Poland statutory WEEE product fee 2026 (opłata produktowa)
Poland charges 4.2× more per kg for lamps than for equipment operating on the principle of temperature exchange (2026). Basis: Lamps · Equipment operating on the principle of temperature exchange
How fees are set
Statutory WEEE product fee (opłata produktowa) — Statutory levy under the Act of 11 September 2015 on waste electrical and electronic equipment; rates set by ministerial regulation under art. 74(2); collected by the marshal's office of the voivodeship.
Poland's WEEE product fee is a fallback price for missing a target, not a tariff on everything placed on the market: it is charged on the difference between the required and the achieved level, computed group by group, so a producer that hits its targets pays nothing. Reading it correctly requires two levels of law. The act itself fixes only a range - 4 to 8 złoty per kilogram for lamps and 0 to 2 for every other group - and delegates the actual figures to a ministerial regulation; the regulation of 14 June 2018 sets them at 7.50 złoty per kilogram for lamps and 1.80 for the other five groups. The act's Annex 1 uses the six Directive categories verbatim, so the group numbers are the Directive numbers. Two further amounts are not rate lines: an additional fee of 50 per cent of any unpaid amount, and the public education campaign obligation of 0.1 per cent of net revenue, which has no per-kilogram form. Nothing is payable where a group's fee does not exceed 50 złoty.
Declaration basis: PLN per kg, charged only on the shortfall against the statutory collection, recovery and preparing-for-reuse targets. Official rates page: eli.gov.pl ↗
Rates
| Material / item | As published | Conditions | Effective | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Equipment operating on the principle of temperature exchange Code TMP-UNS-1 | 1.8 PLN/kg | Polish equipment group 1 of Annex 1 to the Act of 11 September 2015, whose six groups are worded as the six categories of Directive 2012/19/EU, so the category assignment is the source's own. Statutory fallback price: charged only on the shortfall against the required collection, recovery and preparing-for-reuse-and-recycling levels, per kilogram of that shortfall (Art. 73). The statutory range for this group under Art. 74(1) is 0 to 2 złoty per kilogram; the rate of 1.80 złoty per kilogram recorded here is the detailed rate set inside that range by the regulation of 14 June 2018. No household/professional split is drawn, so the use slot is UNS. No product fee is payable where the amount for a group does not exceed 50 złoty (Art. 75(3)). | 2018-06-22 | eli.gov.pl ↗ 2026-08-26 official |
| Screens, monitors and equipment containing screens with a surface greater than 100 cm2 Code SCR-UNS-2 | 1.8 PLN/kg | Polish equipment group 2 of Annex 1 to the Act of 11 September 2015, whose six groups are worded as the six categories of Directive 2012/19/EU, so the category assignment is the source's own. Statutory fallback price: charged only on the shortfall against the required collection, recovery and preparing-for-reuse-and-recycling levels, per kilogram of that shortfall (Art. 73). The statutory range for this group under Art. 74(1) is 0 to 2 złoty per kilogram; the rate of 1.80 złoty per kilogram recorded here is the detailed rate set inside that range by the regulation of 14 June 2018. No household/professional split is drawn, so the use slot is UNS. No product fee is payable where the amount for a group does not exceed 50 złoty (Art. 75(3)). | 2018-06-22 | eli.gov.pl ↗ 2026-08-26 official |
| Lamps Code LMP-UNS-3 | 7.5 PLN/kg | Polish equipment group 3 of Annex 1 to the Act of 11 September 2015, whose six groups are worded as the six categories of Directive 2012/19/EU, so the category assignment is the source's own. Statutory fallback price: charged only on the shortfall against the required collection, recovery and preparing-for-reuse-and-recycling levels, per kilogram of that shortfall (Art. 73). The statutory range for this group under Art. 74(1) is 4 to 8 złoty per kilogram; the rate of 7.50 złoty per kilogram recorded here is the detailed rate set inside that range by the regulation of 14 June 2018. No household/professional split is drawn, so the use slot is UNS. No product fee is payable where the amount for a group does not exceed 50 złoty (Art. 75(3)). | 2018-06-22 | eli.gov.pl ↗ 2026-08-26 official |
| Large equipment, any external dimension of which exceeds 50 cm Code LEQ-UNS-4 | 1.8 PLN/kg | Polish equipment group 4 of Annex 1 to the Act of 11 September 2015, whose six groups are worded as the six categories of Directive 2012/19/EU, so the category assignment is the source's own. Statutory fallback price: charged only on the shortfall against the required collection, recovery and preparing-for-reuse-and-recycling levels, per kilogram of that shortfall (Art. 73). The statutory range for this group under Art. 74(1) is 0 to 2 złoty per kilogram; the rate of 1.80 złoty per kilogram recorded here is the detailed rate set inside that range by the regulation of 14 June 2018. No household/professional split is drawn, so the use slot is UNS. No product fee is payable where the amount for a group does not exceed 50 złoty (Art. 75(3)). For group 4 the fee is computed separately for photovoltaic panels and for the rest of the group (Art. 72(2a)), at the same rate. | 2018-06-22 | eli.gov.pl ↗ 2026-08-26 official |
| Small equipment, no external dimension of which exceeds 50 cm Code SEQ-UNS-5 | 1.8 PLN/kg | Polish equipment group 5 of Annex 1 to the Act of 11 September 2015, whose six groups are worded as the six categories of Directive 2012/19/EU, so the category assignment is the source's own. Statutory fallback price: charged only on the shortfall against the required collection, recovery and preparing-for-reuse-and-recycling levels, per kilogram of that shortfall (Art. 73). The statutory range for this group under Art. 74(1) is 0 to 2 złoty per kilogram; the rate of 1.80 złoty per kilogram recorded here is the detailed rate set inside that range by the regulation of 14 June 2018. No household/professional split is drawn, so the use slot is UNS. No product fee is payable where the amount for a group does not exceed 50 złoty (Art. 75(3)). | 2018-06-22 | eli.gov.pl ↗ 2026-08-26 official |
| Small IT and telecommunication equipment, no external dimension of which exceeds 50 cm Code SIT-UNS-6 | 1.8 PLN/kg | Polish equipment group 6 of Annex 1 to the Act of 11 September 2015, whose six groups are worded as the six categories of Directive 2012/19/EU, so the category assignment is the source's own. Statutory fallback price: charged only on the shortfall against the required collection, recovery and preparing-for-reuse-and-recycling levels, per kilogram of that shortfall (Art. 73). The statutory range for this group under Art. 74(1) is 0 to 2 złoty per kilogram; the rate of 1.80 złoty per kilogram recorded here is the detailed rate set inside that range by the regulation of 14 June 2018. No household/professional split is drawn, so the use slot is UNS. No product fee is payable where the amount for a group does not exceed 50 złoty (Art. 75(3)). | 2018-06-22 | eli.gov.pl ↗ 2026-08-26 official |
ᴮ bonus / discount · ᴹ malus / surcharge. The statute gives lamps their own higher rate band (4–8 PLN/kg under art. 74 ust. 1) and leaves the other five equipment groups to share the lower one, which is the clearest statement anywhere in this channel of why lamps cost more. The 1000 PLN/Mg figure that circulates in secondary sources has no counterpart anywhere in the statutory chain.
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Method version 1.10.0 · snapshots taken 2026-08-26
- https://eli.gov.pl/api/acts/DU/2018/1194/text/O/D20181194.pdf
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year = {2026},
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