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  • August 19, 2026 – 10am CEST PPWR Requirements and Implementation: From Regulation to Action

    August 19, 2026 – 10am CEST

    PPWR Requirements and Implementation: From Regulation to Action

    Duration: 60 min

    Webinar is held in: 🇬🇧 English

    It’s time to bridge the gap between regulatory theory and practical execution. This session, held in English, moves past the general roadmap and dives into the specifics of implementation: what your documentation must look like, how to build a scalable compliance workflow, and how to turn complex regulations into concrete, manageable actions.

    • PPWR requirements: Translating legal texts into concrete compliance actions
    • Documentation essentials: What your Declaration of Conformity should include
    • PPWR implementation: Building a scalable compliance workflow from regulation to action
    • Overcoming implementation hurdles: Dealing with incomplete data and unresponsive suppliers
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    Who should attend this webinar? 


    ✔️ Packaging managers
    ✔️ Compliance leads
    ✔️ Regulatory affairs specialists, and
    ✔️ procurement teams at companies placing packaged goods on the EU market who are actively working on their PPWR compliance.

    This is particularly relevant if you need to translate regulatory requirements into actionable processes, your supplier data collection is ongoing, or you are looking for efficient ways to build and maintain long-term compliance workflows.

    What will you learn during this webinar?


    After this session, you will be able to: 

    🎯 Understand the critical steps to move from PPWR regulation theory to practical implementation.

    🎯 Identify the exact documentation required for a defensible Declaration of Conformity.

    🎯 Build an actionable plan to close data gaps and escalate unresponsive suppliers using the regulatory framework.

    🎯 Use PAQR to streamline your compliance workflow and efficiently generate your Declarations of Conformity.

    Meet our Speaker

    Martin G. Wieser

    The PPWR is changing the rules of the game for the entire industry. To successfully navigate this transition, companies need someone who speaks both the language of the global supply chain and the digital data world.

    With over 20 years of leadership at the intersection of global supply chains and circular economy, Martin is uniquely positioned to help manufacturers navigate the complexities of the PPWR. Martin acts as a bridge between high-level digital strategy and the gritty, real-world requirements of sustainable resource management and compliance. He specializes in turning complex regulatory demands into streamlined, automated data workflows.

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    “Martin understands like few others how to combine complex IT solutions with
    the real-world requirements of sustainable resource management.”

    That’s why he’s the right guide for your PPWR journey

    • The MIT Edge: Holds an M.Eng. in Supply Chain Management from MIT Scale – he understands the math behind the movement of goods.

    • Dual Expertise: A rare profile that combines a Certified Internal Auditor precision with a Project Management Professional (PMP) drive.

    • Technological Visionary: Martin specializes in translating complex regulatory demands into automated, scalable IT solutions that actually work on the factory floor.

    In this PPWR webinar, Martin provides a comprehensive overview of the specific features and new regulatory challenges of the PackagiPPWR ng & Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR).

    He will present the PAQR compliance platform in a practical manner and demonstrate how companies can efficiently meet these complex requirements.

    A key component of the webinar is direct dialogue: Martin will dedicate ample time to addressing individual questions from the audience and outlining practical solutions.

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  • The PPWR Producer: What It Means and Why You Might Already Be One

    The PPWR Producer: What It Means and Why You Might Already Be One

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    One of the most common misconceptions in PPWR compliance is what “producer” actually means. Under the regulation, it has nothing to do with who physically makes the packaging. It is a legal status tied to Extended Producer Responsibility, and it applies to a much wider range of businesses than most expect.

    Here is what it means, how to tell if it applies to you, and what it requires.

    What a producer actually is

    A producer is the economic operator who is first to make packaged products available on the market within a specific EU Member State. That could be a manufacturer, an importer, or a distributor. The determining factor is who goes first in a given territory.

    Physical production has nothing to do with it.

    Are you a producer?

    You are a producer in a Member State if any of the following applies to your business.

    You import packaged goods. If you buy packaged products from another Member State or a third country and supply them within your own Member State, you are the producer in that territory.

    You sell cross-border via e-commerce. If you sell directly to end-users in another Member State, you are the producer in the destination country, regardless of where your business is established.

    You unpack goods commercially. If your business unpacks packaged products and you are not the final end-user, you assume the producer role for that packaging.

    One exception: “point-of-sale packaging”. If transport, primary production, or service packaging is filled at the point of sale, such as a local shop providing plastic bags for produce or a fry shop handing out their product in paper cones, the producer is the manufacturer, importer, or distributor who originally supplied the empty packaging. This exception exists to reduce the administrative burden on small businesses.

    What producers must do

    Register in every Member State where you sell. Producers must register in the national producer register of every Member State where they first make packaging available. Operating without registration is legally prohibited and can result in a market ban.

    Appoint an authorised representative where you are not established. If your company is established outside the EU and you sell packaged goods into an EU Member State, you must appoint a local Authorised Representative (AR) by written mandate to fulfill your EPR obligations. If your company is established within the EU, the baseline PPWR requires a local AR when selling cross-border into another Member State. However, a pending EU legislative proposal (COM(2025) 982) aims to suspend this local AR requirement for EU-established businesses until 2035. Companies should monitor the final adoption of this “Omnibus” package, as direct national registration may apply instead.

    Take on Extended Producer Responsibility. Producers bear the financial and organisational responsibility for end-of-life packaging management: collection, sorting, and recycling. Most producers meet this by joining a Producer Responsibility Organisation (PRO). In some Member States, joining a PRO is legally mandatory.

    Provide a financial guarantee. In cases where producers act individually instead of joining a PRO, they must obtain official authorisation from the competent authority and maintain an adequate financial guarantee to cover waste management costs.

    Report annually. Producers must submit annual reports detailing the quantities and categories of packaging placed on the market for the first time.

    Inform consumers. Producers must provide end-users with information on packaging waste prevention, reuse arrangements, label meanings, and correct disposal methods.

    How PAQR can help

    Understanding your producer obligations starts with knowing exactly what packaging you have placed on the market, in which categories, and with what documentation behind it. PAQR gives you a central workspace to organize this data by packaging format and market, so when annual reporting or an audit requires it, the information is structured and ready.

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  • PPWR in 90 Days: Your Roadmap to Conformity

    PPWR in 90 Days: Your Roadmap to Conformity

    With August 12, 2026 marking the first hard deadline under PPWR, most businesses we spoke with were still unclear on where to start. This session gave packaging and compliance professionals a practical, step-by-step roadmap from packaging inventory to signed Declaration of Conformity, without the legal jargon. 

    What Participants Learned

    ✔️ How to determine your legal role under PPWR (manufacturer, importer, or distributor) and what it means for your obligations

    ✔️ Which documents your packaging needs for a valid Declaration of Conformity and what belongs in your technical file

    ✔️ What data to request from your suppliers and how to structure those requests

    ✔️ The specific validation points that determine whether your documentation holds up under audit

    ✔️ How PAQR structures the full compliance process, from component mapping to DoC generation

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    Meet the Speaker

    Martin G. Wieser

    Martin has spent over 20 years working at the intersection of global supply chains and circular economy. He holds an M.Eng. in Supply Chain Management from MIT and combines a Certified Internal Auditor background with Project Management Professional (PMP) discipline.

    Where most compliance conversations stay at the policy level, Martin works at the operational one: translating PPWR requirements into practical data processes that hold up in the real world. That is what this session was built around.

    FAQs We Answered During the Session

    You are not required to proactively share the full DoC. You must be able to confirm its existence to anyone in the supply chain who asks. If a national authority requests the full document, you are legally obligated to provide it, which is why keeping it retrievable and current matters more than keeping it under lock and key.

    PPWR requires one DoC per packaging type, not per individual SKU. If the same packaging exists in multiple sizes with identical materials, a single DoC can cover all variants. That said, best practice is a 1:1 relationship between DoC and packaging. If one variant changes, you only update that specific document rather than revising a shared one across your whole portfolio.

    Yes. If you import packaged goods into the EU, PPWR classifies you as the producer in that Member State. You carry the same obligations as a domestic manufacturer, including issuing a Declaration of Conformity and registering for EPR in every Member State you sell into.

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