How can you optimise the management of your EPR obligations?
EPR in France is complex. Your journey to EPR compliance as a producer requires meticulous, step by step work, which can be summarised chronologically as follows:
- First, find out which EPR schemes your products fall under
- Contact the producer responsibility organisations (PROs) in charge of these schemes and review their rules and proposed contract
- Choose the PROs where several are available
- Join these PROs by registering on their intranet.
- Check that you have obtained your EPR unique identification numbers (UINs), or if you already hold UINs, check their validity with ADEME (the French environment agency)
- Check your inbox very regularly to make sure you do not miss any declaration deadlines or regulatory and fee scale updates
- Each year, submit your declarations to each PRO you belong to. For each product, you will need to find the correct eco-contribution fee scale among the many fee scales offered, and do so for each scheme
Each PRO has its own registration process, which means that if your products fall under, for example, 4 schemes, you will probably need to register with 4 PROs, adapt to a different process each time and enter your information 4 times to complete your membership. Worse still, when it comes to your annual placing on the market declarations, how do you tell simplified declarations apart from standard ones, half yearly billing from annual billing, or find the right eco-contribution fee scale?
This also means you will receive just as many emails confirming registration, providing information, opening declarations, sending reminders and so on.
With CompliancR, you can reduce this burden considerably.
Our platform lets you provide your company information only once and submit your list of products, and CompliancR takes care of the rest.
- Automatic detection of the schemes your products fall under.
- Automatic detection of eco-contribution fee scales, for every PRO in charge of the relevant scheme.
- Registration with each relevant PRO.
- Close monitoring of your memberships and retrieval of the UINs you need to keep operating commercially on French territory.
- Access at any time to your personalised calendar, which lets you spot at a glance the important dates for your upcoming declarations.
- Once declarations open, all you will need to do is enter the quantities sold in the previous year, and CompliancR will report them to each PRO
- Invoices from PROs and payment of eco-contributions will also be made much easier
- Our blog and our FAQ will help you find an answer to any question. In addition, a team of experts is always available via our chat and ready to help you with your EPR compliance
CompliancR offers 4 levels of service, from determining the eco-contributions for the products you sell to fully handling your EPR compliance.