Your register login asks for an authorised representative. What now?

Why you are seeing it

Since 12 August 2026 every already-registered producer without a German establishment is prompted at each login to name a missing authorised representative. The register passed one million registrations in April 2024, from more than 160 countries and with over 400,000 from China, so this is a very large cohort being told the same thing at the same time.

The prompt is a reminder, not a block. Whether an account without a representative becomes functionally restricted has not been verified, and we will not claim it is. What is certain is that the underlying duty has applied since 12 August 2026.

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What the retrofit actually involves

The flow runs from the dashboard tile for the appointed representative, through naming the representative, a set of declarations, and a submission. Before you can select a provider there, that provider must already hold its own representative identifier in the register.

On our side the work is a German-language mandate signed by both parties, our identifier handed to you, the designation tracked until the central agency confirms it, and a dated check of your public register entry. There is no registration session to run, which is why the retrofit is priced below a first registration.

The deadline nobody will give you

The central agency names no deadline for adding a representative to an existing registration. Section 68(2) VerpackDG sets 12 November 2026 for updating registration master data, and that plausibly covers the representative entry, but it is not stated explicitly. We treat it as an interpretation and say so.

The honest position is that the duty applies now, the gap between 12 August and any interpreted deadline is legally untidy, and Germany has an active cease-and-desist industry. Whether trading without a representative in that gap is actionable is a question for counsel, not for a marketing page.