Austria packaging EPR fee calculator 2026

How this is calculated

fee = kilograms placed on the market in one year × the published rate for that material, one material at a time; each line rounded to the nearest 0.01 EUR, and the total is the sum of the rounded lines. Austria publishes its tariff in EUR per kg, so the middle column of the table below is the published rate converted to a per-kilogram figure — that conversion and this multiplication are the whole of the arithmetic.

Take your kilograms, one material at a time

Start from the weight you placed on the market in Austria over one calendar year, split by the material categories Altstoff Recycling Austria (ARA) publishes. The categories are the scheme's own, not ours: the calculator above lists all 11 of them, and the worked example on this page uses 1,000 kg of paper and cardboard and 200 kg of rigid plastic.

Multiply each material by its published rate

The fee for one material is your kilograms multiplied by that material's published rate. Austria publishes the tariff in EUR per kg, so each rate is converted to a per-kilogram figure first and then multiplied — the table below shows both numbers for every row the example used, so you can redo the arithmetic. Nothing is converted between currencies: the result is in EUR, as published, because we would have to invent the date an exchange rate was taken on.

Round each line, then add the lines up

Each line is rounded to the nearest 0.01 EUR, and the total is the sum of those rounded lines rather than the rounding of an unrounded sum. That is the only way the figures printed here add up exactly as printed when you check them on a calculator.

How the rate is published

EUR per kg, excl. VAT — ARA's published tariff, not a statutory rate

What the table's own note says

Austria licenses several competing collection and recovery systems (ARA, Interzero, Reclay, ERP). The figures on this page are the published annual tariff of ARA, the largest of them — a market price, not a statutory rate; the other systems price differently. Commercial packaging categories are outside the scope of this page.

Evidence tier on the rows this example used

Every rate row this example used carries the same evidence flag it carries on the rate page: market price, not statutory. The flag is repeated on each row in the table below.

What the figure leaves out

The estimate is the variable fee only. Registration and annual membership fees, VAT and per-item charges are not in it, for the reasons set out on the site-wide calculator; this is reference data, not compliance advice, and it is only as current as the verification date on each row.

The rate rows this example used

Only the rows the worked example needed are reproduced here. The Austria tariff in our library holds 11 rate rows in total, and all of them are on the Austria rate page — each row below links straight to its own row there, and to the official page the figure was read from.

Worked example total: €416.00 — 1,000 kg of paper and cardboard and 200 kg of rigid plastic at the 2026 tariff, from 2 rate rows, EUR, excluding registration and annual fees. Redo it from the columns above: kilograms × per kg, rounded, added up.

What to do next

• Austria packaging EPR rates 2026 — every rate row Austria publishes, each with its official source and verification date
• Do you need to register in Austria? — the volume threshold if there is one, who counts as the producer, and what the marketplace carries
• Calculator for every country — the same arithmetic for any country we hold a tariff for, and an honest answer for the ones that publish none
• Do it yourself — register in Austria — the official entry point, step by step, no provider needed
• Have it done for you — Opens your mail client with the country and category filled in.