Tyres are a niche of cross-border e-commerce, but a real one: car parts stores shipping to French customers, moto accessory shops, quad specialists, even agricultural suppliers selling spares online. If any of that is you, you are inside a dedicated corner of French Extended Producer Responsibility: the filière PNEU, France's EPR stream for tyres (pneumatiques). It has its own eco-organismes, its own per-tyre barème — and a pricing mechanism that most sellers misread, because the number that matters is not the base rate.
This guide walks through who is obligated, how Aliapur's 2026 barème actually prices a tyre, why an undocumented declaration pays the penalty rate by default, and which tyre-shaped products belong to other filières entirely. Every figure below comes from Aliapur's official Barème de l'éco-contribution 2026, applicable from 1 January 2026.
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 lands squarely on you: a seller shipping tyres — or products with tyres on them — from abroad directly to French customers is the producer, not your supplier and 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. The rule is horizontal across filières, tyres included; we covered it in depth in our guide to France's mandataire requirement.
Three eco-organismes — and these figures are Aliapur's
Unlike the toy filière, where Ecomaison stands alone, the tyre filière has three approved eco-organismes: Aliapur, France Recyclage Pneumatique (FRP) and TYVAL. We verified that mapping against ADEME's public register of REP filières in August 2026. All three are approved for the whole filière, and a producer joins one.
That structure matters for every number in this article: FRP publishes its scale on request and TYVAL separately, and nothing says the three charge the same. The barème below is Aliapur's. If you join FRP or TYVAL, you will see other figures.
How Aliapur's 2026 barème charges
The contribution is a per-tyre amount in € HT (excluding VAT). Aliapur's table has seven categories, lettered A to G, each priced at four modulation levels — 28 published rates in all. The base rates:
| Category | Covers | Base (€ HT/tyre) | Penalty (€ HT/tyre) |
|---|---|---|---|
| A — Véhicules légers | Cars, vans, SUVs, quads, mowers, motorbikes | 1.60 | 1.76 |
| B — Poids lourds | Heavy goods vehicles | 12.20 | 13.42 |
| C — Agraires | Agricultural machinery | 29.30 | 32.23 |
| D — Génie civil | Public works machinery | 81.40 | 89.54 |
| E — 2 roues | Two-wheelers | 0.89 | 0.97 |
| F — Avions | Aircraft | 6.30 | 6.93 |
| G — Pneus pleins | Solid tyres | 8.89 | 9.77 |
The spread across the published table runs from €0.71 (a two-wheeler tyre at the best bonus) to €89.54 (a public-works tyre at the penalty). No weight bands, no material columns: the category and the modulation level are the whole price.
The modulation is the mechanism to understand
French law requires the contribution to move with the tyre's environmental performance, so a base rate alone would be wrong for most declarations. Aliapur's modulation is plain arithmetic on the base: penalty +10%, bonus 1 −10%, bonus 2 −20%. A category A tyre is €1.60 at base, €1.76 penalised, €1.44 at bonus 1 and €1.28 at bonus 2.
What triggers which level: SVHC or comparable substances above 0.1%, or recycled content below 1.5%, attract the penalty. The bonuses go the other way on recycled content. And here is the part that reshapes how you should read the table: Aliapur may demand certified evidence for the claim — from the Universal Registration Document or the CSRD report, signed off by an auditor — and applies the penalty rate to any declaration that cannot produce it.
So the base is not a safe default: an unevidenced declaration is a penalised one. The base rate is the lucky case, not the neutral one, and a seller budgeting from the base column will be quoted roughly 10% under what they are actually billed. Between the penalty and the better bonus sits a spread of 30 points of the base rate — and unlike most EPR eco-modulations, this one turns on evidence you can actually assemble.
A transcription note: Aliapur truncates
Because the modulation is arithmetic, all 28 published figures should be derivable from the seven bases — and when we derived them, category E refused: 0.89 × 1.10 = 0.979, and the table says €0.97. Solid tyres confirm the pattern: 8.89 × 1.10 = 9.779, published as €9.77. Aliapur truncates to the cent rather than rounding. A detail — but if you ever recompute a modulated rate instead of reading it from the table, rounding would overcharge by a cent in exactly those categories, invisibly. We derive all 28 rates from the seven bases in our test suite, so a transcription slip anywhere shows up as an arithmetic failure.
Which tyres are PNEU — and which are not
The filière covers the tyre sold as a tyre. A tyre fitted to a product is a different story: it is not in PNEU at all — it belongs to the filière of the product that carries it. Verified against ADEME's scope page for the filière:
- Tyres fitted to electrical or electronic equipment → the EEE filière.
- Tyres fitted to toys → the JOUET filière.
- Tyres fitted to sports and leisure articles → the ASL filière.
- Tyres fitted to DIY and garden equipment — wheelbarrows, mowers → the ABJ filière.
Wheelbarrow and mower tyres are the everyday case, and both are out. Note the seam: Aliapur's own light-vehicle category names mowers, while ADEME's scope page sends tyres fitted to garden machines to ABJ — the word doing the work is fitted. The tyre already on the machine travels with the machine.
Bike sellers should know one more boundary. The ASL tariff schedule's own scope list includes "pneus et pièces détachées" among the cycle articles it covers — so a spare bicycle tyre goes with the sports filière, not PNEU. And per the same schedule, what leaves ASL for the electronics filière is the motorised article itself, not its accessories and spares. Our guide to France's EPR filières maps the whole landscape.
No admin fee, no floor — but packaging on top
Aliapur's 2026 barème carries no administrative fee and no annual floor: the total is the per-tyre sum, nothing more. What does apply on top is packaging — the box or wrap your tyres ship in is a separate declaration under the household packaging filière, which applies alongside every product filière by design. See our guide to French packaging EPR.
IDU numbers and marketplace verification
Registration yields an IDU (identifiant unique), issued via ADEME's SYDEREP system, per filière. Administrative penalties reach €30,000 per missing IDU, per filière — but 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 tyres are your category, expect to be asked for a tyre-filière IDU, not just a packaging one.
What to prepare per SKU
- The category, A to G. For most e-commerce catalogues this is category A (car, van, SUV, quad, motorbike) or E (two-wheelers) — but check every SKU, because base rates run from €0.89 to €81.40 depending on the category.
- The modulation claim — with its evidence. Recycled content and SVHC status per tyre, and whether you can back the claim with auditor-certified documentation. No evidence means the penalty rate, so until you hold it, budget at penalty.
- Units sold to France per SKU. The barème is per piece; your sales data already has this.
- Sort out the fitted-tyre exclusions. Spares for bikes, toys, sports gear and garden machines belong to other filières — registering them under PNEU would be declaring in the wrong place.
- Pick an eco-organisme and register — and if you are not established in France, appoint your mandataire first.
How Pack Declare estimates
Pack Declare has seeded all 28 published 2026 PNEU rates from Aliapur's barème — and because the table is internally derivable, our tests reproduce every one of them arithmetically from the seven base rates, a stronger check than spot-checking a sample. Where our estimate differs from most tools is the default: a tyre with no modulation level claimed is priced at the penalty rate, because that is Aliapur's own rule for evidence it cannot check — not our caution. An estimate that defaulted to the base would quote you roughly 10% under your real bill.
Two honesty notes. These rates are transcribed from Aliapur's published table and reproduced arithmetically from its seven bases, but not yet second-read by a human, and we flag them accordingly. And they are Aliapur's figures only: a merchant who joins FRP or TYVAL will see other numbers, and our estimate says so rather than pretending one barème covers the filière. Tyres we cannot price are reported as an unpriced quantity, never silently dropped from the total.
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Frequently asked questions
Which eco-organismes run tyre EPR in France?
Three: Aliapur, France Recyclage Pneumatique (FRP) and TYVAL, per ADEME’s public register. All three are approved for the whole filière and a producer joins one. FRP publishes its scale on request and TYVAL separately, and nothing says the three charge the same — so any figure you see quoted is one eco-organisme’s barème, not “the” French tyre tariff.
How much is the French tyre eco-contribution in 2026?
Under Aliapur’s 2026 barème, a per-tyre amount excluding VAT set by category and modulation level. A light-vehicle tyre (category A) is €1.60 at base; the published table spans €0.71 (a two-wheeler tyre at the best bonus) to €89.54 (a public-works tyre at the penalty).
What triggers the penalty rate on a tyre?
SVHC or comparable substances above 0.1%, or recycled content below 1.5%. But the penalty also applies for a different reason: Aliapur charges it on any declaration whose supporting evidence it cannot verify. An unevidenced declaration is a penalised one, which makes the penalty — not the base — the realistic default.
What evidence does Aliapur accept for a bonus?
Certified evidence — from the Universal Registration Document or the CSRD report, signed off by an auditor. The modulation spread is worth chasing: penalty is +10% on the base and the better bonus is −20%, a 30-point difference on every tyre you sell.
Are bicycle tyres in the PNEU filière?
No. The ASL tariff schedule’s own scope list includes “pneus et pièces détachées” among the cycle articles it covers, so spare bicycle tyres travel with the sports and leisure filière rather than PNEU.
Do tyres fitted to products pay the PNEU contribution?
No. Per ADEME’s scope page, a tyre fitted to electrical or electronic equipment, a toy, a sports article or a DIY or garden machine belongs to that product’s own filière — EEE, JOUET, ASL or ABJ. Wheelbarrow and mower tyres are the everyday case, and both are excluded.
Is there an administrative fee or minimum for tyre declarations?
Aliapur’s 2026 barème carries no administrative fee and no annual floor — the total is the per-tyre sum. Your packaging remains a separate declaration under the packaging filière, which applies on top.
Do foreign sellers need a mandataire for the tyre filière?
Yes, if not established in France. Since 10 July 2026 the mandataire obligation is horizontal across French filières, tyres included: a foreign seller shipping tyres to French customers 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 · France's sport & leisure filière (ASL)