A shipment is one load that left. The country and the receiver are not optional — they decide whose rules apply. Each line copies the catalogue weight as it stands that day. Correcting a catalogue weight next year changes what happens next, never a figure you have already reported.
An item with no weight cannot go on a shipment. Estimates are allowed and named: the report states what share of the kilograms rests on estimates, and names the items behind them. Weigh one unit of each once and that line disappears.
A pallet that comes back is not placed on the market a second time, and each scheme treats reusable packaging its own way. Tarafex returns the reusable kilograms beside the single-use total, never inside it, so you or the scheme can decide. A program that added them in would be choosing a country's rule for you.
Expanded polystyrene, foamed plastic and polystyrene keep their own rate. They are never merged into ordinary plastic. Film is film. The split is the one a fee schedule already makes; hiding it is how a spreadsheet goes wrong in the second year.
France asks a small producer for UVC — units of consumer sale — and below its threshold asks for no kilograms per material at all. Other schemes ask for both. Tarafex counts the units beside the kilograms, in the same report, from the same lines.
A line that carries units and no weight is held in its own block and enters no kilogram figure. Tarafex will not invent a weight to make a table look complete. Weigh one of each and the line moves into the table by itself.
The same catalogue that feeds this report feeds the declaration of conformity. Weights do not fork.
The fee itself has a national name — éco-contribution in France, a licence fee to a dual system in Germany. Tarafex produces the figure the fee is calculated from. It does not price it, invoice it or pay it.
Germany asks for the quantity more than once, and by different names. You register in LUCID, agree a planned quantity — a Planmenge — with a dual system before the year begins, report the same figures to LUCID as to that system, and settle the year with a Jahresabschlussmeldung. Taking part at all has its own word: Systembeteiligung. Skip the year-end settlement and the estimate you agreed in advance stands as your figure.
Above 80 tonnes of glass, 50 tonnes of paper and board or 30 tonnes of light packaging in a calendar year, a Vollständigkeitserklärung falls due by 15 May of the following year — attested by a registered auditor and filed through LUCID. The authority may demand one below those thresholds as well. Tarafex keeps the line-by-line record such an attestation is checked against. It does not file, attest or licence anything.
A national report is filed by material group, and the group names are the scheme's, not yours: Germany separates Getränkekarton from other composites and Eisenmetall from aluminium, and a fee schedule prices them apart. Tarafex already keeps the catalogue in those groups — paper and board, plastic, wood, glass, ferrous metal, aluminium, beverage carton, composite — so the report comes out in the words the form asks for, not in a heading somebody invented.
Every row carries the date it was checked and the source it was checked against. Where sources contradict each other, the row says so and keeps both readings rather than settling it for you. Where the only source is one that earns from the answer — a service provider selling the very obligation it describes — the row says that too. Ten member states show no data yet instead of a guessed name. A tool that fills a gap smoothly is the one that catches you out a year later, in front of somebody checking.
Kilograms are not the only answer. Germany wants them split into material groups of its own naming — Getränkekarton apart from other composites, Eisenmetall apart from aluminium. France counts UVC, units of consumer sale, and below its threshold asks for no kilograms per material at all. The Netherlands counts the weggooi-eenheid, the unit the consumer throws away, and its recyclability check is done per that unit rather than per article. Poland reports kilograms across eight material groups, Sweden kilograms with the fee modulated by recyclability, and Italy kilograms sorted into nine plastic bands.
The Netherlands also files the figure twice, and the words matter when you are looking for the form. An opgaaf is the estimate for the running year; the definitive declaration for the year before is due at Verpact by 1 April, and the settlement follows after the summer, with anything overpaid returned. Below 50 000 kg there is no declaration and no fee — but logistics aids are outside the threshold count, SUP packaging and deposit packaging have no threshold at all, and you still have to be able to show how you worked out that you are below it, because the ILT can ask. Where a producer was above and has fallen below, the declaration is still filed and nothing is paid. Verpact says the threshold will disappear, with a simplified declaration under 10 000 kg.
No. Registration is national under Article 44 of Regulation (EU) 2025/40, and it is a precondition for placing packaging on that market. One register per country, each with its own threshold, its own deadlines and its own rules on whether a foreign producer needs a representative — and in six of the twenty-seven the register does not exist yet. Tarafex lists all 27 in one table, dated, with the source at every line.
No. It does not register you, it is not your authorised representative, and it does not pay a scheme. What it produces is the number those bodies ask for: kilograms by material, by country, with the reusable held apart, traceable back to the catalogue lines it was built from. The filing itself stays with you or with whoever you appoint.
From the weight of one empty packaging item multiplied by the units that actually left, over the reporting period, added up per material. That is the whole arithmetic, and it is the part nobody has: every system knows what was bought and what was sold, but not what went out as packaging. A service provider can file for you, but it cannot replace your responsibility for the kilogram figures being right.
Usually the obligation follows the packaging rather than your size, and several countries set no de-minimis threshold at all. Where a threshold does exist it differs by country and sometimes by material. Check the country before assuming a small volume is exempt — that is the whole reason the 27-country table exists and carries a date on every line.
Somebody established in the country you sell into, appointed in writing, who carries the producer obligations there on your behalf. Whether one is required depends on the country and on whether you have an establishment there. It is a national requirement, not a PPWR one, and the table says per country whether a foreign producer needs one.
Because schemes treat it differently and mixing it into the single-use kilograms quietly overstates what you owe. Tarafex holds it apart on purpose rather than letting it be added in and then argued about at the end of the year.
No. The weight is frozen on the line at the moment the movement happened. If a catalogue weight is corrected next year, that correction must not silently rewrite a report already filed — a report is a statement about a period, and a period does not change afterwards.
It reports both. Units are counted per country and per material beside the kilograms, from the same shipment lines. Lines that carry units but no weight are kept in a block of their own, outside every kilogram total. France counts UVC — units of consumer sale — and below its threshold asks for no kilograms per material at all.
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One register per country, and in six of the 27 it does not exist yet. The table gives the register, the threshold and whether a foreign producer needs a representative — dated, with the source at every line.
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