Do I need to register with Verpact as a small web shop?

Small web shops often remain outside Verpact in the Netherlands

If you place less than 50,000 kg of packaging on the Dutch market per year, you are not required to register with Verpact. This threshold applies specifically to the Dutch market and specifically to Verpact: registration is not needed, but a web shop is still expected to keep records of how much packaging is used annually. This is not a casual suggestion — without that administration, there is nothing to fall back on once you are asked to provide it.

This exemption is also not a permanent state. Verpact itself has indicated that the threshold is expected to be removed once the PPWR producer register becomes operational, at the earliest 12 August 2027, with 2028 as the presumed first reporting year and notification before 1 June 2029. For businesses under 10,000 kg, a simplified notification will then apply, but the exemption itself will disappear. And the threshold applies only to the Dutch market: a web shop that stays below 50,000 kg but also ships to Germany is a producer from the first package there — Germany has no threshold and expects registration in LUCID before shipping, and marketplaces there monitor the registration number themselves.

What Article 44 of the Regulation changes in this

The obligation to be registered in the producer register of each country where packaging is first placed on the market follows from Article 44 of Regulation (EU) 2025/40. This obligation applies directly and equally in every Member State as soon as the corresponding register is operational; the Dutch threshold of 50,000 kg is a national measure of Verpact that anticipates that moment and is therefore temporary in nature, not something that follows from the Regulation itself.