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Producers should map the value chain for their product to ensure that EPR fees are appropriately attributed.

Producers should map the value chain for their product to ensure that EPR fees are appropriately attributed.

No significant difference; both are considered producers who introduce products into the Kenyan market. Both need to account for their proportion of attribution to avoid double counting of EPR fees.

Producers bear the primary obligation for managing their products’ endof-life. Other entities, such as wholesalers, have secondary roles.

Costs cover collection, transportation, public awareness, recycling, and incineration, landfilling, auditing, and reporting. Producers should map their product value chain to ensure accurate attribution and avoid double counting of EPR fees.

• Producers must apply for registration by NEMA.
• Join or establish a Extended Producer Responsibility Compliance Scheme registered with the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA)
• Within six months of the enactment of the regulations. They should obtain a Producer Responsibility Number (IPRN) and a Producer Extended Responsibility Number (PERN) from NEMA. Compliant schemes must obtain registration and annual operating licenses in subsequent years.

An Individual Compliance Scheme refers to an enterprise-based execution of EPR obligations assumed by an individual producer for a specific product.

A PRO is a membership organization established to assume the legal obligation of implementing EPR on behalf of its members in a collective compliance scheme.

A producer is any entity that introduces goods, products, and packaging into the Kenyan market through manufacturing, importing, distributing, converting, selling, or reselling.

An EPR scheme is an environmental management approach where a producer’s responsibility extends to the post-consumer stage of a product’s life cycle.