MyFost Members - Help and FAQ
If your company puts (household) packaging on the Belgian market, it has to fulfil a number of legal obligations. But when exactly is your company seen as a party responsible for packaging? And as such, which legal obligations do you have to fulfil? How can Fost Plus help you with this?
This page answers these questions.
As a member of Fost Plus, every year you have to submit a declaration for all the household packaging that your company puts on the market. But how and when do you submit your declaration? What if you are declaring for the first time? How is your contribution calculated? And which packaging do you declare to Fost Plus?
On this page you'll find these answers.
Download the 2024 declaration guide.
On the dashboard in the 'Your declaration' module you can see which declaration Fost Plus expects from you.
When you start a declaration in MyFost, you will be given a choice between the types of declarations that are available to you.
Below you can find videos with more explanation.
A detailed declaration consist of packaging sheets and a declaration of the units.
- Are you looking for the most efficient way to import your packaging sheets from Excel into MyFost?
Collaborate via MyFost for the preparation of packaging sheets
- Would you like one or more packaging sheets to be completed or checked by someone who is not a MyFost user?
- Do you have one or more completed packing sheets that you would like to share with other members?
How to add industrial packaging for Valipac to your declaration?
- If you also use MyFost for your Valipac declaration, you can add industrial data to your declaration.
- How to make a sector declaration like the declaration of Wines and spirits, e-commerce,...?
On the login screen you will see a link 'forgot?' next to the username/password fields. Click on the link and fill in the data. If your user exists, you will receive an email with your username or a link to create a new password.
- To be able to log in with Itsme, you must first link your MyFost user to your Itsme user. Here you can read how.
- You can generate reports of the declaration in the 'Reports' module on the Dashboard. Download the manual for more information.
- Mandate your Belgian customer for service packaging
- Give a mandate to your foreign supplier of packaged products. This is not possible for service packaging or private label products.
- Mandate a Belgian company as a parent company, holding company, franchisor or purchasing center.
Depending on the amount of your contribution, you will receive 4 advances of 25% or 2 advances of 50%. The advances are based on the most recently submitted declaration at the rates of the advance year.
The difference will be settled after receipt of the declaration.
Do you have other questions?
Fost Plus is happy to help! Contact our helpdesk on +32 (0)2 775 03 50 or send an email to members@fostplus.be.