how do I register my packaging if I sell to Belgium

Registration takes place via the Belgian register, not via Verpact

Registering packaging for the Belgian market is done through Belgium's extended producer responsibility system, separate from any registration in the Netherlands. If you are already registered with Verpact in the Netherlands, this does not automatically cover you in Belgium: each Member State maintains its own register, and it is that national register where the notification and reporting of quantities must take place. For webshops and brands selling from the Netherlands or elsewhere to Belgian customers, what matters is that the packaging reaches the Belgian market, not the location of the company's establishment.

This is precisely the point where companies that are just starting to supply across borders get stuck: they think that a Dutch registration is sufficient, whereas in which EU countries must I register my packaging must be reviewed per country. When a company is not established in Belgium, the question often arises whether a local representative is needed to carry out the registration; this is explained in when do I need an authorised representative in another EU country. Which authority in Belgium is precisely responsible and how it relates to registers in other countries is set out clearly in which registration authority do you have per European country.

Basis: registration per Member State and for distance sales

Article 44 of Regulation (EU) 2025/40 establishes that registration in the Member State where packaging is placed on the market is a condition for offering that packaging there, and Article 45 specifically addresses the situation of distance sales, whereby delivery to the consumer in the other country is decisive. Because the regulation itself imposes the registration obligation per Member State but leaves implementation to the national registers, the contact point differs per country: Germany has the LUCID Verpackungsregister of the ZSVR, the Netherlands has Verpact, and Belgium has its own system. If you are also supplying to Germany in addition to Belgium, you may face a separate obligation there, explained in do I need to register in LUCID as a Dutch webshop supplying to Germany.