Guide: How to get started
The guide is based on four levels, that begins with understanding the requirements and responsibilities, so you can establish the necessary processes. VANA provides guide and tools etc. which are available to our members.
Level 1: Understand the requirements and your responsibilities
- Start by clarifying whether you are covered by the producer responsibility.
Check if you are covered here. - Familiarise yourself with the producer responsibility and the consequences it has for companies here. About the producer responsibility.
- Go to member benefits to see how VANA can help you meet your obligations in connection with the producer responsibility.
Level 2: Compliance: data collection, handling ang reporting
- If you conclude that you are covered by the producer responsibility on packaging, the next step is to find out which data to report. The reporting is divided into an advance report in 2024 and the ongoing reporting that starts when the producer responsibility comes into force in 2025.
Find out what needs to be registered and reported in 2024 here. - Familiarise yourself with data collection from July 2025, where you must report and pay on a regular basis according to the rules on eco-modulated fees. The requirements for reporting and thus data collection are therefore more detailed than in 2024.
Read more about data collection 2025.
Level 3: Understand the principles and exploit them strategically (competetive advantage)
- When you are in the process of data collection and start to learn more about your packaging, you can use the principles and criteria in e.g. the eco-modulated fees strategically for business purposes.
- Look at the design of your packaging to minimise the quantities and find out if, e.g., there may be some more sustainable and economical alternatives. See below for an approach to the process.
Read more about packaging design here.
Level 4: Incorporated part into business processes and strategy
- In the long term, packaging design as an integrated part of your business processes and strategies can create cost-efficiency and contribute to the circular economy.
You can with advantage structure the process based on the following 5 steps:
Collect data
One of the most important things in your preparation is to create an overview and get better knowledge of the packaging you put on the market. Although all the details related to producer responsibility, such as price, eco-modulated fees, level of detail and form, are not yet in place, we know that it will be based on the technical data of the packaging, such as composition, types and materials.