Guides & FAQs

Extended Producer Responsibility means producers pay for collection and recycling of products they place on the market — packaging, electronics, batteries, textiles and more. Fees usually go to a Producer Responsibility Organization (PRO).

A Producer Responsibility Organization (PRO) is the authorised take-back scheme that collects EPR fees and organises recycling for a given EPR. Some countries have one PRO; others have competing Pros.

France publishes a full statutory household-packaging grid (Citeo / Adelphe / Léko). Open the France country page for the core materials and the detailed tariff rows — including eco-modulation bonuses and maluses.

Germany has no statutory €/kg table. Under VerpackG you register in LUCID, then licence with a competing dual system; per-kilogram fees stay in each system’s calculator. Public annual entry or minimum prices are not material tariffs. The Germany page lists authorised systems and the published minima we can cite — never a national material rate.

Many countries require a local authorised representative (or equivalent) when a producer has no establishment in that market — especially for distance sellers. The fixed-costs table lists representative rules and thresholds country by country.

No. EPR fees fund collection and recycling through a PRO. A packaging or plastics tax is usually paid to a tax authority on a different base — for example non-recycled plastic content. Some countries run both; paying one does not cancel the other.

Statutory means a law, decree or designated body publishes one official grid. Market price means competing schemes set their own fees — we may show a published scheme sheet as a reference, never as the national rate. No tariff / quote-only means producers negotiate or use calculators with no static public €/kg table (Germany is the main example). Empty cells are intentional.

Eco-modulation adjusts the base fee up (malus) or down (bonus) for recyclability, recycled content, reuse or sorting performance. France’s household packaging grid is the clearest public example. Our calculator uses core material rates only — apply bonuses and maluses from the country detail rows on top.

Both. Some schemes publish per kg, others per tonne. The overview default converts everything to illustrative €/t (kg × 1,000 and a fixed FX). Always cite the published unit on the country page.

Open the packaging fee table, switch units (€/t or €/kg) if helpful, and open each country page for the published source. Always quote the official figure — our conversions are illustrative only.

Where the law allows competing Pros for the same obligation, published fees often differ. At high volumes that gap can mean thousands of euros a year. Check eligibility and contract terms before switching.

It multiplies core material rates by the weights you enter. Eco-modulation, composites outside the six cores and negotiated discounts are excluded — treat the result as a rough estimate.

Each country page shows a verified “as of” date for the source we last checked. We keep collecting and refreshing published fees on an ongoing basis. Treat this as a research reference and confirm against the official source before you file or invoice.

We collect and curate published EPR fees for each market. Every country page shows a verification date and links to the official source. Before filing or invoicing, confirm against that source.

Accounts will let you tell us which PRO you already use. If another PRO covers the same packaging obligation at a lower published fee, we can notify you. Join the waitlist on Pricing to hear when it opens.

Yes — textiles, batteries, WEEE and additional EPR are listed by country. Packaging has the deepest tariff tables; other EPR grow as published grids appear.