PPWR for Shopify: packaging volumes per EU country KYTH.Kolli

The EU Packaging Regulation (PPWR, Regulation (EU) 2025/40) has applied since 12 August 2026. Its Article 44 provides for registration per member state and an annual volume report by 1 June, including for distance sellers delivering directly to end users in other member states. Kolli gives you the volumes per country and material for that. Kolli does not tell you whether you have to report; that is a question for your advisers.

That depends on your case, and we do not assess it. As a factual summary, as of 3 October 2026: Article 44(2) PPWR provides that producers register in every member state in which they make packaging available for the first time. Member states must set up their registers in the form Article 44 prescribes within 18 months of the entry into force of an implementing act. That act has been published as a draft since 6 August 2026 and has not been adopted, so the deadline does not fall before 2028. Until then the procedures of the individual countries apply: in Germany the Zentrale Stelle Verpackungsregister is the authority responsible for the register under Article 44 and registration takes place in LUCID (section 6(6) VerpackDG), and France has issued an EPR number since 2022. What that means for your shop is a question for a legal or tax adviser.

No. Since 12 August 2026, Article 45(3) PPWR has provided that producers delivering packaged goods directly to end users in another member state (Article 3(1)(15)(c) and (d)) appoint an authorised representative for extended producer responsibility there, even if they are based in the EU themselves. The European Commission has proposed suspending this for EU merchants until 1 January 2035 (COM(2025) 982). As of 3 October 2026 this has not been adopted; the European Parliament plenary reading is provisionally scheduled for 19 October 2026; the Council must then also adopt it. Kolli provides calculations and export files, so it gives you and a representative the figures per country, but does not take on that role. The app says so, with source and date: in the country overview, in the PDF and under “Meldungen” (declarations).

No. Kolli runs on its own with rules and a default packaging. With Karl it gets more precise, because Karl knows which box was actually packed for each shipment.

Continuously from installation. Going back, Kolli reads the current and the previous calendar year when you start the backfill in the app. Kolli shows you the backdating window openly: it never quietly fills in something it has not read.

The report applies per producer across all channels. So you add volumes from marketplaces, in-store sales and B2B by form or CSV; they feed into the same totals.

If you have set up your mail server in the app, you get a closing package by email, on every plan including Free. After that Kolli deletes your shop’s data. Shopify allows 30 days for this.

Filing files for Germany: the annual CSV already on Free, LUCID XML and the dual system report from Starter. Shops based in Austria get the annual CSV as an annual table of volumes per material type, also on Free, from your counted shipments, without added volumes and without product packaging; it does not reproduce the input format of a collection and recovery scheme. Deadlines for Germany and Austria (in the app’s deadline calendar on every plan, email reminders from Starter). The country overview covers every destination country on every plan, and for countries with stored research it adds the competent body, threshold, reporting deadline and minimum fee. For countries other than Germany and Austria Kolli makes no commitment: you get the volumes per country, where stored the research with its retrieval date and, from Starter, the PPWR table, but no file in the format of the national register concerned. Kolli is meant for shops with a business address in the EU or EEA; the app and the contracts are in German.