Belgium
Belgium does not run producer responsibility from one national desk. Belgian EPR compliance means joining the right scheme for each stream, in a country where three regions set the rules and, in the main streams, your scheme makes any register entry for you.
Seven streams carry active duties as of July 2026. For most of them, your compliance is your membership of a producer responsibility organisation, not an entry in a government list.
Which scheme runs which stream
Belgium organises each stream around a national producer responsibility organisation, and joining it is how you comply.
- Packaging: Fost Plus for household, Valipac for commercial. The old 300 kg per year minimum is going, as EPRiBEL says the coming Belgian law will have none.
- Electronics and batteries: Recupel and Bebat. Recupel reports its members' data into BeWeee, and Bebat registers its participants in the three regional battery registers.
- Vehicles, tyres and lubricant oils: Febelauto, Recytyre and Valorlub.
Belgium also runs streams outside the usual vocabulary. Mattresses have carried EPR through Valumat since 2021, so a mixed catalogue can touch several schemes at once.
Where you actually register
In the three core streams the scheme usually makes the register entry for you. Batteries have had a producer register in each of the three regions since 18 August 2025, and Bebat registers its participants in all three. Electronics data reach the regions through BeWeee, a reporting tool set up by industry, and Recupel reports into it for its members.
Packaging has a national producer register under the EU packaging rules, run by EPRiBEL (the former IVC/CIE). It is still being built, and Fost Plus and Valipac will register their members once it opens.
For tyres, oils and vehicles there is no central register at all. You meet the duty by joining the scheme or filing an individually approved plan with the regional authorities, which is why membership is the thing that proves compliance.
Who has to comply
The obligation falls on whoever first places the goods on the Belgian market, including importers and foreign distance sellers shipping to Belgian customers.
If you sell directly to Belgian end users from abroad, you need a Belgian authorised representative in all three core streams: for electronics and batteries under the existing rules, and for packaging since the EU packaging regulation started to apply on 12 August 2026.
What changes next
The next duties are dated, and one is under legal challenge:
- Single-use plastics: litter-cost EPR obligations run from 1 January 2026, with the first levy due 15 April 2027.
- Batteries: new Bebat codes follow the EU battery categories from 1 January 2026.
- Textiles: a scheme must be in place by 14 June 2028, and an interregional framework is still in drafting.
On 24 September 2026 the Constitutional Court rejected Fost Plus's request to suspend the new litter rules. Its request to annul them is still pending, and the outcome could reshape how the single-use plastics duty applies.
Frequently asked questions about Belgian EPR
The questions producers ask most, answered briefly.
What is EPR in Belgium?
Producer responsibility across seven active streams, run through national schemes like Fost Plus, Recupel and Bebat, and coordinated across the Flemish, Walloon and Brussels regions.
Is there a Belgian EPR register?
Yes, though your scheme usually makes the entry. Batteries have three regional registers, and Bebat registers its participants in all three. Electronics data reach the regions through BeWeee, and EPRiBEL's packaging register is still being built. Tyres, oils and vehicles run on scheme membership.
How do I comply in Belgium?
By joining the producer responsibility organisation for each stream you place on the market, or by filing an approved individual plan with the regional authorities.
Does Belgium have textile EPR?
Not yet. It is required by 14 June 2028 under the revised EU waste directive, and Belgium's interregional framework is still being drafted.
Do the three regions have different rules?
Yes. Flanders, Wallonia and Brussels each set their own obligations and deadlines, which is why the national schemes exist to handle all three at once.