EPR returns – not worth the trick

By: Trademagazin Date: 2023. 10. 12. 15:30

The ever-approaching deadline of October 20 has kept the Hungarian business sector in a frenzy for a long time. The first EPR declarations must be submitted by now. Many details are still unsettled, but it is already clear that it is not worth tricking or flattening. The details can be found in the summary of the Jalsovszky Law Office.

The EPR, i.e. the fee to be paid in the form of extended producer responsibility, is a new “species” in all respects in the system of public burden payments: it is mandatory to pay, but it is not considered a tax; the fee is collected by a private market actor, but its progress is controlled by a designated state authority. For this reason, the introduction of the new regulation is characterized by countless uncertainties and questions of legal interpretation, the first data submission due on October 20 will certainly cause many headaches. Related to this, one of these issues is the control and sanctioning system: if the EPR is not a tax, then who and how will it check the correctness of the declarations, the fulfillment of payments arising from the declarations, what tools are available and what sanctions can be expected?