Packaging data: check reporting periods and submission deadlines
Page summary:
Find out when large and small organisations affected by Extended Producer Responsibility for packaging (EPR) must collect and submit packaging data.
Change made:
Updating deadline information for the next reporting period, including information about registration deadlines.
Time updated:
3:02pm, 20 October 2025
New financial penalties for environmental offences
Page summary:
Bolstered powers for Environment Agency to hold water companies to account
Change made:
First published.
Time updated:
12:30am, 22 October 2025
Packaging waste: apply for registration and accreditation as a reprocessor or exporter
Page summary:
How to apply for mandatory registration and voluntary accreditation as a reprocessor or exporter of packaging waste – includes how to comply with requirements and technical information.
Change made:
Added detail about the co-ordinates you need to provide for overseas reprocessing sites. They must be the latitude and longitude of the main site entrance, provided to 4 decimal places.
Time updated:
4:48pm, 22 October 2025
Extended producer responsibility for packaging: templates for sampling and inspection plans
Page summary:
If you are required to apply for registration as a reprocessor or exporter of packaging waste under extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging, and to apply for optional accreditation, you must submit a sampling and inspection plan using these templates.
Change made:
Clarified that the templates have been published in agreement with all four regulators.
Time updated:
3:08pm, 24 October 2025
Businesses approved to export to the EU
Page summary:
Check if your business in Great Britain or one of the Crown Dependencies is approved to export to the EU and find out what your TRACES number is.
Change made:
Updated the lists of businesses approved to export to the EU.
Time updated:
3:31pm, 24 October 2025
EM on EU Regulation 2025/637 amending 2022/2292 (COM(2025)518)
Page summary:
The government’s summary of an EU Commission Delegated Regulation 2025/637 with regards to entry into the Union of certain animal-derived products.
Change made:
First published.
Time updated:
6:16pm, 24 October 2025
