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In July 2023, the European Union (EU) published Battery Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 on batteries and waste batteries.
The new legislation establishes requirements for the following:
- Sustainability
- Safety
- Labelling
- Information for all batteries, including:
- Portable batteries
- Starting, lighting, and ignition batteries (SLI batteries)
- Light means of transport batteries (LMT batteries)
- Electric vehicle batteries
- Industrial batteries
- Batteries designed to be incorporated into or added to products
The new Regulation will replace Battery Directive 2006/66/EC but also introduce requirements in many new areas of sustainability and safety of batteries and battery-operated products.
Key requirements
Design requirements:
- Restriction of substrates
- Carbon footprint
- Recycled content
- Performance and durability
- Removability and replaceability
- Information and traceability
- Labeling, CE marking, and conformity assessments
- Information via QR code
- Digital battery passport
End of life
- Extended responsibility obligations for producers/ producer responsibility organizations (PROs)
- Collection of waste from portable and light means of transport (LMT) batteries
- Recycling efficiency targets
- Materials recovery targets
- Shipment of waste batteries outside the EU
- Reporting obligations
Due diligence
- Management system
- Risk management plan
- Third-party verification through a notified body
- Disclosure of information
To find out more about the new requirements, please speak to our team today.
