Relevant legislation

The producer responsibility for packaging has been decided in the EU and implemented in Denmark in the Environmental Protection Act and a statutory order on packaging, which contains the specific rules for producer responsibility.

Read the consultation responses VANA has written during the implementation process (Danish)

Danish legislation - executive order

Packaging:

• Statutory Order on certain requirements for packaging, extended producer responsibility for packaging and other waste collected with packaging waste (Danish) - Updated on the 29th of September 2025
• Changes to the order under consultation until June 10 - August 12 (Danish)
• Changes to the order under consultation - deadline: 19th of September (Danish)

The order was submitted for consultation with a deadline of August 12th to ensure that the producer responsibility organisations (PRO's) that have been obliged to take over waste through emergency allocation, can have their actual, documented costs covered via the financial guarantee during the period until a new allocation comes into effect.

The order was resubmitted for consultation on September 13th with the aim of implementing the government’s political announcements. Read more: Political agreement on the framework for producer responsibility for packaging in place.

• Key figures for payments relating to household non-packaging waste and for commercial packaging waste (Danish)

Guides:

Guidelines on producer responsibility: Find the guidelines here: Packaging - Environmental Protection Agency (Danish). The link is to the main page, as the Environmental Protection Agency continually updates the guidelines.

• The Environmental Protection Agency's guidance on the statutory order on packaging
• The Environmental Protection Agency's guidance on determining and calculating eco-modulated fees (update expected in August).
• The Environmental Protection Agency's guidance on reusable packaging

Guidelines on sorting:

• The Environmental Protection Agency's sorting guideline: Sorting of waste (Danish)
• The Environmental Protection Agency's sorting guideline: Guidance on sorting criteria for household waste (Danish)

Single-use plastic products:

• Statutory Order on Extended Producer Responsibility for Certain Single-Use Plastic Products (Danish)

Guides:

• The Danish Environmental Protection Agency has not issued a guide to single-use plastic products, but their information material can be found here: Single-use plastics - Danish Environmental Protection Agency (Danish)
• The EU Commission guidelines on product criteria for single-use plastic products

Danish legislation - general framework

• Draft amendment of the Environmental Protection Act, extended producer responsibility for packaging and single-use plastic products, etc. (Danish)
• Environmental Protection Act here (retsinformation.dk) (Danish)

Political agreement

• Agreement on extended producer responsibility: Find the agreement here (Danish)

EU

• Revised waste directive: (Europa-Parlamentets og Rådets direktiv (EU) 2018/ af 30. maj 2018 om ændring af direktiv 2008/98/EF om affald) (Danish)
  
  
• Revised packaging directive: (Europa-Parlamentets og Rådets direktiv (EU) 2018/ af 30. maj 2018 om ændring af direktiv 94/62/EF om emballage og emballageaffald) (Danish)
  
  
• Packaging Ordinance: Regulation (EU) 2025/40 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 December 2024 on packaging and packaging waste (PPWR)
  
  
• Single-use plastics directive: (Europa-Parlamentets og Rådets direktiv (EU) 2019/ af 5. juni 2019) (Danish) on reducing the environmental impact of certain plastics products)