Packaging EPR threshold checker
Pick a country and enter how many kilograms of packaging per material you place on its market in a year. You see which threshold you reach and what follows: the declaration of completeness in Germany, the Verpact fee in the Netherlands, the prevention plan in Spain, the flat-rate option in Austria.
Packaging per year in this country, in kilograms
What you place on this country's market in a calendar year, per material. The weight calculator helps with boxes and mailers.
Total: 0 kg
Audited declaration of completeness (VE)
All fractions are below their thresholds. The ZSVR or a state authority can still require a VE.
- Glassnot met
Threshold: 80,000 kg · Your figure: 0 kg
Audited VE required for the prior year
- Paper / cardboard / carton (PPK)not met
Threshold: 50,000 kg · Your figure: 0 kg
Audited VE required for the prior year
- Lightweight packaging (LVP)not met
Threshold: 30,000 kg · Your figure: 0 kg
Audited VE required for the prior year
EU Packaging Regulation (PPWR)
- Under 10 tonnes a year in this country: PPWR art. 44(8) gives simplified reporting. You still have to register.
- Up to 1,000 kg and a microenterprise (fewer than 10 people, turnover or balance sheet up to EUR 2 million): relief from the art. 29 re-use targets only. Registration and EPR still apply.
Source: Regulation (EU) 2025/40
None of these figures exempts you from registering. In Germany, Austria and Spain registration applies from the first package.
The packaging weight calculator estimates the kilograms for a box or mailer. The country rules are in EPR by country. Dieses Werkzeug auf Deutsch öffnen.
Questions
When do I need a declaration of completeness (VE) in Germany?
From 80,000 kg of glass, 50,000 kg of paper and cardboard or 30,000 kg of lightweight packaging in a calendar year. If one fraction reaches its figure, the audited VE for the prior year is due by 15 May. The ZSVR or a state authority can also require one below that.
Below these figures, do I not have to register?
You still do. The thresholds only decide the VE, a fee or a plan. In Germany you register in LUCID from the first package.
Does PPWR have a small-quantity exemption?
Not an exemption. PPWR art. 44(8) gives producers under 10 tonnes a year in a member state simplified reporting. The microenterprise relief up to 1,000 kg covers only the art. 29 re-use targets.
Where do the figures come from?
From the same country data Assuro uses to build packaging declarations, with the legal source under each result. The checker and the app cannot disagree.
The figures from your store
In Assuro you build a packaging declaration from your Shopify order export. Assuro reads the export in your browser, multiplies units and parcels by your packaging profiles, and shows kilograms per material and country, checked against the same thresholds as here. Finalizing the declaration and exporting the CSV are on the paid plans.
Scanning is free. Writing data back into your Shopify products starts at $39 a month.
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