Alongside the new packaging legislation in Denmark the biggest take back scheme Emballageretur announced a bonus system for packaging fees and clarifies the obligations for foreign companies and distance sellers.
Producers and distributors that are located outside Denmark may have producer responsibility in Denmark for packaging – depending on how they sell. All types of packaging are covered by the new legislation – meaning sales packaging as well as commercial and transport packaging.
Emballageretur clarifies that if you sell packaged products directly to an end-user (a consumer or a business) you have producer responsibility for the packaging that becomes waste at the same location as the buyer, e.g. if the buyer unpacks the product.
If your customer resells the products in the original packaging then you are not responsible for that packaging.
Emballageretur also published their revised fees and offered the application for so-called yellow and green level ecomodulated fees which contain financial benefits (lower prices) compared to the standard “red level” fees on their price list.
The Ecomodulated fee guide and the application documents as well as the latest fee/price list can be obtained from Go4Recycling upon request.
If you have any further questions on packaging, WEEE and battery compliance in Denmark please do not hesitate to contact the Go4Recycling team.