For VAT compliance providers.
VAT compliance providers already own the cross-border tax conversation with non-EU sellers. French EPR is the natural adjacent product, same buyer, same urgency profile, same risk-aversion. The legal blocker for you is the same one your clients face: the mandataire REP must be France-established. We provide that, on a clean referral basis, first mandate live within 1-2 weeks of the call, predictable per-mandate commission, no white-label or API complexity 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 mandate (Code civil 1984/1998), and the client signs electronically. You stay on copy throughout if you prefer.
We file with Citeo, Ecosystem, Refashion, etc. as applicable. IDU lands on SYDEREP within 2-3 weeks per stream. You receive a status notification at every milestone.
We file the 28 February declaration each year. We invoice the client directly; commission is paid to you quarterly on each invoice for the partnership term (typically 24 months).
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 non-EU sellers, alongside your existing IOSS/OSS/VAT services
- →All ten EPR streams: packaging, WEEE, textile, furniture, batteries, toys, sports/DIY, paper, construction, professional packaging
- →IDU on the public SYDEREP register within 2 to 3 weeks of mandate signature
- →Amazon France, Cdiscount, ManoMano, Fnac/Darty, TikTok Shop compliance documentation
- →48 to 72 hour priority recovery for clients already suspended on Amazon France
- →Annual eco-contribution declaration filed every 28 February 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 ten 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?
Flat per-mandate commission paid quarterly on each invoice we issue to the client, for the duration of the partnership term (typically 24 months). Predictable, simple to forecast, and shared transparently in the grid we send under NDA after the first call.
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, commission, non-circumvention, exclusivity-free, and goes live in 1-2 weeks. 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.
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