Spanish EPR, explained.

Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) makes the company that first places a product on the Spanish market responsible for financing its end-of-life collection and recycling. If you sell physical products to customers in Spain — even from abroad, even via marketplaces — you are considered a producer for the packaging around your products. Electronics and batteries have their own additional EPR regimes.

No. For packaging there is no threshold: registration in the Registro de Productores de Producto is mandatory from 0 kg. Whether you ship one parcel a month or thousands, the obligation is the same — what changes with volume is the recycling fee you pay to the scheme.

Spanish law classifies non-compliance as a serious or very serious infringement. Serious infringements carry fines from €2,001 to €100,000; very serious ones can reach €3.5M. Marketplaces are also increasingly required to verify EPR registration numbers, which can lead to delisting.

You're in the most common situation we see. The packaging law took effect overnight in 2023, and most non-resident sellers only discover it when a marketplace asks for their number. The practical path is simply to register now: late registration follows the same process, and being registered going forward is what marketplaces and authorities look at. If a catch-up declaration is needed for past volumes, we prepare it with you — and we'll tell you honestly if your specific case needs more than that.

A SCRAP (Sistema Colectivo de Responsabilidad Ampliada del Productor) is a collective scheme that organizes and finances collection and recycling on behalf of its members. Ecoembes is the main scheme for household packaging. You pay them recycling fees based on the materials and weights you place on the market — these fees pass through directly; our fee covers the registration, representation, and reporting work around them.

Non-resident producers cannot register themselves directly: Spanish law requires a representative established in Spain who assumes your EPR obligations locally — an address in Spain, registration in the producer registry, SCRAP membership, and annual declarations. That is the core of what we provide.

Every year (typically by March), producers must declare the quantities of packaging — by material — placed on the Spanish market during the previous year. We collect your tonnage data, prepare the declaration, and file it for you.

Yes — a Spanish tax identification number (NIF) is the prerequisite for producer registration. If you don't have one yet, you can get it in 24 hours for €449 via our self-service form — we email you a secure payment link. Already have a NIF? We plug it straight into your EPR onboarding.

With documents ready, most sellers are fully registered — NIF, producer registry, and SCRAP membership — in about two weeks. Going alone typically takes eight weeks or more across multiple providers.

Our service is a flat annual fee per EPR stream, covering representation, registration, and your annual declaration. Recycling fees charged by the SCRAP depend on your materials and tonnage and are passed through at cost — for a small seller shipping mostly cardboard, these are typically a few dozen to a few hundred euros per year. Talk to an expert for a precise quote.

Fair question — representation means trusting us with real obligations. Three things you can verify independently: producer registrations we file appear in Spain's public Registro de Productores de Producto, under your name; every certificate and producer number is issued by the authorities and schemes directly, never by us; and we're built by the team behind AnchorLess, which has guided thousands of non-residents through Spanish tax IDs and representation. Before any commitment, you get a free written assessment — judge us on that first.