Extended Producer Responsibility
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) in Lithuania means that companies have specific environmental obligations for the products they place on the Lithuanian market. The purpose of EPR is to promote greener solutions and more sustainable product life cycles. In Lithuania, several product categories are subject to EPR (see overview below), and compliance with these legal requirements is mandatory for all producers and importers.
Publicly available register of producers and importers
Since January 2, 2018, producers and importers register in the Unified Product, Packaging and Waste Record Keeping Information System - PPWIS which is publicly available at www.gpais.eu in the section titled "Public GII data."
Information for producers and importers
The implementation of producer responsibility is based on "the polluter pays" principle set out in the Law on Waste Management, which means that the costs of waste management, including the costs incurred for the installation and operation of the necessary waste management infrastructure, must be paid by the original producer of waste or the current or former holder of the waste and/or the producer and/or importer of products whose use results in waste.
When does EPR apply
The principle of Producer responsibility applies to the management of the following waste flows:
- oils
- vehicles
- electrical and electronic equipment
- taxable products (tyres, non-installed accumulators and batteries, intake air filters of internal combustion engine fuel and lubricants, automotive hydraulic shock absorbers)
- batteries and accumulators
- packaging
- tobacco products with filters and/or filters sold for use with tobacco products
- wet wipes and/or balloons
- fishing gear containing plastic
Producers and/or importers of products and/or packaging (hereinafter – PAI) must register themselves in the PAI Directory and keep records of products and packaging and submit reports. Other PAI responsibilities related to product and/or packaging waste management and public education may be performed by PAI as follows:
- Individually – by organizing the management of waste generated by the use of products and packaging (used for own use purposes) after they have been placed on the domestic market of the Republic of Lithuania.
- Collectively – by setting up an organization of producers and importers referred to in the Law on Waste Management (in the case of packaging, the Law on the Management of Packaging and Packaging Waste) and/or by becoming a participant in such an organization and entrusting it with organizing the management of products and packaging waste and carrying out all or part of the obligations laid down in this Law or by entrusting the organization, on contractual grounds, with the organization to organize the management of products and packaging waste and to execute all or part of the obligations laid down in this Law without becoming a participant of the organization.
List of licenses held by licensed producer and importer organizations
In accordance with the Order No. D1-276 of the Minister of the Environment of the Republic of Lithuania of 24 April 2013 "On the Granting of Powers to the Environmental Protection Agency", from 15 May 2013, the functions of the institution issuing licenses for the organization of product and (or) packaging waste management activities specified in Article 3423 Part 2 of the Law of the Republic of Lithuania on Waste Management are performed by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Row No. | Type of licenses
| License number
| License issue date
| Product or packaging waste for which a license has been granted for the organization of its management | Organization name, legal entity code
| Address of the organization
|
1. | Packaging waste management organization license | 001 | 2006-05-23 | Glass, plastic, PET (polyethylene terephthalate), combined, metal, paper and cardboard, wooden and other packaging waste
| Organization of producers and importers “ŽALIASIS TAŠKAS” (responsible for the establishment of the extended producer responsibility principle across the industry in Lithuania) 110884687 | (https://www.zaliasistaskas.lt or https://www.pro-e.org/country/1018/lithuania), phone +370 670 00956, e-mail [email protected], Perkūnkiemio g. 2, Vilnius, LT-12126 |
2. | License for organizing the management of waste electrical and electronic equipment | 001 003 | 2006-05-23 2008-05-07
| Waste from large household appliances, small household appliances, IT and telecommunications equipment, consumer equipment, lighting equipment, electrical and electronic tools (excluding large stationary industrial appliances), toys, leisure and sports equipment, medical devices (excluding implanted and infected products), monitoring and control devices, automatic item dispensing devices | Distributors of electronics association „EEPA“ 300543821 | https://www.epa.lt/en/, [email protected], Žemaitės g. 21, Vilnius, LT-03118 |
3. | License for organizing the management of waste electrical and electronic equipment
| 005 | 2012-08-24 | Waste from large household appliances, small household appliances, IT and telecommunications equipment, consumer equipment, lighting equipment, electrical and electronic tools (excluding large stationary industrial appliances), toys, leisure and sports equipment, medical devices (excluding implanted and infected products), monitoring and control devices, automatic item dispensing devices | Electronics Producers and Importers Organization 302773365 | e-mail [email protected], A.Juozapavičiaus g.3-109, Vilnius, LT-09310 |
4. | License for organizing the management of waste from taxable products | 001 | 2008-02-28 | Waste tires (new, retreaded, used) weigh more than 3 kg, batteries, galvanic cells, fuel or oil filters for internal combustion engines, intake air filters for internal combustion engines, automotive hydraulic (oil) shock absorbers) | Association of Producers and Importers 300558218 | https://gia.lt/, [email protected] LT-09310 |
5. | License for organizing waste management of taxable products (batteries and accumulators) | 002 | 2009-12-14 | Waste batteries and accumulators | Distributors of electronics association „EEPA“ 300543821 | https://www.epa.lt/en/, [email protected], Žemaitės g. 21, Vilnius, LT-03118 |
6. | License for organizing the management of end-of-life vehicles | 001 | 2008-02-28 | End-of-life vehicles
| Association of Producers and Importers 300558218 | https://gia.lt/, [email protected] LT-09310 |
7. | Waste oil management organization license | 001 | 2008-02-28 | Waste oils
| Association of Producers and Importers 300558218 | https://gia.lt/, [email protected] LT-09310 |
8. | License for organizing the management of waste from taxable products | 003 | 2014-02-10 | Tire waste
| VšĮ "Padangų importuotojų organizacija" 303003606 | Perkūnkiemio g. 3, Vilnius, LT-12127 |
9. | License for organizing the management of waste from taxable products
| 005 | 2016-06-08 | Waste tires (new, retreaded, used) weigh more than 3 kg, batteries, galvanic cells, fuel or oil filters for internal combustion engines, intake air filters for internal combustion engines, automotive hydraulic (oil) shock absorbers) | Association of Car-Producers and Importers 304141446
| https://agia.lt/, [email protected] S. Žukausko g. 13, Kauno r., Ramučių k. |
10. | Waste oil management organization license | 002 | 2016-06-08 | Waste oils | Association of Car-Producers and Importers 304141446 | https://agia.lt/, [email protected] S. Žukausko g. 13, Kauno r., Ramučių k. |
11. | License for organizing the management of end-of-life vehicles | 002 | 2017-02-09 | End-of-life vehicles | Association of Car-Producers and Importers 304141446 | https://agia.lt/, [email protected] S. Žukausko g. 13, Kauno r., Ramučių k. |
12. | License for organizing the management of waste from taxable products | 006 | 2021-06-28 | Tire waste
| VšĮ "PATS LT" 305732562 | Žalgirio g. 93, Vilnius, LT-08218 |
13. | Packaging waste management organization license
| 006 | 2022-04-28 | Glass, plastic, PET (polyethylene terephthalate), combined, metal (aluminum), metal (ferrous metal), paper and cardboard, wooden and other packaging waste | Association of Producers and Importers "GAMTOS ATEITIS" 305991579 | phone +370 655 02837, e.mail [email protected], Šalnos g. 28, Vilnius, LT-04126 |
For more information:
PPWIS external portal user manual: producers and importers
PPWIS Unified Product, Packaging and Waste Record Keeping Information System
Last updated: 01-12-2025