The programme ended in late 2024. If nobody picked up your file since, your categories are most likely undeclared — and you will only find out when something is blocked.
Amazon used to run a service that handled part of sellers' EPR registrations and declarations on their behalf. That programme closed on 31 December 2024. The platform said it regularly reassesses its services and was moving this one to specialist providers. The upshot is simple: operational responsibility went back to the seller.
Why it is a quiet problem
An EPR registration does not switch off overnight. Your identifier stays visible in Seller Central and your listings keep running. What stops is the annual tonnage declaration and the payment of eco-contributions. The gap can run for a year or two before a scheme asks for the missing declarations, or a compliance check takes the listings down.
The three situations we see
- The seller signed with a provider during the transition: declarations continue, and the only job is checking that every category was actually picked up — bundled offers do not always cover more than packaging.
- The seller got the emails and did nothing: the identifiers exist and the declarations are late. The past has to be regularised, which is doable.
- The seller never really knew what was being managed for them. This is the most common case, and it starts with an inventory.
Taking back control, in order
- Open the EPR compliance information page in Seller Central and list the identifiers present, category by category and country by country.
- Compare that list against your real catalogue: the missing categories are the ones that will block listings.
- Contact each scheme involved to establish the state of declarations and any sums due.
- Declare the outstanding tonnage, using your Amazon sales reports as the basis.
- Put a declaration calendar and a mandate in place so the situation cannot repeat.
Schemes generally expect back-declarations rather than penalising sellers who come forward. The conversation is far cheaper before an account block than after one.
Beware “all-inclusive” bundles
The bundled offers promoted during the transition sometimes covered a single category in a single country — typically packaging in Germany. If you signed without reading the scope, check it: an electronics seller on Pan-EU can have one category covered and nine outstanding.
How long it takes
The inventory takes a few days. Missing memberships are often settled in one to two weeks. Back-declarations depend on the quality of your sales data: with usable Amazon reports, allow two to four weeks for a multi-country file to be fully rebuilt.