A new digital system from the Danish Customs Agency (Toldstyrelsen) has been launched to make it easier for travellers to declare valuable items when leaving and entering the country.
The Danish Customs Agency has launched a new digital system for declaring large sums of cash and other items with values of over 10,000 euros (around 75,000 kroner), it said in a statement on Friday.
The new system replaces a form which travellers had to print and hand in at airports. From now on, information can be submitted electronically on the Toldstyrelsen website.
Travellers will still be required to visit the Customs Agency desk at airports, but the new platform will streamline the process, the authority said.
The new system makes oversight more targeted and increases the likelihood of detecting suspicious patterns, according to Jeppe Kjærgaard, the agency’s inspections director.
“This makes us better equipped in the fight against money laundering and other forms of financial crime,” he said in the statement.
“Cash is a favoured tool in money laundering and other economic crime. That is why it is important to have the right tools to distinguish between lawful and unlawful flows of money, and digitalisation is a clear boost in that respect,” he said.
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Anyone entering or leaving Denmark with cash or other liquid assets worth 10,000 euros or more must declare the funds to the Danish Customs Agency.
The requirement applies regardless of whether the traveller is a private individual, acting on behalf of a company, or is passing through Denmark in transit.
The Customs Agency received 1,696 cash declarations from travellers in 2024. The figure for the first half of 2025 stood at 1,069.