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Industry boards and product boards promote the collective interests of companies in a particular sector. They also set rules for those companies.
Membership and contribution
If you run a company in the Netherlands in a sector with an industry board or product board, your company must be a member of that board. You must pay a contribution and comply with the board’s rules.
If you register in the Trade Register, registration with the industry or product board will often follow automatically. You may still have to register at a few industry and product boards. Your company may come under several different boards.
Cessation of business
If your business ceases trading, send a copy of your deregistration from the Trade Register to the product or industry board where you business is registered.
Read more about registration regarding:
- retailers
- the drinks sector
- the oils and fats sector
- the animal feed sector
- craft businesses
- agricultural wholesalers
- catering businesses
- finishing companies
- the dairy sector
- entrepreneurs in the agricultural and horticultural sector
- the livestock, meat and eggs sector
- forest owners and forest contracting companies
Registration as a retailer
Retailers must be registered with the Registration and Taxation Department of the National Board for the Retail Trade (Hoofdbedrijfschap Detailhandel, HBD). This also applies to craftsmen and itinerant traders.
Registration in the drinks sector
Businesses in the beer, soft drinks and waters, or distilled spirits sectors must be registered with the Product Board Drinks (Productschap Dranken). This also applies to off-licences with no more than five retail outlets. Wine traders must be registered with the Product Board Wine (Productschap Wijn).
Online registration using the Message Box
If you trade in spirits, soft drinks and water products, you can register with the Productschap dranken (Beverage Product Board), commissions for spirits and for soft drinks and water products, by using the Message Box.
Registration in the oils and fats sector
If your business produces or processes, further processes and/or trades in vegetable and animal fats or oils, you must be registered with the Product Board for Margarine, Fats and Oils (Productschap MVO).
Registration in the animal feed sector
If you have a company in the animal feed sector, you must be registered with the Product Board Animal Feed (Productschap Diervoeder, PDV).
Registration as a craft business
Craft businesses must be registered with the Registration and Taxation Department of the Dutch Board for Craft Trades (Hoofdbedrijfschap Ambachten, HBA).
Submitting a digital registration with the Message Box
With the Message Box you can submit a digital registration to the Central Industry Board for the Crafts (HBA).
Registration as an agricultural wholesaler
Wholesalers who sell flowers and plants, fruit and vegetables, seed tubers or potatoes for consumption must be registered with the Dutch Agricultural Wholesale Board (HBAG).
Registration as a catering business
After registering with the Chamber of Commerce, you will be automatically included in the register kept by the Hotel and Catering Industry Board (Bedrijfschap Horeca en Catering, BHenC). You will receive a letter stating the decision to include your company in the register and asking you for additional information about your company. If your company provides more than hotel and catering services, the obligation to register will apply only to the hotel and catering part of your company.
The Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (nieuwe Voedsel and Waren Autoriteit, nVWA) uses the data from the Hotel and Catering Industry Board for the registration of food businesses.
Online delivery via Message Box
You can also supply the additional company data to the Hotel and Catering Industry Board digitally using Message Box.
Registration as a finishing company
All entrepreneurs in the finishing sector must be registered with the National Board for the Finishing sector (Bedrijfschap Afbouw, BA). These are companies that carry out non-structural finishing activities such as:
- plastering companies;
- ceiling and wall companies;
- floor and terrazzo companies;
- pulley companies.
Online application procedure via Message Box
You can register with the National Board for the Finishing sector (Bedrijfschap Afbouw, BA) also online using Message Box.
Registration in the dairy sector
If you import or export dairy products, or receive or process cows’ or goats’ milk in the course of your business, you must be registered with the Dutch Dairy Board (Productschap Zuivel).
Registration as an entrepreneur in the agricultural sector
Growers, cultivators and processors of agricultural products as well as dealers in agricultural products must be registered with the Product Board for Arable Farming (Productschap Akkerbouw, PA).
Registration as an entrepreneur in the horticultural sector
Horticultural businesses must be registered with the Product Board for Horticulture (Productschap Tuinbouw, PT). The businesses required to register include:
- horticulturists;
- growers of cultivation material;
- dealers in flowers, flower bulbs, vegetables and fruit;
- growers and cultivators of flowers, flower bulbs, vegetables and fruit.
Registration in the livestock, meat and eggs sector
If you keep animals, export or slaughter livestock, or if you trade in (hatching) eggs, you must be registered with the Product Boards for Livestock, Meat and Eggs (PVE).
Registration as a forest owner and forest contracting company
The following parties must be registered with the Board for forests and nature (Bosschap):
- owners of 5 or more hectares of forest and natural landscape;
- forest contracting companies with a turnover of more than €11,345 per year.
