Country action sheet
Bulgaria
NISO registration, compliance route, and product-fee reportingAuthorised representative
EU seller: AR required- Seller established outside the EU
- Confirm the national route
Reporting volume
PPWR: report from any volume- Current Bulgaria route
- First placement
What changes here
A business that places packaged goods on the Bulgarian market may need to register through the National Waste Management Information System, choose a valid collective or individual compliance route, and keep material-level packaging records. The responsible entity, sales route, and any Bulgarian authorised representative must be confirmed before registration or reporting.
Country workflow
How smbf.me handles this market
- 01Confirm the responsible entity
Map the seller, importer, recipient, and first placement of each packaged product in Bulgaria.
- 02Register and choose the route
Confirm the NISO entry, authorised representative, and either a permitted collective or individual route.
- 03Prepare reports and evidence
Maintain material-level monthly data, submit through the confirmed route, and retain declarations, contracts, and acknowledgements.
Primary evidence
Official law and authority pages
- Registering producers in the public waste registersExEA (opens in a new window)
- Public register of persons placing packaged goods on the marketNISO (opens in a new window)
- Waste Management Act — Articles 14, 14a, 45, 47, and 59MOEW (opens in a new window)
- National packaging and packaging-waste legislationMOEW (opens in a new window)
- Packaging-waste questions and answersMOEW (opens in a new window)
- Permitted packaging recovery organisationsMOEW (opens in a new window)
- Product-fee regulation — packaging declaration and material ratesPUDOOS (opens in a new window)
Source-linked rules
What the local route covers
- 01
The Bulgarian packaging ordinance requires a person placing packaged goods on the market to apply for entry in the public register. The application is made electronically through NISO; the ordinance states that the information is filed one month before the relevant activity starts.
- 02
The Waste Management Act places extended producer responsibility on the person placing the products on the market. Obligations can be fulfilled individually under a permit or through a collective scheme represented by a permitted recovery organisation.
- 03
A person not covered by a qualifying collective scheme or permitted individual route may owe the national product fee. For packaged goods, the product-fee regulation requires a monthly declaration by the 15th for the previous month and five-year retention of that declaration.