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A Spanish authorised representative has to be established in Spain. We are — which is the first thing worth checking about anyone offering you this service.

Razvan Toma
Who wrote thisRazvan Toma

Razvan Toma is the founder of EPR Spain Rep, the authorised representative for packaging in Spain, and of EPR France Rep and EPR Germany Rep. Every page here is written from the BOE, MITECO or the scheme's own published schedule, never from another provider's marketing.

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What we do

We act as representante autorizado under Real Decreto 1055/2022 for companies that sell packaged goods into Spain and have no establishment there. We are established in Spain, which is the first thing worth checking about anyone offering you this service: a representative not established in Spanish territory cannot lawfully hold the role.

Our commercial interest, stated

We are one of the providers in our own price table. A comparison written by a competitor is worth nothing unless you can check it, so every competing row links to that provider’s own published page and our price sits in the same table under the same headings. We publish no ranking and we do not claim to be „best“. The one claim we do make is checkable: ours is the lowest published annual price in a dataset we date and source.

How we source

  • Primary law first. Real Decreto 1055/2022 and Ley 7/2022 from the BOE; Regulation (EU) 2025/40 from EUR-Lex.
  • The competent authority second. MITECO, for the Registro de Productores de Producto.
  • The schemes for their own tariffs. Ecoembes, Ecovidrio and Envalora publish their rates; we link to them rather than restating them.
  • Never another provider marketing page as authority for anything except that provider own price.

Corrections

Every dataset carries a changelog and a last-checked date; every guide carries a Rechtsstand line. If a figure here is wrong, tell us and we will change it and log the change: hello@eprspainrep.com. Text and data on this site are reusable under CC BY 4.0 with attribution to eprgermanyrep.com.

Legal entity

We ask the same question of every provider, and it applies to us: RD 1055/2022 requires the representative to be established in Spanish territory. Ask any provider where they are established, and ask for it in writing.

Selling into Spain without a Spanish company?

Since 12 August 2026, PPWR Article 45(3) requires an authorised representative established in Spain. We are that representative, for €199 a year.