PPWR might be killing the Indie Perfume Scene in the EU
I really hate to be making this post, but I feel like we should address it. For my fellow Europeans who might have missed it: The EU has agreed on a new packaging and waste regulation (PPWR) which will become effective on August 12th.
The Problem: either deliberately or through a massive overlook of the EU this does not only affect the big players such as Amazon but basically every single small business
Why is this a problem? According to this new law, sellers have to pay for a "representative" (doing lord knows what) overlooking the whole affair - in EVERY single country they want to ship to. Meaning they would have to pay 27 (!) annual additional fees starting from 15 to 150 Euros per country (as far as I know) if they want to send their items to every country in the EU. Impossible if you only have a small business selling Indie perfumes on Etsy with a couple sales per country.
The consequences? Countless businesses like the Swedish perfume brand Dark Tales are currently announcing on social media that they will stop selling within the EU altogether or at least to most of EU countries. Which is horribly depressing for so many reasons. Not at least because this comes as another severe blow after tariffs have already affected buying from and selling to the US.
I would therefore like to ask one thing: please inform yourselves about PPWR and consider signing the following petition. https://www.change.org/p/stop-destroying-eu-micro-businesses-immediate-moratorium-on-cross-border-epr-fees
Thank you for reading this.