The answer to this question is seldom a straightforward figure. A lack of overview of the regulations that apply to your business costs primarily time, and for most businesses, time translates directly into money. If you cannot see in one place which obligations apply, what has already been handled, and which deadlines are still running, you will have to look that up repeatedly: in a mailbox, in a calendar, or with a colleague who might know. That search time, combined with the time it takes to catch up when a deadline is already approaching, makes up the largest part of the bill.
What makes that bill exactly large depends on a few concrete factors: how many regulations apply to your business, how many systems or portals you use for them, and how many people are involved without anyone clearly owning the complete picture. An installation company that only operates in the Netherlands faces a different task than a webshop with own-brand products that ships to multiple EU countries and therefore has to deal with product safety, packaging, accessibility, and personal data all at once.
Where the costs come from
The first cost item is search time. Those who cannot see in one place what is happening must reconstruct that every time: which platform belongs to which obligation, who made the last update, is anything still open. That is work that adds nothing in itself; it is only necessary to be up to speed again.
The second cost item is duplicate work. If business and product data are not centralized, they are entered again at each platform and sometimes also checked again. That is not only time; it is also a source of errors: an address or a Chamber of Commerce number that is updated in one place but not in another will eventually generate extra search work.
The third cost item is catch-up work. A deadline you notice late costs more time to handle than a deadline you saw coming well in advance. What exactly happens when a deadline is missed varies by regulation and by supervisory authority, and that is something reglia does not comment on; for the consequences in your specific situation, we refer you to the supervisory authority or a lawyer.
What determines the scale
How large these costs become in practice is determined by a few factors. First, the number of regulations that apply to your business: a company that falls under more than one European regulation at the same time has by definition more to keep track of than a company for which only one regulation applies. Second, the number of platforms or portals into which that information is split: the more separate places, the greater the chance that something falls between two systems. Third, the distribution of responsibility within your organization: if HR, the office manager, and the board each maintain a piece without anyone overseeing the whole, the costs arise precisely where no one is looking.
A fourth factor is less visible but still counts: how often the regulations themselves change. Changes in legislation do not automatically reach your business; someone must notice them and assess whether they are relevant. That is substantive work that belongs with the platforms themselves or with an advisor, not with reglia.
The difference between searching and knowing
The core of the problem is not that there are too many obligations, but that information about them is scattered. One overview of what is happening and which deadlines are running does not change the obligations themselves, but it does change the time you spend finding them. That overview, and how reglia handles it, is described on the page where you can read what reglia does and does not do with your data. Frequently asked questions about how it works in practice have been collected on the page with answers to practical questions.
What overview does cost, and what doesn't
The overview of connected platforms and the explanation of what happens to your data is free at reglia, even without an account. A business account, linked to your Chamber of Commerce and VAT number, is also free. What costs money, you purchase at the platform where you actually use it, and the price of that is shown on that platform; an overview of that can be found on the page with the prices per platform. The insight into what is happening and what is still open, we deliberately do not put behind a paywall: a layer that says you are in control of your own overview cannot make that overview cost money itself.
If you want to see which platforms there are and which obligations they cover, you can safely view that on the page where it says which platforms there are and what they do.