Which deadlines do I need to meet?

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  • Before you place packaging on the market for the first time, you must register with the LUCID Packaging Register run by the Central Agency Packaging Register, licence your planned packaging volumes with a dual system and report these volumes to LUCID.
  • By 15 May in any one year, you must also submit your end-of-year volume report for the previous year to your dual system and your LUCID account (for help on completing these tasks, see ‘How do I report my end-of-year volumes to Lizenzero?’ and ‘How do I report my end-of-year volumes to LUCID?’, under ‘Volume changes’).
  • At the end of the year, you must also provide your dual system and your LUCID account with a volume forecast for the following year.
  • Companies that exceed certain annual volume limits (see below) must also submit a declaration of completeness for the previous year by 15 May.
  • Glass: 80,000 kg and over
  • Paperboard, paper and cardboard: 50,000 kg and over
  • Plastic, metal, composites (in total): 30,000 kg and over
  • Smaller merchants may be asked to submit a declaration of completeness on a case-by-case basis.

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