Most European packaging reports are annual. Czechia asks for one every three months, on a spreadsheet whose layout changes when the law does, and then asks for a separate annual report to the state on top.
That cadence is what makes or breaks a tool here, so the six Czech EPR software options below are ranked on how much of the quarterly cycle they actually carry for you rather than on feature counts.
Czech packaging reporting runs on a quarterly clock
If you meet your obligations through the collective route, and most companies do, your packaging numbers are due four times a year rather than once.
Here is the whole reporting year on one line, including the two dates that sit outside the quarterly cycle.
The form is a versioned spreadsheet
The quarterly return is called the Výkaz o produkci obalů, and it reports the quantity of packaging you placed on the Czech market in that calendar quarter.
It is published as an MS Excel workbook with a version number on it. The version live while this page was written was 2.76, marked as the one to use for the second quarter of 2026.
Two practical details catch people out. You cannot send it before the quarter has ended, and workbooks saved with macros are rejected outright, so an .xlsm copy of the file will not be accepted.
Four one-month windows
Each quarter opens the day after it closes and shuts a month later.
| Quarter | You can file from | Due by |
|---|---|---|
| Q1 | 1 April | 30 April |
| Q2 | 1 July | 30 July |
| Q3 | 1 October | 30 October |
| Q4 | 1 January | 30 January |
Invoicing follows the same rhythm, quarter by quarter. File late and the invoice due date shortens to ten days.
The layout changes when the law changes
EKO-KOM says plainly that the structure of the return can change with legislative changes, and that the current form is always the one on their page.
That is not hypothetical in 2026. There are now two separate methodologies for keeping your records, one for packaging placed on the market up to 11 August 2026 and one for 12 August 2026 onward, in line with PPWR.
So a single reporting year is split across two sets of rules, and whatever holds your packaging data has to survive the change rather than be rebuilt around it.
Two pieces of paperwork and a scheme contract can remove one
Czechia runs a producer register and an annual environmental report, and they are separate from the quarterly return above.
The register is the Seznam osob
Anyone placing packaging on the Czech market who carries a take-back or recovery duty has to apply for entry in the Seznam osob, the list of obliged persons kept by the Ministry of the Environment.
The application is due within 60 days of the duty arising. The ministry enters you within 30 days of a complete application, and any change to your details has to be reported within 14 days.
The register costs CZK 800 to join, and the same CZK 800 is charged for each following year that you stay on it.
The list is public, and so is the ministry's summary of the data reported into it, which is worth knowing before you decide how much detail to put in writing.
A scheme contract for everything replaces your own entry
Here is the part worth reading twice. You do not have to apply to the register if you hold a collective fulfilment contract covering all of the packaging you place on the market.
Cover only part of your packaging that way and the exemption does not apply, so you are back to registering yourself.
The annual report goes to the state rather than the scheme
Whoever is on the register keeps continuous records and reports the previous year's data by 15 February through ISPOP, the state environmental reporting system.
The supporting documents have to be kept for at least five years, and both the ministry and the Czech Environmental Inspectorate can ask you to prove the numbers are true.
Audits are a normal part of the collective route too. EKO-KOM publishes a document from the audit firm that checks its clients, built from the mistakes those audits keep finding in packaging records.
The small-producer exemption needs both tests at once
Czechia does have a floor for small producers, and it is the single most misread rule in the country.
You are outside the duties only if both of these hold for the calendar year.
- Weight. The total packaging you place on the market does not exceed 300 kg.
- Turnover. Your annual turnover does not exceed CZK 25 million.
The word doing the work in the Act is a zároveň, meaning "and at the same time". Cross either line and you are fully in scope, so a small importer with 200 kg of packaging and CZK 40 million of turnover has every duty in full.
Some published country guides state this the other way round, as though you needed to breach both limits. If you are sizing your obligation off a guide rather than off the Act, that is the sentence to check.
Two more things sit behind the exemption. You have to be able to prove you met it, and a company that cannot prove it is treated as having had all the duties for that period. You also have to pick the duties up without delay the moment it becomes clear the year will not stay under the limits.
One authorised company has to carry all of your packaging
The collective route in Czechia is not a pick-and-mix. The Act says the contract is with one authorised packaging company, for all the packaging you place on the market.
In practice that is EKO-KOM, a joint-stock company operating on a ministry authorisation, with no single shareholder allowed more than 33 per cent of it.
There is one carve-out, and it is for returnable deposit packaging, which can instead be handled on your own or through a scheme set up only for deposit packaging.
One more rule protects the smaller party in a supply chain. A retailer is not allowed to influence which authorised company its suppliers contract with, so you cannot be pushed into somebody else's scheme to make their reporting tidier.
An authorised representative is optional until you post plastic packaging to a Czech consumer
The rule about foreign sellers is narrower than most summaries make it sound, and getting it wrong costs money in both directions.
A company that is not established in Czechia may appoint an authorised representative. It is a right, not a requirement, so if a provider tells you the law forces one on every foreign seller, ask them which paragraph says so.
It becomes a requirement in one specific case. If you are established elsewhere and you sell at a distance, straight to consumers or other end users in Czechia, certain single-use plastic packaging and packaging means listed in the Act's fourth annex, then you must appoint one.
The appointment has to be in writing, and the representative has to be a business established in Czechia. EKO-KOM itself is barred from taking the role, so your scheme cannot also be your representative.
Deposits are still not running so drinks stay in one return
The Packaging Act already carries the machinery for a deposit system on single-use drinks containers. What it does not carry is the numbers.
The deposit amounts and the exact container types are left to a decree, and no decree has set them.
The plan to launch a PET and can deposit system was dropped in 2026. The government's stated position is that mandatory take-back comes in only if it pays for itself, and pressure from EU collection targets may reopen it later.
For now this is good news for your reporting. Every beverage container you place on the market stays inside the same quarterly packaging return, rather than splitting across a packaging scheme and a separate deposit operator the way it does in Ireland or Germany.
If you are reading a Czech guide written in 2024 that promises a deposit launch, that is the passage to ignore.
How far each provider goes past the quarterly form
The six providers below do not stop at the same point in the cycle. Some hand you a finished spreadsheet, some press send for you, and the gap between those two things is the main thing you are buying.
Repax sits at the data end of that arc on purpose. We hold the product and packaging data and produce the numbers, and you file them. If what you want is somebody else's name on the submission, the providers at the far end of the arc are the honest answer.
What we looked for in Czech EPR software
Every provider here was measured against the same Czech jobs rather than against a generic feature list.
| What we checked | Why it matters in Czechia |
|---|---|
| Handles a quarterly cycle | Four returns a year, each in a one-month window, is four times the admin of an annual market |
| Survives a form change | The return's structure follows the law, and the record-keeping rules split on 12 August 2026 |
| Holds packaging weight per product | The return is material by material, so the numbers have to come from product data, not estimates |
| Covers the annual ISPOP report | The 15 February state report is separate from the scheme return and is easy to forget |
| Registration and representative work | Entry in the Seznam osob, and the narrow single-use plastic case where a representative is compulsory |
| Five-year evidence trail | Records must be provable to the ministry and the inspectorate for at least five years |
| Public pricing | The scheme's own minimum charge is CZK 2,000 a year, so an expensive tool has to justify itself |
The best Czech EPR software ranked
The order below reflects how much of the Czech cycle each provider carries and how well it holds up when the form changes.
1. Repax for packaging data that survives the next form change
Repax is a product-data platform first. You describe each product once, with its packaging components, materials and weights, and the reporting numbers are derived from that record rather than typed into a form each quarter.
That is the part of the Czech job that does not change on 12 August 2026. The layout of the return changes and the methodology changes, but the underlying question stays the same, which is how much of each material you put on the market.
Try Repax Core for free - no card required Describe your products once and Core builds the report each market and scheme expects. Try it freeRepax is our own product, so weigh the ranking accordingly. The honest limit is in the watch-out below.
- Best for: companies that want one packaging record behind the quarterly return, the annual ISPOP report and their other markets
- Strengths: packaging composition per product through assemblies and presets, material and weight held per component, reporting totals from the same data across markets, and Declare for the EU Declaration of Conformity that PPWR brings in from 12 August 2026
- Markets and streams: multi-market packaging, with batteries and electronics data in Core
- Pricing: public, free tier at zero and paid plans from 29 EUR a month
- Watch-out: Repax does not send the return to EKO-KOM or file into ISPOP for you, and it is not an authorised representative. Comply, the Repax product for registrations and filings, is the piece aimed at that gap, with coverage confirmed country by country
If you would rather never look at the workbook again, rank one of the done-for-you providers below above us.
2. Jazz Obaly for a Czech company already running POHODA
Jazz Obaly is the most Czech answer on this list. It is an add-on to POHODA, a widely used Czech accounting system, and it records packaging movements against stock movements.
From the packaging you define on each stock item, its weight, material and other properties, it generates the quarterly EKO-KOM return as an Excel file and works out the payment that goes with it.
- Best for: Czech companies on POHODA who want the return to fall out of the accounting data they already keep
- Strengths: packaging defined per stock item, the quarterly return generated automatically, the fee calculated from the same movements, and a sibling module for electrical equipment recycling contributions
- Markets and streams: Czechia and Slovakia only, packaging plus electrical equipment contributions
- Pricing: public and one-off, CZK 4,000 for the POHODA version and CZK 7,000 for the SQL version, excluding VAT, with maintenance priced separately
- Watch-out: it needs POHODA, it is a small vendor, and there is nothing here for other countries, for registration, for a representative or for the EU Declaration of Conformity
3. bin2green for handing the Czech and Slovak filing over
bin2green is built around exactly the two markets this page cares about. Their own positioning is managing packaging, battery and electronic waste in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, with selected support elsewhere in Europe.
They register you, report for you, act as your authorised representative and keep the compliance running, and their site is available in Czech alongside English and Polish.
- Best for: foreign sellers who want a Czech and Slovak specialist to take the whole thing off their desk
- Strengths: packaging, WEEE and batteries in one place, authorised representative service, PPWR preparation, and a Czech-language interface
- Markets and streams: Czechia and Slovakia first, selected requirements in other European markets
- Pricing: no public price
- Watch-out: this is a service with a portal rather than software you drive. Data reaches them through forms they send you, and their claims about automation and being cheaper than competitors are their own
4. ComplyMarket for a workflow written around the Czech rulebook
ComplyMarket publishes a dedicated Czech packaging page, and it is the most accurate provider write-up of the rules we checked. It names the Act, the Seznam osob, the CZK 800 fees and the 15 February deadline, and it reads the representative rule correctly.
The service is shaped around traceability, which they describe as making your packaging position audit-ready rather than just filed.
- Best for: companies whose main worry is proving the numbers later, to an auditor or an inspector
- Strengths: scope and responsibility assessment, registration support, reporting and reconciliation, and an explicit audit trail
- Markets and streams: packaging across many European countries, with per-country service pages
- Pricing: demo-led, no public price
- Watch-out: it is consulting-shaped, so there is no self-serve route in and no way to size the cost before a sales conversation
5. Lovat Compliance for registration and filing without a phone call
Lovat sells EPR registration and filing alongside its VAT products, with published country guides covering more than thirty markets including Czechia. If you already use them for VAT, adding packaging is a small step.
They confirm the quarterly cadence and the five-year retention, and they will handle the registration and the reporting rather than hand you a spreadsheet.
- Best for: cross-border sellers who want one supplier for VAT and EPR in the same place
- Strengths: self-serve sign-up, registration and filing handled, published guides per country, wide market coverage
- Markets and streams: more than thirty EPR markets, packaging and electrical equipment
- Pricing: quote-based for EPR
- Watch-out: their public Czech guide is not fully current. It names a 2020 amendment as the latest and states the small-producer test the wrong way round, so treat the guide as orientation and check the Act
6. ecosistant for reaching Czechia as one market among thirty
ecosistant is the cheapest way onto this list if Czechia is one line in a much longer European plan. They cover thirty European countries plus Switzerland, Norway and the UK, and their prices are published per country.
Their own material names EKO-KOM as the Czech packaging scheme, so the country is genuinely inside the coverage rather than implied by a map.
- Best for: small cross-border sellers who need many countries covered cheaply and Czechia is not special
- Strengths: published per-country pricing, a Premium service that takes the work over, guides for packaging, electrical equipment, batteries and textiles
- Markets and streams: thirty European countries plus Switzerland, Norway and the UK, packaging plus other streams as add-ons
- Pricing: public, Country Plan from 24.90 EUR per country for twelve months and All of Europe from 399 EUR, both excluding VAT and renewing cheaper
- Watch-out: the Self-Service tier is for business-to-consumer sellers only and B2B has to go through their contact form, and their fee excludes the scheme's own registration and recycling charges
Match a provider to how your packaging data arrives
The right pick depends less on your size than on where your packaging numbers currently live.
Your packaging data is already in POHODA
Jazz Obaly turns movements you are already recording into the quarterly return, for a one-off four-figure koruna licence. Nothing else on this list is that direct a fit.
Your packaging data is in a product catalogue or a PLM
Repax holds packaging composition per product, so the quarterly return and the 15 February report come from the same record as your other markets.
You sell into Czechia from abroad and want it handled
bin2green or ComplyMarket. Both register you and report for you, and bin2green also acts as your authorised representative.
You post single-use plastic packaging to Czech consumers
You must appoint a representative established in Czechia, and your scheme cannot be it. bin2green sells that role directly.
Czechia is one of a dozen markets on your list
ecosistant if price per country is the deciding factor, Lovat Compliance if you would rather keep VAT and EPR with one supplier.
Six providers against one quarterly return
Here is the same shortlist side by side on the jobs Czechia actually gives you.
| Provider | Who it fits | Quarterly return | Files for you | Pricing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Repax | Product-data owners across several markets | Numbers derived from product records | No, you file | Public, free tier and from 29 EUR a month |
| Jazz Obaly | Czech companies on POHODA | Generated from stock movements | No, you send the file | Public, CZK 4,000 one-off |
| bin2green | Foreign sellers wanting it taken over | Prepared and filed for you | Yes | No public price |
| ComplyMarket | Companies who need an audit trail | Prepared and reconciled | Yes | Demo-led |
| Lovat Compliance | VAT customers adding EPR | Handled with the registration | Yes | Quote |
| ecosistant | Many countries on a small budget | Handled in Premium, guided in Self-Service | Premium only | Public, from 24.90 EUR per country |
Frequently asked questions about Czech EPR software
Short answers to the questions that come up most often about packaging compliance in Czechia.
What is the best Czech EPR software in 2026?
Repax is our pick for companies that want one packaging record to feed the quarterly EKO-KOM return, the annual ISPOP report and their other markets. If you already run POHODA, Jazz Obaly is the more direct fit.
How often do I report packaging in Czechia?
Four times a year through the collective route, in a one-month window after each quarter closes, plus one annual report to the Ministry of the Environment by 15 February for the previous calendar year.
Is there a threshold below which Czech packaging EPR does not apply?
Yes, but you need both halves of it. You are exempt only if you place no more than 300 kg of packaging on the market in the year and your annual turnover stays at or under CZK 25 million.
Do I have to register in the Seznam osob?
Only if you are not covered another way. A collective fulfilment contract that covers all of your packaging removes the duty to apply. Cover part of it and you register yourself, within 60 days.
Do I need an authorised representative in Czechia?
Usually not. A foreign seller may appoint one but does not have to, unless it sells certain single-use plastic packaging at a distance to Czech consumers, in which case a representative established in Czechia is compulsory.
Is there free Czech EPR software?
Not for the Czech return specifically. Repax has a free tier for holding product and packaging data, and ecosistant gives away a German plan, but the Czech scheme fees and the CZK 800 register fees are payable either way.
What changes in Czechia on 12 August 2026?
The record-keeping rules behind the return split in two. EKO-KOM publishes one methodology for packaging placed on the market up to 11 August 2026 and another from 12 August 2026 under PPWR.
Does Czechia have a deposit return system for bottles and cans?
No. The Packaging Act carries the machinery, but the deposit amounts were never set by decree and the launch plan was dropped in 2026, so drinks containers stay inside the ordinary packaging return.
