Norway
Selling tyres into Norway through Dekkretur
Tyres EPR in Norway runs through one door. Norsk Dekkretur, established in 1994, is the sole approved scheme, and being a Dekkretur participant is what compliance means here.
There is a quirk worth knowing up front. Tyres sit outside Norway's national producer portal, so there is no government tyre producer ID at all. The scheme agreement is the whole registration.
Does Norwegian tyre EPR apply to you
The duty starts at the first tyre, with no de minimis. You are a tyre producer in Norway if any of these fit:
- you import tyres to the Norwegian market
- you sell tyres online or by distance to Norwegian buyers
- you sell tyres under your own brand
- you place even a single batch on the market
Whether you move sixty tyres or sixty thousand, the obligation is the same.
Where your tyre fee goes in Norway
The cost is a clean per-tyre environmental fee (miljøgebyr), not a charge per kilo. A passenger-car or small-van tyre is 20 NOK per tyre, set on 1 March 2023, and heavy categories scale by diameter up to around 1,625 NOK for the largest tyres.
That fee funds collection, recycling and reporting in one, which is how the scheme recycles the tyres it collects.
The reporting rhythm for tyres in Norway
The reporting rhythm is the catch a generic guide gets wrong. You report to Dekkretur monthly, even though the statutory report to Miljødirektoratet is annual, and the scheme handles that yearly filing for you.
Selling tyres into Norway from abroad
Registration hinges on a Norwegian organisation number. A foreign company with a Norwegian registration or VAT number joins Dekkretur directly, while one without carries the duty through a Norwegian-registered authorised representative.
Enforcement is not a tyre-specific fine. Breaches run through the general machinery of avfallsforskriften, with coercive fines and criminal penalty under the Pollution Control Act, and Miljødirektoratet supervising.
Little is pending here. There is no EU tyre EPR directive behind the scheme, so tyres remain a purely national system, and end-of-life tyres are caught by the end-of-life vehicle rules only when they sit on a scrapped car. See the rest on EPR in Norway.
Questions sellers ask about tyres EPR in Norway
Short answers from the scheme rules and the regulation.
What does tyres EPR mean in Norway?
It is a national producer responsibility scheme run by Norsk Dekkretur under avfallsforskriften chapter 5. You join the scheme, report tyre volumes monthly and pay a per-tyre fee that funds collection and recycling.
Do foreign or online sellers need an authorised representative in Norway?
Registration depends on a Norwegian organisation number. With one you join Dekkretur directly, and without one you carry the duty through a Norwegian-registered representative. Dekkretur does not use the term authorised representative for tyres.
When are tyres reports due in Norway?
You report to Dekkretur every month, including a nil return in months with no imports. Dekkretur publishes a per-month deadline table, and each report falls due in the first days of the following month.
What changes next for tyres EPR in Norway?
Little. There is no EU-wide tyre EPR directive, so the Norwegian scheme is not waiting on a Brussels deadline. Tyres remain a purely national system under chapter 5, run by Dekkretur.
