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Selling into Denmark? Here is what you need.

Packaging register, recycling scheme, representative and reporting for Denmark — with the official source and the date each rule applies.

Check my obligations for Denmark

At a glanceDK

Danish Producer Responsibility register (DPA)

Scheme

Mandatory collective scheme

Representative (packaging)

Required

Next report

31 May 2027

— 01

Who is the producer

If you deliver directly to consumers or business end users in Denmark from another country, you are the producer there.

— 02

Representative

Registration cannot be completed without a Danish representative.

— 03

Thresholds

No small-quantity exemption confirmed. Assume duties from the first sale.

Step by step

What to do

Packaging

existing national duty

Packaging

Join Mandatory collective scheme

existing national duty

Packaging

Appoint an EPR authorised representative (PPWR Art. 45)

Registration cannot be completed without a Danish representative.

since 12 Aug 2026

Packaging

Report packaging quantities — Annual

due 31 May 2027

Packaging

Scheme fees + DPA/EPA administrative fees.

Batteries, electronics, textiles

Batteries: separate register and scheme; representative required since 18 Aug 2025.

WEEE: separate register and scheme; representative by written mandate (Directive 2012/19/EU Art. 17).

Textiles: EPR scheme due by 17 Apr 2028.

Labelling

No national labelling rule beyond material codes found.

EU harmonised sorting labels (PPWR Art. 12) from 12 Aug 2028 or later, per implementing act.

Marketplaces

Online marketplacesNational rules already make platforms check EPR numbers in some markets (e.g. DE since 2022); EU-wide checks follow once harmonised registers exist — without it: Platform may block sales

Official source: mst.dk/erhverv/groen-produktion-og-affald/producentansvar/em · 2026.6-draft