Data Centre for Circular Economy
In Dansk Producentansvar (DPA -Danish Producer Responsibility) we administer the rules on national environmental legislation on producer responsibility for electrical equipment, batteries, and vehicles, as well as the refund disposal scheme for end-of-life vehicles. In addition from 2023/2024 also packaging and single-use-plastics will be part of our guidance as register and reporting unit. The Danish producer responsibility schemes are administered and monitored through our digital and statutory registers.
We are the national EPR register that develops and operates IT systems for the treatment of data and dissemination of knowledge supporting us in the transition to a sustainable and circular resource economy.
In other words, here:
- Your business must register if you wish to sell your products legally.
- You can scrap your car and get a scrapping premium.
- Your municipality can order collection equipment for end-of-life electronics and batteries to be used at your recycling centres.
- If you are an environmental authority, a student, or a journalist you can find statistical information and knowledge about compliance with current environmental targets.
- All of you can get access to guidelines and information if you wish to know more about environmental legislation, producer responsibility, and circular economy.
We are an independent not-for-profit organisation established under the Danish Environmental Protection Act. The Ministry of Environment has delegated several assignments to DPA. We provide general guidance about the rules relating to producer responsibility, and we are authorised to decide whether your business is covered by producer responsibility and whether a scrapping premium can be paid for your car.
It’s all about the environment
The rules on producer responsibility take offset in environmental considerations and aim to limit the quantity of waste from end-of-life electrical and electronic equipment, batteries, and vehicles. On the one hand, the objective is to invite producers to produce environment-friendlier products and on the other hand to increase recycling, recovery, and other forms of utilisation of the resources contained in the end-of-life products.
Further information
Our top management consists of a Board with eight members appointed by the Minister for the Environment on recommendation from seven industry associations. The Chairman is appointed by the Minister for the Environment.
DPA Board 2024
- Ole Sohn, (Chairman)
- Karin Klitgaard, Deputy Director, Confederation of Danish Industry, (Vice-Chair)
Board members
- Frederik Madsen, Manager, Association of Danish Manufacturers and Importers of Dry Batteries
- Henrik Egede Rasmussen, Director, APPLiA Denmark
- Henrik Hyltoft, Market Director, Danish Chamber of Commerce
- Mads Rørvig, CEO, Danish Car Importers Association
- Thomas Hestbæk, Director, FABA
- Vibeke Myrtue Jensen, Senior advisor, Environment and Transportation, Consumer Council Think
Managing Director Johnny Bøwig is appointed by the Board.
Digital scrapping fine system for End-of-Life Vehicles ( in Danish called DUS)
The board of DPA established in 2016 an Advisory Board (AB) for cars whom refers directly to the chairman. The Advisory Board must advise, monitor and control DUS and the producer responsibility for cars with the aim of ensuring continued positive development and effective administration of the compensation scheme.
Members of the Advisory Board for Vehicles are:
- Ole Sohn, Chairman DPA
- Adam Pade, Dansk Auto Genbrug
- Benoni Munk, Munks Produkt
- Daniel Ginge Andersen, Forsikring & Pension
- Dennis Lange, FDM
- Jakob Kristensen, Stena Recycling
- Karin Klitgaard, DI
- Mads Rørvig, Danske Bilimportører
Johnny Bøwig, Managing Director in DPA as secetary for AB.
Implementation of Danish Producer Responsibility for Packaging
At the turn of the year 2023/2024, an Advisory Board (AB) for packaging was set up as a sub-committee to DPA’s board. The purpose of AB for packaging is to ensure knowledge exchange, including advising DPA’s board and organization on both strategic and practice-related issues regarding producer responsibility for packaging. The members of this AB have direct reference to DPA’s board chairman, who was born chairman of AB.
Members of the Advisory Board for Packaging are:
- Ole Sohn, Chairman and Board Chairman, DPA
- Andreas Hastrup Clemmensen, Chefkonsulent, Dansk Erhverv
- Anne Friis, Indkøbschef, MultiLine
- Dorte Plesner, Chef Kategori Excellence, COOP
- Fannie Pramming, Kommunikationschef, McDonalds
- Henrik Borg Kristensen, Chefkonsulent, Landbrug & Fødevarer
- Iben Sohn, Fagleder for cirkulær økonomi, DI
- Mikal Holt Jensen, Miljøchef, Horesta
- Niels Jensen, Formand, DagSam
- Steffen Zoëga Thorøe, Public Affairs Manager, Arla Foods amba
- Trine Rubæk, Head of Business Development & Sustainability, Orkla
Johnny Bøwig, Man. Dir. og Susanne Yun Kragh, from DPA acts as facilitators.
In pursuance of the Danish Environmental Protection Act we have in DPA various competences in relation to the administration of the rules on producer responsibility; they are translated in the DPA statutes and in the Cooperation agreement between DPA and the Danish Environmental Protection Agency.
Further information:
Cooperation agreement between DPA and the Danish Environmental Protection Agency
DPA interplays with many different players.
The players affected by the rules on producer responsibility are on the one hand producers and importers, their collective schemes, their distributors, and consumers and on the other hand local authorities, hauliers, and reprocessors of end-of-life products. Each of these players has obligations to comply with in pursuance of the law.
In DPA we publish an annual report describing our activities in the preceding year and following up on the general statutory framework conditions. In addition, we describe cost distribution, fee structure, and annual accounts associated with the producer responsibility for electrical equipment, batteries, and vehicles, including the administration of the scrapping premium system.
Our annual reports are certified by the DPA management/Board and an internal auditor.
All annual reports can be searched out here
The idea behind the producer responsibility for selected product groups is based on the polluter-pays-principle – a key element in the first EU Environment Action Programme.
The concept of producer responsibility as a regulatory tool was introduced by a Swedish professor in environmental economics. More than two decades back Thomas Lindhqvist of the University of Lund in Sweden invented the expression Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR).
The EPR targets were twofold:
Firstly, the aim was to tackle the growing problem of steeply increasing waste arisings and secondly, to stimulate environmentally aware product design and management of the supply chain. Back then, Lindhqvist defined EPR as an environmental strategy that makes producers responsible for their products in their entire life cycle.
Producer responsibility entails a shift of responsibility (administrative, financial, or physical) from national or local governments to producers along with an incentive for producers to take the environment into consideration in the design and production stages. EPR seeks to attain a reduction in the environmental impacts of products in their entire lifetime from production to the end of their useful life.
WEEE, BAT, ELV
These abbreviations are short for electronics, batteries, and vehicles. In the EU, a producer responsibility system is mandatory under the WEEE, Battery. and ELV Directives; these directives place the responsibility for financing of collection, reuse, and responsible disposal of WEEE, batteries, accumulators, and vehicles on the producers.
…and packaging and….
The Packaging Directive also sets out the EPR principle indirectly by asking Member States to take the necessary precautions ensuring that systems are established for the collection and recycling of packaging waste. Further waste streams widely subjected to producer responsibility in EU member countries are tyres, waste oil, paper and board, and construction and demolition waste. However, some member countries have introduced even more mandatory or voluntary producer responsibility systems, including agricultural plastics, pharmaceutical waste, plastic bags, photo chemicals and chemicals, newsprint, refrigerants, pesticides and herbicides, and lamps, bulbs, and luminaires.
CVR number: DK29028842
EAN: 5790002305924
Bank: Danske Bank, Holmens Kanal 2, DK-1092 Copenhagen K
Account: 4183-3001879154
IBAN: DK7630003001879154
SWIFT: DABADKKK
Payment due: 14 days
Our systems
Producer register
We are operating the national producer register for electronics, vehicles, and batteries. If you are a producer or an importer of in-scope products, this is where you must register to legally sell your products in Denmark.
Digital disbursement system for scrapping premium (DUS)
This is the system through which citizens and businesses can get a scrapping premium for their end-of-life vehicle - in short DUS. Here, car owners can find approved car breakers when they need to scrap their car. DUS is also the place to go to, when you want to have a scrapping premium of DKK 2,200 - you find it through borger.dk or virk.dk.
Reporting of environmental treatment of vehicles
Car breakers have their own reporting system. If you are approved for dismantling and scrapping of end-of-life vehicles, this is the place to report annually how you have environmentally treated the scrapped cars.
Local authority register with DPA
All local authorities and certain municipal waste management companies have access to DPA’s local authority register of collection sites. This is because the local authorities are responsible for establishing the collection sites where citizens can drop their waste, and where the operators of the compliance schemes must provide collection units corresponding to the seven electronics categories + portable batteries.