Regulatory & Policy August 25, 2026
The single biggest recurring admin cost in EU packaging compliance is registering separately in every member state, on 27 different data structures. The act meant to fix that, under Article 44(14), was due on February 12, 2026 and never appeared. It has now appeared as a draft. The Commission published a draft implementing regulation with a 19-page annex on August 6, 2026 and is taking feedback until September 10, 2026, midnight Brussels time.
What this changes today: nothing. You still register country by country, and you will keep doing so until the act is adopted and then for a while after, because member states get 18 months from adoption to bring their national registers into line. That clock has not started. What changes is the planning horizon. There is now a text and a timetable instead of an open question.
What to do. If you register in more than two member states, read the draft annex and file feedback. It sets the data fields you will be reporting against for years. 6,333 responses have already been filed, most from small cross-border sellers arguing about the authorized-representative burden. If your operation looks different from theirs, the file currently does not say so. Comment at the Commission's Have Your Say register.
Source: European Commission Have Your Say, initiative 15352, draft implementing regulation Ares(2026)7688068, register entry read August 25, 2026. [SIGNALED] on status; the draft text itself has not been read here, so nothing above states what the draft requires.
This entry is part of the PPWR Atlas update log. The Atlas is re-checked against the Official Journal, Commission guidance, and each national PRO's published schedule, and everything that changes gets logged with its source. See the week of August 24, 2026 or the full update archive.