Licensing in Austria: Benefit from Europe's market leader for EPR compliance
Interzero is your competent partner for extended producer responsibility obligations
Take advantage of our many years of expertise in the licensing of packaging, electrical devices and batteries. We have been closing the recycling loops in Austria for 30 years and are at your side with the combined know-how of our experts in the field of EPR compliance.
Do you put packaging, electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) or batteries into circulation and want to fulfill your EPR obligations quickly and easily?
You can already order for 2025 in our ordering portal!
Licensing in Austria
Due to the Austrian regulations for packaging, waste electrical equipment and batteries,
As a company, manufacturer, retailer or importer, you are obliged to dispose of your packaging, waste electrical and electronic equipment and
Batteries in Austria. To support you in this, we offer you a collection and recycling system
the complete assumption of your obligations.
With Interzero you have your competent licensing partner in all areas. We ensure your EPR compliance.
packaging according to the Packaging Ordinance
The Packaging Ordinance in Austria obliges! Anyone who brings packaging into circulation or imports it into Austria for the purpose of their own activities is responsible for ensuring that this packaging is collected and recycled. The Austrian Packaging Ordinance distinguishes between household packaging and commercial packaging.
Household packaging licensing
Do you manufacture products whose packaging is used by private end consumers? Interzero supports its customers in the household sector in meeting the requirements of the Packaging Ordinance and is at your side as a specialist for environmental services and a competent partner: We organize the return and recycling of your packaging (household packaging) – legally compliant and reliable. Interzero helps you to meet the requirements of the Packaging Ordinance and also to comply with high documentation requirements.
For sales packaging generated by entities comparable to private households, Interzero offers certified solutions.
Commercial packaging licensing
Commercial packaging includes not only transport packaging, but also certain sales and secondary packaging that arises in selected industrial, commercial, business enterprises, etc. Interzero takes over the obligations to fulfill the packaging ordinance for your commercial packaging for you in Austria.
Present throughout Austria
No matter where and how you market your products, we take over the empty packaging at numerous takeover points or collect it with our disposal partners where it accumulates – from you and your customers.
Collection and recycling of electrical appliances & batteries
electrical and electronic equipment
Anyone who puts electrical equipment into circulation in Austria or imports it into Austria for the purpose of their own activities (distributor) is responsible for ensuring that the WEEE is collected, recycled or sent for treatment in Austria. This is what the legislator has prescribed in the Ordinance on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (EAG-VO).
All obligated parties must ensure that the electrical appliances they put into circulation (large appliances, small electrical appliances, refrigerators and freezers, display screen and picture tube equipment, gas discharge lamps, dual-use equipment) are taken back and treated or recycled in accordance with the ordinance. Interzero, as a household and commercial system, assumes for you the obligations arising from the Waste Electrical Equipment Ordinance for the electrical equipment you place on the market.
Batteries
Anyone who puts batteries (portable, automotive or industrial) into circulation or imports them into Austria for the purpose of their own activities has to fulfill a wide range of take-back, collection and treatment obligations in addition to general requirements (substance bans, removability, etc.).
Distributors of portable and automotive batteries shall fulfill the take-back, collection and treatment of these batteries in a mandatory manner by participating in a collection and recovery system. Distributors of industrial batteries can also conveniently transfer the obligations to a collection or recycling system.
Interzero assumes your obligations under the Battery Ordinance for the batteries you place on the market. And you can sit back with peace of mind and concentrate on your core business!
System Participant Exam? Exam Fit with Interzero
In Austria, every company that participates in a system or recycling system is audited at regular intervals. The organization responsible for this is the Packaging Coordination Office VKS.
The following will be tested:
the completeness of all data provided
the correct demarcation of the packaging
the traceability of the calculation of the quantities
the correct disposal of packaging waste in accordance with the Packaging Ordinance
Are you acting in accordance with the Packaging Ordinance?
We support you with all your questions around the VKS exam. You can find out who is audited, who performs the audit, why and what is audited directly from us or here.
Our exam preparation service includes the following services
Verification that you have used a valid calculation method
Review of the quantity structure
Clarification of which documents are required for the test
Joint preparation for questions during the exam
You are not based in Austria and deliver to B2C?
As of January 1, 2023, you as a mail order or distance selling company are obliged to appoint an authorized representative based in Austria if you sell your packaging and single-use plastic products to private end consumers. Find out what this means and how we can support you here!
With this legal change, packaging and single-use plastic products are the last material flow in Austria to be expanded with the legal change to the Authorized Representative. Batteries as well as electrical and electronic devices have already been affected since 2018 and 2019.
