Does the European Packaging Regulation apply to your business?
Whether European packaging rules apply to you does not depend on how much you sell, but on your role: if your business places packaged products on the market, you are already involved. This applies to a manufacturer who packages their own products, but equally to a webshop that has products produced under its own brand, or an importer who places packaged goods from another country on the European market. Being a seller is sufficient; in most cases it does not matter whether you design the packaging yourself or have it supplied by a supplier.
The regulation affects, among other things, the material of the packaging, the extent to which it is reusable or recyclable, and the information that must appear on the packaging. Which requirements exactly apply and from when, is stated in the text of the regulation itself; moreover, this differs per type of packaging and per phase in which the rules come into effect. That is precisely why a general blog post does not help you here: the question of whether, and with which obligation, your specific packaging is affected, is something you compare against the official text or discuss with a lawyer.
Why this stands apart from other obligations
Packaging is one of the areas that a business with own-brand products may have to deal with, alongside for example product safety, digital accessibility and the handling of personal data. These are four separate regulations, each with their own supervisor, their own text and their own pace of change. A business that falls under packaging rules does not automatically fall under the other three as well, and vice versa. Once a company has determined that the accessibility law applies to a webshop, it must raise the question about packaging again and separately.
That is also immediately the reason why businesses working with own-brand products often have to deal with multiple platforms at the same time: one for packaging, one for product safety, and possibly others for accessibility and data protection. Each platform specializes in its own area and explains in detail what applies to you. Reglia does not do this itself; it merely brings together what you would otherwise keep track of separately. An overview of which platforms exist and which area they cover, you can find on the page with all connected platforms.
How you can verify this for your own situation
Because the Packaging Regulation is a European text that can be supplemented by each Member State, the most reliable source is always the official publication itself, together with the guidance from the supervisor responsible for packaging in your country. A lawyer or industry association can also help you translate the text to your specific product and packaging. A platform that focuses on packaging rules does much the same work in practice: it asks you a number of questions about your product and your packaging, and shows you on that basis which obligations are relevant.
What becomes difficult here is that such a platform asks for business data that you have probably already entered somewhere else: your Chamber of Commerce number, your VAT number, a description of your products. Reglia ensures that you record these data once in a business and product file, which can then be read by each connected platform. What a platform does with that data and what it does not, is described on the page about what reglia does and does not do with your data.
One overview instead of separate research tasks
If your company falls under multiple of these regulations at the same time, you quickly end up with a patchwork of accounts, questionnaires and deadlines that you have to keep track of separately. That is precisely the problem that reglia solves: not by telling you what applies to you, but by bringing together the platforms that do under one account, with one file and one overview of what's at stake. A business account with reglia is free and remains so; what you use on a platform itself, you pay directly there, at the price stated there.
Do you have questions about how that works in practice, then you will find the most frequently asked ones on the page with answers to frequently asked questions. Do you want to immediately see which platform suits your situation, then a look at the full range is the quickest route to get further than just this one question about packaging.