Create, request, and manage business power of attorneys

Your organisation can create, request, and manage power of attorneys, enabling another organisation to act digitally on behalf of your organisation, and vice versa.

This page is relevant for:

organisation administrators
rights administrators
management representatives in the organisation.

By using a business power of attorney in MitID Erhverv or a power of attorney in Digital Fuldmagt self-service, your organisation can give or request a power of attorney. For example, you may authorise another organisation to act digitally on behalf of your organisation. This is particularly relevant, for instance, when your organisation's accountant needs to apply for reimbursement in NemRefusion on your behalf.

Business power of attorney in MitID Erhverv or power of attorney in Digital Fuldmagt self-service?

Some organisations need to create a business power of attorney in MitID Erhverv, while others must create one in Digital Fuldmagt self-service. The depends on how you digitally represent your organisation.

Business power of attorneys in MitID Erhverv

Your organisation must create and use business powers attorney if:

your organisation has entered into a connection agreement with MitID Erhverv
more than one individual acts on its behalf.

There are 3 ways to create business powers of attorney:

For another organisation: The recipient organisation decides who within their organisation will use the power of attorney and adds them to it.
For a specific individual in another organisation: The individual receives the power of attorney directly.
By approving a request from another organisation: Another organisation request a business power of attorney from your organisation, which you then approve.

Your role in MitID Erhverv determines the actions you are authorised to take with business powers of attorney.

Management Representative

Your organisation must have a connection agreement in place with MitID Erhverv. You have full access to all matters relating to business powers of attorney and may:

create business powers of attorney for another organisation
create business powers of attorney for a specific individual in another organisation
create power of delegation groups
add employees to a business power of attorney received by your organisation before it can be used
add employees to delegation groups in your organisation
approve or decline a request for a business power of attorney from another organisation.

If your organisation does not have a connection agreement with MitID Erhverv in place, please refer to this section:

Powers of Attorney in the Digital Power of Attorney Self-Service

Organisation administrator

You may:

create business powers of attorney for another organisation
create delegation groups
approve or decline a request for a business power of attorney from another organisation.

Rights administrator

You may:

create business powers of attorney for a specific individual in another organisation
add employees to a business power of attorney received by your organisation before it can be used
add employees to delegation groups in your organisation.

Create business powers of attorney to another organisation

Create business powers of attorney for a specific individual in another organisation

Request business powers of attorney in another organisation (pdf - only available in Danish)

Approve or decline a request for a business power of attorney (pdf – only available in Danish)

Add employees to the business powers of attorney received by your organisation

Create elegation groups in MitID Erhverv (pdf - only available in Danish)

Add employees to a delegation group

Powers of attorney in Digital Fuldmagt self-service

If you can answer meet 4 requirements below, you should use Digital Fuldmagt self-service to create or request a power of attorney:

You are a management representative or association representative in your organisation
You use private MitID, such as for logging into your own online banking, also when acting digitally on behalf of your organisation
You have been automatically authorised to act digitally on behalf of your business or association with their private MitID, even if your organisation has not actively entered into a connection agreement with MitID Erhverv.
When approving login for self-service, for example, with the MitID app, code display, audio code reader, or chip, you are ask promoted if you intend to log in as a management representative or as a private individual. You choose to log in as a management representative when acting on behalf of your organisation.

If you need to create or receive a business power of attorney in Digital Fuldmagt, you can read more in the following four guides. Please note that the guides are in Danish.

Request Digital Fuldmagt (pdf – only available in Danish)

Create Digital Fuldmagt (pdf – only available in Danish)

Approve or reject Digital Fuldmagt (pdf – only available in Danish)

Delete Digital Fuldmagt that your organisation has already granted (pdf – only available in Danish)