This guide takes your company to every registration Denmark requires under extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging, electronics and batteries, with the right party filing each one, whether you are established in Denmark or sell into it from abroad.
Packaging, electronics and batteries get the full walk-through here, since they are the three that most sellers owe of the seven streams Denmark puts producer duties on. The other four sit in a table near the end.
How do I register for EPR in Denmark?
Denmark regulates seven waste streams, and all of them except tyres run through one register kept by Dansk Producentansvar (DPA). Packaging, electronics and batteries, the three covered in full here, are three separate registrations in it.
- Packaging is registered in DPA by you, your collective scheme or your Danish representative, and only once you have joined a scheme for each material you use.
- Electronics are registered in DPA the same way. A seller in another EU country shipping straight to Danish users files through a Danish representative.
- Batteries are registered in DPA too and get a registration number. Any seller abroad selling direct files through a Danish representative.
Packaging and electronics must be registered at least 14 days before your first sale, and batteries before it. Each registration becomes final once DPA's fee invoice is paid, and ends in a registration certificate, with a registration number for batteries.
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Before you open the register, gather these five company details and documents.
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Your CVR or VAT number
A Danish company logs in with its CVR number and MitID Erhverv. A company abroad without a CVR number gives its VAT number and creates its own username and password.
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A collective scheme per material
The packaging form asks for one collective scheme for each material in your single-use packaging, so sign with a scheme before you register.
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A product list sorted by stream
Your packaging by material and by household or business use, your electronics by category and brand, and your batteries by category and chemistry, each with the quantities you expect to sell.
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A contact person at your own company
The packaging and electronics forms both ask for a named contact employed by the company itself, and electronics also asks for a system user.
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A mandate for a Danish representative
A written mandate for a Danish company with a CVR number, if you sell directly to Danish end users from abroad. The representative must accept your request within seven days.
The one question that decides your whole route
To guide you the best way, it helps to know where your company is based, because the steps are not the same for a company set up in Denmark as for one selling into Denmark from abroad.
Is your company based in Denmark or abroad?
Pick your answer below for the right guidance.
If your company is based abroad, it also matters who buys from you:
- A Danish business. That business is the producer and registers.
- End users directly. You are the producer, and step 3 shows when you need a Danish representative.
One login and three separate registrations
Every EU country runs its own producer registers, and how to register for EPR in Europe walks through that frame country by country. Denmark puts them all under one roof.
Across EPR in Denmark the duties most producers meet sit in three registrations in DPA's producer register, and a webshop selling a boxed device with a battery inside needs all three. Each one is its own registration with its own fee.
Below are Denmark's three registrations side by side, with the one-off fees as set in the rules in force in September 2026.
| Registration | Who files from abroad | Time and cost |
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| DPA, packaging | Your Danish customer when you sell to Danish businesses. Your Danish representative when you sell direct | Confirmed within 14 days. 1,000 kroner once |
| DPA, electronics | Your Danish importer, or your Danish representative when you sell direct from the EU. From outside the EU you may file yourself | Confirmed within 14 days. 1,000 kroner once |
| DPA, batteries | Your Danish importer, or your Danish representative whenever you sell direct | No time published. 1,000 kroner once |
A second DPA registration often costs 500 kroner instead of 1,000, depending on which one you already hold. Yearly DPA fees based on the volumes you sell come on top, and so does your collective scheme's own contribution.
Packaging changed on 12 August 2026, when the EU packaging regulation (PPWR) began to apply. A seller abroad that sells packaged goods directly to Danish end users must now appoint a Danish representative for EPR, and the PPWR applies that to sellers outside the EU as well.
DPA's guidance on authorised representatives still says only batteries need one from outside the EU, so confirm with DPA how a packaging representative is recorded before you file.
Batteries moved onto the EU Battery Regulation on 18 August 2025. Every battery producer had to register again, and producers of portable and light transport batteries must now go through an approved collective scheme.
A 6-step guide to EPR registration in Denmark
This guide takes you from the first check, whether Denmark counts you as the producer, to holding a registration certificate for every stream you owe. The steps run in the order the Danish rules set, and each one ends with what you should have in hand before you move on.
Step 1. Confirm Denmark counts you as the producer
Each stream names its own producer, so check your products against all three.
For packaging that is you if you are established in Denmark and first supply packaging or packaged goods here, or if you sell them directly to Danish end users from abroad. Since 12 August 2026 a Danish business that unpacks goods before they reach the end user can be the producer too.
For electronics it is the maker or own-brand seller, the Danish importer, or a seller abroad shipping straight to Danish users. For batteries it is whoever first supplies a battery here, the one inside your device included.
Selling only to a Danish company makes that company the producer. None of the three has a volume threshold, so the first sale counts.
Step 2. Work out which registrations you owe
Each yes from step 1 becomes its own registration, all three behind one login.
- Packaging. A registration naming one collective scheme per material for your single-use packaging. Reusable packaging is registered too, with a scheme optional.
- Electronics. A registration listing your equipment by category, household or professional.
- Batteries. A registration listing your battery categories and chemistries, with a collective scheme mandatory for portable and light transport batteries.
The 8-tonne line for packaging only simplifies the yearly report, not the registration. Any other stream is in the table further down this page.
Step 3. Decide who files each one
Who files depends on where your company is established and who you sell to, so read the case that fits you.
Established in Denmark. You register all three yourself on virk.dk, or let your scheme register you.
Selling from another EU or EEA country. Selling to Danish businesses, your Danish customer registers. Selling directly to Danish end users, you need a Danish representative in all three streams.
Selling from outside the EU. Batteries and packaging sold direct need a Danish representative. Electronics you may register yourself.
How to appoint an EPR authorised representative walks the appointment.
Step 4. Gather what each registration asks for
Each form asks for different data, so collect it stream by stream.
- Packaging. Your company details, packaging type, sales method including distance selling, a scheme per material and this year's expected quantities.
- Electronics. Your company details, a contact and a system user, your equipment by category, brands, sales method and how you meet the take-back duty.
- Batteries. Your company details, battery categories and chemistries, your scheme, any written mandate, and expected quantities for this year and next.
Step 5. Register in the order the Danish rules set
The same order runs in all three streams, because DPA does not complete a registration with a piece missing.
- Agree the mandate with a Danish representative if you sell direct from abroad. Your request goes through the register, and it has seven days to accept.
- Join a collective scheme for packaging and portable batteries, and for household electronics join one or place a guarantee. How to choose a producer responsibility organisation walks the choice.
- File in DPA's producer register on virk.dk at least 14 days before your first packaging or electronics sale, and before your first battery.
- Pay the fee invoice. Only then is the registration final, and DPA confirms it within 14 days.
You are done with a registration certificate per stream, and a number for batteries.
Step 6. Do what each registration makes due next
Each registration starts its own yearly clock, and the three Danish deadlines fall on different dates.
Packaging is reported before 1 June for the year before, per material and split into household and business packaging. Under 8 tonnes a year totals are enough.
Electronics are reported by 31 March for the year before. Batteries follow the EU Battery Regulation, and the first report under it fell due on 30 June 2026.
Your scheme can file the packaging report for you, and changes to your registered details go to DPA within one month. How to do EPR reporting walks the yearly cycle.
The other streams Denmark regulates
Beyond packaging, electronics and batteries, Denmark runs producer duties for four more product groups.
Below is where each one is registered, so you can rule them in or out in one pass.
| Stream | Register | Read more |
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| Single-use plastics | DPA, for items such as wet wipes, balloons and tobacco filters, with clean-up fees | Single-use plastics EPR in Denmark |
| Fishing gear | DPA, at least 14 days before your first sale | Fishing gear EPR in Denmark |
| Cars and vans | DPA, with the number of imported vehicles taken from the Danish motor vehicle register | Vehicles EPR in Denmark |
| Tyres | No register. A fee on tyres funds the industry fund Dækbranchens Miljøfond | Tyres EPR in Denmark |
Textiles are not on the list yet. Denmark has not adopted its textile rules, and the EU requires a textile scheme to run by April 2028.
Three Danish reports from one product record
There are two ways through the work above, and both rest on the same product data.
Run the filings yourself
Every step above is data work before it is filing work. Packaging by material and by household or business use, electronics by category and brand, batteries by category and chemistry, and then the same figures again for each scheme and for DPA on three different dates.
Repax Core holds one structured record per product, broken down to its materials and components, takes your sales data in through integrations or order imports, and builds the cut each report asks for.
The June packaging report, the March electronics report and the battery report come out of the same record, including the simpler totals when you sell under 8 tonnes of packaging.
Try Repax Core for free - no card required Describe your products once and Core builds the report each market and scheme expects. Try it freeOr hand the filings over
If you would rather not run them yourself, Repax Comply is the managed route, linked at the top of this guide. Producers register and report through Repax market by market, with a Danish representative appointed where the rules require one.
The Danish detail to know is that your collective schemes stay in the picture. The packaging form names one per material, and a handover changes who keeps the registrations, the reports and the representative mandate running.
For the tools that hold Danish register data side by side today, the best Danish EPR software in 2026 ranks them.
6 common mistakes when registering for EPR in Denmark
Below are the six mistakes producers make most often when they register in Denmark.
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Registering before joining a scheme
Opening the packaging form first. It asks for one collective scheme per material, and the rules require you to be a member no later than the registration itself.
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Letting the representative request lapse
Sending the request and moving on. The representative has seven days to accept, and if it does not, the registration is not completed and you file again.
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Treating submit as the finish line
Assuming you are registered once the form is sent. The registration is final only when DPA's fee invoice is paid, and until then you are not in the public register buyers check.
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Counting a device as one registration
Treating the electronics registration as covering the battery inside. DPA handles electronics and batteries as two separate registrations, each with its own form.
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Adding deposit bottles to your packaging
Counting bottles and cans from the Danish deposit system as packaging. They sit outside the packaging rules altogether, unless the producer has a dispensation from the deposit system.
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Following guides from before August 2026
Reading that a Danish representative is optional. Since 12 August 2026 a seller abroad selling packaged goods directly to Danish end users must appoint one.
Frequently asked questions about registering for EPR in Denmark
Below are the five questions producers ask most often about registering for EPR in Denmark.
How long does this take?
Plan for at least 14 days per registration. Packaging and electronics must be registered 14 days before your first sale, and DPA confirms within 14 days. A representative has seven days to accept, and the registration is final once the fee is paid.
Do I need a company or an address in Denmark?
No. A company abroad registers with its VAT number instead of a Danish CVR number. Selling directly to Danish end users needs a Danish representative in every stream from the EU or EEA, and for batteries and packaging from outside the EU.
Can Repax register for me?
Yes. Repax Comply runs the registrations and reporting through a Danish representative where one is required. Your collective scheme memberships stay in place, because the packaging registration names one scheme per material.
What happens if I sell in Denmark without registering?
Selling packaging or electronics without registering is punished with a fine, and Danish law sets no maximum. Intentional breaches for gain can mean up to two years in prison, and Danish distributors may not buy electronics from an unregistered producer.
Is the deposit system the same as packaging EPR?
No. Bottles and cans in the Danish deposit system, run by Dansk Retursystem, fall outside the packaging rules unless the producer has a dispensation from the deposit system. Everything else you pack still needs the packaging registration.
