EPR in Austria: As your authorized representative, we ensure your legal compliance
We have had the expertise to act as authorized representatives for companies for almost 10 years. In addition to electrical appliances and batteries, as of January 1, 2023, packaging manufacturers and mail order companies from abroad must also appoint an authorized representative based in Austria in order to continue to act in accordance with the law.
Compliance with regulations & ensuring your compliance -
trust your authorized representative in Austria
Interzero Circular Consulting Austria supports its customers as an authorized representative in fulfilling the requirements resulting from the legal provisions and actively advises them throughout the entire process of extended producer responsibility. The focus is on professionally sound, personal advice from our experts. Packaging, electrical and electronic devices and batteries placed on the market are analyzed in detail. Due to the legal requirements of the individual regulations, there are special features in the three material flows in Austria and throughout Europe and Interzero Circular Consulting takes care of the individual problem solution.
Who is obliged to appoint a proxy?
Online retailers and manufacturers of packaging
- Mail order companies that are not based in Austria but within the EU and that hand over packaging or goods or goods in packaging in Austria to a private end consumer as part of distance selling
- Companies based in another Member State of the European Union who wish to continue to take over the pre-commitment for packaging for their Austrian corporate customers also require an authorised representative
Distance sellers and manufacturers of electrical appliances and batteries
- Distance selling traders who sell electrical and electronic goods or appliance, vehicle or industrial batteries directly to end users in Austria
- Manufacturers who commercially sell electrical and electronic equipment or batteries in Austria to persons other than final consumers.
What do we do for you as your authorized representative in Austria?
As your authorized representative, Interzero Circular Consulting assumes all obligations arising from the Packaging, Waste Electrical Equipment and Battery Ordinance in Austria. We provide the following services, among others, as required by law:
- Registration as your authorized representative in the register of the Federal Environment Agency
- Transmission of your master data to the register and deposit of your categories of packaging or single-use plastic products
- Informing your corporate customers about the authorization and the quantities of packaging or single-use plastic products that concern them
- Submitting the list of your corporate customers to the register
- Disposal of your packaging or single-use plastic products delivered to Austria at Interzero, your collection and recycling system
In direct communication with the ministry and the relevant authorities , we ensure that your company fully complies with all legal regulations in Austria . As an authorized representative, we take on the legally compliant implementation of extended producer responsibility (EPR) for relevant material flows – packaging and single-use plastic products , electrical appliances and batteries . With our expertise, we ensure that you act in accordance with the law, minimize risks and efficiently fulfill your environmental obligations.
