Your EU authorized representative, run by a US company

The problem, stated plainly

If your company is not established in an EU member state and you ship packaged goods to customers there, two things are now true.

You need documentation you probably don’t have. Every unique packaging type placed on the EU market requires a signed EU Declaration of Conformity, backed by technical documentation from a conformity assessment. You did not design most of that packaging. Your suppliers did. The documents have to come from them.

You need someone standing in the EU. Under Article 45 of Regulation (EU) 2025/40, a producer not established in a member state must appoint an authorized representative there for extended producer responsibility. One per member state. There is no single filing that covers all 27.

Without both, shipments can be held at the border and marketplaces can delist you. Some US retailers have simply stopped shipping to the EU rather than solve it.

What we do

Declaration of Conformity collection

We run the campaign against your suppliers, in their languages. Request, chase, verify the document is the right one and current, translate where needed, and index it so it can be produced on demand. Most suppliers have never heard of PPWR and will send the wrong document twice before they send the right one. That is the work.

Technical documentation custody

We assemble and hold the technical file to Article 39 and Annex VII standard, retained for the full statutory period and available when a market surveillance authority asks. We meet and exceed ISO 27001 standards, which matters when someone else’s compliance record is sitting in your archive.

Authorized representative mandates

Resident representatives, established in the member state, named on a written mandate and entered in the national producer register. Not a subcontractor performing tasks. The named party of record.

EPR registration and fee handling

Registration with the national scheme in each market, ongoing reporting, and fee payment. Structured as direct pay or escrow to each eco-organization so it does not sit on your balance sheet or ours.

Northern Ireland, handled correctly

PPWR conformity requirements reach Northern Ireland through the Windsor Framework, but the extended producer responsibility provisions do not. NI remains in the UK’s own pEPR scheme. It is a separate workstream, not a 28th EU market. Anyone offering you an Article 45 representative for Northern Ireland is offering you something that does not exist.

Why a US company

Most authorized representative providers are EU brokers selling a mailbox and a registration number. That works until something goes wrong.

One accountable contact. Not a different provider in each of 27 countries.

US contract, US law, US recourse. You are not enforcing an agreement against an entity in a jurisdiction you have never visited.

Your time zone. When an authority in Poland raises a question, you call Texas.

Language capability built in. Supplier chasing, document translation, and authority correspondence in 300+ languages is the business we have been in since 2009. For most AR brokers it is the part they subcontract.

Beyond packaging

PPWR is one stream. If your catalog includes batteries, electronics, tires, textiles, or oils and fluids, each carries its own extended producer responsibility obligations, its own national registration, and often its own representative requirement. A producer can hold several EPR representatives at once, one per country per stream.

We map the full surface before you commit to a reopen date, so the second shutdown does not arrive a month after the first.

How it works

1. Scope. Send us a catalog export and your supplier list. We map packaging types, product streams, and destination markets, and tell you what you actually owe where.
2. Priority markets. We stand up mandates and registrations in your highest-volume markets first, so revenue restarts in weeks rather than waiting on all 27.
3. Documentation. We run the supplier DoC campaign in parallel and build the technical file.
4. Rollout. Remaining markets go live in waves. You are billed per market as each one does.
5. Maintenance. Annual reporting, fee filings, register updates, and regulatory monitoring. When the rules change, and they will through 2040, you hear it from us first.