Tell us how you enter Bulgaria
Legal entity, establishment country, Bulgarian customer, importer or reseller, direct end-user route and packaging quantities.
Input:
transaction + packaging facts
Bulgaria Packaging EPR · 2026
Bulgaria EPR Authorized Representative & Packaging Compliance Start with the operating route.
Bulgaria combines the PPWR Producer and EPR Authorised Representative framework with an existing national packaged-goods register, NISO reporting infrastructure, competing packaging recovery organisations and a statutory state product-fee fallback.
PPWR + Bulgarian EPR
EPR Authorised Representative
EEA / ИАОС
NISO / НИСО
4 recovery organisations
2026 operator comparison
The Bulgaria route
What actually happens when you start selling packaged goods into Bulgaria?
Start with five practical stages. The registration names, tariff tables and statutory detail only matter after this route is understood.
Give us the commercial facts. We convert them into the Bulgarian compliance route.
You provide the legal entity, Bulgarian sales route, customers, packaging weights and shipment data. We determine the Producer and AR position, registration, collective system, regulatory money and reporting workflow.
We determine the Bulgarian Producer
We apply the PPWR Producer definition to the real supply chain and identify whether your foreign entity itself is the Producer in Bulgaria.
Output:
Producer + AR position
Registration + collective system
The current Bulgarian registration layer, EPR AR relationship and packaging-recovery organisation are connected to one operating file.
Output:
active Bulgarian EPR structure
Regulatory money is prefunded
The selected recovery-organisation contribution or, where legally applicable, the statutory product fee is funded before its payment deadline.
Output:
regulatory balance ready
Report → pay → retain evidence
Monthly operator data, national reporting and payment evidence are coordinated on the applicable calendars and retained in the Bulgaria country file.
Output:
declarations + payment + evidence
Use a valid collective packaging recovery system.
The Producer contracts with an authorised recovery organisation and pays the organisation's packaging contribution according to the selected tariff and reporting profile.
Do not add the state product fee on top of a valid system contribution.
The statutory product fee is a different route. It becomes relevant where the Producer is outside an applicable collective / individual compliance route, or where the exemption is lost because the required obligations are not proven fulfilled.
First understand the names
Six different functions. Do not mix them together.
Your legal responsibility
Extended Producer Responsibility
EPR is the legal responsibility attached to packaging placed on the Bulgarian market. It is not the name of a company or portal.
Your Bulgarian representative
EPR Authorised Representative
The Bulgaria-established person or legal entity appointed by written mandate to fulfil the Producer's Chapter VIII EPR obligations.
Environmental authority
ИАОС · Executive Environment Agency
The Bulgarian authority maintaining, among other infrastructure, the current public register of persons placing packaged goods on the Bulgarian market.
Electronic waste system
НИСО · National Waste Information System
The electronic system used for the existing national registration and waste-information workflow.
Recovery organisation
Организация по оползотворяване
A permitted collective packaging-waste organisation that carries out the recovery and recycling obligations for participating businesses.
State product fee
Продуктова такса · ПУДООС
The statutory product fee paid to PUDOOS where the applicable conditions for avoiding the state-fee route are not satisfied.
Current register does not automatically mean final PPWR Article 44 implementation.
Bulgaria already has a live Waste Management Act register for persons placing packaged goods on the market, operated through EEA / NISO. That infrastructure predates PPWR. We therefore show it as the current national operating layer, while separately monitoring Bulgaria's final implementation of the PPWR Article 44 Producer Register and other PPWR-specific national procedures.