Acceptance obligation importer & products of oil

Are you a producer or importer of oil, in canisters, barrels, bulk or as an integral part of a finished product (e.g. a vehicle)? Then you are subject to the “acceptance obligation”. But what does that actually mean?

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How do you fulfil the take-back obligation as a producer or importer?

Producers and importers can meet their legal obligations individually or join Valorlub, which as a collective system implements the terms and conditions of the take-back obligation of its participants. In this way, they comply with their legal obligations and oil sellers no longer have to accept used oil from their customers.

End sellers who sell oil from the participants to the Valorlub system must inform their customers in a clearly visible place how to handle their used oil. Valorlub has designed communication material for this that is available free of charge to the end seller and can be ordered via our website. For example, end sellers of oil no longer have to take back used oil from their customers.

You pay a contribution to Valorlub

• If you produce oil in Belgium and sell it in Belgium
• If you import and sell oil in Belgium
• If you sell oil in Belgium under your own brand name, even if you have purchased this oil from a Belgian supplier. A company that sells oil under its own brand name is deemed a “Producer” by regional regulations.
• If you buy motor oil in bulk and repackage it in household packaging and sell it under your own brand in Belgium, you pay the household contribution for this, regardless of whether you bought the oil from a Belgian supplier or imported it yourself.
• If you import oil for your own use

Also all lubricants intended for factory filling (first fill) and where the lubricant is an integral part of the finished product must be declared. Oil imported into Belgium as an integral part of a finished product (vehicle, tool, transformer, etc.) must also be declared.