Poland packaging product fee 2027 (opłata produktowa — statutory shortfall fee)
Poland's 2027 single-use plastic beverage bottles up to 3 l with their plastic caps, excluding glass or metal bottles with plastic caps rate is 5.00 PLN/kg. Basis: Single-use plastic beverage bottles up to 3 L with their plastic caps, excluding glass or metal bottles with plastic caps · Single-use plastic beverage bottles up to 3 L with their plastic caps, excluding glass or metal bottles with plastic caps
Poland changed all 3 rows in its 2027 household packaging table against 2026. The largest move is Single-use plastic beverage bottles up to 3 L with their plastic caps, excluding glass or metal bottles with plastic caps at +400.0%. 10 of the 13 rows in the 2026 table have no 2027 counterpart in this library.
How fees are set
Statutory product fee (opłata produktowa) — Statutory fee under the Act of 13 June 2013 on packaging and packaging waste, with rates set by regulation of the Minister of Climate and Environment (Dz. U. 2023 poz. 2683); payable to the voivodeship marshal only when a recovery, recycling or separate-collection target is missed.
Poland does not publish a per-kilogram tariff that every producer pays. What it publishes is the price of failure. A producer placing packaged goods on the Polish market must reach recycling and separate-collection targets, alone or through a recovery organisation, and the statutory product fee — opłata produktowa — falls due only on the part of the target it missed. The calculation set out in the act is the mass placed on the market multiplied by the gap between the required and the achieved level and by the rate per kilogram for that material; when the target is met the fee is zero. The rates on this page are those rates. They matter to a producer as a ceiling: the recovery organisation's negotiated price, which is not published anywhere, only makes sense compared against what missing the target would cost. Three separate obligations carry their own rates — the general recycling targets, the recycled-content requirement for single-use plastic beverage bottles, and the separate collection of beverage packaging, whose rate climbs from 0.10 złoty per kilogram in 2025 to 1.00 in 2026 and 5.00 from 2027, tripled for producers outside a deposit-return system. The act caps the packaging fee at 4.50 złoty per kilogram, and at 25.00 for the beverage collection obligation. Settlement is at year end, payment is due by 15 March, and an unpaid fee carries a further 50 percent.
Declaration basis: PLN per kg of the shortfall against a missed target, excl. VAT. Official rates page: eli.gov.pl ↗ · About Statutory product fee (opłata produktowa)
Rates
| Material / item | As published | vs 2026 | Conditions | Effective | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single-use plastic beverage bottles up to 3 L with their plastic caps, excluding glass or metal bottles with plastic caps | 5 PLN/kg | +400.0% | Payable only on the shortfall against the required separate-collection level for this beverage packaging (art. 21a); tripled where the producer has not joined a deposit-return system; the rate stays at this level from 2027 onwards | 2027-01-01 | eli.gov.pl ↗ 2026-09-16 official |
| Metal cans up to 1 L | 5 PLN/kg | +400.0% | Payable only on the shortfall against the required separate-collection level for this beverage packaging (art. 21a); tripled where the producer has not joined a deposit-return system; the rate stays at this level from 2027 onwards | 2027-01-01 | eli.gov.pl ↗ 2026-09-16 official |
| Reusable glass bottles up to 1.5 L | 5 PLN/kg | +400.0% | Payable only on the shortfall against the required separate-collection level for this beverage packaging (art. 21a); tripled where the producer has not joined a deposit-return system; the rate stays at this level from 2027 onwards | 2027-01-01 | eli.gov.pl ↗ 2026-09-16 official |
The vs 2026 column pairs each row with the 2026 row carrying the same scheme, fee code, unit and rate type, and shows the change in the published value. — means no such 2026 row exists, or more than one does, so the two years are not comparable on that line; n/a means the 2026 value was zero, which leaves a percentage undefined. Both years are published as they stand in their own official table; no figure on this page is converted or restated.
ᴮ bonus / discount · ᴹ malus / surcharge. These rates are not a tariff on all packaging. Poland charges the product fee only to the extent a producer misses its recycling or separate-collection target: the fee is the mass placed on the market multiplied by the shortfall share and by the rate shown, and it is zero when the target is met. Producers that meet their targets through a recovery organisation pay that organisation a negotiated price, which Poland does not publish. The act caps the packaging fee at 4.50 PLN/kg, and at 25.00 PLN/kg for the beverage separate-collection obligation.
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Provenance
Method version 1.12.0 · snapshots taken 2026-09-16
- https://eli.gov.pl/api/acts/DU/2023/2683/text/O/D20232683.pdf
fetched 2026-09-16 · official · sha256 71ff3e74119c
How to cite
EPR Rates (2026). Poland Packaging Product Fee 2027 — PLN/kg by material (opłata produktowa). https://eprrates.com/poland/2027/ · Retrieved 2026-09-17. CC BY 4.0.
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title = {Poland Packaging Product Fee 2027 — PLN/kg by material (opłata produktowa)},
author = {{EPR Rates}},
year = {2026},
url = {https://eprrates.com/poland/2027/},
note = {Retrieved 2026-09-17. CC BY 4.0}
}
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