If you sell furniture, mattresses, shelving, seating or textile décor to French customers, you fall into the filière EA (éléments d'ameublement) — France's EPR stream for furniture and furnishing elements. When we verified the 2026 barèmes of France's consumer filières source by source, EA was the one we flagged as the most complex: textiles price per piece by product line, electronics per unit by equipment category, but furniture prices by a mix of weight, dimensions, volume and materials, depending on what the product is. This article doesn't pretend that away. The complexity, explained honestly, is the point.
Every figure below comes from Ecomaison's official Guide des barèmes DEA 2026 (applicable from 1 January 2026) and its October 2025 barème webinar, both read in full. We quote tariffs verbatim, with the grid cell they come from, and we say so where the sources themselves leave something open.
Who counts as the producer
As in every French filière, the obligated "producer" is whoever places the product on the French market. For cross-border e-commerce that means you: a seller shipping furniture or home products from abroad directly to French households is the producer — not your supplier, not a French retailer you don't have. And since 10 July 2026, producers not established in France must appoint a French mandataire — a representative established in France who takes over the REP obligations by written mandate. That rule is horizontal across filières, furniture included; we covered it in our guide to France's mandataire requirement.
Three eco-organismes, not one
Unlike toys, where Ecomaison stands alone, ADEME's public register of REP filières — which we verified in August 2026 — lists three approved eco-organismes for EA: Ecomaison, Valdelia (historically the professional-furniture side) and Valobat. A foreign D2C or marketplace seller of household furniture will most commonly deal with Ecomaison, and it is Ecomaison's 2026 barème this article walks through — but the existence of a choice is itself a difference from the single-organisme filières.
How the 2026 barème charges
Ecomaison's 2026 furniture guide publishes 1,091 tariff cells across 32 tables, each an amount in € HT per unit sold. There is no single pricing axis. Which table applies — and what its rows and columns mean — depends on the product family:
- Furniture and furnishing elements price by weight band, from under 0.100 kg to over 300 kg, crossed with material columns.
- Mattresses and bedding price by width in centimetres (under 120 cm, 121–140 cm, over 141 cm), with separate thickness bands for some bedding products.
- Shelving boards and decorated panels price by length in millimetres (0–600 mm, 610–1,200 mm, over 1,200 mm), crossed with a height split at 250 mm.
- Some bedding accessories price per piece or per lot (1 piece, lot of 2, lot of 4), and parts of the textile-décor tables price per square metre.
In the main furniture tables, the material columns are four material groups × two certification states, plus a ninth column: solid wood over 95%, particle board at least 75%, any wood and wood derivatives at least 50%, and biosourced materials at least 50% — each with and without gestion durable certifiée (certified sustainable management) — plus a column for any majority-wood product with a perturbateur de recyclage (recycling disruptor). Seating gets its own families, split between seats without upholstery and seats with upholstery or inflatable ones. And the tariff logic Ecomaison itself describes is threefold: product characteristics, waste-management costs — the smaller the object, the more expensive the collection per kilo — and eco-modulations.
What the cells actually say
The spread across the published grid is enormous. The cheapest cells are €0.01 — for example a sub-100-gram item in the certified wood-over-95% column (grid cell EA-LES_MEUBLES_LES_ELEMENTS_D_AME-W-C2-KG_LT_0_100). The dearest published cell is €114.64, for furniture over 300 kg in the "assembled materials or any material with a recycling disruptor" column (EA-LES_MEUBLES_LES_ELEMENTS_D_AME-D-C7-KG_GT_300). A note on those identifiers: they are ours, naming a cell of the published grid — Ecomaison's own declaration codes come out of an Excel code generator, which we return to below.
The example both of Ecomaison's own documents work through is a 50 kg chest of drawers, and it shows every lever at once:
- Particle board, no certification → €7.25 (band ≥ 40 kg and < 60 kg, cell
EA-LES_MEUBLES_LES_ELEMENTS_D_AME-W-C3-KG_R_40_60). - Same product with certified sustainable management → €3.50 (
EA-LES_MEUBLES_LES_ELEMENTS_D_AME-W-C4-KG_R_40_60) — less than half. - Designed for evolving use (évolutif) → €2.97, a −15% modulation.
- Incorporating recycled material → €2.67, −10%, plus an IMR prime paid separately.
Those first two figures appear in two different documents — the tariff guide and the webinar deck — and they match, which is exactly the kind of cross-check we insist on before loading a number. The guide's other worked examples reconcile the same way: a 35 kg desk in certified particle board is €2.62, a 55 kg certified solid-wood bookcase is €3.37, a 160 kg certified wardrobe is €14.70. On the dimension side, a mattress-family product in the 121–140 cm width band runs from €3.75 without a recycling disruptor (EA-LA_LITERIE-D-C1-CM_R_121_140) to €6.41 with one on the same row — and other product rows in that same width band reach €12.52.
The eleven-digit code
What you actually declare to Ecomaison is an eleven-digit positional code: two digits of category, three of product type, two of material, three of weight band, and a final modulation digit. That last digit is not a scale — it packs two independent design facts into one character: 0 (neither), 1 (evolutive design), 3 (incorporates recycled material), 6 (both). And the recycled-material digits only became claimable on 1 July 2026, six months after the barème itself — a code carrying them for an earlier period claims a discount the producer cannot have.
One material code deserves its own paragraph. Code 39 is majority-wood furniture assembled with a mirror, mineral element or electrical component. Ecomaison asks for it when those components exceed strictly 20% of total mass — and also when you don't know the percentage. That default routes uncertainty to the higher tariff, which is the opposite of where a merchant guessing on their own would land. Not knowing your bill of materials costs money in this filière.
Minimums, fees and the 0.4% flat rate
Three billing rules from Ecomaison's own materials apply whatever your catalogue looks like. First, a billing minimum of €60 HT per year or €15 HT per quarter, depending on your declaration frequency — a seller of three lamps a year still owes the floor. Second, a one-off €50 HT membership fee per filière for new adherents from 1 January 2026 — and your IDU is not issued until it is paid. Third, a flat-rate declaration at 0.4% of eligible turnover, reserved for companies under €2M of annual global turnover HT. Note the trap in that last one: eligibility is measured on your company-wide turnover across all products, while the 0.4% applies only to your furniture turnover. They are two different figures, and conflating them misprices the route. Territory, while we are being precise: mainland France plus Corsica and the DROM-COM overseas territories — Monaco is not included.
The data your catalogue probably doesn't have
Here is the honest operational problem. The EA band is chosen by product weight — or, for bedding and panels, by product dimensions. Most e-commerce catalogues hold shipping weight, not net product weight, and packaging-EPR data is all packaging weights. A furniture product with no weight on record cannot even be assigned a code: the field that picks the tariff band is missing, and no amount of classification effort substitutes for a scale. Before you can declare, you need per product: net weight (and width or length where the family prices by dimension), the majority material, whether its wood or biosourced content carries certified sustainable sourcing, and whether mirrors, mineral or electrical components exceed 20% of mass. That certification field alone is the €7.25-versus-€3.50 lever above.
Where EA's scope starts and stops
French filières divide the terrain with reciprocal lists, and two boundaries matter for home-product sellers. First, children's furniture and children's textile décor belong to EA, not to the toy filière: Ecomaison's own toy tariff guide excludes "le mobilier et la décoration textile pour enfant relevant de la REP Ameublement" from JOUET's scope. A kids' desk is furniture, whatever aisle it sells in — see our toy filière deep dive for the other side of that line. Second, textile décor is a priced family inside the EA grid, but not every home textile is EA: Refashion's 2026 textile barème prices couvertures (blankets) under bed linen at €0.2175 per piece — so parts of a homeware range can split across filières. And from Ecomaison's own exclusion notes elsewhere: decorative garden ornaments such as statues and fountains fall outside every REP, while hardware (quincaillerie) is routed to the building-products filière or to Ameublement depending on the item. Our guide to France's EPR filières maps the whole landscape.
And as always: packaging stacks on top. The carton, the corner protectors, the film around the mattress — none of it is covered by the EA declaration. Household packaging is its own filière with its own tariffs, so a typical foreign furniture seller holds at least two French registrations.
IDU numbers and marketplace verification
Each filière registration yields an IDU (identifiant unique) via ADEME's SYDEREP system, and administrative penalties reach €30,000 per missing unique identifier, per filière. The more immediate pressure is commercial: French law makes marketplaces co-responsible for verifying seller IDUs, and platforms manage that liability by blocking listings. If furniture or home décor is your category, expect to be asked for a furniture-filière IDU, not just a packaging one — and remember Ecomaison's wrinkle that the IDU is only delivered once the €50 membership fee is paid.
What to do
- Sort your catalogue by filière. Furniture, mattresses, shelving, seating, textile décor — including children's versions → EA. Blankets and bed linen → textiles. Packaging → always, on top.
- Collect the measurements. Net product weight for most families; width for mattresses; length and height for panels. Then majority material, certification status, and the mirror/mineral/electrical share.
- Check the 0.4% route if your global turnover is under €2M — against your furniture turnover, not your total.
- Appoint your mandataire if you are not established in France, then register, pay the €50 fee, and get your IDU.
- Budget the floor. €60 per year or €15 per quarter applies even in a slow year.
How Pack Declare estimates it
Pack Declare has loaded all 1,091 published 2026 EA tariffs, extracted from Ecomaison's official guide with an extractor that checks itself against five figures Ecomaison publishes elsewhere — four worked examples from the guide and one from the separate webinar deck, the cross-document check that counts most. We price your real French sales per unit by family, material and band, apply the correct minimum for your declaration frequency, and surface the 0.4% route when your turnover qualifies. And we are honest about the limits: a product without a weight is not silently guessed — it comes back as "needs a measurement", because Ecomaison picks the band from mass and nobody can classify what they cannot measure. Our grid-cell pricing tells you what you owe; the eleven-digit filing code itself comes from Ecomaison's generator, and we validate its structure — including rejecting recycled-content modulations claimed for periods before 1 July 2026.
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Frequently asked questions
Which eco-organismes handle furniture EPR in France?
ADEME’s public register lists three for the EA filière: Ecomaison, Valdelia (historically the professional-furniture side) and Valobat. A foreign seller of household furniture will most commonly register with Ecomaison, whose 2026 barème this article describes.
How is the French furniture eco-participation calculated?
Per unit sold, from a grid of 1,091 published 2026 tariffs across 32 tables. There is no single axis: most furniture prices by weight band crossed with material columns, mattresses by width in centimetres, panels by length in millimetres, and some lines per piece, per lot or per square metre.
Does certified sustainable material reduce the furniture tariff?
Dramatically. Ecomaison’s own worked example, a 50 kg particle board chest of drawers, is €7.25 per unit without certified sustainable management and €3.50 with it — less than half. Evolutive design takes a further −15% and recycled-material content −10%, the latter only claimable from 1 July 2026.
What are the cheapest and most expensive 2026 furniture tariffs?
The cheapest published cells are €0.01 per unit, for sub-100-gram items in certified-material columns. The dearest is €114.64, for furniture over 300 kg in the assembled-materials or recycling-disruptor column.
Is there a flat-rate option for small furniture sellers?
Yes: a flat-rate declaration at 0.4% of eligible turnover, reserved for companies under €2M of annual global turnover. Eligibility is measured on company-wide turnover while the 0.4% applies only to furniture turnover — two different figures.
What minimums and fees does Ecomaison charge for furniture?
A billing minimum of €60 per year or €15 per quarter depending on declaration frequency, and a one-off €50 membership fee per filière for new adherents from 1 January 2026. The IDU is not issued until that fee is paid.
Is children's furniture EA or the toy filière?
EA. Ecomaison’s own toy tariff guide excludes children’s furniture and children’s textile décor from JOUET’s scope and routes them to the REP Ameublement. A kids’ desk or bed declares as furniture.
Do foreign furniture sellers need a mandataire in France?
Yes, if not established in France. Since 10 July 2026 the mandataire obligation is horizontal across French filières, furniture included: a foreign seller shipping to French households is the producer and must appoint a representative established in France by written mandate.
Related reading: France's new mandataire rule for foreign sellers · The complete guide to France's EPR filières · The JOUET filière and Ecomaison's toy tariffs