Comment by veeti
3 hours ago
What is the question? Instead of going straight for the insinuations of Russian propaganda and whatever you could just have looked it up for yourself.
How about Spanish-Portuguese specialty horse riding gear? https://picadera.de/en/ppwr-warum-wir-nicht-mehr-in-die-eu-v...
How about organic children's clothes from Sweden? https://shopdunssweden.se/
A solid bike lock made straight out of German engineering? https://www.pitlock.de/en/blog/post/eu-packaging-regulation-...
I could find these all day but let me just remind you that for literally _DECADES_ before this regulation there were no such restrictions to cross EU online shopping. Now the small players have closed entirely, and the more fortunate can only afford to serve the largest countries such as Germany, Belgium, Netherlands. It's insane.
And to add insult to the injury, substandard alternatives to all of these products are still readily available on Temu. They are fucking laughing at us in China!
I have yet to see any evidence beyond angry internet comments that registering in every country is actually required.
There are several sites out there trying to help explain PPWR and they all say the same thing: the one that brings the package to an EU state market must do EPR registration in that EU state.
If you sell directly to consumers from a web shop, that is you.
A selection of such guides:
https://www.ppwrconsulting.com/blog/ppwr-small-business-sme/
https://packdeclare.com/blog/ppwr-sme-guide
https://getreadycompliance.eu/ppwr-extended-producer-respons...
You are free to pretend you know better than SME's all over the union, their chambers of commerce, actual CUSTOMERS dealing with this, but evidently business has already ground to a halt anyway.
This is exactly what I mean by regulation believers. Here you have all the evidence you need that the harm is done, yet you believe it's still about some philosophical debate whether the regulation even works that way.
No, the evidence is that some people are overly paranoid and the rest would like to clear up the wording to bypass the paranoia. The same thing happened with GDPR.
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