At least 48 hours before you bring a dangerous mixture on the Belgian market, you should make a notification to the Poison Centre. This applies to products you sell to the general public, as well as products intended for professional use. You must also pay a fee of € 200 (variations are possible; see the Royal Decree on paying fees and contributions, in Dutch or French).


Notification system

Hazardous products/mixtures have to be notified to the Belgian Poison Centre before being placed on the Belgian market, no matter which kind of company is placing them on the market.


The notification should be done via the ECHA PCN portal, where a single notification can apply for different EU countries if the concerned countries are pointed out in the declaration. The notification modalities are explained here.


A direct notification to the Belgian Poison Centre is also possible for the Belgian market only, for products/mixtures which are not declared via the ECHA PCN Portal. For information on this procedure, please contact the Belgian Poison Centre by phone : +32 2 264 96 36.


You may choose between one of those two systems to notify your products to the Poison Centre. It is not necessary to notify via the two systems for the products placed on the market in Belgium.


Warning: in the case you would submit your notifications through both systems in parallel, you would be charged with the double amount of fee. It is indeed technically compulsory to process the double notifications coming from both systems. It therefore leads to a double work of our team.

 

Identification number UFI

The UFI is a new number that has to be put on the label of the hazardous mixture from the 1st January 2021 for the new mixtures, and in  2025 for mixtures already on the market on the 1st January 2021. It is a unique number for a mixture/producer than can be generated via the ECHA website. It is useful for the hazardous mixture notification to the Poison Centre.

If you want to update your label for mixture already on the market before 2021 by placing the UFI number on it, it is possible. In this case we ask you to inform the Poison Centre by using the XLS file with the following information: 

  • The responsible for the placing on the market
  • Name of the product
  • UFI number (only 1 UFI per row in the Excel sheet)

Updates related to the addition of a UFI only are free of charge.