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null } }, { "id": "deadline-declaration-amend-2025", "anchor": "https://instica.com/epr/for/amazon/belgium#deadline-declaration-amend-2025", "leafPath": "BE.deadlines[declaration-amend-2025]", "statement": "Belgium: other date September 15, 2026.", "value": "September 15, 2026", "unit": null, "pending": false, "source": { "url": "https://www.fostplus.be/en/members/declaration", "quote": "Exceptionally, you can still amend your 2025 declaration until 15 September this year.", "quoteLang": null, "retrievedAt": "2026-09-29", "status": "verified", "label": null } }, { "id": "deadline-ppwr-application", "anchor": "https://instica.com/epr/for/amazon/belgium#deadline-ppwr-application", "leafPath": "BE.deadlines[ppwr-application]", "statement": "Belgium: other date August 12, 2026.", "value": "August 12, 2026", "unit": null, "pending": false, "source": { "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2025/40/oj/eng", "quote": "It shall apply from 12 August 2026.", "quoteLang": null, "retrievedAt": "2026-09-29", "status": "verified", "label": null } }, { "id": "deadline-ppwr-authorised-representative", "anchor": "https://instica.com/epr/for/amazon/belgium#deadline-ppwr-authorised-representative", "leafPath": "BE.deadlines[ppwr-authorised-representative]", "statement": "Belgium: registration date August 12, 2026.", "value": "August 12, 2026", "unit": null, "pending": false, "source": { "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2025/40/oj/eng", "quote": "shall appoint, by written mandate, an authorised representative for the extended producer responsibility in each Member State where", "quoteLang": null, "retrievedAt": "2026-09-29", "status": "verified", "label": null } }, { "id": "deadline-ppwr-annex-ix-annual", "anchor": "https://instica.com/epr/for/amazon/belgium#deadline-ppwr-annex-ix-annual", "leafPath": "BE.deadlines[ppwr-annex-ix-annual]", "statement": "Belgium: report date 1 June each year, for the preceding full calendar year.", "value": "1 June each year, for the 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"label": null } } ], "sections": [ { "id": "answer", "heading": null, "kind": "answer", "markdown": "\n\nFor Amazon sales in Belgium, the sourced hierarchy names the manufacturer or brand owner, brand owner and importer as the producer of primary packaging. It adds service (manufacturer or brand owner and importer). Instica estimates which role fits your sales and prepares the data; you confirm the role, then sign and submit." }, { "id": "producer", "heading": "Who is the producer for Amazon sales in Belgium?", "kind": "body", "markdown": "\n\n## Who is the producer for Amazon sales in Belgium?\n\nA packaging producer is not one business for every pack. The hierarchy for Belgium assigns a role at each packaging level, and 2 levels have roles named in the sourced text. Amazon sales touch 2 of them in Instica’s grouping, so the table below shows every level and marks the ones that apply to this channel.\n\n**Producer roles by packaging level in Belgium**\n\n| Packaging level | Roles named in the hierarchy | For Amazon |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| primary | manufacturer or brand owner, brand owner and importer | Applies to Amazon sales |\n| secondary | — | No role named |\n| tertiary | — | No role named |\n| shipping | — | No role named |\n| service | manufacturer or brand owner and importer | Applies to Amazon sales |\n| other | — | No role named |\n\nBelgium: at the primary packaging level the producer hierarchy names the manufacturer or brand owner, brand owner and importer.\n\nPrimary packaging is the pack that directly holds the item and reaches the customer with it: the bag, jar, bottle, can or wrapper. For Amazon sales the hierarchy assigns it to the manufacturer or brand owner, brand owner and importer, in that order of precedence.\n\nBelgium: at the service packaging level the producer hierarchy names the manufacturer or brand owner and importer.\n\nService packaging is supplied at the point of sale to hand goods over, such as carrier bags, takeaway containers and gift wrap. For Amazon sales the hierarchy assigns it to the manufacturer or brand owner and importer, in that order of precedence.\n\nThe roles above are defined by the law, not by the channel. This is what each one means for a seller whose orders come through Amazon, and the tests below are the questions to answer about your own business. For a seller on Amazon the role is a question of facts: who made the product, whose brand is on it, who packs and ships the order and whether it was brought into the jurisdiction. You answer those questions in the workspace, Instica reads the hierarchy against them, and you confirm the result.\n\n- **manufacturer or brand owner**: The manufacturer or brand owner is the maker of the packaged product when it is sold under the maker’s own brand or with no brand shown. Look at the label: if your name or brand is the one on the pack, or no brand is shown and you made it, this role is yours.\n- **brand owner**: The brand owner is the owner of the brand or trademark the product is sold under. Look at the trademark on the pack: the business that owns it holds this role, even when another business filled and packed the goods.\n- **importer**: The importer is the business that brings the packaged goods, or the packaging itself, into the jurisdiction. Look at where the goods came from: stock that crossed the border to reach you makes you the importer for that stock.\n\nThe statute or regulator text behind the Belgium hierarchy, in its source wording:\n\n> Companies that produce or import service packaging in order to put it on the Belgian market.\n>\n> Source: fostplus.be: become a fost plus member (https://www.fostplus.be/en/members/become-a-fost-plus-member), Retrieved: September 29, 2026, Language: en" }, { "id": "outcome", "heading": "What Amazon changes about the answer", "kind": "body", "markdown": "\n\n## What Amazon changes about the answer\n\nThe hub for Belgium gives the default answer, primary: manufacturer or brand owner > brand owner > importer. For Amazon sales the outcome is primary: manufacturer or brand owner > brand owner > importer; service: manufacturer or brand owner > importer. The difference is the service level, which an order placed through Amazon brings into scope and a plain in-store sale does not.\n\nInstica groups the packaging levels an order placed through Amazon produces as primary and service. That grouping is our reading of how the channel ships goods, not wording from the law, and it is what makes the outcome here different from the default.\n\nAmazon sellers either ship orders themselves or send stock to fulfilment centres, so the same business can be the packer of a shipping carton on one order and only the brand owner on the next. The order and shipment reports record the destination country and state of each order, which is the data a regional estimate needs.\n\nFor Amazon sales in Belgium, the producer outcome is primary: manufacturer or brand owner then brand owner then importer.\n\nFor Amazon sales in Belgium, the producer outcome is service: manufacturer or brand owner then importer.\n\nBelgium lists these sales routes as in scope: import into Belgium, packaging in Belgium under own or neutral brand and e-commerce sellers via platform mandate (unsettled).\n\nBelgium treats these sales routes as in scope: import into Belgium, packaging in Belgium under own or neutral brand and e-commerce sellers via platform mandate (unsettled). Orders placed through Amazon reach the customer remotely, so the remote-sale wording is the one to read." }, { "id": "thresholds", "heading": "Does a small-seller threshold apply in Belgium?", "kind": "body", "markdown": "\n\n## Does a small-seller threshold apply in Belgium?\n\nOne threshold is published for Belgium. A threshold can exempt a small producer, trigger registration or move a producer to a lighter regime, so check these before anything else as a seller on Amazon.\n\n**Thresholds published for Belgium**\n\n| Measure | Amount | Effect | Basis |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| tonnage | 300 tonnes of single-use packaging per year | triggers registration | put on the market; 100 tonnes for companies packaging in Belgium |\n\nBelgium threshold on tonnage: 300 tonnes of single-use packaging per year; effect: triggers registration.\n\nMarketplace sales count toward your totals even when the marketplace handles fulfilment, because the thresholds measure what you put on the market, not who drove the van." }, { "id": "register", "heading": "Registration and the organisation in Belgium", "kind": "body", "markdown": "\n\n## Registration and the organisation in Belgium\n\nOnce you know you are the producer, the next questions are where to register and with whom. The facts below are the sourced answers for Belgium; Instica prepares the data, and you register and report yourself.\n\nBelgium: producers must register through EPRiBEL producer register (formerly IVC-CIE); Fost Plus registers members collectively.\n\nThe registration point is EPRiBEL producer register (formerly IVC-CIE); Fost Plus registers members collectively (https://www.fostplus.be/en/blog/ppwr-insights-8-mandatory-registration-in-producer-register-fost-plus-handles-it-for-you). Instica never stores your login for it and never files for you.\n\nBelgium organises producer responsibility through more than one producer responsibility organisation: Fost Plus (household) and Valipac (industrial); membership is not required.\n\nBelgium uses more than one producer responsibility organisation. Instica estimates your fees; the organisation invoices you.\n\nBelgium allows a producer’s obligation to be transferred to another party.\n\nA transfer lets another party take on your obligation; the source says written mandate to an e-commerce platform under PPWR; membership of a recognised organisation. If you sell through Amazon, ask whether the other party is willing before you rely on it." }, { "id": "exemptions", "heading": "Exemptions listed for Belgium", "kind": "body", "markdown": "\n\n## Exemptions listed for Belgium\n\nBelgium lists one exemption. An exemption is a rule in the source, so Instica quotes it rather than judging whether you qualify.\n\nBelgium exemption: Reusable packaging carries no contribution; only the information obligation applies It does not have to be applied for.\n\nWhether an exemption fits a business selling on Amazon depends on your totals across every channel, not on Amazon alone." }, { "id": "deadlines", "heading": "Dates that matter in Belgium", "kind": "body", "markdown": "\n\n## Dates that matter in Belgium\n\n5 dates are published for Belgium. Dates come from the regulator or the organisation, and each one shows what it covers.\n\n**Dates published for Belgium**\n\n| Kind | Date | Covers | Note |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| report | 28 February for packaging put on the market the previous year | the previous calendar year | Declaration via the MyFost portal. |\n| other | September 15, 2026 | — | Exceptional window to amend the 2025 declaration. |\n| other | August 12, 2026 | — | Regulation (EU) 2025/40 (PPWR) applies from this date; national EPR rules continue alongside it. |\n| registration | August 12, 2026 | — | PPWR Art 45(3): a producer selling directly to end users in another Member State (Art 3(1)(15)(c),(d)) must appoint an authorised representative for EPR in each Member State where it first makes packaging available, other than its own. Registration also required (Art 44(2),(4)). Instica never acts as authorised representative. |\n| report | 1 June each year, for the preceding full calendar year | — | PPWR Art 44(7) annual submission of Annex IX Part B information to the register authority; national implementation of the register is pending. |\n\nBelgium: report date 28 February for packaging put on the market the previous year, covering the previous calendar year.\n\nBelgium: other date September 15, 2026.\n\nBelgium: other date August 12, 2026.\n\nBelgium: registration date August 12, 2026.\n\nBelgium: report date 1 June each year, for the preceding full calendar year.\n\nMarketplace order reports are available on demand, so the quickest way to be ready for a reporting date is to export the last period’s orders and check the destination split early." }, { "id": "penalties", "heading": "Penalties in Belgium", "kind": "body", "markdown": "\n\n## Penalties in Belgium\n\nOne penalty is published for Belgium.\n\nBelgium penalty for late annual declaration (Fost Plus contract): 1% of the previous declaration contribution per month of delay.\n\nPenalties are quoted from the source. Instica does not predict whether one will be applied to you." }, { "id": "data", "heading": "What Amazon data Instica reads", "kind": "body", "markdown": "\n\n## What Amazon data Instica reads\n\nInstica reads 2 exports from Amazon and maps each column to the fields an estimate needs: the order, the SKU, the quantity and where the order was sent. The destination is what splits your units by jurisdiction.\n\n**How the Amazon order report (All Orders) maps to Instica fields**\n\n| Instica field | Column in the export | Needed |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Fulfilment | fulfillment-channel | Optional |\n| Item status | item-status | Optional |\n| Marketplace | sales-channel | Optional |\n| Order date | purchase-date | Required |\n| Order number | amazon-order-id | Required |\n| Quantity | quantity | Required |\n| Ship-to country | ship-country | Optional |\n| Ship-to postcode | ship-postal-code | Optional |\n| Ship-to state or region | ship-state | Optional |\n| SKU | sku | Required |\n| Order status | order-status | Optional |\n\nInstica maps 11 columns of the Amazon order report (All Orders) (tab-separated) to its own fields.\n\nThe Amazon order report (All Orders) needs Order number, Order date, SKU and Quantity to be mapped before an estimate can run.\n\nAmazon marketplace sites map to destination countries as follows: amazon.ca → CA, amazon.co.uk → GB, amazon.com → US, amazon.com.be → BE, amazon.de → DE, amazon.es → ES, amazon.fr → FR, amazon.ie → IE, amazon.it → IT, amazon.nl → NL, amazon.pl → PL and amazon.se → SE.\n\n**How the Amazon FBA fulfilled shipments report maps to Instica fields**\n\n| Instica field | Column in the export | Needed |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Marketplace | sales-channel | Optional |\n| Order date | shipment-date / purchase-date | Required |\n| Order number | amazon-order-id | Required |\n| Quantity | quantity-shipped / quantity | Required |\n| Ship-to country | ship-country | Optional |\n| Ship-to postcode | ship-postal-code | Optional |\n| Ship-to state or region | ship-state | Optional |\n| SKU | sku | Required |\n\nInstica maps 8 columns of the Amazon FBA fulfilled shipments report (tab-separated) to its own fields.\n\nThe Amazon FBA fulfilled shipments report needs Order number, Order date, SKU and Quantity to be mapped before an estimate can run.\n\nAmazon marketplace sites map to destination countries as follows: amazon.ca → CA, amazon.co.uk → GB, amazon.com → US, amazon.com.be → BE, amazon.de → DE, amazon.es → ES, amazon.fr → FR, amazon.ie → IE, amazon.it → IT, amazon.nl → NL, amazon.pl → PL and amazon.se → SE.\n\nOrders are matched to Belgium by the ship-to country column. Rows outside your chosen jurisdictions are left out of this page’s estimate and counted elsewhere.\n\nAn export from Amazon carries the destination of every order, so one file can feed estimates for Belgium and every other jurisdiction your orders reach." }, { "id": "steps", "heading": "What to do next as a seller on Amazon", "kind": "body", "markdown": "\n\n## What to do next as a seller on Amazon\n\n1. Confirm your role for Amazon sales in Belgium against the table above.\n2. Check the thresholds and exemptions with your total sales across every channel.\n3. Find out where producers register in Belgium.\n4. Export your Amazon orders and let Instica match the destinations and estimate the weights.\n5. Review the estimate, correct any figure you know better, then sign and submit the report yourself at the registration point.\n\nInstica measures, estimates and prepares the Amazon data. It does not decide your role, sign for you or submit anything." }, { "id": "faq", "heading": "Questions sellers ask", "kind": "faq", "markdown": "\n\n## Questions sellers ask\n\n### Am I the producer if I sell on Amazon in Belgium?\n\nIt depends on the facts of each product. The sourced hierarchy for Belgium names the manufacturer or brand owner, brand owner and importer for primary packaging. If you made the product, own its brand or imported it, you are probably in that list; if you only resell another brand’s goods, someone else may be the producer. Instica estimates the likely role from your answers and you confirm it.\n\n### Does Amazon register or report for me?\n\nThe hierarchy for Belgium does not name the marketplace as a producer, so plan on registering and reporting yourself or through a party you appoint.\n\n### What is different about Amazon compared with selling in a shop?\n\nAn order placed through Amazon is shipped to the customer, so shipping packaging enters the picture. For Belgium the outcome is primary: manufacturer or brand owner > brand owner > importer; service: manufacturer or brand owner > importer. The hub for Belgium describes the default for primary packaging only.\n\n### Is there a size threshold for Amazon sellers in Belgium?\n\nBelgium threshold on tonnage: 300 tonnes of single-use packaging per year; effect: triggers registration. The threshold counts all your sales, not only Amazon.\n\n### When is the next date I should know about?\n\nBelgium: report date 28 February for packaging put on the market the previous year, covering the previous calendar year.\n\n### What happens if I do not register?\n\nBelgium penalty for late annual declaration (Fost Plus contract): 1% of the previous declaration contribution per month of delay.\n\n### Do I need an organisation to handle this for me?\n\nThe sourced text for Belgium names no single organisation. Instica prepares the data and you choose how to register." }, { "id": "paa", "heading": null, "kind": "paa", "markdown": "\n\n### Does Amazon deliver in Belgium?\n\nInstica maps 11 columns of the Amazon order report (All Orders) (tab-separated) to its own fields. The Amazon order report (All Orders) needs Order number, Order date, SKU and Quantity to be mapped before an estimate can run.\n\n### What is an EPR registration number?\n\nBelgium: producers must register through EPRiBEL producer register (formerly IVC-CIE); Fost Plus registers members collectively. Belgium organises producer responsibility through more than one producer responsibility organisation: Fost Plus (household) and Valipac (industrial); membership is not required. Belgium allows a producer’s obligation to be transferred to another party.\n\n### What is extended producer responsibility (EPR) in the European Union?\n\nFor Amazon sales in Belgium, the producer outcome is primary: manufacturer or brand owner then brand owner then importer; service: manufacturer or brand owner then importer. For Amazon sales in Belgium, the producer outcome is primary: manufacturer or brand owner then brand owner then importer.\n\n### Is there a European version of Amazon?\n\nThe Amazon order report (All Orders) needs Order number, Order date, SKU and Quantity to be mapped before an estimate can run. Amazon marketplace sites map to destination countries as follows: amazon.ca → CA, amazon.co.uk → GB, amazon.com → US, amazon.com.be → BE, amazon.de → DE, amazon.es → ES, amazon.fr → FR, amazon.ie → IE, amazon.it → IT, amazon.nl → NL, amazon.pl → PL and amazon.se → SE." }, { "id": "estimate", "heading": "How these figures are made", "kind": "boilerplate", "markdown": "\n\n## How these figures are made\n\n> **Estimate**: Instica measures, estimates and prepares. Every figure on this page is read from a sourced record or computed from one, and each carries its data quality. The customer signs and submits the report; Instica never stores regulator login details and never files on your behalf. This page is general information about published rules; confirm your own position with a qualified adviser." } ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.fostplus.be/en/members/become-a-fost-plus-member", "label": null, "retrievedAt": "2026-09-29", "status": "verified", "quote": "Companies that produce or import service packaging in order to put it on the Belgian market.", "quoteLang": null }, { "url": "https://valipac.academy/en/modules/gaining-a-better-understanding-of-the-legislation/belgian-legislative-framework/", "label": null, "retrievedAt": "2026-09-29", "status": "verified", "quote": "The new version of the Cooperation Agreement has been in force since 5 March 2020.", "quoteLang": null }, { "url": "https://valipac.academy/en/modules/gaining-a-better-understanding-of-the-legislation/belgian-legislative-framework/", "label": null, "retrievedAt": "2026-09-29", "status": "verified", "quote": "The Interregional Packaging Commission is responsible for the enforcement of the Cooperation Agreement.", "quoteLang": null }, { "url": "https://www.fostplus.be/en/members/become-a-fost-plus-member", "label": null, "retrievedAt": "2026-09-29", "status": "verified", "quote": "Does your company put household packaging on the market? Then you have an obligation to report on this packaging to the government.", "quoteLang": null }, { "url": "https://www.fostplus.be/en/blog/ppwr-insights-8-mandatory-registration-in-producer-register-fost-plus-handles-it-for-you", "label": null, "retrievedAt": "2026-09-29", "status": "verified", "quote": "Companies that are not members of Fost Plus or another recognised EPR organisation can register directly through EPRiBEL", "quoteLang": null }, { "url": "https://www.fostplus.be/en/blog/ppwr-insights-8-mandatory-registration-in-producer-register-fost-plus-handles-it-for-you", "label": null, "retrievedAt": "2026-09-29", "status": "verified", "quote": "This representative must (1) be established in Belgium and (2) be registered with EPRiBEL.", "quoteLang": null }, { "url": "https://www.fostplus.be/en/blog/ppwr-insights-8-mandatory-registration-in-producer-register-fost-plus-handles-it-for-you", "label": null, "retrievedAt": "2026-09-29", "status": "verified", "quote": "they may issue a written mandate to the platforms to fulfil their EPR obligations on their behalf", "quoteLang": null }, { "url": "https://www.fostplus.be/en/members/become-a-fost-plus-member", "label": null, "retrievedAt": "2026-09-29", "status": "verified", "quote": "Companies that import packaged household products or have such products imported in order to put them on the Belgian market.", "quoteLang": null }, { "url": "https://www.fostplus.be/en/members/become-a-fost-plus-member", "label": null, "retrievedAt": "2026-09-29", "status": "verified", "quote": "companies that put at least 300 tonnes of single-use packaging on the market annually", "quoteLang": null }, { "url": "https://www.fostplus.be/en/members/declaration", "label": null, "retrievedAt": "2026-09-29", "status": "verified", "quote": "You do not pay any contribution for reusable packaging in your declaration.", "quoteLang": null }, { "url": "https://www.fostplus.be/en/members/declaration", "label": null, "retrievedAt": "2026-09-29", "status": "verified", "quote": "The deadline for the annual declaration is always 28 February for the packaging that you put on the market the previous year.", "quoteLang": null }, { "url": "https://www.fostplus.be/en/members/declaration", "label": null, "retrievedAt": "2026-09-29", "status": "verified", "quote": "Exceptionally, you can still amend your 2025 declaration until 15 September this year.", "quoteLang": null }, { "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2025/40/oj/eng", "label": null, "retrievedAt": "2026-09-29", "status": "verified", "quote": "It shall apply from 12 August 2026.", "quoteLang": null }, { "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2025/40/oj/eng", "label": null, "retrievedAt": "2026-09-29", "status": "verified", "quote": "shall appoint, by written mandate, an authorised representative for the extended producer responsibility in each Member State where", "quoteLang": null }, { "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2025/40/oj/eng", "label": null, "retrievedAt": "2026-09-29", "status": "verified", "quote": "by 1 June for each full preceding calendar year", "quoteLang": null }, { "url": "https://www.fostplus.be/en/members/declaration", "label": null, "retrievedAt": "2026-09-29", "status": "verified", "quote": "you risk a fine amounting to 1% of the contribution from your previous declaration per month of delay", "quoteLang": null }, { "url": "https://developer-docs.amazon/sp-api/docs/report-type-values-order", "label": null, "retrievedAt": "2026-11-03", "status": "verified", "quote": "amazon-order-id merchant-order-id purchase-date last-updated-date order-status order-item-id fulfillment-channel sales-channel order-channel ship-service-level product-name sku asin item-status quantity", "quoteLang": null }, { "url": "https://developer-docs.amazon/sp-api/docs/report-type-values-fba", "label": null, "retrievedAt": "2026-11-03", "status": "verified", "quote": "amazon-order-id merchant-order-id shipment-id shipment-item-id amazon-order-item-id merchant-order-item-id purchase-date payments-date shipment-date reporting-date buyer-email buyer-name buyer-phone-number sku product-name quantity-shipped", "quoteLang": null } ], "breadcrumbs": [ { "name": "Packaging EPR", "url": "https://instica.com/epr" }, { "name": "EPR for ecommerce sellers: EPR for online sellers by sales channel", "url": "https://instica.com/epr/for" }, { "name": "Amazon EPR Belgium: who is the producer?", "url": "https://instica.com/epr/for/amazon/belgium" } ], "related": [ { "heading": "Part of", "links": [ { "anchor": "Belgium EPR", "url": "https://instica.com/epr/belgium" } ] }, { "heading": "Explore packaging EPR", "links": [ { "anchor": "EPR Europe", "url": "https://instica.com/epr/europe" } ] }, { "heading": "More for this jurisdiction", "links": [ { "anchor": "Belgium EPR fee schedule 2026", "url": "https://instica.com/epr/belgium/fees/2026" }, { "anchor": "Belgium EPR fee schedule 2027", "url": 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