PPWR compliance workspaceFor sellers who need a local AR
The list of authorised representatives is in smbf.me. Open a sales country, read a published offer, and send the agreement from that same account. You do not hunt a firm country by country. Once the agreement is signed, reports for that country go to the representative you appointed.
One account
You can open an application for every country you ship to, from the same login. One live application is allowed per country. That is how the cabinet is built. It is not one signature for the whole Union.
How the workspace does it
These are the screens in the cabinet, not a general sketch.
The workspace opens on a country list. A country page shows published authorised representative offers: the organisation, what the fee covers, and the service window. If nobody is published there yet, the page says so. You read the card before you apply. Documents that prove the representative can accept a mandate stay on the card. You look at them. You do not return them.
The button on the card is Apply for an agreement. A form opens with your legal name, address, VAT and contact already filled. Those fields do not change in this window. If the representative left templates, you download the mandate, the contract or the power of attorney, sign them, and attach the files to this application. The representative sees them with the request. You can still send the application when no template is ready. While an application is live, you cannot open a second one for the same country.
The conversation stays on that application. Statuses you will see are Submitted, Clarification, In progress and Agreement signed. Refusal, withdrawn and terminated are labelled the same way in the list. Until the status is Agreement signed, the next move sits with you or with the representative. After it is signed, that thread closes and reports for the country go to that authorised representative.
Then you open the next sales country and do the same. One signature per country.
In the workspace, open the country list and pick a sales destination. Published authorised representative offers sit on that country page.
Open a card before you apply. You see the organisation, the fee, the service window, and the materials it covers. Registry extracts and insurance stay on the card for reading. You do not send them back.
The button on the card is Apply for an agreement. The form already shows your legal name, address, VAT and contact. You cannot edit those fields here.
Download the mandate, contract or power of attorney template, sign it, and attach the file to the same application. The representative receives it with the request. You can send the application without files if no template is ready.
The thread stays on that application. Statuses you will see are Submitted, Clarification, In progress and Agreement signed. Refusal, withdrawn and terminated have their own labels. One live application is allowed per country.
Once the status is Agreement signed, reports for that country go to that authorised representative. Open the next sales country from the same account and start again.
The report comes later
The workspace can still prepare a country report from your orders. That file does not name who acts for you. The agreement does. After Agreement signed, the same report goes to the authorised representative you appointed.
What the platform does not do
The workspace holds the offers and the application. The signature, the invoice and the producer duties stay with the parties who already own them.
The mandate is between you and the representative. smbf.me does not sign it and does not stand in that role.
The representative sets the price and bills you. The platform does not take a cut of that fee.
The mandate does not replace producer registration or a collection-scheme contract. Those stay separate.
Before you open the workspace
If your own firm can accept a packaging EPR mandate, use the partner programme.
Open a sales country in the workspace, read a published offer, press Apply for an agreement, attach signed templates if you have them, and stay in that thread until the status is Agreement signed.
Yes. The offer, the application and the signed files sit on the same account that already holds your orders and reports.
Usually yes. Each country has its own representative and its own agreement. You open those applications from one account. One signature does not cover 27 countries.
No. A report is a file. Appointing the representative names who acts for you in that country. After Agreement signed, the file goes to that person.
You and the authorised representative sign. The representative sets the fee and invoices you. smbf.me does not take a cut of that fee.
No. Producer registration and the collection-scheme contract stay separate. The mandate only names the representative.
Same account as the reports
The published offers sit on the country page. The agreement starts from the card.