Bulgaria packaging EPR 2026 — obligations and one scheme's published contributions
Bulgaria sets no national packaging tariff — a producer either joins a licensed recovery organisation at its own price or pays the statutory product fee (2026).
How fees are set
ECOPACK Bulgaria — Licensed packaging recovery organisation (организация по оползотворяване) under the Bulgarian Waste Management Act; one of several licensed organisations, its contributions are its own and not a statutory tariff.
Bulgaria sets no national packaging tariff. A company that places packaged goods on the Bulgarian market either joins a licensed recovery organisation, which guarantees fulfilment of the recovery and recycling obligations under the Waste Management Act and charges its own contribution, or pays the statutory product fee set by ordinance. The organisations compete on their contributions and publish them themselves. One of them, ECOPACK Bulgaria, publishes a full per-material schedule with two discount tiers, and this page carries it as a market reference — a real published number, clearly labelled as one scheme's price rather than the Bulgarian rate.
Declaration basis: EUR per kg of packaging, excl. VAT — one scheme's published contributions. Official rates page: ecopack.bg ↗
Obligations under the Bulgarian scheme
A company that places packaged goods on the Bulgarian market must ensure the recovery and recycling of the resulting packaging waste under the Waste Management Act. It discharges the duty either by joining a licensed recovery organisation, which takes on the obligation and reports on the producer's behalf, or by carrying the obligation individually and paying the statutory product fee where targets are not met. Joining an organisation is the ordinary route for a producer without its own collection capability.
Why there is no Bulgarian tariff — and what the table below is
No Bulgarian authority publishes a per-material contribution that every producer pays. The licensed recovery organisations set their own and compete on them. What can be published is one organisation's own schedule, and ECOPACK Bulgaria publishes a complete one. The table below is that schedule, carried as a market reference rather than as the Bulgarian rate: it is labelled on every row, excluded from this site's country comparison table, and not used for this page's headline finding. Note the structure — a base contribution, ten percent off for reporting by the fifteenth of the month and twenty percent off for paying by the twenty-fifth, with the discounts applying only above ten tonnes a year and a minimum annual charge of eighty euro. This site was not able to retrieve the ministry's list of licensed organisations, so it makes no claim about how many operate.
Where to go next
A binding contribution comes from a recovery organisation directly, under a membership contract. The figures below are a reasonable anchor for judging a quote, but a producer comparing options should ask the Ministry of Environment and Water for the current list of licensed organisations rather than treating the one shown here as the only route. The discount tiers are worth reading closely: on the published schedule, reporting and paying on time is worth a fifth of the bill, but only above ten tonnes a year.
Rates
| Material / item | Type | As published | Conditions | Effective | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SUP plastic beverage bottles up to 3 L | market_reference | 0.151 EUR/kg | Base contribution; 0.136 with the 10% timely-reporting discount and 0.109 with the 20% timely-payment discount, both for annual volumes over 10 tonnes | 2026-01-01 | ecopack.bg ↗ 2026-08-26 market price, not statutory |
| All other plastics | market_reference | 0.125 EUR/kg | Base contribution; 0.1125 with the 10% timely-reporting discount and 0.090 with the 20% timely-payment discount, both for annual volumes over 10 tonnes | 2026-01-01 | ecopack.bg ↗ 2026-08-26 market price, not statutory |
| Paper and cardboard | market_reference | 0.118 EUR/kg | Base contribution; 0.106 with the 10% timely-reporting discount and 0.085 with the 20% timely-payment discount, both for annual volumes over 10 tonnes | 2026-01-01 | ecopack.bg ↗ 2026-08-26 market price, not statutory |
| Glass | market_reference | 0.144 EUR/kg | Base contribution; 0.130 with the 10% timely-reporting discount and 0.104 with the 20% timely-payment discount, both for annual volumes over 10 tonnes | 2026-01-01 | ecopack.bg ↗ 2026-08-26 market price, not statutory |
| Steel | market_reference | 0.066 EUR/kg | Base contribution; 0.059 with the 10% timely-reporting discount and 0.0475 with the 20% timely-payment discount, both for annual volumes over 10 tonnes | 2026-01-01 | ecopack.bg ↗ 2026-08-26 market price, not statutory |
| Aluminium | market_reference | 0.152 EUR/kg | Base contribution; 0.137 with the 10% timely-reporting discount and 0.109 with the 20% timely-payment discount, both for annual volumes over 10 tonnes | 2026-01-01 | ecopack.bg ↗ 2026-08-26 market price, not statutory |
| Composite | market_reference | 0.174 EUR/kg | Base contribution; 0.157 with the 10% timely-reporting discount and 0.125 with the 20% timely-payment discount, both for annual volumes over 10 tonnes | 2026-01-01 | ecopack.bg ↗ 2026-08-26 market price, not statutory |
| Wood | market_reference | 0.069 EUR/kg | Base contribution; 0.062 with the 10% timely-reporting discount and 0.050 with the 20% timely-payment discount, both for annual volumes over 10 tonnes | 2026-01-01 | ecopack.bg ↗ 2026-08-26 market price, not statutory |
| Other | market_reference | 0.205 EUR/kg | Base contribution; 0.1845 with the 10% timely-reporting discount and 0.148 with the 20% timely-payment discount, both for annual volumes over 10 tonnes | 2026-01-01 | ecopack.bg ↗ 2026-08-26 market price, not statutory |
ᴮ bonus / discount · ᴹ malus / surcharge. Every figure on this page is ECOPACK Bulgaria's own published contribution, carried as a market reference. Bulgaria sets no national packaging tariff, and another licensed recovery organisation may price the same packaging differently. These rows are deliberately kept out of the comparison table.
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Provenance
Method version 1.5.0 · snapshots taken 2026-08-26
- https://www.ecopack.bg/bg/za-chlenove/ceni-i-tyrgovska-politika
fetched 2026-08-26 · market price, not statutory · sha256 115388b579d5
How to cite
EPR Rates (2026). Bulgaria Packaging EPR 2026 — obligations and one scheme's published contributions. https://eprrates.com/bulgaria/2026/ · Retrieved 2026-08-27. CC BY 4.0.
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title = {Bulgaria Packaging EPR 2026 — obligations and one scheme's published contributions},
author = {{EPR Rates}},
year = {2026},
url = {https://eprrates.com/bulgaria/2026/},
note = {Retrieved 2026-08-27. CC BY 4.0}
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