Producers

All producers and importers putting batteries and accumulators onto the Danish market must register with DPA-System. All producers and importers specifically putting portable batteries and accumulators onto the Danish market must furthermore register with the Danish Commerce and Companies Agency.

Registration is part of the producer responsibility scheme requiring among others that producers and importers organize collection and environmentally correct reprocessing of waste batteries and accumulators. The task differs depending on the type of battery – portable, industrial or automotive – and on the way the producer complies with his responsibility – through a collective scheme or as an individual complier.

It is NOT legal to put equipment covered by producer responsibility on the market without being registered in DPA-System and, in relation to portable batteries, with the Danish Commerce and Companies Agency.

When to register a business in Denmark

1. Businesses importing and marketing batteries and accumulators in Denmark.
2. Businesses producing and marketing equipment in Denmark.

Please note that it not possible to register foreign VAT No.s in the Danish producer register.

Companies importing batteries and accumulators for own use are only subject to product responsibility and do not have the registration obligation. Thus, the company owns the products and has the responsibility and costs for separate management of the products.