A batteries declaration can be positive or negative. In this article, you will discover the cases in which you must declare batteries as positive or negative.
A positive declaration
With a positive declaration, you declare the batteries you put on the Belgian market. This applies to both batteries sold separately (replacement market) and built-in and supplied batteries (initial installation). More details about which batteries you need to declare is available here: Which batteries do I have to declare?
After you submit your declaration, you will receive an invoice to pay the contributions for the batteries declared in this declaration.
A negative declaration
A negative declaration is one where you get a refund of previously paid contributions.
When does this apply?
Batteries exported abroad (outside Belgium) should not be included in your declaration. It could be that a contribution has been paid for those batteries anyway. So in that case, you make a negative declaration for the exported batteries to get the contribution refunded.
Submitting your declaration
There are different ways to submit a declaration: manually and via an import. Find out how to do this step by step in these articles: