BDO changes - new rules for 2025.

The change that will affect all businesses on the BDO register is increase in annual and registration fee. It is dictated, among other things, by the increasing costs of maintaining, running and developing BDO.

From 2025, the BDO fee rates will be:

• 200 z for micro-entrepreneurs (increase from PLN 100),
• PLN 800 for other entrepreneurs (an increase from PLN 300).

As a reminder, the deadline for paying the annual fee for a calendar year is the end of February - so in 2025 it will be 28 February. The annual fee at the new amount must be paid by this date.

Read more about BDO fee increases in 2025.

From 2025, the introduced an obligation to keep records of all hazardous waste produced by entrepreneurs. This means that existing exemptions will disappearwhich were readily used by those generating small amounts of hazardous waste, including beauticians and hairdressers. Entrepreneurs running beauty and hairdressing salons can have their registration at BDO Interzero - fast, convenient and in 100% online.

Read more about the new responsibilities of the beauty industry in the article: Beauty and hairdressing salons required to register with BDO >>

The recording obligation will cover hazardous waste with the following codes:

• 3 02 08* Other engine, gear and lubricating oils,
• 15 01 10* Packaging containing residues of or contaminated by dangerous substances,
• ex 15 01 11* Metal packaging containing hazardous porous reinforcing components other than asbestos, including empty pressure containers,
• 16 02 13* Discarded equipment containing hazardous components other than those mentioned in 16 02 09 to 16 02 12,
• 16 06 03* Batteries containing mercury.

Do you generate such hazardous waste? Find out if you need to register your company with BDO in 2025!

From January 2025. the obligation to separate construction and demolition waste into 6 fractions will come into force. The most recent change, however, is the move away from the need to ensure that R & D waste is segregated at the point of generation -. the trader will be able to pass on the obligation to segregate them to another entity with the relevant permits and entries in the BDO, provided that the relevant contract is signed.

In the previous version of the legislation, the legislator obliged every generator of construction and demolition waste to segregate it at source. As a result of the amendments to the Waste Act, the possibility to segregate waste outside the place of its generation was introduced, but without relieving the entrepreneur of the responsibility for ensuring the implementation of this obligation.

Find out about the new rules for managing construction and demolition waste in 2025.

In 2025. it will not be possible to issue DPR and EDPR documents in the BDO system.. The introduction of the Confirmation Module, which was to allow the digital generation of these documents, has been postponed until 1 January 2027. From this date, businesses will gain the ability to electronically issue DPRs and EDPRs for packaging and products and certificates for electrical and electronic equipment and for batteries and accumulators.

In the period 2025-2026, the documents proving recycling will continue to be issued on paper.

From 2025. the limits on the disbursement of funds from the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management for purposes related to the operation of the BDO will be raised. This is to ensure continued seamless access to BDO, as well as maintaining the current level of cyber security and funding the development of the system.

Furthermore, the proceeds from the registration and annual fees for BDO entry will be direct revenue for the NFEPD.