Why does bol or Amazon block my account for packaging?

Marketplaces verify the registration number themselves

Bol and Amazon block accounts because they themselves run a risk when they allow packaging from an unregistered producer to be traded — and that trading is prohibited. For Germany, this is most acutely noticeable: the LUCID register has no lower threshold, so from the first packaging that comes onto the German market a registration number applies, and marketplaces request that number when creating or modifying a listing. If it is missing, a block in practice often follows faster than a check by a supervisor would deliver.

In the Netherlands, it is different. Below 50,000 kg of packaging per year on the Dutch market, no registration obligation applies with Verpact, although keeping records remains mandatory. Marketplaces that only pay attention to Dutch sales therefore block less quickly on this point — but that Dutch threshold is not a permanent exemption. Verpact expects it to lapse as soon as the PPWR producer register comes into operation, at the earliest from 12 August 2027. And as soon as supplies are also made to Germany, the German register applies from that first package, regardless of what applies in the Netherlands.

Basis: Article 44 prohibits trading without registration

Article 44 of Regulation (EU) 2025/40 prohibits the placing on the market of packaging by a producer that is not registered in the producer register of the relevant Member State. Marketplaces thereby become co-guardians of that registration obligation in practice and build controls into their sales process — the German LUCID register (ZSVR) is the clearest example of this, with a control number that platforms can verify directly. What a marketplace exactly checks and at what point an account is blocked is determined by that marketplace itself; epria makes no statement on that.