Hungary EPR Fees and Costs — What Foreign Sellers Actually Pay

The two costs, kept separate

When people ask "how much does EPR cost in Hungary?", they are usually mixing up two different things:

• The MOHU EPR fee — a statutory per-kilogram charge based on what you place on the market, invoiced by MOHU. This is the actual regulatory cost.
• Your representative's service fee — what you pay a Hungarian authorized representative to handle registration and quarterly reporting. For a typical small cross-border seller this starts around 150 EUR per quarter, and it is separate from, and on top of, the MOHU fee.

Keeping these apart matters: a quote for "EPR from 150 EUR" is a service price, not your total regulatory cost.

How the MOHU fee is calculated

The MOHU fee is simple in principle: the weight you place on the market, in kilograms, multiplied by the per-kilogram rate for that material. You report the weight per material stream in your quarterly declaration, and MOHU invoices the corresponding amount afterwards. There is no advance payment and no annual reconciliation — the charge follows your actual declared quantities each quarter.

2026 fee rates (HUF/kg)

These are the headline rates in force in 2026 (set by decree on 1 October 2025 and unchanged for 2026). Packaging is the most common stream for e-commerce sellers:

Electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), batteries and other streams have their own rates by category; your representative applies the correct rate to each KF code.

A worked example

Suppose that over a year you ship goods to Hungary that use 500 kg of plastic packaging and 300 kg of paper/cardboard:

• Plastic: 500 kg × 219 HUF = 109,500 HUF
• Paper: 300 kg × 173 HUF = 51,900 HUF
• Annual MOHU EPR fee ≈ 161,400 HUF (roughly 400–420 EUR, depending on the exchange rate)

This is only the MOHU fee; the representative's service fee is separate. For many light, low-volume sellers the MOHU fee itself is modest — the main value of a representative is removing the compliance burden and the risk of fines.

Invoicing, payment and VAT

• Who invoices: MOHU (MOL Hulladékgazdálkodási Zrt.), based on your quarterly declaration, in arrears — the declaration itself is not a payment.
• Payment deadline: 15 days from receiving the invoice. This is set by law, there are no instalments, and there is no advance payment.
• VAT: a domestic producer pays 27% Hungarian VAT on the fee; a foreign producer with no Hungarian establishment pays no Hungarian VAT, because the place of supply is not Hungary.
• 1,000 HUF rolling threshold: fees below 1,000 HUF are not invoiced immediately but carried forward until they reach 1,000 HUF. This is a billing convenience only — it is not an exemption from filing, and you must still submit the quarterly declaration.
• Combined invoice: the MOHU and municipal fee elements appear on one invoice, on separate lines (the invoice number starts with 54); payment is by bank transfer, quoting the document number.

Will I be double-charged (EPR vs the product fee)?

For the main streams, no. Until the end of 2024 some products carried both EPR and the older environmental product fee. Since 1 January 2025 the double obligation was removed for the main streams — packaging, electronics, batteries, tyres, and office/advertising paper — which are now EPR-only, paid to MOHU. The environmental product fee (paid to NAV) remains only for a narrow residual list, plus single-use plastic bags, which are the one product still subject to both.

Small-seller simplification

There is a lighter regime for very small producers: under Government Decree 80/2023 (27.§(1b)), a producer whose annual revenue does not exceed five times the annual minimum wage may keep simplified records and file once a year, by 20 January, instead of quarterly. This is an administrative simplification, not a fee exemption — the fee itself still applies.