The Danish Order on registration and reporting of packaging ( Bekendtgørelse om registrering og indberetning af emballage (BEK nr 466 af 16/05/2024) (source: https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2024/466) regulates the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for packaging in Denmark. This order determined a registration obligation by the 31^st August 2024 (see https://www.envenance-global.com/last-call-for-packaging-registration-in-denmark).

On the 20^th September 2024, the “Order on certain requirements for packaging, extended producer responsibility for packaging and other waste that is collected with packaging waste” has been published additionally (Bekendtgørelse om visse krav til emballager, udvidet producentansvar for emballage samt øvrigt affald der indsamles med emballageaffald) (source: https://hoeringsportalen.dk/Hearing/Details/69058). This executive order repeals and replaces the current executive order and is expected to be in force by the 31^st December 2024 and is open for a hearing until the 1^st November 2024.

The enhancements and further specifications are relevant for meeting the obligations of the packaging EPR in Denmark:

1.     Obligation to join a scheme

Whereas the previous order has left the scheme participation optional as part of the registration, the new Order now obliges all producers to join a collective packaging scheme by the 14^th January 2025 (source: https://prodstoragehoeringspo.blob.core.windows.net/68c942ff-b13c-496f-9bda-6c91cbb8e1c8/H%C3%B8ringsbrev.pdf, Kollektive ordninger og pligt til medlemskab)

2.     Extension of scope

Appendix 6 of the new order determines the packaging scope that now includes the following packaging materials cardboard, paper, ferrous metals, aluminum, glass, plastic, food and beverage cartons, wood, textiles, porcelain, cork, ceramics and others.

3.     Clarification of an annual reporting deadline

All producers have to report the actual volumes for 2024 no later by the 1^st June 2025. Producers that put less than 8 tons of packaging per year onto the Danish market can choose a simplified reporting.

4. Provision of basis for recycling contribution fees (eco-modulation)

Appendix 14 of the Order determines the definition of the recycling contribution fees per packaging material. Based on a categorization of the material and its recycling quality into categories of red, yellow and green, the respective fees shall be applied per kg. The implementation of this methodology for eco-modulation is scheduled latest for the 1^st October 2025. Producers that use a simplified reporting (i.e. not on the basis per material category), are not concerned by the eco-modulation.

5.     Voluntary packaging marking

According to § 18 of Bekendtgørelse om visse krav til emballager, udvidet producentansvar for emballage samt øvrigt affald der indsamles med emballageaffald, packaging can be marked (“(…) Emballage, som markedsføres her i landet, kan påføres en mærkning om emballagematerialernes art.”) In so far a marking is applied, however, the rules of §18 have to be respected, particularly regarding the alphanumerical codes which are listed in Annex 4. Those alphanumerical codes correspond with Commission Decision 97/129/EC (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A31997D0129).

Further sources:

https://producentansvar.dk/en/products-and-responsibility/legislation/packaging-legislation/

https://erp-recycling.org/da-dk/vores-services/kategorier/emballage/

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