how do I register my company with Verpact step by step

Registering with Verpact takes place via an online registration in your company's name

Registering with Verpact happens via the Verpact website, where a company registers with its trade register data as a producer of packaging. In practice, this means creating an account, filling in company details, and then specifying which packaging and how much material (per material type, such as paper, glass, plastic or metal) are placed on the market in the Netherlands. Verpact uses this information to determine the contribution associated with the producer role, and to register whether a company falls under the reporting obligation.

Exactly how much weight per material type must be specified and how that is calculated is the most difficult part of registration for many companies; how you calculate the weight per material type for your registration is therefore described separately. It is important to know in advance: not every company that places packaging on the Dutch market also needs to actually register with Verpact — whether registration with Verpact is mandatory for a small webshop depends on a weight threshold that applies specifically to the Netherlands.

Where this registration obligation comes from and how it differs per country

The obligation to be registered as a producer follows from Article 44 of Regulation (EU) 2025/40, which requires each Member State to establish and maintain a register of producers; Verpact is the body that fulfils this role in the Netherlands. Because the regulation regulates this per Member State, each EU country has its own register with its own name, its own registration point and its own procedure: in the Netherlands this is Verpact, in Germany for example LUCID. A complete overview of which register applies to which country can be found at which registration authority applies per European country. Anyone supplying from the Netherlands to other countries does not automatically only deal with Verpact — whether registration in LUCID is necessary from the Netherlands is then a separate question, separate from registration with Verpact.