🧭 Context
The REP sector "Professional Packaging" will come into effect on January 1, 2026.
It addresses a major issue: improving the collection, sorting, reuse, and recycling of industrial and commercial packaging (ICP), whose volume is significantly larger than that of household packaging.
Businesses are impacted in two key ways:
Producers / market players: obligation to join and declare their packaging.
Holders of packaging waste: beneficiaries of support for waste management and traceability.
📌 Objective
Reduce the environmental impact of professional packaging.
Improve traceability of flows and recycling performance (particularly for plastics).
Develop reuse of packaging (pallets, boxes, barrels, drums, etc.).
Finance these actions through a financial REP (without obligation for take-back by the eco-organization).
🧩 Application Terms
Effective Date: January 1, 2026 (subject to final texts).
Scope of applicable packaging:
Sales packaging (professionals only, e.g., office furniture, professional tools).
Grouped packaging (lots, multipacks).
Transport packaging (pallets, plastic films, boxes).
Exclusions:
Packaging already under other REP sectors (household packaging, batteries, oils, chemicals, agro-supply, PMCB category 2c).
Exported packaging outside France.
Obligations for companies:
Join an approved eco-organization.
Annually declare market volumes.
Set up traceability of waste flows.
Meet reuse objectives by 2030 (up to 40% for certain flows).
📚 Important Details to Know
Financial support:
Traceability: €2 to €5/T collected.
Plastics: ~€400/T sorted and recycled (proximity bonus included).
Hazardous waste: €50/T collected.
Objectives for 2030:
40% of reusable packaging for transport flows.
100% reusable packaging within companies.
10% reuse for grouped packaging (boxes, containers).
Eco-design: bonuses/penalties planned based on recyclability, the share of recycled material used, or source reduction.
⚠ Key Points of Concern
Final texts (decree and specifications) are expected by the end of 2025: information is still subject to change.
The distinction between professional / household packaging remains complex: certain borderline cases exist (e.g., parasols, electric tools, screws based on packaging).
Non-compliance with obligations (membership, declarations) exposes companies to sanctions laid out in the Environmental Code.
🕒 Key Milestones
2025: public consultation and publication of the ICP decree.
January 1, 2026: commencement of the REP professional packaging.
By 2030: achievement of reuse objectives.
🔗 Useful Links
Environmental Code – Article L541-10-1 – Extended producer responsibilities.
European regulation PPWR (Packaging & Packaging Waste Regulation).
Reuse of professional packaging: prepare your declaration! - ecomaison
💡 Best Practices for Compliance
Start mapping your physical and data flows related to packaging now.
Identify internal teams involved (CSR, purchasing, logistics, finance).
Prepare your traceability processes and educate teams on plastics sorting.
Follow official publications (decree, scope order, specifications).