Case Study: Danish Environmental Protection Agency achieves automated wood stove enforcement with cBrain F2

Danish Environmental Protection Agency automates 40,000 wood stove cases a year with cBrain

The Danish Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) faced the challenge of enforcing a new regulation requiring the removal of old wood stoves upon property sales to reduce particulate air pollution. Manually managing an estimated 40,000 annual compliance cases, issuing fines, and tracking documentation was a significant administrative burden. To address this, they partnered with vendor cBrain to implement an automated enforcement solution using the cBrain F2 platform.

cBrain developed a digital enforcement system on the F2 platform that automated the entire process. The solution integrated with national property registers to create cases automatically, notified homeowners, tracked compliance, issued fines, and escalated non-compliant cases. This allowed the Danish EPA to manage all 40,000 cases annually with minimal manual effort, ensuring consistent, transparent, and effective enforcement to support national air pollution reduction goals.

Danish Environmental Protection Agency