# Euro EPR fees did not move together from 2025 to 2026: the same basket rose 27% in Ireland and 26% in France and fell 6% in Spain > From 2025 to 2026, France, Portugal and Ireland raised almost every material line, most by 16% to 47%, Spain cut most of its household lines, Italy cut paper and raised plastic, and Austria and the Netherlands moved only a few lines. For 2027, Austria holds every rate, while Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands publish rises concentrated in steel, glass, cartons, aluminium and some plastics. Publisher: Strategic Packaging Insights Published: 2026-10-28 Last updated: 2026-10-28 Page: https://www.strategicpackaginginsights.com/insights/euro-epr-fee-changes-2025-2026-by-material/ **From 2025 to 2026, France, Portugal and Ireland raised almost every material line, most by 16% to 47%, Spain cut most of its household lines, Italy cut paper and raised plastic, and Austria and the Netherlands moved only a few lines. For 2027, Austria holds every rate, while Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands publish rises concentrated in steel, glass, cartons, aluminium and some plastics.** Strategic Packaging Insights (SPI) compared the 2025, 2026 and published 2027 tariff tables of nine euro schemes, from Citeo in France to Repak in Ireland, and checked each figure against the scheme's own table on 28 October 2026. All nine charge in euros, so percentage changes can be set side by side; the scopes behind the rates differ, and the article says where. ## Executive summary Packaging fee budgets are usually built by rolling last year's bill forward with a single uplift. The 2025 to 2026 tables of nine euro schemes show why that fails. On an SPI basket of 100 tonnes spread across six materials, the cost rose 27.1% at Repak, 26.2% at Citeo and 22.1% at Sociedade Ponto Verde (SPV) on the lines SPI could match, but only 1.1% at Verpact and fell 5.9% at Ecoembes (Exhibit 1). All nine schemes charge in euros, so the percentages can be compared; who pays and which tonnes are covered still differ, and Exhibit 2 sets out those differences. The direction also differed by material inside the same scheme. Italy's CONAI cut its paper base by 30.8% on 1 October 2025 and raised its plastic bands by 4.6% to 33.3% on 1 October 2026. Spain cut its single-use plastic (SUP) surcharge so steeply that SUP PET bottles fell 29.6% and SUP paper 42.2%, while wood rose 36.4%. Luxembourg raised coloured PET by about 60% and cut rigid PP by 16.9% (Exhibits 3 and 4). For 2027, five schemes have now published a full table. ARA holds every Austrian rate. Valorlux raises the basket by 23.8%, led by glass (46.8%), steel (51.3%) and beverage cartons (36.7%). Fost Plus raises steel by 77.6% and EPS by 57.2% but cuts aluminium of at least 50 micron by 18.7%. Verpact moves only aluminium and drinks cartons, and adds a new EUR 2,600 per tonne line for plastic drinks bottles outside the deposit system. Ecoembes moves most lines by less than 4%. CONAI has set glass and wood for 2027 only. SPI has not yet confirmed 2027 values for Citeo, SPV or Repak. The exposure is greatest for brands that sell plastic and glass into France, Portugal, Ireland and Luxembourg, where the 2025 to 2026 rises were broad, and for steel and carton users in Belgium and Luxembourg in 2027. SPI's advice is to budget by scheme and by line, not with a group uplift. Load the published 2027 tables now, carry a low, base and high case for the four schemes still open, and treat 1 October as a second price date in Italy. ## Key findings 1. **SPI calculation:** on a fixed 100-tonne basket, 2025 to 2026 costs rose 27.1% at Repak, 26.2% at Citeo, 22.1% at SPV (four materials), 15.7% at Valorlux, 12.2% at CONAI, 5.4% at ARA and 1.1% at Verpact, and fell 5.9% at Ecoembes. 2. Citeo raised every weight rate for 2026: plastic lines by 25.4% to 30.8%, aluminium 30.5%, cartons 23.1%, glass 22.6%, steel 21.3% and paper and board 20.4% (Citeo 2025 and 2026 tariffs). 3. Repak's brand holder rate for recycled glass rose 158.3%, from EUR 7.41 to EUR 19.14 per tonne, and non-recycled plastic rose by EUR 170.15 to EUR 616.22 per tonne (Repak fees 2025 and 2026). 4. Ecoembes cut 11 of 13 household lines compared here for 2026, including SUP PET drinks bottles by 29.6% and aluminium cans by 33.3%; its 2027 table moves most lines by -1.1% to 3.5% (Ecoembes Precios 2025, 2026 and 2027). 5. CONAI's plastic bands rose on 1 October 2026, not 1 January: B1.1 from EUR 219 to EUR 260 and C from EUR 790 to EUR 922 per tonne, while paper had fallen from EUR 65 to EUR 45 on 1 October 2025 (CONAI). 6. ARA holds all 22 Austrian household and commercial rates for 2027 after raising five household lines by 5.1% to 9.5% for 2026 (ARA tariff sheets 2026 and 2027). 7. Valorlux's 2027 table raises glass 46.8%, steel 51.3%, cartons 36.7% and EPS 68.8% per tonne; Fost Plus raises steel 77.6% and holds glass, paper and cartons (Valorlux 2027; Fost Plus rates page). ## What SPI compared, and why scope matters This piece is about change. The per-material levels for 2026 are covered in SPI's earlier Ledger pieces on [EPR fees per tonne](https://www.strategicpackaginginsights.com/insights/epr-fees-per-tonne-2026/), [glass](https://www.strategicpackaginginsights.com/insights/glass-packaging-epr-fees-euro-schemes/), [aluminium](https://www.strategicpackaginginsights.com/insights/aluminium-packaging-epr-fees-euro-markets/), [paper and board](https://www.strategicpackaginginsights.com/insights/paper-board-epr-fees-euro-schemes/) and [beverage cartons](https://www.strategicpackaginginsights.com/insights/beverage-carton-epr-fees-austria-benelux-portugal/), and are not repeated here. Every value below is in EUR per tonne. Where a scheme prints EUR per kg, SPI multiplies by 1,000; where Citeo prints euro cents per kg, SPI multiplies by 10. A percentage change is only meaningful inside one scheme's own line. Exhibit 2 shows the scope each line rests on, which a reader should keep in mind before setting Citeo's change beside Verpact's. Two scope points change how a percentage reads. In Ireland the brand holder share is only part of the bill: the 2026 sheet adds EUR 1.00 for the material manufacturer, EUR 1.00 for the converter and EUR 2.00 for the retailer on every material, unchanged from 2025, so the total recycled paper rate rose from EUR 32.54 to EUR 45.60 per tonne, 40.1% by SPI's calculation, against 45.8% for the brand holder share (Repak fees 2025 and 2026). In Italy the change is felt on a supplier's invoice, because CONAI's contribution is applied at the first transfer of the packaging, not filed by the brand. ## 2025 to 2026: the material-by-material picture Exhibit 3 shows the change in six common material lines inside each scheme. Plastic is represented by one mainstream line per scheme; Exhibit 4 shows the plastic detail. **France rose across the board.** Every weight rate in Citeo's 2026 guide is above its 2025 value. Clear PET bottles moved from 53.52 to 70.00 euro cents per kg, or EUR 535.20 to EUR 700.00 per tonne, and the PVC line from EUR 1,605.50 to EUR 2,100.10, both 30.8%. Rigid PS rose a smaller 25.4%, from EUR 642.20 to EUR 805.10, so the 2025 tie between rigid PS and flexible PP at EUR 642.20 is broken: flexible PP now sits EUR 35.00 per tonne higher. Glass rose from EUR 16.40 to EUR 20.10, steel from EUR 53.50 to EUR 64.90 and paper and board from EUR 214.30 to EUR 258.10 (Citeo 2025 tariff; Citeo 2026 guide). Citeo's 2026 guide gives a tighter regulatory framework that raises the cost of EPR as one context for the new tariff. **Portugal rose on every line SPI could match.** SPV's urban-flow value for paper and board rose from EUR 260.20 to EUR 310.40 per tonne, liquid food cartons from EUR 437.60 to EUR 514.00, plastic from EUR 447.10 to EUR 543.20, steel from EUR 354.70 to EUR 521.90 and wood from EUR 51.50 to EUR 59.90. Other materials more than doubled, from EUR 282.10 to EUR 579.90 (SPV VPV 2025 and 2026). The 2026 table also splits plastic into separate lines, all at EUR 543.20 base, and adds a bonificado column 10% below base. **Ireland rose most on glass and paper.** Repak's brand holder share for recycled glass rose from EUR 7.41 to EUR 19.14 per tonne, paper and cardboard from EUR 28.54 to EUR 41.60 and aluminium outside the deposit scheme from EUR 3.68 to EUR 5.14. Steel slipped from EUR 64.82 to EUR 64.76 and wood from EUR 14.47 to EUR 14.18 (Repak fees 2025 and 2026). Because the starting rates are low, the large percentages are small sums per tonne in all but plastic and composites. **Spain fell on most lines.** Ecoembes cut 11 of the 13 household lines SPI compared for 2026. Drinks cans in steel fell from EUR 218 to EUR 197 per tonne and in aluminium from EUR 60 to EUR 40, carton for drinks and food (non-SUP) from EUR 553 to EUR 533, and non-SUP paper and board from EUR 117 to EUR 115. Wood and cork rose from EUR 22 to EUR 30, and the glass weight part stayed at EUR 35.15 (Ecoembes Precios 2025 and 2026). **Austria and the Netherlands moved selectively.** ARA raised household paper by 9.5%, glass 5.9%, plastic 5.1%, beverage cartons 5.2% and other composites 5.6%, and held ferrous metal, aluminium, ceramics, wood, textile fibres, biodegradables and every commercial line (ARA tariff sheet 2026). Verpact held glass, paper, plastic, other metals and wood, and raised only aluminium, from EUR 300 to EUR 340, and drinks cartons, from EUR 880 to EUR 920 per tonne (Verpact Tarieven). **Italy and Luxembourg rebalanced.** CONAI cut paper and the CPL band for liquid packaging board, raised glass from EUR 35 to EUR 40 on 1 January 2026, and raised every plastic band on 1 October 2026. Valorlux cut paper, beverage cartons, PE films, rigid PP and rigid PS, and raised glass, steel, HDPE and every PET bottle line (Valorlux detailed tables 2025 and 2026). ## Plastic: the line with the widest spread of change Plastic carries the largest euro amounts in every scheme, and the 2025 to 2026 changes ran in both directions. Exhibit 4 picks the plastic lines that moved most, or that show a scheme's design choice. Three patterns stand out. First, the recyclability gap widened where schemes chose to widen it. Repak's gap between recycled rigid and non-recycled plastic grew from EUR 304.04 to EUR 450.52 per tonne by SPI's calculation, and Valorlux's gap between colourless PET (PV06, up 27.6% to EUR 249.80) and opaque PET (PV09, up 58.9% to EUR 487.10) grew from EUR 110.90 to EUR 237.30. Second, Spain's cuts came mostly from one design change. In 2025 an SUP line paid EUR 0.101 per kg more than its non-SUP twin, for example EUR 0.414 against EUR 0.313 for HDPE rigid; in 2026 the gap is EUR 0.011 (Ecoembes Precios 2025 and 2026). SUP paper with plastic content fell from EUR 218 to EUR 126 per tonne for the same reason. Third, Italy's plastic rises arrived late in the year. CONAI's value table shows A1.1 at EUR 40, B1.1 at EUR 219 and C at EUR 790 per tonne in its 1 January and 1 July 2026 columns, and EUR 51, EUR 260 and EUR 922 from 1 October 2026 (CONAI value table). A brand on a January to December budget therefore paid the 2025 plastic level for nine months of 2026. ## The largest moves, up and down Exhibit 5 ranks the largest single-line changes from 2025 to 2026 across the nine schemes. All are in euros, but each percentage is inside its own scheme's line. SPI analysis The extremes come from three causes that a buyer can track. Low starting rates turn modest euro changes into large percentages, as with Repak glass, up EUR 11.73 per tonne. Recalibration of a whole category produces large cuts, as with Spain's SUP surcharge. And deliberate modulation shows up as a widening gap, as with Valorlux's coloured and opaque PET. Only the third is a signal about pack design. ## The other materials in brief: what changed, not what they cost SPI's material pieces set out the 2026 level of each line; here is only the direction of change, so a reader can see which way each material is heading. **Glass.** Glass rose in five of the seven schemes with both years matched: by 158.3% at Repak, 22.6% at Citeo, 14.7% at Valorlux, 14.3% at CONAI and 5.9% at ARA, and held at Verpact and in Spain's weight part. For 2027 it rises again at Valorlux (46.8%), CONAI (20.0%) and in Spain (7.0%), and holds at ARA, Fost Plus and Verpact. The levels are in the [glass piece](https://www.strategicpackaginginsights.com/insights/glass-packaging-epr-fees-euro-schemes/). **Paper and board.** Paper split the schemes most clearly: up 45.8% at Repak, 20.4% at Citeo, 19.3% at SPV and 9.5% at ARA, but down 30.8% at CONAI, 3.2% at Valorlux and 1.7% at Ecoembes, and flat at Verpact. Its 2027 steps are small where published, from 0.0% to 3.9%. The [paper and board piece](https://www.strategicpackaginginsights.com/insights/paper-board-epr-fees-euro-schemes/) covers the composite rules that matter more than the base rate. **Aluminium.** Aluminium rose 39.7% at Repak, 30.5% at Citeo, 13.3% at Verpact and 4.1% at Valorlux, held at ARA and CONAI, and fell 33.3% on Spanish drinks cans. For 2027 it rises 11.8% at Verpact and 7.3% at Valorlux, and Fost Plus moves its two aluminium lines in opposite directions, -18.7% for 50 micron and over and 7.7% for thinner material. The [aluminium piece](https://www.strategicpackaginginsights.com/insights/aluminium-packaging-epr-fees-euro-markets/) has the deposit context. **Beverage cartons.** Cartons rose 23.1% at Citeo, 17.5% at SPV, 5.2% at ARA and 4.5% at Verpact, and fell 14.8% at CONAI (the CPL band), 3.6% at Ecoembes and 3.1% at Valorlux. For 2027 they are one of the clearest risers: 36.7% at Valorlux and 20.7% at Verpact, with Fost Plus and ARA flat. The [carton piece](https://www.strategicpackaginginsights.com/insights/beverage-carton-epr-fees-austria-benelux-portugal/) sets out the lines. **Steel.** Steel is the quiet material that moves most in 2027. It rose 47.1% at SPV, 46.1% at Valorlux and 21.3% at Citeo for 2026, and now rises 77.6% at Fost Plus and 51.3% at Valorlux. Because steel rates start low in most schemes, these are large percentages on small sums, except in Belgium, where the 2027 rate reaches EUR 331 per tonne. ## What drives the changes The schemes publish their reasons in different detail, but three forces recur. **Collection and sorting cost.** Fost Plus names rising collection and sorting costs and contract renewals as the main influence on its 2026 rates (Fost Plus, 24 September 2025), and its rates page says rates are adapted each year to the costs it incurs. Citeo's 2026 guide points to a tighter regulatory framework that raises the cost of EPR. **Material value and stream quality.** CONAI cut its paper base after recovered paper sold better than expected, and raised plastic to keep the supply chains funded (SPI Italy fee-market note; CONAI, 25 May 2026). Verpact links the aluminium rise to a smaller, lower-quality stream as cans leave the aluminium flow (Verpact, 22 September 2025). In SPI's reading, deposit systems in the Netherlands and Ireland work the same way: they remove the most valuable tonnes from the scheme's stream, and the cost of what remains is spread over fewer tonnes. **Modulation design.** Where a scheme chooses to widen the gap between well and poorly recyclable lines, the change shows up as a split. Repak widened the recycled against non-recycled plastic gap by EUR 146.48 per tonne for 2026, and Valorlux more than doubled its colourless against opaque PET gap. Ecoembes went the other way on SUP, cutting a surcharge of EUR 0.101 per kg to EUR 0.011. SPI analysis The first two forces push every material in the same direction inside a scheme and explain the broad risers; the third moves lines apart and explains most of the rebalancing. A buyer who knows which force a scheme cites can judge whether next year's change will be broad or selective. ## 2026 to 2027: what has been published Exhibit 6 shows the 2026 to 2027 change in the same six lines for every scheme with 2027 values published in its own table by 28 October 2026. Exhibit 7 lists the 2027 lines that move most, with their values. **Belgium.** Fost Plus's rates page sets 2026 and 2027 side by side. Glass at EUR 105.20, paper-cardboard at EUR 150.30, beverage cartons at EUR 808 and colourless PET bottles at EUR 360.40 per tonne are unchanged, as is the EUR 4,419 rate for non-valorised and obstructive packaging. The page gives a general basis rather than line-by-line reasons. **Luxembourg.** Valorlux's 2027 table raises all 18 household lines that carry a value in each of the three years; PV00 for reusable packaging stays at zero, and SPI has not matched the PET tray line (PV14d) to its year columns. Even paper and board, cut for 2026, rises 3.9% to EUR 40.40. The industrial lines PV16 to PV19 stay at EUR 14.50 and EUR 39.50 per tonne. **The Netherlands.** Verpact's table holds glass, paper, both plastic lines, other metals and wood at their 2025 rates for a third year. Aluminium rises for a second year and drinks cartons by a fifth, and plastic drinks bottles outside the deposit system get their own EUR 2,600 per tonne line. **Spain.** The 2027 table keeps the SUP gap at EUR 0.011 per kg and moves most lines by -1.1% to 3.5%; the glass weight part rises 7.0% to EUR 37.61 per tonne, plus a per-unit part of EUR 0.00533 (Ecoembes Precios 2027). **Italy, France, Portugal and Ireland are still open.** CONAI has published 2027 values only for glass and wood, both announced on 2 July 2026. SPI has not yet confirmed Citeo's 2027 tariff against Citeo's own guide, has found no SPV table for 2027, and has not yet confirmed the rates in Repak's 2027 Regular Membership Rates sheet (QF 628). ## A framework: three ways schemes changed their rates Exhibit 8 sorts the nine schemes by how they moved from 2025 to 2026 and what they have published for 2027. It is drawn from Exhibits 3 and 6. **Broad risers.** France, Portugal and Ireland raised almost every material by double digits, and all three are open for 2027. Their 2025 to 2026 rises share a context the schemes themselves describe: higher collection and sorting costs and, in Ireland, a deposit scheme that has taken PET bottles and cans out of Repak's stream (SPI Ireland fee-market note). For a buyer, the right stance is a range, not a point. **Rebalancers.** Spain, Italy and Luxembourg moved materials in opposite directions in 2026, and Belgium does so in 2027, with steel up 77.6% and aluminium of 50 micron and over down 18.7%; SPI has not yet matched Fost Plus's 2025 table. The risk is less the size of the bill than its mix: a brand selling mostly paper into Italy saw its fee fall, while one selling plastic saw it rise from October 2026. Luxembourg turns from a rebalancer in 2026 into the steepest riser of the five full 2027 tables. **Steady setters.** Austria and the Netherlands change few lines, but by noticeable amounts when they do: Dutch drinks cartons rise by a fifth in 2027 and aluminium rises for a second year, while ARA holds every line. The lever is knowing which of your packs sit on the lines that move. In practice: ARA. ARA's sheet prints the current and next year side by side. The 2026 sheet of 29 September 2025 showed five household increases, from EUR 990 to EUR 1,040 per tonne for plastic and from EUR 190 to EUR 208 for paper. The 2027 sheet of 28 September 2026 repeats every 2026 value for all 11 household and 11 commercial codes, from EUR 20 for wood to EUR 1,140 for other composites (ARA tariff sheets 2026 and 2027). In practice: Verpact. Verpact announced its 2026 tariffs on 22 September 2025, keeping glass, plastic, paper and board, other metals and wood at 2025 levels. It linked the aluminium rise to the fall in cans in the aluminium stream, which leaves a smaller, lower-quality and so costlier flow, and the drinks carton rise to a climbing target and a fragile chain; the SUP component fell from EUR 2.30 to EUR 2.10 per 1,000 items (Verpact, 22 September 2025; Verpact Tarieven). ## The basket, priced in euros Exhibit 9 prices the SPI basket in each scheme for each year with a published table: 40 tonnes of paper and board, 25 of glass, 20 of plastic, 5 of aluminium, 5 of steel and 5 of cartons. The lines are those in the note to Exhibit 1. The euro totals can be read across schemes only with the scope caveats in Exhibit 2; the changes within a row are the safer comparison. **SPI calculation:** in Luxembourg, 2027 adds 40 t x EUR 1.50 for paper, 25 t x EUR 9.50 for glass, 20 t x EUR 71.50 for HDPE, 5 t x EUR 1.10 for aluminium, 5 t x EUR 20.30 for steel and 5 t x EUR 103.00 for cartons, a total of EUR 2,349.50. In Belgium, steel alone adds 5 t x EUR 144.60 = EUR 723.00 of the EUR 1,445.00 rise, and PE hard packaging adds 20 t x EUR 38.40 = EUR 768.00, offset by EUR 46.00 less on aluminium. The basket shows something Exhibit 3 hides. Spain's 2026 cut is mostly steel cans and HDPE: 5 t x EUR 21 and 20 t x EUR 28 account for EUR 665.00 of the EUR 945.00 fall. Italy's rise is mostly plastic: 20 t x EUR 41 = EUR 820.00 of EUR 945.00. A brand whose mix differs from the basket will see a different change, which is the point of building the budget line by line. ## Scenarios: the four schemes still open for 2027 For France, Portugal, Ireland and most of Italy, a 2027 budget has to be built before the tables are confirmed. Exhibit 10 gives three cases on the 2026 basket. They are SPI assumptions, not forecasts. **SPI calculation:** France's base case is EUR 30,109.50 x 1.131 = EUR 34,055.90 and its high case EUR 30,109.50 x 1.262 = EUR 38,002.30. Italy's low case adds 25 t x EUR 8 = EUR 200.00 for glass; its high case adds 20 t x EUR 260 x 18.7% = EUR 972.40 for plastic on top. Two caveats apply. The high cases assume the 2026 drivers repeat, which no scheme has said. And the published 2027 tables show the opposite pattern elsewhere: ARA, which rose 5.4% in 2026, holds flat, and Ecoembes, which fell, moves less than 1%. **SPI analysis:** for a finance team the useful output is the gap between low and high, EUR 7,892.80 per 100 tonnes in France and EUR 6,808.10 in Portugal, which is the size of the contingency to carry until the tables appear. ## The calendar: not every change lands on 1 January Most schemes publish one rate per calendar year. Italy does not, and two other schemes changed lines mid-year. Exhibit 11 lists the dates on which the changes in this piece took effect. In practice: CONAI. CONAI announced the plastic increases on 25 May 2026 for application from 1 October 2026, nine bands from A1.1 to C, with the largest steps at B1.2 (EUR 228 to EUR 304) and B2.2 and C (EUR 132 each). On 2 July 2026 it announced glass from EUR 40 to EUR 48 and wood from EUR 10 to EUR 12 per tonne from 1 January 2027, and a EUR 45 per tonne contribution for certified compostable capsules and pods from 12 August 2026 (CONAI releases). Its chronology of changes shows the paper base moving from EUR 35 to EUR 65 on 1 April 2024 and back to EUR 45 in October 2025 (CONAI, Variazioni CAC). In practice: Citeo. Citeo's 2025 activity report puts household packaging contributions at EUR 1,402 million in 2025, against EUR 1,129 million in 2024, and attributes the rise to higher per-material rates between 2024 and 2025 and a rebound in consumption, while noting that consumption slowed in the second half of 2025 (Citeo, Rapport d'activité 2025). The 2026 rates in Exhibit 3 come on top of that rise. ## Industry reaction > "The 2026 rates are strongly influenced by rising costs for collection and sorting, fluctuations in material prices, and contract renewals." ***Fost Plus** , Belgian household packaging scheme, [Everything you need to know about the Green Dot rates for 2026](https://www.fostplus.be/en/blog/everything-you-need-to-know-about-green-dot-rates-for-2026), 24 September 2025* The same three forces explain most of the moves in Exhibit 3, in Belgium and beyond. > "L’aumento del CAC ha l’obiettivo di garantire le risorse per la continuità delle filiere" In English: "The increase in the CAC aims to secure the resources for the continuity of the supply chains" ***CONAI** , Italian national packaging consortium, [Imballaggi in plastica, definiti i nuovi valori del Contributo ambientale CONAI](https://www.conai.org/news-e-press/imballaggi-in-plastica-definiti-i-nuovi-valori-del-contributo-ambientale-conai/), 25 May 2026* That release set the 1 October 2026 plastic values in Exhibit 4. > "La revisione si rende necessaria per garantire l’equilibrio economico del sistema consortile" In English: "The revision is needed to ensure the economic balance of the consortium system" ***CONAI** , [variazioni del Contributo Ambientale per gli imballaggi in legno e in vetro](https://www.conai.org/news-e-press/conai-variazioni-del-contributo-ambientale-per-gli-imballaggi-in-legno-e-in-vetro-nuovo-contributo-per-capsule-e-cialde-in-bioplastica-compostabile/), 2 July 2026* CONAI gave that reason for the 2027 glass and wood increases of 20% each. > "Het tarief voor drankenkartons stijgt per 1 januari 2027." In English: "The rate for drinks cartons rises from 1 January 2027." ***Verpact** , Dutch packaging producer organisation, [Tarieven](https://www.verpact.nl/nl/tarieven), consulted 28 October 2026* That rise, from EUR 920 to EUR 1,110 per tonne, is the largest Verpact step in the three years shown. ## What leaders should do now 1. **Finance teams, in the 2027 budget round:** load the published 2027 tables of ARA, Verpact, Fost Plus, Valorlux and Ecoembes line by line, and drop any single group uplift. 2. **Finance teams, by year end:** carry low, base and high cases for Citeo, SPV and Repak and for Italian plastic and paper, and hold the gap between them as contingency until the tables are confirmed. 3. **Procurement in Italy, before the next supplier price round:** check that carton and film suppliers have passed on the 1 October 2026 plastic bands and the EUR 48 glass rate from January 2027 correctly on their invoices. 4. **Packaging teams selling in Belgium and Luxembourg, by the first 2027 declaration:** list steel, EPS and carton packs, since those are the lines rising 36.7% to 77.6% in 2027. 5. **Brand owners in Luxembourg and Ireland, now:** move coloured and opaque PET, and any non-recycled plastic, up the redesign list, because both schemes widened the gap to the better-graded line for 2026. 6. **Sustainability and data teams, before the early 2027 declarations:** keep each pack's material, line and stream by scheme, so a change on one line can be priced in hours rather than weeks. 7. **Boards and investors, at the next budget review:** ask for EPR cost change by scheme and material, not a group average, because the same basket moved from -5.9% to +27.1% in one year. ## Questions for your board - Which three scheme and material lines carry most of our EPR bill, and how did each move from 2025 to 2026? - Is our 2027 budget built on the published tables where they exist, or on last year's bill plus a percentage? - How much contingency are we carrying for France, Portugal and Ireland, where 2027 values are not yet confirmed? - Did our Italian suppliers apply the October 2026 plastic increase, and when will we see it in our costs? - Which of our packs sit on the lines that rise most in 2027: Belgian and Luxembourg steel, EPS, cartons and Dutch drinks cartons? - Where did a scheme widen a recyclability gap, and have we priced the redesign against it? ## What to watch - **Nov 2026:** watch for Citeo's own 2027 tariff document, which SPI has not yet confirmed. - **Dec 2026:** possible further 2027 announcements from CONAI for plastic, paper, steel and aluminium, and a 2027 VPV table from SPV. - **31 Dec 2026:** last day of the 2026 tables, including CONAI's EUR 40 glass rate. - **1 Jan 2027:** published 2027 values apply at Ecoembes, Fost Plus, Verpact, ARA, Valorlux and CONAI (glass and wood). - **12 Feb 2027:** the Green Dot logo may no longer be used on packaging, as Fost Plus notes on its rates page. ## Methodology - **Data used:** the year-on-year sections of SPI's fee-market notes for nine euro schemes (14 October 2026), each figure checked against the scheme's own 2025, 2026 and 2027 tables on 28 October 2026, and SPI EPR & Plastic Tax Calculator rows (216 rows). - **Units:** EUR per tonne throughout. Per-kg rates are multiplied by 1,000 and Citeo's euro cents per kg by 10, by SPI's calculation. Rates are excl. VAT, before bonuses, maluses, per-unit charges and levies. - **Counting rules:** percentage changes are inside one scheme's line. Spain's lines are matched by position in three tables with the same layout. Italy's line changes compare dated columns, as stated in each exhibit; the basket uses values in force at the end of each year. Ireland is the brand holder share unless stated. - **Basket and scenarios:** the 100-tonne basket and the low, base and high cases are SPI assumptions, not market averages or forecasts. - **Cut-off:** 28 October 2026. - **Limitations:** Fost Plus's 2025 table and SPV's 2025 glass and aluminium values are not matched; 2027 values for Citeo, SPV, Repak and most CONAI materials are not confirmed. The estimates are not invoices or liabilities. Confirm each pack's line with the scheme or supplier and check with counsel where it applies. ## Sources 1. 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