What Allegro actually said about 12 August 2026

The blocking date that was never announced

Through 2026 a great deal of Polish vendor content asserted that Allegro would block seller accounts in mid-August for want of an EPR number. On 6 August 2026 Allegro told sellers in writing: “after 12 August we will not be blocking your accounts or sales due to lack of EPR PPWR numbers (BDO)”, because the member-state register machinery is still in legislative development.

We repeat that plainly because any prospect can verify it in a single search, and because a compliance argument that collapses under checking is worse than making no argument at all.

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It said it will verify — later, and per destination market

In the same communication Allegro said that once national registers formally launch it will verify a producer-responsibility number for each destination market before enabling sales there, referring to its obligations under EU platform law. It has supported BDO and EPR number fields on the seller account since January 2023, and it already allows sellers to designate authorised representatives for cross-border sales.

So the direction of travel is not in doubt; only the date is. The trigger is the register machinery in the packaging regulation, which is itself waiting on an implementing act, and that makes the switch-on predictable rather than sudden.

The obligation was never the platform's to impose

The Polish duty comes from statute, not from marketplace policy. It has applied since the packaging act took effect, it is enforced by the state through the environmental inspectorate, and the administrative fine for operating without a register entry runs from 1,000 zł to 1,000,000 zł.

Sellers waiting for a platform deadline are watching the wrong clock, and every month of waiting adds back obligations: an unregistered year still owes its report, its fee and its share of the recycling levels. Fear that is true outperforms fear a prospect can disprove.