If your company has Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for packaging, it comes with practical, financial and administrative obligations. Here you get an overview of what you need to manage yourselves, and where Emballageretur helps you in practice.
Having Extended Producer Responsibility for packaging involves three statutory obligations: the company must register with Dansk Producentansvar (DPA), continuously calculate and report its packaging volumes, and pay an environmental fee that finances waste management.
When a company becomes subject to EPR for packaging, it is not just a matter of being listed in a register. EPR means that you are responsible for the packaging you place on the market, and for ensuring that financing and systematic processes are in place for its management when the packaging becomes waste.
It is your responsibility to manage registration, data, reporting and documentation. This is also the basis Emballageretur uses to carry out the practical tasks on your behalf. EPR is therefore both a compliance task and an operational task.
Your company must register with Danish Producer Responsibility (DPA) before you market packaging. For single-use packaging, you must also be affiliated with a Producer Responsibility Organisation (PRO).
You must continuously calculate the packaging quantities you make available on the Danish market. How often you need to report depends on your total quantities: If you make more than 8 tonnes of packaging available annually, data must be reported every month, broken down by material categories. If you fall below the de minimis threshold of 8 tonnes annually, you only need to report your total packaging quantity once a year.
EPR means that you help pay for the collection, sorting, transport and treatment of the packaging you place on the market. Payment depends, among other things, on quantities and the environmental profile of the packaging.
For most companies, EPR in everyday practice is about being able to answer a number of specific questions clearly:
The task often becomes more extensive than first expected. Not necessarily because the rules are unclear in themselves, but because they must be translated into the company's own products, data sources and workflows.
Your company must be able to document how you arrived at the quantities and categories you report. The authorities may ask to see the basis, so it is important that data and method are aligned.
This may include how you have categorised the packaging, how you handle exported quantities and how responsibility is allocated if several companies are part of the same group.
Emballageretur helps you work more systematically with the data basis and process, but the legal responsibility and the information behind the reporting remain yours.
Emballageretur is part of the Retur family, with more than 20 years of experience in Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) in Denmark.
We are a non-profit organisation supporting more than 2,900 member companies. For a single annual membership fee of DKK 1,500, your company can manage its obligations for packaging, electronics, batteries and textiles through one coordinated setup.