This may not be so easy to answer. The following descriptions should make the decision easier for you:
Where do I belong?
Handover facility vs disposer vs first treatment facility? Disposer or first treatment facility?
You are a handover facility, if
You would like to make electrical or electronic equipment that you as a municipality/district have collected, or that you have collected on their behalf, available to be picked up by the producers, or respectively, their appointed disposer within the scope of the pick-up coordination.
Go to pick-up coordination
You are a disposer, if
Your company picks up waste equipment at the recycling centres on behalf of producers or authorised representatives and then hands them over to a certified first treatment facility.
Go to pick-up coordination
You are a first treatment facility, if
You company is the first to treat waste electrical and electronic equipment, as in removing pollutants, or preparing for re-use. Storing or collecting waste electrical and electronic equipment is not first treatment.
Continue as first treatment facility
Producer or distributor
You are a distributor, if
You sell electrical and electronic equipment in Germany and buy this equipment exclusively from a producer/supplier that is already properly registered for this equipment.
Continue as distributor
Are you selling equipment in Germany that you produce yourself, or are you importing equipment to Germany that your supplier is not properly registered for? Then you count as a producer according to the law and are subject to the obligations for this equipment. Please note therefore, that you can be both producer and distributor at the same time.
Continue as producer
Producer or authorised representative?
You are a producer, if
You produce or import electrical and electronic equipment and have a place of business in Germany.
Continue as producer
You would like to take on the responsibilites for a company that does not have a place of business in Germany but would like to place electrical and electronic equipment on the market? Then you are an authorised representative.
Continue as authorised representative