How to register for EPR in the Netherlands in 2026

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

How do I register for EPR in the Netherlands?

The Netherlands has three EPR registrations, one each for packaging, electronics and batteries, and only the battery one is filed with a government body.

• Packaging is a sign-up with Verpact, the producer organisation every obligated producer must join, and Verpact then notifies the government for you. A company abroad only signs up when it sells directly to Dutch end users.
• Electronics are registered by joining Stichting OPEN, which enters you in the Nationaal (W)EEE Register (NWR). A company abroad can join directly.
• Batteries go to Rijkswaterstaat's own register, open for applications since 12 September 2026. A company abroad that sells direct files through a Dutch authorised representative or its producer organisation.

Electronics and batteries must be registered before your first product is sold here, packaging once you pass Verpact's threshold. Packaging gives you a Verpact customer number, batteries a registration number, and electronics no number at all.

What to gather first

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

1. Your company and tax numbers

   A Dutch company needs its KVK number, RSIN and VAT number. A company abroad needs its VAT number, and Stichting OPEN's form lets it say it has no KVK number.

2. Your packaging weight for the year

   The total in kilograms, with single-use plastic packaging and deposit bottles and cans counted separately, because those carry the duty from the first unit.

3. A product list sorted by stream

   Count the batteries built into your devices as batteries, and note each battery's category and chemistry along with your brand names.

4. An eHerkenning login

   Rijkswaterstaat takes battery applications only through eHerkenning, the Dutch business login. Without a Dutch establishment, your representative or producer organisation can file with its own login.

5. A mandate for a Dutch representative

   A written mandate for a Dutch authorised representative, if you sell batteries or packaged goods directly to Dutch end users from abroad.

The one question that decides your whole route

For packaging, it also matters who buys from you:

• A Dutch business. That business is the producer and signs up with Verpact.
• End users directly. The Verpact sign-up is yours, and EU law also asks for a Dutch EPR representative.

Two producer organisations and one state register

EPR registration is national everywhere in the EU, and how to register for EPR in Europe sets out that frame. The Netherlands then hands most of it to producer organisations.

Across EPR in the Netherlands the duties most producers trigger sit in three registrations, and a webshop selling a packaged device with a battery inside can touch all three. Each one answers the question of who files differently.

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

The battery register is the newest part. The EU Battery Regulation has required every battery producer to register since 18 August 2025, but Rijkswaterstaat could not decide a single application until the Dutch decree took effect on 12 September 2026.

Packaging changed on 12 August 2026, when the EU packaging regulation (PPWR) began to apply. It requires a seller abroad that sells directly to end users to appoint an EPR authorised representative.

Verpact has kept its sign-up unchanged for now and still accepts companies abroad directly. It has not yet published how a representative fits into that sign-up.

Electronics run under a new five-year agreement that makes Stichting OPEN membership compulsory from 1 January 2026 to 31 December 2030.

A 6-step guide to EPR registration in the Netherlands

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

Step 1. Confirm the Netherlands 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 put packaged products on the market, or sell them directly to Dutch end users from abroad.
2. Electronics. The maker, the own-brand seller, the importer, or a seller abroad shipping straight to Dutch users.
3. Batteries. Whoever first supplies a battery here, the one inside your device included.

Selling only to a Dutch importer makes the importer the producer instead of you. A packaged electric toothbrush sold straight to Dutch customers is three yeses.

Step 2. Work out which registers you owe

Each yes maps to one registration.

1. Packaging goes to Verpact. Only above 50,000 kilograms a year, or from the first unit of single-use plastic packaging or deposit bottles and cans.
2. Electronics go to the Nationaal (W)EEE Register. Through Stichting OPEN, with no threshold.
3. Batteries go to Rijkswaterstaat's producer register. No threshold either.

Below the packaging line, keep records that prove it. The threshold holds at least until the end of 2027. Any other stream is in the table further down this page.

Step 3. Decide who files each one

Who files depends on where your company is established, so find your case below.

Established in the Netherlands. You sign up with Verpact and join Stichting OPEN, and each makes the official entry for you. For batteries you file with Rijkswaterstaat yourself, or your producer organisation does.

Selling from abroad. You sign up with Verpact only when you sell directly to end users, and the PPWR then requires a representative. You join Stichting OPEN directly, with a representative optional, and your authorised representative or producer organisation files your batteries.

How to appoint an EPR authorised representative walks the appointment.

Step 4. Gather what each register asks for

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

1. Verpact. Your VAT number, address, invoice e-mail and contact person, and the year you passed 50,000 kilograms or started single-use plastic or deposit packaging. Dutch companies add their KVK number and RSIN.
2. Stichting OPEN. Your company details, with KVK and VAT numbers if you have them, bank details and a contact person. Product categories come later, with the first report.
3. Rijkswaterstaat. Two applications. The approval sets out how you meet your battery duties, and the registration lists your brands, trade register and VAT numbers, and battery categories and chemistries.

Step 5. Register in the order the approvals set

Only batteries wait on anything, so start there and run the two sign-ups alongside.

1. Appoint the representative if you sell batteries direct from abroad.
2. Join a producer organisation for batteries if you use one. Stichting OPEN runs portable and e-bike batteries.
3. File the approval and the registration together on Rijkswaterstaat's battery page. The number follows the approval within eight weeks, plus four at most.
4. Join Stichting OPEN in myOPEN, which enters you in the NWR.
5. Sign up with Verpact on the form for where you are established and give an estimate for the year.

You are done with a battery registration number, a Verpact customer number and your name on the NWR's producer list.

Step 6. Do what each registration makes due next

Each registration starts its own reporting clock.

1. Packaging. Declare your packaging per material to Verpact before 1 April for the previous year, and pay the invoice that follows after the summer. Verpact files the statutory report with Rijkswaterstaat before 1 August.
2. Electronics. Report the units and weight you placed on the market to Stichting OPEN by 1 April. OPEN passes the figures to the NWR before 1 May, and larger producers report every quarter.
3. Batteries. Report to Rijkswaterstaat each year before 1 July, and portable-battery producers also report to Stichting OPEN in myOPEN.

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

The other streams the Netherlands regulates

Beyond packaging, electronics and batteries, the Netherlands runs producer duties for eight more product groups.

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

One product record behind three registrations

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 by material, the equipment by category, units and weight, the batteries by category and chemistry, and then the same figures again in the shape Verpact, Stichting OPEN and Rijkswaterstaat 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 register asks for.

The Verpact declaration, the OPEN report and the battery report for Rijkswaterstaat 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 Dutch detail to know is that Verpact and Stichting OPEN already make the official entries for packaging and electronics. A handover changes who keeps your sign-ups, declarations and battery application running.

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

6 common mistakes when registering for EPR in the Netherlands

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

1. Skipping Verpact because you are small

   Relying on the 50,000 kilogram threshold while selling single-use plastic packaging or deposit bottles and cans. Those carry the Verpact sign-up from the first unit.

2. Waiting for a Dutch WEEE number

   Expecting a number after joining Stichting OPEN. The Netherlands issues none for electronics, and your place on the NWR's public producer list is the proof.

3. Counting a device as one registration

   Treating OPEN membership as covering the battery inside your device. The battery needs its own approval and registration at Rijkswaterstaat.

4. Treating the battery register as closed

   Following older advice that the Dutch battery register cannot take applications. It has taken applications since 12 September 2026.

5. Reading the deposit as the packaging duty

   Treating the deposit on bottles and cans as the whole obligation. Deposit packaging is declared to Verpact as well, from the first unit.

6. Carrying one representative rule across streams

   Assuming the Netherlands has one answer. A representative is optional for electronics, required for batteries sold direct from abroad, and required by the PPWR for direct packaging sales.

Frequently asked questions about registering for EPR in the Netherlands

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

How long does this take?

Rijkswaterstaat decides a battery registration within eight weeks, extendable once by four, after the approval. Verpact sends your login by e-mail after you sign up, and Stichting OPEN contacts you after you register. Neither publishes a processing time.

Do I need a company or an address in the Netherlands?

No. You can join Stichting OPEN and sign up with Verpact from abroad. Selling batteries directly to Dutch end users needs a Dutch authorised representative, and the PPWR requires one for direct packaging sales too.

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

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

Can Repax register for me?

Yes. Repax Comply runs the registrations and reporting through a Dutch authorised representative where one is required. For packaging and electronics, Verpact and Stichting OPEN still make the official entry for their members.

What happens if I sell in the Netherlands without registering?

Distributors and online platforms must check a battery producer's registration before selling its batteries. Not registering batteries or breaking the packaging rules is an economic offence, with a fine of up to 110,000 euros for a company.