Everything about the list of participants

First availability
You are responsible for the packaging of all goods you make available, for the first time, in the Netherlands because you produce or import these goods.

Disposal when importing
These are all forms of packaging released after importing the products. Here, it is immaterial whether these goods are discarded in your own warehouse or that of your customer.

You add packaging
Do you add packaging, for example during repackaging or production and is it intended for a Dutch consumer? You must include these kilograms in your declaration.

The Packaging Waste Management Fee applies if a packaged product is released on the Dutch market. Does your customer export the goods in the same packaging? If so, your customer can submit a request for refund of indirect export up to 1 June of the following year.

No distinction in terms of rates is made between packaging ending up with the consumer or removed via a waste collector. All packaging comes under the producer responsibility. By sharing the costs we incur for collection and processing of packaging across all packaging materials, the average rate lowers. That rate would be higher if we were to make a distinction between consumer packaging and packaging companies dispose of themselves, or arrange for such.

Organisations that file a declaration to Verpact are contained in the List of participants.

Verpact actively looks for companies that incorrectly fail to file a declaration and these companies are contacted for a closer investigation. 

Yes. You can notify us anonymously or otherwise. Here, it is important that we have the name and address details of the company. We do not provide any individual feedback about the follow-up and outcome of any notification submitted. You can notify us in writing, e-mail or by phone. 

It is possible that your supplier is on our list under another name than its well-known trading name, that payment was made further up in the chain or that another reason exists. It is important to find out from your supplier if a declaration has been filed for your items and can be verified. If this is the case, you can submit the request for the refund of indirect export. 

You file a declaration for packaging if it is being released on the Dutch market for the first time. Do you use a box twice or more, for example? You are only required to declare the box once. What matters is that the box has entered into free circulation.

So, if you receive import goods in a box and use the same box again to send other goods, you will file a declaration once for this box.

Do you buy second-hand boxes? It is important that you know for definite if they have already entered into free circulation in the Netherlands (if so, you do not have to file a declaration) or that it concerns foreign boxes or stock boxes from a warehouse and, therefore, not yet entered into free circulation (in this case, you will file a declaration).

Afvalfonds Verpakkingen has a single declaration entity that corresponds to the VAT grouping. If you are part of a tax entity for VAT, one of the companies of the tax entity will file a declaration for all.