Slovakia
Selling tyres into Slovakia from abroad
Tyres EPR in Slovakia catches a lot of businesses through the import door. Slovakia treats tyres as their own reserved product under sections 69 to 72 of the Waste Act 79/2015, separate from end-of-life vehicles, so placing tyres on the Slovak market is its own registration and financing duty.
You register in the RVVV through the ISOH portal.
Say you import tyres for resale, or bring in replacement tyres for your own fleet. From the first tyre placed on the Slovak market the duty is yours, whether or not you have a company in the country. There is no small-volume exemption that lets an importer out of the register.
Where the money goes for tyres in Slovakia
The fee is not a state charge. It is the contribution your scheme sets, and it funds the collection and recovery network that takes scrap tyres back for retreading, granulation or energy recovery. Slovakia sets no statutory tariff, so there is no official euro figure to quote.
What you pay tracks the tyres you place on the market, so the cost scales with volume rather than a flat charge. Enforcement runs through the Slovak Environmental Inspectorate under section 117 of the Waste Act, as an administrative penalty on producers who skip the register or the reporting.
The authorised representative route in Slovakia
A tyre producer or importer with no Slovak seat cannot hold the duty on its own. It must appoint a Slovak-seated authorised representative, the splnomocnený zástupca, to carry the registration and reporting under section 27 of the Waste Act.
That matters here because so many tyres reach the Slovak market through cross-border sellers and importers rather than domestic makers, and each of them needs the representative route to comply.
Slovakia's tyre pipeline
The tyre scheme has run on the same footing since 2016, so there is no tyre-specific Slovak reform on the near-term calendar.
The dated EU changes on Slovakia's calendar, such as the Packaging Regulation from 12 August 2026 and the revised Waste Framework Directive due by 17 June 2027, apply to packaging and the waste framework rather than to tyres. The wider EPR in Slovakia framework ties those threads together.
Frequently asked questions about tyres EPR in Slovakia
The essentials for tyre producers and importers.
Who has to register for tyres EPR in Slovakia?
Anyone who first places tyres on the Slovak market, including importers and cross-border sellers, under sections 69 to 72 of the Waste Act. Slovakia treats tyres as a standalone reserved product, so the duty is separate from any vehicle registration.
Is there a threshold or exemption for small producers?
No. The Waste Act carries no de minimis for tyres, so the duty starts with the first tyre placed on the Slovak market regardless of volume.
Do foreign or online sellers need an authorised representative in Slovakia?
Yes. A tyre producer or importer with no Slovak seat must appoint a Slovak-seated authorised representative to hold the registration and reporting under section 27 of the Waste Act.
What happens if I sell without registering?
Non-compliance is enforced by the Slovak Environmental Inspectorate as an administrative penalty under section 117 of the Waste Act, on top of the cost of back-dated compliance.
