Tarafex

Your customer sent a packaging data sheet. Answer it once.

The regulation is not what asks you first

The EU Packaging Regulation — PPWR, Regulation (EU) 2025/40 — has applied since 12 August 2026. Registration is national: country by country, most of them with no minimum quantity, so one parcel across a border is enough.

But the first letter rarely comes from a ministry. It comes from the brand above you in the chain, as a spreadsheet to fill in by hand and a declaration to sign — recycled content, country of manufacture, additives, barriers, adhesives, test references. Then the next customer sends their own version of the same table, and you type it all again.

Packaging data, kept once and reused

• Catalogue Every packaging item with its weight per unit, and where that weight came from: weighed by us, supplier specification, manufacturer's published figure, or an estimate. Beside it the compliance data a customer asks for — recycled content post-consumer and post-industrial, country of manufacture, density, additives, barriers, adhesives, composition, test references. A blank field is allowed. An unweighed item cannot go on a shipment.
• Recipes Which packaging goes with which product. Written once; a shipment then needs a count, not a form. Sending ninety of a batch written for sixty scales it and says so.
• Packaging data sheet The table your customer asked for, exported from data you already hold — not retyped into their template. One row per component. A column nobody has filled in comes out blank rather than guessed at.
• Declaration of conformity Issued and signed against Articles 5 to 12 of the regulation, from the same catalogue rows, so it cannot contradict the data sheet you already sent. Tarafex declares nothing on your behalf.
• Supplier link A link you send instead of an attachment. Your supplier answers on their own screen, with no account, and what they send lands in your catalogue under their name and the date.
• The assistant, in your own language It sits in the corner of every screen and answers in the language you write in — all twenty-four of the Union's. It knows the manual and every screen. It will not tell you whether your packaging complies.
• Placed on the market Kilograms per material and per country for the period, reusable packaging held apart from single-use, and documented weight shown against estimated. The figure you file, ready to file.

Three things Tarafex is not

It does not register you in any country. It does not act as your authorised representative. It does not pay a compliance scheme on your behalf. Those are services, not software — Tarafex produces the figures and the documents behind them, and stops there.

It is also not Taraflex, the sports flooring. Tarafex is a Vivifex product for packaging data.

In the language the work is done in

Packaging vocabulary does not travel. A Polish producer will not run compliance in English, and neither will a German or a Dutch one. Tarafex is built so that a language is a dictionary rather than a second site. Every language Tarafex serves sits as a dictionary on the same pages, not as one copy of the product per language.

The assistant does not wait for the page to be translated: it already answers in all 24 official EU languages, so a Polish or a Czech user can ask in their own words from the first day.

Answered in the open, not behind a login

Questions

What is Tarafex?

Tarafex is packaging data for a workshop that already ships. You record each packaging item once — material, weight of one unit, where that weight came from — and reuse it as the data sheet a customer emails you, the EU declaration of conformity, and the kilograms per country an EPR scheme files.

What is a packaging data sheet?

A table a buyer emails down the chain: each component of the packaging a product travels in, with recycled content, weight, country of production, composition, and the other columns their template happens to name. Tarafex writes it from the catalogue and the recipe, one row per component, and leaves a column blank rather than guessing.

What is PPWR?

The EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation — Regulation (EU) 2025/40 — applied from 12 August 2026. It is the rule that asks for a declaration of conformity (Article 39, model in Annex VIII) against the requirements in Articles 5 to 12. Registration for the waste, EPR, stays national.

Does Tarafex register me for EPR?

No. It does not register you in any country, does not act as an authorised representative, and does not pay a scheme. It produces the kilograms, country by country, reusable held apart, that you or your accountant hand over in the shape they ask for.

Does Tarafex decide whether my packaging complies?

No. The person whose name is on the declaration decides that. Tarafex will not tick Articles 5, 6 or 10 for you, will not invent a weight, and the in-app assistant is forbidden from judging compliance.

Is Tarafex the same as Taraflex?

No. Taraflex is a sports-flooring brand belonging to someone else. Tarafex is a Vivifex product for packaging data.

How much does Tarafex cost?

€129 a month, VAT excluded. Fourteen days to try the whole tool. The assistant — twenty-four official EU languages — is included.