Extended producer responsibility

KAZAKHSTAN Updates Rules on Allocation of Funds by the Operator of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)

As of 3 November 2025, Order No. 280 introducing amendments and additions to the earlier Order No. 332 dated November 27, 2023 on the allocation of funds by the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) Operator, entered into force.

The updated regulation refines the procedures governing how funds collected from producers and importers under the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) mechanism are distributed by the designated operator. The order was officially registered with the Ministry of Justice on October 24, 2025, under registration number 37219.

Georgia: Adopted recycling targets for products subject to extended producer responsibility (EPR)

In July 2024 Georgia adopted Order that sets our recycling targets for different types of wastes within the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) framework.

The Order established rules for determining the quantities of different types of waste, required to achieve the target indicators of collection, reuse, recycling and recovery specified in the technical regulations on specific waste within the Extended Producer Responsibility.

Ukraine: Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) overview

The extended producer responsibility (EPR) framework in Ukraine has been introduced by the revised Law on Wastes (enters into force in July 2023). 

The responsible producers have to fulfil their EPR obligations either collectively – by joining a compliance scheme or individually – by setting up their own compliance system.

The EPR in Ukraine includes the following:

Moldova: the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) Framework

The extended producer responsibility (EPR) framework in Moldova is set out in the Law on Wastes No. 209. This law partially transposed the provisions of the EU Waste Framework Directive 2008/98/EC into the national legislation.

According to the Law on Wastes, the following products are to be subject to the EPR obligations:

 

 

a)      Batteries and accumulators;

Georgia: Amended regulations on waste oils management

As of 20 September 2022, changes to the waste oils management rules entered into force in Georgia.

The changes exempt the following types of oils from the scope of the waste oil management regulation:

a) oils imported by a natural person (except for an individual entrepreneur / sole trader);

b) oils declared for import by the state body of a foreign country and/or international organization;

c) oils declared for import for the purpose of humanitarian aid or as a grant;

Russia: The EPR reform postponed

Russia has postponed the adoption of the regulatory framework for the reformed extended producer responsibility (EPR) system to the end of 2022 which means that the revised system is to be operational as of 2023.

Initially, it was intended to introduce the reform in early 2022. The reform would have imposed the obligation on manufacturers and importers to recycle or reuse (“utilise”) 100% of packaging they place on the Russian market.

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