Author: Jakub Nalewa

  • LUCID for an online shop selling to Germany

    ByJakub Nalewa

    If an online shop sells goods to Germany and introduces packaging there with the product or shipment, it should in principle assume that the LUCID topic applies to it. Official ZSVR sources explicitly point out that if a company commercially distributes packaged goods in Germany, it must be registered in the LUCID Packaging Register, regardless of where it is based and whether it sells via its own online shop or via a marketplace. Importantly, registration with LUCID is free of charge, but in many cases this is only the first step, because with packaging covered by the system obligation there is also participation in the dual system and reporting of volumes.

  • De minimis aid and BDO

    ByJakub Nalewa

    The most important thing to sort out from the outset is simple: de minimis aid is not a separate BDO module or a „relief for just having a BDO number”. In practice, the topic of de minimis aid arises when an entrepreneur is subject to certain environmental obligations, most often related to a product fee, and benefits from an exemption provided by a specific sectoral law.

  • Batteries, accumulators and electrical equipment at BDO

    ByJakub Nalewa

    If you import or manufacture batteries, accumulators or electrical and electronic equipment, you are very often subject to registration with BDO as an entity introducing these products into the country. Official BDO materials explicitly indicate that registration upon application is subject to, among others, introducers of equipment or authorised representatives, as well as introducers of batteries or accumulators

  • BDO and waste transport

    ByJakub Nalewa

    Waste transport is one of those areas in BDO that businesses most often try to simplify. In practice, it is very common to think: „it's just transporting with your own car”, „it's just collection on the occasion of a service” or „the waste is going to a legal recipient anyway, so the documents can be completed later”. This is where the biggest problems start.

  • BDO for importers and private label e-commerce

    ByJakub Nalewa

    For importers and e-commerce, one distinction is most important: it is one thing to import empty packaging and another to import products already packaged. From BDO's perspective, both cases may imply an obligation to register, but for a different reason. The official registration rules indicate that the introducer of packaging is the trader who manufactures packaging, imports packaging or makes an intra-Community acquisition of packaging, while the introducer of packaged products is the trader who makes such products available for the first time on the territory of the country, and the import or intra-Community acquisition of packaging or packaged products for business purposes is also considered to be marketing.

  • How to file a BDO report

    ByJakub Nalewa

    The biggest mistake entrepreneurs make is to treat the BDO report as a one-size-fits-all form for all businesses. In practice, you first need to determine what type of report applies to your business and only then proceed to submit it to the system. For some companies it will be a report on waste generated and waste management, for others it will be a report on products, packaging and the management of waste arising from them, and some entities may be subject to both obligations at the same time.

  • BDO publicity report who must submit it

    ByJakub Nalewa

    If you run a shop or wholesaler and offer plastic shopping bags covered by the recycling fee to your customers, you are in principle obliged to register with BDO and to submit an annual report on products, packaging and the management of waste arising from them. Official BDO material makes it clear that this obligation applies to businesses operating retail or wholesale units where plastic shopping bags covered by the recycling levy are offered. This is a very important distinction as, in practice, it is not just any plastic shopping bag in a shop, but the bags covered by the recycling levy legislation.

  • BDO takeaway packaging

    ByJakub Nalewa

    The biggest mistake businesses make is to treat takeaway packaging purely as a sales item, rather than as a source of separate environmental responsibilities. In practice, it is the coffee cups, salad containers, lunch boxes and other disposable packaging handed out to the customer that very often triggers obligations in BDO. It is not just the waste from the premises per se, but the obligations associated with single-use plastic products that are packaging.