DEFRA release illustrative packaging EPR base fees

The fees have been calculated using weights of household packaging placed on the market in 2022, as a proxy for future packaging that will be known once data has been submitted by 1 April 2025. DEFRA has stated that EPR data that has been submitted so far has not been used due to “identification of anomalies which require rectification”.

The fees include estimations of Local Authority packaging waste management costs by WRAP, except for glass that used a different Defra methodology. It is expected that a DEFRA methodology for calculating the fees will be applied to all materials, once it has been refined.

DEFRA have stated “These estimates have been included to provide as much information as possible to producers, and to form the basis for ongoing engagement with industry on the underpinning methodological assumptions in advance of the next release of illustrative base fees.”

They also stated an important caveat that “While these illustrative base fees can help industry with early preparedness, these figures are still subject to significant uncertainty and will change in future.”

It is expected that the Scheme Administrator will issue invoices in early summer each year and that the first year of invoicing may operate to a different timetable as the Scheme Administrator may still be in the process of being formally established. Fees will be invoiced directly to producers and not via their compliance scheme.

A significant milestone

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Please click here to read the full release by Defra on the illustrative EPR fees.