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

I am a French artist-author running a very small micro-business. I sell original paintings and art prints online to customers in different EU Member States and outside the EU. I fully support the objectives of the PPWR, including reducing unnecessary packaging, limiting empty space and improving recycling. My shipments already use packaging adapted to the size of the artwork, with very little or no empty space.

These new rules risk placing a disproportionate administrative and financial burden on thousands of small businesses across Europe, particularly in the creative, artistic and handicraft sectors. Many of these businesses are microenterprises, often operated by a single person who is responsible for every aspect of the business: creating the products, production, marketing, sales, accounting, customer service…

Hello, I am an artist/author and sometimes I sell my works with appropriate packaging, which I send all over Europe and sometimes outside Europe. For the time being, I have not generated any profit from these sales. I try to amortise the costs of setting up a “business”, knowing that they accumulate every year (need raw materials, repair my equipment, etc.).

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Unfortunately, this new law on packaging is missing out on my goal! It disproportionately affects small businesses and makes it impossible for them to sell their products in the EU. As an artist, I bear the same costs as Amazon, OTTO, Zalando and CO, which are responsible for this huge package effort and free returns! My pictures are packed and sent 1x wisely, that’s what it was.

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I totally understand the need of such a regulation as it is a lot of waste. However, the burden admin and cost for small business is just not possible. This will be killing any small business trying to have a living sending few item into Europe. Small business should be exempted of this regulation. They already try their best to be cost efficient, using smallest parcel as possible and with recycle material in mind.

I oppose the current approach to cross-border EPR compliance for small and medium-sized businesses. I run a small business that ships parcels across Europe. We fully accept that businesses should contribute to the costs of recycling and packaging waste. The problem is not the contribution itself, but the way it is being implemented.

This regulation risks turning the EU internal market into a market where millions of micro-businesses can realistically sell only in their own country. A one-person business might make 30,000 a year, pay all its expenses and barely pay itself a living wage.

I operate pocket-manufacturing in Germany and sell through an online marketplace. I send 100 parcels per year to 10 other EU countries. My turnover from these countries is EUR 8900. I expect to pay EUR 3400 per year for registration and authorised representatives in these countries. Because the fixed costs exceed the profit from my foreign turnover, I have completely stopped shipping to other EU countries.

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I am a micro-entrepreneur in France and I manufacture and sell homemade jewellery in very small quantities. I understand and share the objectives of the PPWR: reduce unnecessary packaging, improve its recyclability and empower businesses. But when I sought to understand my obligations, I was faced with regulation that was difficult for a very small business to understand.

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I have been a sole trader since 2009 and I have been self-employed in online sales with my own productions in the sector of sewing accessories. The packaging laws of recent years had already prevented me from supplying many of the EU countries (e.g.

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I support the European Commissions objective of harmonising Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) requirements across the EU. However, as a very small independent manufacturer selling products directly to customers across Europe, I am concerned that EPR compliance can still create a disproportionate administrative and financial burden for micro-enterprises.

The regulation as it stands right now puts small and micro EU businesses at a significant disadvantage and is not compatible with the freedom of movement of goods within the EU. A minimum threshold for registration and AR obligations, as well as a harmonisation of fees and processes needs to be implemented ASAP. Ideally, registration would be harmonised at an EU level similar to the OSS-system for VAT.

Hello, my name is Patricia and I run my own small business of handmade polymer clay art in Portugal. I've been building my online business over the past 4 years and it has become my full time job 3 years ago. My customer base is 100% EU based. I regularly ship to multiple EU countries. I work completely alone. The new regulations mean for me that I have to close my business completely.

I am a Swedish citizen with sole proprietorship in Norway. Though Norway is not technically part of the EU, they follow almost all regulations put in place. If Norway is considered a country outside of EU for this regulation, then this will negatively impact me regardless.

As the owner of a small online shop, I am writing to draw your attention to the disproportionate impact of the EU Packaging Regulation (PPWR, Regulation (EU) 2025/40) on micro-entrepreneurs like me. 1. As a micro-enterprise without a legal department, I cannot afford an authorised representative required for distribution to other EU Member States.

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How are any micro/small businesses/organizations be able to work with all the legal obligations on reporting all of the required documents? The packaging waste limits are defined in above and below tons, and that is towards massive companies who can play by the rules for having enough money for it already. It's not a problem for them, but everyone who works in a lot smaller scale it becomes a full stop.

Making small businesses pay nearly 7k a year in processing fees for recycling is nonsensical and goes against what the EU is trying to do in regulating waste. Small businesses have been struggling since COVID to get back up on their feet. I propose having one unified fee for extremely small micro businesses and larger ones for larges businesses that can simply soak up that fee.

Feedback on the rules on national producer registers (PPWR) Threat to the existence of micro-enterprises in cross-border cultural trade. As owner-run, independent record and merchandise dealers and concert organisers from Germany, I would like to express my urgent concerns about the current implementation of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) under the PPWR.

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I am a one-woman independent fashion business based in Germany, and the EU is my main market. I do everything myself, I have no legal, compliance or logistics department to handle complex regulations in every Member State. The new PPWR/EPR requirements would not only mean registration fees in multiple countries, but having to appoint a representative in every EU country I sell to.

I recently founded a small coffee e-commerce business in Austria, and I would like to provide feedback on the implementation of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) requirements from the perspective of a new micro-enterprise. First, I would like to acknowledge the positive intention behind EPR legislation aiming to ensuring that environmental costs are accounted for.

Feedback submitted on behalf of ZENAE s.r.o., a small ceramics studio in Bratislava, Slovakia (micro-enterprise, founder-run). I fully support the environmental objectives of the PPWR and of extended producer responsibility. My studio was founded on sustainability and responsible craftsmanship handmade ceramics, minimal packaging, local production.

As the operator of a passionately run small online shop for action figures, I must urgently warn against the devastating impact of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR). For small merchants who have built their customer base through years of hard work, this regulation is practically impossible to implement and threatens our very existence.

I am an independent artist and designer based in Portugal, running a small business producing handmade, limited-edition ceramic works. I sell my pieces both directly and through international platforms, including to customers in other EU countries. I fully support the EU's environmental objectives and the reduction of packaging waste.

Dear European Commission, I am an independent artist running a small handcrafted business with low product quantities. I am writing to express my concern regarding the proposed rules for national registers of producers under Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR). Many of my friends and colleagues are in the process of closing their online shops, at least for the EU market.

As a small undertaking in the secondary sector, it is organisationally and financially impossible for me to meet the requirements of the new Packaging Ordinance. Employing and appointing a packaging agent for each EU country would ruin me. I will therefore stop deliveries to other EU countries from 12.08.26.

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Hello, I am an independent artist who starts selling my creations in the European Union. Being a small business fr, beginner and not having many sales, the PWR/REP legislation makes it almost impossible for me and other colleagues and friends to start.

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How is it possible for a small business to be able to operate within the European Union? We make a few kg of waste per year, in shipping material, to our customers within Europe. We are not giants of billionaires, with branches spread across Europe. We are just a small business lucky enough to be able to operate an e-commerce shop in the 21st century. It makes no sense for small volumes to pay so much.

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I am a small business owner/artist focused in selling my illustrations and other art based products and this mandatory EPR registration fees and cross-border bureaucracy make it impossible for small independent businesses to sell across EU borders. I come here to ask you for a de minimis exemption or a simplified One Stop Shop system for micro-entrepreneurs so this won't kill our businesses and growth prospects.

Since free trade is a core principle of the European Union, this new regulation goes directly against everything the EU stands for. As a small business owner, this means I won't be able to ship throughout the entire European Union anymore. We will lose so many small businesses with this regulation, and I feel like this regulation wasn't meant for them.

I am a retailer from Germany with a small brick-and-mortar shop and an online shop. I have 3 employees and our economic prospects for the stationary retail sector are rather bleak. Online business is another way for us to remain in business. As we send floristics and produce just in time, we cannot plan to send them to EU countries, nor can we include the registration licences in any way in our prices.

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I wonder why the EU is working on this for such a long time without considering small businesses. It will create chaos and uproar (and who wants that?) Thousands of small independents will go down and the potential buyers do not even understand yet that they won't be able to buy anymore! WE ARE EUROPEANS AND THE EU PUSHES US TO STOP SELLING IN EUROPE ??

In fact, it was a good thing: I was also able to send a small shop to all EU countries without any problems – ‘just like this’. That’s what the EU stands for. Now the effort is no longer worthwhile, so we have limited our dispatch to Germany. Outcome: Customers from other EU countries are now angry with the EU. Presumably, therefore, one does not have to be surprised by a certain anti-EU sentiment.

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I am writing about the new PPWR rules. This scheme is a wonderful and important step towards less waste and more sustainability. Unfortunately, in my opinion and in the opinion of many self-employed artists, you have missed the target. As a result of this new regulation, they are destroying the livelihoods of mostly small and micro-enterprises in Europe.

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This is an absolute destruction of what the EU stood for, being an open trade amongst countries. You have effectively ruined not only the art community by destroying any chance for any small artist to sell their art as prints and other handmade goods. But you have effectively ruined any and all independent businesses who are already environmentally conscious.

Day, I think this will be an impossible scheme for small craftsmen, the packaging is not a problem, but paying extra to send to other countries in Europe is a bit too much, I myself as a craftsman have up to 2 orders per year from France and then I have to pay 80/jaar as a Belgian craftsman, this means that the open borders within Europe are closed for craftsmen with a web shop

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I am a small business based in Austria. Due to this new regulation I will stop shipping EU-wide and reduce it to a couple of countries. Why? Because I can not handle the administrative burden and expenses to get a representative and report to every country individually. The environmental benefit of my exit is nil. My customers will buy elsewhere, packaged elsewhere, shipped in the same materials.

We fully support the environmental objectives of the PPWR and the principle that businesses should take responsibility for the packaging they place on the market. We welcome the Commission's efforts to harmonise registration and reporting formats and the simplified reporting proposed for producers placing less than 10 tonnes of packaging per year on a Member State's market.

Creating a uniform system to do more in the field of packaging to protect the environment is a great thing. But then it should also be uniform. This systematic mistake on the part of the EU puts a huge strain on SMEs across Europe, especially, of course, those operating across borders. The new PPWR creates unnecessary costs and time for both entrepreneurs and public authorities.

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I have been a small business since 2022, and from day one, that the sustainability and environmental impact of the entire shipping chain is considered and mitigated. From recycled and savoury cardboard packaging, non-customised product packaging, and order design designed to use as little material as possible.

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I operate a small handmade business in Germany and sell through an online marketplace. I send parcels to 150 other EU countries in 2025. My turnover from these countries is EUR 3200. I expect to pay EUR 2100 per year for registration and authorised representatives in these countries. Because the fixed costs exceed my turnover abroad, I have stopped shipping to other EU countries. This draft is under REFIT, i.e.

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If you decide to implement such a useless and impactful rule, you should make sure that: 1. Everyone knows about it 2. Knows where to find information 3. What is expected per country and how to arrange it. 4. Where to find support from an official government organisation. I found out about this rule on TikTok of all places.

The proposed harmonisation of national producer registers is a welcome step, particularly for companies operating across several EU Member States. However, a common data format alone will not be sufficient to reduce the current administrative burden. Companies still face different national requirements regarding the scope of information, packaging categories, reporting procedures and supporting documentation.

This is a ridiculous initiative, undertaken by people who have not been elected by the taxpayers! Yet again, you are doing everything to weaken European economy and kill small businesses! Meanwhile China, India et all, will still over produce plastic and polute like theres no tomorrow!

With great concern, I have looked at the planned PPWR rules and the associated costs for businesses over the last few days and weeks. As a co-founder of a very small start-up, I am far from being able to afford the licensing and representation fees and must therefore immediately place my online shop for all EU orders outside my company’s headquarters, which significantly prevents me from scaling up and makes it very…

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I own Plückefinken, a small company from Germany. We develop and sell household textiles and parpetery through our own online shops to private customers and retailers. Our annual turnover is around EUR 300.000. I support the objectives of Extended Producer Responsibility. In Germany, I am registered in the packaging register and share my shipping packaging in a dual system.

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This Regulation is being implemented absurdly. For small and medium-sized enterprises, it effectively excludes them from the internal market. Shein, Temu, etc. thank the EU and the national alleys for not sending us anymore within the EU from 12.8.

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The proposed rules on national producer registers in their current form represent a huge financial burden which is simply not sustainable for small and medium-sized enterprises. What is intended as a tool to better track packaging responsibility is in practice becoming a costly bureaucratic patchwork that hits precisely those companies that have the least financial reserves to bear these costs.

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Good morning, I would like to stress very strongly that the new PPWR is impossible to implement for small, creative businesses. Impossible, because the amount of administration, the fees to be paid per year per country, the contact persons to be arranged per country – it is in stark contrast to the value and turnover of our creative products.

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I strongly support the aim of reducing packaging waste and improving recycling across Europe. However, I am deeply concerned that the current approach will disproportionately damage creative businesses, micro-businesses, independent makers and other small enterprises. Small businesses like mine are not the problem these regulations are intended to solve.

Opinion on the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) Threat to the existence of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) Honourable Members, as owners of a family business with a long tradition, I am writing to you today with great concern about the cumulative impact of current EU regulations, in particular the new Packaging Regulation (PPWR).

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Hello, I have a small 3D Printing business and I paint miniatures as comission for both I ship parcels to all around the world. Now with the new rules I have to pay so much money to deliver a few parcels to small eu countries? How can it be that the small business has the same costs than huge companies. How should I continue my work?

I strongly support the EUs goal of reducing packaging waste. However, as the owner of a very small, one-person business, I am deeply concerned that the PPWR and its implementation may threaten the viability of my business. The costs and administrative burden are disproportionate for small businesses.

Unfortunately, the new rules are a disaster. We are completely stopping shipping to the EU, as the costs incurred are no longer proportionate to the turnover. There would be enough solutions: De minimis thresholds for small traders, e.g. What is more: Any packaging material I receive will in future already be licensed by the manufacturer, but only for the country where I am shipping (Germany).

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As a small business owner in the Netherlands, these new rules will be detrimental to my ability to function in the EU. I am a full time artist, one person operation, and I ship less than 6 packages to most of the EU member states per year. I cannot afford the packaging registration or representative fees for the majority of them, as the costs would exceed the revenue I make from these locations.

This ruling is going to absolutely ruin my small business. I ship a small number of games and pieces of art to customers (100-1000 max per year), and am literally going to have to shut down my store now as I cannot afford to pay the proposed rates for different European countries. Many of my friends and colleagues are in the same position.

Honourable Members, I am a small businessman and would like to draw attention to a problem that affects many small independent companies. Mandatory EPR registration fees and additional red tape when selling cross-border within the EU make it practically impossible for many micro-enterprises to sell their products to other EU countries. For many, this legislative change would remove the ground under the feet.

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Apart from the usual trouble small businesses encounter with your new PPWR rules, I have to add another problem: As a painter I cannot comply with the demand of max 50% empty space in the box. People buy my canvases stretched on wooden bars, they want the art ready to hang, without them having to find a profesional stretcher where they live (not a common thing to find in not-big cities).

Environmental matters are increasingly important, and I fully understand the need for EPR regulations. However, applying the same requirements to a one-person small business and to a multinational company such as Amazon is neither realistic nor proportionate.

As a sole trader shipping various small products to several EU countries, this rule is an absolute presumption. How can I afford it all? The entire organisational effort is in itself an encouragement for small businesses. But the real problem is the costs involved. This is not sustainable and will cause businesses like me to suffer or to give up altogether, as shipping is no longer expected.

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I fully support the goals of the European Union to reduce packaging waste, encourage the reuse of packaging materials, and create a more sustainable circular economy. As a small business owner, I am also concerned about the environmental impact of packaging and want to be part of the solution.

These new rules are effectively banning small companies from selling into other EU countries. For us, our internal market is no the only place in the world where we cannot legally do trade. These rules must be changed as soon as possible so that small businesses are still able to conduct their business at all.

Hello, I have a small business in Germany and the new PPWR Regulation hits me hard. I have to stop all shipments to all EU countries except Germany, as I cannot afford the costs of the licences and agents. This is also the case for many other small businesses, which are the ones most affected by this rule.

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I am writing to you about the effect the EPR system is having on small and micro business who may only be sending out minimal packages per year. I myself am a micro business owner who produces around 15kg of packaging waste per year, and sends out about 12 packages per month.

What kind of bureaucratic weakness is this PPWR? Is the Commission currently not listening to the rise of thousands of small and medium-sized traders who are bearing the costs of this PPWR? —... And this refers not only to the costs of the respective packaging licences and their notarial authentication, but also to the many small ancillary costs involved: — for the person responsible for the waste management of…

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As a small business, we have already completely eliminated non-recyclable materials from both our products and transport packaging. We therefore support the objectives of the PPWR. However, the current implementation risks imposing a disproportionate administrative and financial burden on micro and small enterprises.

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I don’t give my consent because I am a micro-entrepreneur selling my handicrafts where I don’t send parcels, as I send cartons are already in use. My shipments are small and the cost would be higher than my income. I already have charges in my home country and I am engaged in undeclared activities.

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As a micro business, I'm one person running my entire shop on top of a full-time job. I do not have a legal team, nor do I have unlimited funds to register in every country. The current proposed PPRW is comprised of confusion legal jargon (as evidenced by the various posts with misinformation circulating) Additionally, the requirements for a micro business like my own, or a multinational like Amazon, appear to be…

I have a small business and it would make no economic sense to continue supplying other EU countries if the administrative burden is more costly (in particular by the authorised representatives) than the actual costs of packaging disposal, especially as it is not yet clear whether the recipient disposes of or re-uses the cuverts or cartonboard.

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As the owner of a small enterprise, I welcome, in principle, any attempt to standardise the registration and reporting obligations under Article 44 of the PPWR. However, the current draft harmonises only the format of the notification. It does not change the underlying structure of the national registers, the obligation to register in each Member State and the related subsequent costs.

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To the EU staff who drafted this law, has any thought been given to the consequences that the introduction of these rules will bring for small businesses? I have been the owner of an online shop selling sustainable products for 17 years. For all those years, I have taken the recyclability of my boxes and shipping bags into account when packing my orders.

As a dress designer/ maker I will be forced to shut down my dress business because of this new regulation. For example, I make and sell dress, which cost 30Eur, to Belgium. It happens once per year. And then i sell dress to Netherlands which happens 2 per year. So now i have to buy licence to send to two countries and they will cost me more than 1000eur for both. All 3 dress will cost 90eur.

I am just one person running a micro business. I there is a few EU countries I only ship one order a month to. I simply cannot afford all these fees to support those countries. The need to have a representative is making me have to withdraw from the EU market entirely

I am an artist and small business owner and I am writing as one of the many micro-enterprises this draft act will affect most. I support the aim behind it. Packaging waste is a real problem and producers should take responsibility for what they put on the market. But this regulation is built around how large corporations operate.

Although a good initiative, by not making a distinction between big corporation/large businesses and small/micro businesses this does more economic harm than good. Having to find a legal representative and pay them along with the annually fees, that quickly amounts to thousands of euros.

I'll start by stating that, as a woodturner, my livelihood and passion depend upon the sustainability of our forests and environment. I support every single initiative that would reach this goal. However... current regulations, coming into effect tomorrow on the 12th, with regards to the EPR's PPWR lack the nuances necessary to differentiate between corporations and micro-businesses like mine.

Please stop madness! We are a very small vinyl shop in Berlin (revenue 4000 per month). We send out about 10 packages per month(!) to EU countries. This is a tiny amount. These new regulations are an incredible burden to small businesses throughout the EU. Please, rethink these regulations, they will destroy the European economy even further.

I am the owner of a one-person business – my earnings from handicrafts, which I build up to pay high ZUS taxes and income, are alive. The new rules on shipments entail huge red tape and costs for a very large number of small businesses, like myself, which do not have lawyers’ facilities!

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I created my micro entreprise almost a year ago now, and i have only started running my business about 3 months ago. Needless to say i have yet to make my first sale as getting the publicity and customer trust needed to run a business is a long process.

The basic initiative is very good, but administrative implementation is a nightmare, especially for the smallest companies, which will not be able to pay the costs. It is also too complicated and a single site with all the steps to be taken for each country concerned would be much simpler than having to find out about each country’s platforms and have different mediators each time as well.

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As a UK based small business I am shocked and severely concerned at the proposed registration and fees attached to the PPWR Initiative. Whilst I understand and fully support the initial idea of helping to promote greener business practices regarding packaging and the recycling thereafter (many of which small businesses were already doing themselves without needing to be regulated), the fees for each individual state…

I am a Swedish micro-business owner running a small handmade business alongside my regular employment. I create and sell sewing labels for people who sew and make their own clothes. I fully support the environmental goals of the PPWR and the principle that businesses should take responsibility for the packaging they place on the market.

These new regulations will strangle small businesses like mine, whereas large corporations (who create the vast majority of packaging waste) will be easily able to absorb the various costs and continue as normal. All of my packaging is already plastic free & recyclable, which costs me more to buy in than the cheaper plastic based options. There should be exemptions for small businesses eg.

I am a small business owner in France (micro-entreprise status). I sell hand-sourced vintage and antique objects to the EU, UK, and USA. I use 50% recycled packaging and allow customers to group items over time in their orders to make as few shipments as possible. I take sustainability seriously and do my best to make good decisions for the planet in both my personal and professional life.

For years I have been saying I figured out a way to have a small scale farming business without the need of any European funding money and built this up completely by myself and my family. The key to success was the availability of internet so we could sell straight to the consumer, taking out the distributor, agent or any inbetweens taking a large cut of the profits need to feed my family, pay taxes and basically…

The new Packaging Act is the corporate death of all micro and small businesses, as the de minimis threshold can no longer be financed. No micro-entrepreneur, such as an artist for Beispuel, can afford to pay an authorised representative for the possible intra-European sale of a picture or product in each country and register in advance for a full year.

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As a solo artisan and registered independent creator based in Belgium, I am writing to express my deepest concern regarding the practical implementation of the PPWR and EPR regulations across the European Union. For individual creators and micro-businesses operating with extremely low volumes, the current decentralised system is a major barrier to the EU single market.

The new packaging rules force small businesses to reduce the reach of products within the EU. As a company with very specific products, it is very challenging for us to continue operating economically with sales in fewer countries.

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To the European Commission, I am writing to provide feedback on the proposed rules regarding national registers of producers under the new Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR). I am a one-person business based in Portugal, and I was looking forward to launching my business across the European Union. However, as currently designed, the registration requirements will make this impossible.

I own a micro business based in Germany and I manufacture Eurorack modular synthesizers. I occasionally have 1-2, or even zero orders to certain countries in the EU. These new rules would require me to either pay insane amounts to a 3rd party company (up to 275 EUR per year per EACH country I want to be able to sell to) just to be able to sell to the rest of the EU.

Points I would like the EU Commission to reconsider: * Disproportionate burden on micro and small businesses: PPWR/EPR requirements can impose disproportionate administrative and financial burdens on individual creators and micro-businesses selling only small quantities. A business selling a handful of packaged products per year should not face obligations designed for large retailers.

I am writing to express my serious concern about the implementation of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) from 12 August 2026. As a small business owner selling products across EU borders, I find the administrative and financial burden created by these new rules completely disproportionate. The European Union constantly promotes the Single Market and the principle of free movement of goods.

I am writing to you because I fear that the new packaging legislation within the EU will be the end not only of the EU single market for small businesses like mine, but maybe even the end for my business. I ship approximately 600 packages worldwide each year. Of these, about 40% go to other EU countries, with the remainder split between third countries and Germany.

Totally unrealistic and non-economic for small and sole proprietorships. We have stopped shipping to the EU and we need to find a way to register easily and easily with the previous packaging registration without legal advice and centrally a small company with 20 to 30 parcels across the EU.

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I am against packaging waste and therefore I am very mindful of everything I use for packaging my ceramic pieces (and I need a lot of packaging since the pieces are fragile). Everything I use is being reused. I collect boxes and bubble wrap that otherwise would be thrown out from local shops and use them for my packaging. If I need to buy something, I use only paper and cardboard.

I am a mentally disabled person who is unable to work regularly, that's why I started to sell my art as a registered self-employed, so that I can make my own money without my family needing to support me. It had its ups and downs but overall it has been going well, I even paid for my own domain to host my sticker shop at. I put maximum of 300 GRAMS of paper and plastic packaging PER YEAR, into each country.

This new legislation has a negative and destructive impact on small artisanal producers who very often ship only a few packages to certain European countries throughout the year. It is unsustainable for us to pay 200 or 300 euros or more, as is the case in France, where it is required to appoint a local legal representative.

I fully support the European Union's objective of reducing packaging waste and improving recycling. As the owner of a small independent business based in the Netherlands, I believe we all have a responsibility to reduce our environmental impact. My concern is not with the goals of the PPWR, but with how it is being implemented for micro and small businesses.

I am an independent musician managing the merchandise store for the band Scherbentanz. While I fully support the EU's environmental goals, the current Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) creates impossible financial hurdles for micro-enterprises and independent artists.

Ladies and gentlemen, as the owner of a small family-run vineyard, I would like to express my concerns about the implementation and practical implications of the new EU Packaging Regulation (PPWR). In principle, I support the objective of making packaging greener, conserving resources and reducing waste. However, the practical implementation of the new requirements poses significant challenges for small businesses.

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I had to disable shipments across Europe, focusing solely on extra-EU sales. The European Union was created to unite countries and facilitate movement and trade; however, if red tape requires us to comply with fragmented registrations, obligations and costs for each individual Member State, the very principle of the Union disappears.

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I am a small independent business owner and creator selling products to customers across Europe. Mandatory EPR registrations, fees and the additional bureaucracy required for cross-border sales are becoming disproportionate for micro-businesses.

I strongly support the objective of reducing packaging waste and improving sustainability across the EU. However, as the owner of a micro-business, I find the current rules unclear, complex and disproportionate for very small businesses. My business is a small stationery subscription based in France. I send approximately 60 lightweight envelopes per month, mainly within France.

I am a breadwinner. I do not have any staff. I have a shop on Etsy and send parcels around the world, including to the EU. I send only a few parcels per month per country. All the parcels together give me an income on which I depend. If I now have to hire a repressive force per EU country, it is NOT profitable for many countries to hire a representative. I must therefore exclude those countries.

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I am a one-person artisan business selling small handmade products across the EU. I fully support environmental responsibility for packaging, but requiring micro-businesses to register, report and pay separately in every Member State is completely disproportionate when only tiny quantities of packaging are involved.

I would like to express my concern about the administrative burden that the current implementation of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation places on small and medium-sized businesses engaged in cross-border trade within the EU. I fully support the EUs goals of reducing packaging waste, improving recycling and reuse, and promoting a circular economy.

Small businesses are already facing incredibly difficult trading conditions, and the new EU shipping requirements risk creating another significant barrier to selling to European customers. I have already seen multiple small businesses choose to stop shipping to the EU because they simply cannot justify the additional costs, administration and complexity involved.

I have had to disable shipping across Europe, focusing exclusively on non-EU sales. The European Union was created to unite countries and facilitate movement and trade; however, if bureaucracy forces us to comply with fragmented registrations, obligations, and costs for every single Member State, the very principle of the Union is undermined.

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I am an owner of a small company who ships around 1000 packages a month around EU countries. In our scale I think that having a mandatory authorized representative in each country, and paying for that a lot more than the actual waste fees, will just result in us closing the shipping for most of the EU countries.

As a European citizen and owner of a micro/small business in the EU, I am concerned that the PPWR and its EPR requirements place a disproportionate administrative and financial burden on small businesses. Different packaging registration and EPR requirements in individual Member States make selling across the EU unnecessarily complicated.

For me, as a small and relatively new e-shop with around 200 orders per year from across the EU, this regulation is practically devastating. I understand the purpose behind it, but please consider introducing free registration in each country, together with some reasonable threshold or exemption for small businesses. I simply cannot be expected to pay the same fees for one 20 kg box as a multinational corporation.

We have just launched the world’s first patented, climate-neutral and fully sustainable space fragrance company (www.carbonrox.com). We use carbon capture in the home, completely eliminate plastic and all components are home-compostable or fully recyclable. This initiative will stifle our business. We had hoped to make the most of the EU’s single market for our growth.

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The objectives of the PPWR are important: Reducing packaging waste, promoting reuse and recycling, and protecting the environment. However, the rules must be proportionate and take into account the reality of micro and small enterprises.

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As the owner of a small EU-based business producing handmade design objects, I strongly support the environmental objectives of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR). However, the current Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) requirements risk placing a disproportionate administrative burden on micro-businesses.

As a medium-sized manufacturing company in the metal processing sector, we fundamentally support the objectives of the EU Packaging Regulation (PPWR) to reduce packaging waste and strengthen the circular economy.

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Hello, I am a 26 year old micro-entrepeneur, developing and making my own creative products. I just registered my business, and am about to launch my online store after months of preparing and investing in products and materials. I am devastated to find out about these developments that are starting from August 12th and onwards. This changes everything for me.

The objectives of the PPWR to reduce packaging waste, increase reuse and recycling and increase responsibility for packaging are fundamentally correct. However, practical implementation risks creating disproportionate bureaucratic and financial burdens, especially for micro and small enterprises.

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As a sole trader, I operate a small craftsmanship business in Germany and also sell my products to customers in other EU Member States. The different registration, reporting and EPR obligations create a very high administrative and financial burden for micro-enterprises, which, in the case of a few consignments per year, is disproportionate to the amount of packaging actually placed on the market.

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Hello, I'm contacting you regarding the new PPWR policy that will apply from August 12. I have a small business where I sell art, including original oil paintings and prints. I only make a few sales and ship a small number of packages per year. This policy could make selling my work in Europe almost impossible for me, and Im worried it could do the same for millions of other small businesses and independent artists.

As a micro-enterprise owner producing small, handcrafted jewelry, I am writing to express deep concern regarding the proposed rules for national registers of producers under the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR). My business operates on a small scale, shipping lightweight items packaged in small, recyclable cardboard mailers.

This scheme should apply to large undertakings which purchase and operate packaging as a system and which have significant turnover. Stopping shipments to EU countries is a serious blow for SMEs, especially the very small ones, and many are already announcing it. This rule is contrary to the principles of the EU and the underlying integration of the Member States.

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If we understand the objective of waste management, it is regulatory by generally applying it, it closes the door for small businesses like mine to make Europe a profitable and interesting market. It leaves it up to large companies to transmit literature in Spanish to other countries, as small and infrequent shipments would be at a loss.

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Although I agree we need to move towards being greener and sustainable everyday for the sake of our planet, this will completely kill the smaller businesses. The big multi million companies, which are the bigger issue, will still remain, but the small businesses that rely on import/export to stay afloat will suffer terribly. Please make an exception for the small businesses.

Hello, thank you for the opportunity to provide feedback. For small businesses and the self-employed, this new law is a death sentence. With my 3D printing service, I am limited to small quantities and small margins and cannot pay a high fee of sometimes several hundred euros per country, nor can I hire someone in the country if I sometimes have only a few customers per year in that country and the licence costs…

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𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗡 𝗟𝗘𝗧𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝗧𝗢 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗘𝗨𝗥𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗔𝗡 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗠𝗜𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡 Dear President Ursula von der Leyen, Jessika Roswall and Executive Vice-President Stéphane Séjourné , I fully support reducing packaging waste, recycling and Extended Producer Responsibility. 𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗸𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗼 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘂𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗻𝗼 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗳𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗨.

Im an independent artist and small business owner from Poland. At this point, I sell most of my work abroad, within the EU. The registration fees for the various systems are already high and, for a small business like mine, often simply not financially viable. The new regulations will make it impossible for me to continue operating, and I may be forced to close my business.

As an e-commerce retailer, I fully support the PPWRs goal of reducing packaging waste. However, the current practical requirements heavily discriminate against small and medium-sized online retailers in cross-border trade and threaten our very survival. I urgently request the European Commission to implement the following adjustments for the e-commerce sector: 1.

I find it difficult to summarise in a nutshell what I think and feel about this rule. We are supposed to have created the European Union, as its name suggests, to be united and we are less and less so. While understanding and sharing the basis of its creation (I am the first to reuse and recycle it to the unimaginable), this legislation is totally abusive and destructive of any micro- or small enterprise and throws…

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The EUs stated objective is to reduce bureaucracy and ease the burden on businesses. In practice, however, the opposite often seems to be happening: while procedures are simplified in one area, new obligations and administrative requirements are introduced elsewhere at the same time. I fundamentally support the goal of making packaging more sustainable.

For 12 years, I have designed and sold a unique product: jewelry inspired by scientific organisms and methods as gifts for scientists. When someone graduates with their PhD in science, friends and family come to my website to find a unique gift. The PPWR requires me to hire an authorized representative and register my business in every EU country.

I am the owner of a small independent UK business selling directly to customers, including a small but growing customer base within the EU. I want to make clear that we support the environmental aims behind the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation. Packaging waste is a genuine issue, and businesses should take responsibility for the waste they introduce into a market.

Not workable in practice for smaller webshops based in the EU to find out what to do on a country-by-country basis to be in order and, in addition, pay the related cost per country. Relatively often also unreasonably expensive minimum threshold. Appointing Rep. for several countries is too much of a bridge.

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I operate a small, one person mailorder company selling merchandise and records. The new EPR registration fees and cross-border bureaucracy make it impossible for me, and ALL small independent businesses to sell across EU borders. I demand an immediate moratorium on this legislation until a de minimis exemption or a simplified one stop system for micro-entrepreneurs has been implemented.

As a small business, I am very concerned about the additional administrative burden created by separate national packaging registration requirements. For a small company like mine, selling across several EU countries, complying with different national registrations, reporting requirements and fees is disproportionately complex and costly.

This legislation is only harmful to small businesses who make their bills off of selling to people within the EU, it hardly makes a dent in the big corporations that its meant to hit. This instead causes small businesses to have to cough up 1000s to try and sell to customers that have been purchasing from us for years.

I run a one-person handcrafted jewelry business in Berlin, Germany, selling directly to consumers (B2C) through my own online shop. I design and make the jewelry myself, handle my own photography, packaging, and customer service, and operate entirely without employees. Roughly half of my annual turnover comes from customers in other EU member states, alongside Germany.

Urgent Request for PPWR Postponement and Harmonized Micro-Business Exemptions. As a one-person micro-enterprise based in the EU producing handmade goods, I am writing to state that the current implementation of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) threatens the immediate survival of my business and thousands of similar artisans.

It took me 13 years to establish myself as an author. Thirteen years of writing, working, fighting, and slowly building a name for myself. Thirteen years to reach the point where readers know my books beyond the borders of my own country. There are a handful of EU countries where readers have ordered my books directly from me because they wanted something special: a book signed personally by the author.

We will stop EU transit because it is uneconomical for us to appoint an authorised representative for each country. The EU is a bureaucratic monster which has set itself the task of favouring Chinese traders rather than relieving the burden on its own citizens. I don’t need an EU, and if I’m going to vote, then I don’t need the EU.

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You publicly champion independent creators while quietly regulating them out of existence. As an independent artist, the new Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) has effectively forced me to block cross-border sales to EU customers. I want to be sustainable, but your regulatory framework completely ignores the economic reality of a micro-business and creates a massive administrative burden.

Hello, My name is Erica and I'm an artist. I am writing to express my disappointment and fears about your newest shipping regulations (EPR and PPWR). I imagine you don't care too much what a Canadian has to say about the EU policies, but let's be honest here -- art is meant to transcend boundaries like nationalism and borders. There is only one type of government that disagrees with that.

As a small business the so far implementation and lack of foresight with these regulations are hurting me immensely. I am a sole proprieter and even in the largest EU market I am in, I create less than 3kg of 'waste' per year. To be forced to register, do the upkeep, pay fees, and have to organize representatives for all the different countries is quite frankly, an insane request.

The rules of having to manage each country separately for small sellers will only ruin many micro online shops run by self-employed people. In my case, I have a shop in Etsy and I occasionally sell to different countries in Europe.

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I am a micro-business broker in France. I send around 200 parcels to customers in France and other EU countries, in second-hand cardboard packaging, of newsprint paper that I collect. In at least 20 EU countries, I send less than 5 packages per year. It is totally disproportionate to require a company like mine to register and comply with the administrative requirements of each Member State.

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I am an independent ceramic artist and micro-business based in Belgium. I may occasionally send a handmade ceramic object to a customer in another EU country, using a cardboard box and paper-based protective material. It is completely disproportionate to require a business of this scale to register separately and comply with administrative requirements in every Member State where a customer happens to live.

To the European Commission and Members of the European Parliament, I am writing as an independent e-commerce entrepreneur based in Portugal specializing in vintage and pre-owned goods. While I fully endorse the ambitions of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) to reduce waste, the current regulatory framework creates severe friction for micro-businesses.

I am Karlo Križetić, owner of Eligius, a very small independent business in Croatia. I design and manufacture products myself and would like continue to sell them to customers across the EU. Unfortunately, mandatory EPR registrations, fees and different national requirements make cross-border sales disproportionately complicated and expensive for micro-businesses like mine.

For us, small businesses, this can be truly catastrophic. I understand the need to regulate packaging and protect the environment. However, costs and a huge number of formalities are problematic and may prove disproportionate for small businesses.

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Hello, im a small business owner (creating art and selling it). with this new law for me and many people (friends of mine that also sell art online and live from it) its simply no longer possible to ship outside of germany (in our cases) anymore. please do not apply the same law for micro businesses as it is applied for big companys that make millions of euros. this new law literally kills all small businesses.

I am a small independent business owner, creator and customer in the EU and I am deeply concerned about the devastating impact the new EPR requirements are having on micro businesses. Mandatory registration fees, multiple national registrations and complicated cross border bureaucracy are making it financially and administratively impossible for many small independent businesses to sell across EU borders.

I am a French independent artist and micro-business owner selling my own art prints and original paintings directly to customers across the EU. I fully support the environmental objectives of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation and I understand the principle that businesses should contribute to the recycling of the packaging they place on the market.

This law is a serious problem for my small bussines and it will hurt it very much. I am an artist selling handmade puppets for performers for the last 10 years . I can not afford to register in 27 different countries and pay thousands of euros . As Europe already has an One Stop Shop for VAT , i am sure it could do it also for the EPR.

EPR requirements are making cross-border sales almost impossible for solo, micro, and small businesses selling handmade and artisan products across the EU. A small business may ship only a few packages a month and place just a few dozen kilograms of packaging on the market each year.

For small companies, this shouldn't result in a huge administrative burden. Other options: - The amount of packaging should be reported via OSS like VAT - Only have to be reported to the local OPR - Costs are included in the packaging like with electronic waste (verwijderingsbijdrage) - A fixed yearly fee is levied for small companies to ship across the EU that allows them to ship X kilos Small companies should be…

I am a small trader without an employee. The scheme costs me 40 % of my annual turnover. As registration and the associated costs are not profitable in all EU countries, I have decided to prioritise the whole process. I have registered my company only in the five largest EU countries.

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I am a French independent artist and micro-business owner selling my own art prints and original paintings directly to customers across the EU. I fully support the environmental objectives of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation and I understand the principle that businesses should contribute to the recycling of the packaging they place on the market.

Small businesses and micro-enterprises must be exempted from the country-by-country registration requirement by means of a de minimis threshold. The current draft creates massive, self-inflicted structural disadvantages which completely contradict the basic idea of the European Union: Instead of strengthening the European single market, the EU is building nonsensical intra-European trade barriers.

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I am writing as the owner of a very small plant nursery and producer in Croatia. Our business is a micro-enterprise with only two people, producing plants ourselves and selling them directly to customers, including a very small number of customers in other EU Member States.

I am a micro business based in the Netherlands. Ill have to shut down my business if I have to comply to the ERP registration fees for each EU country I sometimes ship to. It will cost me hunderds of euros per country, while I probably max ship 10 packages per country.

I run a small online stationery business in Ireland. I fully support the aim of reducing packaging waste, but the requirement to register and pay packaging compliance fees separately in every EU country I sell to is completely disproportionate for a microbusiness. Because of these costs and the administrative burden, I have had to stop offering delivery to customers in other EU countries.

How will a tiny one-person business manage to keep up with the cost that arises from this regulation? Are tiny businesses, that ship a few packages, the problem or the multinational giants that ship thousands or millions of packages? I am the owner of an one-person business and my packages must be as lightweight and small as possible otherwise the shipping cost increases dramatically.

My proposal for maximum simplification: The tax administrations of the Member States have at their disposal, through the OSS procedure, the sales made by a trader to the respective countries. It would be possible here to add a kind of small packaging levy in addition to turnover tax. This levy is passed on to a central body in each country. Benefit: Low burden for all parties involved.

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I'm asking you kindly to reevaluate the obligations of small and micro businesses in this regulation. I've tried over 2 months before this law came into affect to understand all the rules and comply to them to just find out that every day new information surfaced and even the countries themselves are confused.

I strongly believe that the new EU packaging and waste management requirements place a disproportionate financial burden on small businesses. Requiring every company, regardless of its size, turnover or actual volume of waste generated, to pay significant fees simply to be able to make shipments is unreasonable.

These requirements are disproportionate and unworkable for small and micro businesses selling products to customers across the EU. I run a very small handmade business in Ukraine and sell lightweight, low-volume products directly to individual customers in different EU countries. The packaging used for each order is minimal: a small cardboard box and paper.

Please change the law to exclude small and micro businesses from the A.R. rule, as most of us cannot afford to be paying all those fees per country for simply shipping a couple of handmade items. In some countries, we only get one or two sales, so paying as much as the giants who get thousands of sales is quite frankly insane to think.

Ladies and gentlemen, I have built up a small e-commerce business over the past five years. My customers live in different countries of the European Union and appreciate my offer very much. Many of them have become established long-term clients. However, the implementation of the PPWR now presents me with a problem that can have an existential impact on my small business.

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As a small business, we believe that companies with very low volumes of packaging placed on the market should not be subject to the same registration fees and administrative requirements as large companies. We do not ship or place large quantities of packaging on the market, and the costs of registering and complying with separate requirements in every Member State would be disproportionate to the small amount of…

As an artist, struggling to break even and survive, every further imposition of bureaucracy and administration is catastrophic. There are so many vital things to be done around big corporations abusing the people and planet. Driving micro-businesses out of the market is not one of them.

I am writing as a sole proprietor (micro-enterprise / ZZP'er) operating a small vintage and secondhand goods business in the Netherlands. While I fully support the European Union's environmental goals and the drive toward a circular economy, the practical implementation of cross-border Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) under the PPWR framework is forcing micro-businesses like mine to face an impossible choice…

These new rules on sending parcels within the EU are severely affecting small businesses, which may send to a country only once twice a year. It is completely unreasonable that we should have to hire a representative in each country. This kills small and creative entrepreneurs.

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I am writing to you as an aspiring small business owner who is currently starting up a new business and online shop, regarding the upcoming Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR). While I fully support the environmental goals of reducing waste, the current implementation of national producer registers without a uniform de minimis exemption (Bagatellgrenze) acts as an insurmountable barrier for my market…

I have always wanted to be in order for my individual business, so I opened an Italian VAT entry one year ago so that I can sell it regularly as e-commerce. I create adhesives, pins, prints and key rings and I am the only person behind this reality: managing bureaucracy to ship to 27 different states (in what is called the European Union) is particularly difficult for me, due to various factors.

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To whom it may concern, I own a small business in Germany hand sewing clothing that we send to customers around the world. Each order is packed with one piece of black tissue paper and then slid into a recycled cardboard shipping sleeve. We use no plastic in our packaging and already pay for the recycling of their very small amount of packaging each year in Germany through Ecopunkt.

First of all, a lot is unclear. The implementation is looking like a big chaotic mess and next week will be a dent in EU economy, trade and trust. There is no clear guideline. All countries have a different approach and micro-businesses dont have the capacity to deal with this. Not in manpower, not in funds.

As an EU citizen and the owner of a small European business, I would like to raise serious concerns about the practical impact of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) and the increasing national Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) requirements on micro-enterprises and small businesses operating across the EU.

I love that the EU is taking steps to make sure we can limit waste and recycle as much as possible in packaging. However, the new rules hit the smaller companies and artists, often without personel and already recycling and cutting waste as they can, extremely hard.

Hello EU staff, I can’t say much about this at all. We will once again implement all the new requirements. We will no longer earn money in the future. But you will probably not really be interested or think you are doing the right thing. Naja, we will sell our company as soon as possible (it doesn't have much value anymore) and then we will go to the USA.

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I strongly oppose the current approach to national producer registration and, in particular, the practical consequences of requiring businesses to comply with separate national EPR systems when selling across the EU. I am a small, Germany-based one-person business selling artwork directly to consumers.

Unfortunately, due to the new directive and the enormous expense and costs it entails, we, as a small business, have to stop shipping to at least 6 EU countries. The complexity of the process leads to small businesses giving up at this point, thus reducing the diversity of offers in the EU and limiting the possibility of free trade.

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Concerning the EPR packaging regulations coming into force 12.august 2026: Please think about an exemption rule for small businesses. I have been working self-employed as a solo artisan (historical millinery) for around 25 years, I have built a customer base all over Europe. I am aware of this beeing a nichè business but so far it has provided me with a sufficent income.

Hello, I’m an artist and I’m making it impossible for me to get stuck with this new law, and I’m also a reselling shop and a supplier to European designers. However, I’m no longer able to send them to France with this new law. I’m already doing this to reduce packaging in an ecological way by reusing second-hand packaging and avoiding over-packaging.

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Subject: Emergency of survival for European microcreators in the face of the PPWR Regulation and the cumulative EPR taxes. I would like to alert you to the dramatic, unfair and disproportionate consequences of the new PPWR Regulation and the multiplication of extended Producer Liability Fees (EPR) on very small structures (often with less than 12 000 annual turnover).

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While it is beneficial to hold businesses responsible, this will have a catastrophic impact on small independent businesses. The proposed fees will make it impossible for independent businesses to sell outside of their home country and therefore most likely no longer feasible to operate at all.

I support the environmental objectives of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation and the aim of making producers responsible for the packaging they place on the EU market. However, I am concerned that the proposed implementation of national producer registers may create a disproportionate administrative and financial burden for micro-enterprises and very small cross-border sellers.

Please stop taking recycling fees for packages that consist of at least 95 percent cardboard, paper or other environmentally unproblematic materials. Companies have to pay thousands of EUR administration costs, (Small companies cannot afford that), just to pay you a few cents of actual recycling fees per package.

As a bespoke costume and wig maker in business for 16 years, I urge the EU to grant a packaging regulation exemption for creative micro-businesses (<35k revenue) using 100% reused materials. I ship just 30 boxes per year globally, using exclusively salvaged cardboard boxes from local grocery stores and incoming online orders.

As a micro-SME operating an e-commerce shop in Lithuania, I am deeply concerned by the current design of the packaging registers under Initiative 15352. The European Union was founded on the promise of a unified economic space with simplified, standardized cross-border trade.

The packaging and waste rules currently established by the EU result in smaller businesses not being able to sell products to certain or all other members of the EU anymore. Labour as well as costs for a country specific representative are exceeding the revenue. The regulations totally favour bigger businesses and are opposing the general idea of the EU of free trade.

This has entirely ended my ability to send to the EU. Id just managed to be able to resend after GPSR.. The fact that every country will now need registration and a fee on top of everything else means that it is entirely impossible for me, as a micro enterprise based in the UK, to trade with my closest countries.

We are very grateful that the EU is making everything more complicated and this is what the thousands of traders are no longer sending abroad. I wonder what works for Idioten. But we do not support this and we will stop a service that saves 10 million litres of drinking water every year. You are breaking the little haemer, we are sanctioning you. So easy. We do not support this. I am sorry for the environment.

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I am a micro business circling around salfmade art, based in germany selling handmade prints and stuckerd directly to consumers in other EU Member States through an online marketplace. I fully support the objectives of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation and the reduction of packaging waste.

We run an individual and small business and sell our artistic products worldwide through our online shop. For a year now, sales have been falling everywhere, not just with us, because our customers around the world are already burdened with inflation and rising taxes and levies!

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Why do we need the European Union if youre going to do this? You will kill small businesses, and small businesses are the backbone of a healthy, growing economy. Why does America impose import tariffs while the EU does nothing? And why is China the problem? How many Coca-Cola bottles are imported into the EU every year? How many weapons are produced in Europe? Electric cars with their NICE batteries. Green Future?

We are a two-person, self-taught goldsmithing atelier in the Netherlands. We make everything by hand and sell handmade jewellery across the EU. We support the principle behind these rules: producers should pay for the packaging they place on the market, and packaging waste must fall. We are not writing against that.

It seems that lawmakers have not fully considered the implications this will have on small businesses and its owners, as social media is being flooded with small business owners in despair and panic at the thought of losing their customers and income.

am a micro-enterprise based in Spain selling handmade products directly to consumers in other EU Member States through an online marketplace. I fully support the objectives of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation and the reduction of packaging waste. However, I am concerned that the requirements for distance selling may create a disproportionate administrative and financial burden for very small businesses.

I am a sole trader in Finland and I have sold products made as part of my business through e-commerce. The packaging material I used has been recycled and as little as possible. The new law obliges me to limit e-commerce sales to Finland only, because as a small business I cannot afford to pre-pay compensation for packaging waste in all EU countries and to have country-specific representatives for my business.

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I ask you to make exceptions for micro and small companies from these new laws. Great that you want to harmonize the systems in the EU but you are effectively killing all small businesses that want so expand outside their own countries. Today I can't afford the fee in my own country and it is impossible for me to be able to pay fees to every country I want to reach.

I am the owner of a small business based in the Czech Republic, and with a few exceptions, I ship my products to customers in most EU Member States. However, in many of these countries, I sell only a few units per year.

Dear EC, I come to you as many other small business owners to protest against the outrageous packaging policies. You cannot put big corps in the same category as small businesses that sometimes rely on a single worker - the owner.

I fully support the goal of the PPWR to reduce packaging waste and to make businesses more responsible for the packaging they place on the market. However, the current implementation creates a disproportionate burden for micro-businesses and sole traders engaged in cross-border e-commerce. I am a self-employed artist running a very small business in Austria.

As a small business earning already less than minimum wage from the sales generated and from my translation business that has been practically destroyed by AI, I would like to express how much my family will suffer from this new regulation. Like most micro-businesses here in Ireland, where everything is so prohibitively expensive, we cannot afford paying more.

I am writing as the owner of Made by Maar, a very small Dutch creative business selling stationery such as postcards, stickers and bookmarks. I fully support reducing packaging waste and the principle of producer responsibility. However, the current EPR system creates a completely disproportionate burden for microbusinesses like mine.

Ladies and gentlemen, first of all, I would like to stress that I expressly welcome the objectives of the new EU Packaging Regulation (PPWR, Regulation (EU) 2025/40). Reducing packaging waste, improving recyclability and creating a single European framework are important and right concerns that I fully support.

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Hello! As a creator of a micro non-profit organisation this new law affects me in negative ways a lot. Requerement to have a legal representative in many counrties adds an unreasonable amount of additional expences that my company cannot manage. I dont get many orders from other EU countries, but if I have to ship something, I will have to pay an enormous amount of money, for 1 parcel.

I support the objective of reducing packaging waste and making companies responsible for their packaging. However, the new EU rules in their current form place a disproportionate burden on micro-enterprises and make access to the European single market more difficult. The problem is not environmental responsibility. Small online shops can and should also contribute to recycling costs.

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The law on packaging and shipments is absurd. The very principle of Europe is the movement of goods and people across countries. Having to pay to send craft products to an EU country goes against the very reason why it was created. Taxing small businesses and artists on their waste emissions is just as ridiculous when we see giants like Shein or Temu continuing to lightly pollute the EU (and the world).

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I strongly support the EUs goals of reducing packaging waste and improving recycling. However, the implementation of PPWR and EPR must be proportionate to the size and environmental impact of a business. A micro-business may send only a handful of packages per year to a particular Member State.

Your definition of a micro businesses doesnt go far enough. I have less than 10k turnover per year. The face that each country is different in terms of threshold and the fact there isnt a threshold for uniquely small businesses is shocking. Also the necessity of a representative is various countries within the 27EU is unmanageable for businesses like mine and millions of others.

I am writing as a small business owner in the EU to share how the new Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) rules are affecting us in reality. While I completely agree that we need to protect the environment and cut down on waste, the current system is completely unsustainable for micro and small businesses.

The decision has just been taken away from me, my shop is closed from today. It’s worth offering shipping options in the circumstances, so I could just give money away. This means that a small but not inconsiderable part of my income is lost. This rule restricts so many small businesses.

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You simply cannot apply the same rules to businesses of completely different scales. Small businesses, which are an important indicator of the health of an economy, have already been struggling for years with excessive taxes and the consequences of rising electricity and gas prices.

Feedback on PPWR implementation: Administrative burden and prohibitive costs threatening EU micro-businesses and handcrafters As an EU-based sole proprietor operating a small-scale, handmade retail business, I am writing to express severe concern regarding the practical implementation of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) and the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) requirements.

As an owner of small designer ceramic brand that sells through Instagram and Pinterest, this regulations changes my business dramatically. It is basically making to run my online store impossible. How would I manage to pay all the fees in each country? If I choose the way to work only with B2B partners, how would I promote my product to people online, who can not buy it from me directly? It doesn't have any sense.

I have worked hard for my small business for over five years, with many altitudes and depths, and at present I have only reached depths. Is there an ever-increasing number of stones on your way to stay afloat as a small, self-employed business?

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I am the owner of a micro-business established in the EU. We design and manufacture physical products in Europe and sell primarily B2B, with a small number of direct online sales to consumers across the EU. I strongly support the environmental objective of the PPWR.

Hello, I have learned about the new Packaging Directive, which will take full effect on August 12. I am micro organization with me as the only owner and employee, and I sell packaged goods online, so this directive applies to me as well. Since I sell these goods to many European countries, I need to register with the relevant authorities in each of these countries, which will issue me an EPR number.

The fees to be applied to every business defeat in order to be able to ship to countries within the EU challenge the very essence of the single market and disproportionately affect microbusinesses who greatly benefit from the ability to reach a large audience seamlessly within the Union.

The ERP and PPWR regulations are going to destroy small businesses. We do not have the means of a corporation, the legal team, the time to understand these regulations and make the changes accordingly. Im a micro-enterprise, but the threshold of 2 millions in sales is far from what I actually make. In a year, so far, Ive made around 1000 in sales.

I am writing to share how the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) packaging obligations under the PPWR will affect my business, and to ask the Commission to reconsider the level of burden placed on micro and small enterprises now that the broader suspension proposed for this category has been dropped by the Council. Oh So Vintage is a one-person antique and vintage resale business, registered in Belgium.

I operate a small family winery on the Moselle and sell some of our wines directly to end customers in Germany and other EU Member States. I find the planned or required national registration and reporting requirements for cross-border direct sales particularly problematic. For example, a small vineyard can send only a few parcels per year to a specific EU country.

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Hi, my name is Anna Rogowska and I am a micro business owner in Poland, selling handmade macrame pieces online. I strongly support responsible packaging and recycling, but the current EPR system places a completely disproportionate burden on businesses of my size. I sell only a small number of items to most individual EU countries each year.

Hello, this PPWR law has a terrible impact on small businesses and creators. JAI a micro company where jai lopportunit denotes my creations abroad, very often places orders from Belgium and Switzerland, and unfortunately I should close orders to these countries because of all the burdens that this would cause.

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I set up a tiny jewellery business that currently processes under 50 orders a year a year and a half ago. I have now had to suspend orders to the EU from Ireland because I cannot afford a representative or fees for what could be none or very few orders internationally. I am waiting to see what Ireland comes up with on August 12th to see if my business will survive at all.

I am a small 1person business, or rather, an independent freelance artist and musician. I sell my own shirt designs, cds, vinyl etc. my biggest clientel is in the EU. I barely get by with paying my bills as an artist as it was.

I am an independent artist. I regularly ship my art prints within Europe. They are an essential part of my small business, which I run completely on my own. It appears these new rules would make it impossible for me to have a viable business. The cost of having representatives and complying to all the rules would be completely excessive and unaffordable for me.

I am a small business owner, sending under 100 packages of handmade goods a year to the EU. Although this is an insignificant amount, the new bill will have a huge impact on my livelihood. I ask for micro and small businesses to be exempt from the AR obligations. I ask for the harmonisation of registration requirement across the EU or exemption of very small businesses from registration.

I am a sole trader from Scotland and this has entirely killed my ability to sell anything to the EU. I simply do not have the money nor the bandwidth to deal with 27 individual sets of rules and mixed costs. I am one person on a very thin profit margin so losing all sales to the EU is a huge blow, but continuing is just impossible!

Im a small business owner who sells across EU. You are embarrasingly out of touch. I dont want my union run like a corporation like Trumps US, but I also dont want it run by witless bureacrats. Either make it into a single registry or exclude small businesses. Ive registered in DE and FR since long before, but now 25 more countries and I have to pay several hundred euros for a representative in each?

I am a Spanish artisan that always tried to defend green policies, but this new packaging laws are absolute nonsense when applied to micro-companies and freelance artists, artisans and sellers. The amount of paperwork and extra costs are causing projects like mine to stop shipping to most parts of the Union.

This new law will kill small family businesses and will make large companies even richer. You are making local handmade items and art unavailable to EU customers. Chinese goods will take over. As a weekend woodworker I was happy being able to sell my crafts all over the Europe via Etsy marketplace.

The idea of a Single Market is that European companies should be able to operate across borders without facing unnecessary administrative obstacles. A system that requires separate producer registrations in multiple Member States moves in the opposite direction. For smaller businesses in particular, this can quickly become disproportionate.

- Disorganised: If the EU is serious about recycling, repurposing, etc., why is this program not streamlined like the OSS? - Waste of time: Our customers are dispersed all over the EU. How are we supposed to know each and every requirement of every country (counting language barriers) if we are not given the proper links and rules up front?

I am a very small independent artist and sole trader based in Germany. I sell my own artwork and prints directly to individual customers, often in very small quantities. For businesses like mine, the current and proposed packaging compliance requirements for cross-border sales within the EU are extremely difficult to manage.

Im a small volume seller from Germany. This directive completely ignores small and medium businesses. Having no threshold for small businesses nor alternatively a centralised European entity for taking care of package licensing is just killing off small businesses to favour large businesses. For example: To ship to Austria, the smallest packaging licence fee is for 1,5 tonnes of material.

To Whom It May Concern, this new regulation is shocking to me and many other SMEs considering the additional burden it puts on them, especially due to there being no way for this to be organised across all EU states at the same time. This means that the administrative burden is incredibly high, causing many SMEs to not even want to ship to the EU anymore.

As a micro company sending only a few parcels in the EU per year and already respecting the use of only recyclable packaging, this will greatly affect my turnover. I would therefore like to ask you for less drastic measures for all small businesses, which do not have the capacity to pay a benchmark in each country for only a few items. Thank you.

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These measures will make sure that I cant sell my goods across European countries as a European business owner, because I cant afford the fees on my own. Ive got a small business and this will make expanding my company impossible. Please reconsider this for small businesses.

I'm a small creative business person working in Holland and have been selling all over the world for 42 years but on a small scale. Maybe maximum of 200 packets per year. Recently things got a lot tougher because of US import duties. Now its going to be totally impossible to sell to other European countries. How can a small business organize and finance local representatives in every country?!!

Hello, the new European PPWR law on packaging seems to me to be very unequal, particularly towards micro companies and independent artists. As an often individual entity with very small profits, it is extremely prohibitive to oblige them to comply with legal obligations designed for large companies as they obviously do not have the same means.

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I operate a very small German online retail business ‘FatLavaVasenVintage’ and have so far supplied consumers in other EU Member States as well as in countries outside the EU, in addition to Germany. I expressly support the environmental objectives of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR).

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As a one person business, I am extremely concerned about these regulations because, in their current form, they make selling across the EU impossible for many small creators. Every country has its own thresholds, registration process and pricing. We are talking about several hundred euros just to register in one country, even if we only ever send one or two small orders there.

Although I do understand wanting to minimize waste and packaging in the EU, this new legislation is not sustainable for small / micro business owners. I hardly make profit as is and if I want to grow my business, it is becoming very hard with these new rules. I already try to minimize my use of plastic and use very little packaging. I really hope there will be a threshold for the company size.

Dear European Commission members, I support the EUs objective of reducing packaging waste and making producers responsible for their environmental impact. However, I am concerned that the proposed national registration requirements could have a disproportionate impact on micro-businesses and independent creators. I am a one-person artist business creating art and selling it online.

This law ensures that small businesses no longer have a chance. Especially if you start with a company, you don’t have the financial means to spend so much money for every single country, for a year. There is a direct negative impact, in the four-digit range. And this would directly ensure that the tax office directs a favourite.

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Ladies and gentlemen, we traders, craftsmen and small family businesses from the online sector are making an urgent appeal to you. For over 15 years, companies like ours have been ensuring that customers in Germany and Europe are reliably supplied with specialist goods, whether in motorcycle, forestry, garden or municipal technology. We generate honest sales, secure jobs and pay our taxes without legal action.

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As a one person micro business handmaking products (that is very far removed from the 2M and <10 employees definition) the EPR licensing scheme and the linked PPWR Authorized Representative makes it impossible for us to AFFORD to sell within the EU Single Market. There needs to be a centralized organization within the EU that allows us to register and pay (fair and proportionate to our turnaround).

I fully understand and welcome measures to contain an excessive parcel flood (especially from Far Eastern regions) or to price disposal accordingly. A certain fee for the packaging used, as previously calculated and paid for under the Packaging Ordinance, is understandable to us and also administratively feasible with proportionate effort.

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Dear Sir/Madam, For small businesses, the Regulation is almost synonymous with exclusion from free trade within the European Union. The resulting costs and processing wall are unaffordable for small businesses. It has the effect of a quasi-betting or trading ban. Large companies will be more vexatious about it. Commercial sellers from third countries also do not seem to be affected by this Regulation.

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I am the owner of a Norwegian micro-enterprise producing small quantities of niche products sold directly to consumers internationally. I support the principle that businesses should contribute to the actual cost of managing the packaging waste they place on the market.