Emballageretur Deadline: 30 April 2026
Deadline: 30 April 2026
Each year, Emballageretur reports your company’s total packaging quantities to Danish Producer Responsibility (DPA) based on the quantities of single-use packaging you have reported in Returportalen. Before the report is submitted to the authorities, you will have the opportunity to review and correct your reported quantities.
The annual reporting also includes separate reporting of Reusable packaging and quantities for the period January–September.
On this page, you will find an overview of what you need to do in connection with the annual reporting.
In order for your packaging to be classified as reusable packaging, it must meet these requirements: Read more here.
If your packaging is not reusable packaging but single-use packaging (i.e. regular packaging), please contact us atinfo@emballageretur.dk
Throughout the year, you have reported your packaging quantities in Returportalen.
During the period 7–30 April 2026, you have the opportunity to review and correct your reported quantities.
During this period, you must also:
Once the reporting period has ended, Emballageretur reports your total quantities to Danish Producer Responsibility (DPA).
As a producer responsible company, you are required to finance the management of the packaging waste that you make available for the first time on the Danish market.
As a producer responsibility organisation, Emballaretur is charged continuously on your behalf by various actors, including municipalities, operators, and others.
Without your ongoing reporting and payments, there would therefore be no funds available to cover your statutory costs.
Before your data is transferred to Danish Producer Responsibility (DPA), you have the opportunity to correct quantities you have previously reported.
You use the correction to:
The correction must always be entered in the specific material category where the error occurred.
If, for example, you have reported 1,500 kg of flexible plastic as commercial waste in residual waste, but later discover that the quantity should correctly be reported under household waste, ordinary, you must do the following in the correction column in Returportalen:
Flexible plastic, Commercial – Residual waste: –1,500 kg
Flexible plastic, Household – Ordinary: +1,500 kg
If you have reported 5,000 kg of wood under Commercial – Ordinary, but 2,500 kg of this has been exported and therefore has not ended up as commercial waste in Denmark, you must report:
Wood, Commercial – Ordinary: –2,500 kg
Remember: Exported quantities must be documented if requested by the authorities or the collective scheme.
If you need to both subtract and add quantities within the same category, you must enter one combined correction.
Exported cardboard: –5,000 kg
Unreported cardboard: +7,500 kg
Combined correction: +2,500 kg
This should be entered in the correction column as:
Cardboard, Commercial – Ordinary: +2,500 kg
If your company is registered with combined reporting (under 8 tonnes/year) and your total packaging quantities — in connection with the annual correction, including quantities for January–September 2025 — exceed 8 tonnes, Returportalen will automatically require you to change your reporting format.
This means you will no longer be able to report combined quantities but must instead report your quantities distributed across material fractions.
For the reporting year 2025, you must also report the total quantities of packaging you have placed on the market during the period January–September 2025.
This is a one-time reporting requirement and will therefore not be a reporting type you need to handle in future years.
No. Quantities for January–September 2025 must not be eco-modulated (red/yellow/green), and no environmental fees are charged for these quantities. The information is a requirement from the Danish Environmental Protection Agency and Danish Producer Responsibility (DPA) for the purpose of calculating and charging their administration fee, and is not related to the fees charged by Emballageretur.
The quantities must be entered in the “September” column in the reporting form in Returportalen. Please follow our guide here.
If you have made packaging available at green or yellow level, you must upload a Declaration of Compliance to Returportalen as part of the annual reporting.
Note: You do not need to submit a Declaration of Compliance unless you have placed packaging on the market at green or yellow level.
If the declaration is not uploaded, all packaging reported at green or yellow level will be charged at red level. This is because it is a legal requirement to be able to document that the packaging meets the criteria for the green or yellow gradation levels.
If your Declaration of Compliance cannot be approved because it contains errors or is incomplete, you will receive an email from Emballageretur asking you to correct the issues and submit a new declaration within the specified deadline.
If additional documentation is required, you will receive an email specifying which documentation must be submitted in relation to your reported packaging categories.
Submission of documentation is part of the mandatory self-monitoring, which Emballageretur is required to carry out.