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Obligation Assessment

Understand your obligations, reduce your risk

Operating across multiple markets brings regulatory complexity. With different rules, fees, and reporting systems for packaging, WEEE, batteries, and textiles, businesses often struggle to know exactly what applies, what’s changing, and where to start.

Our Obligation Mapping & Assessment service gives you total clarity, combining over 20 years of consultancy experience with a global research team that tracks and updates regulations worldwide. Using proprietary methodologies and tools, we provide complete visibility of obligations, changes, and requirements across all countries where you operate, then build a structured roadmap showing where to start, how to prioritise actions, and which steps to follow.

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The Challenge

Navigating global packaging and recycling regulations is complex and constantly evolving. With each country having its own rules, fees, and reporting requirements, businesses can struggle to know where to start, what applies, and how to keep up with changes. Without a clear plan, compliance can become overwhelming, time-consuming, and risky.

Where Teams Get Stuck

Difficulty understanding which regulations apply in each market
Uncertainty about how to prioritise actions and phase implementation
Time-consuming research and data collection across multiple countries
Risk of non-compliance or inconsistent reporting
Limited internal resources or specialist knowledge to manage obligations

How Our Service Works:

Step 1 – Understand your business

We begin by learning about your operations, products, and supply chain to understand where your obligations may arise. Our team work with you to identify specific risks, limitations, and priorities, ensuring the roadmap aligns with your business.

Step 2 – Map your global obligations

Using our resource covering over 80 countries, we identify all regulations relevant to you, including packaging, WEEE, batteries, and textiles. Using our proprietary global database, we track over 80 countries and provide structured insights into each regulatory requirement.

Step 3 – Build your compliance overview

We create a bespoke country-by-country matrix showing which regulations apply, what you must do to comply, and key upcoming changes. We translate the complex data into a clear, phased plan tailored to your organisation, showing exactly what to do and when.

Step 4 – Review and refine

We provide a summary presentation and hold a close-out meeting to walk through the findings, answer questions, and plan next steps. The final roadmap equips your team with actionable steps, enabling gradual, confident implementation.

What you’ll receive

Each assessment provides clear, tailored outputs you can act on immediately.

Why it matters to you:

✔ Understand what applies to your business, across all markets

✔ Avoid unexpected compliance costs with clear guidance

✔ Stay ahead of changing global regulations with structured, actionable insights

✔ Protect your brand reputation and ensure audit confidence

Once you understand your obligations, the next step is to collect the data that proves compliance.

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Part of your compliance journey

Whether you’re just getting started or managing complex global reporting, our services work together to guide you from understanding your obligations to analysing your data.