Station 03: Roles and responsibilities
Manufacturer, importer, distributor, fulfilment provider, authorised representative: the regulation assigns duties by role, not by company size.
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Roles and responsibilities Authorised Representatives Under the PPWR: Two Mandates, Not One The regulation uses authorised representatives twice - for conformity tasks and for EPR registration - with different jobs, different principals and different paperwork. Keeping them separate. Roles and responsibilities Distributor Duties Under the PPWR Check in flow, never knowingly pass on non-compliant packaging, keep the chain's information moving: the distributor's lighter but real duty set. Roles and responsibilities Economic Operators Explained: Who Is Who in a Packaging Chain Manufacturer, importer, distributor, supplier, provider, producer, representative: a worked map of the seven role words, with three real chains drawn out in full so you can find yourself in them. Roles and responsibilities Final Distributors and HORECA: Point-of-Sale Duties The last hands before the consumer: shops, cafes, restaurants and takeaways carry duties of their own - reuse and refill offers, deposit handling, information at the counter, and care with service packaging. Roles and responsibilities Fulfilment Service Providers Under the PPWR Warehousing, packing, addressing and dispatch for other people's goods: when a fulfilment provider stays a service, and when the regulation treats it as placing packaging on the market. Roles and responsibilities Importer Duties Under the PPWR Verify before you place: the importer's checks on conformity, documentation, labelling and registration, the records to keep, and why an importer who cannot verify cannot lawfully place. Roles and responsibilities Manufacturer Duties Under the PPWR Design to the rules, assess conformity, keep the technical file, draw up the declaration, mark the packaging, act on non-conformity: the manufacturer's complete duty list in Article 15. Roles and responsibilities Suppliers of Packaging and Components: The Information Duty If you supply packaging or components to a manufacturer, the regulation gives you a duty of your own: provide the information the conformity work needs. What to expect to be asked, and what to hand over. Roles and responsibilities Supply-Chain Traceability: The Article 22 Identification Duty Every operator must be able to identify who supplied their packaging and who they supplied - kept five years for single-use, ten for reusable. The duty that makes every other duty enforceable. Roles and responsibilities When an Importer or Distributor Becomes the Manufacturer The conversion rule: place packaging under your own name or trademark, or modify it in a way that may affect conformity, and the full manufacturer duty set lands on you. How businesses drift into it, and how to choose it deliberately. Roles and responsibilities When Packaging Fails: Corrective Action and Chain Cooperation A substance declaration proves wrong, a grade fails, a label misprints: how the regulation expects the chain to move - who informs whom, who freezes stock, and what good looks like under time pressure.