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Check whether your product qualifies as packaging

Here you can check whether your product is subject to producer responsibility for packaging. Please note that the result of the test is not a legal determination and is provided for guidance only.

Is your product packaging (packaging can be either empty or filled)?

Your product is packaging if it is used for the packing, protection, handling, delivery, or presentation of goods.

Is your packaging covered by the deposit and return system (Dansk Retursystem A/S)?

Is the packaging an integral part of the product, such that it is used or disposed of together with the product?

Examples include grave candles, printer cartridges, or water-soluble detergent bags.

Indicative test result: Your product is not subject to producer responsibility for packaging.

Your packaging is not covered because it is an integral part of the product and is necessary for the product’s use throughout its entire lifetime. The packaging and the product are intended to be used and disposed of together.

Is the packaging exempt from the deposit and return system?

Indicative test result: Your product is not subject to producer responsibility for packaging.

If your packaging is covered by the deposit and return system, it is not subject to producer responsibility for packaging.

Is the packaging intended to be filled at the point of sale?

Examples include takeaway packaging or coffee cups for takeout.

Indicative test result: Your product is subject to producer responsibility for packaging

Your product falls within the category of service packaging, as it is essentially empty packaging that is filled at the point of sale.

If your company is subject to producer responsibility, you must register in the Danish producer register.

Is the primary purpose of your packaging to transport a product?

Examples include stretch wrap, protective filler materials, cardboard boxes, or pallets.

Indicative test result: Your product is subject to producer responsibility for packaging

Your product falls within the transport packaging category. Transport packaging facilitates the handling and transportation of goods or multipack packaging and helps prevent damage during handling and transport.

If your company is subject to producer responsibility, you must register in the Danish producer register.

Is the primary purpose of the packaging to present and protect the product, and is the packaging already filled when the product reaches the consumer or the point of sale?

Indicative test result: Your product is subject to producer responsibility for packaging

Your product falls within the sales packaging category, as it is packaging that forms a sales unit together with the product and is sold to the end user at the point of sale.

If your company is subject to producer responsibility, you must register in the Danish producer register.

Is the packaging designed to group together multiple sales units that can be sold as a single unit or used for handling, restocking, storage, or distribution?

Examples include multipacks for bottles and display stands.

Indicative test result: Your product is subject to producer responsibility for packaging

Multipack packaging groups together multiple sales units and may, for example, be sold directly to the end user or be used to facilitate shelf restocking. The multipack packaging can be removed from the product without altering the product’s characteristics.

If your company is subject to producer responsibility, you must register in the Danish producer register.

ndicative test result: Your product is not subject to producer responsibility for packaging.

Your product is not classified as packaging and is therefore not subject to producer responsibility for packaging.

Is it a packaging component or an auxiliary element used to pack, protect, handle, deliver, or present goods?

Examples include labels attached directly to a product or otherwise affixed to it (hang tags)

Indicative test result: Your product is subject to producer responsibility for packaging

The product is subject to producer responsibility. Packaging components and ancillary elements that form part of the packaging, or are attached to the product and perform a packaging function, are considered packaging.