Regulation (EU) 2025/40 · Art. 5 · Annex VII
Every packaging on the EU market must have conformity documentation — on the day it is placed, not on the day of the inspection. Surveillance does not ask whether you are working on it. It asks for the document.
Deklaracja zgodności UE
Rozporządzenie (UE) 2025/40
Nr
DZ/2026/014
Skład materiałowy
| Corrugated boardSupplier statement of 04.03.2026 | 87,4% |
| Flexographic inkTechnical data sheet — no PFAS statement | 9,1% |
| Hot-melt adhesiveNo document from the supplier | 3,5% |
Podpis osoby upoważnionej
Conditional
SHA-256 3f9a1c7e0b4d8a2f6c5e9b3d7a1f4c8e2b6d9a3f7c1e5b8d
What is at risk
Three administrative decisions, and they reach goods already on the market.
The authority calls on you to produce the declaration and the technical documentation. It sets the deadline, not you.
You have days, not months.
Without the documentation, sales can be suspended. The goods sit in your warehouse or at your customer's.
You pay for storage and explain yourself to the customer.
Next in line — an order to recall the batch. You pay for the logistics and the disposal.
Financial penalties are set by national law.
Responsibility rests with whoever places the packaging on the market. Not the supplier, not the printer, not the customer.
Before you decide this is not your problem
The most common mistake is “we only pack”. What you manufacture does not count — who places the packaging on the market does.
Declaration, technical documentation, evidence for the materials
The same. You buy the packaging, but you place it on the market together with the goods
Verification of the manufacturer's documentation, copy of the declaration on request
Checking the labelling and the declaration before you sell
The full set of manufacturer obligations
Seven questions, no sign-up and no email address
What you must produce
The declaration alone is not enough. The full set counts — and whether one follows from the next.
A signed statement that the packaging meets the requirements. One per product, numbered and dated.
Without it you have nothing to answer the demand with.
Construction, material composition, component masses, the Annex VII assessment.
Without it the declaration is a bare assertion.
Statements, test reports, technical data sheets — for each material separately.
Without them the documentation rests on your own guess.
= the set— only this set holds up when you are called on.
Screens from the app
Not drawings and not a slide deck. Captures from the demo account, which opens without talking to anyone.
01
The dashboard
The moment you log in you see how many packaging types are ready to declare and what is holding the rest up.
02
Components and mass balance
You enter unit mass and quantity. The app works out the percentage shares itself and holds you to a total of 100%.
03
Risks pulled out of your own data
The app points at the problem and at what to do about it. Here: a chromate passivation with no Cr(VI) content on file — a high risk, with the control measure already written out.
04
Declarations and the archive
Each document gets a number and a version. A signed one cannot be swapped — a correction is a new version and the old one stays in the archive.
Captures from the demonstration account. The company, packaging and suppliers in them are examples.
Where it falls apart
Companies do not come unstuck on a missing declaration, but on not knowing which piece of evidence they lack. And a spreadsheet counts an empty field as zero.
| Material | Mass share | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
Corrugated board PAP 20 | 87,4% | Supplier statement of 04.03.2026 Confirmed |
Flexographic ink four-colour print | 9,1% | Technical data sheet — no PFAS statement Partial |
Hot-melt adhesive EVA | 3,5% | No document from the supplier Missing |
The adhesive is 3.5% of the mass — and it is the adhesive that decides which document you get. In a spreadsheet the same records come out clean.
A conditional declaration records what you knew on the day you signed. When the supplier sends the evidence you issue the full one, and the previous stays in the archive, dated.
The arithmetic
Do not compare us with other software. Compare us with what you do today — and with what happens if the document is missing.
1500 – 4000 zł
per declaration
From scratch every time. Change a supplier and you pay again.
6 h
per declaration
Chasing evidence, recalculating, drafting, tracking versions.
?
cost depends on the batch
Storage, a late delivery, a call with your customer. You cannot price that in advance.
Before you pick a supplier
The same work can be bought three ways. They differ not in scope but in whether you are left with a tool when the payments stop, or only with files.
| What is worth comparing | PPWR24A subscription, or a perpetual licence | Subscription softwareMonthly plans capped by packaging items and seats | Advisory / external serviceA consultant or an authorised representative, billed per engagement |
|---|---|---|---|
| How you pay | Monthly, yearly, or once — with a perpetual licence. | Monthly, including the months nothing changes. | Per engagement, quoted individually. |
| When you stop paying | 90 days read-only, then frozen. Export stays free. | Read access usually stays, but a new version needs a plan. | You keep what you were given. |
| Can you buy it outright | Yes — Lifetime, the licence does not expire. | No. You pay for as long as you use it. | Not applicable — you buy a service, not a tool. |
| Document languages | Eight, included. | Depends on the plan — interface language is not document language. | Usually billed separately. |
We compare sales models, not named companies.
Open the demo, or answer seven questions. Neither needs an account.
How it works
The model extracts the number, date, batch and concentrations. A blank field stays blank — “not stated” is not “zero”.
The mass balance is calculated from the masses you entered. No rounding in your favour.
The heaviest first — because that decides which document you get.
A document with a checksum and a snapshot of the data as of the signing date, in eight EU languages.
The app does not sign for you and does not guess values that are not in the evidence. Responsibility rests with the person who signs.
Before you buy anything
Everything you need is on the blog — free and without sign-up. If after reading it you do this yourself, then you do it yourself.
Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation
The PPWR — Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation, formally Regulation (EU) 2025/40 of the European Parliament and of the Council on packaging and packaging waste — replaces the previous Packaging Directive 94/62/EC. Unlike a directive it applies directly across the European Union, with no national transposition. Its key requirements apply from 12 August 2026.
In brief
The regulation entered into force on 11 February 2025 and its key requirements apply from 12 August 2026. From that date, packaging placed on the EU market must have compliance documentation.
Packaging producers, companies packing their own goods, importers and distributors. Duties differ by role in the chain — the declaration is issued by whoever places the packaging on the market.
A document in which a company confirms that the packaging meets PPWR requirements, including the heavy-metal limits in Art. 5. It must be accompanied by technical documentation and evidence from suppliers.
The combined total of lead, cadmium, mercury and hexavalent chromium may not exceed 100 mg/kg — counted together, not per element.
The directive had to be transposed into national law; the regulation applies directly and identically across the EU. Its documentation requirements are broader and subject to market surveillance.
Market surveillance authorities can demand the compliance documentation and, if it is missing, halt sales of the packaging or order a batch recall. Financial penalties are set by national law.
A demo with a populated file, a mass balance and a risk assessment — no sign-up and no card. Plus seven questions that tell you whether the regulation applies to you at all.
No, and no app can. Responsibility for the content of a declaration rests with the person who signs it. PPWR24 makes sure the document is built on data you actually hold and states plainly what is missing.
The person signing it on behalf of the company placing the packaging on the market. That is why the app does not sign for you and does not guess values that are not in the evidence.
A statement of compliance with the Art. 5 limits, a test report from an accredited laboratory, a technical data sheet naming the material, or a manufacturer's material declaration. The app assesses each one and says whether it is enough.
Export is free and always available, during and after. For 90 days after expiry the account is read-only, then it is frozen, and the data is deleted 90 days after that.
Documents are processed to extract data into your portfolio. The automatic reading is done by an OpenAI language model. We do not train models on these documents or share them with other customers, and only what you approve enters your portfolio. Details, including where the data is processed, are in the privacy policy.
On Active, up to five legal entities on one account, each with its own file and archive. The assistant is capped at 500 queries a month per account.
No. The app runs in the browser. You need an account and your suppliers' documents.
Let’s talk
Call and tell us what you package. There is a person on the other end who knows this regulation — not a form, not a bot.
Answer seven questions, or open the demo and see what the file looks like. Neither needs an account.
If the answers say you do not need the application, that is exactly what we will tell you.
