Recently sellers on the European site paid extra attention: "Failure to upload the French EPR, the platform will be directly implemented on behalf of the withholding and payment."
If you sell French products to your customers on the Autotrade Platform without providing Autotrade with a valid Unique Identification Number [UIN] corresponding to the EPR-applicable products, Autotrade will implicitly recognize the payment of the corresponding EPR Environmental Ecology Contributions to recover these amounts from you on your behalf.
If you provide Speedway with a Unique Identification Number [UIN] for a product to which the French EPR applies, France will stop paying Ecological Contributions on your behalf from that reporting cycle.
The situation of withholding and payment has always existed. It's not just on the eBay platform, it's on Amazon, WISH, and other major platforms all the time!
In addition to the German EPR registration, the French EPR registration is also imminent. Let me give you a detailed explanation of the French EPR!
What is the French EPR?
EPR stands for Extended Producer Responsibility, which specifies that product manufacturers, importers and distributors take financial and organizational responsibility for the waste recovery of the products they produce or place on the market.
What are the circumstances that require French EPR compliance?
Sellers are required to register with the French EPR under the following 3 conditions:
① Manufacture products that meet the extended producer responsibility requirements in the corresponding country/region;
② Importing products that meet the extended producer responsibility requirements to the corresponding country/region;
③ Selling products that meet the extended producer responsibility requirements in the corresponding country/region and you are not incorporated in that country/region.
In France, the seller will need to be French EPR compliant if the seller meets the above criteria. If the seller is not an importer or seller but sells a product that is EPR compliant, the seller will need to obtain a French EPR registration number from the supplier and provide it to Autotoll/Amazon to prove it. If the supplier is unable to provide this, the seller will need to register separately and provide it to a platform such as Autotoll/Amazon.
Sellers are obliged to comply with the EPR requirements for the products they sell, regardless of whether they are importers or sellers of cross-border e-commerce products on independent stations or third-party platforms.
Which products are registered with the French EPR?
The French EPR for 2022 explicitly implements a total of seven compliance categories:
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Packaging (all package types)
02
Printing paper (paper, posters, etc.)
03
Electronic and electrical equipment (household appliances, etc.)
04
furniture
05
Textiles
06
Tires (car tires, etc.)
07
Batteries (embedded or loaded with batteries, etc.)
What products should be registered with EPR?
According to the product attributes to determine the products involved in the mandatory registration of compliant categories. For example, selling clothing, do packaging + textiles, according to the different products to decide?
See? Packaging category is all cross-border sellers each store must be mandatory registration of the EPR category, products must be packaged before sale, and also affixed with the Triman compliance logo. Sellers do not understand which category the product belongs to, sellers can add Xiaotong at the end of the article microblogging consultation!
Reminder: The seller has registered the German EPR, but the German and French EPRs cannot be shared and need to be registered separately.
(Germany category 3, France category 7)
Are there any penalties for not registering an EPR?
Failure to upload the EPR registration number of the relevant product will result in the compulsory suspension of the seller's sale of the relevant product and the imposition of a fine! The specific consequences of not registering EPR are as follows:
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Sizzler/Amazon has the right to take down the product at any time.
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Goods are detained or even destroyed.
03
French income is recognized as illegal income and is subject to confiscation.
04
3W-5W euro financial penalties, we recommend that all sellers operate in compliance, do not take risks!
One-time registration fee: The fee ranges from €0 ~ €250 and sellers must pay the registration fee to the different producer responsibility organizations (PROs).
Regular environmental fee: The environmental fee is calculated based on the seller's sales volume and EPR product classification, which varies by country/region.
Reminder: Sellers do not need to repeat the registration process after obtaining the EPR registration number. Sellers only need to use the registration number to report and pay environmental fees to producer responsibility organizations (PROs) on a regular basis.
Sellers who register for the French Packaging Act can now take advantage of the above services for as little as $168/year.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Is EPR a packaging method?
EPR is Extended Producer Responsibility, an environmental policy that requires product manufacturers, importers and distributors to take financial and organizational responsibility for recycling the waste of the products they produce or place on the market.
It can be understood that the EPR in Germany/France covers several product categories and is a generic term for each of them. EPR includes packaging, printing paper, waste electrical and electronic equipment, waste batteries and accumulators, furniture, textiles and tires. The packaging method mentioned above is one of the EPR categories.
Q: Do all sellers have to register for the Packaging Act?
Yes! Packaging law is a cross-border sellers each store must be registered EPR category, in the product before sale must have packaging. Unregistered products will be removed from the shelves and will not be sold!
Q: If I have registered for the German EPR, do I still need to register for the French EPR?
The German and French EPRs cannot be shared and need to be registered separately. For example, the packaging law, the seller as long as the generation of packaging to the German market and the French market consumers, it is obliged to register the German packaging, French packaging.
In addition, the major platforms, such as eBay/Amazon, require that the packaging registration number be registered in Germany and notified to Amazon under all circumstances, and after registration, the seller must be registered to Amazon, so that the packaging law can be completed.
Q: Do self-shipment sellers have to complete EPR?
Not by sales channel. Whether you are doing FBA, FBM or MFN, platforms such as Amazon/QuickPass must verify that all sellers are EPR compliant.
In summary, the EPR is very important to sellers, and packaging law is almost a mandatory registration for sellers. 2022 EPR has come into effect soon, sellers must complete the EPR registration and upload, early registration and early certification, to avoid subsequent piling up plus the holiday reason is affected by the failure to register will be faced with high fines.
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