Belgium sorts packaging by the product inside it rather than by who ends up holding it. A drink under 20 litres counts as household packaging, the same drink over 20 litres counts as industrial, and for a product like mayonnaise the line sits at 1.2 kg.
One catalogue can therefore owe two separate declarations to two separate organisations. That split is the thing to test for when you shortlist Belgian EPR software, so below are six tools ranked on how much of the Belgian job each one takes off you.
Belgium runs packaging EPR through one commission and two schemes
Three regions share a single packaging authority, and two accredited organisations do the collecting underneath it. It is one part of producer responsibility in Belgium, which runs other streams through their own separate schemes, electrical equipment among them.
The take-back obligation starts at 300 kg of packaging placed on the Belgian market in a year. It is a low bar written around your role rather than your size, so it catches a small importer bringing in a few pallets as firmly as a national brand.
One commission and two organisations
The Interregional Packaging Commission is the joint packaging authority of Flanders, Wallonia and Brussels-Capital. It sets the reporting form and can approve or reject the way you meet the obligation.
Underneath it sit two accredited compliance organisations. Fost Plus handles household packaging, Valipac handles commercial and industrial packaging, and you can also keep the obligation in house and report straight to the commission.
They run separate portals, MyFost and MyDeclaration, and members of both can file a joint declaration through MyFost. That is the only place the two sides of a Belgian obligation meet in one screen.
One product record has to feed all of it, which is what the diagram below lays out.
What the commission actually asks for
A company carrying the obligation itself reports six things per packaging type before 31 March, for the year that closed and as an estimate for the year running.
- Quantities of transport, grouped and sales packaging in kilograms, by volume and by unit count, split one-way and reusable.
- The composition of each type, naming the materials and at least any heavy metals and recycled content, as percentages by weight.
- Packaging waste per material collected, recycled, recovered, incinerated and landfilled.
- Goods sold in one-way packaging, by weight and by volume per material.
- The same figures for goods sold in reusable packaging.
- Packaging counted as hazardous because of what it contained.
Join an accredited organisation and it reports the quantity side for its members, so the full list is the individual route's homework. Either way the figures start in your product data, and unit counts and volumes are what spreadsheets built for weight tend not to hold.
Three dates worth putting in the calendar
Belgium spreads the work across three deadlines rather than one.
- 28 February. The Fost Plus declaration for last year's household packaging. Late filing costs 1% of the previous year's contribution per month.
- 31 March. The report to the commission, including how you or your appointed third party meet the take-back obligation.
- 30 June, every third year. The packaging prevention plan, above 300 tonnes of one-way packaging a year, or 100 tonnes where you pack the goods in Belgium yourself.
Pack size decides which of the two schemes you declare to
The category follows the packaged product, and not the customer who buys it. Fost Plus puts it plainly, the use of the product decides, so the box around a television set is household packaging even when the television is bought for an office.
For some products the size decides instead. Drinks packaging under 20 litres is household and over 20 litres is industrial, and for a product like mayonnaise the line sits at 1.2 kg. The two organisations publish a joint list of the products that cause doubt.
So launch a catering format of something you already sell and it can move from one scheme to the other, with nothing else about the product changing. Reusable packaging sits apart, carrying only the information obligation, which you can meet through either organisation or straight to the commission.
2026 is a split reporting year and the split falls in mid-August
The commission has told responsible companies to file twice for the same calendar year, because of a change of definition rather than a change of rate.
PPWR applies from 12 August 2026 and swaps the Belgian "responsible company" for the European "producer". The commission's own note says the two are similar but not identical.
| What you place on the Belgian market | Who declares it |
|---|---|
| Up to and including 11 August 2026 | The responsible company as Belgium defines it today |
| From 12 August 2026 | The producer as PPWR defines it |
Both go to the accredited organisation, or to the authorised producer responsibility organisation, for that one year.
Type C is where the change bites hardest
A Type C company imports packaged goods and unpacks or uses them in Belgium, so the packaging becomes waste on their own premises. From 12 August 2026 most of them stop being the producer, and their foreign supplier becomes it instead.
The duty does not simply evaporate. Article 44(4) of PPWR stops a producer making packaging available in a country where it is not registered, and the commission expects Type C companies to avoid using packaging that is in that position.
So the practical step is a supplier conversation rather than a software change. Valipac is the only accredited organisation a supplier can join on the industrial side, and the commission advises getting it done before 12 August 2026.
Rigid transport packaging moves too, to the Belgian manufacturer of the pallets where one exists. Pallets ordered from abroad stay with you.
What changes if you sell into Belgium from another country
Today the Belgian duty sits with the Belgian-side party, which is why the four responsibility types are written around packing, importing and unpacking here.
PPWR adds a separate obligation for distance sellers. A producer selling directly to end users in a member state where it is not established has to appoint an authorised representative for extended producer responsibility there.
Registration data also goes in by 1 June each year, and member states may require those figures to be audited and certified by independent auditors.
Where each tool stops between filing it yourself and handing it over
The clearest difference between these six is not features, it is how much of the filing each one keeps on your side of the table.
Repax, ComplyMarket and ForSURE are software you run, building and holding the numbers while your team presses submit. ecosistant and Lorax EPI sell both models. Staxxer is built to take the filing away entirely.
None of the six is a Belgian company. The closest thing to Belgian-native software is your own scheme's portal, and each portal only ever sees its own half of the split.
What we looked for in Belgian EPR software
Belgium rewards a few specific things, so the ranking below is built on these rather than on general polish.
| What we looked for | Why it matters in Belgium |
|---|---|
| Both sides of the household and industrial split | One catalogue can owe Fost Plus and Valipac at once, so a tool that knows only the household side leaves half the work manual |
| Pack-level data rather than category totals | The commission asks for kilograms, volumes, unit counts and recycled content by weight, which only survives if it is held per pack |
| Somewhere for next year's estimate | The annual report wants estimates for the running year, so the tool has to hold a forecast and not just history |
| An honest read on the 300 kg test | The threshold is low and role-based, and a tool that decides scope by revenue or order count gets it wrong |
| A home for the prevention plan | Above 300 tonnes, or 100 tonnes if you pack here, it runs on a three-year cycle with progress assessments in years two and three |
| A route through the 2026 changeover | Two declarations for one year, plus the Type C supplier question, has to land somewhere other than a note in an inbox |
The best Belgian EPR software ranked
Ranked on how much of Belgium's packaging work each one actually carries.
1. Repax for one product record behind both Belgian declarations
Repax starts from the thing both Belgian declarations are made of, the pack itself. You specify each product down to its components, materials and weights once, and the reports for different schemes are generated from that single record rather than rebuilt per deadline.
That matters more in Belgium than in a single-scheme country, because the same catalogue answers Fost Plus on household packaging and Valipac on industrial packaging, and the difference is often just a size. The split is a data question before it is a filing question.
Repax is our own product, which is why it sits at the top of a list on our own blog, so treat the specifics as the part worth checking.
Repax Core holds the product data and generates the reports, and Repax Declare produces the EU Declaration of Conformity that PPWR requires from 12 August 2026.
Try Repax Core for free - no card required Describe your products once and Core builds the report each market and scheme expects. Try it free
What Core does not do is press submit. Registrations and filings are a separate product, Repax Comply, so with Core alone both declarations are made by your team or your scheme contact.
- Best for: producers who owe both Belgian schemes and want one specification per pack behind every declaration.
- What it does for your Belgian duties: holds pack-level components, materials, weights and unit counts, keeps recycled content per material, generates the reports each scheme asks for, and produces the EU Declaration of Conformity through Declare.
- Which side of the split our own site names: both, with Fost Plus, Valipac and the commission all covered in the Belgian packaging guidance.
- Markets and streams: multi-market and multi-stream, including packaging, electronics and batteries in Belgium.
- Pricing: Core and Declare both start at 0 EUR a month, Core's paid tiers at 29 EUR and 59 EUR a month, excluding VAT (as of August 2026).
- Watch-out: Core does not submit to either scheme and does not act as an authorised representative. That is Comply, a separate membership, so if you want the filing off your desk entirely, compare it with the two tools below.
2. ComplyMarket for a workflow shaped around the Belgian rulebook
ComplyMarket has done the thing most platforms skip, which is to write their Belgian service around the Belgian framework instead of a generic EPR flow. Their Belgium page names the cooperation agreement, the commission, both organisations and the 300 kg threshold.
They are also the only provider here whose own site treats the prevention plan as a feature, with a library of measures and the three-year cycle.
The platform underneath is a compliance workspace rather than a filing service. It structures packaging from SKU to component to material to weight, separates household and industrial flows so each goes down the right route, and keeps the evidence behind the numbers.
- Best for: companies that want software already shaped around Belgium's obligations, prevention plan included.
- What it does for your Belgian duties: confirms scope and the 300 kg test, builds declaration-ready datasets, separates the two flows, prepares reporting output for the commission, and manages the prevention-plan cycle.
- Which side of the split their own site names: both, and they say plainly that packaging appearing in households and in companies may need both organisations.
- Markets and streams: several EU markets with country-specific modules, packaging being the centre of gravity in Belgium.
- Pricing: no public price, demo-led (as of August 2026).
- Watch-out: they prepare the reporting rather than submit it, do not act as your authorised representative, and the cost needs a call.
3. ForSURE for a small Belgian seller who wants the templates for nothing
ForSURE is the only tool here with a free tier that names Belgium explicitly. The free plan ships report templates built for Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands, plus analytics, for companies under 500,000 EUR in annual gross revenue.
For a seller shipping in from a nearby market that is a real starting point rather than a trial. Matching your own products to categories is the trade for the price.
Their Belgian scheme list is worth reading before you commit. It names Recupel for electronics, Bebat for batteries and Fost Plus for packaging, and Valipac is not on it, so the industrial side is not something their published route covers.
- Best for: small sellers under the 500,000 EUR line who need Belgian, German and Dutch templates without a budget conversation.
- What it does for your Belgian duties: provides Belgium-specific report templates, holds your product and order data, syncs marketplace orders, and covers packaging, electronics and batteries.
- Which side of the split their own site names: the household side, through Fost Plus. Valipac is not named.
- Markets and streams: EU-wide with per-country templates, covering packaging, WEEE, batteries and textiles.
- Pricing: free under 500,000 EUR annual gross revenue with annual renewal, paid plans quoted on request (as of August 2026).
- Watch-out: categorisation is your job, paid pricing is not published, and no self-serve EU Declaration of Conformity tool is listed.
4. Staxxer for handing the Belgian filing over entirely
Staxxer comes at this from cross-border ecommerce rather than from packaging. They began with VAT registrations and returns, and EPR is sold the same way, as a service where they arrange the registration and file for you.
Belgium sits on their published price list, with packaging, batteries and electronics each priced as a registration fee plus a recurring filing fee. Very few competitors publish anything at all.
The catch for a Belgian obligation is where their attention sits. Their EPR pages are written for marketplace and webshop sellers, with Amazon, Shopify and Bol.com integrations, and neither Belgian organisation is named on them.
- Best for: webshop and marketplace sellers who already owe Belgian VAT and want one provider to take the EPR work away.
- What it does for your Belgian duties: arranges the registration, files the annual reporting on your behalf, and covers packaging, batteries and electronics alongside the VAT work.
- Which side of the split their own site names: neither by name, and the framing throughout is consumer selling.
- Markets and streams: nine EU markets priced for EPR, plus VAT services across the EU.
- Pricing: published per country and per stream, a one-off registration fee plus a recurring filing fee (as of August 2026).
- Watch-out: it is a service rather than a product-data platform, so the pack-level detail stays yours, and an industrial obligation needs a direct conversation.
5. ecosistant for covering Belgium and thirty other markets cheaply
ecosistant is the cheapest way onto a long list of European markets that we have found, starting at 24.90 EUR per country per year excluding VAT, or 399 EUR for their 30-country plan.
What you buy at that price is guidance rather than filing, a per-country to-do list with the schemes you need and an estimate of the fees.
One line on their pricing page matters for Belgium in particular. The self-service tier is for B2C retailers and B2B sellers are pointed at the contact form, so the Valipac half of a Belgian obligation sits outside the cheap plan and inside their quoted premium service.
- Best for: consumer-facing sellers who need Belgium plus a spread of other European markets at the lowest published price.
- What it does for your Belgian duties: analyses which obligations you have, names the schemes to join, estimates the fees, and gives a to-do list you carry out yourself.
- Which side of the split their own site names: the household side in practice, since the self-service tier is limited to B2C retailers.
- Markets and streams: 30 European countries plus the UK, Norway and Switzerland, covering packaging, WEEE, batteries, textiles and furniture.
- Pricing: from 24.90 EUR a year per country excluding VAT, all-of-Europe from 399 EUR, Germany free, premium service quoted (as of August 2026).
- Watch-out: the cheap tier is B2C only, the premium service is quote-only and they estimate eight to twelve weeks to registrations for a mid-sized seller in ten markets, and their authorised-representative service covers Germany rather than Belgium.
6. Lorax EPI for groups where Belgium is one scheme among hundreds
Lorax EPI is the enterprise answer on this list. Their platform holds the reporting rules, timelines, fee structures and categories for EPR schemes worldwide, and their own headline claim is over 200 schemes.
They sell two service levels, software-only where your team submits, and an outsourced level that submits into scheme portals for you.
Belgium is not called out anywhere on their site, which is the honest caveat. Their pitch is breadth of scheme coverage rather than depth in one country, so a Belgian buyer is trusting the scheme library rather than a documented Fost Plus and Valipac workflow.
- Best for: multinational groups reporting across many schemes, where Belgium is one line in a longer compliance calendar.
- What it does for your Belgian duties: holds the scheme rules and deadlines, produces auditable reports, handles registrations with schemes, authorities and representatives, and can submit on the outsourced tier.
- Which side of the split their own site names: neither by name, since coverage is described by scheme count rather than by country.
- Markets and streams: global, over 200 schemes on their own count, across packaging, WEEE, batteries and textiles.
- Pricing: no public price, sales-led (as of August 2026).
- Watch-out: Belgium is not named, plastics tax registrations sit outside what they support, and the enterprise shape is more than a single market needs.
Match a tool to your Belgian responsibility type
Belgium sorts you into one of four types before it asks anything about your products.
Type A if you pack goods in Belgium
You package goods, or have them packaged, to bring them onto the Belgian market. Your pack data is the whole obligation, so the value is in holding components and weights per product, which is where Repax and ComplyMarket sit.
Type B if you import packaged goods for resale
You import packaged goods and sell them on without unpacking, including when they go straight to your customer. For consumer products, ForSURE's free Belgian templates or ecosistant's country plan cover the ground cheaply.
Type C if you unpack imported goods yourself
You import packaged goods and unpack or use them here, so the packaging becomes waste in your company. This is the type PPWR changes most, so the first job is not software but getting your foreign supplier registered, with Valipac as the only route on the industrial side.
Type D if you make or import service packaging
You manufacture or import service packaging, the pizza boxes, bread bags and chip bags handed over at the counter. That is declared to Fost Plus, and volumes are counted in units as often as in kilograms, which is worth checking your tool can hold.
A company can also hold several types at once, and private-label and contract-packing arrangements move the responsibility again, so a tool that treats scope as one fixed answer will misfile somebody.
Six tools compared on the jobs Belgium gives you
The same six side by side. Who presses submit is in the arc above and in each tool's bullets.
| Tool | Best for | Belgian schemes their site names | Pricing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Repax | One pack record behind both declarations | Fost Plus, Valipac and the commission | From 0 EUR a month |
| ComplyMarket | Software shaped around the Belgian rulebook | Fost Plus and Valipac | Demo-led, no public price |
| ForSURE | Small sellers under 500,000 EUR revenue | Fost Plus | Free tier, paid on request |
| Staxxer | Handing the filing over completely | Neither by name | Published per country and stream |
| ecosistant | Belgium plus many other markets cheaply | Neither by name | From 24.90 EUR a country a year |
| Lorax EPI | Groups reporting across hundreds of schemes | Neither by name | Sales-led, no public price |
Frequently asked questions about Belgian EPR software
The questions that come up once the shortlist is down to two or three.
What is the best Belgian EPR software?
For most producers it is the tool holding pack-level data behind both Belgian declarations, which is why Repax leads this list and the EPR software ranking. To hand the filing over, Staxxer files for you, as Lorax EPI does on their outsourced tier.
Do I need Fost Plus or Valipac?
It depends on the packaged product rather than on your customer. Household packaging goes to Fost Plus and commercial or industrial packaging to Valipac, and a catalogue spanning both needs both, filed jointly through MyFost if you are a member of each.
When are the Belgian packaging deadlines?
The Fost Plus declaration is due 28 February for the previous year, and the report to the Interregional Packaging Commission is due 31 March. The packaging prevention plan is separate and falls on 30 June every third year.
Is there a size below which Belgium leaves me alone?
The take-back obligation starts at 300 kg of packaging placed on the Belgian market in a year, which is low. It follows your role and your volumes rather than revenue, so a small importer can be in scope from the first pallets.
Why does Belgium want two declarations for 2026?
Because PPWR replaces the Belgian "responsible company" with the European "producer" on 12 August 2026, and the two definitions are not identical. Packaging placed on the market up to 11 August is declared under the old definition, everything after under the new one.
Is there free Belgian EPR software?
Yes, within limits. ForSURE's free plan includes Belgian report templates for companies under 500,000 EUR in annual gross revenue, and Repax Core and Declare both have a tier at 0 EUR a month, while the schemes' own fees are payable regardless.
