For VAT compliance providers.
VAT compliance providers already own the cross-border tax conversation with foreign sellers. The clients you register for French VAT and place on the French market almost always trigger French EPR too, the natural adjacent product, same buyer, same urgency, same risk-aversion. The legal blocker is the one your clients face: the mandataire REP must be France-established, so you cannot hold it from Berlin, Tallinn or London. We hold it, on a clean two-way referral: you send us the EPR work, we send VAT-needing sellers back to you, you earn a referral fee, calculated on the setup fee we collect, for every stream opened, and you add France to your coverage map without opening a French entity or chasing an agrément. No white-label or API to negotiate at this stage.
The strategic case in three or four points.
From first lead to live IDU, in four steps.
Email forward to a dedicated alias, with the client legal name, country, products and urgency flag. No portal to learn, no integration to build.
We run the KYC, prepare the written mandate under Article L. 541-10-9-1 of the Code de l’environnement, and the client signs electronically. You stay on copy throughout if you prefer.
We file with Citeo, Ecosystem, Refashion, etc. as applicable. The IDU follows within days of membership (about seven business days after the membership is validated at Citeo). You receive a status notification at every milestone.
We file the declarations at each stream's frequency: most streams are declared once a year, some quarterly or monthly. We invoice the client directly; your referral fee is paid on your invoice once we have collected.
What you can publish on your website tomorrow.
The bullets below are formulated so you can copy them into your service catalogue, proposal templates and sales decks. We deliver everything you promise.
- →French EPR registration for foreign sellers, alongside your existing IOSS/OSS/VAT services
- →All 19 EPR streams: packaging, WEEE, textile, furniture, batteries, toys, sports/DIY, paper, construction, professional packaging and more
- →IDU on the public SYDEREP register within days of membership: about seven business days after the membership is validated at Citeo
- →Amazon France, Cdiscount, ManoMano, Fnac/Darty, TikTok Shop compliance documentation
- →Priority handling for clients already suspended on Amazon France
- →Eco-contribution declarations filed at each stream’s frequency on the client’s behalf
- →PPWR Article 45 readiness assessment for clients shipping to multiple Member States
The questions your BD team will ask first.
Our clients already deal with us for tax. Adding another partner adds friction. How do you minimise that?
Referral keeps the client relationship squarely with you. You introduce the client, we sign the mandate and operate, and you remain the named introducer in our CRM. Your client interacts with us only for the EPR scope, same way they would deal with a fiscal representative on French VAT registrations. The relationship credit and renewal stay with you; we do not market into your client base.
Can EPR registration data leak into the VAT registration or vice versa?
No. We hold the EPR registration data under a separate processing record (RGPD). Your VAT data stays with you. The only shared field is the legal entity identifier. Standard non-circumvention language in the partnership letter formalises this.
Does French EPR really apply to clients we already serve for IOSS?
Yes for a large fraction. IOSS covers low-value B2C imports to the EU; French EPR covers any product placed on the French market in scope of one of the 19 streams, regardless of value. A US D2C brand with IOSS registration shipping packaged products to French consumers is in scope of household packaging EPR, and likely WEEE if the product is electronic. Cross-check our scope-check tool for any specific client.
How do we earn from the referral?
A referral fee, calculated on the setup fee we collect, for every stream opened for a producer you introduce, including streams added later. The annual fee is never shared. Its rate is set in the written partner agreement and paid on your invoice once we have collected. Each producer signs its own mandate with us.
Why no white-label or API at this stage?
We deliberately keep the model simple to start. White-label and API tracks add legal and engineering complexity that is hard to justify before a partnership reaches clear scale. The referral model covers the full economic logic (partner fee, non-circumvention, exclusivity-free). If a partnership matures into volume that genuinely requires white-label or API, we revisit at that point. For now: referral with optional co-branded on specific enterprise pursuits.
One form, one reply within a business day.
Pre-filled to your vertical. Léo replies personally in writing with the partner terms, partnership letter template and NDA. Partner terms: a referral fee, calculated on the setup fee we collect, for every stream opened for a producer you introduce, including streams added later. The annual fee is never shared. Paid on your invoice once we have collected. Each producer signs its own mandate with us.
A clean two-way referral, a partner fee on every stream opened.
The clients you register for French VAT and place on the French market need French EPR from the same moment. Hand us the EPR scope and we run it end-to-end, as the France-established mandataire your firm cannot legally be. You stay the named introducer, you earn on every stream opened, and you add France without opening a French entity.
- →Their clients placing goods on the French market need French EPR, you refer the mandate, we register, obtain the IDU on SYDEREP and file the declarations. The eco-contributions are set by the eco-organisms on their published barèmes and we take no percentage on them.
- →It runs both ways, sellers who reach us needing French VAT or fiscal representation are sent back to you, under standard non-circumvention.
- →a referral fee, calculated on the setup fee we collect, for every stream opened for a producer you introduce, including streams added later. The annual fee is never shared. Paid on your invoice once we have collected. Each producer signs its own mandate with us.
- →France-established mandataire, you add France to your coverage map without a French entity, an agrément or SYDEREP registration of your own.
Léo replies personally in writing within one business day with the partner terms, the referral-partner letter (non-circumvention, reciprocal, exclusivity-free) and a mutual NDA.