Electrao vs Novo Verde: Portugal packaging EPR fees compared.
Two-column comparison of Electrao and Novo Verde published packaging EPR rates in Portugal, each figure linked to its source.
Electrao and Novo Verde both run packaging EPR compliance in Portugal. Of 12 directly comparable material categories, Electrao is lower in 8 and Novo Verde in 4. The biggest single gap is Cork (urban or municipal packaging), where Electrao is 84% cheaper than Novo Verde (0.084 vs 0.53 EUR/kg). Gramta keeps both tariffs sourced and dated, reviewed 11 Aug 2026.
Each row is one material family in one published scope – scopes are never mixed. Where a scheme prices several tiers of the same family (colour, recyclability, format), the cell shows its range; expand the row to see every underlying sourced line. An empty cell means that scheme publishes no comparable rate there.
Add the materials you place on the market and a yearly weight for each. Gramta multiplies every scheme's current published rate, so you see the yearly difference in real money – not per-kilogram abstractions.
Add a material and a yearly weight to see each scheme's total.
Minimum and base fees
Minimum, membership and base fees apply on top of (or instead of) per-kilogram rates, and they are comparable across every scheme regardless of tariff structure. Terms differ – some are annual, some one-off – so check each source.
None of the compared Portugal schemes publishes a minimum or base fee in the current dataset – the per-kilogram rates above are the whole published price.
The comparison above is one country, one year, per-kilogram rates only. Filing for real means classifying every product's packaging, applying minimums and modulation, and repeating it for every country you sell into – every year.
You owe fees in every EU country you ship to, not just one.
Every product's packaging has to be weighed and sorted by material.
There are extra fixed fees, minimums, and higher rates for hard-to-recycle packaging.
And it has to be filed accurately, on time, every single year.
You don't have to do this by hand
Send us your sales and your packaging details once. Gramta works out the fees for every country you sell in and keeps each report up to date and ready to file.
It depends on the material. Electrao charges less for 8 of 12 directly comparable categories – for Cork (urban or municipal packaging) it is 84% cheaper (0.084 vs Novo Verde's 0.53 EUR/kg). Novo Verde charges less for 4, led by Steel and other metals (urban or municipal packaging) where it is 30% cheaper (0.39 vs Electrao's 0.56 EUR/kg). In 2 categories the schemes' tiered ranges overlap, so neither side can honestly be called lower there. Weigh your own material mix in the table – every figure links to its source.
Can I just register with the cheapest PRO in Portugal?
Usually you can choose, but not on the per-kilogram rate alone. Schemes differ in packaging scopes, minimum and membership fees, eco-modulation tiers and contract terms, and some only accept certain packaging streams. Use the comparison to shortlist, then confirm scope and total cost against the scheme's own tariff – every rate here links to it.
Where do these comparison figures come from?
Every rate is a published tariff line from the scheme itself, held in Gramta's sourced fee dataset with its effective period and review date (11 Aug 2026 for this page). Nothing is averaged or estimated: identical material families in identical published scopes are placed side by side, and anything not like-for-like is excluded and explained above.
