188体育

Reporting periods (when you must collect packaging data) and deadlines for submitting your data depend on:

• whether you鈥檙e considered a large or small organisation (also referred to as large and small producers under Extended Producer Responsibility for packaging (EPR) regulations)
• the year you鈥檙e reporting on

Check if you鈥檙e a large or small producer.

You must collect and submit packaging data:

• every 6 months, if you鈥檙e a large producer
• yearly, as a small producer

Check data you must collect and report as a large or small producer.

You should submit your data through the 鈥榬eport packaging data鈥� service.

If you miss a submission deadline, you should contact your environmental regulator. This is:

• the Environment Agency (EA) in England听

• 听

Large producers: when to collect and submit data

You must collect and submit your packaging data on a 6-monthly basis.

2024 data

The submission deadline was 1 April 2025. This is for data you collected between 1 July and 31 December 2024.

The deadline for submitting data collected from 1 April to 30 June 2024 was 1 October 2024. Contact your environmental regulator if you missed the submission deadline.

The data you collect and submit for 2024 will be used to calculate your recycling obligations and any waste management fees you must pay in 2025.听

2025 data

You will need to submit data you collect for the first half of 2025 (1 January to 30 June) by 1 October 2025.

Small producers: when to collect and submit data

You must collect and submit your packaging data yearly.

2024 data

The deadline for submitting your 2024 packaging data was 1 April 2025.

When creating your data file, you鈥檒l need to select the reporting period from January to December 2024, even if you did not start to collect data until April.

You can submit all the data you鈥檝e collected under this reporting period.

2025 data

The deadline for submitting data you鈥檙e collecting for 2025 (1 January to 31 December) is 1 April 2026.