Waste transit

The IRPC assesses and processes notifications and registers shipment declarations of waste that is subject to the notification procedure and that is only in transit through Belgium. The waste in question does not therefore originate from Belgium, and Belgium is not its final destination either.

With the entry into force of the Cooperation Agreement coordinating (Belgian) policy on cross-border shipments of waste, an administrative fee has also been payable for transit notifications, applicable since 1 July 2023. For more information, visit www.ivcie.be.

A notifier submits a notification when they wish to have a quantity of identified waste shipped during a given period of time in the future:

• spread over one or more separate shipments;
• via the same shipment routes each time;
• from the same point of departure, to the same destination and with the same type of content.

As the Belgian transit authority, the IRPC must receive and process all notifications. Henceforth, this will also include preparing and sending an invoice. Only once payment has been received can the IRPC grant approval and the shipments concerned may go ahead.

All shipments of waste for which the official transit notification procedure applies are also subject to the shipment notification requirement (article 16 of Regulation (EC) 1013/2006). Notification of a shipment can be made by sending the duly completed accompanying documents by e-mail to the IRPC, in which case an IRPC employee will register the shipment notification in the database. Alternatively, the notifier and the consignee can log in using their username and password and enter and register the shipment details directly in the database themselves.