The rules
What the rules ask for, and when
Each one links to the exact text it came from, so you can check it yourself. Nobody here has looked at your business, so none of this is a judgement about your situation.
Everything here was last read from its source on .
Applying now
Checking packaging against the design rules
Applies nowRegulation (EU) 2025/40, Art. 38
Regulation (EU) 2025/40, Art. 39
Regulation (EU) 2025/40, Art. 62
Regulation (EU) 2025/40, Art. 45(3)
Regulation (EU) 2025/40, Art. 10(2), read with Art. 71
What counts as a micro-enterprise
Applies nowCommission Recommendation 2003/361/EC, Annex, Art. 2(3), Art. 3 and Art. 6
The exception for very small businesses
Applies nowRegulation (EU) 2025/40, Art. 3(1), point (13)(b)
Regulation (EU) 2025/40, Art. 3(1), point (13)
Regulation (EU) 2025/40, Art. 3(1), point (15)
Letting someone else hold the paperwork
Applies nowRegulation (EU) 2025/40, Art. 17
Getting packaging details from a supplier
Applies nowRegulation (EU) 2025/40, Art. 16(1)
Has a date, years away
These have a date written into the rules that does not depend on anything else happening first.
Regulation (EU) 2025/40, Art. 10(1)
Cannot start yet
Each of these begins on a date or a fixed period after the European Commission adopts something, whichever falls later. That decision has not been made, so no start date can be given for them.
The limit on empty space in boxes
No start date yetRegulation (EU) 2025/40, Art. 24(1) and Art. 24(2)
Waiting on: The European Commission's implementing act on measuring empty space
Recycled content in plastic packaging
No start date yetRegulation (EU) 2025/40, Art. 7(1)
Waiting on: The European Commission's implementing act on calculating recycled content
The single EU-wide reporting format that does not exist yet
No start date yetRegulation (EU) 2025/40, Art. 44(1) and Art. 44(14)
Waiting on: The European Commission's implementing act on registration and reporting format