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France guide · source reviewed 27 Aug 2026

Everything we hold on France,

and where we read it.

The register, the schemes and the legal texts behind every figure we publish for France — with the gaps left in plain sight. The long-form guidance lives on eprfrance.com, which we run too; this page says what stands behind it.

What we hold

The register is public. The scheme is private. They are not the same thing.

Agence de la transition écologique (ADEME) issues a separate identifiant unique through SYDEREP for every EPR stream. The scheme for that stream handles the operational membership. We keep the IDs and declarations separate, but visible in one account. A register and a scheme remain separate: the public side records the producer, while the private side bills the contribution. Completing one does not complete the other.

France issues an identifiant unique (IDU) for each EPR stream. Joining one scheme or receiving one IDU does not cover the other streams in your product.

  • Packaging

    Register
    SYDEREP
    Scheme
    Citeo

    The packaging eco-organisation normally registers its member in SYDEREP and passes back the packaging IDU.

  • WEEE

    Register
    SYDEREP
    Scheme
    Depends on your product category

    Electrical equipment receives its own IDU. The scheme depends on the equipment and sales route.

  • Batteries

    Register
    SYDEREP
    Scheme
    Depends on your product category

    Batteries receive a separate IDU, including when they are incorporated into electrical equipment.

  • Textiles

    Register
    SYDEREP
    Scheme
    Refashion

    Clothing, footwear and household textiles follow the textile stream and receive their own IDU.

Legal basis

The texts we read. Named, so you can read them too.

These are the references the authority and the schemes cite. We do not paraphrase them into a summary and call it guidance — we name them, and we say the day we last read them.

  • Code de l’environnement · Article L541-10-13 · unique identifier
  • French EPR stream specifications published through ADEME

What we don't hold

The gaps, named. “We have no source” is not “you owe nothing”.

A seller who reads a blank as “nothing to do here” does not register, and finds out when a listing comes down. So every blank on this page is written out, with what it does and does not mean.

  • Declaration deadline

    Our sources for France do not publish one. We would rather leave this blank than print a date you might plan around.

  • Indicative time to file

    We have not measured one for France, and an invented figure is the fastest way to lose the one thing this page is for.

  • Thresholds and exemptions

    None published in the sources we hold. Most EPR rules trigger on the first unit placed on the market rather than on a turnover threshold, and the scope check says whether an exemption applies to you.

We publish a source ledger for all 10 countries we run. The other member states stay listed without a promised opening date. See all countries

The long version lives on eprfrance.com.

We run that site, in the local language, and it carries the full guidance for France. This page is the ledger behind it — what we hold, where it comes from, and what is still blank. The canonical for the national detail points there, not here.

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France is one row. Here's the rest of what you owe.

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shippeu.com is an independent private service. It is not a government office, an authority, a register or a collective scheme, and it is not affiliated with, authorised by or endorsed by ADEME, SYDEREP, Citeo, Refashion. Each authority and each scheme decides independently whether and when to accept an application.

Figures on this page come from published guidance. Last source review: 27 August 2026. Rules change — the scope check is reviewed by a person before any quote.