EPR Declaration Deadlines 2026: 11 EU Countries in One Place

Selling packaged products across multiple EU markets means tracking a matrix of different filing cadences — monthly in Spain, quarterly in France and Germany, annual in most others. Miss one, and the late-filing penalties vary from a €50 admin fee to a 10% surcharge to a registration suspension.

This article is a single-page reference for 2026 deadlines across the 11 markets Pack Declare supports. Bookmark it, or use our free EPR Deadline Calculator to export the dates straight to Google / Outlook / Apple Calendar.

The full table

Reading the table

A few practical notes about how PROs interpret their own deadlines:

• The deadline is normally the submission date, not the payment date. Payment invoices follow the declaration and typically have their own 30-day clock from the PRO invoice date.
• Weekends and public holidays don't extend the deadline in most portals — plan for the last working day before each date, not the date itself.
• Monthly portals roll forward: if you miss the February filing for January sales, you can submit it in March but it'll be flagged as late. Monthly gaps are easier to detect than quarterly ones.
• Some portals distinguish household (ménager / domestic) from commercial streams — most notably CITEO. You may have two deadlines per quarter, one per stream.

Late-filing consequences by country

• ES (ECOEMBES): €50 administrative fee + interest on fees owed. Late > 60 days requires a written justification.
• FR (CITEO): 10% surcharge on fees if > 30 days late. Repeated late filings trigger audit.
• DE (LUCID): Registration suspension is possible for repeat offenders. Suspension = legal inability to sell packaged goods in Germany.
• IT (CONAI): Interest on overdue contributo ambientale, plus late-filing sanctions from the Ministry of Environment.
• NL (Afvalfonds): Fines from the ILT (Inspection for Environment & Transport) — typically €5,000 first offence.
• BE, AT, PT, PL, SE, DK: Each PRO has its own schedule; penalties typically start around €500 and scale with the volume undeclared.

How Pack Declare handles deadlines

Pack Declare ships a built-in compliance calendar that:

• Shows every upcoming deadline for every country you have sales in.
• Sends email reminders to your ADMIN + EDITOR users at 30 / 14 / 7 / 1 days out (deduped via Redis so you never get the same reminder twice).
• Highlights overdue cells in red on the dashboard, with a direct link to generate the missing pack.
• Integrates with the Last submitted column on the dashboard so you see at a glance which countries are current.

If you don't use Pack Declare, our free Deadline Calculator exports the same dates to your calendar app at no cost.

Bottom line

There's no way around tracking ~15 distinct deadlines if you sell across the major EU markets. The choice is between doing it in a spreadsheet (where you'll miss one eventually) and letting a compliance tool watch them for you. Either way, the cost of missing is concrete — and usually bigger than the cost of the tool.

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Related reading: The 2026 PPWR compliance checklist · Multi-country EPR strategy · EPR fees explained