. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/DNK/61 
25 July 2006 
 (06-3567) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   DENMARK
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):         
2. Agency responsible:    
Ministry of the Environment, Danish Environmental Protection Agency 
Strandgade 29, DK 1401  København K Telephone:  +(45) 3266 0100,  
Telefax:  +(45) 3266 0479,  
E-mail:   mst@mst.dk,  Website:  www.mst.dk 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, e-mail and web-site 
addresses, if available) of  agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be  indicated if different from above:    
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [  X ], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [   ], 5.7.1 [   ], other:         
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. 
ICS numbers may be provided in  addition, where applicable):   Packaging for beer and 
certain soft drinks incl. “alcopops” or alcoho lic fruit drinks and cider with an ethanol 
content of less than 10 % vol. 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Statutory Order from 
the Ministry of the Environment on deposits on and collection etc. of packaging for beer and certain soft drinks (40 pages + 31 pages annexes, in Danish). 
6. Description of content:   Implementation of amended regulation on supervision with 
deposit and return systems in the Danish Envi ronmental Protection Act.  Implementation of 
administrative exemptions as regards a new and more secure deposit mark and simplified sales reporting options for producers and im porters using self-adh esive deposit labels. 
Compiling the Statuary Order no. 713 of 24 August 2002 with three later amendments. 
Verbal alterations and alterations based on the experiences from the administration of the 
deposit and return system up to now.  It is an ticipated that the amendment of the Statutory 
Order will cause relaxations to all interested parties and players. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Improvement of the enforcement of offences against the Statutory Order (e.g. disposal 
packaging marketed with out deposit marking or with out being registered with Dansk 
Retursystem A/S).  A new deposit mark and labe l has been designed in order to hinder fraud 
and to ensure repayment of deposits to the customers.  Producers and importers using the 
new deposit mark and label only need to report sales  once a year or not at all if they pay the G/TBT/N/DNK/61 
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  deposit and the fees on account.  Compiling the originally Statutory Order and the later 
amendments is - together with restructuri ng the text with new chapters and sections – 
intended to ease the reading and use of the Statut ory Order.  Finally it is intended to make 
the administration of the deposit and return system more flexible and user-friendly. 
8. Relevant documents:   Statutory order no. 713 of 24 August 2002, on deposits and 
collection etc. of packaging for beer and cer tain soft drinks with later amendments. 
9. Proposed date of adoption:  - 
Proposed date of entry into force:    End of 2006 
10. Final date for comments:   4 September 2006 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [  X ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body: