A documented Dutch packaging route,
from scope to the evidence behind it.
We map the obligated entity, the sales route and the packaging actually placed on the Dutch market. Your company remains the producer and pays the producer organisation directly.
Indicative private-service pricing: Amazon Starter €399 in year one · Standard €474/year + €150 setup · the waste management contribution and other third-party costs excluded
✓ Free ✓ Human review ✓ No commitment
Timing depends on document completeness and independent registry and scheme review
The outcome
One traceable packaging file for the Dutch market
- Obligated entity, sales routes and packaging components recorded
- Weight per material for the calendar year, reconstructed from shipped volumes
- Threshold position, registration route and declarations kept together
The producer organisation and the inspectorate decide their own files and timing
The duties sit in the Besluit beheer verpakkingen 2014 and are organised through a producer organisation
Article 1 under g names a person established abroad that sells packaged products directly to consumers in the Netherlands under distance contracts, so a foreign distance seller is the obligated party itself. Article 1 under f makes placing on the market a first-placer test.
Where a Dutch packaging file commonly breaks
The threshold is read as a cliff
Crossing 50,000 kg does not make the first 50,000 kg payable. Article 2.3 of Annex 1 to the agreement gives every producer a pro-rata allowance across materials.
Deposit and single-use plastic are forgotten
Both sit outside the allowance and are declared and paid from the first unit, so a seller far below the threshold can still owe money.
The below-threshold position is undocumented
Article 5.2 of Annex 2 requires the producer to record how it calculated that it stayed under, and to produce that calculation on request.
Included in the written scope.
- Entity, establishment and sales-channel scope review
- Product and shipment-packaging inventory by component and material
- Weight calculation for the calendar year against the 50,000 kg allowance
- Deposit and single-use plastic screening
- Registration and declaration route where the threshold is exceeded
- Evidence register and annual review points
Four controlled steps.
Document the facts
Collect the entity, products, channels, contracts and available evidence for packaging EPR.
Confirm scope and dependencies
Receive a written map of assumptions, exclusions, third parties and points requiring approval.
Authorise the agreed work
Private fees, external costs and client responsibilities are confirmed before any submission or commitment.
Coordinate and retain evidence
After a valid engagement, each action, external decision and authentic receipt is stored with its date and version.
Frequently asked
Is there a Dutch packaging register number?
Not today. There is no Dutch government packaging register publishing a per-seller number, and the producer registers foreseen by Article 44 of the PPWR are not operational. Registration in the current route is with the producer organisation.
Who pays the waste management contribution?
The client remains the producer and the debtor and pays the producer organisation directly. Our proposal separates private service fees from that contribution and from other external costs.
Does staying under 50,000 kg remove every duty?
It removes registration, declaration and payment for ordinary packaging, but not the duty to record how the calculation was made. Deposit and single-use plastic packaging are outside the allowance entirely.
Can you guarantee registration or a completion date?
No. We prepare and coordinate the agreed work, but the producer organisation and every other third party retain their own review and timing.
Complete the packaging file
Discuss the facts with the team.
Independent private service · human scope review · no third-party outcome promised.
✓ Free ✓ Human review ✓ No commitment