| Fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Late 2024 | ZC Zeelandia Consulting B.V. established in Amsterdam |
| 2 locations | Amsterdam headquarters and Taipei office (熱蘭遮管理諮詢有限公司) |
| AR | EU-based entity able to act as Authorised Representative |
| TBA-NL | The founder is President of the Taiwanese Business Association in the Netherlands |
01 Why Amsterdam
Three structural problems Asian manufacturers face
We see the same pattern at client after client. It is why ZC chose to set up a real company in Amsterdam rather than a representative office.
| Problem | What ZC does |
|---|---|
| 01 Information gap Regulation is written in the EU’s language and logic and changes often; internal teams struggle to judge what it means for their products and their role. | The Amsterdam team reads the legal text and official notices directly and turns them into Chinese-language documents and internal training. |
| 02 Time zones and distance Authority enquiries, notification systems and European customer requests mostly happen outside Taiwanese working hours; response speed affects shipments. | Taipei and Amsterdam split the work and cover both working days; authority contact and notification systems are handled from Amsterdam. |
| 03 EU-entity requirements Several regulations require an authorised representative or registered entity inside the EU; non-EU manufacturers cannot comply alone. | ZC is a Dutch B.V. and can act as the legal entity for authorised-representative and EPR registration. |
The name
1624 · Fort Zeelandia, Tainan
Fort Zeelandia was built by the Dutch East India Company from 1624 in what is now Tainan, one of the earliest points of contact between the Netherlands and Taiwan. We took the name because our work is the same bridge: European authorities and customers on one side, the factories and supply chains that must comply on the other.
ZC also stands for our method, from zero to compliance: Zero to Compliance.
02 Founder
Po-Yen (Bryan) Chen
Founder and Managing Director, ZC Zeelandia Consulting B.V.
Built ZC’s service portfolio and client base from the company’s registration in Amsterdam in late 2024, focused on helping manufacturers in Taiwan and Asia turn EU regulation into executable compliance work. President of Stichting TBA-NL, the Taiwanese Business Association in the Netherlands.
Education: MBA, IESE Business School · Certificate in Sustainability Management, University of Cambridge · BBA, National Cheng Kung University
Experience: Formosa Plastics Group, corporate headquarters · Deloitte, risk advisory · Edify Myanmar, senior management consultant · The Conference Board Advisory, expert network member
03 Consulting team
Senior consultants assembled per engagement
Teams are drawn per case from The Conference Board expert network and partner consultants. Core members, by function:
- Head of advisory · strategy and governance: former consulting lead at a leading international think tank, 20+ years helping European and US companies transform; Big 4 and UK energy group background; MSc Environmental Policy (LSE), Chartered Environmentalist.
- Senior policy advisor · environmental law and policy: senior policy advisor at the TCB ESG Center, former partner at Hunton & Williams; LLM (Yale), PhD in law and medicine (University of Amsterdam); taught at Erasmus University Rotterdam.
- Supply-chain director · human rights and due diligence: 15+ years in business and human rights and responsible sourcing; former European sustainability director at a global consumer-electronics group.
- Governance and legal director · company law and ESG: 10+ years in capital markets and corporate governance; former associate at a leading law firm; LLM, admitted lawyer.
- CSRD and EU Taxonomy · compliance: founder and CEO of a sustainability software and advisory firm; 20+ double-materiality assessments, CSRD roadmaps and XBRL reporting for 30+ clients.
- Senior technical researcher · supply chain and energy: European design and production engineer focused on data-driven decisions, AI in supply chains and CBAM analysis; MSc Environmental Engineering (Mälardalen), MBA.
- Sustainability communication · stakeholder engagement: sustainability reporting specialist and director working with companies in Europe, Asia and the Gulf on climate, circular economy and reporting.
- Media and compliance communication · anti-greenwashing: 10+ years in sustainability communication for international organisations and multinationals, with anti-greenwashing strategy and training.
Consultants are not named, by agreement. The wider network adds sustainable finance, AI and data architecture, environmental data analysis and GIS traceability as cases require; chemical-specific regulation is referred to trusted partners.
04 How we work
Two offices, one case file
Taipei gathers data and communicates; Amsterdam makes the regulatory judgements and takes the legal steps towards EU authorities. Both work from the same document version, so clients never coordinate across time zones themselves.
Taipei: 熱蘭遮管理諮詢有限公司
- Client interviews and project communication
- Product, packaging and supply-chain data collection
- Chinese-language documents and internal training
- Same-day response during Taiwanese working hours
Amsterdam: ZC Zeelandia Consulting B.V.
- Reading the legal text and tracking official notices
- Authority contact and notification-system operation
- Legal entity for authorised-representative and EPR registration
- Local counterpart for European customers and partners
One case, two teams, one document version, one point of contact.
05 Who we serve
The companies we work with
By industry and engagement type; clients are not named, by agreement.
- ICT and computer hardware: motherboards, thermal solutions, server chassis and handheld-device brands
- Display and optics: international monitor and projection brands
- Power and energy storage: UPS and lithium-battery storage
- Biotech and medical devices: medical optics and in-vitro diagnostics
- Chemical materials and consumables: speciality chemicals, printing consumables and packaging materials
- Machinery, logistics and AI applications: construction machinery and logistics-automation AI systems
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Client profile | Mainly Taiwan-listed companies and their European subsidiaries, plus Chinese and Dutch companies |
| Engagement types | Annual advisory alongside single-regulation projects; several annual engagements are in renewal cycles |
| Regulatory areas | PPWR, EUBR, CBAM, EUDR, AI Act, EPR and SCIP in parallel |
| Footprint | Registrations and filings across the EU-27, run from Taipei and Amsterdam |