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Packaging EPR in Bulgaria
No separate packaging producer register was found on the ministry pages read; compliance is evidenced through the recovery organisation or the product fee paid to PUDOOS. Whether a PPWR producer register has been set up is not established.
Checked 2026-09-03 · 3 sources · 3 open questions
- Register
- no separate packaging producer register found — the duty runs through the product fee to PUDOOS or membership of a recovery organisation
- Authority
- МОСВ (ministry); ИАОС receives the data; ПУДООС collects the product fee
- Law
- ЗУО; Наредба за опаковките и отпадъците от опаковки; Наредба за продуктовата таксаTWO ROUTES, and the choice is visible in public orders: either join a recovery organisation (Екопак, Екобулпак, Еко Партнърс and others) or fulfil individually — otherwise you pay the PRODUCT FEE to PUDOOS. ⚠️ the minister publishes ORDERS naming, per organisation, which of its members must and must not pay the fee for a given year — membership alone is not a guarantee.
- Who registers
- You register yourself in the national system
- Reporting
- Annually, by 31 Marchannually by 31 March those placing packed goods on the market give ИАОС the previous year’s data on heavy-metal concentration and hazardous-substance content in the packaging, and on quantities used for packing hazardous chemicals. 🔑 a producer outside a collective system must, ON REQUEST FROM ITS DISTRIBUTORS, certify with a declaration and a copy of the payment document that the product fee was paid FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL TRANSACTION.
- Also required
- A recovery organisation, or the product fee
- Household packaging schemes
- Ecopack Bulgaria, Ecobulpack, Bulecopack, Ecopartners, Ecocollect
- Industrial packaging schemes
- Ecopack Bulgaria, Ecobulpack, Bulecopack, Ecopartners
What is not settled
- Register Not established at sourceNo packaging producer register in the PPWR sense was found on the ministry pages read. Compliance today is shown through a recovery organisation or the product fee.
- Authorised representative Not established at sourceNo authorised-representative route for foreign producers was found at source.
- Authorised representative Sources disagreeThe authorised-representative duty is under review. On 10 December 2025 the Commission published COM(2025) 982, part of the Omnibus VIII environmental simplification package, whose Article 2 would suspend Art. 45(3) until 1 January 2035; COM(2025) 983 proposes the same for the Single-Use Plastics Directive. The suspension as drafted covers producers ESTABLISHED IN THE UNION selling cross-border directly to end users. Producers established in third countries are not covered — member states may still require a representative or ensure traceability by other means. European Parliament committee reports of May 2026 would narrow the relief to micro and small enterprises. PROPOSAL, AND NOW LARGELY STOPPED: on 24 June 2026 the Council decided not to proceed with the suspension, opposed by a large majority of member states. A Parliament committee vote is expected around October 2026, and even the Parliament's narrower approach would keep the framework for producers outside the EU. Article 45(3) applies as written today, and for a producer established in a third country nothing in this proposal ever applied.
The same in every EU country
- PPWR Art. 44 — registration is a precondition for placing packaging on that market
- PPWR Art. 45(3) — a producer under Art. 3(1)(15)(c)/(d), i.e. one making packaging available in another Member State DIRECTLY TO END USERS, must appoint an authorised representative there. From 12 Aug 2026.
- set nationally, Art. 68; national rules due by 12 Feb 2027
- Art. 44(14) implementing act still pending; central EU register not before 1 Jan 2029
Sources
Countries with the same answer
We do not register you, we are not your authorised representative, and we do not pay a scheme. This is public information gathered in one place and checked on the date shown. Confirm with the national authority before acting.
Tarafex
The number these registers ask for is kilograms by material for one year of deliveries. If your shipments are recorded as they go out, that number already exists.
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