No, and this is the most widespread confusion. The packaging EPR fee has existed in France since the 1990s. It is not a tax: it finances collection, sorting and recycling of what you place on the market and is paid to a producer responsibility organisation, rather than the Treasury. The PPWR neither introduces nor increases it. What changes in 2026 is better enforcement: platforms now request the unique identifier (IDU) issued by ADEME and passed on by the producer responsibility organisation, and its absence blocks seller accounts. Many makers therefore discover an obligation that already applied to them.
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