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.
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.
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).
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”.
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.
Guidelines for Registration and Annual Reporting
This document describes how and which data to be reported in connection with registration of a new producer or importer. It is also explained which data to be reported annually to DPA in the annual reporting period from 1 January to 31 March. A guide for the Danish producer responsibility register.
Registration of collective scheme
A short decribtion of how to establish a collective scheme in Denmark, including which information to register with DPA.
Allocation scheme – calculation principles (BAT)
This document describes procedures and formulas used in DPA to calculate the share of waste portable batteries allocated to each producer. The distribution of waste portable batteries is referred to as “the allocation scheme” and concerns geografical allocation of batteries to be collected by the collective schemes on municipal collection sites.
Retailers’ management of WEEE
This document describes how retailers, distributors and dealers should approach the producer responsibility scheme, including how to manage such eqiupment when it becomes waste. Including the use of municipal collection schemes and schemes established by collective schemes. Also a discribtion of distributors' purchase of used equipment.