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Netherlands guide · source reviewed 27 Aug 2026

Everything we hold on the Netherlands,

and where we read it.

The register, the schemes and the legal texts behind every figure we publish for the Netherlands — with the gaps left in plain sight. The long-form guidance lives on eprnetherlands.com, which we run too; this page says what stands behind it.

What we hold

The register is public. The scheme is private. They are not the same thing.

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. A register and a scheme remain separate: the public side records the producer, while the private side bills the contribution. Completing one does not complete the other.

The Netherlands uses a different route for each stream. Verpact handles packaging, the National (W)EEE Register handles electronics, and textile producers notify Rijkswaterstaat.

  • Packaging

    Register
    Rijkswaterstaat
    Scheme
    Verpact

    The generally binding declaration makes Verpact membership mandatory for packaging producers in scope.

  • WEEE

    Register
    National (W)EEE Register
    Scheme
    Depends on your product category

    Electrical and electronic equipment is recorded in the national WEEE register, apart from packaging and batteries.

  • Batteries

    Register
    Rijkswaterstaat
    Scheme
    Stichting Batterijen

    Battery obligations remain a separate stream even when the battery is built into a device.

  • Textiles

    Register
    Rijkswaterstaat
    Scheme
    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.

  1. 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

The texts we read. Named, so you can read them too.

These are the references the authority and the schemes cite. We do not paraphrase them into a summary and call it guidance — we name them, and we say the day we last read them.

  • Decree on extended producer responsibility
  • Decree on extended producer responsibility for textiles · effective 1 July 2023

What we don't hold

The gaps, named. “We have no source” is not “you owe nothing”.

A seller who reads a blank as “nothing to do here” does not register, and finds out when a listing comes down. So every blank on this page is written out, with what it does and does not mean.

  • Indicative time to file

    We have not measured one for the Netherlands, and an invented figure is the fastest way to lose the one thing this page is for.

  • Thresholds and exemptions

    None published in the sources we hold. Most EPR rules trigger on the first unit placed on the market rather than on a turnover threshold, and the scope check says whether an exemption applies to you.

We publish a source ledger for all 10 countries we run. The other member states stay listed without a promised opening date. See all countries

The long version lives on eprnetherlands.com.

We run that site, in the local language, and it carries the full guidance for the Netherlands. This page is the ledger behind it — what we hold, where it comes from, and what is still blank. The canonical for the national detail points there, not here.

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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.