Czechia EPR obligation

Check your own case

Choose your role, add your revenue and the packaging you supply, and the checker applies the rules this page describes to your figures. It runs in your browser and stores nothing.

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How the checker reaches a result

The checker asks the same questions in the same order for every place, and it stops with a result as soon as a question settles the matter. It never fills a missing answer in for you.

1. Whose brand is on the packaging? If it is another company's brand, you are not the producer for those goods under the roles recorded for Czechia. If you have not said, the checker asks first.
2. Do you sell into Czechia? A place where you report no sales returns not obligated.
3. Does a size limit apply? The checker compares your revenue or packaging weight with each limit on record and, where a limit is not met, returns below threshold.
4. Is an exemption on record for your case? An exemption that is not yet verified is never assumed, and the checker asks for more data instead.
5. Are related companies counted together? Where the rules add up affiliated companies, their figures are combined before the limits are compared.

Who is the producer in Czechia?

The first question is whose duty it is. Czechia assigns the duty by packaging level, and the table shows which roles count as the producer at each level.

• Czechia: for primary (sales) packaging the producer is the manufacturer or brand owner, importer, or first distributor.
• Czechia: for secondary packaging the producer is the manufacturer or brand owner, importer, or first distributor.
• Czechia: for service packaging the producer is the manufacturer or brand owner, importer, or first distributor.
• Czechia: for shipping packaging the producer is the online marketplace seller or manufacturer or brand owner.
• Czechia: for tertiary (transport) packaging the producer is the manufacturer or brand owner, importer, or first distributor.

Find the row that describes you. Where more than one role appears in a row, the checker asks whose brand is on the product before it gives a result.

Does revenue matter in Czechia?

Size limits in Czechia

Some rules switch the duty on or off by size. These are the limits on record for Czechia, each with what happens when you meet it.

The revenue limit: CZK 2,000

Czechia: the revenue limit is CZK 2,000. Czechia: at the revenue limit of CZK 2,000, a flat-fee band applies. Czechia: the revenue rule reads, in plain words: Below the EKO-KOM Minimum Amount, no remuneration deposits are due and remuneration is payable once a year. Czechia: the revenue limit is counted as follows: annual remuneration.

Exemptions in Czechia

An exemption removes the duty for a producer that meets its conditions. Some must be applied for; others apply on their own.

What the rules cover in Czechia

A duty applies only to the packaging and the sales channels that the rules cover. This is what is on record for Czechia.

Czechia: a producer may pass the duty to another party under the rules.

Every case, worked through

Below, the same engine that powers the checker is run on a set of standard cases for Czechia. Each case states the input, the result and the next step. The figures are test inputs set at half, equal to and twice each recorded limit, read as of November 4, 2026; they are not rules.

Revenue of CZK 2,000: exactly at the limit

Your own brand is on the goods and your revenue is CZK 2,000, exactly the limit of CZK 2,000. The rules we hold set no size limit that applies here, so your own brand on packaged goods is enough and the engine returns obligated. Result: obligated. Next: register, report and pay as the sections below describe, and prepare your figures in a workspace.

Revenue of CZK 4,000: above the limit

Your own brand is on the goods and your revenue is CZK 4,000, twice the limit of CZK 2,000. The rules we hold set no size limit that applies here, so your own brand on packaged goods is enough and the engine returns obligated. Result: obligated. Next: register, report and pay as the sections below describe, and prepare your figures in a workspace.

Above every limit

Your own brand is on the goods and every figure is above every limit on record. The rules we hold set no size limit that applies here, so your own brand on packaged goods is enough and the engine returns obligated. Result: obligated. Next: register, report and pay as the sections below describe, and prepare your figures in a workspace.

If you owe: what happens next

If the result is obligated, these are the steps on record for Czechia. You register, report and pay yourself; Instica prepares the figures and the files.

Czechia: registration is made with List of Subjects required to recover packaging waste (Ministry of the Environment). Czechia: registration is made by this party: Any subject placing packaging or packaged products on the market or into circulation. Czechia: registration renewal: annual record fee. Czechia: the registration fee: 800 CZK registration fee and 800 CZK record fee per subsequent year.

Czechia: producers meet the duty through a single producer responsibility organisation. Czechia: the organisations on record are EKO-KOM, a.s. Czechia: membership of an organisation is not required.

Deadlines on record

• Czechia: the other deadline is January 1, 2023.
• Czechia: the other deadline is August 12, 2026.
• Czechia: the registration deadline is August 12, 2026.