Spain: Setting the course for new EPR regulations for B2B packaging

Starting from 2025, B2B packaging in Spain must also be registered. The management team of Ecoembes, the Spanish collection and recovery system for household packaging, has initiated processes to establish a new EPR system. With this step, Ecoembes intends to expand its measures to include commercial packaging. The goal is to provide companies with a holistic solution to fulfill extended producer responsibility (known as "RAP" in Spain) through a single collection and recovery system. This step is in response to a general industry demand following the royal decree 1055/2022 that extended the extended producer responsibility to commercial packaging. According to the new regulations, companies placing such packaging on the Spanish market must assume the organization and financing of the disposal of the waste they produce starting from 2025. Previously, this obligation only applied to household packaging.

On this occasion, the system has now initiated the process of definition and establishment. It will be further developed in the coming months to ensure compliance with the regulations by 2025. At that time, companies opting to use the system for commercial packaging can already express their preliminary agreement to the organization.