FREE REPORT · EU COMPLIANCE

EU compliance apps (PPWR / GPSR / EPR) — competitive structure

28,886 App Store records, keyword-exact match · facts separated from inference

Apps mentioning PPWR

…of them with reviews

Apps mentioning GPSR

SYDERP coverage

I. The regulation is now in force (fact, sourced)

PPWR (EU Regulation 2025/40) — effective 2026-08-12. Packaged goods shipped into the EU are in scope; no small-seller exemption. EPR registration must happen per member state (Germany LUCID, France SYDEREP, Italy CONAI); no single EU-wide filing. New Declaration of Conformity requirement.
GPSR — Shopify is not a marketplace under Article 22, so the seller carries Article 19 duties (EU Responsible Person, listing block, per-SKU audit).
Duties & landed cost — US de minimis change affects all imports; DDP/DAP incoterms; HS code + country of origin required.

Sources are official Shopify documentation and the EU regulation as cited in the full research note. This is market intelligence, not legal advice.

II. Supply is nearly empty (fact — keyword-exact match)

Matched on app name + summary text across all 28,886 records, word-boundary exact (so "eprolo" is not counted as "EPR"):

Keyword	Apps	Zero-review apps	Share	Paid tiers
PPWR	10	9	90%	3
GPSR	62	58	94%	13
EPR	21	18	86%	7
LUCID (DE)	17	17	100%	8
CONAI (IT)	6	6	100%	2
SYDEREP (FR)	1	1	100%	1

Reading: the regulation took effect 2026-08-12; the store now has 10 apps mentioning PPWR (up from 5 at our August snapshot) — and 9 of them still have zero reviews (the one with reviews is a pre-order app that merely lists "PPWR" among its keywords). France's EPR system has exactly one app, also zero reviews.

III. What this does and does not prove

Inference: PPWR coverage is a genuine supply vacuum

Evidence: 10 apps mentioning PPWR (up from 5 in August), 9 of them zero reviews, 3 paid tiers, no incumbent with social proof; SYDEREP now has 1 app (zero reviews); hard legislative deadline already passed.

Counter: zero reviews may mean "just launched", not "no demand" — launch dates must be checked. Merchants may be solving this off-platform via EPR agents rather than software. A vacuum is not yet a market.

Inference: the gap is obligation management, not registration

Evidence: community discussion shows registration can be outsourced, but "obligations, packaging weights, supplier evidence, registration numbers, declaration deadlines" still live in per-country spreadsheets.

Counter: that gap may be exactly the EPR agents' business model; and compliance data entry is low frequency, which weakens a subscription model.

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