Packaging - are you covered?
All businesses that put packaged products on the market will be responsible for financing and organising the collection, sorting, and treatment of their packaging waste on the basis of the producer responsibility. VANA follows your packaging waste on its journey!
The main rule is that the producer responsibility falls to the company that first makes packaging or packaged products available on the Danish market.
Can producer responsibility be transferred?
The authorities have indicated that it is not possible to transfer producer responsibility between companies. Although the producer responsibility itself, and thus the reporting obligation, cannot be transferred, it will according to the authorities be possible for companies to enter into private law agreements regarding the distribution of costs.
Furthermore, Dansk Producentansvar informs about various options for linking a person from another company to one's own company.
Particularly for groups, chain offices, and other business structures etc.;
Particularly for EU companies:
Producer definition before and after 12 August 2026
Until and including 11 august 2026, Producer definition in the statutory order on packaging
Producer: Any manufacturer, importer or distributor, regardless of the sales method used, including by means of distance contracts:
a) is established in Denmark and first makes available transport packaging, reusable packaging, primary production packaging or service packaging on the Danish market.
b) is established in Denmark and first makes available packaged product or packaging not mentioned in letter a, on the Danish market.
c) is established in another EU member state or in a third country and via distance contracts first makes available transport packaging, reusable packaging, primary production packaging, service packaging or packaged product directly to end users on the Danish market.
Read more about the statutory order on packaging
From 12 august 2026, Producer definition in the Regulation on packaging and packaging waste
Producer means any manufacturer, importer or distributor to whom, irrespective of the selling technique used, including by means of distance contracts, one of the following applies:
(a) the manufacturer, importer or distributor is established in a Member State and makes available for the first time from within the territory of that Member State and on that same territory transport packaging, service packaging, or primary production packaging, whether as single-use packaging or as reusable packaging;
or
(b) the manufacturer, importer or distributor is established in a Member State and makes available for the first time from within the territory of that Member State and on that same territory products packaged in packaging other than those referred to in point (a);
or
(c) the manufacturer, importer or distributor is established in a Member State or in a third country and makes available for the first time on the territory of another Member State, directly to end users, transport packaging, service packaging or primary production packaging, whether as single-use packaging or as reusable packaging;
or
(d) the manufacturer, importer or distributor is established in a Member State or in a third country and makes available for the first time on the territory of another Member State, directly to end users, products packaged in packaging other than those referred to in point (c);
or
(e) the manufacturer, importer or distributor is established in a Member State and unpacks packaged products without being an end user, unless another person is the producer as defined in point (a), (b), (c) or (d)
Read more about the Regulation on packaging and packaging waste
Which company has the producer responsibility for reusable packaging?
The definition of the producer (which company is included) is the same, regardless of whether it concerns one-way or reusable packaging.
Since it is not necessarily the same company that puts reusable packaging on the market and at the same time is responsible for take-back, and thus the recycling of the packaging in a reuse loop, such as for euro pallets and IBC tanks, there has been a need for examples and detailed guidance from the authorities.
The Danish Environmental Protection Agency has provided a detailed explanation on reusable packaging, including examples of the allocation of responsibility. Read more about reuseable packaging and find the detailed explanation here (Danish)