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DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT FOOD & RURAL AFFAIRS
pEPR Fee Modulation
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01/ The notice
Key facts
- Value
- £203,862Estimated value stated in the notice
- Deadline (UK time)
- Wed 8 Oct 2025, 17:30 BSTA deadline does not apply to this historical notice. The source records Wed 8 Oct 2025, 17:30 BST, which is not an open deadline.
- Published
- 12 Nov 2025
- Region
- North East, North West, Yorkshire and The Humber, East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England, London, South East, South West, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland
02/ The brief
What the notice says
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The new UK Packaging Extended Producer Responsibility Scheme for Packaging ("pEPR") extends packaging producers' responsibility for packaging to the post-use stage so that they bear the costs of the end-of-life management of packaging materials by local authorities across the UK. In line with the 'polluter pays' principle, producers pay a 'disposal fee' per tonne of packaging material that they place on the market. This policy promotes the reduction in total amount and weight of packaging material generated and helps support shifts to more sustainable packaging materials.
The four nations have agreed that a key objective of the scheme is to incentivise shifts to more sustainable packaging. pEPR regulations enable the pEPR Scheme Administrator (PackUK) to adjust packaging fees based on a wide range of environmental sustainability criteria, subject to the agreement of the 4 nations. From year 2 of pEPR (2026 invoices charged to producers for packaging placed on the market in calendar year 2025) fees charged will be "modulated" to incentivise recyclable packaging. This will be based on the Recyclability Assessment Methodology (RAM) which PackUK published the first draft of in December 2024. Modulation based on recyclability was only designed to be an initial policy, and the intention was always to build a stronger evidence base to modulate based on other sustainability factors. This project commissioned on behalf of the 4 Nations and PackUK will deliver vital research to deliver modulation based on these further factors.
03/ Classification
CPV codes
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- 73000000
- 73200000
04/ History
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- 12 Nov 2025Contract notice
Contract notice published 12 November 2025.
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