Implementing rules on registering in and reporting to the register of producers

Ladies and gentlemen, I am writing to you as an artist and designer, as a solo self-employed person and as an operator of a small independent creative company. I do not work with bulk goods with limited editors and small print runs. My products are created with a lot of personal work. I am committed to sustainability, recycling and responsibility.

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Hi! As a small business owner and mother of young children, designing and producing products for a very niche audience, I greatly depend not only on my local market but also on customers across the EU. It is devastating to read about these new national registration requirements, as there is simply no way I have the time, resources or money to fulfil separate obligations in every EU country just to keep selling…

Ladies and gentlemen, I am writing to you today as co-owner of a German two-person family business selling online. We run our shop with a lot of personal effort, we routinely also work on Saturdays and Sundays, and we sacrifice all our family time.

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I operate a small handmade business in Germany and sell through an online marketplace. I am currently sending around 20 packages to 5 other EU countries each year. My turnover from these countries is currently below EUR 400. It is foreseeable that the number of EU countries from which orders are received will continue to increase in the future.

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These regulations place a disproportionate burden on small businesses like mine that ship small quantities of packaging within EU member states. Small businesses like mine lack both the financial resources to pay several hundred euros per EU country for registration there and the time to manage the administrative burden of complying with these regulations.

As a micro (one woman) business, the new regulations are a death blow to any business I have and could have outside of my own country, and I know a lot of small business owners who say the same. I do believe in the importance of a European community and making companies responsible for protecting our environment, and I already do my best to be sustainable with my products and packaging alike.

I have been running an Etsy shop selling vintage Levis jeans for years and recently fulfilled my dream of launching my own online store. Due to the increasing bureaucratic burden of national EPR registrations, I have already had to stop shipping to several of my highest-revenue EU countries over the past few years. The unified EU-wide solution I had hoped for this August has failed to materialize.

I operate a small handmade business in Austria and sell my products through an online marketplace. To date, I have sent around 150 packages per year to six other EU Member States. The resulting turnover was approximately EUR 12.000 per year. For the required registrations and, depending on the country of destination, authorised representatives/representations, I expect to have to pay EUR 6000 per year.

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To the European Commission / Members of the European Parliament, As a European e-commerce enterprise engaged in importing goods via container and selling them online across the European Union, we are writing to submit a formal objection and express our deep concern regarding the practical implementation and economic impact of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR).

As a self-employed person, I earn from performing at events and selling small amounts of merch online. For the latter, the order amounts are low, often sent to different EU- and non-EU countries maybe once or twice within a year.

I run a small e-commerce business based in Bulgaria, selling packaged goods to customers across the EU through online marketplaces. I want to share a practical concern about how the proposed harmonisation of national producer registers and reporting obligations affects businesses of my size.

I am a ceramicist, posting my work to a range of EU-countries. I am the sole and only person in my vompany. For each country my annual amount of orders is below 10. Your new rules means that my profit essentially dissappears, as administrative work (researching rules and reporting) and fees per market will exceed what I earn. I support reducing waste and recycling.

Hi iam just starting my online shop. beposie! beposie is a one-woman brand creating limited-edition products and apperal in small quantities. As a small independent business, I build everything myself, from design to production and fulfilment. 15% of every purchase is donated to meaningful social causes, leaving only a small margin to cover operating costs and growth.

Ladies and gentlemen, I very much welcome the fact that the European Union is addressing the issue of packaging and wants to ensure greater sustainability and clear rules across Europe. At the same time, I would like to draw attention to a development which, in my view, is very politically problematic: Increasing bureaucracy can put small online traders at a significant competitive disadvantage.

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This is disgraceful. We sell sustainable products that mostly derive from the EU we package them in compositible packaging. We have clients in the EU have spent up to six months specifying our products for their customers, taken their money and gone to place an order with us today for us to say Im so sorry we cannot ship to you now. All of the EU and Ireland.

I strongly support the environmental objectives of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation. However, I urge the European Commission to introduce a clear and meaningful exemption or substantially simplified regime for micro-enterprises and very small businesses. I am a self-employed small business owner in Austria and also operate a small jewellery business.

Dear Members of the European Commission,I am writing to you as an independent sole trader running a small design and handicraft business, SolveCoagula design, based in Estonia. While I fully support the European Union's green transition, its circular economy goals, and the intent to curb mass-produced low-cost imports from outside the EU, the current execution of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) and the…

*exclude small & micro businesses from the A.R. rules or provide measurements that small businesses can afford! *harmonize the registration for PPWR/EPR in EU states for small& micro businesses! *the new law speaks against the free movement of goods within the EU and will have severe consequences for many businesses- especially small ones!

I run a production-on-demand lingerie business from my studio in Stockholm. I want to be part of a positive change of the fashion industry, but the current implementation of the PPWR and the EPR is making it impossible for me to sell across internal EU borders. This implementation is hurting small businesses disproportionately, and you should implement a de minimus immediately while working towards a One Stop Shop.

I am a self-employed artist and run a small business within the EU, through which I sell my own artworks and merchandise. I expressly support the environmental objectives behind these rules. Companies should take responsibility for the packaging waste they generate. Large companies in particular, which place huge amounts of packaging on the market, should be held responsible for this.

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As a one-woman small business based in Germany, I am deeply concerned about the practical impact of the new PPWR and EPR requirements on micro-enterprises and small businesses selling products within the EU. The regulations are extremely difficult to understand and navigate, especially for businesses that do not have legal departments, compliance teams or the financial resources to hire consultants.

I am the founder of an EU marketplace for handmade goods. I write both as a producer subject to Article 45 and as an operator whose sellers are micro-producers across the EU. I support the overall harmonising of the producer registers and the objective of the PPWR.

Hello I have a small one Man Business for over 30 years. For me this regulation means that I have to stop all selling/shipping outside of Germany. I cannot pay the fees that will appear for this as it is more costs then I gain. Also the more work for me is something I cannot do as a One Man Business. This is killing my business. And as I read on social Media many mamy more have this problem. Please stop this now!

I am a one woman selfemployed artisan in Spain running a small online business selling my handmade macramé jewelry. I already use recycled and recyclable packaging materials and keep my packaging to a minimum. I support the environmental goals of the PPWR, but in its current form it will severely harm micro and small businesses like mine.

As a micro business owner this new regulations is absurd. This will hit all the small business hard and for meny to close down. I understand that the environment is important, but it is most the big companies that produce waste not the small micro business.

This act inhibits the freedom of small businesses because registration is too complicated, costly and too much to bear. I have already seen small (EU) companies close their orders because they cannot keep up with registering in so many different countries. Exclude small businesses from this act. It is companies like Amazon that need to bear the weight of pollution.

Unfortunately, the law is becoming an imbalance between huge companies and small artists and manufactures. The question here is whether small traders who are still beautiful and personalised are really a problem. More and more beauty is being lost and what remains are huge, heartless corporations that focus on anything other than our environment.

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I fully support the EUs environmental goals, but the current cross-border Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) framework is destroying the single market for independent creators.As an artist in France, my packaging consists exclusively of 100% recyclable paper envelopes and paper inserts to ship low-volume artwork.

I have a small scale artisanal pottery business in SW France. I make artisanal pieces in small series. It's difficult to make a living as a craftsperson in the current climate. The new rules for packaging make it financially impossible for me to sell in the EU. A whole client market and possibility for development of my business online has just been eliminated as a result of the new regulations.

As a small business owner, I support the goal of reducing packaging waste and improving sustainability. However, I am concerned that the current requirements place a disproportionate burden on micro-businesses and sole traders. In my own case, I have only recently started my business and receive occasional online orders from customers in other EU countries.

I am the owner of a small one-person manufacturing business based in Germany, selling specialised electronic products directly to consumers across the European Union. I fully support the objectives of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation and the principle of extended producer responsibility.

This whole regulation goes against everything the EU is supposed to be. I can see that it will work well for large corporations, but it hurts small businesses in a deeply unfair way. The asymmetry is the problem. A large company spreads the cost of 27 registrations and 26 authorised representatives across millions of parcels. A small one spreads it across five.

The new Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) pursues fundamentally important and understandable environmental policy objectives. However, their practical implementation risks de facto excluding micro and small enterprises in particular from the European single market.

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Exclude artists, artisans and micro-businesses from this legislation as the cost and complicated paperwork is going to kill their already small margins. I agree that reducing packaging waste is crucial but the smallest businesses and artists usually use eco-friendly packaging as a selling point.

Submitted by: a small UK-based direct-to-consumer e-commerce business exporting to EU member states I am writing to share practical feedback on the implementation of PPWR (Regulation (EU) 2025/40) from the perspective of a small non-EU business trying, in good faith, to comply. 1.

Please look at small businesses, I trade to many different countries and this will kill my buisiness with them, I won't be able to afford these fees and this will kill my trade with my clients from other countries. I don't trade enough to pay these fees but I won't survive if I lose these clients...

I fully support the need to minimise packaging for shipments and to be much more aware of it. My main concern is that we can no longer send freely within Europe, from any Member State. I have a small online shop, it is impossible for me to have to pay a cost for each country to be able to send it. Let alone have a representative in each country (and have to pay).

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Dear EU legislators, This new law (PPWR) is damaging for my small business. I understand the need to control and regulate shipping (the materials and its contents) but the way you have gone about it is damaging for small businesses. I dont have the time to register with all EU countries and pay fees for every single one of them, since I ship to some only once a year.

Opinion on the draft Implementing Regulation on the format for registration and reporting in the register of producers under Regulation (EU) 2025/40 As a small company delivering packaging to all EU Member States, we generally welcome the stated aim of this draft to reduce the administrative burden of registration and reporting through a uniform format (recital 1).

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I dont know what youre doing with this. The EU was originally created to simplify trade among member states. But in recent years, more and more laws have been added that make our work harder. Youre destroying our economy and dont even realize it. Think about us small and medium-sized businesses.

The regulations to harmonize the responsibility in the EU are instead overcomplicating things. The goal should be to have a centralized platform to report amounts of packaging and other distributed materials for the whole EU territory and distribute fees to its country via the EU as central care-taker. This would emphasize the environmental aspect and strengthen inner-EU trade.

I operate a small handmade business in Germany and sell through an online marketplace. I wanted to expand my business across the EU. Because the fixed costs of shipping to other EU countries have so increased, I am no longer able to implement my plans to expand. This also applies to my second shop. This draft is under REFIT, i.e. simplification.

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I discover this draft law as a French small business shipping from time to time to EU countries. This news was a wake-up call. I think it’s normal for you to have to pay a tax for the waste you generate. But it must remain proportionate to the volume you send!

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As a small ceramic factory in Brandenburg, managed as a sole trader, both the bureaucratic burden and the costs of representation abroad in the EU exceed my ability to make a profit. In future, therefore, I would have to completely refrain from shipping outside Germany on a large scale and would thus lose more than 70 % of my business.

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As a small business owner, this new regulation will affect men a lot. I do not sell much during the year and only have a few customers spread in the EU, but they still exist, and this regulation would make it impossible. I and many others wouldnt be able to sell anymore and our customers, due to the high fees. And customers would be left without enjoying products and art from other people in a united Europe.

I am submitting our formal feedback regarding the rules on national registers of producers under the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) and Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) frameworks. As a European business, I strongly urge the European Commission to simplify, harmonize, and centralize this administrative system across the Single Market.

I do not believe the current approach provides a practical solution to reducing packaging waste. Instead, for many small businesses, it risks becoming effectively a green tax, creating significant costs and administrative burdens without necessarily delivering a proportionate environmental benefit. This is particularly damaging for micro and small businesses trading across the EU.

Im micro business owned and this regulation technically closed open EU market for me- Im not major exporter to any EU country and financial and bureaucratic burden for delivering 1-5 packages packages to 5-10 EU countries per year doesnt make any sense of any small business.

This new law is a serious threat to my existence as a small businessman. For each EU country I am sending to, a separate application, own costs. The bureaucratic burden is extremely high and practically unfeasible for the few orders I send abroad in the EU. Allowances for small businesses such as us, as well as a one-stop shop, are essential to keep the burden and burden on small businesses feasible.

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This is going to crush small businesses. We dont have the staff or budget to deal with all this extra paperwork and proof-of-compliance stuff: its built for big companies, not people like us. Please add real exemptions or a simpler process for small businesses before you start enforcing this.

Today I was horrified to read of yet another EU law change that will have an enormous and detrimental effect to my business. As if the obligatory electronic invoicing system was not bad enough for a small enterprise to have to sign up for, now this.

Reducing packaging waste is a laudable approach and I do not have a pronoun using eco-friendly cardboard. But how can small artists like me afford it? In addition to Germany, I regularly supply 8 EU countries, each with a small turnover, sometimes well below 1000 a year, but worthwhile overall. I can no longer do this, I will stop sending it.

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As a small business owner in Sweden, selling arts and crafts, we had plans to open up for sales within the EU. But these new rules make this impossible. With no sales today in other countries today we have no idea how much or little we will sell, but the fixed fees and administrational work alone would well surpass the income.

Good morning, I am a solo self-employed online trader with an annual turnover of 250.000. I do most of my turnover in Germany. However, I have around 5-10 orders per month from the EU area outside Germany, from all possible EU countries except Austria. I have not delivered to Austria since Austria made an authorised representative for packaging waste an obligation.

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Please do not make the Single Market unaffordable for Europes smallest businesses Dear Madams & Sirs, I am the founder of a Swedish micro-enterprise. We design and sell custom made shoes made in Italy to customers across Europe. Sustainability is very important to us; Our business model is to only produce what we sell in order to minimize waste and energy.

As an EU-based micro-entrepreneur selling artisan products, I am writing to express my grave concern over the current and proposed Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) packaging regulations and national registration requirements. My business ships across EU borders only a few times a year, generating minimal packaging waste (and using only boxes I recover from neighbours in my city).

This regulation is a disaster for small businesses in Europe and will put an end to free trade and exports for small businesses. Thousands of small businesses have already announced that they will stop shipping orders to other EU countries.

I do not agree with the proposed approach. I believe that the new requirements concerning Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for packaging could create a disproportionate administrative and financial burden for small businesses and micro-enterprises engaged in cross-border e-commerce within the EU. A small online business may sell only a few low-value orders per year to customers in a particular EU Member State.

This regulation is a catastrophe for small businesses in Europe and effectively puts an end to free trade and exports from small businesses. Thousands of small businesses have already announced that they will stop delivering orders to other EU countries or to the EU as a whole. We are also considering the same for ourselves.

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PPWR is creating a disproportionate burden for micro-businesses and risks favouring large companies over small cross-border sellers. I am a micro-business outside the EU selling handmade products directly to EU consumers. I support PPWRs environmental objectives, but the current implementation is not proportionate or ready.

Hello, this new law is a disaster for small traders. When we are alone in managing everything, from administration to logistics, how do you want to be able to absorb this complex administrative mountain? When only a few parcels are sent to the European Union, our MB is heavily charged by the costs requested as a contribution by each country.

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As a small German business trying to diversify by selling small amounts of merchandise to fans across Europe, these new rules are a death blow to our efforts. Is it truly possible that our lawmakers were unable to anticipate the consequences of this legislation or is even more corporate consolidation its true purpose?

The current design of this scheme threatens the existence of small businesses and the self-employed in Europe. I am a self-employed artist, selling Fine Art Prints of my art alongside my original works. For me, this rule in its current form means very concretely: I will have to stop shipping to many other EU Member States. Not because I want it.

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Good evening, I would like to give feedback on this regulation. As I am an initiative with great intentions and great concern for the environment, I cannot but demonstrate my concern about the impact it will have on small businesses such as my studio. The idea of an annual register per country, to which we send orders, could cost hundreds up to thousands of euros is simply unaffordable for a small business.

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The European Union was built on the idea of bringing countries closer together promoting peace, economic cohesion, solidarity and a strong Single Market without internal barriers. As a small European business owner, I am deeply concerned that we are currently moving in the opposite direction.

Exclude micro/small businesses as this new law is disproportionate towards micro/small businesses. Many if not all micro/small businesses cannot afford these fees. Harmonize the registration for this new law with one portal. This new law speaks against free movement of goods within the EU.

As someone who was on the verge of starting a small business, reading about this legeslation has immediately put that idea to bed. The EU was formed on the basis of a single market and all this is dojng is fracturing it and killing small businesses. Please reconsider this, or you will be killing what your entire legislation was communicated to be protecting.

I wanted to start a new small business, but after seeing this, im worried as million of small business owners throughout the EU are now cancelling shipping to othe EU contrôles because of this new régulation, its too expensive for small businesses to pay for these fées, specially représentation in every country they want to ship too, your killing free and easier commerce between the member states of the EU, and that…

The current feedback shows what was obvious from the beginning - the decentralized approach requiring complex and expensive registrations and reporting from the first parcel on to be sent will mean the end for small enterprises. For sure we need to take measures to reduce waste and hazardous substanced in packaging, but a common goal requires a common, centralized register.

This will kill my small business and thus you will not receive further taxes from me. I, within minutes, found numerous shops on Instagram, Facebook and TikTok that will not continue to do business within the EU due to this. This will make niche shops fade away slowly due to the high costs and outsource orders to China. If you don't think this will happen, you're detached from reality.

This is an absolute disgrace! For small business located in UK (in fact all over europe) you expect me to not only have a responsible person, now we are expected to register with TWENTY SEVEN different agencies each costing between 100 to 500 pounds EACH . Many many people think you are just trying to kill SME business many of which are owned by women. SHAME IN YOU!!

The PPWR is one of the worst and most counterproductive pieces of regulation the EU has introduced. It creates an absurd level of bureaucracy and administrative burden for businesses while doing little to encourage actual growth, innovation, or competitiveness. This kind of policymaking is precisely why the EU continues to fall behind other major global economies.

I am a small, one-person business, shipping perhaps 10 - 15 parcels per year to different EU countries. Although the income generated from these sales is not substantial, it still contributes to my business, and we have spent years building trust and developing a loyal clientele. I always try to be mindful of the sustainability of my packaging, using Eco-friendly products.

I run a one-person business in Germany and sell handmade stationery to customers across Europe. The biggest issue for me is the requirement to appoint and pay an authorised representative in each Member State where this is required. For a microbusiness shipping only small quantities of packaging to individual countries, these fixed costs are completely disproportionate.

Ladies and gentlemen, this arrangement is a disaster for small bands of us. AXXIS has been in business since 1989 and has slowly built up a small fan base around the world. We sell to and from our T-shirts, DVDs or CDs to Sweden, Norway, Spain, France, Italy, England and very rarely the USA. Our music will be distributed around the world and here and there will order a fan from abroad.

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In order to provide EU start-ups and small businesses with barrier-free access to the EU internal market, it would be necessary to introduce a small quantity of packaging in the PPWR with regard to the requirements laid down, which would then apply equally in all EU countries. In the case of start-ups in particular, this would allow goods to be tested in different EU countries and new markets to be opened up.

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As A Very Small Starter business who haven't even earned my start up fees home yet and so far ship out 15-20 package in a year to multiple different countries, this new law is crippling me! There absolutely should be an exemption for small private businesses so we can exist as well! Kind Regards. From the Owner and Only employee of the small [name removed].

Ladies and gentlemen, the new EU Packaging Regulation (PPWR) destroys the business basis of my online shop and therefore poses an acute threat to my private existence. I am a taxpayer, a family father and a citizen of Germany, and thus a citizen of the European Union.

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The environment needs to be protected, but this regulation does not consider the reality of small businesses that sell on platforms like eBay or Etsy. These businesses don't have the resources or sales volume to meet the demands of the regulation. Creating an exception for businesses that sell under a sales threshold (in number of parcels or amount) would be more appropriate.

As the owner of a small, one-woman spiritual shop, I strongly oppose the disproportionate burden that the new PPWR and EPR requirements place on micro-businesses and independent makers. The lack of a meaningful de minimis threshold for cross-border sales means that even the smallest businesses will be subjected to separate registration, administrative requirements, fees and other compliance obligations in multiple…

As my company is very small (2 persons GbR), we are already extremely small packers and only use cardboard and send between 0 and 10 parcels to the different countries outside Germany within the EU, unfortunately this regulation goes completely backwards. We cannot afford the licences for most of the Länder and are thus repressed into the borders of Germany.

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I strongly support reducing packaging waste and holding businesses accountable for the environmental impact they create. However, as the owner of a micro-enterprise trading across the EU, I am deeply concerned that the implementation of the PPWR and EPR obligations is fundamentally disproportionate and risks seriously damaging small cross-border businesses.

I am a small one person bussiness owner. But I have to work a second job to keep me and my business afloat. I can not afford to pay 15000 every year, when I don't even make that of my little bussiness. Moreover, it is the same amount of money o gigant corporation with millions in revanue every month. Only I make a few shipments in a year and they make thousands every single day.

**Feedback on the proposed rules for national registers of producers under the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation** I support the objective of reducing packaging waste. However, I strongly believe that the proposed registration and reporting obligations should not apply to micro-enterprises and very small businesses whose environmental impact from packaging is negligible.

I am a small business that is already struggling to earn a living. I do not have the means to pay to send across the European Union. In addition, we will pay the bins every month as an individual. We are already paying to recycle our waste. And we send most of the time to individuals. This becomes too complicated when micro enterprise status had to be simple. I am alone in my business

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I understand the core purpose of this law, but right now it is effectively blocking entrepreneurship in the EU, especially for micro and small businesses that want to grow. No small business has the starting capital to pay 300 to 1,500 for every single country they might ship to. It is simply impossible. For someone in Poland, this translates to several thousand PLN, while our median salary is around 5,000 PLN.

This new set of rules makes it hard to scale small businesses in niche markets with little monthly transactions, so that new jobs can be created, bigger investments can be realized. Please make the rules applicable without imposing barriers to EU citizens. This regulatory setting is only helping big associations that can afford to increase prices on microscale.

It makes sense to encourage more recycling and significantly reduce the use of packaging materials with harmful environmental effects. However, this regulation does not go in the right direction. An EU regulation with national registrations is a contradiction in itself. It is not a good idea to regulate normal shipping boxes directly via the consignor.

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PPWR disproportionate burden for micro-enterprises I run a micro-business in the Netherlands selling jewellery online. I sell approximately 100 items per year in total to consumers across the EU. I fully support the goals of the PPWR: reducing packaging waste and improving sustainability.

This system is a disjointed, shambles, created by IDIOTS who have never ran a micro business. It is massively cost prohibitive, confusing, unfair when the chinese giants who pollute Europe have all the means and staff to be compliant. It unfairly effects sole traders, microbuinesses and SMEs of all sectors, it will directly cause your economy to fail, it will create unemployment, homelessness and suicides.

I consider this regulation to be absolutely essential in order to reduce the amount of waste produced by large distributors such as Temu, etc. But there is a difference to be made with SMEs, companies like us, which, even before the first package per EU country, have to register for Torres with each of the 27 EU countries, and the bureaucratic requirements that have to be met per country are too heavy for small…

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As a very small handmade business based in Poland, I strongly support the objective of reducing the administrative burden created by different national packaging producer registration systems across the EU. I sell handmade ceramics online to customers in different EU Member States.

We support the environmental objectives of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), but we believe the regulatory and financial obligations being introduced are disproportionate and should not apply to micro and small enterprises in the same way as they apply to large corporations. We are a Swedish company with four employees. We sell our products to customers and small businesses across the EU.

I am a self-employed micro-business owner based in Spain. I support EPR and responsible packaging waste management, but requiring separate registrations, reporting, fees and representatives in every EU country creates a disproportionate burden for small businesses. A small business may make only a few sales per year in a particular country, while compliance costs could exceed the revenue from those sales.

I am writing as a self-employed product designer and ceramic and glass artist based in Germany. I produce handmade, small-scale products and sell them directly to customers. Each year, I send only approximately 20-50 parcels to customers in other EU Member States, in addition to my domestic sales.

Good afternoon. Do you really want to have soon only groups like Amazon as international trading companies? This law puts small businesses at a disadvantage to such an extent that it is a scandal! Who should be able to afford an authorised representative for packaging in another country if he sends only two packages per year to that country?

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The PPWR in the announced version is not proportionate for micro-enterprises. The already small profits for micro-enterprises will be destroyed by this Packaging Ordinance. As a result, many micro-enterprises are faced with the question of whether they should continue to operate at all or whether they should stop operating.

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1. There should be a single EU database for registering companies, with a single fee for the whole EU, and now each country has its own rules and fees. 2. Fees should be charged only once to producers of foliops/boxes/labels, now the same packaging is taxed several times, and the retail client pays again for the same garbage at the end of the day. 3.

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As micro-enterprises, we fully support the PPWR’s objective of increasing sustainability, but the current design puts our existence at risk. Without pragmatic de minimis thresholds, the European Packaging Regulation is hitting us hard: The obligation to register, report quantities and appoint local representatives in each EU country of destination creates a bureaucratic and financial burden that small businesses…

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I am a small Dutch entrepreneur and sell my own card decks and books through my online shop and online sales platforms. My sales are mainly in the Netherlands and Belgium. I understand the purpose of the PPWR and consider it important that we handle packaging and packaging waste responsibly.

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Studio Koter is a UK childrenswear brand. We sell wholesale and direct to consumer into 12 EU countries. Four are wholesale markets. In the other eight we average 14 direct to consumer orders per country per year. Total turnover is around £250,000, of which roughly 25% is EU. Most of the EU revenue is wholesale, on margins already tightened by post-Brexit duties. Registration is per country, and that is the problem.

This legislation will single-handedly destroy thousands of small businesses (and countless dreams) in the EU. 1. Please exempt us small small business owners from having Authorized Representatives in each individual member country. It is a disproportionate measure for those of us who don't ship high volumes of packages to different countries and would be an enormous financial burden that most cannot afford.

What happened to the concept of a single Market: a border-free internal market where goods, services, money, and people move freely. These regulations put up barriers to trade within the union. They may be small barriers to big businesses but they are insurmountable obstacles to micro enterprises. Micro enterprises that bring these benefits to the economy.

I have been the founder of a small company in the field of home textiles since 2024. It was only a few months ago that I changed my mind: internationally, I wanted to win the European market for me. With the new regulation, this is hardly possible for me as a small label, as the first orders from Austria, the Netherlands, France and Spain, for example, arrive with me, but around 1-10 pieces, so I do not currently…

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The proposed EPR and PPWR regulation, in its current form, threatens the existence of micro-enterprises. It particularly affects a particularly vulnerable and at the same time vulnerable economic group: traditional crafts as well as the many creative small businesses led by women and FLINTA (Creative Woman/FLINTA-owned Businesses).

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I am a sole trader running a small 3D-printing business in Germany as a secondary occupation. I manufacture custom parts and prototypes, often as one-off orders or very small quantities. One of the things I value most about the EU Single Market is being able to accept unusual small projects from customers throughout the EU.

The current rules are very unclear and unnecessarily complicated. As far as I can tell at the moment, the costs are too high for small webshops, making it no longer worthwhile to ship to neighbouring countries. On top of that, businesses have to register separately in each country and deal with different rules and systems. Surely this could be organised much more efficiently through one EU-wide system?

We are a small business (leather goods) based in Berlin. Production and materials come entirely from Germany, we create jobs domestically and we strive to comply with all rules. Our shipment to other EU countries is minimal: max. 5 parcels/month to France, 5 to Belgium, no hundreds of parcels, as the rules actually require. Since the pandemic and crises, our economic situation has been strained anyway.

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As a small, owner-run online shop for textiles, I also rely heavily on my European customers. I can no longer afford to meet the conditions laid down and fear that this loss of turnover will make it impossible for my business to continue.

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I am a creative craftsman and I am the sole manager of a French micro-enterprise for the creation of handmade jewellery. I fully support the goal of reducing packaging waste and making businesses more accountable. However, the obligations laid down for cross-border sales are likely to have disproportionate consequences for micro-enterprises such as mine. My activity is very small.

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Hello. I am an entrepreneur and in the company I create various kinds of crafts of wood. Now that I am going to send these to other European countries, the new law will make it more difficult for me to send these goods as I will have to pay a fee per country. Of course, I think the environment is important and only use recyclable packaging materials.

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These rules are completely disproportionate for micro and small businesses. A business shipping a few kilos of packaging to another EU country should not face hundreds of euros in fixed fees, separate registrations and mandatory local representatives.

As a small second hand business I am all for recycling and sustainability. But as many others suggest this new law will kill so many small businesses. I would dare to say it will wreck the EU economy as we know it. It will completely destroy creative and sustainable businesses selling online. Large corporation will just pay their fee and keep polluting like they have always done.

Ladies and gentlemen I operate a small jewellery label in Germany. I have no employees, no legal department of my own and no 7-digit turnover. The new Packaging Ordinance has good approaches, unfortunately it hits small businesses like me disproportionately hard. How should my company grow, how should I continue to sell my jewellery if I have to make such a financial and bureaucratic effort on a single package?

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I strongly support the goal of reducing packaging waste and encouraging sustainable packaging. However, I am concerned that these regulations creates a disproportionate burden for one-person businesses, independent makers and artists. Small businesses may send only a few packages per month and produce only a few kilograms of packaging waste per year.

We are distributing laboratory reagents to research institutions, universities and pharmaceutical companies across Europe for cancer research. We have no private consumers and only place very small quantities of packaging on the market in each Member State often only a few kilograms of cardboard and plastic per year.

I have a small company with 4 employees Since 2023, I have had a solution for Austria that costs me around 150 a year. I also hide around 30 parcels a year there, which then makes a difference. In the rest of the EU, I send around 1-2 parcels a year. Customers often also send me parcels, where I make a baby carrier as they wish.

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We are a small owner-run company with three employees and around 1640 products in the range. Through our online shop, we sell products and accessories to customers in Germany and other EU countries. We support the objectives of the PPWR and the responsibility of companies for the packaging they place on the market. However, we are very concerned about the continuing national and very divergent implementation of EPR.

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I support environmental protection, but this system is completely disproportionate for microbusinesses. I am a sole trader sending approximately 1,000 parcels annually across the EU, mostly in simple cardboard packaging. Requiring separate registrations, reports, fees and authorised representatives in every Member State costs more than the profit earned from sales in those countries.

This new scheme is designed to protect the environment. But the fact is that this may have a big impact. In the case of our small individual fighters, who in any case look as little as possible at the cost of packaging, always use the appropriate carton and, for the most part, already used cartons, which in any case have already been licensed, the new law is a bureaucratic and financial monster which cannot be…

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While I fully support environmental sustainability, Regulation (EU) 2025/40 creates an unfeasible barrier for micro-businesses in cross-border B2C trade. Requiring an authorized representative and separate EPR registration in every single EU country is financially impossible for small entrepreneurs.

I run a small, one-person business in the UK. If this legislation goes ahead, from 12 August I will no longer be able to ship into the EU. As a small business, I have always used biodegradable and recyclable packaging and paper tape (with no plastic).

This new scheme is designed to protect the environment. But the fact is that this may have a big impact. The new law is a bureaucratic and financial monster for small traders who, in any case, look as little as possible at the cost of packaging, always use the appropriate carton and, for the most part, try to use used cartons which have already been licensed anyway.

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Ladies and gentlemen, as a self-employed artist and small entrepreneur, this law prevents me from continuing to sell in the EU. In fact, it is now easier to sell my artworks to non-EU countries than to my immediate neighbours. This is not financially possible for small businesses. This is more than bad and certainly not the purpose of this law. I very much hope that it will be revised again. (Complimentary close)

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Dear EU, As a small Spanish business that is about to launch its sales this month, the new law forces us to incredibly devastating amount of admin, compliance, and cost burden. Youre obliging us, micro businesses/ one person businesses / sole traders to go through the same amount of paperwork and obligations as big traders/corporations.

This regulation is disastrous for my micro-enterprise. I sell ceramics, formerly to all over the world, now that customs clearance has made it almost impossible to ship them to the US, the EU is also working to close the internal market. The quantities that I send are in a ridiculously low range. Perhaps 3 to 5 consignments per year per other EU country. A total of approx. 5-7 kg of cardboard and paper.

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While I do feel the importance to regulate the packaging waste with the increasing amount of shipped items, this regulation needs to be reasonable to the amount of packaging waste. Small and micro businesses from the A.R rule as it is disproportionate towards micro businesses. Or provide measurements that small businesses can afford.

THE COST OF PLENIPOTENTIARIES IS MANY TIMES HIGHER THAN THE PROFIT OF OUR FEW PARCELS TO FRANCE OR AUSTRIA. WE CALL FOR ALLOWANCES FOR SMALL FARMS: THOSE WHO ONLY SEND SMALL QUANTITIES TO OTHER EU COUNTRIES SHOULD BE EXEMPTED FROM EXPENSIVE FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES AND DOUBLE REGISTRATIONS! A SINGLE EU PORTAL + SIMPLER FORMS INSTEAD OF MULTIPLE INDIVIDUAL APPLICATIONS.

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I am the founder of a small, one-woman glass jewellery business based in the Netherlands, where every piece is handmade in my own atelier. Sustainability has been central to my practice from the start: I work to minimise the embodied energy in producing each piece, and I package everything using recycled paper, cardboard, and parcels collected from friends, family, and acquaintances.

This is unmanageable for small enterprises and will significantly affect the economies of all EU countries and trade between the EU and external countries. A more onerous and convoluted approach to business is hard to imagine. If the EU is about unity why not come up with a frictionless unified approach that actually makes business easier? Please re-think this it's crazy.

**Opinion on the Implementing Regulation on national registers of manufacturers of packaging (PPWR)** I operate a small online shop for handmade historical jewellery in Germany as a small entrepreneur. My products are produced by hand and sold in very small quantities. I support the objectives of environmental and resource protection and prevention of packaging waste.

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To treat all importers in exactly the same way is a total nonsense. Larger companies can easily absorb the cost of these fees whereas small and micro businesses simply cannot. As an artisan I personally rely on sending many products to the EU but now with the administration fees in each of the 27 countries this would be totally pointless.

Ladies and gentlemen, this regulation is an extinction of all Mirco and mini-holdings in the EU. I have been working on a board game myself for years and have invested all my savings. If this regulation is adopted in exactly the same way, I will simply not be able to sell my board game in the EU. Please reconsider this. Thank you, Stefan Ströbinger

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I run KnifeMaterial.at, a one-person webshop in Austria selling knifemaking materials to makers across the EU. From August 12, 2026, I'll have to register and pay fees separately in every EU country I sell to, no single EU-wide system exists. This could easily cost me thousands of euros more a year. Worse, many of my customers are small makers who buy my raw materials to build finished knives.

I was preparing to launch a one-person online vintage clothing business in Germany within the next few weeks. Renting a physical shop in my city is already unaffordable, so online sales are essential. I realistically expect to send fewer than 100 minimally packaged parcels in my first year. I am now unsure whether I can afford to launch at all. I have no objection to paying a proportionate recycling contribution.

I am a Danish micro-enterprise producing handmade jewellery in very small quantities and selling directly to consumers online. I fully support the objective of reducing packaging waste and ensuring that producers contribute fairly to the cost of collecting and recycling the packaging they place on the market.

I am an independent contemporary botanical artist based in Luxembourg, operating as a micro-enterprise within the Greater Region, where cross-border sales are part of everyday reality for a small operator. Environmental responsibility is already central to my practice. My creative work focuses primarily on locally sourced botanical matter, and I recycle the organic waste generated by my activity.

Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to thank you for enacting laws to protect the environment. Nevertheless, it is not important to treat all companies equally. Small businesses or, like me, self-employed women live on the fact that we have customers within the EU. Honestly, the EU also lives on the exchange of goods and services between us.

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As an EU-based micro/small enterprise selling e-commerce products, I strongly support the ecological goals of the PPWR and product circularity. However, the current framework mandating separate national registrations, fragmented reporting formats, and localized Authorized Representatives creates a completely disproportionate administrative and financial barrier.

I have a little Shop that I'm trying to get off the ground since last year and I had plans to expand my portfolio quite a bit. It's a one person side hustle with the wish to go full self employed one day. But I probably have to close down if this stays the state of the law. I don't have an income to speak off and can't just buy a licence for every country I might send to in the future.

This initiative, in its current form, will kill small and micro-businesses operated by creatives and craftspeople. The fact that the proposed law does not meaningfully distinguish between companies like Amazon and a one-person creative business sending just a handful of orders per year to support a hobby or be a small source of income is a grave oversight.

I am writing as a very small, independent artist and business owner based in the UK who sells handmade and illustrated products directly to customers in the EU. I fully support the environmental aims behind the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation.

While the idea of reducing waste from large companies is well intentioned, the way it is being implemented right now is absolutely devastating for small and micro-businesses. Small and micro-businesses bring at least a little joy to everyday life, and they have a much greater cultural importance than many people realize.

I am a small business in the United States who is highly affected by the PPWR & EPR regulation changes. I have many customers in EU countries who purchase and collect plushies that I create and sell. Small businesses like myself cannot afford the costs, and consumers in the EU will no longer be able to purchase from small businesses outside of the EU.

I am an artist and run a very small business in Germany. Like many other artists and small businesses, I sell my products on a very small scale and sometimes have customers from other EU countries. I understand and support the goal of the PPWR. Reducing packaging waste is important, and I am happy to do my part.

I have been running a small business for 15 years, and it has provided me with a good living. However, the new Packaging Regulation is preventing small businesses like mine from continuing to grow. As a small business, I cannot bear the costs and administrative burden of appointing an authorised representative in every EU country, as well as fulfilling registration and reporting obligations.

Generally, I love this idea. It's great and I for my company I buy all my boxes and plastic from certified and traceable producers. I mostly also reuse all of my packaging, which is even better, BUT why do I have, as a tiny one woman business, to register my company for being able to send parcels to all EU states? I ship, at max.

I'm an EU citizen and this new law literally makes it impossibe to sell my products within the EU. I'm a handmade seller from Spain and sell my products to other countries. Yearly I have 10-50 orders/country in the EU, and sell at least to 12 countries. I work alone, have no employees. My packaging waste/county is 1-2 kg/year.

Feedback on the EU EPR Regulation I fully support the PRINCIPLE of EPR and the objective of reducing environmental impact. HOWEVER, the current country-by-country EPR requirements place a disproportionate burden on small and medium-sized businesses.

I am a small business based in the UK, and I have been trying to provide EU shipping for my Etsy customers for about a year now. The changes to GPSR have already made this an extremely difficult, expensive and admin-heavy task, so I have been researching thoroughly and working to find an EU representative so that my business can be compliant.

I am a micro business who depends on intracommunity purchases to create my products, and I prefer to support fellow small businesses. Being from a small island nation, I fear suppliers and small businesses will stop shipping to my country because of these initiatives, further isolating us. It would also gravely limit the ability to grow into neighbouring EU markets, as the cost would far outweigh the potential gain.

We are a small Austrian company selling craft supplies and creative materials to customers across the European Union. We fully support the environmental objectives of the PPWR. However, the current country-by-country system for EPR registration, reporting, licensing and authorised representatives creates a disproportionate administrative and financial burden for micro and small businesses.

Dear European Commission, I fully support the goal of reducing packaging waste and making packaging more sustainable. However, I am concerned about the impact of the new Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) on micro and small businesses. For large companies, additional registrations, reporting requirements and compliance obligations may be manageable.

As good as the intentions of this law may be, it will ruin small businesses. In potentially 27 EU countries, one should pay a packaging commissioner, who should be able to afford it? The large companies pay this incidentally or in any case have branches there, but my annual turnover/profit does not make this worthwhile and I can stop selling abroad directly.

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Disproportionate bureaucratic burden threatening the livelihood of small businesses and micro-enterprises The present rules on national registers of producers under the Packaging Ordinance (PPWR) go far beyond the objective. In its current form, the requirements for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and micro-enterprises are simply unaffordable.

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Hello. I do understand the reasons, and goals, of such an initiative. A thorough management of waste, recycling, haardous products, is long time needed. Really, I do. However: The way it is implemented will kill small businesses. Pure and simple.

Hello, it is a regulation that makes absolutely no sense. All those involved in trade are affected from the smallest to the largest. I sell on ebay and it is my main activity that I do about EUR 20 000 in CA over a year, with your measure I will have to pay more than EUR 2 000 to continue selling in EU countries that accounts for 40 % of my turnover. 10 % of my turnover for what?

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Feedback on EU EPR Requirements for Small UK Businesses Selling to EU Consumers I support the objectives of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) and understand the importance of ensuring that businesses contribute towards the collection and recycling of packaging waste.

This regulation is the death of small online shops and the end of freedom of exchange between the countries of the European Union. Where the EU should be a force that supports its small entrepreneurs and the talents of their countries as well as their business power through a privileged system, the EU decides to make trade impossible, blaming micro-enterprises for costs that can only be covered by large companies.

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I am a part of a small bussines in Greece, selling mostly on online markets, as our own market is very limited. Even though we see the goal of reducing waste and we align with it, we strongly believe the means to do it are very disproportionate when it comes to the impact created for micro businesses.

This proposal is another example of EU regulation becoming increasingly detached from the reality of small and medium-sized businesses. For a small company such as HAPA Design, selling products across the European Union should be one of the main benefits of the Single Market.

I am concerned that the proposed requirements for national producer registers under the PPWR place a disproportionate administrative and financial burden on small and micro-businesses. A small business selling relatively low volumes of packaged products across several EU Member States may be required to register separately in multiple countries, appoint authorised representatives where applicable, pay registration…

Ladies and gentlemen In addition to the costs and the fact that, as a small online trader for spare parts for bicycles, we have to stop international shipping to most countries, which is painful and may lead to job cuts, the biggest hurdle is the administrative burden involved. We have around 8000 spare parts in our range. In other words, we need to collect the data from all our suppliers on each item packaging....

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The Single Market is broken for small creators. It is now easier, cheaper and less bureaucratic for an independent artist to ship a parcel across the globe than to send a letter to their neighbor within the European Union. The Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) was meant to make big polluters pay.

I am not registered as a business, but I sell my physical media such as music cassettes, tshirts, vinyl records, and this will seriously compromise any sales. This whole legistlation seems to be designed for big ugly corporations like ebay and amazon to monopolize even more and undermine independent small vendors who are just trying to sell their music and art.

I run a small British business. I've sold into the EU happily for years, and from 12 August this legislation ends that. Not because I don't care about packaging waste, but because the way you've built this makes it impossible for a business my size to comply.

Without a derogation for micro and small enterprises and a proportional increase in costs based on the amount of packaging, this Regulation undermines free access to the European small trade market. In its form, this Regulation is not feasible for a large number of small enterprises and leads to a significant loss of turnover.

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This regulation has been constructed in a way that subverts a core advantage of EU membership - the open market, for a large % of EU entrepreneurs. As of the introduction of this regulation, it is now an easier and less involved process for an ecom business to ship an order to a non-eu country, than a fellow member state. This can only be described as laughable.

We have an online shop where we produce and send designed clothes. The new Packaging Regulation poses incredible challenges for small businesses such as ours and makes it impossible to continue to exist. The cost of red tape for sending to individual countries significantly exceeds profits. We sell well below 10 parcels per year to individual EU countries.

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This rule is simply not sustainable for small businesses. The idea that a small company needs its own authorised representative in each EU country to which it sells is completely disproportionate. Such a requirement does not promote the European single market, it creates new borders within the EU and makes cross-border trade practically impossible for many small traders. Please do not implement this rule.

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As an artist living in Germany, I sold my art to approximately six different countries during the last twelve months. I will now have to stop selling to European countries as the administrative and financial burden of individual registrations, flat fees, and compliance reporting in every single country completely outweighs the revenue from small-scale sales.

This law is a travesty! It penalizes small entrepreneurs who are the backbone of the European economy. This law establishes heavy commercial tariffs and will render void many businesses built over the past 2 decades. It effectively ends free trade for all but large multinationals, many of them from overseas.

My current understanding is that to ship to another EU country I must pay a representative in that member state to verify my packing. For a small company who has to sign up for this it would cripple our business.

I am all for tracking the supply chain for the packaging that we use but this is an example of a truly European bureaucratic act that really doesnt help anyone. it will create more cost for the consumer in an already challenging environment for no real benefit suppressing enterpreneurship and risk takig seems to be the goal of the EU

The law seems to be more relevant for bigger businesses. Many smaller businesses or freelance workers and artists can be heavily impacted with the taxes to pay in order to have the right to ship packages in other EU countries where sometimes they only get to ship a couple of packages a year towards specific countries, and having to pay dozens of even hundreds of euros to be able to ship maybe 3 packages in one…

Since 2003, I have operated the German micro-enterprise Fly-Style Jewelry with around seven employees and sold jewellery and piercing items within the EU. I welcome the objective of harmonising national producer registers under the PPWR. What is crucial, however, is that it provides real relief.

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We are an organisation importing household goods and we wanted to sell across the EU. With the new PPWR, making us register in each of the countries we would like to sell to makes actually no sense, maybe starting from a certain volume that would make a bit of a sense. But you cannot make same rules for each company as there exists different types and sizes of businesses.

As a micro-business owner based in Austria, I fully support the European Union's efforts to enhance environmental standards and promote a circular economy. I am more than willing to pay my fair share for environmental compliance and fulfill my Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) in my primary markets, such as Austria and Germany.

This makes NO sense what so ever as a law being equally applied to everyone right down to micro businesses. The administration and monetary burden on small traders and sole traders is totally disproportionate cost wise. Only companies like Amazon, Temu et-al can afford it. I've seen quotes of 6K + to register in all 27 member states and that is BEFORE we've even sold a single product.

I am one of many small businesses owners whose livelihood will be seriously put at risk with this law. It is unacceptable that it is easier and cheaper to ship all across the world than within the EU to our neighbours. All this will do is force consumers to purchase more and more from big corporations who are the primary polluters in the first place, as well as purchase from way further abroad.

Feedback on PPWR bureaucracy is holding back the European single market. The current implementation of the PPWR creates a lot of incomprehension and uncertainty for many traders. The OSS procedure already required businesses to pay their VAT correctly to the relevant EU Member States.

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Despite such lofty intentions as the reduction of waste and single use packaging this legislation will have a catastrophic impact on individual families and the wider economy. The administrative and financial burden for my business when I ship less than 100 orders per year to even my biggest EU market is simply untenable so I will no longer be able to sell to most other EU countries.

I support the environmental objectives of the PPWR and believe businesses should take responsibility for the packaging they place on the market. However, as a one-person micro-business based in Germany, I am deeply concerned that the current cross-border EPR system is creating a completely disproportionate burden for the smallest businesses.

These new regulations make it incredibly difficult for small and micro businesses to stay open. When they're the one that need the support from the EU, not the bigger companies. These regulations make it really expensive for small businesses to be able to send packages to neighboring countries. Because they only have a few orders in other countries.

I'm a UK-based micro business (sole employee) making & selling my own cosmetic products with a turnover of under £100k, and have always been pro-EU. I lost a significant amount of EU revenue post-Brexit, but have a few loyal EU customers who place occasional orders (amounting to a few hundred pounds per year in a few EU countries).

As the founder of a small sustainable business, I fully support the environmental goals of the PPWR. However, the current EPR implementation places a disproportionate administrative burden on micro-businesses selling only small quantities across EU borders.

I fully support the principle of extended producer responsibility and am absolutely willing to pay appropriate recycling fees based on the packaging we place on the market. My objection is not to environmental responsibility; it is to a fragmented and disproportionately expensive administrative system.

Good afternoon, although I understand the objectives of the Directive well and do not consider it wrong, this Directive places enormous pressure on small businesses in particular, both in terms of costs and administrative burden. I set up a business myself last year, together with two friends, and we are in the process of becoming established.

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I am a small starting business and the requirement to have a EPR representative in each EU country I ship to (from the Netherlands) means I need to stop selling to other EU countries besides the Netherlands. Simply because the overhead costs outweigh the revenue. This law will kill small businesses. Further the law is to complex and not environmentally friendly.

I am a ceramicist and own a small business in France. I regularly ship my products to B2C clients, resellers and galleries located in different EU countries. The adoption of this initiative as it is would make it impossible for me to continue shipping to my customers based outside of France in the EU and would mean stopping my ongoing wholesale collaborations with other EU businesses.

It is unacceptable to apply this regulation on the same scale to a multimillion-dolar business as to a small business that makes occasional shipments or handles fewer than 1,000 packages a month. Theyre going to put all of us small businesses that have managed to survive out of business. The European Union is supposed to be a free-trade zone.

Dear European Parliament, I am contacting you today as an independent designer and artist and micro-business owner. I would like to alert you to the dramatic, unfair, and disproportionate consequences of the new PPWR regulation and the multiplication of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) taxes on very small businesses (often making less than 12,000 in annual turnover).

Subject: In my view, the EU Packaging Regulation places a disproportionate burden on micro-enterprises Hello, ladies and gentlemen, and the new EU Packaging Regulation (PPWR) places a disproportionate burden on micro-enterprises, thus jeopardising market diversity, entrepreneurship and the free European single market. I strongly support nature conservation and environmental protection.

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The new rules of EU law on the Packaging Regulation are a huge problem for small shipping companies. We have been sending salt lamps and gift items mainly within Germany for over 20 years, but also occasionally to customers in Austria, the Netherlands, Czechia and other EU countries. In total, there are no 100 parcels per year, i.e. well below 100 kg of packaging material.

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As a small, one-woman business owner, I am extremely concerned about the PPWR packaging law plus the obligation to have a representative in every EU country. This requirement is financially and logistically impossible for a microbusiness, and thousands of small businesses will have to stop selling to countries in our own EU.

The Single Market is broken for small creators. It is now easier, cheaper and less bureaucratic for an independent artist to ship a parcel across the globe than to send a letter to their neighbor within the European Union.

Feedback on PPWR bureaucracy is holding back the European single market. The current implementation of the PPWR creates a lot of incomprehension and uncertainty for many traders. The OSS procedure already required businesses to pay their VAT correctly to the relevant EU Member States.

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Opinion on the planned EU Packaging Regulation (PPWR): Ladies and gentlemen, I operate a micro-business in Austria in the food-manufacturing sector and manufacture handmade cakes and cakes. I do not send goods myself within the European Union. Nevertheless, I will be significantly affected indirectly by the planned scheme. For my work, I rely on numerous specialised suppliers from other EU Member States.

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I am the co-owner of a small independent clothing brand based in Luxembourg. We sell finished garments online, including to customers in other EU Member States. I am extremely concerned about the increasing administrative and financial burden associated with packaging EPR requirements when selling across EU borders.

Hello, we are a small company from Germany and have so far sent goods to the EU internal market. Mainly France, Spain and the Netherlands. The new regulation forces us to stop shipping to another EU country because we cannot afford to have an authorised person in each country. In my view, it is very counterproductive, as we are effectively stopping trade in the EU’s internal market.

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Subject: Opinion on the PPWR from the point of view of a small business As a small business, we reject the currently planned implementation of the PPWR. In particular, the obligation to appoint an authorised representative in each EU Member State and to pay additional fees results in a disproportionate financial and administrative burden. The resulting costs are disproportionate to the returns in many countries.

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There needs to be some sort of exemption for small businesses, it will DESTROY small businesses in the EU if they have to pay to register with every country they send to! a lot of the businesses in my sector send all over the EU, but only a few parcels per year, and only small value items, how can we keep our heads above water if we have to shoudler these fees?

Cost-wise, this is simply inappropriate for small businesses. It goes against the idea of the European Union as a single market and of facilitating free trade across Europe. There should be one universal, proportionate system across the EU, with fees based on the actual amount of packaging or goods placed on the market.

Hello, I am the manager of a newly created small Belgian company, benefiting from the VAT exemption scheme due to its low turnover. I have just discovered the new packaging obligations applicable to sales in other Member States (via social media!). I fully understand and support their environmental objective. I am very careful not to overpack my packages and to use mainly cardboard and paper.

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This initiative will completely destroy small businesses. I ship between 1 and 20 parcels to each EU country every year but I am meant to pay exacty the same as big companies who ship thousands of parcels. That doesn't make any sense! I am based in France and for 50 parcels a year, I pay the same as a company that ship 9 000. I am registered in Germany and was paying for everything I ship there.

As a small mail-order trader (retailer, Austria), I supply customers in several EU Member States with small quantities of packaging, well below 10 tonnes per year. I would like to make the following comments on this draft: 1.

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I am a small, one person sewing business from Spain. I ship anywhere from 1 to 5 padded envelopes the size of an A3 paper sheet each month. This is my only source of income, and has been for almost five years now. EU packaging and EPR rules will make cross-border trade practically impossible for micro-businesses such as mine.

I strongly support the objective of addressing the excessive use of materials in packaging. However, I do not believe that the proposed approach is the right way to achieve this, as it places a disproportionate burden on microbusinesses and small retailers. Small retail businesses are already struggling with declining numbers of customers in physical stores.

This law is causing enormous damage to all artists and small businesses, as they have to pay to send even one parcel for each country. We are forced and shut down part of our gain because it is unsustainable as most of us have few orders a year and every order has an average value of 10. Imagine having to spend hundreds of euros per country and then send us 1-3 parcels a year.

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Dear Sir/Madam, As a self-employed worker, who sells online in various marketplaces and on his own website, especially within the EU, and after having reviewed the regulations and spoken to several SCRAP companies in several European countries to find out about the costs of a representative in those countries, etc., I find the regulations contrary to the European common market, as self-employed and small businesses…

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Hello, as a micro-entrepreneur and creator, I would like to submit this official opinion on the critical impact of the Packaging Regulations (PPR) and the future PPWR Regulation on micro-enterprises in the European Union. At present, the uniform application of extended producer responsibility (EPR) schemes imposes a disproportionate financial and administrative burden on very small craft and online traders. 1.

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Even by EU commission standards this one is utterly insane, and thats up against some pretty stiff competition! Like many comments here, i thoroughly agree with the aims of this directive, but as per usual the way it has been applied is ludicrously heavy handed and indiscriminate.

As a small owned business who strives for sustainability, these new measurements have an incredible impact. I own a vintage clothing shop, and I provide my customers with second hand tote bags with their purchases in my physical shop. However, when it comes to shipping abroad, I often opt to reuse carton wine boxes from restaurants and so fort, these orders always come with a small written note and wrapped in paper.

We have already stopped direct shipments to other EU Member States because the administrative and economic costs for small quantities are no longer acceptable. The new PPWR structures exacerbate this problem. A simplified declaration of quantities of less than 10 tonnes does not eliminate the crucial fixed costs.

Filed in German · English published by the European Commission

I run a micro business dyeing yarn with plants. I ship to countries across Europe, I collect and pay VAT to the respective countries. I am only one person and do not have the resources to understand and implement the new packaging rules which means that I effectively have to stop shipping my goods to other countries. I ask for simple, collective rules for micro businesses and a place to get help.

I am a mail order trader (under 1 million annual turnover, 2 employees) and am shocked by this rule. I have 2 main markets (Germany and Austria). I also supply the other 25 EU countries. These are the issues at stake here. None of these 25 countries has a significant turnover, but all together account for a significant proportion of my company’s turnover.

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I do not see a point in this law and it need a major discussion with all parties involved before being applied. Bringing thousands to close their little business will only favor a few big companies who will actually don't care for that law. Did people really thought this one through ?

I fully support the EUs environmental objectives and the need to reduce packaging waste and promote sustainable packaging. However, I strongly believe that the PPWR risks placing a disproportionate and potentially unsustainable burden on micro-enterprises.

This directive going live will effectively kill our business within the EU. We're a small band selling merchandise (shirts and records) to fans in Europe and outside, and these new regulations have effectively caused us to stop selling merchandise to EU countries effective immediately.

Im a designer and illustrator, and I currently run a micro business where I also sell my own creations. Im planning to develop a new line of merchandise and branding, but regulations like this are making it increasingly difficult and demotivating to continue growing as a small business owner.

I am a small business owner based in Belgium, and I am writing to raise a serious concern about the compliance burden the PPWR places on small and starting businesses. As it stands, PPWR requires me to register separately in all 27 member states, and pay registration and reporting fees in each of them, simply to demonstrate that my packaging is compliant. For a business my size, this is not a manageable cost.

I am a small business owner from the Netherlands, who illustrates and designs her own products. Because of the mandatory EPR registration fees and cross-border bureaucracy, this law would make it impossible for small independent businesses like me to sell across EU borders. Besides the enourmous paperwork, the costs are exponentially high for the little packages I sometimes sent to another EU state.

I run a small business in Sweden selling foraging supplies, outdoors gear and art. I've been looking into setting up my online store at svampskogen.com, but I've realized that the new EPR rules make it impossible for me to ship outside of Sweden. I'd have to pay several hundred euros for every single country I'd want to ship to, as well as file individual reports, to cover recycling costs on the order of cents.

I find this regulation absolutely ridiculous. I have a small business running here in Germany. My packaging has been all recyclable and reusable since i started. THIS REGULATION SHOULD BE APPLIED ONLY FOR BIG COMPANY WHO CAN AFFORD IT!! I hope you can understand

The new requirements impose a considerable additional administrative and financial burden on us as micro-enterprises, in particular as a result of differing requirements in individual EU countries. In the case of small consignments, some of these costs and costs are disproportionate to the turnover. Consequence: We must stop shipping to EU countries for the time being.

Filed in German · English published by the European Commission

As a small Dutch webshop owner, I support reducing packaging waste, but these rules are disproportionate for micro-businesses and make cross-border EU trade unnecessarily difficult and expensive. Europe should encourage consumers to support small European businesses and buy closer to home, not create barriers that push them away. Please introduce a simple EU-wide system or meaningful threshold for micro-businesses.

As a small business owner in the UK, I agree with the principle of these legislations, however, their execution has been ill considered and is going to damage small business both in and outside the EU. The cost for small businesses having to register in each country with the added cost of hiring a representative in some locations is too prohibitive for many of us to continue selling to the EU.

this regulation discriminates against small business and is anti-competitive. Small businesses would be required to use a disproportional amount of their revenue to comply and a significant administrative burden due to each country having different and unclear processes. This also goes against the principle of the single market.

As the owner of a small business dedicated to promoting certified organic cotton products, with care for the environment at its heart, of course I'm supportive of packaging rules intended to promote less plastic etc. However, the practical outcome of this bureaucracy is that it will stifle small business activity into and around the EU, and small business is often the driving force of change for good.

I have a small business as a side business in Germany and sell homemade jewellery online via the Etsy platform. So far, I have also sold my jewellery in other EU Member States. I expressly support the environmental objectives of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation.

Filed in German · English published by the European Commission

While we appreciate and support the spirit of this policy, it fails to recongnise the realities and capabilities of small and micro businesses. This will, without a doubt, result in a significant increase in limitations for existing and new business trading within the EU, and further opening the door for non-EU commerce.

As an enterprise operating within the EU single market, we fully acknowledge and support the sustainability objectives of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR). However, the practical mechanics of establishing producer registers separately across multiple member states present severe operational and economic frictions for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

I oppose the planned implementation. For smaller traders and manufacturers, the burden of registrations and settlements in each country is completely excessive. Many traders will have to stop their EU transit operations. An EU-wide solution would be needed.

Filed in German · English published by the European Commission

As a small/medium-sized enterprise, we generally welcome the objective of harmonising extended producer responsibility schemes across the EU and creating uniform formats for registration and reporting. A single procedure can indeed help to reduce the current patchwork of 27 different national requirements.

Filed in German · English published by the European Commission

This law will not effectively serve to minimise waste. The fee for representatives is a pittance to any company that could realistically be causing waste on a grand scale, but is condemning small, upstart businesses to death, especially artists such as myself.

I have a teeny tiny business with hand dyed yarn. I dye it naturally so of course I am all for having biodegradable or recyclable packaging and not using more packaging than necessary. However, the bureaucracy of this whole process and also uncertainty and in no small part the cost is unbearable for small businesses like mine.

I run a very small stationery business in Lithuania and sell lightweight products such as postcards, stickers and paper goods directly to customers across the EU. I fully support the principle that businesses should take responsibility for the packaging they place on the market.

Hello, I am self-employed and sell my products through Etsy and b2b platforms. That is what I can live on ok. I am also a single mother and I am very satisfied with what I do and how I can spend this time as a mama. Now PPWR arrives tomorrow. It is difficult that hardly anyone understands in detail what is actually changing. There is little communication and uncertainty.

Filed in German · English published by the European Commission

My feedback is that this will destroy small businesses who are already attempting to be environmentally friendly, and give more power to Temu, Shein, Aliexpress and so forth. As a Norwegian micro-business of one person, I cannot feasibly cover all the costs of registrations, representatives, and paperwork.

I have a micro-enterprise and handmade products that I sell through an online platform. Although EU shipping only concerns a small proportion of my turnover, my customers in 5 EU countries will unfortunately have to give up my articles from 12 August 2026, because, in the case of 25 parcels per year to 6 other EU countries with a turnover of less than EUR 1000, I will simply not be able to meet the expected costs of…

Filed in German · English published by the European Commission

Hi, I am a small business owner from the Netherlands who is shipping very low quantity orders to other countries within EU. My works for launching a new brand that will increase these shippings to other EU countries was ongoing, but this new law makes it so much harder to make this new business feasible.

The PPWR, which will enter into force on 12 August, de facto excludes small businesses from the EU’s single market. Registering for 27 national packaging exemption systems and appointing almost the same number of notarially certified authorised representatives is not reasonable in terms of cost or time.

Filed in German · English published by the European Commission

I would like to start my feedback by saying that I see a need for legislation, and for producer responsibility. But as I see it, it creates unfair barriers to trade for small businesses. As a small business, it is extremely difficult to understand which pieces of legislation meet and legal aid is difficult to obtain if incomes are low.

Filed in Swedish · English published by the European Commission

This law is imprudent and disproportionate. It is simply not possible for small traders who send only individual parcels abroad to bear the costs and red tape. Derogations are needed for micro-volumes (5 parcels per country) and a single centralised registration for the whole EU! Similarly, there is a need for exemptions for small quantities of packaging material in Austria far below the flat rate of 1.5 tonnes (!).

Filed in German · English published by the European Commission

Subject: Disproportionate impact of packaging producer registration requirements on individual artists and micro-producers. I am an independent artist who sells occasionally an original artwork to a customer in an EU Member State. I fully support the objectives of reducing packaging waste and ensuring that producers take responsibility for the environmental impact of packaging.

Dear EU legislators, I understand and absolutely support the need to reduce packaging waste, especially plastic, but this new legislation is a nightmare for micro businesses. If a small maker who wants to sell some hand made stuff to a few hundred customers a year, to any country in the EU (not wanting to limit the scope of their market), they'd have to go through the hoops of registering and tracking separately for…

This law is imprudent and disproportionate. It is simply not possible for small traders who send only individual parcels abroad to bear the costs and red tape. Derogations are needed for micro-volumes (5 parcels per country) and a single centralised registration for the whole EU! Similarly, there is a need for exemptions for small quantities of packaging material in Austria far below the flat rate of 1.5 tonnes (!).

Filed in German · English published by the European Commission

Reducing waste, increasing recycling rates and protecting our enviroment is more important than ever. As a small business owner, I already make sure to reduce waste, I recycle every packaging material that I receive from suppliers, I exclusively buy packing like cardbord boxes that has been produced with as much recycled material as possible.

To Whom It May Concern, I run a small, one-person business making handcrafted wood-turned pieces and handmade notebooks, and I'm writing to raise a concern about the upcoming Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation. I understand the reasoning behind it, and for large companies shipping thousands of parcels a day, it makes sense. But the reality for someone like me is very different.

Understanding how to avoid packaging waste – this rule completely ignores the purpose of the matter! Here, the distinction between EU countries is being pushed forward, and certainly not harmonised trade between countries. For large companies, this may not be an issue, but all small to medium-sized companies are airborne. It is not ‘only’ about paying the enormous costs.

Filed in German · English published by the European Commission