which registration authority do you have per European country

Each country has its own register, no central EU portal

There is no European registration portal for packaging: registration runs per Member State, with the authority that each Member State has designated for this purpose. Germany has LUCID, the register of the ZSVR, where anyone placing packaging on the German market must register. France, Belgium, the Netherlands and the other Member States each have their own system, with their own name, own portal and own registration procedure. Anyone supplying in multiple countries therefore also deals with multiple registers, not with one registration that applies everywhere.

In practice, this means: registration is mandatory in the country where packaged products are placed on the market, regardless of where the company itself is established. For a web shop selling from the Netherlands to Germany, the German registration obligation via LUCID applies, even though the Netherlands itself has a threshold of 50,000 kg per year. This Dutch threshold is incidentally not a permanent exemption: it is expected to expire from August 2027 onwards. For the German procedure specifically, there is more detailed guidance on when a Dutch web shop must register in LUCID. Anyone serving Germany and other countries will find an overview of where registration is required in which EU countries must have packaging registered.

This follows from: Article 44 and 45 of Regulation (EU) 2025/40

Article 44 of Regulation (EU) 2025/40 establishes registration in a national register as a condition for placing packaging on the market of a Member State, and leaves the design of that register to each Member State itself. Article 45 governs the situation in distance sales, whereby the registration obligation follows from the country where the end user is located, not from the country where the seller is established. LUCID is the concrete implementation of that obligation for Germany; other Member States have a comparable register under a different name.