Legislation from EU to DK

Common for all producer responsibilities – meet the targets

Common for and essential to producer responsibility legislation is that the focus on volume, resource consumption and product optimization is increased in line with the introduction to the Circular Economy. For you as a company, this means that the legislator, both in the EU and nationally, places increased environmental goals on you who manufacture or import products from prioritized material flows. It is the way towards the Circular Economy, which sets the agenda towards better performance of decoupling the use of virgin resources and economic growth.

National register

A common feature is also that each Member State must establish a register for the registration of businesses covered by legislation and therefore having to report once a year statutory information to this register. In Denmark the national register authority is found in DPA.

The duty of registration and reporting applies to producers and importers – this responsibility affects the first level of the distribution chain in the Member State.

Another characteristic is the supervision of quantities in the form of products’ material and substance streams that is reflected in the statutory requirements for annual reporting of quantities of electronics, batteries, and vehicles placed on the market in the Member State by each producer or importer along with collected and environmentally treated quantities. The legislation sets out environmental targets to be calculated in each Member State based on the quantitative reporting.

Statutory documents of relevance

Below you can find a collection of links to key EU statutory documents and the Danish acts implementing them in Denmark. There are also links to provisions applying specifically to different product groups: electrical and electronic equipment, batteries and accumulators, and vehicles.