Netherlands · source reviewed 27 Aug 2026
Netherlands · source reviewed 27 Aug 2026Selling into the Netherlands?
Here's what you owe, and who decides.
Rijkswaterstaat receives producer notifications and the Human Environment and Transport Inspectorate (ILT) supervises the rules. Verpact and the other stream bodies run separate routes. We keep all four files distinct and their dates in one calendar.
- AuthorityILT · Rijkswaterstaat
- RegisterRijkswaterstaat · stream registers
- Textile annual report 1 August
- Indicative time to file Not published in our sources
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Who carries it
Two answers decide whether any of this is yours.
Where your company is established, and whether you sell to consumers or through a local reseller. Those two put you on one of four routes, and the route decides who places the goods on the market in the Netherlands for the first time: the person the law calls the producer.
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EU seller, selling to consumers
You place the goods on the market in each country you ship to, so you are the producer there, even without a company in it.
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EU seller, selling through a reseller
Your local reseller is often the first to place the goods on the national market, which can make them the producer instead of you. It depends on the country, and it is the first thing we check.
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Non-EU seller, selling to consumers
You are the producer in each country you ship to. Several of them also require a representative established there, a role we can fill.
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Non-EU seller, selling through a reseller
Whoever imports into the EU usually becomes the producer. That may be your reseller, and it may be you. Several countries also require a representative established there.
The scope check asks the two questions and names your route in about five minutes. Check my scope
Streams
Four streams. They never share a file.
Packaging goes to the packaging scheme, electronics to the WEEE register, batteries to the battery register. Mixing them is the most common reason a file comes back.
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Packaging
- Register
- Rijkswaterstaat
- Scheme
- Verpact
The generally binding declaration makes Verpact membership mandatory for packaging producers in scope.
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WEEE
- Register
- National (W)EEE Register
Electrical and electronic equipment is recorded in the national WEEE register, apart from packaging and batteries.
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Batteries
- Register
- Rijkswaterstaat
- Scheme
- Stichting Batterijen
Battery obligations remain a separate stream even when the battery is built into a device.
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Textiles
- Register
- Rijkswaterstaat
- Schemes
- Stichting UPV Textiel, European Recycling Platform Netherlands, Collectief Circulair Textiel
The textile route covers consumer clothing, workwear and specified household textiles. A non-resident producer appoints a representative established in the Netherlands.
The Netherlands uses a different route for each stream. Verpact handles packaging, the National (W)EEE Register handles electronics, and textile producers notify Rijkswaterstaat.
Dates
The dates that cost money if you miss them.
Everything on this page carries the day we last checked its source. Where a value is not published by the sources we hold, the line says so rather than filling itself in.
- 1 August
Textile annual report
This date applies to the textile stream only. The report covers the preceding calendar year and is filed with Rijkswaterstaat.
Legal basis on this page: Decree on extended producer responsibility · Decree on extended producer responsibility for textiles · effective 1 July 2023.
What we do
We prepare and we submit. ILT and Rijkswaterstaat decide.
Every line below is something we do, not something we obtain. The difference matters on a page about the Netherlands: the register decides whether and when to accept a file, and no provider can promise otherwise.
- Prepare your registrations for Rijkswaterstaat and stream registers, in the shape ILT and Rijkswaterstaat ask for.
- Submit each stream separately, to its own register or scheme.
- File the declarations that follow, on the calendar the Netherlands runs.
- Record every response from ILT, Rijkswaterstaat and the schemes, and tell you what it means in plain English.
- Resubmit at no extra fee if a file we prepared comes back.
Price
Per country. The Netherlands is one of them.
The same single fee applies everywhere we run. What changes between countries is what the scheme charges on top, and that is billed by them, never by us.
Before scheme and authority fees. See our fees
No setup fee, and the same figure every year. Open a second country and it is the same figure again: the account is shared, the fee is not.
In your coverage
The Netherlands is one row. Here's the rest.
This is the part a national site cannot do for you. One account holds every country you open, one calendar holds every date, and one dashboard says where each file stands, including the ones you have not started.
Italy
Spain
Portugal
Austria
Belgium
France
Germany
Poland
GreeceWe run a local entry point in ten of the twenty-seven countries listed. See all countries
Questions about the Netherlands
Three answers we give on every file in the Netherlands.
They are the same three everywhere we run, and only the names change. The scope check answers the first one for your company in about five minutes; ILT and Rijkswaterstaat decide the second, which is why we say what we do about it rather than what we obtain.
Do I need a company in the Netherlands?
No. This is built for non-resident sellers. Depending on the country and stream you may need an authorised representative established there. That's a role we can fill, and the scope check says whether you need one.
What if the file is rejected?
It happens, usually because a product spec or a company document doesn't match. We tell you what came back, in plain English, and resubmit once it's fixed. No extra fee for a resubmission on a file we prepared.
I already have a provider in the Netherlands.
Keep them. You can start with the countries you don't cover yet, and the dashboard still shows the Netherlands so your calendar is in one place.
The other seven are on the questions page. Read all questions
Going further
The local detail lives on eprnetherlands.com.
We run that site too. It carries the long-form guidance for the Netherlands, in more depth than this page, and it is the canonical source for the national detail. This page is about how the Netherlands fits into everything else you owe.
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shippeu.com is an independent private service. It is not a government office, an authority, a register or a collective scheme, and it is not affiliated with, authorised by or endorsed by ILT, Rijkswaterstaat, Verpact, National (W)EEE Register, Stichting Batterijen, Stichting UPV Textiel, European Recycling Platform Netherlands, Collectief Circulair Textiel. Each authority and each scheme decides independently whether and when to accept an application.
Figures on this page come from published guidance. Last source review: 27 August 2026. Rules change. The scope check is reviewed by a person before any quote.