Is a Maintenance Plan Mandatory in a Danish Ejerforening?
The word vedligeholdelsesplan (maintenance plan) is not in the Danish Condominium Act (ejerlejlighedsloven), so a maintenance plan is not mandatory in the sense that the Act itself requires it. But the model articles for ejerforeninger (normalvedtægten), an executive order issued under the Act, include the plan: it is item 4 on the agenda of the ordinary general meeting, and preparing it is one of the board's tasks. The model articles apply unless the ejerforening has validly departed from them. That means reading three things side by side: the Act (§ 5), the model articles (§ 9 and § 16) and the ejerforening's own articles. The quotations are the text of the Acts, taken from Retsinformation on 7 November 2026. We offer no ready-made template here; we go through what the texts say and what they do not say.
Is "vedligeholdelsesplan" in the Condominium Act?
No. We searched the whole text of the Act (Act no. 908 of 18 June 2020) for the word, and it does not occur. What the Act does is give the minister the task of setting model articles:
«Boligministeren fastsætter i en normalvedtægt nærmere bestemmelser om ejerforeningens forhold og varetagelsen af ejernes fælles anliggender, rettigheder og forpligtelser.» (Ejerlejlighedsloven § 5, stk. 1)
And they apply as a starting point:
«Normalvedtægtens bestemmelser er gældende, medmindre de er fraveget ved gyldig beslutning.» (Ejerlejlighedsloven § 5, stk. 2)
Here lies the explanation of why the question "is it mandatory?" gets a double answer. The Act itself does not mention the plan. But what the model articles say is the ordinary arrangement for ejerforeninger, as long as the ejerforening has not validly decided something else.
What is the normalvedtægt?
It is an executive order that the minister has issued under the Act:
«I medfør af § 5, stk. 1, i lov nr. 908 af 18. juni 2020 om ejerlejligheder fastsættes:» (Bekendtgørelse nr. 1738 af 29. november 2020, indledende ord; jf. ejerlejlighedsloven § 5, stk. 1)
The articles themselves are Bilag 1, and they begin like this:
«Denne vedtægt regulerer forholdene i ejerforeningen medmindre andet er vedtaget i særvedtægt, jf. ejerlejlighedslovens § 5.» (Normalvedtægten § 1, stk. 1)
The general meeting is the highest body:
«Generalforsamlingen er ejerforeningens øverste myndighed.» (Normalvedtægten § 2)
The plan on the agenda: § 9
The ordinary general meeting is held every year, and the agenda has fixed items:
«Ordinær generalforsamling afholdes hvert år senest 6 måneder efter udløbet af ejerforeningens regnskabsår.» (Normalvedtægten § 9, stk. 1)
«Dagsorden for denne skal omfatte mindst følgende punkter:» (Normalvedtægten § 9, stk. 1)
Item 4 of 11 reads:
«Forelæggelse af vedligeholdelsesplan for ejendommen til godkendelse.» (Normalvedtægten § 9, stk. 1, punkt 4)
The plan shall thus be presented to the general meeting for approval, every year, as long as the model articles' agenda applies. The word is "presentation"; the model articles do not say the plan must be written from scratch every year, only that it must be on the agenda.
The plan as a task of the board: § 16
The board's duties are listed in § 16:
«Bestyrelsen varetager den daglige ledelse af ejerforeningen og udfører generalforsamlingens beslutninger.» (Normalvedtægten § 16, stk. 1)
«Bestyrelsen skal sikre en forsvarlig varetagelse af ejerforeningens anliggender, herunder:» (Normalvedtægten § 16, stk. 2)
As no. 6 on the list:
«Udarbejdelse af vedligeholdelsesplan.» (Normalvedtægten § 16, stk. 2, nr. 6)
And as no. 7:
«Fornyelse og vedligeholdelse i det omfang, sådanne foranstaltninger efter ejendommens karakter må anses for påkrævede.» (Normalvedtægten § 16, stk. 2, nr. 7)
Under the model articles the board must thus prepare the plan and present it to the general meeting. Who writes it in practice, the texts say nothing about.
What if the ejerforening has articles of its own?
Then you must read them. The model articles are the starting point, but:
«En fravigelse af normalvedtægten skal tinglyses på de enkelte ejerlejligheder for at være gyldig mod aftaler om ejendommen (ejerlejligheden) og mod retsforfølgning.» (Ejerlejlighedsloven § 5, stk. 3)
If the ejerforening has special articles that depart from the provisions on the plan, those apply (provided the departure is valid). If it has not, the provisions of the model articles apply. We have not examined how many ejerforeninger have departed from the two points.
What the texts do not say
In the texts we have read there is nothing about the length of the plan, how often it must be updated, or what it must contain. The word vedligeholdelsesplan occurs twice in the model articles: at item 4 of the agenda and at the board's task no. 6. The 15 years and the 5 years we know from andelsboligforeninger are in the Act on andelsboligforeninger, which is about andelsboligforeninger, and we have not found them in the texts that apply to ejerforeninger. You can read about them in our walk-through of the maintenance plan in an andelsboligforening.
How a board can go about it
- Find the ejerforening's articles and see whether they depart from the model articles on the agenda and the board's tasks.
- List the building parts: roof, facades, windows, installations, stairs, lift and common areas.
- Note the age, the latest work and the expected remaining life of each part, with an estimate of timing and price.
- Put the plan on the agenda as item 4, and send it out with the notice.
- Keep the plan and the general meeting's decision on it together with the minutes.
What Unitify does
The maintenance plan is prepared by the board, the ejerforening's administrator or an adviser; Unitify does not write it for you. What we help with is the work around it: an equipment register with service history, requests and fault reports per property, charges and payments per apartment, and notices to owners in the resident app. AI suggests service tasks and intervals per piece of equipment from the manufacturers' manuals, and a person approves them; it does not draft a building-wide plan. Documents, such as the plan and the material for the general meeting, sit in one place. The app interface is in English for now and is set up for each project; there is no Danish interface yet. Unitify does not connect to any public register or system.
If you sit on a board or manage several ejerforeninger, you can start free on Unitify's page for Denmark. You can also read about the general meeting in an ejerforening.
Sources: Lov om ejerlejligheder (Act no. 908 of 18 June 2020) and Bekendtgørelse om normalvedtægt for ejerforeninger (executive order no. 1738 of 29 November 2020), Retsinformation, checked 7 November 2026. Check the current wording and the ejerforening's articles before relying on the text. This is not legal advice.
Frequently asked questions
Is a maintenance plan mandatory in an ejerforening?
The word vedligeholdelsesplan is not in the Condominium Act itself. But the normalvedtægt, which applies unless validly departed from, has the plan as item 4 on the agenda of the ordinary general meeting and as one of the board's tasks (Ejerlejlighedsloven § 5, stk. 2; Normalvedtægten § 9, stk. 1 and § 16, stk. 2, nr. 6).
What is the normalvedtægt, and who has set it?
An executive order issued under § 5, stk. 1, of the Condominium Act. It applies to the ejerforening unless something else is adopted in special articles (Executive order no. 1738 of 29 November 2020, Bilag 1, § 1).
What if the ejerforening has articles of its own?
The provisions of the normalvedtægt apply unless validly departed from, and a departure must be registered in the land register to be valid against agreements about the property and against enforcement (Ejerlejlighedsloven § 5, stk. 2 and stk. 3). So read the ejerforening's own articles.
When must the plan be presented?
At the ordinary general meeting, which is held every year at the latest six months after the end of the ejerforening's financial year (Normalvedtægten § 9, stk. 1).