Tell us how you sell into Austria
We need your legal entity, establishment country, Austrian customer type, sales route, packaging materials and expected quantities.
Input:
business + sales + packaging facts
Austria Packaging EPR · 2026
Selling packaged goods in Austria? Understand the route first.
Austria combines the EU PPWR framework with a national packaging EPR operating system. You do not need to understand Austrian waste law before you can understand what happens to your business. Start with the practical route.
PPWR + Austrian EPR
Foreign distance sellers
Austrian AR
EDM / ZAReg
Full cost visibility
The Austria route
What actually happens when you start selling into Austria?
At its simplest, your Austrian packaging compliance relationship can be reduced to five practical stages. The legal detail comes later on this page.
Your practical job is smaller than the legal architecture.
You provide accurate business, sales and packaging data, sign what legally requires your approval and keep the regulatory balance funded. We convert those inputs into the Austrian compliance workflow.
We determine your Austrian legal route
We establish who carries the packaging obligation, whether the foreign-distance-seller rule applies and whether an Austrian authorised representative is required.
Output:
Austria compliance work plan
We activate the compliance structure
Where required, this means the Austrian AR mandate, EDM / ZAReg workflow, packaging classification and connection to an appropriate approved packaging system.
Output:
active Austrian compliance setup
Regulatory money is funded before it is due
Packaging-system contributions, applicable statutory SUP amounts and relevant external regulatory costs remain seller liabilities and are kept separate from Beyoğlu service revenue.
Output:
regulatory prefunding available
We report, coordinate payment and retain evidence
Austrian packaging quantities are prepared for the applicable reporting period, the selected operator relationship is managed, regulatory payments are coordinated and compliance evidence is retained.
Output:
report + payment + evidence
What the SME normally provides
Correct shipment data, packaging quantities, changes in products or legal entities, required approvals and sufficient regulatory funding.
What the compliance platform is designed to remove from your desk
Registration, AR administration, system comparison, reporting calendars, regulatory payment coordination and evidence management are converted into one country workflow.
First understand the names
Five different things. Do not mix them together.
Once the practical route is clear, the terminology becomes much easier. A law, a representative, a public register, a packaging system and a statutory charge are not the same thing.
Your legal responsibility
Extended Producer Responsibility
EPR is not a company and not a portal. It is the legal responsibility attached to packaging placed on the Austrian market.
Your Austrian representative
Bevollmächtigter
The Austria-established person or company that, where the foreign distance-seller rule applies, assumes the covered Austrian packaging obligations.
Public regulatory infrastructure
EDM / ZAReg
Austrian electronic environmental infrastructure used for registration, master data and authorised-representative records.
Your packaging system
Sammel- und Verwertungssystem
An approved Austrian system that performs the applicable packaging collection and recovery function and receives the system contribution.
Additional statutory cost
Einwegkunststoff-Kostenersatz
Certain single-use-plastic categories create an additional statutory cost reimbursement separate from the ordinary packaging-system tariff.
EU framework. Austrian operating layer.
PPWR provides the common EU framework. Austria's national packaging law, authority infrastructure, authorised-representative procedure and approved packaging systems form the country-specific operating layer that the seller must navigate in practice.