France: CITEO declarations and the IDU, from your Shopify data

France runs household-packaging EPR primarily through CITEO. Registering gets you the IDU (Identifiant Unique), the identifier marketplaces like Amazon France require from sellers, and creates an annual declaration obligation:

Deadline: 28 February for the previous calendar year.
Granularity: per polymer. France prices plastics by type (PET, PE, PP, PS), not as one bucket, and per-unit counts sit alongside the weights.

Why the polymer split matters financially

Fee modulation. Recyclable mono-materials are priced differently from problem plastics, so a declaration that lumps everything under "plastique" can cost more than one that shows 90% of your plastic is PE mailer film. Knowing your split usually pays for the effort of knowing it.

Getting the numbers out of Shopify

PPWR Compliance.com turns your order export plus a one-time description of your packaging into the French declaration lines: weights per material with plastics split by polymer, and parcel counts per line, the same shape CITEO's form asks for.

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This guide is general information, not legal advice. Requirements and thresholds change, so verify with the national register or your scheme before filing.