Representative (packaging)

Legally required · route to confirm

Next report

Date to confirm To confirm

— 01

Who is the producer

If you deliver directly to consumers or business end users in Ireland from another country, you are the producer there.

— 02

Representative

PPWR applies; no national PPWR register is live yet.

— 03

Thresholds

Legacy “major producer” test (10 t + €1M turnover) is not a PPWR exemption.

Step by step

What to do

Needs a check before you act — the national reporting date

Packaging

existing national duty

Packaging

Join Repak

existing national duty

Packaging

Appoint an EPR authorised representative (PPWR Art. 45)

PPWR applies; no national PPWR register is live yet.

since 12 Aug 2026

Packaging

Report packaging quantities — Per Repak membership

To confirm

Packaging

Repak membership and packaging contribution.

Batteries, electronics, textiles

Batteries: separate register and scheme; representative required since 18 Aug 2025.

WEEE: separate register and scheme; representative by written mandate (Directive 2012/19/EU Art. 17).

Textiles: EPR scheme due by 17 Apr 2028.

Labelling

No national labelling rule beyond material codes found.

EU harmonised sorting labels (PPWR Art. 12) from 12 Aug 2028 or later, per implementing act.

Marketplaces

Online marketplacesNational rules already make platforms check EPR numbers in some markets (e.g. DE since 2022); EU-wide checks follow once harmonised registers exist — without it: Platform may block sales

Official source: www.gov.ie/en/department-of-climate-energy-and-the-environme · 2026.6-draft