Walterre asbl

What Walterre asbl does

Walterre asbl is a Belgian non-profit organization (Association Sans But Lucratif) that serves as the sole government-recognized operator for certification and traceability of excavated soils in the Walloon Region of Belgium. It was established by a consortium of construction industry federations and quality control organizations — Confédération Construction Wallonne, FWEV (Fédération wallonne des Entrepreneurs de Voirie), COPRO, and Immoterae S.A. — and was officially recognized by the Walloon Government on March 18, 2019, under the AGW of July 5, 2018. Operations commenced on May 1, 2020, when mandatory soil certification and traceability requirements came into force. The organization is responsible for managing approximately 10 million tons of excavated soil annually, representing roughly 40% of all waste generated in Wallonia.

The core product is a web-based platform that digitizes the complete regulatory workflow for excavated soils, including Notifications of Land Movement (NMT), Land Quality Reports (RQT), Transport Documents (TD), and Reception Notifications (NR), and issues required certificates such as the Certificate of Quality Control of Lands (CCQT). Supporting tools include WalOnMap, a cartographic interface showing authorized receiving sites and installations; BDES, the public Walloon Soil Condition Database; and a published fee calculation tool. Stakeholder engagement is reinforced through biennial multi-stop roadshow events and a monthly newsletter cadence, with general operations handled by a team of 11-50 employees under Director Laura Derudder.

Walterre serves five mandated stakeholder groups — project owners/developers, certified soil experts, contractors and transporters, authorized installation operators, and receiving site operators — all of whom are required by regulation to engage the platform. Revenue is generated through transaction-based dossier and processing fees, including volume-based fees for NMT/RQT/NR notifications and a €250 annual fee for plant production soil quality control, with pre-payment required before processing. The organization operates exclusively within the Walloon Region and has no parent company, no subsidiaries, and no external funding.

Name

Walterre asbl

Legal name

Walterre ASBL

Website

https://walterre.be

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Walterre asbl is the Walloon Government-mandated non-profit that operates the sole online platform for certification and traceability of excavated soils in Wallonia, Belgium, serving project owners, soil experts, contractors, and authorized site operators.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Soil and Waste Management Regulatory Services

akta.pro primary industry

Environmental Monitoring, Data & Reporting (Air/Water/Soil) (BPAIAMAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Post-Abatement Clearance Testing & Documentation (BPALALAH), Trade Compliance, Standards & Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT/SPS) (BPADAMAK)

Keywords

• Soil traceability certification
• Excavated soil management
• Regulatory compliance platform
• Construction waste tracking
• Circular economy soils

Headquarters

HQ city

La Louvière

HQ country

Belgium

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Dossier/Processing Fees: Fees charged for processing applications including notifications of land movement (NMT), land quality reports (RQT), and reception notifications (NR). Fees are calculated based on volume and require pre-payment before processing.
2. Plant Production Soil Processing Fees: Annual processing fee of €250 excluding VAT for plant production soil quality control according to registration decisions

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Walterre asbl operates a regulated online platform that manages the complete certification and traceability workflow for excavated soils in the Walloon Region of Belgium. Its services include processing soil movement notifications (NMT), land quality reports (RQT), transport documents (TD), and reception notifications (NR), as well as issuing the Certificate of Quality Control of Lands (CCQT), Transport Documents, and Acknowledgements of Receipt. The platform is supported by mapping tools (WalOnMap) and access to the Walloon Soil Condition Database (BDES), enabling compliance with the Walloon Government Decree of July 5, 2018.

Product overview

Walterre asbl operates a single unified regulatory platform for managing excavated soil certification and traceability in Wallonia, Belgium. The core product is the online platform which handles the complete workflow including soil movement notifications (NMT), quality reports (RQT), transport documents, and reception notifications (NR). This platform is supported by complementary tools: WalOnMap (a cartographic interface showing receiver sites and authorized installations), the BDES (Walloon Soil Condition Database), a fee calculation tool, and periodic educational roadshows. The organization was recognized by the Walloon Government in March 2019 and the platform became operational on May 1, 2020 under the AGW of July 5, 2018 regulations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Walterre Online Platform Online platform for managing complete operations related to excavated soils, including submission of soil movement notifications (NMT), soil quality reports (RQT), transport documents (TD), and reception notifications (NR). Designed for project owners, soil experts, contractors, authorized installation operators, and receiving site operators in Wallonia, Belgium.
• Walterre Roadshows
• Fee Calculation Tool Excel-based tool for calculating dossier fees for soil movement notifications (NMT), quality reports (RQT), and reception notifications (NR) based on cumulative quarterly volumes, with volume-based adjustments effective from October 1, 2024.
• BDES (Banque de Données de l'État des Sols) Public database of Walloon soil conditions providing information on possible soil pollution and issuing compliant extracts of soil condition required for administrative procedures such as property sales or permit applications.
• WalOnMap Cartographic Interface Cartographic tool showing the distribution of receiving sites and authorized installations registered on the Walterre platform in Wallonia, enabling soil producers to identify appropriate disposal or valorization destinations.

Quantifiable outcome

• Nearly 10 million tons of soil materials managed per year, representing 40% of Wallonia's waste stream

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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AI maturity

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Feature3 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Confédération Construction WallonnecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOne of the founding members of Walterre asbl. The Walloon Construction Confederation represents construction industry interests and helped establish the soil certification framework.
• FWEV (Fédération wallonne des Entrepreneurs de Voirie)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerWalloon Federation of Road Construction Entrepreneurs. Founding member of Walterre asbl, contributing expertise in road construction and infrastructure soil management.
• COPROcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIndependent control organism for construction products. Founding member bringing quality control and testing expertise to the soil certification system.
• Immoterae S.A.coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCompany created by Vlaamse Confederatie Bouw to implement Grondbank's expertise (approved testing authority for excavated soil materials in Flanders) among project owners and construction companies in Wallonia.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Others

• BRGM (Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières): BRGM is France's public geological survey, providing subsurface data, soil-quality assessment, and site characterization services. While not a regulatory certifier like Walterre, it provides the underlying scientific and technical capabilities on which soil certification regimes are built and is a comparable public-mission expert body.
• INERIS (Institut national de l'environnement industriel et des risques): INERIS is a French public expert body providing scientific and technical support on industrial and environmental risk, including contaminated-site assessment. It supplies expertise analogous to the technical-assurance backbone of Walterre's certification regime.

Broad incumbents

• ADEME (Agence de la transition écologique): ADEME is France's national agency for ecological transition, including soil and site-pollution management. It operates a public-mission mandate analogous to Walterre's, though at a much larger national scale and across a much wider set of environmental domains, including soil diagnostics and brownfield remediation.
• UBA (Umweltbundesamt): UBA is Germany's Federal Environment Agency, operating a national public-service mandate covering soil protection, environmental monitoring, and regulatory data. It is comparable in institutional form (public-mission environmental body) but operates at national scale and across a much broader mandate than Walterre.
• OVAM (Openbare Vlaamse Afvalstoffenmaatschappij): OVAM is the public Flemish waste agency overseeing waste and soil policy in Flanders. While Walterre focuses narrowly on soil certification, OVAM operates broadly across waste categories with regulatory authority — making it a broader incumbent in the same regional regulatory space with overlapping stakeholder relationships.

Direct peers

• Grondbank: Grondbank is the approved testing authority for excavated soil materials in Flanders, Belgium, performing the same regulatory-grade certification and traceability function as Walterre but for the Flemish region. Walterre's founding partner Immoterae S.A. was specifically created to transfer Grondbank's expertise into Wallonia, making it the most direct comparable peer.
• Bodemplus / Bodemloket: The Dutch Bodemloket and Bodemplus program provide soil information and case-handling services for the Netherlands, including local soil-quality data, contamination registers, and remediation support. They represent a national-scale, public-mission equivalent to Walterre's soil-information and traceability function.

Emerging players

• Sphera (Optera Environmental Compliance): Sphera (formerly Optera) provides enterprise environmental compliance and sustainability software including waste, soil, and remediation management modules. While a commercial SaaS vendor rather than a regulator, it competes for the same stakeholder workflows (construction companies, site operators) that Walterre's platform serves.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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M&A

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