Denmark decides what your packaging costs by what you can prove about it. Under the packaging rules in force since October 2025, a pack with one design criterion you cannot document is placed in the red level and pays a 35 percent surcharge.
That makes Danish EPR software a documentation question before it is a filing question. Below are six tools ranked on how much of your packaging each one can actually account for.
What Denmark asks you to report
Three things decide the shape of the work, and none of them is the submit button.
One register with a different deadline for every stream
Packaging producer responsibility in Denmark runs through Dansk Producentansvar, the national producer register, usually shortened to DPA.
You register there at least 14 days before you start placing packaging on the Danish market, and you report every year after that.
For packaging the annual report is due before 1 June, covering the previous calendar year. The reporting window opens on 1 January and closes on 31 May.
What catches companies out is that the other streams do not share that date. Electronics and fishing gear close on 31 March, end-of-life vehicles on 15 April, batteries on 30 June, and single-use plastics runs four times a year in windows that are only ten days long.
Miss one and DPA closes your registration in the register, which stops you selling the covered products until it is reopened and the registration fee is paid again.
The report is four splits rather than one weight
A Danish packaging report is not a single tonnage. Every quantity is given in kilograms and then divided four ways.
- By material category, using the list in the regulation, which runs from plastic, glass, paper and cardboard through to wood, ceramics, cork, porcelain and textiles.
- By household or business packaging, because the two are funded and allocated separately.
- By single-use or reusable, which also decides whether you have to join a scheme at all.
- By hazardous or residual sorting, flagged where the packaging has to be sorted that way under the Danish waste rules.
Single-use packaging means joining a scheme when you register
If you place single-use packaging on the Danish market, you have to be signed up to a collective scheme no later than when you register with DPA. Producers whose packaging is only reusable are not required to join one.
The scheme carries the waste side for its members. It arranges collection and treatment in proportion to your market share, takes over the packaging waste the municipalities hand across, and files the waste-side reports.
It may also register you and file your annual tonnage report, if you arrange that with them. What it cannot do is invent the numbers, and the rules oblige it to collect them from you.
So in Denmark the filing is delegable and the data is not. That is the whole reason this list is a list of data tools rather than filing services.
Packaging you cannot document is priced as the worst case
Danish schemes do not charge one flat rate per kilo. They grade what you pay using a traffic light, and the light is set by documentation.
Each material sub-category has its own design criteria. Most run on three levels and the rest on two, and where a pack sits decides its share of the scheme's operating costs.
- Green. Meets the green criteria and none of the red ones. Green packaging is paid a bonus out of the surcharge pot, though it never drops below 20 percent of its calculated operational costs.
- Yellow. Meets green or yellow criteria and no red ones. It pays the base rate, and shares in the surplus after green producers are paid, with the same 20 percent floor.
- Red. Meets one or more red criteria. It carries a 35 percent surcharge on top of its calculated operational costs, and that money funds the bonuses.
Then comes the line that sets the whole Danish agenda for a producer.
If one design criterion cannot be documented, the packaging goes in the red level. Not pending, not unrated. Red, at 35 percent more, until you can show otherwise.
The grading happens per component rather than per pack
The other half of the mechanic is how a pack gets broken up before it is graded.
A pack has a main component and any separate components, each of which can have integrated components of its own. Every component you have documented is categorised on its own, by whichever material dominates it by weight.
Anything you have not documented as separate is folded into the main component and counted in its weight. An integrated component only counts separately if you can show it comes apart under simple mechanical force during transport or sorting.
And where no single material dominates, the pack is categorised under the material that pays the highest contribution in your scheme.
Read those three rules together and the pattern is consistent. Every gap in your packaging data resolves in the direction that costs more, which is a fair rule and an expensive one.
The eight-tonne line decides how much detail you file rather than whether you file
Denmark has one number that looks like a small-business exemption and is not one.
Place under eight tonnes of packaging in a calendar year and you may report only the total weight, split into household and business packaging. Above it, the full material breakdown applies.
Under eight tonnes your scheme also has to leave your contribution ungraded, so the traffic light does not apply to you unless you ask for it.
What the eight-tonne line never does is take you out of scope. You still register 14 days ahead, still join a scheme for single-use packaging, still report every year, and still pay the fees.
One reported number sets four separate bills
The tonnage you file before 1 June is not just a compliance record. Four different charges are calculated from it.
| What the number sets | Who charges it | How it works |
|---|---|---|
| The register's annual administration fee | DPA | Assessed on the quantity you made available the previous calendar year, with a combined minimum of 250 DKK a year |
| The environmental authority's annual fee | Miljøstyrelsen | Assessed on your household packaging from the previous calendar year |
| Your allocation of real waste | DPA decides, municipalities invoice | Your reported quantities set which waste fractions you must take over or pay for, decided on 1 October 2026 and then every second year |
| Your scheme contribution | Your collective scheme | Graded green, yellow or red per material sub-category, as above |
The allocation is the one worth pausing on. It is calculated from the quantities reported before 1 June, and it runs for two calendar years, so a number filed in May 2026 shapes an obligation that lasts through 2028.
Corrections are possible but tightly framed. You can only fix the year immediately before the one you are reporting, and the fix has to travel with next year's report.
If the packaging turned out to be placed outside Denmark by somebody else, you also need a digital declaration from that trader before DPA will accept the change.
One filing a year, one correction window, and a two-year bill attached. That is the case for holding packaging data properly rather than rebuilding it each spring.
Where each tool sits between describing a pack and pricing it
The six tools split cleanly on one question, which is whether they tell you what your packaging is or what it costs.
Both ends are legitimate and they answer different questions. A fee calculator turns a finished dataset into kroner, which is what you want in the week before a scheme invoice.
A product record is what produces that dataset in the first place, and it is what still stands up when an auditor asks why a component was graded green.
We put Repax first because the record has to exist before anything else works, and because the same record answers the other five Danish streams.
We are not at the far end of the pricing arc, and the two tools that are get their credit in the ranking below.
What we looked for in Danish EPR software
Six criteria, applied to every tool in the same order, with one hard entry requirement before them.
The entry requirement is that the tool's own website names Denmark. Several well-known EPR platforms claim hundreds of schemes without ever naming the Danish one, and a claim that broad is not evidence that anyone there has read the Danish rules.
| What we checked | Why it decides the ranking |
|---|---|
| Depth of packaging data | Denmark grades per component and folds undocumented components into the main one, so component-level material and weight data is the difference between green and red |
| Which Danish duties it touches | Packaging is one of six reporting calendars, and a tool that only knows the June one leaves the rest on your desk |
| What it produces at the end | A file your scheme can accept, a fee figure, or a submission, since these are three different products |
| How specific its Danish content is | Naming DPA, the 31 May window, the eight-tonne option and the grading levels shows the rules were actually read |
| Pricing you can see | A published price lets a small producer decide without a sales call, which matters most at the bottom of the market |
| What it needs from you | Every tool here assumes some input, and knowing whether that is shipping data, a materials list or a full bill of materials is what makes a shortlist honest |
The best Danish EPR software ranked
Six tools, ranked on how much of the Danish job each one carries. Where a rival goes further than we do, its entry says so.
1. Repax for one product record that answers every Danish stream
Repax starts from the product rather than the report. You specify each product once, down to its components, materials and weights, and every report is generated from that record instead of being reassembled each spring.
That is a good fit for the Danish grading rules specifically. Because a component only counts separately when you have documented it, the useful unit of storage is the component, and that is what a Repax assembly holds.
It also matters that Denmark runs six reporting calendars through one register. The same product record answers the packaging report in May and the battery or electronics report on its own date, rather than each stream getting its own spreadsheet.
Repax is our own product, which is why it is at the top of a list on our own blog, so treat the specifics below as the part worth checking.
Repax Core holds the product data and generates the reports.
Try Repax Core for free - no card required Describe your products once and Core builds the report each market and scheme expects. Try it freeRepax Declare produces the EU Declaration of Conformity that PPWR requires from 12 August 2026, which lands in Denmark on the same date as everywhere else in the EU.
What Core does not do is press submit, and Repax does not publish a Danish fee calculator. Registrations and submissions are a separate product, Repax Comply, which does them for you under a power of attorney.
- Best for: producers who want component-level packaging data that feeds the Danish report and the other five Danish calendars from one place.
- What it does for a DPA report: holds components, materials and weights per product, keeps the household and business split and the single-use and reusable split on the record, generates the reports a scheme asks for, and produces the EU Declaration of Conformity through Declare.
- Markets and streams: multi-market and multi-stream, including packaging, with Danish guidance published on packaging EPR in Denmark and Danish EPR as a whole.
- Pricing: Core from 0 EUR a month, Declare from 0 EUR a month with paid tiers at 29 EUR and 59 EUR a month, excluding VAT (as of August 2026).
- What it needs from you: product specifications, so components, materials and weights. It is the most demanding input on this list and the reason the output travels.
- Watch-out: it is not a collective scheme and does not price your packaging in kroner, and Core does not file to DPA for you (Comply does that, as a separate membership). For the fee figure itself, the next two entries go further.
2. EPR Reporter for a Danish fee figure and a report priced per filing
EPR Reporter is Danish, based in Aalborg, and was set up in 2025 specifically for this regime rather than adapted into it. The whole product is the Danish annual report.
It calculates the fee from the packaging type, applies the eco-modulation bonus and penalty, produces the report in DPA's format, and sends deadline reminders. Its reminder schedule names the right date, which is more than several international guides manage.
- Best for: Danish producers who already know their packaging quantities and want the fee and the report without a subscription.
- What it does for a DPA report: calculates the fee, applies the grading bonus or penalty, generates a report in DPA's format, and tracks the deadline.
- Markets and streams: Denmark only, packaging only.
- Pricing: a free tier at 0 kr, Light at 399 kr per report for under eight tonnes, Pro at 1,190 kr per report at eight tonnes or more, and an optional Plus add-on at 799 kr a year, all excluding VAT (as of August 2026). You pay per report generated and credits work for any year.
- What it needs from you: your packaging quantities and types, entered by you. No integrations are named on the site.
- Watch-out: it is a reporting and pricing tool for one country and one stream, so nothing here helps with your battery, electronics or single-use plastic dates, and there is no published integration to pull the data in.
3. Recyda for grading packaging against the Danish design criteria
Recyda is a German packaging-data platform with a genuine Danish build, not a country page bolted onto a generic flow. They publish a Denmark EPR calculator and an eco-modulation breakdown as named features.
Their claim is that the platform reads the Danish design-for-recycling guideline to work out the correct modulation level, and assesses all of a pack's components automatically. If the grading is what worries you, that is the most direct answer on this list.
Their own flow ends in an export rather than a submission. You download a report ready to submit to your scheme, which they illustrate with VANA.
- Best for: producers whose Danish problem is the grading itself, especially where a portfolio sits close to the red criteria.
- What it does for a DPA report: consolidates packaging data, assesses components against the Danish design criteria, calculates the fee, and exports a report ready for your scheme.
- Markets and streams: more than 20 countries with Denmark, the UK, France, Italy and the Netherlands named, packaging only, plus PPWR declaration support.
- Pricing: no public price, demo-led (as of August 2026).
- What it needs from you: packaging specifications precise enough to be assessed, pulled in from ERP or PLM systems by API, file upload or mapping.
- Watch-out: packaging only, so the other Danish streams sit outside it, and you cannot see a price without booking a call.
4. ComplyMarket for the Danish paperwork across three streams
ComplyMarket is the only provider here with separate Danish service pages for packaging, electronics and batteries, which matters because those are three different deadlines in the same register.
Their packaging page reads like someone worked through the Danish rules. It names the 14-day registration rule, the 1 January to 31 May window, the total-packaging option under eight tonnes, and the Danish definition of a micro-enterprise.
The service itself is preparation rather than submission. They assess which role you hold, build a registration data pack lined up with what DPA asks for, map your packaging to the Danish material categories, and keep the weight logic and supplier documents behind it with an audit trail.
- Best for: companies that want the Danish specifics handled by people who have written them down, across more than one stream.
- What it does for a DPA report: producer-role assessment, a registration pack aligned to DPA, packaging mapped to the Danish material categories, and weight logic with supplier documentation and an audit trail.
- Markets and streams: many EU markets with country pages, and packaging, electronics and batteries covered separately for Denmark.
- Pricing: no public price, demo-led (as of August 2026).
- What it needs from you: product and packaging data at stock-keeping-unit level, plus supplier documents, which they capture rather than expect you to hold.
- Watch-out: they prepare rather than submit, no authorised-representative service is named on the Danish packaging page, and there is no price without a call.
5. PakkeVægt for turning shipping data into a Danish packaging report
PakkeVægt is the narrowest tool here and the best fit for the company it is built for, which is a Danish webshop that ships through Shipmondo.
Rather than asking you to specify products, it reads your shipping data and works the packaging out from that. For a shop whose packaging is boxes, tape and filler in a handful of sizes, that is a genuinely shorter route to a defensible figure.
- Best for: Danish webshops already using Shipmondo, who want a packaging figure out of data they are creating anyway.
- What it does for a DPA report: converts shipping data into packaging quantities, monitors the eight-tonne threshold, and outputs a report plus a scheme-compatible CSV for you to submit.
- Markets and streams: Denmark only, packaging only, and within packaging mainly shipping materials.
- Pricing: a one-off assisted package from 2,995 DKK, or Auto-Pilot at 399 DKK a month with a seven-day trial (as of August 2026). No free tier.
- What it needs from you: Shipmondo data, either as a one-off export or through their API. Shipmondo is the only integration named.
- Watch-out: if you do not use Shipmondo, or your packaging is product packaging rather than shipping packaging, the premise does not hold, and sales packaging is where most of the grading risk lives.
6. prduct.com for proving where packaging data came from
prduct.com is Danish, based in Aarhus, and sits alongside the rest of this list rather than against it. It is a supply-chain and compliance platform rather than an EPR reporting tool.
Its value in Denmark is the part that comes before a report. It collects and holds supplier and product information across twelve named frameworks, packaging and extended producer responsibility among them, so a claim about a pack has a documented source behind it.
Given that undocumented components are graded red, having the supplier evidence in one place has a direct price attached. Their Danish customer list, from REMA 1000 and Søstrene Grene to BoConcept and UMAGE, is a fair signal of who that suits.
- Best for: larger Danish companies whose weak point is supplier evidence rather than the report itself.
- What it does for a DPA report: consolidates supplier and packaging documentation so the figures you or your scheme file have a traceable source.
- Markets and streams: mainly the EU, across twelve frameworks including packaging, extended producer responsibility and the waste rules.
- Pricing: a free entry point with enterprise plans through a demo, and no published price list (as of August 2026).
- What it needs from you: supplier relationships and product records, which is also most of what it gives back.
- Watch-out: no published function for calculating a fee, registering with DPA, submitting a report or issuing a declaration of conformity, so pair it with something from higher up this list.
Match a tool to the clock you are on
Denmark hands out obligations by stream, and each stream has its own date, so the most practical way to shortlist is by the deadline in front of you.
Packaging only and under eight tonnes
You need a total weight split into household and business packaging, and your contribution is not graded. EPR Reporter's free or Light tier covers this, and PakkeVægt covers it too if your packaging arrives as shipments.
Packaging only and above eight tonnes
Now the material breakdown and the grading both apply. This is where component-level data pays for itself, so Repax for the record and Recyda if the grading is the part that worries you.
Packaging plus batteries or electronics
Three calendars, three sets of numbers, one register. Repax holds them from one product record, and ComplyMarket publishes a separate Danish service for each of the three.
Selling into Denmark from abroad
Selling packaged goods directly to Danish end users makes you the producer, whether your customer is a consumer or a business.
You do not have to appoint a Danish representative, though an EU-established company may choose one instead of setting up in Denmark, and then the representative takes on the duties.
Your packaging is reusable only
You still register and report, but you are not required to join a collective scheme, so you file rather than delegate. Hold the data yourself and expect to submit it yourself.
Six tools compared on the jobs Denmark gives you
The same six side by side, on the questions a Danish obligation actually asks.
| Tool | Best for | Danish streams covered | What it produces | Pricing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Repax | Component-level data across every Danish calendar | Packaging plus the other five | Reports and an EU declaration of conformity | From 0 EUR a month |
| EPR Reporter | A Danish fee figure without a subscription | Packaging | A priced report in DPA's format | Free tier, then 399 kr or 1,190 kr per report |
| Recyda | Grading packs against the Danish criteria | Packaging | A fee calculation and an export for your scheme | Demo-led, no public price |
| ComplyMarket | Danish paperwork across three streams | Packaging, electronics, batteries | A registration pack and a prepared report | Demo-led, no public price |
| PakkeVægt | Webshops on Shipmondo | Packaging, mainly shipping materials | A report and a scheme-compatible file | From 2,995 DKK once, or 399 DKK a month |
| prduct.com | Supplier evidence behind the figures | Documentation across frameworks | Traceable product and supplier records | Free entry point, enterprise on demo |
Frequently asked questions about Danish EPR software
The questions that come up most once a shortlist is down to two or three.
What is the best EPR software for Denmark?
For most producers it is whatever holds packaging data per component, because that is what the Danish grading rules are applied to, which is why Repax leads this list. If you only want the fee figure, EPR Reporter and Recyda both calculate it.
When is the Danish packaging report due?
Before 1 June, for the packaging you placed on the market the previous calendar year, with the window open from 1 January. Other streams differ, so electronics and fishing gear close 31 March, vehicles 15 April and batteries 30 June.
Is there a threshold below which I can ignore Danish packaging EPR?
No. Eight tonnes a year only changes how much detail you report and whether your fees are graded. Below it you register, join a scheme for single-use packaging, report and pay exactly as everyone else does.
Do I pay Danish EPR fees on bottles and cans that already carry a deposit?
No, and this is the most common Danish mix-up. Packaging inside the deposit and return system is outside the packaging EPR rules altogether, so it is not in your report. The exception is if you hold a dispensation from the deposit system.
Does my collective scheme file the report for me?
It may, if you arrange it, but the rules make that an option rather than the default, and the scheme has to collect the figures from you. Only the waste-side reporting is its own duty. The packaging data behind your tonnage stays yours.
Do foreign companies need a Danish representative?
Not for packaging. A producer established in another EU country may appoint a Danish representative instead of establishing here, and that representative then takes on the obligations. It is an option, not a requirement.
What changes in Denmark on 12 August 2026?
The EU packaging regulation starts applying, which brings design and documentation requirements and the declaration of conformity alongside the Danish reporting duties. The DPA register, the 31 May window and the grading levels carry on as they are.
