By the end of this guide your Allegro account will hold everything the platform asks of a seller of packaged products, an EPR number for every country you dispatch to and the packaging declaration accepted. The guide also sets out who Allegro count as a producer, where each number comes from, and what that declaration commits you to.
It applies whether every parcel stays inside Poland or some cross a border. Allegro do not currently block sellers who leave these fields empty, which is frequently mistaken for permission to leave them.
What Allegro ask you for
Allegro's PPWR help page for sellers names two separate things, and most sellers supply the first without ever noticing the second.
The first is an EPR registration number, one per country you dispatch to, which Allegro label as the "PPWR number (EPR PPWR / BDO)". The second is an accepted declaration that your packaging meets EU requirements. That one is a single tick, and it is a statement about your products.
Both sit in the Account Details tab. Allegro's own moderators also call this the Legal obligations section of Sales Center, so you may see either name depending on where you started.
Where the pair comes from
That pair is not an Allegro invention. Article 45(4) of the packaging regulation tells an online platform to obtain two things from a producer before letting them sell. One is the producer's registration number for the member state the customer is in. The other is a self-certification that the extended producer responsibility requirements are met there.
Allegro built one field for each half.
The same article explains why Allegro point at the Digital Services Act rather than at packaging law. Article 45(4) is written as a way of complying with Article 30(1) of that act, so the packaging rule and the platform rule are the same obligation seen from two sides.
Why none of it is being enforced yet
Allegro put it in one sentence. "Currently, a missing EPR number does not block your sales", because EU countries are still adapting their registers to the new requirements. Once that finishes, Allegro say they will check your number for each country you ship to, and do it before letting you sell there.
The regulation supports that account. Member states get 18 months from the first implementing act under Article 44(14) to build their register, and that implementing act was itself due by 12 February 2026. The register deadline was never 12 August 2026, which is the date most of the Polish advice published this year hangs on.
Three Allegro moderators have said the same thing on the record between 6 and 24 August 2026, the last of them adding that no sanctions apply for now and that any change would be announced in advance.
Whether you count as a producer at all
Everything below applies only if you have what Allegro call packaging manufacturer status. Their definition is wider than the word suggests, and they say so. It can catch you "even if you just import and distribute products, and do not consider yourself a manufacturer in the usual understanding".
You have that status if you do any one of these five things.
- You pack products at your shop or warehouse and are the first to sell them to customers in your own country.
- You sell under your own brand, having outsourced the making and the packing to somebody else.
- You import packaged products and are the first to sell them on your home market.
- You dispatch abroad, sending a packaged product straight to a customer in an EU country other than the one your company is registered in.
- You unpack bulk goods before selling them on to end customers.
The fourth one catches the most people. A single parcel sent from Poland to a customer in Czechia makes you a producer in Czechia.
Five steps follow. The first two get you the numbers, which is the slow part and happens mostly outside Allegro. The next two are about ten minutes inside your account. The last one is what you keep afterwards.
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Step 1. Get a Polish BDO number if you sell inside Poland
Poland has run a producer register for years, which is not true everywhere in the EU. BDO is the database of products, packaging and waste management, created under the Waste Act of 14 December 2012, with the register of entities live since 24 January 2018 and the reporting modules since 1 January 2020.
You apply to the marshal of your voivodeship, who makes the entry and issues your individual BDO number. The application belongs before your first sale rather than after it, because the register's own rules say a business must apply for entry before starting the activity.
Who must register is set by articles 50(1) and 51(1) of the Waste Act, and the register publishes a questionnaire that answers it for your own activity. There is no small-seller exemption sitting behind it for putting packaged products on the Polish market.
What it costs and how long it takes
There is a registration fee and then an annual one, PLN 200 for micro-enterprises and PLN 800 for everyone else. The annual fee is due by the end of February, and it is skipped in the year you paid the registration fee.
Allow real time for the entry itself. Under Article 44(11)(b) of the packaging regulation a register may take up to twelve weeks to issue a number once it has everything it asked for.
Step 2. Cover every other country you dispatch to
Allegro run storefronts in Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary alongside Poland, and the duty follows the customer rather than the storefront. A number is needed per country you dispatch to, so a Polish BDO number does nothing for a Czech order.
In most of those countries you cannot register on your own. Allegro ask for an authorised representative's EPR number in two situations, and both are common for Polish sellers.
- You sell into another EU country and have no registered office there. Czechia is the example Allegro use.
- You have no registered office in the EU at all.
Appointing one takes a written mandate and a contract, so it is worth reading how an authorised representative is appointed before you choose a provider. If registration itself is new to you, the general registration route covers what every register asks for.
Article 44(4) is the reason none of this waits for Allegro. A producer may not make packaging available in a member state for the first time unless they, or their authorised representative, are registered in that member state. That sentence does not mention platforms.
Step 3. Enter each number in your Allegro account
This is the short part. In the Account Details tab, enter each registration number in the PPWR number field against the country it belongs to, and save it for verification. One row per country you ship to.
Allegro have carried a field for the Polish BDO number since 9 January 2023, added before any of this was required so that sellers would not have to edit every listing later. At that time Allegro noted the number was not shown to buyers, and it still is not.
Enter the number that belongs to the company on your Allegro account. A number held by a different legal entity is the most common reason a check fails once checking starts.
Step 4. Read the packaging declaration before you accept it
The second field is the one worth slowing down for. Accepting it says your packaging meets the EU requirements, and it reaches well past registration.
In substance you are confirming five things. That you meet EPR duties in every country you sell to and will supply valid numbers. That grouped, transport and e-commerce packaging is kept to the necessary minimum. That restricted substances are within limits. That packaging meets recyclability and recycled-content requirements. And that you hold technical documentation and correct labelling, and will produce them on request.
Those five do not all start at the same time, which is the part nobody explains.
| What you are confirming | Where it comes from | When it applies |
|---|---|---|
| No PFAS above the limits in food-contact packaging | Article 5(5) | 12 August 2026, in force now |
| Restricted heavy metals within 100 mg/kg | Article 5(4) | In force now |
| Sorting and composition labelling | Article 12 | From 12 August 2028 |
| Empty space in shipping packaging under 50% | Article 24 | 1 January 2030 at the earliest, and the calculation method is not published yet |
| Recyclability and minimum recycled content | Articles 6 and 7 | 1 January 2030 at the earliest, with later steps in 2035 and 2040 |
Read that table the right way round. Three of those five rows describe a future state, so the honest reading is not that the declaration is meaningless. It is that a false declaration is what carries consequences, and the declaration itself warns that untrue information can mean offers withheld, services suspended or removal from the platform.
The PFAS line is the one that bites today. If your food-contact packaging is not PFAS-free, that is the row you cannot sign off yet.
Step 5. Keep the evidence behind what you signed
The declaration commits you to producing technical documentation for your packaging on request, from Allegro or from a market surveillance authority. That request is the moment the tick becomes real, so the file needs to exist before it arrives.
Keep three things per packaging type: what it is made of and what it weighs, the registration certificates and numbers behind each country, and the dated records showing what you actually shipped. Poland adds one more habit, because businesses placing packaged products on the Polish market must show their BDO number on the documents their activity produces, invoices and receipts included.
How Repax fits an Allegro seller
Nothing above is a data problem. Getting registered is paperwork you do once per country, and appointing a representative is a contract. What repeats is everything after it, because each register wants quantities, in its own categories, on its own calendar. That is also what stands behind the declaration you accepted, since a claim about your packaging is only as good as the record of what went out of the door.
Repax Core is built for that repeating part. It reads product and order data out of the systems you already sell from, and it locks the packaging specification in at the moment each order ships, so a filing made years later can still be reproduced from the orders behind it.
Try Repax Core for free - no card required Describe your products once and Core builds the report each market and scheme expects. Try it freeThe limits matter as much as the fit. Core prepares the data behind a filing. It does not submit to a register, it does not obtain your BDO number, and it cannot appoint your representative. Comply is the Repax product that files, under a power of attorney, across EU markets.
What Allegro's promise not to block you leaves untouched
Five ways sellers are reading "we will not block you" as more than it says.
- Reading it as no obligation. Allegro have paused a platform check. Article 44(4) still says you may not put packaging on a member state's market before you are registered there, and Allegro have no power to waive that.
- Reading it as permanent. The same moderator who confirmed no sanctions apply said plainly that this could change and that any change would be announced in advance. It is a pause, described as one.
- Missing that Polish law is separate. Poland's register is already running. Operating without a required BDO entry carries an administrative fine of PLN 5,000 to PLN 1,000,000, and that number has nothing to do with what Allegro check.
- Treating one number as covering the account. Numbers are per country. Selling into Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary from a Polish company means a registration or a representative in each, not one entry that travels.
- Ticking the declaration to clear the notification. It is the self-certification Article 45(4)(b) asks for, not an acknowledgement. Read the five commitments and the dates above before you accept it.
Frequently asked questions about EPR numbers on Allegro
Below are the five questions Allegro sellers ask most often about their EPR numbers.
How long does this take?
The Allegro part takes about ten minutes once you hold the numbers. Getting the numbers is the slow half, and a register may take up to twelve weeks to issue one, so start with the country you sell into most.
Does Allegro block sellers without an EPR number?
Not at present. Allegro state that a missing EPR number does not block sales, because member states are still adapting their registers, and they say they will check numbers per destination country once that is done.
Do you need a BDO number to sell only inside Poland?
If you place packaged products on the Polish market you almost certainly do, and it is set by articles 50(1) and 51(1) of the Waste Act rather than by your size. The register's own questionnaire settles it for your activity.
What happens if you sell into Czechia without a number?
Allegro will not currently stop the sale, but the registration duty applies from the first parcel, and you generally need an authorised representative because you have no registered office there. The exposure is to that country's authorities, not to Allegro.
Can Repax do this for you?
Repax Core builds the packaging dataset each register asks for and cuts it per country, which is the work that repeats every year. Obtaining the number and appointing a representative stay with you.
