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I have yet to see any evidence beyond angry internet comments that registering in every country is actually required.

There are several sites out there trying to help explain PPWR and they all say the same thing: the one that brings the package to an EU state market must do EPR registration in that EU state.

If you sell directly to consumers from a web shop, that is you.

A selection of such guides:

https://www.ppwrconsulting.com/blog/ppwr-small-business-sme/

https://packdeclare.com/blog/ppwr-sme-guide

https://getreadycompliance.eu/ppwr-extended-producer-respons...

These companies that make money helping you register want you to register more? Color me shocked

You are free to pretend you know better than SME's all over the union, their chambers of commerce, actual CUSTOMERS dealing with this, but evidently business has already ground to a halt anyway.

This is exactly what I mean by regulation believers. Here you have all the evidence you need that the harm is done, yet you believe it's still about some philosophical debate whether the regulation even works that way.

No, the evidence is that some people are overly paranoid and the rest would like to clear up the wording to bypass the paranoia. The same thing happened with GDPR.

Like I said, you are focusing on irrelevant semantics. The single market is already dead, you just didn't realize it yet.

What forfeit will you give me if I come back to this comment in two years and there are still European small businesses?

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