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What do your EPR obligations for batteries involve?

If your company is covered by Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for batteries, this comes with administrative, reporting and practical obligations. Here you get an overview of what it specifically requires from your company — and where Batteriretur helps you in practice.

EPR is about both data and practical handling

Extended Producer Responsibility for batteries involves three statutory requirements: the company must register with Dansk Producentansvar (DPA), submit an annual report of battery quantities broken down by chemistry and category, and finance collection and treatment through an environmental fee.

For most companies, this requires control of categories, chemistry, weight and ongoing data. Batteriretur can help with the practical handling through the PRO, but your company remains responsible for ensuring that data and documentation are correct.

Your three main obligations

Registration

Your company must register with Danish Producer Responsibility (DPA) before placing batteries on the market in Denmark. Batteriretur can guide you on which information you typically need to have ready.

Reporting

You must continuously report information about the batteries you place on the market, broken down by category, chemistry and quantity in kilograms. As a member, you report data to Batteriretur no later than 20 April, so that we can report on your behalf before the official deadline of 30 June.

More about data and reporting

Environmental fees and handling

You must finance the collection and treatment of end-of-life batteries through the environmental fee. Membership of a PRO is mandatory for portable batteries and LMT batteries and voluntary for industrial batteries, SLI batteries and EV batteries.

Registration - what you need to have in place

Before your company places batteries on the market in Denmark, you must be registered with Danish Producer Responsibility (DPA). Registration is a prerequisite for legally marketing batteries or products containing batteries.

As part of the registration, you must state, among other things, which battery categories you make available on the market. If you are already registered under another Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) area, this may also affect the fee. Batteriretur can guide you on what you typically need to have ready before you begin.

Reporting in practice

You must report the batteries you place on the market, broken down by battery category, battery chemistry and quantity in kilos.

From 2026, reporting will follow the new battery categories and include information on battery chemistry. If the battery is incorporated into a product, the weight of the battery must still be calculated separately. It is your responsibility to ensure that the information used as the basis for reporting is correct and can be documented. Batteriretur can help you structure the data foundation, making reporting easier to manage in practice.

Read more about data and reporting for batteries.

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The environmental fee finances the practical task

The environmental fee is the part of the payment that finances Batteriretur's work with collection, treatment and documentation of end-of-life batteries.

The fee depends, among other things, on battery category, battery chemistry and the quantities you place on the market.

For several battery categories, eco-modulation is included in the calculation. This means that the battery's characteristics and chemistry can affect the fee. Eco-modulation does not work in the same way across all categories and chemistries.

See more about prices and environmental fees

Put your battery data into a structured system

Classifying batteries into the five categories and keeping track of battery chemistry and weight can be complex.

With Returportalen, you get a strong tool that helps structure your data. We give you the overview you need to compile your data confidently and without unnecessary complexity for the annual reporting deadline.

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