Labour Market Insurance (AES)

There are two types of industrial injuries: occupational diseases and accidents at work.

An occupational disease is a disease that is caused by working or the conditions that the work has been performed under.

In other words, the disease must be caused by impacts at work and the correlation between the impacts and the disease must be recognised by medical research. If the harmful impacts occurred for less than 5 days they must be reported by the employer as an accident at work.

Doctors and dentists have a duty to report occupational diseases via the ESS reporting system.

All occupational diseases must be reported via the ESS self-service.

You must send reports on the same day that you fill them out. Drafts are only saved for the day in which they are created.

It is helpful if you fill out the report with information on the patient’s GP (general practitioner - doctor). If you are a GP, the report will automatically adopt information from your ESS profile.

You can report an occupational disease in ESS if you are:

• A doctor

• A dentist

• A representative of a medical or dental clinic

• Working in another kind of healthcare capacity with reporting access to ESS

• You must use a MitID signature in order to get access to reporting occupational diseases. If you do not already have an employee signature, you can order one from MitID.

Doctors and dentists are entitled to a payment for submitting reports on occupational diseases via ESS.

The payment for reports is paid by The Danish Working Environment Authority (Arbejdstilsynet) to the reporting doctor or dentist.

Other reporting entities are not entitled to a fee.

Read more about doctors’ duty to report and their entitlement to a fee (Information in Danish)

AES pays the fee if we have asked a medical specialist to send a copy of a medical journal, medical specialist’s certificate, medical certificate, autopsy or supplementary note. You must send your invoice electronically to AES in order to get paid. The money will be transferred to your NemKonto :

When you fill out the invoice:

• Fill out one invoice per civil registration number.

• Write the recipient/patient’s civil registration number clearly.

• Write AES’ file number under order/purchase reference - for example, 010203-0405/01

• Note which service you are invoicing AES for

It is possible to send an invoice electronically via Virk.dk:

• Go to the invoicing form on virk.dk (Information in Danish)

• Instructions for filling out an electronic invoice (Information in Danish)

You can send the invoice to: GLN/EAN nr.: 5790002265891

Please note that medical information on patients must be sent to: aes@atp.dk

or

Labour Market Insurance (AES) Kongens Vænge 8 DK-3400 Hillerød

Unfortunately, AES cannot receive electronic credit notes. If you have a credit note, you must call AES on +45 48 20 58 40.

Reporting an occupational disease AES does not pay the fee for reporting an occupational disease. The fee will be paid automatically in connection with the digital reporting of occupational diseases to AES and The Danish Working Environment Authority (Arbejdstilsynet).

• Reporting of occupational diseases

• Payment for reporting occupational diseases

If an employee becomes ill due to work, the company must ask the employee to go to a doctor. The employee’s doctor has a duty to report an occupational disease to authorities via the ESS reporting system.

When the disease has been reported, the case will be processed by Labour Market Insurance (AES). AES retrieves the required work and health information and decides whether the employee is entitled to compensation.

As an employer, you have a duty to provide information on the work and how it was performed. AES contacts the company if information is needed. The employer will be notified if the disease is recognised as an industrial injury (occupational disease).

When the company pays AES contribution compensations are covered and paid directly to the employee by AES occupational diseases insurance (AES Erhvervssygdomssikring).