FAQ - Registration and reporting
If you are not already registered or are a new enterprise, you must register the business and report your expected available packaging quantities for the current year in the producer register immediately. If you are a member of VANA, the registration and reporting can be done directly through the Member Portal.
Members of VANA can report and register in the Member Portal.
From October 1, 2025, you must report your actual available quantities based on the design requirements for eco-modulation.
The Environmental Agency's guidance
Read more about reporting when the producer responsibility takes effect
The Environmental Protection Agency confirms that there is methodological freedom. Therefore, groups that have the decisive influence on the purchasing and marketing of goods and thus the packaging will be able to register their responsibility centrally from the parent company, even if there are several independent CVR numbers within the group.
The above also applies to the registration of single-use plastic products. It is, however, essential that there is consistency between registered companies and reports.
The important thing is that all quantities are registered. The supervision will place particular emphasis on whether there is correct reporting in cases where a group has reported on behalf of several CVR numbers.
The method used regarding the group or individual CVR must be described and justified in the mandatory self-check. You can find a template for self-check here:
Yes, you can. It is an option for companies that place less than 8 tons of packaging (the triviality limit) on the Danish market each year to make a consolidated reporting. However, you can choose to report on the individual material categories instead of the total packaging category. In that case, the reporting occurs on the same terms as if you make available over 8 tons of packaging – i.e., monthly reporting, payment, and eco-modulation of the packaging.
Companies that make packaging available directly outside of Denmark, or that have documentation and knowledge that the packaging will be exported abroad at a later stage, are not required to report these quantities to VANA.
You must be able to document that the quantities have been exported, for example through a declaration from your customer stating that the packaging has been exported. This should be included in your internal controls.
If you become aware of exports after reporting to Dansk Producentansvar (DPA) after 31 May for quantities made available in the previous year, the change must be registered with DPA. See more about the process here Report of one-way packaging.
Danish Producer Responsibility (DPA) provides information about the responsibility of foreign companies:
Foreign companies can only obtain producer responsibility if they sell packaging/packaged products for the first time on the Danish market directly to an end user (consumer/business).
• If a foreign webshop sells packaging/packaged products for the first time in Denmark to a Danish end user, the webshop will have producer responsibility.
• If a Danish company removes transport packaging it has received from a foreign company, the Danish company becomes the end user of the packaging, and the foreign company has producer responsibility.
Particularly in relation to repackaging
• If a foreign company, for example, sells packaged products to Danish company A via distance contracts, and Danish company A removes the packaging because the products need to be repackaged, Danish company A becomes the end user of the packaging, and the foreign company will in this case have producer responsibility.
The EU directive on packaging and packaging waste sets a broad overarching framework for member states: It is up to the individual member states how to practically implement the legislation. This means that there are national differences in the legislation on producer responsibility for packaging across Europe.
If your company puts packaging on the market in countries other than Denmark, you must therefore comply with the respective countries' rules for producer responsibility on packaging.
Read more about international obligations
Read more about VANAs partnerships regarding data management and international compliance
In the upcoming EU packaging regulation, there are plans to harmonize the rules across Europe, making it easier for businesses to comply with producer responsibility across the EU.
The Environmental Protection Act, which sets the framework for producer responsibility, does not apply to the Faroe Islands and Greenland. Therefore, it is only the packaging that one makes available on the Danish market that must be reported.
Yes, there is an overall overview, which can be found here:
More specific requirements can be found under registration of business and expected packaging quantities and ongoing reporting.
It is always a specific assessment based on the individual company, but based on the Danish Environmental Protection Agency and Dansk Producentansvar's guidance, it is not considered to be made available when packaging or packaged products are in stock at the manufacturer's warehouse without an agreement having been made/an order have been placed. On the other hand, if an agreement has been made/an order have been placed, the packaging is considered to be made available, even if the product has not yet been shipped from stock.
If there is doubt about when packaging has been made available, Dansk Producentansvar has the authority to decide.