Local authorities must establish and operate collection of portable batteries in the vicinity of end-users. In addition, local authorities must establish and operate collection sites from where producers and importers must pick up collected portable batteries and accumulators.
Producers/importers finance this municipal collection of portable batteries through a payment to Skattestyrelsen (The Danish Tax Agency) established in the Battery Order. This payment is to cover planning, establishment, operation and administration of waste schemes and collection of portable batteries. The State distributes yields among the local authorities according to a local government compensatory scheme (DUT - see right-hand column).
Batteries are picked up by producers and importers at existing WEEE collection sites. Pick-up may also take place from sites established upon agreement between the local authority and the responsible producer/collective scheme.
Pick-up must be effectuated no later than three workdays after receipt of the request.
Producers and importers or their collective schemes are allocated a pick-up duty annually for portable batteries from the local authority in line with the collection duty for WEEE.
Battery Order, no. 1186 of December 2009.
Local government compensatory scheme
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The allocation of collection sites showing collective schemes (in Danish only)
Local authorities' costs for collection of waste portable batteries 2010