What Is Ecopack Bulgaria?

Ecopack Bulgaria is a Bulgarian packaging-recovery organisation — a producer-responsibility organisation, or PRO. In short, it is one of the schemes that businesses can join to meet their packaging extended producer responsibility (EPR) obligations for the Bulgarian market. Packaging EPR is organised nation by nation, and Bulgaria has its own system, of which Ecopack Bulgaria is a well-known example alongside other PROs.

What a packaging PRO does

The principle behind EPR is that those who place packaging on the market help finance its later collection and recycling. Rather than each business arranging that individually, a PRO takes on the duties collectively on behalf of its members and reports on the volumes involved.

• You declare the packaging you place on the Bulgarian market.
• You pay fees that reflect those quantities.
• The organisation handles the collection-and-recycling obligations and the associated reporting.

How it relates to the PPWR

The PPWR, Regulation (EU) 2025/40, sets common EU rules on how packaging is designed and reduced. EPR schemes such as Ecopack Bulgaria sit alongside that, handling the national financing-and-recovery side for the Bulgarian market. The two work together rather than being the same thing.

Thresholds, categories and reporting detail are set through the Bulgarian system and can develop over time, so check your own position for the Bulgarian market rather than assuming. Our complete PPWR guide covers the wider picture.

This answer is educational, not legal advice.