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The declaration must reach us by no later than 28 February every year and will refer to the commercial and industrial packaging put on the Belgian market during the previous year.
There are different methods for obtaining the data of your declaration. We recommend you to use the method that will give you the most reliable data.
This method is based on the use of product sheets which describe all the packaging necessary to market a sales unit (primary, secondary and tertiary packaging) for each product. Your total product sheets will allow you to calculate your total packaging responsibility.
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This method can be used if you package or have products packaged for the purpose of putting them on the Belgian market (those responsible for packaging type A). You will need the weight and the type of material of all the packaging that you have purchased to package your products marketed in Belgium.
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You can use this method if you import goods directly and unpack them for self-consumption (party responsible for packaging type C). To do so, you use the data you receive from your waste collector.
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In addition to these calculation methods, you can also consult the Overview of Reference Weights of C&I Packaging (French version) in our section “Useful Documents”. This document gives a guideline on the weights of the most common industrial packaging and can be useful if, for example, you resell the goods directly and do not have knowledge of the packaging or if your supplier does not give you the information.
In addition to single-use packaging, you must also declare reusable packaging. Here too, a distinction must be made between the responsibilities for packaging types A, B and C.
In the case of reusable packaging, you do not have to enter the weight, but the quantity of packaging. If you use standard reusable packaging (e.g., a Euro pallet) we ask you to report the quantities. If you use your own reusable packaging, you must also provide us with the unit weight of the packaging in addition to the quantities.
In determining the quantity to be reported, you should take into account each use of the packaging.
If you unpack reusable pallets coming from abroad and reuse them for packing your goods, you declare them twice:
This is to ensure that we can calculate the correct ratio between single-use and reusable packaging.