For producer organisations

Enterprises that have Extended Producer Responsibility obligations can set up a producer organisation to discharge the obligations on their behalf. The producer organisation may only include producers as members, and producers may only delegate their obligations to a producer organisation that has been approved to the producer register. 

Extended Producer Responsibility can also be met by setting up a producer organisation with other producers to carry out the statutory obligations on their behalf. You can set up a producer organisation with other producers to handle your statutory obligations. Only producers can establish a producer organisation, and all members must be producers in the sector in question. 

Approval of a producer organisation for registration

A producer may only delegate it’s obligations to a producer organisation that has been approved to the producer register. A producer organisation can be approved to the producer register if:

• the producer organisation is founded by producers and has legal capacity.
• it has a template for the membership agreement, and the payment amounts have been decided.
• it has a sufficient collection network.
• contracts are in place for waste collection, transport and recycling
• it has provided an account of its financial standing and an action plan to address non-conformities
• it's operation complies with the Waste Act and Decree

See also

• Instructions for establishing a producer organisation
• Producer organisations’ duties

Files

• ELY Centre’s guidelines: Membership terms between the producer organisation and producers, 24 June 2024 (in Finnish, pdf)

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