The packaging regulation applies from today. Most sellers are switching off the whole EU. For a lot of them that is the wrong call — some countries still pay, and some never will. This works out which is which, using your numbers.
First, the answer to the question everyone is asking. People are hunting for a list of which countries need an authorised representative and which do not, so they can ship only to the easy ones. That list does not exist, because the answer is all of them.
Article 45(3) requires a representative in every member state except the one you are established in, and Article 44 sets no minimum size or turnover. There is no small-seller exemption. The proposal that would suspend this until 2035 — COM(2025) 982 — has not been adopted, and the Council refused to fast-track it in June 2026.
So the real question is not which countries you are allowed to skip. It is which countries earn back what they cost. That is what this page answers.
Now tick the countries you ship to, and put in roughly how many parcels a year each one gets. Leave a country at zero and it is treated as one you would have to open from scratch.
| Country | Parcels / yr | Gross margin | Compliance | Net | Verdict |
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€299 per country per year is Lizenzero's published service fee, stated on their own home page as covering 31 countries with "0 EUR hidden costs", with representatives appointed where required. Read 12 August 2026. It is the cheapest openly published rate that covers every member state.
The alternative published card is Eldris, dated 1 June 2026, priced in sterling: Germany £240 falling to £185 in year two, Netherlands £255, France £385, Belgium £385, Ireland £390, Slovakia £495, Greece £520, Spain £520, Austria £535, Finland £535, Italy £535, Sweden £535, Romania £585, Denmark £600, Poland £605, Hungary £740, Portugal £790, Slovenia £990, and £250 each for Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg and Malta.
Prices above that. EcoComply publishes €1,000 per country. EPRio charges €149 a month for one country, which is €1,788 a year. Amazon's €25 per category is a pay-on-behalf service fee and does not discharge your own duty to register.
Put your own quote in the box. If you have been quoted a real figure, use it — quotes for the same nominal job have been reported between €20 and €1,500 a country, and yours beats our benchmark every time.
What we have not done is guess. Scheme fees vary by the weight and material you actually ship and are charged separately by most providers. Where a total is not published, this page does not invent one.
These are from the European Commission's public consultation on the regulation, which opened on 6 August 2026 and closes on 10 September 2026. It had 3,133 submissions when this page was written.
From January to July 2026, my total sales to France were only around EUR 728, while a first offer for the required packaging compliance amounted to approximately EUR 409 per year. These fixed costs can exceed the profit generated in that country. As a result, I have temporarily stopped shipping to other EU countries. German micro-business, 11 August 2026
Dropping France was right. Dropping everywhere may not have been — and that is the decision this page is for.
I have stopped shipping in all my webshops with immediate effect. There is practically no EU country where the regulatory obligations are not higher than the expected profit. Hungarian seller, 11 August 2026
If the consultation is still open when you read this, it takes a few minutes to add your own numbers to it. Concrete figures from real sellers are the most useful thing in there.