LUCID regulations for packaging disposal, HELP!
Summary: napashopping asked for help regarding the LUCID regulations for packaging disposal.
Good evening everyone, I know there are several guides online on how to deal with the LUCID issue, but unfortunately I can't get my head around it, so if I can take some tips from you maybe I'll be able to put my mind at ease.
Let's start with a brief summary of my situation: a physical shoe store that supplements its income with a few online sales, trying to do everything by the book. Last year eBay stopped my sales to Germany because of the introduction of this regulation, which honestly I refused to proceed with because it was unsustainable (a few pairs a year to Germany), so I left things as they were, losing a few sales, but for me that was the end of it.
Now, however, I received the email from eBay about tax transparency and reporting to the German authorities of the goods I sold over the last year. After looking into it carefully, I saw that there are companies (I chose Lizenzero) that can provide low-cost licenses for small quantities like in my case, so I then tried to carry this forward to get a LUCID number.
Except now I have so many doubts that I don't know where to start:
-By entering the dimensions and characteristics of my average packaging I got a statement for 2025 in .xml format which I have already uploaded to the "verpackungsregister" site (where I completed the registration procedure and obtained a LUCID number) and an invoice for the definite packaging for 2024, but for the latter there is no way to upload any report on the aforementioned site, so for last year there is a risk that I spent money for nothing.
-Besides uploading the statement already prepared with Lizenzero, do I also need to carry out an indicative procedure regarding packaging on that same Stiftung Zentrale Stelle site?
-The German site gives various indications but not very clear ones, namely it says that for anonymous packaging without logos (as in my case, where I wrap the shoe boxes in brown paper) you should not indicate third-party manufacturers but yourself, but I don't understand whether I also have to indicate the names of the registered brands of the shoes themselves, which in turn have another package (shoe box).
It says not to put the characteristics and quantity of the products but only the main brand manufacturer.
I indicated the 3 brands that I shipped to Germany, minus one which is in fact a German shoe manufacturer (always following the instructions on the aforementioned site).
-Can I expect a retroactive penalty from Germany? And how much could it amount to? It's absurd anyway that they introduced this regulation, we're talking about only 9 pairs shipped to Germany last year.
Thanks everyone in advance
