Collective schemes in Denmark

How to connect with a collective scheme

You should initially contact the various collective schemes to find the scheme that suits your company best. Once you have found out who you want to work with, do the following:

1. Ask the collective scheme to set up your registration.
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2. Log in to the producer responsibility register and select the menu item: “Category selection and reporting” and “Collective schemes”. From each product category, the relevant collective scheme is selected in the drop-down list. Press Save.

The collective scheme now receives a request, which they will accept if you have an agreement. When the collective scheme accepts the request, the official connection to the collective scheme is established, and can be searched in the public part of the register.

Modulated fees

Legal requirements have been introduced for collective schemes to scale their fees to producer members. Fee modulation has been introduced as part of the new minimum requirements for all national producer responsibility schemes in the EU. The purpose is to optimize environmentally friendly product design and thus the following environmental treatment of end-of-life products. The requirement came into force on 5 January 2023.

See more about minimum requirements

Overall, a distinction is made between two forms of fee modulation called graduation or differentiation. The latter form of fee is based on variable terms, e.g. fluctuating transport and processing prices, while graduated fees are based on grouping according to established criteria.

Bonus – Malus

In Denmark, collective schemes must use graduated fees according to a so-called bonus/malus model. This generally means that you who are members of a collective producer scheme are divided into 2 groups. A group whose products meet the criteria laid down in the legal decrees and the rest that do not.

Manufacturers and importers in the group whose products do not meet given criteria must pay (20%) more in fees than those who do. This additional payment is intended to be used to cover – at best optimize – the costs of transport and the quality of environmental treatment of your end-of-life electronics. If you have products in both groupings, you pay the above malus of 20% on top of the ordinary fee for the collective scheme.

Criteria for fee graduation in Denmark per 5 January 2023

All criteria are statutored in the Danish WEEE Order Annex 10 and ELV Order Annex 6.

The orders are in Danish only

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