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

I'm very happy to see that steps are taken to reduce pollution from packaging. As someone who runs a one-person business on the side, I wouldn't mind paying an appropriate amount, but registering separately for each country is not practical for maybe 1 or 2 sales in a year. We're one EU, and pollution doesn't see borders, so there should be one entity handling this for the entire EU.

As the owner of a micro business in Germany, I am directly and significantly affected by the new European packaging requirements. I fully support environmental protection, recycling and the responsible use of packaging. Small businesses should contribute to these goals. However, the obligations must be proportionate, affordable and practically manageable. For my business, this is no longer the case.

This entire law is a monster of bureaucracy. As a small sole trader, it will no longer be possible for me to send consignments to EU countries from 12.8. I used to have around 10-20 orders per month from different EU countries. Registering in all EU countries and providing a proxy would cost me around 6000 per year. This makes no economic sense at all. Should the EU not facilitate internal trade?

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For years, we have built our business and produced unique products for the global market and sold them to almost all countries in the world. The EU is now introducing the obligation to appoint a representative in each Member State to which it sells its products and to spend tens of thousands of euros only on this representative, regardless of the number of products sold, in addition to the considerable bureaucratic…

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I run Blütenkonfetti, a German micro-enterprise producing natural dried flower confetti and handmade decorations, mainly for weddings. I sell through my own online shop and Etsy, including to customers in other EU countries. I fully support the environmental objectives of the PPWR and I am willing to register, report my packaging quantities and pay fair EPR contributions.

Please protect micro and small businesses from disproportionate packaging obligations! I am asking the European Commission to reconsider how these rules will affect micro and small businesses, especially independent makers, artists and craftspeople who sell their products online across the EU. I am one of them. I work alone, from home, creating and selling my own products.

Ladies and gentlemen, the PPWR complies with many of the rules that we have complied with since our foundation. The obligation now to have this compliance checked by paid experts/agents in each individual EU country will prevent our participation in the EU internal market as a small company (www.alasiesta.com) in the future.

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I think the thought to reduce package waist is amazing but unfortunately for our artistic jewelry business this kills every chance to do business in Europe. As many other small businesses we ship few packages per year to different European countries. We are two people doing everything on our own and just dont have enough resources (time, money) to deal with this new law.

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PPWR & Small Business Reality I opened my online store to customers across Europe, but PPWR made crossborder selling unexpectedly difficult. Instead of one EUwide system, there are 27 different packaging responsibility schemes, each with its own registrations, fees and reporting. For a small business, this is not manageable. I already use minimal, plasticfree and fully recyclable packaging.

I think the thought to reduce package waist ist amazing but unfortunately for our artistic jewelry business this kills every chance to do business in Europe. As many other small businesses we ship few packages per year to different European countries. We are two people doing everything on our own and just dont have enough resources (time, money) to deal with this new law.

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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This regulation is extremely problematic for small businesses who sell to EU member states. We might be selling in very small volumes and need to dedicate a lot of time - and, in many cases, fees - to register with all the member states we sell into and then report tiny amounts of packaging. It fails the principle of proportionality.

As a stand-alone ceramic and owner of a sole trader, I support the objective of the PPWR: less packaging waste, more reuse and a more sustainable packaging system. As a small entrepreneur, I really want to contribute to this. For this very reason, I am concerned about the current set-up of the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR).

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As the owner of an online shop, I am writing to you today with serious concern. The current rules of the Packaging Act (VerpackG) threaten the existence of micro-enterprises and start-ups in Germany. However, implementation is extremely bureaucratic and costly.

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I strongly oppose the disproportionate burden that these new regulations place on micro-businesses. I am a one-person business. I design, create, package, manage orders, deal with customers, handle shipping, marketing, administration and absolutely everything else involved in running my business. There is no legal department, compliance team or administrative staff behind me.

As of yesterday myself and many other small businesses have had to completely suspend our services to the EU and its been terribly upsetting to see. I am a lone worker for my small online shop, working from home to provide for my disabled child and these new regulations will cripple our income as a significant portion of my orders come from EU countries.

This law is devastating blow to small businesses and sole traders- who are already struggling as it is. I am a one man business, creating and selling art prints. I am already using environmentally-conscious packaging.

I am writing as a German micro-business owner to express my serious concern about the practical impact of the PPWR and associated national EPR requirements on very small businesses selling across the EU. I fully support the environmental goals of this regulation. I run a one-person ceramics business and I use only biodegradable packaging.

I strongly oppose the implementation of the PPWR in its current form because it places a disproportionate financial and administrative burden on small and micro-businesses, particularly those engaging in low-volume cross-border e-commerce. I fully support reducing packaging waste, increasing recycling and encouraging businesses to use recyclable and responsibly sourced materials.

I strongly support the objective of harmonising producer registration requirements across the EU. However, I am concerned that the current system will create a disproportionate administrative and financial burden for very small businesses selling products across EU borders, particularly small e-commerce businesses. I run a very small Dutch sole proprietorship selling handmade and small-scale products online.

Thanks to this new regulation, it is impossible for me, as a jewellery designer with handmade unikates with individual core customers abroad in the EU, to continue to serve them. My turnover will be reduced as a result of the fact that the EU’s single market, which has been promoted for years, has been discontinued. It is a testament to poverty that small businesses are thrown out of the market altogether.

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These new rules will be the end of many small/ micro businesses in Europe! I have worked in environmental education for the past 2 years and am in general very supportive of the new EU environmental regulations. But this one is a nightmare for micro businesses who, like myself, dont even make in one month what it costs to register for this new programme in a country.

The way this ruling was elaborate reflects how unaware people in the EU parlament are when it comes to commerce on the European Union. Making people need to pay thousands to send things to multiple EU countries because there is no minimum, no centralized system like OSS and creating a new market for companies to represent you in each country is so bad.

The goal of these laws is good - making companies responsible for their contribution to waste. Unfortunately, the execution makes free trade within the European Union impossible for small businesses. The first big hurdle for small businesses is the registration. The law currently will require a different method of registration for every country. While the plan is to synchronize the EU, the practice is still divided.

What are you thinking with this nonsense regulation? In the most regulated part of the world, something that even you have expressed that is limiting Europe competition for companies, now you want to destroy all small businesses that need to ship to other countries? I think it is time to start being radically anti "European Union".

While the general objective of protecting the environment is undoubtedly worth supporting, the current extent of the bureaucratic burden constitutes an unsustainable hurdle for small and micro-enterprises. It is simply not possible to meet these requirements in their current form. The core problem regarding online retail and shipping lies primarily with large corporations.

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 considerable burdens this entails, in particular for micro-enterprises and one-person enterprises. I sell only a small online shop in Germany, I am subject to VAT and I sell mostly hand-made parpeterie items.

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I am an Austrian micro-enterprise and run a small retail shop and online store. I would like to highlight the disproportionate administrative and financial burden that the current EPR requirements can create for very small businesses selling cross-border within the EU. For example, in 2025 I shipped only 32 orders to customers in Germany, resulting in approximately 1.6 kg of packaging waste.

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I fully support the goal of reducing packaging waste and improving recyclability. However, I strongly disagree with the approach being taken to achieve it. Adding further layers of bureaucracy, registration requirements, fees, reporting obligations, documentation, and compliance work is a lazy and insufficient way to address the underlying problemparticularly when these requirements are applied to micro and small…

The PPWR is a textbook case of the EU adding another layer of bureaucracy that punishes the people who can least afford it: small, independent business owners. Instead of one simplified EU-wide system befitting a "single market," we now face up to 27 separate national registrations, 27 different portals, and 27 sets of fees for the exact same obligation.

This new legislation is killing small businesses. I'm selling products across the EU, but the need to register in every country, without the possibility to do this without local representatives will cut all the margin I make. With a revenue of less than 20.000 , and the cost of these registrations running up in the thousands of euros if you count all countries, it's better to just stop.

You have to make regulation that favors the small businesses not the big corporations! The way this is planned to be implemented is the same administrative disaster as VAT-MOSS. Why the need to register with 27 individual member states. Make a central EU register that handles the complexity of the member states. One registration for the whole of the EU.

# # # EPR and PPWR: as owner of a small Dutch company, I support the objective of the PPWR: less packaging waste, more reuse and a more sustainable packaging system. However, I am deeply concerned about the current design of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR). For a microenterprise, the * * costs, administrative burden and huge lack of clarity * * are particularly problematic.

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I run a small vinyl shop in the Netherlands (1 person only) and ship only a few parcels per month to other EU countries. Under the new PPWR rules I would be required to register in every member state and pay multiple fees, even though my packaging footprint is rather small. Obviously this go for many, many other small shops as well. This is disproportional and impossible for micro-businesses to absorb.

The current organisation is completely disrupting the lives of many small businesses and is only once again helping to spread and spread Temu and Shein. I call on decision-makers to reconsider the draft so that many small businesses selling in the EU will not be forced to close due to the entry into force of the current rules.

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Of course. I propose that you keep the substance critical, but formulate it in a sufficiently reasoned and constructive manner to ensure that it is taken seriously in a European consultation. I regret that this new regulation once again results in a disproportionate administrative and financial burden for micro, self-employed, craftsmen and very small structures.

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These new rules are already driving a lot of small businesses to quit shipping all over Europe, which will likely end these businesses all together. As union we should be considerate of artisans and craft persons who have to do business in other European countries. The fees are nothing for multimillion dollar enterprises with legal teams, but for the businesses run by one singular person this is completely undoable.

The basic idea behind the law is undoubtedly good, but the current implementation threatens the existence of thousands of micro and small enterprises and the cultural sector as a whole. It also makes the idea of the European single market absurd, as this law effectively closes it to the vast majority of businesses in the EU.

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In principle, we welcome a uniform European legal framework. The European single market offers great opportunities for small and medium-sized enterprises in particular and should facilitate cross-border trade. However, we see a significant need for action in the practical implementation of the new Packaging Regulation.

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I generally welcome the objective of the PPWR to reduce packaging waste and promote more sustainable packaging solutions within the EU. However, as a micro-enterprise, I would like to draw attention to a problem that particularly affects companies with very small volumes of shipments. I operate a small painting company and send my products only in very small quantities to professional dealers.

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I'm a micro seller based in the UK with an average turnover of £37k. I run the business as a sole trader, and the EU is my 3rd biggest market. I've already lost customers since Brexit, and if micro businesses like myself aren't exempt from the new packaging regulations, I will lose all my EU customers.

Hello! I just started a small business in Germany, specializing in restoring used instruments, and selling them with a small profit. So far 50% of my orders came from outside of Germany. I sold a few instruments to France, Greece, Romania, Slovenia, and Italy. Under the new regulation, I have to stop selling entirely to all EU countries outside of Germany because it's not financially sustainable.

For a small business, the regulations stemming from the PPWR and EPR pose an insurmountable obstacle to operating in the European market. The costs associated with registration, designated contacts, and waste disposal services would currently far exceed the revenue generated by the few packages I ship to other EU countries. Consequently, serving the EU market is not economically viable for me.

Dear all, I am a small independent creator and micro-business based in the EU, selling my own illustrated products mainly through Etsy. I fully support the goal of reducing packaging waste. Small creators like me often already make a significant effort to minimise their environmental impact. I reuse packaging materials whenever possible, choose recyclable materials and keep packaging to a minimum.

Hello, although I respect the initiative to seek to reduce the waste associated with the shipment of goods, I find it absurd to keep multinationals and individual companies in the same place. I am myself an illustrator in a self-enterprise; the whole process of creating, printing and sending orders is done by me alone, with my means, and I earn barely enough to live every month.

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The mandatory Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) registration requirements under PPWR have made cross-border EU sales economically unviable for micro-entrepreneurs like myself. The regulation incentivizes consolidation, harming market diversity. Small businesses are not the target of PPWR large packaging producers are. We urge the Commission to implement exemptions for micro-entrepreneurs.

I wonder how the authors of that regulation could not have been aware that they thereby excluded a large proportion of European online traders from the internal market. How can EU bureaucracy be detached from reality? In any case, we will have to stop intra-European trade, as this vexatious regulatory burden is breathing the air in every respect.

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1. Business Context & Investment in EU Operations Weirdstock is an independent UK-based homewares and textile brand specialising in 100% organic cotton bedding. To ensure seamless, fully compliant trade with European customers, we have undertaken significant restructuring over the past two years: - Establishing an EU fulfillment partnership via a 3PL warehouse based in the Netherlands.

I operate a small owner-run business in Germany and produce personalised gift items. In Germany, I am registered in the LUCID packaging register and share my shipping packaging in a dual system. I support the objectives of the European Packaging Regulation to reduce packaging waste, improve recyclability and ensure appropriate producer responsibility.

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The way PPWR changes things is deeply concerning and should be inspected by CJEU as it looks like a lobbied regulation to eliminate small companies from EU-wide ecommerce. I am not against raising environment responsibility and awarness, but it shouldn't look this way which promotes only big companies for which complying with those new regulations will be much more easier than for other smaller ones. F.e.

British artist and screenprinter living in Germany. I am self employed, I make limited edition printed t-shirts and small artwork. The inability to ship throughout Europe would eliminate most of my income. I would have to register as unemployed. These rules are bad for all independent and small businesses.

I support the environmental objective of making producers contribute fairly to packaging-waste costs. However, EPR as currently organised has become a serious obstacle to the EU Single Market. A small EU business selling cross-border may have to register separately in every Member State in which even a small quantity of packaged goods is sold, deal with different authorities and producer-responsibility…

Urgent need for a de minimis threshold and simplified compliance for non-EU micro-businesses. As a UK micro-business creating contemporary jewellery, I am deeply concerned by the financial and administrative burdens of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR). While I support the green transition, the framework treats low-volume independent artisans identically to multi-billion-dollar e-commerce giants.

As a US-based artisan and small business owner, the new PPWR has made my decision very simple: It will no longer be worth either the time or expense to ship products to any EU countries outside of Germany. After today I will, with regret, be closing sales to the other 26 nations. Having discussed this with others artisans, I know I am far from alone in this decision.

Hello, I think the basic initiative is commendable, reduce waste and increase the “greenest” packagings possible. As regards the origin of the packaging, I am in favour. May be allowed some time for those who still have boxes that are not compliant, as it would ultimately be worse for the environment to dispose of them.

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The new rules on European transit, which apply from 12 August, are, to put it mildly, acceptable for small businesses. I closed my online shop for the EU territory tomorrow! The losses in transit do not amount to millions. But I still live there. Is there nobody who is concerned about how book binders, ceramics and all other manufacturing trades will now disappear from the European market?

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The current implementation of the PPWR creates a significant burden for small businesses and individual entrepreneurs who want to ship products within Europe. For many small businesses, it is extremely difficult to understand which registrations, applications, reporting requirements, and fees apply in each individual country.

As a small business with just one owner and worker, I cannot afford the cost of registrations in any Eu countries. This means I can now only ship within the Netherlands, where I am based. There must be a solution with exceptions for small businesses otherwise many will go bankrupt...

To whom it may concern. As an entrepreneur from Romania, I view the EU single market as the most important advantage of belonging to the EU. Being able to buy products from various vendors across the union is extremely important to the cohesion of the EU, and as a seller of custom goods, having access to 450 million potential customers ensures a higher chance of success, contributes to the growth of the business…

Hello, I am a homemade jewellery company in France, a solo company without employees, sending a few parcels a year to other Member States. Article 45 (3) of Regulation (EU) 2025/40 requires me to provide a service provider for remuneration in each Member State where a customer orders. I oppose this and support the suspension provided for in Article 2 of COM (2025) 982, calling for it to become a deletion.

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Dear European Commission, I am a one-person micro-business based in Berlin, Germany, where I have lived and paid taxes for the past ten years. I run a small independent record label, distributing vinyl LPs and CDs. I fully support the EUs environmental objectives and the reduction of packaging waste.

The basic idea is very good, but it is 1. Far too much time. 2. Online shops selling goods produced in the EU and generating less than 2000 sales in an EU country should be exempt for that country. 3. No authorised representatives, or EU agencies in the country, or foreign trade agencies are available. 4. Clearer rules. For example, we have disputes with some suppliers about who is a producer. 5.

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This legislation does not distinguish between large companies or micro-enterprises or small artists who want to sell their products, thereby only favouring the disappearance of small businesses because they are literally unable to meet the costs of this regulation, even making a distinction if they use biodegradable and locally purchased packaging, it is absurd.

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We are happy to be part of the European Union. For small businesses in particular, Europe offers tremendous opportunities. The European single market allows us to develop, manufacture and sell products to other Member States without having to look at 27 completely different markets. This is why we are concerned about the PPWR. We strongly support the objective of greater harmonisation.

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- please excempt small businesses from having an AR, because its a disproportionate measure towards us. We cannot justify the costs. - Please harmonise the registration or exempt us from registration, because its a disproportionate burden on small businesses. We cannot afford to hire someone to do it for us, so we would have to do it ourselves - this goes against the movement of goods.

I am a small ecommerce brand. Almost all of my orders are sold in Spain. I sell one or two orders per month to France, Belgium and Germany. There is no way I will pay for a packaging representative in those countries. I think the EU have no idea the burden they place on small businesses to comply with laws.

The regulations on geo-blocking and PPWR do not fit in this way. It is impossible for small traders, traders and craftsmen to bear the costs and effort of registering in all EU countries. 10 % of my orders come from abroad, mostly from the EU. But in some countries I often send only 1 package per year, e.g. Bulgaria. And you don’t even know this in advance.

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Ladies and gentlemen, I am rather critical of the new, planned requirements for the national producer registers under the PPWR, especially for micro-enterprises, of which I am one. A micro-entrepreneur can hardly bear the additional costs of shipping to the relevant EU country to which he wishes to send under the PPWR, as well as the enormous red tape involved.

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This new initiative, although sounds like a good idea, is effectively going to kill small business. Ive been in business, shipping all over the world including the EU, for the past 18+ years. It will kill my small business. Im an artist/maker and cant afford the time nor the financial burden this will cause. Ive lost business and this has interrupted my shipping process already!

The proposal builds on the EU’s efforts to develop the circular economy and digitalisation. In reality, its adoption will mean that large firms will have to invest in IT systems linked to state registries, which is likely to simplify their administrative processes in the long run.

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I am a small business owner who just started selling my art and while I fully support the idea behind those new rules, I will also say that they are deeply unfair and will destroy many small businesses like mine while big companies will barely be affected by it.

Ladies and gentlemen, your intention to reduce packaging waste is something I can only support. However, implementation does not take place, as: Even if small shops and shops have to bear the same bureaucratic burden and costs as big players, trade, craftsmanship and thus cultural diversity will rapidly disappear.

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Notification of packaging and quantities is currently already mandatory in Germany for organisations such as Lucid. The purpose of an EU should not be to impose further barriers to trade or additional rules, regulations, etc. in the EU’s internal trade.

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I am a German micro-business selling genuine vintage and second-hand clothing online. My business is extremely small, and the income from it is my only source of income. I fully support the environmental objectives of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation. I have always tried to operate in an environmentally responsible way.

It is fair to say that most small and micro business have been taking the environmental impact of their packaging seriously for years. We recycle and re-use as much as possible many of us alerting customers to this and encouraging further use of the same packaging. These new regulations will disproportionally burden small makers who are already being overrun by increased red tape processes.

The single market was a great idea and a small business was also able to sell niche products to customers and supporters across the EU via a webstore. Toll! However, the emphasis is on ‘was’. In the meantime, red tape, time spent on administration and the costs incurred in addition to the actual costs such as manufacturing, shipping, personnel, etc. are no longer proportionate to the turnover.

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I am a micro business based in the UK that has many customers in the EU. I have had to suspend shipping to the EU because the cost and time required to comply with the various packaging and waste-disposal regulations are unreasonable.

I am the owner of a small, owner-managed business. We have no dedicated administrative or compliance staff. We fully support the goals of the EU Packaging Regulation, particularly reducing packaging waste and improving recycling. However, the increasing administrative requirements are becoming disproportionate for businesses of our size.

What kind of EU is this that is essentially destroying the single market with excessive regulation? Environmental protection and the Packaging Ordinance > All of this is right and important! But if there is a united EU, then there should also be a single registration authority within the EU!

**Subject: Concerns Regarding the New EU Packaging Regulations and Their Impact on Small Businesses** I work for a small, independent business that has been operating for more than 40 years. Like many small businesses, we are facing increasingly difficult economic conditions. As inner city retail continues to decline in Germany, our online store has become an essential part of keeping the business viable.

The absence of a unified system to keep a micro or small business in compliance with EPR in all european country places a burden on micro and small businesses that is simply a death sentence for many, and a drag to any aspiring creator. Only big corporations have the means to comply to this new plan. It is dangerous for small artist, creators and cultur creator all around europe.

As the owner of a small, one-person French jewellery brand, I fully support the EUs objective of reducing packaging waste and making packaging more sustainable. However, the rules must remain proportionate to the size and reality of micro-businesses.

We are a micro-enterprise from Germany and sell our products online to customers in other EU Member States. For us, 12 August 2026, the date of application of Regulation (EU) 2025/40 (PPWR), is unfortunately a turning point in the negative sense. First: We do not question Extended Producer Responsibility as such. We believe that we pay for the packaging we actually place on the market and we strongly support it.

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As a small business from Germany selling online, the cost (in the lower 5 digits per year) and administrative burden of this new regulation is unbearable for us. A small business simply cannot afford it. It goes against everything that the EU stands for.

We are an Estonian SME engaged in e-commerce and direct B2B sales across the EU. In 2026 alone, we have already received orders from customers in 25 EU Member States. This is not because we operate 25 national businesses it is simply how the Single Market works: customers find our website and place orders from across Europe. The proposed harmonised registration and reporting format is welcome.

Grässlin Zeitschalttechnik GmbH welcomes the objectives pursued by Regulation (EU) 2025/40. These include, in particular, strengthening effective Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), transparent collection of packaging quantities and promoting a well-functioning European internal market.

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The upcoming changes to the EPR regulations will have a disastrous effect on micro and small businesses. I own a fulfilment house and distribution company serving a niche market, shipping from the Netherlands to customers throughout the EU. Under the new system, nearly 80% of our customers will no longer be able to ship within the EU at all, because of the additional administrative burden and the associated costs.

We are keen to reduce packaging waste and already have packaging licences for Germany and France. We are also happy to pay for other packaging we send for the respective countries, but I do not understand what you need a contact person/authorised representative in each country? Can we be contacted by email at any time? If it is enforced as planned, we simply cannot send anything to most EU countries.

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The new regulation hits me disproportionately hard. I am a sole trader and in a few cases I also send material packages to other EU countries to support my digital products. I buy my (blank) shipping boxes both from Germany and from other EU countries.

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This new regulation is devestating to my small business. The minimum costs of registering and reporting in every single country is too high to be viable to small businesses. We don't have a problem with contributing to the recycling programmes, but to register in every country with high anual fees and authorised rep costs makes it impossible.

Moin! Sorry, this is the final curtailment of free trade. If years ago we were still able to send our customers around the world without any problems, it will be further constrained by ever-new rules. We are now a small company focusing on clothes with Eastoldtime motifs. We have always taken care to minimise the generation of packaging waste. We reuse a very large proportion of our cartons.

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Ladies and gentlemen, in principle, I support the objective of such a law and consider that greater responsibility for packaging would be appropriate. For micro-enterprises, however, practical implementation is a huge bureaucratic and financial burden. I run a business with only two people, I and an employee. We sometimes send only one to five packages per year to some EU countries.

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I support the environmental objectives of the PPWR and the principle that businesses should take responsibility for the packaging they place on the market. As a small independent business, I already make a conscious effort to minimise packaging, use recyclable materials, avoid unnecessary plastic and manage waste responsibly. I consider the environmental goals of the PPWR both important and justified.

It makes no sense to overburden its small business with such requirements – financially, how organisationally we are put on an equal footing with large corporations that have very different resources (also disproportionately contribute more to the waste issue!) – for us this can mean that we can no longer participate! If that is the aim, ok, if not then you will also have to think about something else!

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Environmental protection yes but it must remain manageable for small businesses I fully support the goals of the PPWR. Reducing packaging waste, increasing recycling and using resources responsibly are important, and small businesses should also do their part. The problem, however, is the bureaucracy that comes with it.

As a micro enterprise (sale of old books) based in France, currently operating 25 % of my figure in the EU, this measure is disastrous. Firstly, in terms of its cost: my bookshop will reduce its national markets in the EU, so as to keep only the 1 or 2 for which the balance of turnover and expenditure generated by the measure remains positive.

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As a slow fashion brand owner, running my small business alone, I truly think it is a good think there are now coming rules for packaging. I do my utmost already by choosing sustainable options in materials and for orders in NL I give my clients the option for reusable packaging as well. But this law will make it unable for me to continue shipping to other EU countries.

In principle, I agree that packaging waste should be reduced and that companies should be held responsible for this. However, I find it grossly negligent that ALL companies are packed together in this process. Large corporations are the ones that carry most shipping and packaging waste around the world. It is also these who can easily afford to comply with the new, stricter requirements.

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These rules make it prohibitive for any small business to sell to the EU. I can see how this could be an attempt to enforce more sustainability and reduce waste, and I realise that someone has to pay for proper disposal of packaging, but the requirements of this are ridiculous for a small business. It clearly favours the large corporations who have vast funds and resources to be able to comply.

disproportionate burden on micro-enterprises Dear Sir/Madam, I operate a small handmade business in Germany and I sell homemade personalised products also to customers in other EU Member States. In principle, I support the objectives of the PPWR in terms of waste prevention, recycling and more sustainable use of packaging. However, I am very concerned about the practical implementation of EPR for micro-enterprises.

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I am the owner of a small independent record label selling vinyl records directly to customers in several EU countries. I support the EUs environmental goals and already use minimal, recyclable cardboard packaging to protect records during transport. However, micro-enterprises should not be subject to packaging reporting obligations, registration requirements or additional packaging-related costs.

Ladies and gentlemen, as the owner of a small business in Germany, I would like to express my deep concern and dissatisfaction with the increasing bureaucratic requirements related to the new EU Packaging Regulation and its implementation in Germany. In principle, I support the objective of reducing packaging waste, promoting recycling and protecting our environment in a sustainable way.

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If this law continues, I can stop my business almost equally. I am now sending antiques and vintage across Europe and beyond. For each item, I need a completely different type of packaging. I have been using old boxes from supermarkets and other companies for many years now. Same for the filling material. I only buy the adhesive tape new.

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Absolutely ridiculous to put micro/small businesses to ransom like this. This will kill business done throughout the EU. It is not financially feasible nor logistically feasible to make you have a representative in every EU country you may want to do business with.

I sell books and tabletop gaming products all over the world. Mine is a small part-time operation that can't sustain a full-time employee year-round. However, I provide work for nearly ten freelance collaborators. Half of our sales occur in the U.S. Since the tariff issues, we have refocused on EU sales, which now account for about 40% of the total.

We are a small Swiss cosmetics retailer selling cross-border to consumers throughout the EU. We fully support the environmental objectives of the PPWR and extended producer responsibility. We believe that businesses placing packaging on the market should contribute fairly to the costs of its collection and recycling.

I am one of France’s small businesses. I sell jewellery made of silver and natural stone and, in my turn, share with you my views on this new regulation to which we are subject. I am ok about reducing the impact of waste and have not waited for the law to apply it within my company. I buy my packaging from a French supplier, my cartons are 100 % recycled and recyclable, and the exact size of the products I send.

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I am a solo business of 1, Im an artist and writer and I sell my art and books all over the world, EU included. However there is no way that I can afford to do so with these new rules. I already use only recycled and recyclable packaging, the environment is so important to me, but like others, this will end any business I had remaining after brexit. Please reverse this and save our businesses.

I support reducing packaging waste, I already reuse as much packaging as I can and purchase only new if I have to.. Yet this EU regulation risks favouring large corporations over the very small businesses that make Europe diverse. I am a one-person leatherwork artisan, using locally sourced leather to create high-quality products by hand, which I then sell to customers across Europe.

The current A.R. rule disproportionately affects micro and small businesses. These enterprises should either be exempt or offered financially feasible alternatives. Furthermore, the PPWR/EPR registration process needs to be harmonized across all EU member states to prevent unreasonable administrative hurdles.

The regulation is unclear and thys cannot be executed or enforced. It seems to be aimed at hampering open trade cross-borders in Europe. Unclear if webshops who buy packaging for shipping products have to do anything. According to EU regulation, weshops cannot just point to terms and conditions, but have to specify in clear, understandable text.

I support the European Unions goal of reducing packaging waste and promoting more sustainable production and consumption. Businesses should reduce unnecessary packaging and use materials with a lower environmental impact. My concern is that the PPWR may create a disproportionate burden for micro, small and medium-sized businesses engaged in cross-border trade within the EU.

If the reporting obligation applies to all countries, the PPWR should provide a platform where the use of packaging materials can be reported to all countries in the same place. It is extremely difficult to register POs in their own language in their own country, let alone in each EU country. Our company, Kameratori Oy, sells products from Finland via e-commerce to all European countries.

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This law goes against the Single Market benefits of the European Union and disrupts the small businesses and emerging businesses capacity to participate in the market. Every single citizen in the EU pays taxes including taxes related to waste management.

I have just set up my micro-enterprise and my treasury does not need this new tax. For all small businesses, this is a big sum compared to the turnover we manage to make. And for me, who has not yet started selling, it is even worse. All the more so as we have not been warned by any body and this is the total surprise. Please reconsider this tax below a certain turnover.

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Hello, this Regulation in its current form is a mere bureaucratic monster which basically restricts market access for micro and small businesses, as they cannot afford the costs of agents in countries other than their own. Why is there no central body such as ECHA?

Filed in German · English published by the European Commission

Sgduh, I do not fully understand this regulation. This is also the case for lawyers in Austria. So we have highly endowed lawyers in the EU Commission, who cannot write clearly, and highly endowed lawyers in Austria, who cannot understand what you prescribe. Everything at the expense of the population who works every day and pays the taxes you consume.

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Ladies and gentlemen, I run a small business in which I myself produce and sell 3D-printed products to private customers. My turnover with customers in other EU Member States is less than EUR 10.000 per year. The resulting packaging volumes are therefore very low.

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Dear European Commission, I am writing as a micro-entrepreneur based in Belgium, sending only 2 - 5 shipments per month exclusively in reused packaging. While I fully support the environmental goals of the new Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), I am deeply concerned that its current implementation is disproportionately harming the smallest businesses during a period of economic hardship and labour…

This regulation is devastating for hundreds of thousands of micro businesses across the EU. We simply don't have the resources to handle the extra administration and the costs. It will put so many out of business and, very importantly, is a major barrier to the free movement of goods - surely a corner stone of EU policy?

We are an independent publisher and send some items abroad (inside and outside the European Union). We have always made a huge effort to ensure that the packaging in which you follow books has the lowest possible environmental impact. We reuse cardboard boxes, try to make the boxes small, reuse filling materials, etc.

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I am a microbusiness owner from Latvia, selling fishing lures as a oneperson independent entrepreneur. Mandatory EPR registration fees, separate national packaging systems, and complex crossborder compliance bureaucracy make it practically impossible for very small businesses and microenterprises to sell across EU borders.

Theben AG supports the objectives of Regulation (EU) 2025/40, in particular effective extended producer responsibility, transparent packaging volume data and a functioning European internal market. However, the implementation of the national registers of producers should not create new barriers to cross-border trade.

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The new PPWR regulation comes on top of already financially burdensome constraints for artists, craftsmen and micro-entrepreneurs. We already pay several hundred euros every year for parcels in our own country. It is difficult to manage when you are struggling to earn a salary that often does not even reach the smic.

Filed in French · English published by the European Commission

I must express my huge disappointment in the work and decisions of the EU with respect to introducing PPWR. This initiative literally destroys the small business I created 18 months ago. I call upon you to take action and stop this nonsense. Do you want competition, or do you plan to strengthen the monopoly of a few large cooperations? Sincerely, but utterly disappointed.

As a small company that sends few parcels a year abroad in Europe, we cannot pay an authorised person and bear the bureaucratic burden. We call for an exemption for small businesses that only sell small quantities and, in some cases, also recyclable packaging that would otherwise have had to be disposed of anyway.

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I am one of the many solo traders who will stop EU shipping with this. With a volume of less than 20 packages sent to other EU countries (in total, not per country) per year, this is more a customer service act than a source of revenue - especially as keeping up with regulations and postal fee changes already requires quite some time.

I am a one person business trading in vintage and antiques, and shipping very small amounts to different eu countries. I use a platform for this, with no possibility to restrict countries I can't sell to due to this regulation from others. And I can't afford to register in countries I might never sell to. So this will cut my entire possibility to sell anything other than to my own country. Is this free trade?

By appointing an authorised representative in each EU country I want to send to, the costs and bureaucracy go beyond any profit. It is laconic for 500 turnover (not profit) to pay 200 to a person who does exactly what? Compare a number? Amazon’s incredibly good lobbying. What they paid for and thereby win, respect. Honest. This completely destroyed the European idea. Congratulate.

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Hello, this regulation is a disaster for all small, micro and craft enterprises. These small, often one-person, structures do not have the means at all to pay the fees in each country to send possibly one or two parcels per year.

Filed in French · English published by the European Commission

I have recently started a very small handmade ceramics business in Portugal. My sales volumes are still low, and the amount of packaging I place on the market is extremely small. I would like to sell my products to customers across the EU through my online shop. However, the packaging EPR requirements under the PPWR make this increasingly difficult for a microbusiness like mine.

Hello, I also have a small business, which is now forced by the new Packaging Act, like most of my competitors, to give up shipping to EU countries. For us small traders, it is financially impossible to pay an authorised representative for each country across Europe. Has the EU been set up to remove trade barriers? I would ask you to put in place practical arrangements for small-scale farmers.

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I feel like these new regulations are being too harsh on small businesses, that send only a few packages a year to other eu countries and will no longer be able to profit from trading inside the eu. I already saw a lot of businesses closing their sales outside the borders of their home country, including myself.

Im writing as a solo, self-employed illustrator running a small online shop that ships physical goods (prints, stickers, small paper products) to customers across many countries, including several EU member states. I want to flag the disproportionate impact this initiative will have on businesses like mine. The core problem: compliance scales with country count, not with size.

Feedback from a small cross-border EU business I am a small sole trader established in the Netherlands, selling my own products directly to consumers across the EU. My packaging quantities are extremely small, typically only a few kilograms per Member State per year. My main concern is the requirement to appoint an authorised representative for EPR in each Member State where this is required.

I am writing as a small business owner based in Lithuania to express my serious concern about the practical impact of the new Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) and, in particular, the administrative burden its implementation places on small businesses selling across the European Union. I fully support the goal of reducing packaging waste and making packaging more sustainable.

Its frankly impossible for most micro-businesses to comply with this and as a consequence most tiny (sustainable, eco friendly, artisan) EU and third country companies will stop shipping outside their own country and/or into the EU. This cant be the intention surely?

My partner and I run a micro manufacturing business in the UK, making cycling components. A major part of our business is supplying EU-based national cycling federations, professional teams and amateur riders. Our margins are small, because we manufacture everything from scratch in the UK.

Feedback on the implementation of the EU Packaging Regulation (PPWR) We are a small business in Germany and trade in carefully selected vintage and design objects. Our products are mostly individual items, so we only send comparatively small quantities and do not send standardised goods in large quantities.

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For a small vineyard such as ours, the Packaging Regulation cannot be implemented. The additional bureaucracy makes our EU exports completely unprofitable, as the delegation for each EU country exceeds the profit. This makes it difficult for small businesses such as ours to access the EU market. Taking into account the current crisis in the wine sector, this is a disastrous signal.

Filed in German · English published by the European Commission

This law is an absolute catastrophe for small businesses, solopreneurs and freelancers, including their customers and clients, the economy of each of the european countries and more. While I understand the need for recycable packaging and more mindful handling of waste, bigger corporations usually cause much more harm in that area and small business owners will be forced to shut down their operations because of the…

I run a microbusiness in the Netherlands selling small craft supplies to customers in different EU countries. I already register where required and pay packaging recycling fees. I am not against EPR or paying for the packaging I put on the market. The problem is that every country has its own system.

As someone with a small art business, this change will impact me very negatively. I depend most of sales from EU based customers and these extra charges will not sustain many of us small artists. Please reconsider this decision and think about the thousands of small businesses that may no longer be with us due to this change.

From the perspective of a sole proprietor, the proposed EPR framework risks creating a de facto fragmentation of the EU Single Market. The administrative and financial burden appears out of all proportion for micro, small businesses and sole proprietors.

I operate a micro-enterprise in the creative sector in Germany and sell through an online marketplace. I send out totals each year 20 parcels to 10 other EU countries. A total of less than 3 kg of cardboard is produced for disposal. My turnover from these countries is total. EUR 2000. I am expected to pay totals for registration and authorised representatives in these countries. EUR 5000 per year.

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Obligation to act as an authorised representative: disproportionate burden and de facto barrier to entry for micro-enterprises We are an Austrian cosmetics manufacturer with two employees and develop, produce and fill themselves. Our main markets are Austria and Germany.

Filed in German · English published by the European Commission

This is the end of the EU’s single market for small and medium-sized online traders. The PPWR and the obligation to appoint national representatives are the de facto exclusion of micro and small enterprises from the EU internal market.

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I make handmade jewellery in silver and gold. I was going to provide worldwide shipping, but I guess it's no longer going to happen. I cannot justify paying hundreds of euro's to ship maybe once or twice a year to a single country. Let alone to 27 countries. This law only makes sense for big corporations like Zalando, Shein and AliExpress, but not to small or starting businesses such as mine.

As a small business and artist (see), I generally welcome the objective of upholding environmental standards and harmonising Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) schemes. However, I would like to stress the immense hurdles that such schemes pose for micro and small enterprises.

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I am a micro-business owner running a handmade studio that creates handcrafted accessories from natural, high-quality materials. Unlike fast fashion, my products are made to last. I fully support the EU's environmental goals, but this new packaging regulation will unintentionally crush small artisans. My volume is tinyI send only 1 to 10 parcels a year to a single EU country.

There is an urgent need to introduce a micro-enterprise and small-business exemption before this law moves forward. This legislation will disproportionately harm small businesses like mine that are already struggling to survive.

Feedback on the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation I am the owner of a small craft kit business based in Scotland, UK, and I am writing in support of the many small and microbusinesses, makers, artists and independent creative businesses across the EU who will be affected by these new packaging requirements.

You urgently need to add a micro enterprise/small business exemption before continuing ahead with this law. This will destroy small businesses like mine. The administrative demands on top of the financial burden or registration in each EU member country is unviable. We will have to stop shipping to the EU. Thats crazy. Why would you want to destroy internal trade (the very opposite of the original goal of the EU).

I handmade jewellery, plastic-free, sustainable, high-quality materials. When it comes to shipping, I pay great attention to the environment, GoGreen Label, as well as all plastic. As a small business, it is absolutely impossible for me to cover the costs of the representatives of each EU country. I would only work to be able to send.

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We produce natural soaps in the manufacturing plant. The Cosmetics Regulation obliges us to affix a paper tape in order to declare the ingredients. The new rules on packaging mean that our EU internal market business, which is only just growing, is being disrupted, while competitors from outside the EU are increasingly entering the market with allegedly sustainable products by air freight from overseas.

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I am a small business owner in France. I am fully committed to complying with regulation, and I strongly support initiatives aimed at reducing packaging waste. I am also prepared to pay meaningful contributions toward the environmental cost of the packaging we place on the market. That being said, the current approach to EPR compliance for cross-border businesses is simply not workable.

Hi, I'm a small business, based in the EU, and only ship small quantities outside of the EU, and very little inside. Most of my products are drop-shipped by other companies. Small businesses such as mine already have so much to contend with because of many new EU laws, and this is just one more that makes life very complicated. Can you please give very clear guidance on what to do, and make the costs achievable.

I have been working in cosmetics for 20 years. We were looking forward to this regulation to really make single market a reality by: - unifying labelling requirements for recycling for the whole of the EU - not done - unify packaging standards (so that France especially doesnt come up with random local rules) - not done Instead of prioritising what really matters to the companies to access the single market, the…

I operate a small business and produce hobby items for RC models. https://buerokratieabbau.bvmw.de/iele Customers come from the EU. Leaving aside the question of whether one is a producer or a producer, the procedure for notifying participation in the national packaging system in each Member State is de facto an exclusion of all small businesses from the internal market and will lead to the cessation of EU transit.

Filed in German · English published by the European Commission

This scheme is a catastrophe for small online traders like me: I send it almost to all EU countries, but sometimes only small turnovers of a few 100 per year. If I had to register with an agent in all these countries, this would cost me a number of 1000, disproportionate to the turnover achieved in each country.

Filed in German · English published by the European Commission

As a sole entrepreneur, I am deeply concerned about the disproportionate burden the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) places on cross-border micro-enterprises. Micro-businesses are not the primary cause of packaging waste.

Ladies and gentlemen, I welcome in principle the aim of the new EU Packaging Regulation to reduce packaging waste, improve the recyclability of packaging and make companies more responsible for the packaging they place on the market.

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I am concerned about the new regime for micro-enterprises. An authorised representative in each EU country is administratively and financially unfeasible for small businesses. Only with several hundred orders per year in a country could the costs be absorbed. In general, small businesses are already struggling to deal with the big players, and with such a regulation the smaller ones will be even smaller.

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EPR compliance was alerady a buden on our small Amazon business. Now that it is being enforced in countries across the EU, with each country requiring it's own registration, this is a huge problem. It is costly and time consuming and promises very little reward.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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