Stibat service for producers and importers

With its streamlined system for collection, recycling and registration, Stibat lightens both your workload and your paperwork.

What Stibat offers

• Fulfils your statutory obligation to collect and recycle batteries
• Ensures your reporting requirements are carried out
• Offers a simplified registration system with the aid of special web-based application
• Collective registration at the Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment Provides relevant information regarding the statutory obligations

Click here for our management fees.

Legislation for batteries

As a consequence of the European Directive on batteries, Dutch legislation imposes a number of obligations on producers and importers of batteries. This also applies to producers and importers who import products that come pre-installed or supplied with batteries. This concerns legislation that became effective as of 26 September 2008. Click on the links below to download the decree and/or the regulations:

2008 Battery and Accumulator Management Decree
2008 Battery and Accumulator Management Regulation

Click here for a link (Dutch) to a page on the Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment website with questions and answers from the Batteries and Accumulators file.

When are you considered an importer/producer of batteries?

The Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment regards companies in the Netherlands as producers/importers of batteries if they purchase (products with) batteries outside the Netherlands, including other countries in Europe, first sell them on the Dutch market and receive an invoice with a 0% VAT designation and/or foreign identification number.

What are the statutory obligations for portable batteries?

An importer of (products with) portable batteries must ensure that the batteries he imports to and sells in the Netherlands are collected and recycled at the end of their lifecycle. There is also a statutory obligation to keep a record of the weight and chemical system of all portable batteries put on the Dutch market.

What are the statutory obligations for industrial batteries?

Producers of industrial batteries and accumulators are obliged to take back discarded batteries and accumulators handed in by end users (regardless of composition or origin). They may charge for this. Discarded industrial batteries must also be processed and the materials reused. The costs of this are borne by the producers.

What are the statutory obligations for car batteries and accumulators?

It must be possible for discarded car batteries and accumulators to be handed in to the end user or a collection point. Private individuals may not be charged for this. Producers are responsible for the costs of collecting and processing the batteries and accumulators from the equipment.

Stibat takes the bulk of the work off your hands

Stibat is an implementing organisation recognised by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment  whose mission is to support Dutch importers/producers in complying with the statutory obligations regarding batteries. Importers/producers that wish to register as participants enter into a contract with Stibat. Based on a statement of battery quantities, participants pay a periodic management fee to Stibat in accordance with a table of rates. By clicking on 'REGISTRATION AND INFORMATION' on this page, companies can register as participants in Stibat or request further information.