Dealers and distributors
It is not legal for distributors and dealers to buy electrical equipment, batteries, and vehicles from producers/importers who have not assumed their producer responsibility for the products in Denmark, including registration with DPA.
You can check whether a supplier has registered for his producer responsibility in the following ways:
- You can ask for the DPA registration certificate of the business.
- You can search out the business in the producer register of approved businesses with DPA.
Dealers and distributors must ensure that the buyer receives product information about how the end-user can dispose of the end-of-life equipment free of charge
Take-back of end-of-life equipment
Retailers, fitting contractors, distributors, and other dealers selling electrical and electronic equipment and batteries using Danish suppliers have the right, but not the duty, to take back end-of-life equipment and batteries from end-users.
There are different options and rules as to how distributors and dealers can dispose of end-of-life electrical equipment:
Take-back of end-of-life electrical equipment
- Can be discarded in municipal collection services, typically recycling centres. If quantities are too large, the local authority can refuse reception at the recycling centre. In such cases the dealer must enter an agreement with the collective schemes to have them collect this waste from the dealer, or the collective scheme will assign a site for delivery of the waste.
- Can be taken directly to the producer or his/her collective scheme(s).
Can be taken directly to the producer or his/her collective scheme(s).
- Can be delivered to an environmentally approved recycling facility assigned by the local authority.
- Can be delivered to an environmentally approved recycling facility that you have found yourself (through Danish Waste Register or other).
In some cases, the supplier subject to producer responsibility can agree with his/her dealers or distributors that they must ensure correct treatment of end-of-life products themselves. This is called “Transfer of responsibility”. However, quantities must still be reported to the producer register with DPA.
Take-back of end-of-life batteries and accumulators
- Can be discarded in municipal collection services
- Can be taken directly to the producer/importer or their collective scheme
- Can be taken directly to the producer/importer or their collective scheme
- Can be delivered to a recycling facility environmentally approved for industrial batteries, as assigned by the local authority.
- Can be delivered to a recycling facility environmentally approved for batteries that you have found yourself
If the end-user of the battery at the time of purchase has entered an agreement with the business subject to producer responsibility to ensure environmental treatment him/herself, when the batteries have reached the end of their service life, the producer is no longer obliged to take back and treat these batteries. However, quantities must still be reported to the producer register with DPA.
This is called “Transfer of responsibility”.
Take-back of end-of-life vehicles
When passenger vehicles and small trucks are at the end-of-life stage they must be sent to a car breaker and subjected to environmental treatment in view of minimising their impact on the environment and of ensuring recycling of the material resources. This task is assumed by approved car breakers and recyclers.
Shortcuts
See registered businesses
See producers and importers who are approved to sell electronics, batteries, or vehicles
Retailers’ management of waste electronics
Read more about retailers’ management of waste electronics in this document
Dealers’/distributors’ management of batteries and accumulators
Read more about dealers’/distributors’ management of batteries and accumulators in this document
Car scrapping
See what you must do as a car owner when your car has reached its end of life and must be scrapped