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

The objectives of Regulation (EU) 2025/40 on packaging and packaging waste (PPWR), in particular strengthening the circular economy and better capturing packaging flows, are basically understandable. However, administrative implementation risks placing a disproportionate burden on small and medium-sized enterprises in particular.

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The new EU directives (EPR & PPWR) represent a gross injustice. Until August 11, 2026, my company allowed me to support my family by selling a small number of shipments to the EU (only about 1 to 6 per country annually!). As of August 12, 2026, I was forced to halt sales. Chinese sellers, of course, continue trading with impunity.

I would like to draw your attention to the significant practical difficulties for micro-enterprises and solo self-employed persons arising from the new EU Packaging Regulation (PPWR). In principle, I support the objective of reducing packaging waste and making packaging as resource-efficient and recyclable as possible.

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Ladies and gentlemen of the EU, enywear GbR, a German small enterprise with an annual turnover of less than 500 k, has approximately 50 consignments per year to other EU Member States, i.e. 5 %. Current markets primarily AT, the plan is F, IT to be reached more intensively. Our product is robust, sustainable workwear made of 100 % plant fibres.

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Hello EU, I am an EPU from one of your member countries. Like so many others, the new regulation affects me and leaves me in some cases desperate, futile and angry. While I understand the rationale of this Regulation, its implementation has not been successful.

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Dear European Commission, I would like to tell you about the impact of the new rules from the point of view of an Austrian micro-enterprise. I operate a small handmade label in Austria and make my products by hand. In my work, I am conscious of the importance of durability, high-quality materials, bio-materials and the most responsible use of resources.

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This has such a huge effect on small businesses. While we all agree with the environmental issues, this will cull small businesses and stop them from expanding. We are not all global mega corporations and should not be punished for this. The little guy is always the one hurt the most when decisions like this are made.

The current design of the EU Packaging Regulation (PPWR) for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) poses a serious threat to the free EU internal market. Instead of cutting red tape, regulation closes national markets.

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Hello! I am a self-employed micro-business owner in Lithuania, manufacturing handmade products and selling directly to customers across the EU. I fully support EPR and I am willing to pay the recycling costs for every kilogram of packaging I place on the market. The problem is not the recycling fee, but disproportionate administrative costs and mandatory intermediaries.

Ladies and gentlemen, I understand the objectives of the Regulation, but for me as a solo company it is an unmanageable mammoth project. The additional financial costs are in no way related to my small firm’s current and probably future income. Quite apart from the huge amount of red tape that needs to be dealt with in order to explore and understand this legislative jungle for the first time.

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The new EU regulation affects me very much as a small online retailer (small entrepreneur). I sell collectors’ items (stamps, postcards, etc.) through various auction platforms. Many collectors in Europe have already purchased from me over the past 25 years. I use used packaging for shipping, which comes from other companies and would otherwise be disposed of there.

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The new EU regulation on packaging and packaging waste will make it impossible for us to continue doing business within the EU. The procedure is too complicated for a small company and the costs are far too high. This makes small businesses exemplified and erased. A small allowance or a portal, which would certainly be authorised for all EU countries, would be useful.

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We have been active and operational as a micro-business since 2017. The new regulations make it impossible for us to compete in the EU market. Adapting towards a more environmental friendly way of packing and shipping is mandatory.

As an artist based in the Netherlands, I am concerned that the current approach to national producer registration and EPR requirements creates a disproportionate burden for micro and small businesses selling across EU borders. I sell photographic prints directly to private end-buyers in other EU Member States. To generate a modest but viable income, I need access to customers across the EU.

I strongly support the EU's goal of reducing packaging waste and protecting the environment. However, I am very concerned about the disproportionate administrative burden that the PPWR may place on micro-businesses and very small craft businesses. I run a very small craft business and ship approximately **10 parcels per year**. The amount of packaging I place on the market is therefore extremely small.

I understand the goals of PPWR, but the outcome is too extreme for businesses like mine where I am selling 500-1000 bottles of organic wine per year. I can easily declare that my glass bottles, labels, corks, wax and boxes are sustainable and recyclable, but the suppliers who produce these materials need to have the DoC available for me to download. The challenges I see are two fold: 1.

Regarding articles 44 and 45 of the regulation: Requering a legal representative in every single EU country is basically a paywall for small businesses and artisans. First thing - going through EPR and representative registration 27 times just to be able to sell to EU countries is expensive, time consuming and most os online shops run by a single person won't be able to comply. We just don't earn that much.

Dear Sir or Madam, For our small company, the European Single Market has effectively ceased to exist. Until recently, we sold small quantities of our products directly to customers in several EU Member States. However, due to the combination of fragmented national packaging and EPR rules and the new requirements under the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation, we have now been forced to discontinue all…

Ladies and gentlemen, as a sole trader with a small craft business in Germany, I can earn my living in this way financially. I do not have the time to deal with the bureaucratic burden of this law and I do not even understand my new obligations as a farmer after having spent a full working day informing me about the new law. On that day, I was unable to produce anything to sell it and generate money.

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Good morning, I run a secondary business and send second-hand records (cultural goods) from Germany to other EU countries. The volume will be around 100 per year, spread over around 12 EU countries. As a result, I got a lot of beautiful and nice contacts. The new rules are far too costly and time-consuming for me. That is why I stopped sending it from today. My acquaintances act accordingly.

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This law makes the European market into 27 small markets, where only the big players, that often don't pay any taxes here or only very little, are allowed to operate. What you are saying with this law is, that you like to help conglomerates like Amazon, but the small business owner has no right to sell into all European countries. This is supposed to be a union with free circulation of goods and services.

You are completely ruined by the need to check – and this is breaking the small traders. Did you put your bribes in Amazon’s own pocket? This is because this is the main profit of the already emerging trader’s death. And once again, what happened to cutting red tape in the EU? You are still packed with more!

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As Small business owner this law need a regulation based on the type of the shop, the quantities of the package and waste, ita not fair to put in all the businesses at the same consequences, we dont have the same impact like Amazon for example.

Ladies and gentlemen, the new requirements for packaging to be registered/licensed in each country and, in some cases, for an authorised representative to be established locally, entail considerable additional costs and red tape, particularly for solo self-employed persons and small businesses. The objective of reducing packaging waste is in principle understandable.

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As the owner of a small business in the Netherlands, started when I was 18 years old and I am now 36, I am deeply concerned about the disproportionate impact these registration requirements will have on small businesses. We will soon be paying the same fixed costs for registration and representation in multiple Member States as large multinationals, even though our volumes and margins are entirely different.

My feedback on the implementation of the new packaging rules The objective of reducing packaging waste and improving recycling seems to me to be useful in principle. However, I see a problem with the considerable bureaucratic and financial burden, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises. My proposal would therefore be to link recycling costs as directly as possible to the actual shipment of a consignment.

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As a micro-entrepreneur in the artisanal sector, I want to be able to send my products across the EU. The current obligations, in particular the appointment of an authorised representative in each EU country, are disproportionate for micro-enterprises and make EU-wide shipping hardly economically feasible. This effectively limits small businesses to the national market.

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In the time of increased energycost, geppolitical instability and tradewars with US and China, you decide that it would be a good idea to bankrupt small business owners and add to "red tape" that we so desperatly are combating in theory at least. When I thought that US was run by complete morons, you rushed in to join the club and prove me wrong

The regulation not only creates more red tape, it puts small businesses out of the single market. A person who sends only one handful of consignments of goods per year to another EU country cannot do so economically, as the costs are many times higher than the turnover. The burden is also immense. Nor can a small trader check where a carton or bag originally came from.

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I operate a small handmade business in Germany and sell through an online marketplace. I send only individual parcels to other EU countries each year. My turnover from these countries is < EUR 50. I expect to pay a much higher price per year for registration and authorised representatives in these countries.

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The PPWR is a poorly conceived regulation that places a disproportionate burden on small businesses, forcing them to navigate costly and confusing bureaucracy simply to trade across European borders. Instead of creating a genuine single market, it fragments Europe further, discourages competition and protects large corporations that can afford dedicated compliance departments.

I am a sole trader and microbusiness based in Spain, selling handmade products online directly to consumers across the EU. I fully support the environmental objectives of the PPWR and I already comply with Extended Producer Responsibility requirements in my home country. I also register and pay for packaging compliance in Germany.

Good evening, I think the idea of reducing waste due to imposed costs is correct. In our own business, however, the costs of registration and registration and representation in various countries are much higher than the actual waste collection fees. A large number of firms are burdened with additional work. Recording and billing of manufacturers/importers would be much more desirable.

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Im a small/micro business owner and while we only offer freelance service (graphic design), we always thought about opening a little web store for offering our own (non commissioned) creations as prints etc. In the last week my entire social media feed was dominated by fellow artists, illustrators & artisans who were trying to figure out how to deal with this new regulations.

Current regulations are absurdly unthinkable, declarating and destroying micro/small companies and individuals earning money on handicrafts. Personally, I cannot afford to pay intermediaries in every EU country, which at my former intermediary amount to around EUR 275 per country. When I get back to my student budget for one year, I now have to close my shop across the EU.

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We are Dejama Home Interiors, a family business run by my partner and me from Rotterdam. We sell one product motion-activated singing bird boxes through our own webshop, singingbirdbox.shop, to customers across Europe, Germany included. Under 60,000 in annual profit. Here is the whole problem in two numbers. The eco-fees we genuinely owe on our packaging a printed carton and a mailer come to about 50 a year.

This proposed law is absurd. It hinders small business to ship to other EU countries and causes alot more paperwork. The fees to arrange PPWR contacts in all EU countries are enormous and only allow large sellers like amazon etc to successfully sell in the whole EU. This must be stopped, we need less paperwork.

We are a small enterprise with fewer than 10 employees. Tenders for ERP authorised representatives start at 250 for each country per year for ‘small quantities’. We produce less than 250 raw materials in 1/3 of the EU countries. We do not know before which ones. This changes every year as we supply final consumers.

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I have always been a glowing supporter of the idea of the EU. I appreciate what weve achieved with it, and I will remain a supporter. But truth be told this is bollocks. Its not thought through, its poorly executed, and it makes the EU administration look like a lemonade stand. What are you thinking? How can you actively put small businesses under such pressure? Im not only talking about the laws behind it.

I support the environmental objectives of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), including reducing unnecessary packaging, increasing recycling and encouraging more sustainable packaging design. However, I am concerned that the proposed framework for national registers of producers could impose disproportionate administrative and financial burdens on European micro-businesses engaged in small-scale…

Ambinor AB is a small Swedish design company producing lighting products in Sweden. We fully support the environmental objectives of the PPWR and the principle that producers should take responsibility for the packaging they place on the market.

I strongly suspect that it is not this red tape that reduces waste, but because tens of thousands of small traders have to give up their internal shipments. Counter-proposal: only 10 employees and more than 100 kg of shipped material per country. It is not manageable for small traders under any circumstances. They are destroying tens of thousands of livelihoods and damaging the EU.

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Dear people, I was very afraid to take the news about the new rules under the PPWR. I have a small business, in addition to a permanent job, with which I send around 25 parcels per month. However, these new rules actually make this impossible for me. Having to register and pay for everything is not for a small ZZPer to do, and then the threat of fines actually means that I have to stop my own business.

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I run a very small business in Sweden where I make handmade leather goods and sell directly to customers in Sweden, the EU and other countries. I fully understand why PPWR and EPR are needed, and I want to do the right thing. I already use cardboard boxes, tissue paper and as little plastic as possible. I also try to make sure there is very little empty space in my packages.

I am an artist and this regulation, as much as I agree with fighting packaging waste (I mostly use recycled packaging), is threatening my existence. To me and many other micro businesses, it equals a ban to sell to other EU countries and I don't know how to explain to my customers that from now on, it is possible for big companies like Temu to flood our markets, but I won't be able to sell a handmade piece of art to…

I am the owner and operator of a micro business in the Czech Republic. I make and sell pottery. I use only recycled packing materials. I am a micro business, I am the only employee. It is impossible for me to register with and pay all the fees now necessary to ship within the EU. These laws were made to regulate giant companies and are screwing over small artisans like myself.

Ladies and gentlemen, cardboard boxes are not only durable for one-off use. For years, we have been using ‘running’ cartons to send them to our customers. Some of the cartons we receive from our suppliers with goods, but also cartons we receive from neighbours or friends. This is not only a favorable form of packaging, but also a particularly environmentally friendly and resource-efficient form of packaging.

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Dear politicians, As a Small Business owner I simply cant comprehend how a law Like this could have ever been drawn up, let alone been passed. Treating small Businesses and Amazon the Same is Beyond absurd. No Small Business can afford the absolute Nightmare in paperwork Thats required now.

As a small handicraft company, the new rules hit me hard. I cannot afford to pay agents in other EU countries and can therefore only offer my handicrafts in Austria. Everything I am writing has already been said by others. And yet I can only ask for: Makes it compulsory for micro-enterprises to appoint representatives. Ensures affordable licensing. The best solution would be a one-size-fits-all EU solution.

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I have been reading through all these comments and I keep wondering what will happen a few years from now. First: create yet another problem for businesses. Then, for months or years, explain why it is absolutely necessary for our own good, the environment, safety and sustainability. Businesses will complain. Amendments, exceptions and simplifications will eventually appear.

I am writing as the co-founder of Luyana Skincare, a small EU-based skincare brand formulated in Copenhagen, to share my experience with the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), which came into effect on 12 August 2026, and to add my voice to the growing number of small business owners asking for a more equitable application of this policy. I support the intent behind PPWR.

This regulation is welcomed in terms of the intent - the large businesses that are putting literally tonnes of waste into the market. But there MUST be a smooth, affordable process for micro enterprises - my business has ceased overnight because of this. You are putting thousands of small businesses out of the market overnight! This creates a monopoly for large enterprises who can afford the cost of this initiative

Ladies and gentlemen, we strongly support the Regulation’s environmental objective of reducing packaging waste and strengthening the circular economy. However, the design of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) has unintended but devastating effects on the European single market and the existence of micro and small enterprises and international small suppliers. The key issues in detail: 1.

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The companies that create the pollution that this is meant to address are also the companies that can afford the exorbitant fees this enforces. Small businesses have no chance of competing and end up being entirely curtailed in terms of not only profit, but previous and current clientele that they have desperately depended on.

As the owner of a small handmade business based in Poland, I fully support the EUs environmental objectives and the goal of improving packaging recycling. However, the new cross-border EPR requirements create a disproportionate administrative and financial burden for micro-businesses selling small quantities to consumers in other EU countries. I sell handmade textile products through an online marketplace.

**Complementary to my previous feedback:** Europe is a community. And like in a family, it should be about enabling connections and fostering cohesion, not about bureaucratic hurdles dividing us apart. A common internal market should also feel like a common market for the smallest of us. Madlen Baumann MABA Ceramic Studio, Germany

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I operate a very small business in Germany and produce my ceramics myself. I want to make a proposal to simplify the packaging obligations for cross-border sales within the EU. I am expressly not seeking to take less responsibility for packaging. Small companies are also supposed to pay for the packaging they actually send to other Member States.

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Treating every business equally, rather than proportionately, does not create a level playing field. In practice, it means that small businesses will once again bear a disproportionate burden, ultimately resulting in reduced competition and less choice for European consumers.

Hello, I have been a craftsman since 2007. In recent years, because of the licensing/registration of packaging, I have been able to offer my unicellants only within Germany and non-EU countries because there are not enough orders from EU countries to cover the fees in each EU country. Nevertheless, I repeatedly receive disappointing requests from interested parties.

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We are a family-owned winery in Germany, Weingut Dönnhoff, exporting our wines throughout Europe and around the world. Every year we hear political commitments to reduce bureaucracy, strengthen SMEs and improve European competitiveness. Yet, in practice, we experience the opposite: new registrations, reporting obligations and administrative procedures are constantly being added. The PPWR is another example.

This new law is aiming to kill small businesses. From position of an artist, it makes it impossible to sell my products abroad, because fees for just one country would eat my monthly incomes, let alone more countries. As far as I want out environment to be safer from human impact, its not pro-environmental law. Its pro-corporations law.

This is insanity. I have heard it said it will cost £7000 to register and comply with these rules. My small business doesn't even make £7000 a year. This will cripple and destroy so many small business the world over, mine and my friends included. There needs to be some sort of allowance and exception for small businesses.

Dear EU Commission, I am fully in favor of greater sustainability and the avoidance of unnecessary packaging, especially regarding recyclability. I run a solo textil-upcycling business where I already prioritize sustainable packaging choices. I do consider many aspects of the new PPWR to be a very positive development. However.

While the idea is great for large companies and bad actors, it's terrible for smaller companies. As a micro business looking to expand into other sectors, we were disappointed to see this law come up. It makes it impossible for us to ship physical products to customers across the EU, even if the amount of packaging is extremely low.

I fully support the European Union’s environmental objectives and the need to reduce packaging waste, promote reuse, recycling and a truly circular economy. However, I believe that these objectives will only be fair and effective if the legislation takes into account the huge difference between large industrial producers and microenterprises, artists and independent craftsmen.

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I do not understand that this law does not take into account the volume of consignments. I am a French craft and I send a few parcels to several European countries. This is an activity I would have liked to develop, but if I have to pay one agent per country, it will not be profitable for me...

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I run a small, EU-registered independent music business (Spain) selling physical CDs and vinyl directly to fans worldwide, including across the EU. I support the underlying goal of extended producer responsibility, packaging waste is a real problem, and producers should bear the cost of it. My concern is with how this regulation implements that goal for small businesses.

This legislation goes directly against the first reason for starting the EEG by creating obstacles to trade among countries. With every country setting it's own fees, this is completely ridiculous to a so-called Union. It attacks all small businesses that want to trade within the EU, while big business will pay the fee and continue wiping out small businesses, that put their heart and soul in.

For several years we have been operating a specialised online shop for painting supplies (lackierbedarf.info) with 4 employees and a significant proportion of B2B customers who order important and sometimes time-critical products from us for their professional needs. So far, we have delivered across the EU, with a focus on Austria, France, Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands, as well as Switzerland.

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As a small business owner who has an own label tea brand and a store in a small community in the Baltic Sea, who sells only European made products. Im faced with two problems from the PPWR requirements. 1. is I can never enter another EU market to see if my teas will sell there because the costs will be too high to register in that market if it doesnt work out. 2.

I have a very small business and operate through a sales platform with vintage tableware and used design objects. I send a small number of parcels a year to different countries abroad in Europe. If the regulation were adopted as it stands, I would be forced to restrict myself to Germany or even abandon my business altogether.

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No shipment to countries of the European Union: EU bureaucrats have decided that all traders shipping to countries in the European Union must have a registration number and an authorised representative in each country. This registration is subject to several hundred euros of annual fees in each country. This amounts to more than EUR 10000 per year. None of the smaller traders can afford this anymore.

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I am a small business Based in Estonia who is mostly sells digital products, but this year we decided to also sell physical products all around Europe. Now with this new regulation, it is basically impossible... Please take into consideration talking to small businesses as well, not just big corporations. This new rule will wipe out most of us and leave no place for growth...

Ladies and gentlemen, I sell small quantities of textiles online in Germany and send only very small quantities of orders to other EU Member States. I strongly support the objectives of the PPWR to reduce packaging waste and promote recycling and sustainable packaging.

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This new Vetpackungsverordnung destroys many small German companies, as they cannot afford the representatives they need. There are already enough authorities that could do this in the EU country & do not generate further costs!

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I am the founder of a small skincare brand based in Norway (an EEA member). We are a micro-business that relies on every sale that comes our way, with an established customer base across the EU, both B2B and D2C. In 2026, we were recognised with Eco-Awards for Best Circular Beauty Brand and Best Recyclable Beauty Brand.

In this way, the entire European trade of non-groups can be paralysed and truncated. Why don’t you really talk to us professionals who do their e-commerce business on a daily basis? This is where things are decided that are completely unthinkable at the back and at the front. If you want us to stop SMEs, you just have to say it. Who, apart from the big corporations, should be able to afford this?

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We have run a small online shop for 10 years and have customers worldwide. We have always sent our hand-printed T-shirts in Berlin completely plastic-free bags made of recycled paper. With the new EU Packaging Act, we are facing such a significant additional burden, both bureaucratic and financial – that we must seriously ask ourselves whether sending parcels to EU countries every year makes sense.

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As a one person, disable small ceramic business owner making a few hundred a month in total it would force me to close the only activity I have. The EU is meant to unite, facilitate and support business across EU countries and be enticing for people in the EU.

As a small trader, I am no longer able to send EU-wide because of the requirements for registration and local representatives in each supplier country. It is simply not worthwhile for a few parcels, while large distance sellers, especially those based outside the EU, have huge advantages here. Small traders and, above all, citizens from other EU countries who can no longer shop cross-border lose out.

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Hello, what we should pay for, where there is a Union, it is becoming increasingly complicated, opaque, bureaucratic, there are even more shamewords, I think who represents craftsmen and small businesses, because MEPs have ever questioned us, who know what life costs. There is the proverb: Craftsmanship has Golden Boden. It is more likely that craftsmanship should be called a barrel without ground.

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I have a very small online company in Austria. My annual profit is around EUR 4000. In 2025, I sent 150 parcels within Austria and two to Germany. I have used the packaging repeatedly for environmental reasons. I cannot remember that I have ever bought a carton. I have all licences so far. But what now comes at a cost is a bribe. Did anyone think of the little ones in your mind? It’s a brittle thing you do with us.

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Ich betreibe in Deutschland einen Kleinstbetrieb im Handmade-Bereich und verkaufe meine Produkte über einen Onlinemarktplatz. Ich liefere derzeit nur in sehr geringem Umfang nach Österreich: etwa 5 Pakete pro Jahr. Mein Umsatz aus Österreich liegt bei ca. 1.000 Euro brutto pro Jahr. Ich liefere meine Produkte unverpackt an ein österreichisches Fachgeschäft.

I am the owner of a small business that sells products to customers across different EU countries. Mandatory EPR registrations, fixed fees, and the requirement to comply with separate administrative procedures in each country create a disproportionate financial and bureaucratic burden for micro-businesses.

This is a horrible, expensive and time consuming piece of legislation for micro businessss already struggling with tariffs.Whilst I appreciate the intent to minimise waste and packaging this legislation is unnecessarily burdensome for small businesses... different rules and prices and paperwork for each EU country?it beggers believe that the EU is implementing this.

As an illustrator, I am self-employed with my art and sell art prints, postcards, stickers and other products through my shop. Of these, I produce most paper products myself, in small print, after ordering them. This minimises waste generation. My packaging is recycled and consists exclusively of paper and cardboard.

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It’s incomprehensible! Why not an elegant, pragmatic solution? Just cut a small amount of obolus per package centrally and the EU distributes the money? The money is not used for the very purpose... This is suicide for every small trader without millions of profits! Cumbersome, expensive, and over ambiguous third parties, where none knows where the money ends up. Thank you very much, but only the EU can decide.

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From a common European internal market, which was once the original idea of the European Union, this bureaucratic monster turns national, locally isolated markets back into national markets. In fact, the PPWR costs constitute a market entry fee for each individual target country.

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Unfortunately, a small company like ours, with perhaps 5-10 packages per EU country per year, cannot be funded or implemented. I asked about the costs via Linzezero and, if I used 2025 as a basis, I would pay around 3000 per year for nine EU countries supplied, without calculating the additional costs.

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As the owner of a small one-person company, I expressly support the objective of reducing packaging waste and financing the actual disposal costs in a polluter-pays-friendly manner. However, the current design of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) places disproportionate burdens on micro-enterprises, artisans and small online traders.

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I operate a small handmade business in Germany and sell through an online marketplace. I send around 20-30 parcels a year to 4-5 other EU countries. My turnover from these countries is less than EUR 1500. For registration and plenipotentiary ONLY for these 5 countries, I would probably have to pay EUR 4800 per year.

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Feedback on the EU Packaging Regulation PPWR from the perspective of a small online trader Since 12 August 2026, the new EU Packaging Regulation PPWR applies directly in all Member States. With this letter, as the operator of a small online shop, I would like to give my feedback on this Regulation because, in practice, it hits precisely those businesses that actually contribute the least to packaging waste.

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In principle, we support the objective of reducing packaging waste and making producers more accountable. However, the current design of the requirements poses significant practical and financial problems for small and medium-sized distance sellers. As a German company, we have been sending directly to customers in almost all EU Member States for many years.

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As a small trader and operator of an online shop, I am increasingly wondering how much bureaucratic burden a small business can actually still cope with. Has this new EU Packaging Regulation ever been viewed from the perspective of craft businesses, traders or online shops? Companies without their own legal department?

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Regardless of when the PWPR was first passed, the fact so many businesses are only finding out about it on the week of its enforcement is in itself a testament to how poorly this has been considered and subsequently executed.

I cannot believe that the policy has not taken into account what the innovations mean for small farms and to whom they ultimately help. Amazon & Co and cheap China vendors, which are likely to remain silent, are again the winners, even though they are actually the reason for a standardised regulation.

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Subject: Opinion on the EU Packaging Regulation (PPWR) Urgent adaptation needs for micro-enterprises Dear Sir/Madam, as micro-enterprises with fewer than 10 employees, we strongly support the environmental objectives of the new EU Packaging Regulation. However, in its current form, the Regulation presents us with administrative and financial hurdles that threaten the very existence of a company of our size.

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The regulation is confusing, unclear, badly documented and seems to involve a huge regulatory burden for a two-people enterprise. I need to focus on daily operations and R&D work, not compliance. We are sending about 50 small packages per year to B2B and B2C customers in the EU. Our packaging is 100% cardboard and paper.

As a micro-business, the authorized representative costs are far too high for me to manage. The upfront and annual costs are so high that it is a complete barrier to continue selling my meaningful art to people across the EU. This kind of barrier will bankrupt businesses like mine. Please make a unified registration with a reasonable registration fee. My packaging is already compliant, I have the DOCs.

I am one of the arguably many small businesses that no longer sees any possibility of shipping outside D in the EU as a result of this scheme, which provides for registration in each country to which delivery/potential delivery takes place and corresponding payments in each country.

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In its current form, the PPWR Directive constitutes an unacceptable barrier to intra-European trade. The mandatory and inconsistent appointment of proxies in each of the 27 EU Member States creates disproportionate hurdles for small and medium-sized enterprises, with huge annual costs and excessive administrative burdens.

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I started to establish myself in an absolute niche environment 4 years ago, i.e. I create wigs for shows and events. I produce this from scratch with me at home alone. This project is a matter of my heart. I only produce contract work and send it out. I do not have a shop because I cannot afford it. The fees I already have to pay in Germany (IHK, LUCID, Grüner Punkt, Steuer...) are already a very heavy burden.

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To the European Commission: The current PPWR and EPR laws are creating fear and uncertainty in small and middle size companies within the EU and push them for more administrative tasks and additional costs. I own and run a small bike store and I rely on exports from Austria to the EU internal market, because I sell specialty bike parts that are extremely hard to find anywhere else.

I'm agree that packaging needs to be controlled, specially with big companies as Amazon but did you forgot small business don't play in the same yard? I'm an artist, I hardly can survive from my work. Little sales (5 maximum per year in different countries of Europe) can make a big impact in my economy. My packaging is fully created with recycled material.

Plain and simple: I can only express my contempt for the EU. They force me, as a small online trader, to abandon shipping to other European countries. Amazon and Co., as well as ALL Chinese zero-law traders, will benefit. Lobbying works. What or how much persuasion was done? The madness cannot be explained otherwise. I hope that Germany will draw the consequences here, as GB has done. Yours faithfully, [name removed]

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Dear European Commission, I am happy to support the basic idea of waste reduction and prevention. In my view, all decisions and current packaging regulations are disproportionate and not cost-effective for smaller companies. I have been using my suppliers’ cartons and fillers for re-dispatching for years. I would urge you to revise the decisions for smaller companies.

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Ladies and gentlemen, I operate a small handmade business in Germany and sell my products via an online marketplace. Last year, I sent around 200 packages to other EU countries, and even so deliberately only to countries where micro-enterprises were subject to de minimis thresholds or simplified rules, such as Italy or the Netherlands.

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EU directive 2025/40 goes against the EU's commissions' ambitions to remove internal trade barriers and to reduce administrative hurdles for small and medium companies. It imposes unneccesarily high administrative and financial burdens, especially so for small companies, in comparison to the rather minimalistic goals as stated in the directive.

I run a small online shop in Germany. I sell vintage goods, mainly porcelain and tableware, all over the world. Until now, the possibility of shipping within the EU has already been severely restricted by the individual EU Member States. The new rules on packaging, which will apply from 12.8.2026, will bring my business to the EU to a complete standstill.

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For artisans and small businesses, PPWR effectively means the end of the European single market. Like many who have shared feedback, we are a small independent business (a bookstore). We invested heavily in digital infrastructure to be able to offer EU customers an alternative to Amazon and the like for books.

We have heard of de-bureaucratisation for years, but the opposite is true. PPWR drives it to absurd new heights. The burden is enormous. Even for easy-to-identify materials such as glass or cardboard, comprehensive certificates must be collected and declarations of conformity drawn up from them. In some cases, packaging sizes differ from one supplier to another.

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I operate a small handmade business in Germany and sell through an online marketplace. I think it is basically good that less waste is produced. That is why I use cartons of purchased goods again. I am certainly not the only one. I send around 6 – 8 parcels per year to 2 EU countries. My turnover from these countries is around EUR 10.

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As a small studio in Ireland, employing four people including myself, we have put a lot of effort over many years into building up customers across Europe. However, these regulations are making it impossible for us to sell to most EU countries as the admin and financial cost is simply too high.

Sorry but did the EU just destroy every small online shop within the EU?, registering this costs a company 1000s of euro's for maintaining this including representatives, I already have weeks of work for the "1 stop shop" VAT registration and now this? good green packaging is fine but this is absurd, and why on such short notice? , i haven't heard anything of this?

Dear European Commission, I fully support the EU's efforts to make Europe cleaner and reduce packaging waste. However, as a very small business owner in Slovenia producing artisan lamps, I am concerned about the impact of the new PPWR requirements on micro businesses like mine. We sell only 1 to 50 lamps per year to customers in each individual EU country.

Dear European Commission, On the one hand, it makes sense to contain and regulate packaging waste. But it makes no sense to use a bureaucratic monster like the PPWR to force small, creative solo companies into their knees and even to abandon them. With the PPWR, they are destroying the diversity of entrepreneurship and at the same time leaving the big corporations free!

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Micro-enterprise impact of PPWR Article 45 and fragmented EPR registrations Although I fully support the attempt to be more environmentally friendly and Im happy to pay for my packaging waste, these new laws are sadly killing all small businesses. It would be helpful if: 1.

I am a small business owner on Etsy, and the current implementation of the PPWR risks forcing me to withdraw from cross-border sales because the fixed compliance costs are completely disproportionate to the very small quantities of packaging I place on the market. Is this really your goal? To force small businesses like mine to stop selling to customers in other EU countries?

We are an Austrian manufacturing company producing packaging made of cardboard and corrugated board. In principle, we welcome the objectives of the PPWR: reducing packaging waste, increasing recycling and making the circular economy work are important and necessary objectives. However, the current implementation is of great concern to us.

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I welcome the objective of harmonising certain elements of Extended Producer Responsibility schemes for packaging across the European Union. A clearer and more coherent framework can help reduce administrative fragmentation and support environmental objectives.

I am a Dutch micro-enterprise planning to sell handmade sterling-silver jewellery through my own webshop. I expect fewer than 50 B2C cross-border sales per year and use only a few kilograms of paper/cardboard packaging (no plastics).

Feedback on the PPWR to cut red tape for the EU single market through a one-stop shop The Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) pursues important and correct environmental objectives. However, as a small company that has recently taken the step from the German market to EU-wide distribution, I would like to provide urgent feedback on the practical implementation.

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I have a small vintage trader (used design classifiers in the mid-century sector) in a one-person company and have been passionate about this for over 20 years. The idea of sustainability has been the focus of 100 % of the design classic – furniture we sell from the 60s to 70s and will certainly continue to be used by the new owner for the next 50 years. Packaging location hits us very hard as vintage traders. E.g.

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Irrespective of the good intentions, the provision in its current form is completely secondary. After every second statement stressed the importance of bringing the EU closer together, cutting red tape and completing the single market, such crazy rules were adopted, which were diametrically opposed and had the opposite effect.

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I am a self-employed illustrator and small business owner based in Spain. I sell physical products through Printful and Printumo, where products are manufactured and shipped directly to customers, and I also ship printed and textile products directly from Spain. The new PPWR and EPR requirements create a significant burden for a one-person business.

Agreeing to push for waste reduction, I disagree that this is the way. According to Eurostat data, there are 34.7 million enterprises in Europe: 93 % are micro enterprises (0-9 persons employed) 6 % are small enterprises (10-49 persons employed) 0.8 % are medium enterprises (50-249 persons employed) 0.2 % are large enterprises (> 249 persons employed) How many of the 93 % micro enterprises (and even 6 % of small…

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Although I agree with EPR in principle the fact that there is a requirement to register, record and pay fees for EVERY EU country is not only very time consuming but also expensive and difficult for a small business to cope with. I feel the EU should have a threshold that any sales below in the country does not need to do EPR or there is a system where all EU countries can be covered in one EPR registration system.

Subject: PPWR Implementation Is Failing the SMEs the EU Claims to Protect To the European Commission, I am the founder of a small, women-led fashion business operating across the EU, writing to formally object to how the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) has been implemented and communicated to the businesses it governs.

Subject: Feedback from an micro-enterprise: Disproportionate financial and administrative burden of current EPR/packaging regulations on cross-border e-commerceTo whom it may concern,I am writing to share feedback from the perspective of a micro-enterprise based in Latvia.

Hello, I'm a german artist and I would like to still be able to sell my paintings and prints within the EU in the future. Small businesses simply cannot afford what the new PPWR regulation wants from them. Please, don't let small businesses, art and culture in Europe die!

In principle, I welcome the EU’s objective of reducing packaging waste and ensuring that producers contribute to the costs incurred in disposing of it. However, for micro-enterprises and especially for very small cross-border shipments, the implementation currently foreseen is disproportionately complicated and costly.

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Dear European Commission, I generally welcome the idea behind the EU Packaging Regulation (PPWR) of reducing packaging waste and strengthening the circular economy. I fully support the EU’s environmental objectives. However, individual companies such as mys were completely omitted from the requirements.

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In principle, I support the aim of the Packaging Regulation to reduce packaging waste, promote recycling and make packaging more sustainable. At the same time, I consider the current set-up to be disproportionately burdensome for micro-enterprises and in particular for one-person enterprises and small handmade enterprises.

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Ladies and gentlemen, we operate a micro-business in the creative sector in Germany and sell mainly through our own online shop. We send around 270 parcels a year to 17 other EU countries. Our turnover from these countries is EUR 23.000. We expect to pay around EUR 10.000 per year for registration and plenipotentiaries in all these countries.

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Theben Smart Energy GmbH welcomes the objective of Regulation (EU) 2025/40 and supports, in particular, an effective design of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), high transparency of packaging volume data and ensuring a well-functioning European internal market.

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Hello – I am a small craftsman and a one-woman show and it’s definitely sat! These and many other rules break the genocide of micro-enterprises, we take time to red tape, in time we could have generated turnover and collected corresponding taxes for the state.

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In principle, the overall objective of the Regulation is to be welcomed, but the practical arrangements for its implementation prove to be highly dysfunctional. As an operator of online sales for Italian wines and fine foods at www.vineola.de, we are directly confronted with insurmountable regulatory hurdles.

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I run a small Portuguese brand of personalised products, based in the Azores, operating on a made-to-order basis. We hold no stock. Each order is produced and dispatched by production partners located in different Member States and reaches the customer in a simple cardboard or paper mailer. The draft leaves genuine practical questions unanswered for this model.

We receive essential food raw materials and goods every day, which we use for our European and global customers to produce key end products. According to its legislation, we are no longer able to guarantee production as of today, as we do not yet have a solution for our suppliers. (90 % small certified farms) Similarly, it concerns our supplies to the EU.

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The law is obviously made by lawyers, but not by practitioners. Why is it not possible for small and micro-enterprises to declare the quantities of packaging used to the contracted shipping service provider (e.g. DHL, Deutsche Post) and pay the disposal costs there directly for each individual case, together with the shipping fees? With a small mark-up for the service, if applicable.

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In the context of the consultation on the planned requirements for national producer registers under the PPWR, I would like to draw your attention to the burdens this may entail for small online traders. I am a small e-commerce business and would like to sell my products to customers in other EU Member States. However, I am deeply concerned about the registration and reporting obligations associated with the PPWR.

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This is insane to have different systems within EU countries for packaging. Surely the benefit of us all being in the EU is to share the same system? Further, to charge an annual fee per country is ridiculous. Why can it not work like the VAT system? This will stop small businesses from operating within the EU, they will become restricted to trading solely within their own country.

As a small online trader, I am deeply concerned about the new registration and extended producer responsibility requirements in each EU Member State. I expressly support the environmental objective. It goes without saying that small businesses must also take responsibility for the packaging they place on the market.

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The rule itself to reduce waste on packaging is not the problem, thats good. But to register in every country, with too high costs of 300 plus per country for a business that relies on international business to other countries thats not what the EU stands for. It should help us to grow and not to destroy business with laws that are standing in the ways of the businesses.

It is deeply and deeply saddened by this regulation I now have a small company for over 16 years that sells 2 of the hand audio equipment. I sell this on the German eBay. This regulation forces me to stop 27 of the 23 countries in the EU! Simply because the costs do not stand up to what I would pay in those countries if I continued to sell there. At least 300/600 per year per country.Some countries are e.g.

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In my view, the EU should simplify procedures between Member States. This is not the case here. On the contrary, it results in smaller traders losing part of their turnover and thus also of their visibility abroad. Please ensure a uniform system of packaging licensing for all countries and the exemption of representatives for small firms.

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Opinion on EU packaging and EPR obligations for micro-enterprises I support in principle the objective of reducing packaging waste and promoting more sustainable packaging. However, I consider the current design of the cross-border EPR and packaging obligations to be disproportionate for micro-enterprises.

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I am running a small onlineshop in Germany since 2003 with one co-worker. The PPWR will affect our business deeply and comprises an extreme amount of bureaucracy and cost that does not stand in any reasonable proportion to its true objective. It creates new limitations within the EU and creates an extraordinary amount of extra work especially for the huge amount of small businesses.

I operate a small handmade business in Germany and sell through an online marketplace. I send around 10-12 parcels a year to 5 other EU countries. My turnover from these countries is around EUR 600. I would probably pay at least EUR 650 per year for registration and authorised representatives in these countries.

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I strongly support the PPWR’s objectives of reducing packaging waste, improving recycling and making producers more accountable. However, from the point of view of a small business, I see a significant need for action in the practical implementation of extended producer responsibility and national producer registers. Small enterprises do not have their own legal or compliance departments.

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As a small European craft company, we support the objective of reducing packaging waste and promoting recyclable packaging. However, the current design of the scheme means that small producers and manufacturers will have to stop shipping to many EU Member States.

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Dear EU team, while I am a big fan of recycling and sustainability and believe it is the utmost import thing we need to do for our planet I have huge problems with this new act: Being a small ecommerce shop I have stopped all EU activities and from now on only ship nationally - I cannot afford to register in all those countries where in some I might be delivering 5 in other 10 and in other 25 products over the…

European e-commerce must not become a bureaucratic trap! Our business model is fundamentally exactly what the European Union should promote: We are a small European company, creating jobs, paying taxes and selling our products within the European single market. We are innovative, we work for our livelihood and for a beautiful, diverse Europe!

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1. The PPWR should clarify that the return shipment of a consumers own repaired property does not fall within producer-responsibility obligations where the business is providing a repair service and is not placing a new product on the market. 2.

I strongly support the environmental objectives of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation and the principle that businesses should take responsibility for the packaging they place on the market. However, I am deeply concerned about the disproportionate administrative and financial burden that national producer registration requirements can create for microbusinesses and very small producers selling across the…

I am the owner of a micro-enterprise in the Azores, Portugal, with a small team. We sell made-to-order products online to customers in several Member States. I support the environmental objectives of the PPWR and I am not asking to be excused from paying for the packaging we place on the market. My objection is to how the fixed costs of compliance fall.

Feedback from a micro-enterprise in e-commerce based on Terceira Island, in the Azores. The question I would like the Commission to weigh is simple. What is the marginal environmental benefit of requiring an operator who places a few hundred kilos of paper and cardboard on a national market to enter a national register, pay entry and maintenance fees, file annual reports and, in several Member States, retain a paid…

Ladies and gentlemen, the PPWR undoubtedly pursues important environmental objectives. However, in its current form, it disproportionately affects one-person companies and small businesses. The requirements for documentation, recycling rates and labelling requirements require human and financial resources, which we simply lack.

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Ladies and gentlemen, on the planned requirements for the national producer registers under the PPWR, I would like to draw your attention to the burdens this may entail for small online traders. First of all, however, I would like to make a general remark: Since January 2023, it has been mandatory to appoint an authorised representative for shipments from Germany to Austria, which we had already done at the time.

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Distant red tape destroys micro-enterprises and destroys the EU’s internal market Opinion: The present regulation on the Packaging Ordinance is a stark illustration of the progressive failure of bureaucratic regulation in the European Union.

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Ladies and gentlemen, I run a small online shop in your constituency. The EU Packaging Regulation will apply from 12 August 2026. I send 100 parcels per year to hundreds of other EU countries. I need a separate registration and an authorised representative for each of these countries. Expenses: several hundred euros per year per country. My total foreign turnover is EUR 4000 per year. There is no de minimis limit.

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I run a micro-business on Terceira Island in the Azores, an outermost region of the European Union. We sell personalised products online, mostly to the Portuguese diaspora living across the Member States. For a company based on an island in the middle of the Atlantic, online sales to the rest of the EU are not one channel among several. They are the only way to reach a market large enough to survive.

Ladies and gentlemen, it is practically impossible for small businesses to meet your packaging requirements. Red tape and costs are immense – with relatively small quantities of packaging. In my case, the costs significantly exceed the profits – between 1 and 10 parcels per EU country.

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This regulation drives small businesses out of business, because a small business will have no resources to make all the administration this regulation requires. Basically a one-person micro business, such as mine, have to make the same admin as a large, multi-million euro business.

Ladies and gentlemen, Honourable Members of the European Parliament, as a small owner-run company with just eight full-time employees, we see our economic existence threatened by the current and in practice completely delimited provisions of the EU Packaging Regulation (Extended Producer Responsibility – EPR). We strongly support the protection of the environment and the reduction of packaging waste.

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In my view, the effort required, particularly for micro-enterprises and craft businesses, is disproportionate to low-value contracts. This concerns in particular the necessary research into the different regulations in the individual Länder and, where appropriate, the appointment of an authorised representative.

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I run a small Austrian online shop and am fundamentally committed to reducing packaging and promoting recycling. However, implementation must not lead to small businesses being excluded from European trade by red tape. For shipping to different EU countries, I have to deal with different registrations, packaging systems, notifications and fees.

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This initiative is a complementary administrative layer and will generate unbearable costs for European artists and VSEs. Dare to cut off hands (and throw away parasites that produce nothing and love collecting data) in an already complicated context. This is a completely unnecessary regulation that should be repealed.

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Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to comment briefly on the new Packaging Regulation. I myself have a small business rather than a small business and currently have a turnover of around 1000. Therefore, it is not possible for me to meet the condition for the new Packaging Ordinance and therefore harms my company.

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As a small entrepreneur and student running a very small creative business from Berlin, I am extremely concerned about the practical and financial impact of packaging requirements on micro-enterprises selling within the EU. I fully support the environmental objectives of regulation and strongly believe that companies should take responsibility for the packaging they put into circulation.

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My husband and I run a second hand goods shop online which ships all over the world. We are very conscious of the ecological impact of consumer goods in general which is a huge part of why we chose to sell second hand products. In keeping with this spirit, 90% of the packaging we use is from packaging we receive, as we know that reusing is ecologically optimal.

Sustainabillity and slowing the climat crisis is on top of all priorities and I believe small businesses are the ones who cares the most! We do need strong regulations for the large companies who uses upp all resurces and creates massive waste for products that is not even good for the planet in the first place.

Dear Sir or Madam, It is virtually impossible to meet your packaging requirements. The bureaucratic burden for small companies with low packaging volumes is immense. For example, our company only markets cardboard boxes, plastic bottles containing IVD products, and shipping packaging. Even for very small quantities under 1 kg, we sometimes have to pay more than the revenue generated in that country.

I operate a small jewellery shop in Berlin and make jewellery and wedding rings by hand and on order. Our main market is Germany, and we occasionally send it to other EU countries. The new packaging rules impose a disproportionate financial and administrative burden on micro-enterprises. For example, we send only around 10 parcels per year to France.

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Its like your doing your very best to kill small traders at the precise time europe needs to be competing more. All these schemes should be scrapped. This will result in many companies and individual traders from just not bothering to try. It will also lose more tax than it generates while creating more pointless business that just charges to run the schemes.

Dear EU Committee I operate a new micro-business in Germany in the handmade sector and sell through an online marketplace. I wanted to send a few packages (estimated at 10-50 per year) to other EU countries in the future. My turnover from these countries is estimated at EUR 50-250. Because the fixed costs exceed my foreign turnover, I will not start shipping to other EU countries. This draft is under REFIT, i.e.

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In the context of the consultation on the planned requirements for national producer registers under the PPWR, I would like to draw your attention to the burdens this may entail for small online traders. I am a small e-commerce business and would like to sell my products to customers in other EU Member States. However, I am deeply concerned about the registration and reporting obligations associated with the PPWR.

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As a sole trader running a very small creative business with a smaller annual turnover, I am extremely concerned about the practical and financial impact of the new packaging requirements on microbusinesses selling across the EU. I fully support the environmental aims of the regulation and believe that businesses should take responsibility for the packaging they place on the market.

Dear EU Regulators, I run a small craft business selling my products through marketplaces (Etsy) and my website worldwide. My business cannot survive this enormous regulatory burden. I must stop selling my products to EU countries due to the costs associated with compliance and joining all national waste management systems. These costs can exceed the profits I make in those countries.

I have not been a small businessman since last year. My volume of shipments to EU countries is well below the OSS border. Perhaps there are a total of 100 parcels to all countries. The red tape involved in applying for LUCID everywhere outweighs my benefits. I simply cannot provide an authorised contact person in all these countries... For example, I send around five parcels per year to Italy or Slovenia.

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Subject: Disproportionate EPR burden on micro-producers I support the environmental objectives of the PPWR and the principle that producers should contribute to the recycling of the packaging they place on the market. However, the current EPR system can create a disproportionate financial and administrative burden for very small manufacturers and individual producers engaged in occasional cross-border sales.

**Respondent: The Crofthouse Knitwear / Aktepe Ltd UK micro-business and B Corp certified business** We welcome the EU's efforts to reduce packaging waste, increase recycling and establish a consistent Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) framework. As a small, sustainability-focused business, we support the environmental objectives of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR).

Hello, with this law you managed to kick off virtually all micro-entrepreneurs from the European online buisness. Congratulations on this for the first time. It is hardly possible to rule more clearly bypassing the very good objectives. In my circle, I do not know anyone who can maintain European trade under this law. Amazon and Co.

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I refer here to a submission from the IT Law Registry and I fully agree with the arguments put forward. For us, shipping to EU countries is neither finance nor manageable for small and 1-women/man companies. As part of the consultation on the planned requirements for national producer registers under the PPWR, I would like to draw your attention to the burdens this may impose on small online traders.

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As Single Female Owner of a Small Business creating and selling dog gear. For me those new measures- paying from 100-500 a year per country, and finding a representative in those countries (which of course also wont be for free) are unbearable. I just started and of course I need to collaborate with some creators in different countries, I need to send promotions to different dog shops.

As a one-person company and independent artist just starting to build sales, these new rules are absolutely crippling and absurd. Under this regulation, I am forced to manage a magnitude more legal representatives, reports, and bureaucracy than I do for my entire first-year startup. The financial burden falling on my small business is enormous: up to 300+ for Germany, 550+ for Sweden, and 650+ for Denmark.

Ladies and gentlemen, as solo self-employed, I fully support the protection of the environment. However, the planned bureaucratic implementation of the PPWR is absolutely untenable in practice for one-person companies. It is completely disproportionate that micro-enterprises should be subject to the same burden of proof and registration as large groups with their own legal departments.

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We support the EU's objective to reduce packaging waste and increase recycling. However, the current system of national producer registers and packaging fees creates a disproportionate burden for small businesses like ours. There is no uniform European system. Each country has different registration procedures, reporting requirements and fees.

Today, like many small craftsmen from France and Europe, I am angry and busy. On 12 August 2026, the European PPWR Law entered into force. If you’re noble, you’ll tell me... But in reality, for small businesses like mine, open less than a year ago: this is another hard blow.

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Pro-environmental solutions are necessary, and reducing packaging waste is absolutely the right direction. However, this should not come at the cost of disproportionate administrative and financial burdens for small businesses.

I would like to express my great concern and opposition to the new rules on the taxation of small businesses selling their products within the European Union. I lead a small business which is my livelihood. I do all my work myself, from product preparation, to contacting customers, to packaging and sending orders. It is not a large company that can easily incur additional, high costs.

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I believe that trying to reduce waste is a very important step forward for a more sustainable future. But this initiative destroys small businesses across Europe. The obligation is far too expensive and too complicated for a small business. An exemption threshold of any kind would be a perfect solution, as small businesses would still be able to carry the international transit.

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PPWR: an administrative and cost monster on the back of small businesses! For EACH EU country, new registrations, fees, notifications and expensive agents, even if only 1 package is sent there. Large corporations pay this out of the Portokasse, small traders are pushed out of EU trade. This destroys businesses rather than packaging waste! Is that really the intention?

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As a freelance artist, the new rules make it no longer possible for me to offer my art throughout the EU, as I simply cannot afford the bureaucratic and economic burden of registering in 27 different systems plus one authorised person in each Member State. A derogation for small and micro-enterprises would be desirable.

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We are a small Belgian online shop selling vintage and second-hand goods to customers across the EU. We support the environmental objectives of the PPWR, but the current cross-border EPR requirements are disproportionate for micro-businesses.

I strongly support the initiative to create a harmonised and simplified EPR system for small businesses as part of a broader joint initiative by entrepreneurs. The current EPR framework is unnecessarily complicated, fragmented and, in many cases, unfair to small businesses.

As a small creative business, we want to share our concerns about how the proposed PPWR would affect microbusinesses like ours. We fully support the environmental goals behind this regulation. Reducing packaging waste and moving toward a more circular economy are things we believe in, and we already try to reflect that in how we work.

As a micro-entrepreneur and artist from Austria, I am severely restricted by the new Packaging Ordinance (PPWR). The fact that there are no de minimis limits for small shops and that we have to pay hundreds of euros per year in fixed costs for bureaucratic ‘authorised representatives’ in the destination country for cross-border B2C shipping completely destroys the free EU internal market for small businesses.

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Seems to me this new and bureaucratic regulation didn't even consider small businesses. As much as I'm keen to protect the environment, this is not an ideal way to go, making it harder for small producers and people that chase special materials and packaging to call themselves sustainable when in reality huge corporations like Amazon, Temu, Shein and so many others are the real ones polluting.

I operate a small handmade business in Germany and sell through an online marketplace. I send around 30 parcels a year to 5 other EU countries. My turnover from these countries is EUR x. I am expected to pay more than EUR 1000 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.

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PPWR means I have to stop shipping into Europe. Full stop, end of story. I run a microbusiness, making and selling things from my home (in the UK). The administrative burden of PPWR is so overwhelming that I cannot possibly comply, therefore I cannot possibly sell to Europeans. I'm set up to comply with GPSR. I can just about absorb the 3 tariff on every package. This is too much.

I am a UK sole trader selling a low-volume consumer object direct to end users in the EU. My total packaging placed on the Union market is under 20 kilograms a year across all Member States combined. A harmonised format is a genuine improvement, but it reduces only the marginal cost of each filing. For the smallest producers the binding constraint is fixed, not marginal.

Can it not be imposed on packaging suppliers that they pay a fee to the local authority and that that fee is placed in a European pot and distributed among the countries? This is then passed on to the importers of the goods. The suppliers of the packaging also know much better all the weights, etc.

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This is another step forward for the EU, where the rest of world trade is deadly and we Europeans are even worse off. I am an online store system provider and my customers will be faced with new tasks with every new EU rule. Only a very large trader can cope with this in the first place. Every smaller person is once again prevented from growing. Yes, to survive.

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The objectives of the PPWR are very good – the law is more than deficient. It leads to the death of many small retailers, weakens the EU’s internal market, effectively restricts the free movement of goods and imposes enormous financial and human burdens. The following amendments should be included. A number of things are already being done at the tax level in the OSS. 1.

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The current rules place a significant burden on small and medium-sized enterprises and will severely restrict cross-border trade within the EU. For shipments to several EU Member States, we need to register separately in each country, pay different fees and comply with country-specific reporting requirements. In addition, there are different national requirements and administrative procedures.

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I am a European micro-enterprise selling small quantities of handmade products online across the EU. I fully support the environmental objectives of the PPWR and the principle of Extended Producer Responsibility.

It is self-evident that we all need to pay attention to environmentally-conscious packaging when it comes to shipping, but for this we cannot trade small businesses with new complicated bureaucracy and high costs. We have built our company with heart blood for years and with constantly new regulation you make everything unnegotiable.

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I do not understand how frivolous the EU is for almost all small businesses and forbids micro-enterprises from selling within the EU, as the burden and costs for PPWR are disproportionate. My conclusion: However, the laudable idea of sustainability is reckless and not at the end of the day a concern for small businesses.

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While standard point-of-sale labels are generally considered "integrated components" without altering EPR allocation under Art. 3(15)(a), large adhesive labels applied at processing plants or retail stores create technical challenges: Recyclability (Art.

As a small business owner sending products to many EU customers in different countries, I have to say that mandatory EPR registration fees and cross-border bureaucracy make it impossible for small independent businesses like me to sell across EU borders.If our businesses generating tax money are to survive, we need a de minimis exemption or a simplified One Stop Shop system for micro-entrepreneurs urgently.

I operate a small handmade business in Germany and sell through an online marketplace. I send around 20 packages a year to 5 other EU countries. My turnover from these countries is EUR 1500. I expect to pay around EUR 850 per year for registration and authorised representatives in these countries.

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The new law makes it disproportionately difficult for micro/small businesses to continue, it would be better to have an exception or smaller measures. For example, I just started my business and send up to 10 parcels a year to EU countries outside the Netherlands. Furthermore, one of the EU’s aims is to be able to act freely, and this law is diametrically opposed to this.

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I give my feedback as an independent maker/artist who lives in Northern Ireland on the border and who voted against brexit. Due to the fact that I cannot afford to register or have AR in various countries, I will now have to stop shipping to the EU. This includes my neighbours who live a few minutes away in ROI.

This new regulation does not take small businesses into account. It is impossible for us to pay management fees plus an annual fee for every country in the EU, regardless of whether I send 2 or 200 packages a year. Despite its good intentions, this measure could push many small and medium-sized businesses out of the market. Why not set a threshold?

Unfortunately, small and one-person businesses have been completely forgotten here – or there is a deliberate attempt to remove the very small traders from the market. If, as a small shop for me, the first countries to expand are the UK and Switzerland, because there is too much red tape and costs within the EU that militate against it, this makes the idea of the EU absurd for me.

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The changes that are forced upon us on August 12th are a death sentence for the majority of small sellers in Europe. The majority of us who want to support small businesses within the EU now cannot do that because small businesses are closing their door to the EU because of the incredibly high cost of these changes, and those of us who want to sell to the EU are forced to close our shipping and focus on countries…

Recycling, contributing and awareness is great. However for small businesses this rule is impossible. It is not clear/transparant. It should be EU wide not per country. It is very costly (to register etc) and time consuming (and also costly). And simply not easy accessible as it is very fragmented information and lots of it is unclear and difficult to find.

The requirements effectively exclude small businesses from the EU market. Registration in each country is often only possible in the national language and the costs of appointing agents per country and, in addition, the costs per country for joining a waste management company exceed any acceptable framework (not only for packaging, but also existing and future producer responsibility issues such as Texil, etc.).

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I am co-owner of a small business founded in may 2026. We recently wanted to try selling physical products of our designs. however the new packaging regulation makes it literally impossible to even try. Even though we would only be using paper envelopes in small quantities. This regulation either was never really thought through properly or distinctively tries to kill international acting sme.

Ja, **das gehört unbedingt rein**, weil es die zweite Seite des Binnenmarkt-Problems zeigt: Du kannst nicht nur schlechter **hinausverkaufen**, sondern wirst auch beim **Einkauf aus anderen EU-Staaten** eingeschränkt. I strongly support the environmental objectives of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation.

Starting August 12th, new EU packaging regulations (PPWR) require registration, local representation, and recycling fee payments in every individual country you ship to. For a small creative business selling just one painting a month to different destinations, this overhead makes selling within the EU completely unsustainable.

This regulation seems like insanity - it is impossible to follow for any small businesses. The only option is to remove certain EU countries for shipping, which hurts all small businesses and the economy. I really wonder what kind of disconnected people come up and greenlight these kind of ideas.

I am the owner of a very small, one-person business where I personally make and sell handmade, personalised products. I have been running my business for many years and have no employees. I fully support the objectives of the PPWR, particularly the reduction of packaging waste and the principle that businesses should take responsibility for the packaging they place on the market.

I hereby object to the new PPWR Act. I am a small start-up entrepreneur. I upcycle artisanal discarded furniture from wood to new niche products. I send it with packaging material that I also collect and reuse. For these niche products, I need the EU region to achieve sufficient market outlets. There is a high risk that I will have to stop my business due to additional PPWR registration fees and registration time.

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I am the head of a very small French company that I run alone. I sell my creations online and occasionally place orders in different countries of the European Union. I support the environmental objectives of the PPWR and the principle of extended producer responsibility. My concern is about its implementation for micro and small enterprises with low volumes of cross-border sales.

Filed in French · English published by the European Commission

We are a small business from Germany, creating and selling handmade jewellery online. Like many others we now have to stop shipping to other EU countries since the mandatory EPR registration fees and cross-border bureaucracy make it impossible for small independent businesses to sell across EU borders. I demand a de minimis exemption or a simplified One Stop Shop system for micro-entrepreneurs.

As a creator of micro-businesses, selling almost exclusively online, I am directly affected by these PPWR laws. While there is no debate about the need to regulate the parcel flow and the many wasted items that it entails, once again laws that have been removed from nowhere take the problem upside down, without any consideration for small businesses.

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I am a small businessman and this arrangement poses insurmountable financial hurdles for most of us. First of all, it is very good that corporations, including the food industry, are finally held accountable with their useless and pointless many packages. However, we small entrepreneurs not only look for sustainability with convictions, but every piece of paper also costs us real money.

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In the context of the consultation on the planned requirements for national producer registers under the PPWR, I would like to draw your attention to the burdens this may entail for small online traders. I have a small online shop in Innsbruck (AT) and would like to sell my products to customers in other EU Member States.

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I run a small EU-based business selling online across the Single Market. I support EPR and the principle that businesses should contribute to the cost of managing packaging waste. However, requiring separate registrations, authorised representatives and fixed compliance costs in multiple Member States creates a disproportionate burden for micro-businesses making occasional cross-border sales.

I operate a micro-business in Germany in the buying and selling sector and sell through an online marketplace. I send 500 parcels per year to 6-10 other EU countries. My turnover from these countries is less than EUR 1000. I expect to pay around EUR 2500 per year for registration and authorised representatives in these countries.

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In the context of the consultation on the planned requirements for national producer registers under the PPWR, I would like to draw your attention to the burdens this may entail for small online traders. I am a small e-commerce business and would like to sell my products to customers in other EU Member States. However, I am deeply concerned about the registration and reporting obligations associated with the PPWR.

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They call it "environmental policy," but let's be real- this has nothing to do with saving the planet and everything to do with crushing small businesses. The insane packaging requirements and mountain of paperwork won't stop climate change.

Creating at least one sustainable flat rate that is aligned across all member countries for micro and small businesses or, better yet, exempting them entirely from these new requirements, is the bare minimum, in my opinion. This insane way of handling the situation would mark the end of Europes small businesses.

Honourable Members of the European Parliament, we are writing to you as a medium-sized online trading company from Münster, which has for years sold pool and water-recreational products and games through its own shops and marketplaces, such as eBay, Amazon, Otto and Kaufland.

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These new regulations are completely not thought through enough, were any of the EU small/local businesses kept in mind at all when implementing this? Big corporations like amazon, temu and shein need to be taxed i 100% agree, but not the small businesses who rely on each individual order to sustain themselves.

While I support the goal of reducing packaging waste, I strongly believe that the initiative requires greater consideration for micro and small businesses. This will severely impact and damage micro businesses that can't justify and absorb the costs involved.

I have been running a small, sole-proprietorship art business for many years. Selling through Etsy and the ability to ship my products to various European countries has so far been one of the main ways to grow my brand and share my passion with others. The new PPWR regulations completely exclude me from this growth; the proposed solutions are unmanageable for small businesses.

"Dear Sir or Madam, As part of the consultation on the planned requirements for national manufacturer registers under the PPWR, I would like to draw attention to the burdens this may place on small online retailers.

Dear European Commission, as an online trader, I am constantly trying to package my packages as environmentally friendly as possible, to reduce my return rate and to use boxes several times. And I am absolutely in favour of every trader working for it. However, the PPWR law created a bureaucratic monster that makes it even harder for small traders like me to survive alongside the big players.

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When coming up with laws, does anybody think about the unnecessary complexity, administrative burden, and costs that it adds to small businesses in the EU? The EPR tax (because this is what it is; it's not a fee) is one of the most abusive taxes ever put on small businesses in the world, under the pretext that we have a responsibility to do good for the planet.

We are a small family-run scrapbooking and craft supplies business based in Spain, operating since 2013. As a micro-business that occasionally sells to customers across the European Union, we are increasingly concerned about how the PPWR and the different national EPR requirements will work in practice for businesses of our size. Our European cross-border activity is very small.

I strongly support the inclusion of micro-enterprises in EPR for packaging. However, the current design goes beyond the financial and administrative framework for the smallest market participants. A micro-enterprise with few individual consignments per year to other EU countries cannot be equated with a large online trader or international marketplace, neither in terms of its environmental impact nor in terms of its…

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Feedback from an EU micro-business I am the owner of a one-person knitwear and hand-dyed yarn business based in Denmark, selling directly to customers across the EU. I fully support the environmental objectives of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation. Sustainability is already an important part of my business. I deliberately minimise packaging and primarily use simple recycled paper-based packaging.

This new law has a great goal but was VERY badly executed and is weakening the EU and its commerce relations. With the ongoing tariffs happening with the US, right now is a pivotal time for EU commerce and consumers to stand together and help each other out, but instead this new law is dividing the union. This new law is only hurting small businesses who arent even the big problem when it comes to packaging waste.

As the owner of a small, family-run handmade business in Greece (handcrafted Byzantine icons and artwork), I am directly concerned about the practical impact of this initiative on micro-businesses like mine. I regularly ship orders to customers in Germany, Austria, Italy, the Netherlands, and several other EU member states.

Every big or medium company started out small, stop killing small/micro businesses. Stop robbing artists, musicians and creators from a livelihood. How about the small publishers, the zine makers, the artist selling work without being robbed by a middle man? Thinking about the environment is a great cause and all for it but the problem is a big business problem.

As a small local shop with an online shop, the new PPWR scheme is a catastrophe for shipments to other EU countries. We send around 20 parcels a year to other European countries. Total. Austria, Switzerland, France, but very rarely. Appointing and paying an authorised representative for each of these countries is disproportionate to our small volume of consignments.

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As the owner of a micro business in Germany, I fully support environmental protection and sustainable packaging. However, the current implementation of the European Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulations (PPWR) regarding national producer registers is creating insurmountable barriers for small European businesses like mine.