Shopify store selling to France: French EPR

What a Shopify store needs

Item	Where
IDU per stream	Terms of sale page
Representative	If no French establishment Légifrance
Sales report by country	Shopify analytics, ship-to France
Packaging weights	Per product, for the declaration Léko
Triman	On household packaging French Ministry of Ecologica

First year

When	What	Source
Before the first French sale	Representative appointed, IDU per stream, IDUs in every marketplace ADEME	Légifrance+1
On every household pack	Triman and Info-tri	French Ministry of Ecologica
From 1 January 2027	Professional packaging scheme, if you sell to businesses	ADEME
Early the following year	Declaration of the previous year's French sales	Citeo
All year	Eco-contributions at published rates, no markup	Léko

If you skip it

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

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

Why it is on you

A marketplace selling for you must hold your IDU or pay in your place for its own sales. Ministère de l'Écologie Your Shopify store is not a marketplace selling for you: you sell directly to the French buyer, so you are the producer and no platform steps in. With no establishment in France you need a representative there. Légifrance

No threshold

The representative rule has no minimum volume. Légifrance A few parcels a year are caught on the same terms; small-producer flat fees reduce what you pay, not whether you need to register. Small stores.

Which streams a typical store has

You sell	Streams
Clothing or shoes	Textiles ADEME and household packaging
Gadgets with a battery	Electronics ADEME, batteries ADEME and packaging
Home decor and furniture	Furniture ADEME and packaging
Toys	Toys ADEME and packaging
Cosmetics or food	Household packaging ADEME

What changes on your store

Where	What to add
Terms of sale	Your IDU for each stream ADEME
Website legal notice	Your IDUs, shown like your legal notices
Every parcel	Triman and sorting instruction on the box, or a sticker: how Légifrance
Other channels	The same IDUs on each marketplace: where

The yearly declaration from Shopify data

1. Export the year's orders shipped to France.
2. Group units by product line and stream.
3. Add other channels: marketplaces, wholesale, pop-ups.
4. Take out units a French importer or marketplace already covered.
5. Declare per stream on your eco-organisme's calendar: dates.

Selling on several channels? One file for all of them.

What it costs

Household packaging at Citeo has a €110 minimum and at Léko a €95 minimum for 2026. CCiteo+1 Product streams have their own scales.

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.