The Danish Safety Technology Authority’s costs for case management and market surveillance of electronic cigarettes and refill containers with and without nicotine are covered by fees. The fees must be paid by manufacturers and importers who want to market an electronic cigarette or a refill container with and without nicotine in Danmark.
When you have made the registration in the Central Entry Gate, the Danish Safety Technology Authority assess if you have to pay the fee for the registration.
If the registration results in a fee, you will receive a request for payment. The registrations fee must be paid to the Danish Safety Technology Authority, before the registration is considered received.
Overview of fees
Which products are imposed by fee?
As a rule, the obligation to pay the fee applies to all kinds of electronic cigarettes, which can be used for liquid with and without nicotine and refill containers with and without nicotine.
An electronic cigarette with nicotine is construed to mean a product, which can be used for consumption of a nicotine-containing vapour through a mouthpiece or parts of such a product, including a cartridge, a refill container and a device without cartridge or refillable container.
Loose pieces for electronic cigarette (with the exception of batteries and mouthpieces), which are registered individually, are therefore separately liable to fee. If all loose pieces of the electronic cigarette constitute and are registered as a complete product, you must pay one fee for the complete product.
From 1 april 2022 it is no longer possible to be exempted from paying a fee, if your product has the same composition and design as another product that is already paid notification or maintenance fee by another manufacture or importer.
You must make a new registration and pay a new registration fee for any significant change of electronic cigarettes or refill containers with nicotine, which have already been registered. By the assessment whether it is a significant change, it is emphasized if it is a change of the quantity (e.g. the concentration of nicotine) or the composition of the liquids (e.g. change of the ingredients).
As an example, this means that a liquid with 2 mg nicotine and one with 4 mg nicotine result in two fees; and that two liquids with 2 mg nicotine – and flavours of mint and tobacco, respectively – also result in two fees.
Significant changes also cover changes of the construction and function, etc. of the electronic cigarette.
You do not have to pay fee for batteries and mouthpieces.
How long must the fee for maintenance of registration be paid?
You must pay the annual fee for maintenance of the registration of a product, as long as the product is registered in the EU-system.
It is therefore important that you deregister the product in the EU-system before expiry of a maintenance period, if you do not wish to market the product any longer.
Before the expiry of the maintenance period, the Danish Safety Technology Authority will let you know that the maintenance fee must be paid, if you want the product to remain registered in the EU-system.
What does the fee cover?
The fees cover the costs for the Danish Safety Technology Authority’s administration of the registration system and the market control which the authority carries out including costs for tests of products at external laboratories.
How are fees paid?
You will recieve an e-mail and an invoice from us with the excact fee size and information on payment.