What is the price?

Prices for membership and registration

Start-up Contribution
Membership of VANA costs a one-time fee for setup of 4000 DKK (2000 DKK for companies under the triviality limit). You will receive an invoice via email when you join.

Registration Fee to DPA
When your company is registered with the Danish Producer Responsibility (DPA) via VANAs Member Portal, you will receive an invoice with a registration fee of 1000 DKK (500 DKK if you are already registered) directly from DPA in the company’s digital mailbox.

Read the terms for VANA A/S

Prices - handling of packaging

Before the producer responsibility for packaging comes into effect, there may be an advance payment as well as a deposit of any guarantee, depending on how the legislation is formulated.

The total costs for handling packaging will consist of:

To VANA:

  • ongoing payment for handling packaging waste (eco-modulated and depending on the municipalities' price for collection) - when the organisational aspetct of the producer responsibility enters into force (1/10-25) 
  • annual basic contribution of 1000 DKK (500 DKK in 2025).

To the Environmental Protection Agency:

  • annual fee. The fee covers, among other things, supervision of companies' compliance with regulations, analysis of the content of packaging in waste fractions, and awareness-raising measures. The fee is based on the pool reporting of quantities from 2024
  • the fee in 2025 is 0.025 DKK per kg of packaging waste and will be charged by the Environmental Protection Agency after August 15 with a 14-day payment deadline, see more on EPA website: Packaging - Miljøstyrelsen.

To Dansk Producentansvar (DPA):

  • annual fee to DPA, which covers the administration of the distribution of responsibility for packaging waste to individual companies, guidance on reporting, and determination of whether companies are covered by producer responsibility
  • the fee amount and timing for charging have not been published.

Get an estimate with the VANA calculator.

Use the 'VANA calculator' to get an estimate of the price for handling your packaging waste from October 2025. The prices in the calculator are qualified by COWI in October 2023 and are therefore a more realistic estimate of the prices you can expect when producer responsibility comes into force.

Find the VANA calculator here

Prices - handling of single-use plastic products

The total price for handling single-use plastic products consists of:

  • fee to the Environmental Protection Agency for clean up and awareness obligation based on reported quantities (paid to DPA quarterly)
  • basic contribution for administration to VANA A/S of 1000 DKK/year
  • annual administration fee to DPA (semi-annually in 2025)

Read more about the Environmental Protection Agency's fees and rates

VANA is working to be able to handle the payment obligation, so all invoices will come from VANA. More information will follow when this is implemented.

Read more about membership of VANA

VANA is a not-for-profit organisation.

Our mission is to be the preferred producer responsibility organisation (PRO) for producer responsibility in Denmark by managing our members' producer responsibility in an environmentally responsible, administratively simple, and cost-effective manner.

This means that you, as members, do not incur unnecessary costs, which makes it far more economical, efficient, and less bureaucratic for individual businesses to be a member of VANA, than if everyone had to handle their own packaging throughout the entire recycling process.

Read more about VANA

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