Information about possible ways to act for manufacturers within EEA concerning marketing of articles of precious metal in Denmark.
Following four options are presented to interested manufacturers:
1.
The manufacturer may want to work with a domestic Danish responsibility mark. This has to be obtained by a legal person situated in Denmark, who will be responsible for the conformity of the articles with respect to the Danish regulation. Further it will be a consequence that import of the articles will be subjet to inspection and control of the Danish Assay Office.
2.
The manufacturer may wish to exploit regulations of the internal market within EEA. Articles from other countries within EEA are deemed to be equivalent with articles manufactured in Denmark which are subject to the inspection of the Danish Assay Office if certain provision about marking and control of the articles given in the Danish regulations are fulfilled.
According to the provisions the responsibility mark shall be notified to the Danish Assay Office in order to secure, that it can not be confused with another responsibility mark already used for articles of precious metal. The regulations assume that this notification is done by the legal person who wishes to sell the articles in Denmark. This includes that all correspondence from the Assay Office will be in Danish language. Furthermore the legislation in this moment is only present in Danish.
3.
It may be foreseen that foreign manufacturers may wish to get detailed information about the Danish regulations or possibly wish to notify their responsibility mark to the Danish Assay Office before they address retailers in Denmark with an enquiry concerning a possible marketing their articles. Therefore FORCE Technology has decided to offer the foreign companies that they can hire the services of FORCE Technology as a consultant on advisory level. On such consulting basis FORCE Technology then can help the foreign manufacturer in notifying their responsibility mark to the Assay Office and learning the details in the Danish regulations concerning articles of precious metal. It shall be underlined, that for this work FORCE Technology will charge the client on a basis by the hour. If if the foreign manufacturer chooses to follow the second possibility mentioned above he will not be charged by the Danish Assay Office.
4.
Finally it should be mentioned, that articles of precious metal hallmarked with the CCM-mark may be marketed i Denmark without any obstacles.
The Danish Assay Office hopes that this information may guide you adequately that you may choose the right thing to do for your company.
For more information, please contact:
Danish Assay Office, c/o FORCE Technology
Contact person: Ole Petersen
Telephone: +45 43 26 70 00 fax: +45 43 26 70 11
e-mail: info@aedelmetalkontrollen.dk
