Learn more, join, and declare
Do you market, import, or distribute construction products or materials, furnishing components, or DIY and gardening items in your own brand name ?
If so, you must comply with the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) scheme and make sure you are compliant with a government-approved PRO like Valobat.
Regulations and requirements
What is EPR (Extended Producer Responsibility)?
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) requires companies placing products and materials on the French market to manage and finance their products’ end-of-life. To comply, marketers can pool their efforts by joining a state-approved PRO and paying eco-contributions.
Eco-contributions not only allow the PRO to set up your entire collection and waste treatment network but also offer baseline services to improve reuse practices, support members with eco-friendly design initiatives, or even help develop new outlets for certain waste-generating products and materials.
Which products are covered by the regulations?
In France, about twenty EPR schemes exist. Valobat covers the following products under its EPR schemes:
EPR for Construction Products and Materials (PMCB)
Covers all products intended to be incorporated, assembled, used, or installed on a construction site (excluding public works)
EPR for Furnishing Components (DEA)
Furniture and furnishing components for personal or commercial use, including custom-made fittings
EPR for DIY and Gardening Items (ABJ)
EPR for Professional Packaging (EPRO)
Would you like to know if your products are covered by any of these regulations? Browse our eco-contribution price lists (tariffs)
Are you affected by EPR?
Take the test in just a few clicks!
If you want to know if you must comply with the Building, Furnishing, and/or DIY and Gardening EPRs, Valobat offers a quick online diagnostic. Answer the questions and find out!
Join Valobat
Valobat: more than just a regulatory partner
Joining Valobat is a major step toward compliance and also gives you accessto a collective ready to support you in becoming more environmentally aware.
Membership is free and you can join in just a few clicks via an online form!
Simplified procedures
Only one annual declaration; with Valobat, you can focus on your core business!
Support at every regulatory stage
Tools, guides, and experts are available to make compliance easier; with Valobat, you are not alone!
Your partner for environmental transformation
Starting to Reuse? Better Eco-design? Valobat supports and assists you in your environmental projects!
Declaration, pass-through… the other stages to becoming compliant
While joining a PRO is an essential first step toward compliance, it is not enough. Here are the next steps in your life as a member:
Declaring your market placements annually
Each year, you are invited to log in to your personal space to declare your market placements.
Declaring with Valobat is simple!
– Only one declaration per year (between January and March)
– Simplified schemes for small-scale marketers
– Support at every stage
Integrating the eco-contribution into the your products’ sales price:
Depending on the EPR scheme (product universe), rules regarding the integration and transparency of the eco-contribution differ:
Building EPR (PMCB):
Integration is required; transparency is recommended
Furnishing EPR (DEA):
Integration and transparency required on sales documents (catalogues, invoices, sales sites, etc.)
DIY & Gardening Items EPR (ABJ):
Integration and transparency are not required
The TRIMAN labelling requirement
Whether you market building products, furnishing elements, or DIY and gardening items, you must follow sorting information labelling requirements on your products.
This labelling informs consumers, whether individuals or professionals, abut how to dispose of the product.
Building EPR: Are you required to label your products with TRIMAN?
To help you identify which, in any, of your products fall under TRIMAN labelling requirements, Valobat has developed a TRIMAN diagnostic tool. Answer a few questions, to find out if labelling is required on a given product and whether you are responsible for doing so.
The sorting info user’s guide
To learn more about sorting info regulations and use in the Building, Furnishing, and DIY and Gardening Items EPRs, download our user’s guide along with the labels you will need to affix to your products.
Declaring reused professional packaging
Do you place more than 10,000 units of packaged products on the market per year? You are therefore required to make an annual declaration of your packaging data.
This regulatory provision implemented by ADEME (France’s green transition agency) and the French Reuse Observatory is a temporary solution ahead of the future Extended Producer Responsibility for Professional Packaging (EPR EPro). Valobat and our partner Twiice, a future PRO 100% dedicated to Professional Packaging EPR, are here to help.
The Waste Prevention and Eco-design Plan
The AGEC law requires marketers subject to EPRs to have a Prevention and Eco-design Plan.
Its objective: to allow you to formalize and share the actions you plan to implement over the next 5 years to reduce the environmental impact of your products (eco-design, use of recycled materials, improvement of recyclability, etc.)
To establish your plan, Valobat offers 3 options:
Use one of the sectoral frameworks we developed with our partner federations: a structured framework adapted to your sector
Complete a simplified plan using this questionnaire: a simple solution for small organizations
Create an individual prevention and eco-design plan
Teams available to answer your questions
Our Customer Relations Center is at your disposal to support you in your declaration procedures. Contact our teams by dialing 01 80 83 60 70 from Monday to Friday, 8:30 AM to 6:00 PM, at the cost of a local call, or by email at [email protected].
