EPR Compliance

Producer responsibility registrations, declarations and fees, handled across 15 European countries.

Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) Compliance

France CITEO eco-modulation with per product bonuses and penalties

Extended Producer Responsibility makes the company that puts packaging on a market financially responsible for its end-of-life management. Every EU member state has its own EPR scheme with different fee structures, registration requirements, reporting calendars, and penalty regimes. If you sell consumer goods in multiple European countries, you face dozens of overlapping obligations with different compliance organisations.

TaxSync centralises all of that. The platform tracks which EPR scheme applies in each country you sell into, calculates the fees you owe based on the actual weight and material composition of your packaging, and generates the reports each scheme operator expects.

How EPR Fees Work

Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is a fee you pay for managing the packaging waste you place on the EU market. Unlike the DoC — which is a single document per packaging type — EPR is a continuous obligation: you report quantities in kilograms monthly, quarterly or annually.

 

The EPR fee you pay to the EU state or a compliance agency depends on three factors:

  • The quantity of packaging you place on the market (in kilograms).
  • The material (plastic, paper, glass, metal — each has its own rate).
  • Eco-modulation — PPWR introduces a system where easily recyclable packaging with recycled content pays a lower fee, while hard-to-recycle packaging pays a higher fee.

 

Note: The EPR fee is a legal obligation towards the EU, not a cost of our service. TaxSync helps you accurately calculate and report those quantities, but the fee itself is paid to the relevant national system.

 

EPR fees (often called Green Dot fees, eco-contributions, or packaging levies) vary significantly by country. In France, CITEO charges fees based on material type, weight, and a bonus-malus system that rewards recyclable designs. In Germany, the Dual System operators (Interseroh, DSD, Reclay) charge per tonne of each material, and you must register through LUCID/Zentrale Stelle. In Spain, Ecoembes uses a different weight-based rate table.

Keeping track of all this manually is extremely time-consuming, especially when you have thousands of SKUs with different packaging configurations across multiple markets.

What TaxSync Does for EPR

Automatic Registration Tracking

The platform maintains a registry of your EPR registrations across all supported markets. It tracks registration numbers, scheme membership, and which regulations are active for each of your legal entities.

 

Fee Calculation by Market

TaxSync applies the current fee schedule for each EPR scheme based on your packaging data. When you import a bill of materials or sales transactions, the system breaks down each product into its packaging components, classifies the materials, and calculates the fees for each market.

 

Eco-Modulation Handling

The platform evaluates your packaging against each scheme's eco-modulation criteria. It flags packaging that will incur surcharges and identifies opportunities for fee reductions such as high recycled content.

 

Report Generation

TaxSync generates ready-to-submit declarations for each scheme operator in a country-specific format. Every supported country has its own declaration formatter, from the German VerpackG data report to the CITEO declaration in France, exported as CSV files your scheme portal accepts.

 

Rate and Rule Updates

Fee tables and tax rates are maintained centrally and versioned by validity date. When a rate changes, company administrators are notified, and historical reports keep the rate that applied during their period.

 

Filing Reminders

The platform knows each scheme's filing calendar, including the German annual declaration due by 15 May and the French CITEO window that closes at the end of February. Administrators get reminder emails 30, 14, and 3 days before every deadline.

Countries Covered

TaxSync covers all 27 EU member states, the United Kingdom, Norway and Serbia. EPR reporting is prepared in each scheme's own layout: Germany (LUCID and the dual systems), France (CITEO), Italy (CONAI), Netherlands (Verpact), Belgium (Fost Plus and Valipac), Austria (ARA), Portugal (SPV), Sweden (NPA), Poland (BDO), Ireland (Repak), Denmark (DPA and the collective schemes), Norway (Grønt Punkt), Finland (Rinki), Croatia (FZOEU), Slovenia (Slopak), Romania (AFM and the OIREP), Bulgaria (recovery organisations), Hungary (MOHU), Greece (Ε.Ο.ΑΝ. and HERRCO), Czechia (EKO-KOM), Slovakia (OZV), Estonia (packaging register and recovery organisations), Latvia (RAS operators and the natural resources tax return), Lithuania (GPAIS), Luxembourg (Valorlux), Malta (ERA), Cyprus (Green Dot) and Serbia (NRIZ). The United Kingdom and Spain are covered through the Plastic Tax module with their own return formats.

Every market also exports the harmonised PPWR register return (Article 44, Annex IX) once the national registers open. Tariffs and filing dates are taken from the schemes' and authorities' own publications and the source is recorded with each figure.