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Transfer of weapons, ammunition and explosives through Denmark

Transporting weapons, ammunition and explosives through Denmark normally requires a transfer document.

Under Danish law, the transfer of weapons, ammunition and explosives through Denmark is considered to be import followed by export.
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  • Weapons of any kind, including knives, etc.
  • Items which appear to be weapons or which can be converted into weapons by virtue of their material or design
  • Ammunition
  • Military equipment with a few exceptions for transfer within the EU/EEA
  • Explosives

If you are to travel through Denmark to another EU/EEA country or to the Faroe Islands or Greenland with airsoft and paintball guns, alarm and signal weapons, airguns or weapons designed for hunting, fishing or competition shooting and matching components and ammunition or muzzle loaders manufactured before 1870 and/or breech loaders manufactured before 1870 which cannot use fixed ammunition, you must apply for an import/export licence from the Weapons Department of the Administrative Centre of the Police (Politiets Administrative Center "PAC").

 

If you want to apply for permission to travel through Denmark with airsoft and paintball guns, alarm and signal weapons, airguns or weapons designed for hunting, fishing or competition shooting and matching components and ammunition or muzzle loaders manufactured before 1870 and/or breech loaders manufactured before 1870 which cannot use fixed ammunition to a destination outside an EU/EEA country and with other types of weapons, explosives and military equipment, you must send your application and relevant documents to the Danish National Police (Rigspolitiet) through pol-vaben-ansogning@politi.dk or through Digital Post.


  • Application form
  • Written declaration from the recipient country that the country intends to admit the items

In addition to a correctly completed application form, your application must also contain documentation that the recipient country has granted an import licence or a written declaration from the authorities of the recipient country that an import licence is not required for the relevant item.


The licence granted will be valid for up to three years.

Military equipment, see section 6(1)(iii)-(v), (viii) and (viiii) of the Danish Offensive Weapons Act (våbenloven), which is imported from an EU/EEA country to be immediately exported to another EU/EEA country are exempt from the requirement to obtain permission, see section 6(7) of the Act.

An application for a transfer document to accompany explosives for transfers within the EU (an intra-Community transfer of explosives document under Directive 2014/28/EU) must be sent by ordinary letter to the following address:

The Danish National Police (Rigspolitiet)

Polititorvet 14
DK-1780 Copenhagen V

Mark the envelope: "Application for transfer of explosives".

 

The EU form must be approved in advance by the authorities of the recipient country.