How to participate in SIGRE

SIGRE is the authorised system in Spain for the environmental management of waste medicines and their packaging generated in households.

Through SIGRE, member companies comply with both environmental and health regulations, guaranteeing compliance with the environmental aspects related to the management of this waste.

Therefore, as established by the Spanish Agency of Medicines and Health Products (AEMPS) in Circular No. 3/2013, if a pharmaceutical company markets medicines for use in private homes, it must join SIGRE.

Through this Circular, and in order to comply with the provisions of article 62.6 of Royal Decree 1345/2007, the AEMPS has created a procedure to ensure that holders of medicines authorisations are adhered to the SIGRE System.

To this end, prior to the marketing of any new medicine, pharmaceutical companies must submit to the AEMPS a certificate accrediting their participation in the SIGRE System.

Pharmaceutical companies participate in the SIGRE system by signing an Adhesion Contract that entitles them to use the SIGRE Symbol and to include an informative legend in the package leaflets on the correct way to dispose of this waste through the Punto SIGRE in the pharmacy.

In addition, companies must pay a financial contribution to ensure the collection and treatment of waste, which in recent years has averaged 0.006 euros per unit sold through pharmacies.

Those who wish to initiate the accession process should send the following Information Form on the SIGRE accession procedure.

If you have any questions about this process, please contact SIGRE on 91 391 12 30.

Note: SIGRE will process your personal data provided only to resolve the membership to the Collective System of Extended Producer Responsibility managed by SIGRE requested through this form, being deleted once it is resolved. Your data will not be passed on to third parties. We inform you that you can exercise your rights of access, deletion, rectification, opposition, limitation and portability at the following address: SIGRE MEDICAMENTO Y MEDIO AMBIENTE S.L., calle María de Molina, 37, 2ª Planta, 28006, Madrid or via the following email: protecciondatos@sigre.es.

In addition, once the company is a member, through the "SIGRELAB Form" application, it must provide SIGRE with information on the number, weight and material of the packaging of the pharmaceutical products marketed.

Affiliated companies

Below you can find the companies affiliated to SIGRE:

    Reserved area

    SIGRE provides affiliated companies with a reserved area where they can access tools such as SIGRELAB, all the informative circulars or request certificates accrediting their participation in SIGRE.

    To access the reserved area, you must enter your username and password in the following form. If you do not have this information, please contact us.

    If you don't remember your username, call 913 911 230