Permits, licenses and authorisations
Check if you need special registrations
It is your responsibility to ensure that you and your employees have the right permits, licences, authorisations and approvals to comply with Danish regulation. The requirements depend on the professional qualifications of you and your employees.
Self-service
See the list of regulated professions and apply for a permit at the competent Danish authority: Apply for a permit, license or authorisation
The European Professional Card (EPC) is an electronic procedure you can use to have your professional qualifications recognised in another EU/EEA country. The EPC is available for these professions:
Mountain Guides
Nurses Responsible for General Care
Pharmacists
Physiotherapists
Real Estate Agents
You can apply for an EPC if you want to get access to pursue your profession permanently, but also if you want to provide temporary services. Find out more about and apply for the EPC on the European Commission website.
If you wish to carry out work i Denmark within a regulated profession, that have public health or safety implications - e.g. as a chiropractor or a driving instructor - the danish competent authority may check your professional qualifications prior to your first provision of services. You can find all the regulated professions and their application procedures by following this link:
Go to the complete list of regulated professions and apply for a permit
Please find below an overview of regulated professions in Denmark, that have public health or safety implications:
Certified fire safety consultant
Certified Pyrotechnician
Certified structural engineer
Chiropodist
Chiropractor
Clinical Dental Technician
Clinical Dietician
Dental Hygienist
Driving Instructor
Fire safety inspector
Firefighter
Incident Commander in the municipal fire brigade
Medical Laboratory Technologist
Noise measurements and calculations
Occupational Therapist
Optometrist
Osteopath
Paramedic
Paramedic with special competences
Pest Control Officer
Pharmaconomist
Physiotherapist
Professional use of pesticides that are subject to approval and meant for protecting plants, destroying undesired plants or part
Prosthetist and Orthotist
Public Health Nurse
Radiographer
Rearing of certain types of animals (persons responsible for operating deer/ostrich/fox and wing games farms)
Security guard
Social and Healthcare Assistant
Specialised Nurse in anaestesiology
Specialised Nurse in Infection Control
Specialised Nurse in Intensive Care
Specialised Nurse in Oncology
Specialised Nurse in Psychiatry
Specialist in Community and Primary Health Care Nursing
Steward at certain sports events
Structural Engineer
Team leader in the Emergency Service/Fire brigade
Trikinseeker
Vermin controller
Water service manager
Well driller
Work with asbestos removal
Work with forklift truck
Work with lift inspection, maintenance and repair work etc.
Work with refugiration plants and heat pumps on more than 2,5 kg
Work with scaffold
Work with telescope loader
Work with tending of hot water and steam boilers
Work with welding and thermic cutting in metal
In some fields you have a right to practice your profession based on your educational background, which is required by law. You can find all regulated professions and their application procedures, where relevant, by following this link:
Go to the complete list of regulated professions and apply for a permit
Please find below an overview of regulated professions, you can practice, if you have the required educational background and their contepetent authority:
The Working Environment Authority:
Asbestos removal
Work with inspection, maintenance and repair of elevators, etc.
Boiler Attendant
Scaffold Erector
Welding work
Work with asphalt materials
Work with epoxy and isocyanates
Refrigeration engineer
Work with scaffold erection (education in erection of scaffolds)
Fork Lift Truck Driver
Building Site Coordinator
Operator of Fork Stacker
Operator of Telescope Loader
Work as crane driver on installations, etc. (crane driver certificate) (offshore)
Work as fork-lift truck driver (offshore)
Fork Lift Truck Driver
Building Site Coordinator
Operator of Fork Stacker
Operator of Telescope Loader
Work as crane driver on installations, etc. (crane driver certificate) (offshore)
Work as fork-lift truck driver (offshore)
Work with epoxy and isocyanates on installations, etc. (Epoxy-education)
Work with asbestos (education in demolition of asbestos) (offshore)
Work with welding (education in welding works) (offshore)
Work with scaffold erection (education in erection of scaffolds)
Work with styrene and polyester moulding
Responsible for drilling operations (well control course)
Work with styrene on installations (education in working with styrene)
Responsible for drilling operations (well control course) (offshore)
Crane Driver over 8 tm.
Work with asphalt Materials (bitumenproducts) (offshore)
Work with mobile cranes over 8 mT (offshore)
Work with mobile cranes over 30 mT (offshore)
Work with tower cranes and fixed cranes (offshore)
Work as telescope loader driver (offshore)
Work with inspection, maintenance and repair of lifts, etc. (offshore)
Work as a boiler attendant (offshore)
Work as a refrigeration engineer (offshore)
Work as operator of fork-lift stacker (offshore)
The Danish Supervisory Board of Psychological Practice:
Psychologist
The Danish Geodata Agency:
Land surveyors
The Danish Energy Agency:
Energy consultancy - requirement for certification of company
The Danish Safety Technology Authority:
Cable installer and pipe fitter
The Danish Maritime Authority:
Commercial diving
Ship's Assistant, Seaman and Motorman
Deck officer /skipper fishing fleet > 45m
Deck officer class II fishing vessel
Master of a fishing vessel
Mate (on fishing vessels)
Maritime Pilot
Ship's Cook
Marine Engineer (on fishing vessels)
Chief Engineer (on fishing vessel)
Other occupations where the Danish Maritime Authority requires completion of a safety course of about 3 days
The Danish Financial Supervisory Authority:
Insurance Intermediary
Responsible actuary
The Danish Environmental Protection Agency:
Well Driller
Waste Water Treatment Plant Manager
Employment at landfill sites as operator or staff
Authorised refrigeration technician (category II)
The Danish Patient Safety Authority:
Pharmacist
Ambulance staff (Paramedic Assistant, Paramedic and Paramedic with special competences)
The Danish Transport, Construction and Housing Authority:
Chimney sweeper
The Danish Agency for Science and Higher Education:
Pedagogue of the Danish Primary School
Teacher of the Danish Folkeskole (Primary and Lower Secondary School Teacher)
Teacher of Upper Secondary School (STX, HF, HHX and HTX)