Your IDU is not showing on Amazon France

Who is the producer

Set-up	Producer for French EPR
You sell to French customers and ship from abroad	You Légifrance
Your stock is in a French or EU warehouse, sold in your name	You
A French distributor imports and resells	The distributor
A marketplace buys and resells as retailer	The marketplace
A retailer sells your goods under its own brand	The retailer

Sanctions

Failure	Sanction	Source
Not meeting EPR duties after formal notice	Up to €1,500 (individual) or €7,500 (company) per unit or tonne concerned	Légifrance
Still not complying	Daily penalty up to €20,000	Légifrance
Register and IDU failures	Fine up to €30,000	Légifrance
No IDU on a marketplace	The platform blocks the listing or pays in your place	Ministère de l'Écologie

What Amazon asks for

Amazon.fr asks for your unique identification numbers, one per EPR category, on its EPR compliance information page in Seller Central; packaging and paper count as one category. Without them it may deactivate offers or comply on your behalf. AAmazon+1 Amazon publishes its own requirements and review times; this page covers what sits on your side.

Six things to check

Check	What goes wrong	Fix
1. The category	An IDU entered under the wrong EPR category	One IDU per category; packaging and paper together AAmazon
2. Whose IDU it is	A supplier's number used as your own	As the producer you need your own; a reseller gives buyers the producer's number ADEME
3. The legal entity	The IDU belongs to another company than the seller account	Register the company that sells on Amazon
4. Issued yet?	Membership signed, but the IDU not issued	Ask your eco-organisme; ADEME issues the IDU through it ADEME
5. Still valid?	Withdrawn after a missing declaration or payment	Declare and pay, then ask for reinstatement
6. On the register	The number does not appear in ADEME's data	Look it up in the open dataset ADEME

How to look up an IDU

ADEME publishes the producers holding an IDU as open data, updated regularly. ADEME Search by company name or number and compare the stream and company with what you entered. Our IDU register page explains the file and its counts.

If Amazon pays on your behalf

Amazon's Pay on Behalf pays eco-contributions for Amazon sales only and gives you no IDU, so your own store and other marketplaces stay uncovered. Pay on Behalf compared with registering. ADEME

If your listings are already blocked

Get the IDU right first, then follow Amazon's own appeal route. The recovery steps. ADEME

Where else the IDU must appear

Amazon is one place. French law also wants it in your terms of sale and on your website: where you must show your IDU. ADEME

With no establishment in France, a representative established there is compulsory since 10 July 2026, by written mandate. Légifrance ADEME issues one IDU per stream, through the eco-organisme you join. ADEME

Standard is €190 a year per eligible stream (up to three), up to 1 tonne a year per stream, with simplified reporting and one declaration a year; Plus is €990 a year for up to three streams, with detailed reporting that optimises your eco-contributions, up to 10 tonnes. There is no setup fee. Eco-contributions are passed on at cost, with 0% markup. See pricing or the calculator.