Joint statement supporting the digitalisation of EPR schemes and the set-up of a digital, EU-wide One-Stop Shop for EPR
Public Letters - Environment, Sustainability & Energy
19 May 2026
Since the publication of the Single Market Strategy in May 2025, the European Commission has undertaken important steps in the preparation of its awaited legislative proposals to further harmonise, simplify and digitalise heterogeneous national Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) schemes. As part of the upcoming Circular Economy Act, the extensive stakeholders’ engagement endeavours have proven that a mix of policy interventions will be required to tackle current fragmentation affecting the EPR landscape and, more generally, the Single Market for waste.
Among the necessary measures to ease the administrative burdens experienced by both companies and authorities to meaningfully contribute to increased circularity, digitalisation of EPR schemes should rank high. Digital tools can provide swift bureaucratic relief in regulatory environments where complexity, fragmentation and discrepancies are persistent – as is the EPR landscape in the EU. Yet, policies fostering digitalised EPR compliance and monitoring have so far been underused.
The objective to simplify EPR compliance and improve cross-border EPR enforcement by means of increased digitalisation is shared by a wide variety of actors involved in EPR implementation. Encouraged by the commitment of the European Commission to explore a digital One-Stop Shop (OSS) for EPR information, registration and reporting, as communicated in the Single Market Strategy, an informal group of organisations has been exchanging on the features of a functional OSS for EPR that can deliver results for all concerned parties.
Today, a number of organisations participating in the so-called Coalition for a digital EU EPR OSS stress the importance of putting digitalisation at the heart of the initiatives to simplify EPR at the EU level and call on the European Commission to propose the establishment of a digital, EU-wide One-Stop Shop for EPR as part of the upcoming Circular Economy Act.
In our current understanding, a digital EU EPR OSS is a single digital platform (or ‘point of entry’) for all mandated EPR schemes in the EU, allowing:
1. The input of EPR-relevant data by producers (and/ or other actors acting on their behalf) making available products subject to EPR schemes in up to 27 Member States, and
2. The pulling of that data, after its validation and harmonisation through translation, by PROs and Member States’ registers and authorities.
In other words, an OSS enables a seamless exchange of compliance information between operators subject to EPR compliance obligations, on the one hand, and organisations and authorities implementing EPR, on the other.
The organisations taking part in the Coalition are committed to delivering concrete recommendations to the European Commission regarding the essential features of the OSS in a timely manner. We are also determined to help secure a broad uptake of the OSS, namely by making it user-friendly and voluntary for a diverse range of companies and business models.