Packaging EPR by EU country
The PPWR product rules — restricted substances, recyclability, recycled content, labelling — are identical in all 27 EU states, because a Regulation applies directly (Art. 4). What changes country to country is the extended-producer-responsibility administration: where you register, the PRO and its fees, whether you need an Authorised Representative, and the small-quantity threshold. Tick the countries you sell into to see what each one asks of you.
Registration is national, not EU-wide. Under Article 44 you must register in the producer register of each member state where you first make packaging available. Under Article 45, a producer that makes packaging available in a state where it is not established must appoint an Authorised Representative for EPR in that state — mandatory EU-wide from 12 August 2026, and it catches EU businesses selling cross-border, not just non-EU sellers.
Penalties are set nationally (Art. 68) — there is no EU-wide fine; member states must lay down their penalty rules by 12 February 2027. So the same packaging can carry very different registration steps, fees and enforcement depending on the market.
This is general information about Regulation (EU) 2025/40 and national EPR schemes, not legal advice. Thresholds, fees, penalty amounts and go-live dates come from national law and PRO schedules that change — treat every figure as needing a fresh check, and confirm anything you act on with the national authority or qualified counsel.
Which EU countries do you sell into?
Tick a country to see its packaging-EPR requirements below. Countries in bold have a detailed per-country page.
Tick one or more countries above to see what packaging EPR requires in each.
Get every market you sell into mapped in one report
The report takes your packaging profile and the countries you sell into and returns the obligations that apply to you under Regulation (EU) 2025/40 — the product duties plus the per-country EPR registration, PRO and Authorised-Representative steps — each cited to its article, with the deadline.
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For each country the card shows the producer register / authority you sign up with, the PRO (Producer Responsibility Organisation / compliance scheme) you contract with, whether a non-established producer needs an Authorised Representative, the de-minimis threshold (the small-quantity floor, where one exists), and the one catch worth knowing. Where a fact is not confirmed against primary law it is marked indicative — confirm nationally; do not treat those as settled.
Thirteen member states do not yet have a detailed page here. For those, the same cross-cutting rules apply — a national producer register (Art. 44) and an Authorised Representative for non-established producers from 12 August 2026 (Art. 45) — but you should confirm the current authority, threshold and AR status with the national scheme. The fourteen detailed countries below carry per-country pages: Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, Austria, Ireland, Sweden, Portugal, Czechia, Denmark and Romania.
Sources
- Regulation (EU) 2025/40 (PPWR) — registration of producers (Art. 44); Authorised Representative for EPR, mandatory from 12 August 2026 (Art. 45); penalties set nationally, rules notified by 12 February 2027 (Art. 68); free movement of conforming packaging (Art. 4) — https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2025/40/oj/eng
- Per-country registers, PROs and thresholds are named on each country page and drawn from the national instruments cited there (e.g. Germany's VerpackG, Italy's Legislative Decree 152/2006, Spain's RD 1055/2022, France's AGEC law). Figures come from national law and PRO schedules that change — re-verify before acting.