Sweden - Draft Ordinance Amending the Ordinance (2022:1274) on Producer Responsibility for Packaging

Sweden Ministry of the Environment announces draft Ordinance amending the Ordinance (2022:1274) on producer responsibility for packaging

​A person established in Sweden acting in a professional capacity as an intermediary for distance sales of packaging to end-users in Sweden may only act as such for sales from producers who have provided or used a producer responsibility organization.

The intermediary must provide to the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency their name, contact details, personal identity or corporate identity number and details of how assurances have been made that the producers selling their products through the intermediary have provided or used a producer responsibility organization.

An intermediary may also be a producer representative, i.e. fulfil producer responsibility, for producers selling through the intermediary.

Proposed date of adoption: To be determined

Proposed date of entry into force: June 1, 2023

Final date for comments: 60 days from notification