Registration of producer responsibility for batteries
This guide describes how battery producers register for the first time in the producer responsibility register.
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In Danish Producer Responsibility (DPA), our purpose is to develop and operate the statutory, national producer register. We have gathered a collection of relevant documents and articles where you can search out detailed information. For example, you can search for procedures or guidelines, notes from the authorities, statutory texts, or Danish and EU related reports and articles.
Procedure for allocation – packaging
In pursuance of the rules on producer responsibility, this document describes procedures, calculation formulas, and other criteria used in DPA to calculate the collective schemes’ share of packaging waste to be collected in the municipalities and subsequently subjected to environmental treatment (allocation with transfer of waste) or for which the collective scheme must finance collection and treatment, even if collection and treatment is carried out by a municipality or a waste-producing company (financial allocation).
Guarantee on demand fishing gear
This form must be used in connection with the financial guarantee that producers must provide in connection with end-of-life commercial fishing gear in allocated harbours. The financial guarantee is calculated every year in DPA and is to guarantee conduct of the reverse logistics. The form must be printed and signed by the bank.
Guidelines – assessment of producer responsibility for cables and wires
DPA conducts assessments (scoping) whether equipment or products are covered by or exempt from the rules on producer responsibility. The following assessment guidelines have been made for the product group of cables and wires, including manufactured cables and cables “in reels”.
Registration of collective scheme
A short decribtion of how to establish a collective scheme in Denmark, including which information to register with DPA.
Criteria for exemption from requirement auditors’ attestation for
With the amended WEEE Order there are new rules regarding when to submit a management’s statement and/or auditors’ attestation in connection with reporting of quantities placed on the market.
REGULATION (EU) 2023/1542 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 12 July 2023 concerning batteries and waste batteries,
(...amending Directive 2008/98/EC and Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 and repealing Directive 2006/66/EC). EU battery regulation repealing the existing directive. The regulation has direct legal effect in Denmark and must be introduced and fully implemented by February 2027. The regulation introduces new battery categories, with which battery manufacturers and importers must be registered in the producer responsibility register as early as August 2025.
Individual compliers’ collection of waste batteries and accumulators (BAT)
This document describes how producers that are not affiliated to a collective producer scheme can assume take-back and treatment of waste batteries and accumulators.
Guidance for the compilation and reporting of data on packaging and packaging waste-EU-C-April-2022
Guidance for the compilation and reporting of data on packaging and packaging waste according to Decision 2005/270/EC. Calculation method, definitions, and requirements for reporting of quantities of packaging placed on the market and recycled packaging waste have been revised since 2019. Reporting to Eurostat.
Transfer of take-back duty for WEEE and BAT
Legislation allows producers marketing electrical and electronic equipment to businesses and/or industrial batteries and automotive batteries to make an agreement with the purchaser of the product stating that he will take over the producer's responsibility of take-back and approved reprocessing. When doing the annual reporting this is called a transfer of take-back duty. The document contains a description of what a 'tranfer of take-back duty'- agreement can consist of.