Author: Jakub Nalewa

  • BDO support - when is it worth using support and in which cases does the firm really need it?

    ByJakub Nalewa

    In theory, BDO is an IT system with instructions, FAQs and a helpline. In practice, for many entrepreneurs, the mere existence of these tools does not solve the problem, because the biggest difficulty is not in clicking the right button, but in correctly identifying the company's obligations and executing them correctly. That is why the slogan „BDO help” very often means not just asking for the phone number of the system, but looking for a real partner to guide the entrepreneur through the registration, recording, reporting and daily handling of environmental obligations.

  • LUCID number on Amazon eBay Kaufland and OTTO

    ByJakub Nalewa

    If you sell goods to Germany and introduce packaging there with your product or shipment, the starting point is simple: first check whether you are subject to registration with LUCID and only then add the number to the marketplace. The German ZSVR register indicates that if you commercially distribute packaged goods in Germany, you must be registered with LUCID, and registration is free of charge.

  • BDO annual fee 2025

    ByJakub Nalewa

    The BDO annual fee for 2025 was one of those obligations that many businesses mistakenly treated as an automatic addition to the register entry itself. In practice, the case is different. Firstly, not everyone entered in the BDO is obliged to pay it. Secondly, from 1 January 2025, new registration and annual fee rates came into effect: PLN 200 for microentrepreneurs and PLN 800 for entrepreneurs other than microentrepreneurs.

  • 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.