How to register for EPR in Belgium in 2026

By the end of this guide your company will hold every registration Belgium requires under extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging, electronics and batteries, with the right party filing each one, whether you are established in Belgium or sell into it from abroad.

How do I register for EPR in Belgium?

Belgium has three EPR registrations, one each for packaging, electronics and batteries, and in all three you register by joining a scheme that then files the official entry for you.

• Packaging runs through Fost Plus for household packaging and Valipac for industrial and commercial packaging. They will register their members in EPRiBEL's producer register once it opens.
• Electronics are registered by joining Recupel, which reports for you to the three regions. Recupel can also act as your Belgian representative, free of charge.
• Batteries are registered by joining Bebat, which enters you in the producer registers of Flanders, Wallonia and Brussels. Bebat can be your representative for 750 euros a year.

Join Recupel and Bebat before your first product is sold here, and Fost Plus or Valipac for any packaging you place on the Belgian market. Electronics give you a Recupel member code, and your packaging registration number will reach you through your scheme.

What to gather first

Before you open any of the sign-ups, gather these five company details and documents. Not every scheme asks for all of them.

1. Your company and VAT numbers

   A Belgian company needs its company number and VAT number. A company abroad signs up with its own VAT number, and Valipac can invoice to a foreign VAT number.

2. Your packaging split by use

   Your packaging sorted by where it ends up, at households or at businesses, by material and weight, because the two sides go to different schemes.

3. A product list sorted by stream

   Your electrical products by Recupel category, and every battery by type, the ones built into your devices included, with your brand names.

4. Your bank and contact details

   An IBAN, an invoice address and named contacts for declarations and invoices. Recupel asks for four separate contacts.

5. A mandate for a Belgian representative

   A written mandate for a Belgian authorised representative, if you sell directly to Belgian end users from abroad. Recupel and Bebat both offer to take the role.

The one question that decides your whole route

If your company is based abroad, it also matters who buys from you:

• A Belgian business. That business is the producer and joins the schemes.
• End users directly. You are the producer, and you need a Belgian representative.

Three schemes that file the entry for you

EPR registration is national everywhere in the EU, and how to register for EPR in Europe sets out that frame. Belgium then hands the filing itself to the schemes.

Across EPR in Belgium the duties most producers trigger sit in three registrations, and a webshop selling a boxed device with a battery inside touches all three. From abroad the same rule decides each one.

Below are Belgium's three registrations side by side, with fees as published in September 2026.

Packaging is where Belgium is changing. The EU packaging regulation (PPWR) has applied since 12 August 2026, and Belgium's producer register under it is still being built at EPRiBEL, the packaging commission that was called the IVC until April 2026.

Fost Plus and Valipac will register their members once the register opens, and the registration number will reach you through them. The PPWR also requires a seller abroad that sells directly to end users to appoint an EPR authorised representative.

Batteries changed a year earlier. Since 18 August 2025 every battery producer must be in a producer register, and each of the three regions keeps its own. Bebat registers its members in all three.

A 6-step guide to EPR registration in Belgium

This guide takes you from the first check, whether Belgium counts you as the producer, to holding every membership and registration you need. The steps run in the order the Belgian rules set, and each one ends with what you should have in hand before you move on.

Step 1. Confirm Belgium counts you as the producer

Each stream names its own producer, so check your products against all three.

1. Packaging. You, if you are established here and place packaged products on the Belgian market, or sell them directly to Belgian end users from abroad.
2. Electronics. The maker, the own-brand seller, the importer, or a seller abroad shipping straight to Belgian users.
3. Batteries. Whoever first supplies a battery here, the one inside your device included.

Selling only to a Belgian business that imports makes that business the producer instead of you. A boxed electric toothbrush sold straight to Belgian customers is three yeses.

Step 2. Work out which schemes you owe

Each yes maps to one scheme, and packaging can map to two.

1. Packaging goes to Fost Plus, Valipac or both. Fost Plus takes household packaging, Valipac the industrial and commercial side. EPRiBEL holds the register behind them.
2. Electronics go to Recupel. It reports your figures into BeWeee for the three regions.
3. Batteries go to Bebat. No threshold applies.

The current Belgian rules start the packaging duty at 300 kilograms a year, and EPRiBEL says the coming law will drop that line. Any other stream is in the table further down this page.

Step 3. Decide who signs up for each one

Who signs up depends on where your company is established and who buys from you, so find your case below.

Established in Belgium. You join Fost Plus or Valipac for packaging and Recupel for electronics, and they register you. For batteries you join Bebat or register with the regions yourself.

Selling from abroad. Selling only to Belgian businesses, your Belgian customer carries all three. Selling direct, you join Fost Plus or Valipac with an EPR representative, join Recupel with a Belgian representative, which Recupel will be for free, and appoint one for batteries, Bebat or a third party.

How to appoint an EPR authorised representative walks the appointment.

Step 4. Gather what each scheme asks for

Each sign-up asks for different data, so collect it scheme by scheme.

1. Fost Plus. Your company details and a signed contract. Fost Plus staff then contact you about the next steps.
2. Valipac. An identification sheet with your company number, address, bank details, business activity and its start date, contacts, and the brands you sell in Belgium.
3. Recupel. Your activity and sales channel, company and VAT details, four addresses, four contacts and your product categories, then a signed affiliation letter.
4. Bebat. Your company name, VAT number, address and contact on MyBebat, and your representative if you sell direct from abroad.

Step 5. Join the schemes before your first sale

Nothing waits on a government decision, so the order comes from the representative and the first sale.

1. Appoint the representative if you sell directly from abroad. For electronics the law wants it done before your products reach the market.
2. Join Recupel on its registration portal. Its free representative addendum follows your signed agreement.
3. Join Bebat through MyBebat, which asks for your representative during sign-up.
4. Join Fost Plus on its member portal, and ask Valipac for its forms if you ship industrial packaging.

You are done with a Recupel member code, your name on Bebat's participant list, and your Fost Plus or Valipac membership. The packaging number follows when EPRiBEL's register opens.

Step 6. Do what each membership makes due next

Each membership starts its own reporting clock.

1. Packaging. Declare last year's packaging to Fost Plus in MyFost and to Valipac by 28 February. Members of both can send one joint declaration through MyFost.
2. Electronics. Declare the appliances you placed on the market to Recupel within 20 days of each quarter's end, confirm the year before 30 June, and file the waste report by 31 January.
3. Batteries. Declare to Bebat once a year by 28 February, or monthly if you place more than 10,000 batteries a year. The batteries EPR page for Belgium has the categories.

The reports themselves are their own guide. How to do EPR reporting walks the cycle.

The other streams Belgium regulates

Beyond packaging, electronics and batteries, Belgium runs producer duties for five more product groups.

Below is where each one signs up, so you can rule them in or out in one pass.

Mattresses carry a duty too, through Valumat in all three regions. Textiles do not yet, while the regions write the framework the EU requires by 2028.

One product record behind four schemes

There are two ways through the work above, and both rest on the same product data.

Run the filings yourself

Every step above is data work before it is filing work. The packaging split into household and industrial by material, the appliances by category and units, the batteries by type, and then the same figures again in the shape Fost Plus, Valipac, Recupel and Bebat each want them.

Repax Core holds one structured record per product, broken down to its materials and components, takes your sales data in through integrations or order imports, and builds the cut each scheme asks for.

The Fost Plus and Valipac declarations, the quarterly Recupel declaration and the Bebat declaration come out of the same record.

Or hand the filings over

If you would rather not run them yourself, Repax Comply is the managed route, linked at the top of this guide. Producers register and report through Repax market by market, with an authorised representative appointed where the country requires one.

The Belgian detail to know is that the schemes already make the official entries. A handover changes who keeps your memberships, declarations and representative mandates running, not who files with the regions.

For the tools that hold Belgian scheme data side by side today, the best Belgian EPR software in 2026 ranks them.

6 common mistakes when registering for EPR in Belgium

Below are the six mistakes producers make most often when they register in Belgium.

1. Leaning on the 300 kilogram line

   Skipping Fost Plus or Valipac because you place little packaging. EPRiBEL says the coming Belgian law has no threshold, and a small producer only gets a simpler declaration.

2. Waiting for a packaging number

   Holding back sales until a Belgian packaging registration number arrives. The register is still being built, and your scheme membership is what covers you until your number comes through it.

3. Sending industrial packaging to Fost Plus

   Declaring the pallets, transport cartons and wrap that stop at a shop or warehouse as household packaging. Valipac takes that side, and a company with both kinds joins both.

4. Counting a device as one registration

   Treating Recupel membership as covering the battery inside your device. The battery needs Bebat as well.

5. Following older advice on representatives

   Reading that Belgian packaging needs no representative. Since 12 August 2026 a seller abroad selling directly to end users needs an EPR representative for packaging too.

6. Signing up for BeWeee separately

   Opening a BeWeee account as a Recupel member. Recupel reports your figures into BeWeee, and only producers outside Recupel report there themselves.

Frequently asked questions about registering for EPR in Belgium

Below are the five questions producers ask most often about registering for EPR in Belgium.

How long does this take?

Recupel, Bebat and Fost Plus publish no processing time. Recupel opens your declaration portal once it accepts your agreement. Registering with the regions yourself for batteries takes up to twelve weeks after a complete file in Flanders.

Do I need a company or an address in Belgium?

No. You can join Recupel, Bebat and Fost Plus from abroad. Selling directly to Belgian end users needs a Belgian authorised representative for each stream, and Recupel and Bebat both offer to be yours.

Do I have to register in Belgium if I only sell online from another country?

Yes, when you ship straight to Belgian customers. You are then the producer for all three streams. Selling only to Belgian businesses moves the duties to the Belgian company that imports your goods.

Can Repax register for me?

Yes. Repax Comply runs the memberships and reporting, with a Belgian authorised representative where one is required. The schemes themselves still make the official entries with EPRiBEL and the regions.

What happens if I sell in Belgium without registering?

In Flanders online marketplaces must refuse electronics sellers who are not Recupel members, and batteries may only be sold once registered. Not meeting the packaging duty can bring a fine of up to 2 million euros.