If you sell bicycles, tents, yoga mats, climbing gear or fishing rods to French customers — from your own webshop or through a marketplace — you fall under the filière ASL (articles de sport et de loisirs), France's dedicated Extended Producer Responsibility stream for sports and leisure articles. It has its own eco-organisme, its own tariff codes, its own annual minimum — and it sits alongside, not instead of, your packaging obligations.
This guide walks through who is obligated, how Ecologic's 2026 barème actually prices a product, which articles leave the filière for other streams, and how to get from "we sell sports gear to France" to a defensible cost estimate. Every figure below comes from Ecologic's official Barème Éco-contributions — Articles de Sport et de Loisirs, applicable from 1 January 2026, whose tariff pages (6–36 of the 46-page document) we have transcribed and cross-checked.
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 is explicit: a seller shipping sports articles from abroad directly to French households is the producer — not your factory, and not the French retailer you don't have. And since 10 July 2026 there is a second layer: 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, ASL included; we covered it in depth in our guide to France's new mandataire requirement.
One eco-organisme: Ecologic
We verified the official eco-organisme mapping against ADEME's public register of REP filières in August 2026, and ADEME lists Ecologic as the sole eco-organisme for ASL. Registration, declarations and eco-contributions for sports and leisure articles all go through it. Ecologic is also one of the eco-organismes running France's EEE (WEEE) filière — a coincidence worth remembering, because the boundary between the two schemes is where sports sellers most often misfile.
How the 2026 barème charges
Unlike the toy filière's weight-by-material grid, ASL publishes one amount per tariff code, in € HT per unit (excluding VAT) — the document says so on page 3, and our transcription confirms it. There are 184 codes, spread across eleven product families in the document's own order: mobilité active (bikes, scooters, skates), balls and racquets, outdoor and hiking, athletics, water sports, snow and ice, precision sports, climbing and air sports, fitness, hunting and fishing, and equestrian. The codes are Ecologic's own, and we transcribed them verbatim: ASLVEL01 or ASLMET7 is exactly what you will type into Ecologic's portal.
Which code applies is chosen by a band — almost always the product's weight. The exception is bicycles, which are banded by the price at first placing on the market, the only place in the barème where the band is money rather than a measurement. Some representative 2026 lines, quoted verbatim (the barème states some amounts to the tenth of a cent):
- Bicycles ("vélo musculaire, hors jouet"), by sale price: under €100 → €2.82 (ASLVEL042); €100–200 → €4.68 (ASLVEL041); €200–400 → €6.68 (ASLVEL03); €400–1,000 → €12.590 (ASLVEL02); €1,000 and up → €27.540 (ASLVEL01) — the most expensive line in the barème.
- Non-motorised personal mobility (scooters, skates, rollers): under 4 kg → €1.430 (ASLEDP1); 4 kg and over → €2.160 (ASLEDP2).
- A bicycle tyre is one flat line, €0.360 (ASLPNE1); an inner tube is €0.150 (ASLCAA1).
- In the balls-and-racquets family, an article under 0.2 kg is €0.044 (ASLBAL1).
- An article that is more than 80% metal, weighing 4–5 kg: €0.798 (ASLMET7).
- The cheapest published lines are €0.001 — consumables and personal protective equipment under 5 grams (ASLCBL11, ASLSMA11).
A few series repeat across all eleven families — 51 of the 184 codes: articles more than 80% metal (MET), consumables with an estimated lifespan of a year or less (CBL), and personal protective equipment under Regulation 2016/425 (SMA). Twenty-three codes, all on the first page of mobilité active — bicycles, scooters, skates, tyres and parts — are regulatory category 1; the other 161 are category 2. And there is a floor: Ecologic's minimum annual billing is €200 HT (page 5), so even a handful of French sales carries that minimum once you are in scope.
The barème contradicts itself on four bicycle codes
One honesty note, because we believe compliance software should show its work. The document restates a standard amount for 89 codes in its eco-modulation table (pages 40–46), and for four bicycle codes that table disagrees with the tariff section: ASLVEL042 is €2.82 on page 6 but €2.350 on page 40; ASLVEL041 is €4.68 against €3.920; ASLVEL03 is €6.68 against €5.610; ASLVEL02 is €12.590 against €10.640. ASLVEL01 agrees on both pages, and so does every other shared code — this is four cells, not a systematic offset. The English edition of the same barème reproduces the contradiction identically, so it is in the underlying data, not a typesetting slip.
We load the page 6 figures: the tariff section is what the barème exists to publish, and page 6 carries the higher amount in all four cases — which matches the document's own page 3 rule that in case of doubt the least favourable contribution applies. That rule is written about unjustifiable modulation criteria rather than about the document disagreeing with itself, so applying it here is our extension of it; it errs toward over-declaring, and the four codes stay flagged until Ecologic answers which figure is right. If a provider ever shows you a bicycle tariff without mentioning that two published readings exist, ask which one they picked.
Eco-modulation, and a premium that is not an ASL tariff
The barème modulates the standard amounts on four criteria. The one we have verified against the document is recyclability: under 50% recyclable is a 10% penalty, 50% or better earns a 10% bonus, 95% or better a 50% bonus. Note the default direction: page 3 says that when modulation criteria cannot be justified, the least favourable contribution applies — uncertainty goes up, not down. One trap to avoid: the €450-per-tonne figure that appears around ASL documentation is the transversal recycled-plastic (IMR) premium, not an ASL tariff. Confusing the two would be a serious error.
What leaves ASL — and what stays
Page 4 of the barème excludes from ASL any article belonging to the TLC, DEEE, DBPS, DEA or JJ schemes — textiles, electrical equipment, recreational boats, furniture, and toys. In practice: sportswear is TLC, not ASL. Sports articles that are toys belong to the JOUET filière — whose own guide hands sports articles back to ASL, a reciprocal boundary we mapped in our toy filière deep dive. And the same page excludes some things from EPR altogether: tableware and storage boxes, fishing bait and lures, liquids and lubricants, and firearms owe nothing to any filière.
The exclusion that bites hardest is the electrical one. ASL is, by definition, what has no motor. Page 4 defines the scope as cycles and personal mobility devices non motorisés; the tariff row says "vélo musculaire" (muscle-powered); the fitness section prices the non-electric training machine; and there is no e-bike or e-scooter row anywhere in the 184 tariffs. An e-bike or electric scooter is declared under the EEE filière (with its battery under the batteries filière on top) — we covered that side of the boundary in our French WEEE guide. Crucially, the exclusion applies to the whole article, not to accessories: page 4 explicitly keeps tyres, spare parts, helmets, knee and elbow pads and pumps inside ASL. A helmet is ASL even if its owner rides an e-bike.
Getting this boundary right is worth real money in both directions. Counting an e-scooter in ASL drags in the €200 annual minimum of a filière you are not in; dropping a genuine ASL article under-declares. Pack Declare's estimate removes a product from ASL only when it carries an assigned WEEE tariff line — and reports the removal rather than deleting it silently, because a misassigned code should be visible, not buried. Our guide to France's EPR filières maps the whole landscape.
Your packaging is a separate declaration again
The box the tent ships in, the polybag, the mailer: none of that is covered by your ASL declaration. Household packaging is its own filière with its own eco-organismes and per-material tariffs, and it applies on top of whichever product filière your article falls into — that stacking is by design, not double-counting. A typical foreign sports seller therefore holds at least two French registrations, and one who also sells electric mobility can hold four.
IDU numbers and marketplace verification
Each filière registration yields an IDU (identifiant unique), issued via ADEME's SYDEREP system, and the fine for not having one reaches €30,000 per missing IDU, per filière. The more immediate risk is commercial: French law makes marketplaces co-responsible for verifying that third-party sellers hold a valid IDU for the relevant filières, and a platform that would otherwise become the producer itself responds by blocking listings. If sports gear is your category, expect to be asked for an ASL IDU, not just a packaging one.
What to prepare per SKU
- Sort your catalogue by filière. Non-motorised sports articles → ASL. Anything with a motor → EEE (plus batteries). Sportswear → TLC. Sports toys → JOUET. Packaging → always, on top.
- Capture the banding measurement. For almost everything that is the product's weight; for bicycles it is the first-sale price. Note the special series too: consumables with a lifespan of a year or less, protective equipment, and more-than-80%-metal articles have their own codes.
- Register with Ecologic and get your IDU — and if you are not established in France, appoint your mandataire first.
- Keep per-unit sales to France by product, so each declaration is an export rather than an archaeology project — and remember the €200 annual minimum when you model costs.
How Pack Declare helps
Pack Declare has seeded all 184 published 2026 ASL tariffs, transcribed from Ecologic's official barème and checked three independent ways: the 184 codes appear 711 times across the document's family sections and never carry two different amounts; three pages were re-read as rendered images and matched cell for cell; and the document's own eco-modulation table gave a second reading for 89 codes, of which 85 agreed exactly — the four that did not are the bicycle contradiction above, which we hold as data rather than quietly "fixing". Every rate is flagged as awaiting a second verification pass, and where the document's merged label cells could not be transcribed reliably, we left the label blank rather than guess. Classify a product once and we price your real French sales from Shopify, WooCommerce or Amazon data into a per-period estimate — applying the €200 floor, flagging articles with WEEE codes that belong to EEE instead, and keeping the packaging filière's numbers alongside. No invented tariffs, no interpolation: every figure traces to a published line, and where the source itself is ambiguous, we say so.
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Frequently asked questions
Which eco-organisme handles sport & leisure EPR in France?
Ecologic, and only Ecologic. ADEME’s public register of REP filières lists Ecologic as the sole eco-organisme for ASL, so registration, declarations and eco-contributions for sports and leisure articles all go through it. There is no provider comparison to run.
How does Ecologic’s 2026 ASL barème price a product?
One amount per tariff code, in € HT per unit. There are 184 codes across eleven product families, and the applicable code is chosen by a band — almost always the product’s weight. Bicycles are the exception: they are banded by the price at first placing on the market, the only place in the barème where the band is money.
Why are bicycles priced by sale price instead of weight?
That is simply how Ecologic’s 2026 barème defines the bicycle bands: five price brackets from under €100 (€2.82, code ASLVEL042) to €1,000 and up (€27.540, code ASLVEL01), the most expensive line in the schedule. Note that for four of the five bicycle codes the document publishes two conflicting amounts on different pages; we load the higher, tariff-section figures and flag them until Ecologic clarifies.
Do e-bikes and electric scooters pay the ASL tariff?
No. ASL covers cycles and non-motorised personal mobility only — the barème prices the "vélo musculaire" and has no e-bike row — so the motorised article is declared under the EEE (WEEE) filière instead, with its battery under the batteries filière on top. Accessories stay in ASL: tyres, spare parts, helmets, pads and pumps are explicitly in scope, so a helmet is ASL even on an e-bike rider.
Is sportswear covered by the ASL filière?
No. Page 4 of the barème excludes articles belonging to the TLC (textiles) scheme, along with those under the WEEE, recreational boat, furniture and toy schemes. Sportswear is declared under TLC. Some articles leave EPR entirely: tableware, storage boxes, fishing bait, liquids and lubricants, and firearms owe nothing to any filière.
Is there a minimum ASL fee in France?
Yes. Ecologic’s minimum annual billing for ASL is €200 HT, so even very small French volumes carry that floor once you are in scope. Worth building into your cost model before you decide the market is marginal.
Do I still declare packaging if I declare sports articles?
Yes. The box, polybag and mailer are not covered by the ASL declaration — household packaging is its own filière with its own tariffs, and it always applies on top. A typical foreign sports seller holds at least two French registrations.
Do foreign sellers need a mandataire for the ASL filière?
Yes, if not established in France. Since 10 July 2026 the mandataire obligation is horizontal across French filières, ASL included. A German, UK or US seller shipping sports gear 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 · French WEEE for online sellers