Be the partner who unlocks France.
EPR Representative is a France-established mandataire REP for the post-EcoDDS regime and PPWR Article 45. We deliver the French leg of EPR compliance for your clients on a referral basis: published volume-tier pricing, 2-to-3-week IDU SLA, predictable per-mandate commission, zero ambiguity on the civil mandate chain.
You can not legally be the French EPR mandataire from outside France. We can, and we are happy to be it on your behalf.
Four kinds of firm tend to need a France-established EPR partner.
Your clients already trust you for IOSS, OSS and country VAT. EPR is the natural next stream and a strategic adjacency. We are the France-established mandataire so you do not have to be.
You handle Germany, Italy, Spain or your home market. PPWR Article 45 forces your packaging clients to have a representative in every Member State they ship to. We are your France leg.
Your clients receive Amazon France suspension emails. You currently lose the relationship, or scramble for an emergency provider. We offer a published-price, predictable recovery partner.
Your clients hit the EPR wall when launching France. You currently send them to an unknown French provider with opaque pricing. White-label or referral, we handle the back-office.
From every EU Member State and beyond, you find the same gap.
Article 45 of PPWR requires one authorised representative per Member State your clients ship packaged goods to. Most providers cover their home market and one or two neighbours. We are the France leg, available to operators based anywhere.
Not on the list? Same offer applies. Apply to the partner form with your country in the dropdown.
Four ways to work together. Pick the one that fits your business.
You send qualified leads, we close and operate, you earn a per-mandate commission.
Flat commission per signed mandate, paid quarterly on each invoice we issue to the client during the partnership term. You retain the client relationship and remain the named introducer in our CRM. We appear on the SYDEREP register as the legally required France-established mandataire, this is regulatory architecture, not commercial architecture. Standard NDA, no exclusivity. The fastest model to operationalise: first mandate live within 1-2 weeks of the partnership conversation.
Joint go-to-market for enterprise pursuits where the buyer wants a single accountable provider with multi-firm depth.
For partners with named enterprise pipeline (typically F500 or upper-mid-market accounts). Co-signed proposals, joint client calls, shared kit. Best deployed on case-by-case basis around specific named accounts rather than as a permanent operating model. Standard referral commission applies on the closed mandates.
We deliberately keep the model offering simple at this stage. White-label and API integration are not in our current scope, once partner relationships mature and volume justifies, we revisit. For now, referral with optional co-branded pursuits covers the full spectrum of useful collaboration.
The seven things that make us a defensible French partner.
- 01.France-established and post-EcoDDS compliant
Civil mandate under the standard civil mandate of the Code civil (Articles 1984 et seq.), structured exactly as the Conseil d’État’s 10 November 2023 ruling requires.
- 02.Published volume-tier pricing
€690 setup + €249/month per stream. Wholesale grid for partners is below this and shared on the first call. No volume tiers, no per-SKU surcharges, no eco-contribution markup.
- 03.All 10+ EPR streams covered
Packaging (Citeo/Léko/Adelphe), WEEE (Ecosystem/Ecologic), textile (Refashion), furniture (Ecomaison/Valdelia), batteries (Ecosystem (ex-Corepile)/Screlec), toys, sports/DIY, paper, construction PMCB (Valobat/Ecominéro), professional packaging (Citeo Pro).
- 04.2 to 3 week IDU SLA
From mandate signature to publication on SYDEREP. 48-72h priority track for suspended Amazon France sellers.
- 05.EN and FR delivery
All client-facing correspondence in English (or your language), all administration in French. Your sellers never need to read a French letter.
- 06.Marketplace fluent
Amazon France suspension recovery, Cdiscount EPR rejection playbook, ManoMano onboarding, Fnac/Darty audit response, TikTok Shop FR phased compliance.
- 07.Operated by the founder
Partnership conversations are with Leo Escourrou directly. No SDR layer, no procurement gate, no internal hand-offs.
Seven questions partners ask us first.
Can my firm act as the French EPR mandataire instead of you?
No, unless your firm is established in France with the operational footprint to file directly with each eco-organism and ADEME. The Conseil d’État’s EcoDDS ruling (10 November 2023) confirmed the civil mandate must be held by a France-established entity. Non-French firms partner with us specifically to comply with this requirement.
How is commission structured?
Flat per-mandate fee, not a percentage of contract value. This keeps the maths simple for your finance team and protects both sides from disputes over what counts toward the calculation base. Precise rate depends on volume tier, we share the grid under NDA on the first call. Commission is paid quarterly for the partnership term (typically 24 months) on each invoice we issue to the client.
Do we need to integrate technically before signing our first client?
No. Referrals work via a shared client folder and email handover from day one. Many partners run 20+ mandates per year on email + shared folder. No technical project, no procurement loop, no SaaS integration to negotiate.
What does our client see in a referral setup?
Our brand on the mandate, on the eco-organism filings, and on the SYDEREP register, because the French mandataire must be France-established and that role is legally ours, not yours. You remain the introducer and the relationship credit stays with you. We do not market into your client base (standard non-circumvention in the partnership letter).
How fast can we start sending clients?
First mandate within one to two weeks of our partnership conversation. We sign an NDA the day of the call, share the commission grid within 48 hours, sign a one-page partnership letter on email, and start operating on the next mandate. No multi-week procurement loop.
Do you compete with your partners on customer acquisition?
We have our own direct channel (this website, the blog, the wizard) but we do not bid against partners for accounts they have introduced. The introduction is locked in our CRM at first contact. Standard non-circumvention language in the partnership letter protects both sides.
PPWR Article 45 applies in every Member State from 12 August 2026. Can you cover Germany, Italy, Spain through partners?
No, we are not the mandataire in Germany, Italy, Spain or anywhere outside France. We act as authorised representative in France only: we sign the French mandate, file dossiers with French eco-organisms, and file French declarations. For other EU Member States, a separate authorized representative established in each country is required; that is outside our scope and the producer arranges it separately. We are building a partner program to make those referrals in the future, but it is not operational yet, so today we handle the France leg only.
Why no white-label or API integration?
We deliberately keep the model offering simple at this stage. Building white-label or API tracks adds legal, operational and engineering complexity that is hard to justify before a partner book reaches a clear scale. The referral model already supports the full economic logic of partnership, commission, non-circumvention, exclusivity-free terms, and unlocks first-mandate-live in 1-2 weeks. If a partnership matures into the kind of volume that genuinely requires white-label or API, we revisit at that point.
One email, one short form, one call.
Apply via the partner form. Leo replies personally within one business day with the wholesale grid, partnership letter template and NDA. If we are a fit, your first mandate goes live within one to two weeks.