The Danish Register of Underground Cable Owners (LER)
The Danish Register of Underground Cable Owners (LER) was launched in March 2005 in order to prevent accidental damages to underground utility cables (carrying gas, electricity, telephone signals, drinking water, heating water, waste water, etc.), to lower administration costs in the contracting sector and to increase supply security.
The immediate beneficiaries are professional cable owners and contractors and, further on, the end-users of utilities.
LER contains information on all companies and associations who own underground cables in Denmark. Between March 1 and September 1 2005 all owners of cables registered their areas of interest in the register. An area of interest is the geographical area in which an owner of cables own cables. The exact location of cables is thus not registered. Since September 1, 2005, all companies performing underground construction activities have been legally obliged to enquire in the register before the beginning of the activities.
