We check your obligation
You tell us what you sell and how you sell it. We tell you clearly whether Croatian packaging EPR applies to you, and from which point in your supply chain.
Croatian Packaging EPR
Selling to customers in Croatia?
We handle your Croatian Packaging EPR obligations.
If your business sells packaged products directly to consumers in Croatia, you may have Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) obligations here — even if your company is based outside Croatia.
You may need to register with the Croatian Register of Producers with Extended Responsibility (RPPO) and appoint a local authorised representative.
That is where we come in.
We act as your Croatian authorised representative and take care of the local packaging EPR administration, so you can continue selling to Croatian customers without having to navigate the Croatian system yourself.
The short version
You sell. We keep you compliant.
Croatian packaging EPR turns "we ship to Croatia" into a registration, a reporting duty and a yearly fee. As your authorised representative we take that whole block off your desk.
We become your representative
You sign a mandate. From then on we are the party the Croatian authorities deal with — in Croatian, on Croatian deadlines, with a Croatian address.
We run the paperwork
RPPO registration, packaging data reporting, fee calculation and payment, plus corrections and updates when your product range changes.
The long version
The full walkthrough
Every step of the Croatian packaging EPR process, what it actually involves, and who does what. Open the steps you care about.
Croatian EPR follows the EU logic: whoever first places packaged goods on the Croatian market carries the obligation. If a Croatian importer or distributor buys from you and then sells on, that importer is usually the obligated party. If you ship directly to a consumer in Croatia — your own webshop, a marketplace listing, a subscription box — then you are the first placer, and the obligation is yours even with no company, warehouse or staff in Croatia.
What we look at with you:
- Your sales channels into Croatia (own shop, marketplace, distributor, mixed).
- Who is the seller of record and who is the importer on paper.
- Which packaging you put on the market: sales, grouped and transport packaging.
- Whether other EPR streams also apply — electrical equipment (WEEE), batteries, tyres, oils.
Output: a written answer — obligated or not, and for which streams.
A producer without a Croatian establishment fulfils its obligations through an authorised representative established in Croatia. That representative is appointed by a written mandate and is the point of contact for the authorities.
- We send you a mandate / power of attorney in English and Croatian.
- You sign it — company signatory, usually with a company stamp if your jurisdiction uses one.
- We collect your company data: legal name, registered address, VAT / EORI, registration number, contact person.
- We file the appointment together with the registration in Step 3.
You need: a signed mandate and your company registration extract. Nothing else.
The Registar proizvođača s proširenom odgovornošću (RPPO) is the Croatian register of producers with extended responsibility. Registration must happen before you place goods on the market, and it is done per producer, per waste stream.
- We prepare the application with your company and product data.
- We register the packaging categories you place on the market.
- We submit and follow up with the competent body until the registration number is issued.
- We keep your entry up to date when your details or product range change.
Output: your Croatian producer registration number, on file and in your hands.
Fees are calculated from the weight of packaging by material that you put on the Croatian market. So the reporting is only as good as your product data — this is the one step where we need real input from you.
- Per SKU: packaging materials — plastic, paper/cardboard, glass, metal, wood, composite.
- Per material: net weight in grams, including labels, closures, inserts and tape.
- Quantity of each SKU shipped to Croatian addresses in the reporting period.
- Whether the packaging is single-use or reusable, and whether it is a deposit item.
If you do not have this data yet, we give you a spreadsheet template and a worked example. Most clients build it once and then only maintain new SKUs.
Output: a clean packaging master file we can report from every period.
On the Croatian reporting cycle we file your declared packaging quantities and handle the fee side with the Environmental Protection and Energy Efficiency Fund (FZOEU).
- We convert your sales data into the required declaration format.
- We submit the declaration under your registration, as your representative.
- We check the fee assessment against your own numbers before anything is paid.
- We handle queries, corrections and retroactive filings if you registered late.
You get: a filing confirmation and a plain-English summary of what was declared and what it cost.
EPR is not a one-off filing. Registers get audited, thresholds move, and marketplaces increasingly ask sellers to prove a valid registration number before they let you list.
- We keep your registration active and your master data current.
- We watch deadline and rule changes in Croatia and tell you when something affects you.
- We supply your registration number and proof of compliance to marketplaces on request.
- We flag when a new product line pulls you into another EPR stream.
Result: Croatia stays a market you sell into, not a project you manage.
Clients
What sellers say
Companies that ship into Croatia and would rather not learn Croatian administrative law.
We found out about the Croatian obligation from a marketplace warning email. Registration was sorted in under three weeks and we never had to write a single Croatian document.
The packaging weight spreadsheet was the only real work on our side. They built the template, we filled it once, and the reporting has been on autopilot since.
We had been selling into Croatia for two years without registering. They handled the late registration and the back-reporting calmly, and told us the real exposure up front.
Questions
Quick answers
No. That is the entire point of the authorised representative. You stay a foreign company; we provide the Croatian presence the rules require.
Usually not in your favour. If the marketplace is not the seller of record and the goods ship from outside Croatia to a Croatian consumer, you generally remain the obligated producer — and marketplaces increasingly demand your registration number before you can keep listing.
It is fixable. We register you, reconstruct the historic packaging volumes with you, and handle back-reporting. Voluntary regularisation is a much better position than being found by an inspection.
Two parts: our representation fee (a fixed annual amount based on how many SKUs and streams you have) and the statutory packaging fees, which depend on the weight and material of the packaging you actually place on the market. You get both figures before you commit to anything.
Get started
Check if you need a Croatian EPR representative
Tell us what you sell and how it reaches Croatian customers. We reply with a plain answer — obligated or not — and, if you are, what it takes to fix it.
- No obligation, no sales sequence.
- Answer normally within two working days.
- Your data is used only to answer this enquiry.