do I have to charge a deposit on my packaging in the future

There is no EU-wide deposit system for packaging yet

There will be no EU-wide deposit system for all packaging, at least not as a fixed, mandatory rule for every type of packaging in every country. The PPWR (Regulation (EU) 2025/40) primarily governs how packaging must be designed, labelled and recycled, and sets requirements on matters such as recycled content and empty space in the box. A deposit obligation is something different; it belongs to national or future separate arrangements for certain beverage packaging, not to the core of this regulation.

For the standard webshop packaging — the box, the filling material, the film — this regulation therefore changes nothing about a deposit obligation, because it simply is not included in it. What is included and what does have consequences is, for example, the requirement on the ratio between product and empty space in transport packaging, and the obligation to use a minimum percentage of recycled plastic. Whoever wants to know what will change in transport packaging by 2030 or how much recycled plastic will be mandatory thereafter, will find the concrete figures and data there.

Where this is based on: Article 1, 7 and 24

Article 1 of Regulation (EU) 2025/40 describes the subject matter of the regulation: requirements for packaging itself, its design, composition and labelling, and its processing as waste. Deposit systems are not established there as a general EU obligation. Article 24 addresses the empty space ratio in transport packaging, and Article 7 sets requirements on the share of recycled content in plastic packaging. For the precise dates when this regulation came into force and which obligations have applied since then, the PPWR overview and start date provides a complete picture. RVO confirms on its own page on the PPWR that the regulation focuses on design, material and labelling requirements, not on an EU-wide deposit scheme.