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Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 July 2023 concerning batteries and waste batteries, amending Directive 2008/98/EC and Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 and repealing Directive 2006/66/EC (Text with EEA relevance)Text with EEA relevance
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Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 July 2023 concerning batteries and waste batteries, amending Directive 2008/98/EC and Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 and repealing Directive 2006/66/EC (Text with EEA relevance)Text with EEA relevance
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REGULATION (EU) 2023/1542 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 12 July 2023 concerning batteries and waste batteries, amending Directive 2008/98/EC and Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 and repealing Directive 2006/66/EC (OJ L 191 28.7.2023, p. 1) |
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REGULATION (EU) 2023/1542 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL
of 12 July 2023
concerning batteries and waste batteries, amending Directive 2008/98/EC and Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 and repealing Directive 2006/66/EC
(Text with EEA relevance)
CHAPTER I
General provisions
Article 1
Subject matter and scope
For the purposes of Chapter II, where batteries placed on the market can be considered to fall under more than one category, they shall be deemed to fall under the category to which the strictest requirements apply.
This Regulation does not apply to batteries that are incorporated into or that are specifically designed to be incorporated into:
equipment connected with the protection of Member States’ essential security interests, arms, munitions and war material, with the exclusion of products that are not intended for specifically military purposes; and
equipment designed to be sent into space.
Article 2
Objectives
The objectives of this Regulation are to contribute to the efficient functioning of the internal market, while preventing and reducing the adverse impacts of batteries on the environment, and to protect the environment and human health by preventing and reducing the adverse impacts of the generation and management of waste batteries.
Article 3
Definitions
For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions apply:
‘battery’ means any device delivering electrical energy generated by direct conversion of chemical energy, having internal or external storage, and consisting of one or more non-rechargeable or rechargeable battery cells, modules or of packs of them, and includes a battery that has been subject to preparation for re-use, preparation for repurposing, repurposing or remanufacturing;
‘battery pack’ means any set of battery cells or modules that are connected together or encapsulated within an outer casing, to form a complete unit which is not meant to be split up or opened by the end-user;
‘battery module’ means any set of battery cells that are connected together or encapsulated within an outer casing to protect the cells against external impact, and which is meant to be used either alone or in combination with other modules;
‘battery cell’ means the basic functional unit in a battery, composed of electrodes, electrolyte, container, terminals and, if applicable, separators, and containing the active materials the reaction of which generates electrical energy;
‘active material’ means a material which reacts chemically to produce electric energy when the battery cell discharges or to store electric energy when the battery is being charged;
‘non-rechargeable battery’ means a battery that is not designed to be electrically recharged;
‘rechargeable battery’ means a battery that is designed to be electrically recharged;
‘battery with external storage’ means a battery that is specifically designed to have its energy stored exclusively in one or more attached external devices;
‘portable battery’ means a battery that is sealed, weighs 5 kg or less, is not designed specifically for industrial use and is neither an electric vehicle battery, an LMT battery, nor an SLI battery;
‘portable battery of general use’ means a portable battery, whether or not rechargeable, that is specifically designed to be interoperable and that has one of the following common formats 4,5 Volts (3R12), button cell, D, C, AA, AAA, AAAA, A23, 9 Volts (PP3);
‘light means of transport battery’ or ‘LMT battery’ means a battery that is sealed, weighs 25 kg or less and is specifically designed to provide electric power for the traction of wheeled vehicles that can be powered by an electric motor alone or by a combination of motor and human power, including type-approved vehicles of category L within the meaning of Regulation (EU) No 168/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 2 ), and that is not an electric vehicle battery;
‘starting, lighting and ignition battery’ or ‘SLI battery’ means a battery that is specifically designed to supply electric power for starting, lighting, or ignition and that can also be used for auxiliary or backup purposes in vehicles, other means of transport or machinery;
‘industrial battery’ means a battery that is specifically designed for industrial uses, intended for industrial uses after having been subject to preparation for repurposing or repurposing, or any other battery that weighs more than 5 kg and that is neither an electric vehicle battery, an LMT battery, nor an SLI battery;
‘electric vehicle battery’ means a battery that is specifically designed to provide electric power for traction in hybrid or electric vehicles of category L as provided for in Regulation (EU) No 168/2013, that weighs more than 25 kg, or a battery that is specifically designed to provide electric power for traction in hybrid or electric vehicles of categories M, N or O as provided for in Regulation (EU) 2018/858;
‘stationary battery energy storage system’ means an industrial battery with internal storage that is specifically designed to store from and deliver electric energy to the grid or store for and deliver electric energy to end-users, regardless of where and by whom the battery is being used;
‘placing on the market’ means the first making available of a battery on the Union market;
‘making available on the market’ means any supply of a battery for distribution or use on the Union market in the course of a commercial activity, whether in return for payment or free of charge;
‘putting into service’ means the first use, for its intended purpose, in the Union, of a battery, without having been previously placed on the market;
‘battery model’ means a version of a battery all units of which share the same technical characteristics relevant for the requirements of this Regulation on sustainability, safety, labelling, marking and information, and the same model identifier;
‘battery presenting a risk’ means a battery which has the potential to have adverse effects on human health or the safety of persons, on property or the environment to a degree which goes beyond that considered reasonable and acceptable in relation to the battery’s intended purpose or under the normal or reasonably foreseeable conditions of use of the battery concerned, including the duration of use, and, where applicable, to its putting into service, installation and maintenance requirements;
‘carbon footprint’ means the sum of greenhouse gas emissions and greenhouse gas removals in a product system, expressed as carbon dioxide equivalents and based on a Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) study using the single impact category of climate change;
‘economic operator’ means the manufacturer, the authorised representative, the importer, the distributor or the fulfilment service provider or any other natural or legal person who is subject to obligations in relation to the manufacture, preparation for re-use, preparation for repurposing, repurposing or remanufacturing of batteries, the making available or the placing of batteries on the market, including online, or the putting of batteries into service in accordance with this Regulation;
‘independent operator’ means a natural or legal person who is independent from the manufacturer and the producer and is directly or indirectly involved in the repair, maintenance or repurposing of batteries, and includes waste management operators, repairers, manufacturers or distributors of repair equipment, tools or spare parts, as well as publishers of technical information, operators offering inspection and testing services, operators offering training for installers, manufacturers and repairers of equipment for alternative-fuel vehicles;
‘QR code’ means a machine-readable matrix code that links to information as required by this Regulation;
‘battery management system’ means an electronic device that controls or manages the electric and thermal functions of a battery in order to ensure the battery’s safety, performance and service life, manages and stores the data for the parameters for determining the battery’s state of health and expected lifetime set out in Annex VII and communicates with the vehicle, light means of transport or appliance in which the battery is incorporated, or with a public or private charging infrastructure;
‘appliance’ means any electrical or electronic equipment, as defined in Article 3(1), point (a), of Directive 2012/19/EU, which is fully or partly powered by a battery or is capable of being so;
‘state of charge’ means the available energy in a battery expressed as a percentage of its rated capacity as declared by the manufacturer;
‘state of health’ means a measure of the general condition of a rechargeable battery and its ability to deliver the specified performance compared with its initial condition;
‘preparation for re-use’ means preparing for re-use as defined in Article 3, point (16), of Directive 2008/98/EC;
‘preparation for repurposing’ means any operation, by which a waste battery, or parts thereof, is prepared so that it can be used for a different purpose or application than that for which it was originally designed;
‘repurposing’ means any operation that results in a battery, that is not a waste battery, or parts thereof being used for a purpose or application other than that for which the battery was originally designed;
‘remanufacturing’ means any technical operation on a used battery that includes the disassembly and evaluation of all its battery cells and modules and the use of a certain number of battery cells and modules that are new, used or recovered from waste, or other battery components, to restore the battery capacity to at least 90 % of the original rated capacity, and where the state of health of all individual battery cells does not differ more than 3 % between cells, and results in the battery being used for the same purpose or application as the one for which the battery was originally designed;
‘manufacturer’ means any natural or legal person who manufactures a battery or has a battery designed or manufactured, and markets that battery under its own name or trademark or puts it into service for its own purposes;
‘technical specifications’ means a document that prescribes technical requirements to be fulfilled by a product, process or service;
‘harmonised standard’ means a standard as defined in Article 2, point (1)(c), of Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012;
‘CE marking’ means a marking by which a manufacturer indicates that the battery is in conformity with the applicable requirements laid down in Union harmonisation legislation providing for its affixing;
‘accreditation’ means accreditation as defined in Article 2, point (10), of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008;
‘national accreditation body’ means a national accreditation body as defined in Article 2, point (11), of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008;
‘conformity assessment’ means the process demonstrating whether the sustainability, safety, labelling, information and due diligence requirements of this Regulation have been fulfilled;
‘conformity assessment body’ means a body that performs conformity assessment activities including calibration, testing, certification and inspection;
‘notified body’ means a conformity assessment body that has been notified in accordance with Chapter V;
‘battery due diligence’ means the obligations of an economic operator in relation to its management system, risk management, third-party verifications and surveillance by notified bodies and disclosure of information, for the purpose of identifying, preventing and addressing actual and potential social and environmental risks linked to the sourcing, processing and trading of the raw materials and secondary raw materials required for battery manufacturing, including by suppliers in the chain and their subsidiaries or subcontractors;
‘subsidiary’ means a legal person through which the activity of a controlled undertaking within the meaning of Article 2(1), point (f), of Directive 2004/109/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 3 ) is exercised;
‘parent company’ means a company which controls one or more subsidiaries;
‘conflict-affected and high-risk areas’ means conflict-affected and high-risk areas as defined in Article 2, point (f), of Regulation (EU) 2017/821;
‘distance contracts’ means distance contracts as defined in Article 2, point (7), of Directive 2011/83/EU;
‘producer’ means any manufacturer, importer or distributor or other natural or legal person that, irrespective of the selling technique used, including by means of distance contracts, either:
is established in a Member State and manufactures batteries under its own name or trademark, or has batteries designed or manufactured and supplies them for the first time under its own name or trademark, including those incorporated in appliances, light means of transport or other vehicles, within the territory of that Member State;
is established in a Member State and resells within the territory of that Member State, under its own name or trademark, batteries, including those incorporated in appliances, light means of transport or other vehicles, manufactured by others, on which the name or trademark of those other manufacturers does not appear;
is established in a Member State and supplies for the first time in that Member State on a professional basis, batteries, including those incorporated in appliances, light means of transport or other vehicles, from another Member State or from a third country; or
sells batteries, including those incorporated in appliances, light means of transport or other vehicles, by means of distance contracts directly to end-users, whether or not they are private households, in a Member State, and is established in another Member State or in a third country;
‘authorised representative for extended producer responsibility’ means a natural or legal person established in a Member State in which the producer places batteries on the market and which is different from the Member State where the producer is established, and is appointed by the producer in accordance with Article 8a(5), third subparagraph, of Directive 2008/98/EC to fulfil the obligations of that producer under Chapter VIII of this Regulation;
‘producer responsibility organisation’ means a legal entity that financially or financially and operationally organises the fulfilment of extended producer responsibility obligations on behalf of several producers;
‘waste battery’ means any battery which is waste as defined in Article 3, point (1), of Directive 2008/98/EC;
‘battery manufacturing waste’ means the materials or objects rejected during the battery manufacturing process, which cannot be re-used as an integral part in the same process and need to be recycled;
‘hazardous substance’ means a substance classified as hazardous pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008;
‘treatment’ means any operation carried out on waste batteries after they have been handed over to a facility for sorting, preparation for re-use, preparation for repurposing, preparation for recycling or for recycling;
‘preparation for recycling’ means the treatment of waste batteries prior to any recycling process, including, inter alia, the storage, handling and dismantling of battery packs or the separation of fractions that are not part of the battery itself;
‘voluntary collection point’ means any non-profit, commercial or other economic undertaking or public body involved on its own initiative in the separate collection of waste portable batteries and waste LMT batteries, generated by it or by other end-users, before handing those waste batteries over to producers, to producer responsibility organisations or to waste management operators for subsequent treatment;
‘waste management operator’ means any natural or legal person dealing on a professional basis with the separate collection or treatment of waste batteries;
‘permitted facility’ means an establishment or undertaking that is permitted in accordance with Directive 2008/98/EC to carry out the treatment of waste batteries;
‘recycler’ means any natural or legal person who carries out recycling in a permitted facility;
‘lifetime of a battery’ means the period that starts when the battery is manufactured and ends when the battery becomes waste;
‘recycling efficiency’ means the ratio, expressed as a percentage, obtained by dividing the mass of output fractions accounting for recycling by the mass of the waste batteries’ input fraction, in relation to a recycling process;
‘Union harmonisation legislation’ means any Union legislation harmonising the conditions for the marketing of products;
‘national authority’ means an approval authority or any other authority involved in and responsible for market surveillance in a Member State in respect of batteries;
‘authorised representative’ means any natural or legal person established in the Union who has received a written mandate from a manufacturer to act on its behalf in relation to specified tasks with regard to the manufacturer’s obligations under Chapters IV and VI;
‘importer’ means any natural or legal person established within the Union who places on the market a battery from a third country;
‘distributor’ means any natural or legal person in the supply chain, other than the manufacturer or the importer, who makes a battery available on the market;
‘unique identifier’ means a unique string of characters for the identification of batteries that also enables a web link to the battery passport;
‘online platform’ means an online platform as defined in Article 3, point (i), of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065;
‘market participant’ means a market participant as defined in Article 2, point (25), of Regulation (EU) 2019/943 of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 4 ).
In addition to the definitions referred to in paragraph 1, the following definitions apply:
‘waste’, ‘waste holder’, ‘waste management’, ‘prevention’, ‘collection’, ‘separate collection’, ‘extended producer responsibility scheme’, ‘re-use’ and ‘recycling’, laid down in Article 3 of Directive 2008/98/EC;
‘market surveillance’, ‘market surveillance authority’, ‘fulfilment service provider’, ‘corrective action’, ‘end-user’, ‘recall’ and ‘withdrawal’, as well as ‘risk’ in relation to requirements of Chapters I, IV, VI, VII and IX of and Annexes V, VIII and XIII to this Regulation, laid down in Article 3 of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020;
‘independent aggregator’ and ‘energy storage’, laid down in Article 2 of Directive (EU) 2019/944.
Article 4
Free movement
Article 5
Sustainability, safety, labelling and information requirements for batteries
Batteries shall only be placed on the market or put into service if they meet the following requirements:
the sustainability and safety requirements laid down in Articles 6 to 10 and 12; and
the labelling and information requirements laid down in Chapter III.
CHAPTER II
Sustainability and safety requirements
Article 6
Restrictions on substances
Article 7
Carbon footprint of electric vehicle batteries, rechargeable industrial batteries and LMT batteries
For electric vehicle batteries, rechargeable industrial batteries with a capacity greater than 2 kWh and LMT batteries a carbon footprint declaration shall be drawn up for each battery model per manufacturing plant, in accordance with the implementing act referred to in the fourth subparagraph and containing, at least, the following information:
administrative information about the manufacturer;
information about the battery model;
information about the geographic location of the battery manufacturing plant;
the carbon footprint of the battery, calculated as kg of carbon dioxide equivalent per one kWh of the total energy provided by the battery over its expected service life;
the carbon footprint of the battery differentiated according to life cycle stage as described in point 4 of Annex II;
the identification number of the EU declaration of conformity of the battery;
a web link giving access to a public version of the study supporting the carbon footprint values referred to in points (d) and (e).
The carbon footprint declaration shall apply from:
18 February 2025 or 12 months after the date of entry into force either of the delegated act or of the implementing act respectively referred to in the fourth subparagraph, points (a) and (b), whichever is the latest, for electric vehicle batteries;
18 February 2026 or 18 months after the date of entry into force either of the delegated act or of the implementing act respectively referred to in the fourth subparagraph, points (a) and (b), whichever is the latest, for rechargeable industrial batteries except those with exclusively external storage;
18 August 2028 or 18 months after the date of entry into force either of the delegated act or of the implementing act respectively referred to in the fourth subparagraph, points (a) and (b), whichever is the latest, for LMT batteries;
18 August 2030 or 18 months after the date of entry into force either of the delegated act or of the implementing act respectively referred to in the fourth subparagraph, points (a) and (b), whichever is the latest, for rechargeable industrial batteries with external storage.
Until it becomes accessible via the QR code referred to in Article 13(6), the carbon footprint declaration shall accompany the battery.
The Commission shall, by 18 February 2024 for electric vehicle batteries, 18 February 2025 for rechargeable industrial batteries, except those with external storage, 18 February 2027 for LMT batteries and 18 February 2029 for industrial batteries with external storage, adopt:
a delegated act in accordance with Article 89 to supplement this Regulation by establishing the methodology for the calculation and verification of the carbon footprint of the battery referred to in the first subparagraph, point (d), in accordance with the essential elements set out in Annex II;
an implementing act establishing the format for the carbon footprint declaration referred to in the first subparagraph. That implementing act shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 90(3).
For batteries referred to in the first subparagraph, the technical documentation referred to in Annex VIII shall demonstrate that the carbon footprint declared and the related classification into a carbon footprint performance class have been calculated in accordance with the methodology set out in the delegated acts adopted by the Commission pursuant to paragraph 1, fourth subparagraph, point (a) and the fourth subparagraph, point (a), of this paragraph.
The carbon footprint performance class requirements in the first subparagraph shall apply from:
18 August 2026 or 18 months after the date of entry into force either of the delegated act or of the implementing act respectively referred to in the fourth subparagraph, points (a) and (b), whichever is the latest, for electric vehicle batteries;
18 August 2027 or 18 months after the date of entry into force either of the delegated act or of the implementing act respectively referred to in the fourth subparagraph, points (a) and (b), whichever is the latest, for rechargeable industrial batteries except those with exclusively external storage;
18 February 2030 or 18 months after the date of entry into force either of the delegated act or of the implementing act respectively referred to in the fourth subparagraph, points (a) and (b), whichever is the latest, for LMT batteries;
18 February 2032 or 18 months after the date of entry into force either of the delegated act or of the implementing act respectively referred to in the fourth subparagraph, points (a) and (b), whichever is the latest, for rechargeable industrial batteries with external storage.
The Commission shall, by 18 February 2025 for electric vehicle batteries, 18 August 2026 for rechargeable industrial batteries except those with exclusively external storage, 18 August 2028 for LMT batteries and 18 August 2030 for rechargeable industrial batteries with external storage, adopt:
a delegated act in accordance with Article 89 to supplement this Regulation by establishing the carbon footprint performance classes referred to in the first subparagraph. In preparing that delegated act, the Commission shall take into account the conditions set out in point 8 of Annex II;
an implementing act establishing the formats for the labelling referred to in the first subparagraph and the format for the declaration on the carbon footprint performance class referred to in that subparagraph. That implementing act shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 90(3).
The Commission shall, in accordance with the conditions set out in point 8 of Annex II, review the number of performance classes and the thresholds between them, every three years and, where appropriate, adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 89 to amend the number of performance classes and thresholds between them with a view to keeping them representative of the market reality and expected developments in the market.
The requirement for a maximum life cycle carbon footprint threshold referred to in the first subparagraph shall apply as of:
18 February 2028 or 18 months after the date of entry into force of the delegated act referred to in the third subparagraph, whichever is the latest, for electric vehicle batteries;
18 February 2029 or 18 months after the date of entry into force of the delegated act referred to in the third subparagraph, whichever is the latest, for rechargeable industrial batteries except those with exclusively external storage;
18 August 2031 or 18 months after the date of entry into force of the delegated act referred to in the third subparagraph, whichever is the latest, for LMT batteries;
18 August 2033 or 18 months after the date of entry into force of the delegated act referred to in the third subparagraph, whichever is the latest, for rechargeable industrial batteries with external storage.
The Commission shall, by 18 August 2026 for electric vehicle batteries, 18 February 2028 for rechargeable industrial batteries, except those with external storage, 18 February 2030 for LMT batteries and 18 February 2032 for industrial batteries with external storage, adopt a delegated act in accordance with Article 89 to supplement this Regulation by determining the maximum life cycle carbon footprint threshold referred to in the first subparagraph. In preparing that delegated act, the Commission shall take into account the relevant conditions set out in point 9 of Annex II.
The introduction of a maximum life cycle carbon footprint threshold shall trigger, if necessary, a reclassification of the carbon footprint performance classes referred to in paragraph 2.
Article 8
Recycled content in industrial batteries, electric vehicle batteries, LMT batteries and SLI batteries
The first subparagraph shall apply from 18 August 2033 to LMT batteries that contain cobalt, lead, lithium or nickel in active materials.
By 18 August 2026, the Commission shall adopt a delegated act in accordance with Article 89 to supplement this Regulation by establishing, for the batteries referred to in the first and second subparagraphs, the methodology for the calculation and verification of the percentage share of cobalt, lithium or nickel that is present in active materials and that has been recovered from battery manufacturing waste or post-consumer waste, and the percentage share of lead that is present in the battery and that has been recovered from waste, and the format for the documentation.
From 18 August 2031, for industrial batteries with a capacity greater than 2 kWh, except those with exclusively external storage, electric vehicle batteries and SLI batteries that contain cobalt, lead, lithium or nickel in active materials, the technical documentation referred to in Annex VIII shall demonstrate that those batteries contain, in active materials, the following minimum percentage share of, respectively, cobalt, lithium or nickel that has been recovered from battery manufacturing waste or post-consumer waste, and the minimum percentage share of lead that is present in the battery and that has been recovered from waste, for each battery model per year and per manufacturing plant:
16 % cobalt;
85 % lead;
6 % lithium;
6 % nickel.
From 18 August 2036, for industrial batteries with a capacity greater than 2 kWh, except those with exclusively external storage, electric vehicle batteries, LMT batteries and SLI batteries that contain cobalt, lead, lithium or nickel in active materials, the technical documentation referred to in Annex VIII shall demonstrate that those batteries contain, in the active materials, the following minimum percentage share of, respectively, cobalt, lithium or nickel that has been recovered from battery manufacturing waste or post-consumer waste, and the minimum percentage share of lead that is present in the battery and that has been recovered from waste, for each battery model per year and per manufacturing plant:
26 % cobalt;
85 % lead;
12 % lithium;
15 % nickel.
Where justified and appropriate on the basis of the assessment made under the first subparagraph or due to other considerable changes in battery technology impacting the type of materials recovered, the Commission shall adopt, by 18 August 2029, a delegated act in accordance with Article 89, to amend the targets laid down in paragraphs 2 and 3.
Article 9
Performance and durability requirements for portable batteries of general use
The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 89 to amend the minimum values referred to in the first subparagraph or add electrochemical performance and durability parameters to those set out in Annex III in view of technical and scientific progress.
In preparing the delegated act referred to in the first subparagraph, the Commission shall consider the need to reduce the life cycle environmental impact of portable batteries of general use, including by means of increasing the resource efficiency thereof, and shall take into consideration relevant international standards and labelling schemes.
The Commission shall also ensure that the provisions laid down by the delegated act referred to in the first subparagraph do not have a significant adverse impact on the safety and functionality of those batteries or the appliances, light means of transport or other vehicles into which those batteries are incorporated, the affordability and the cost for end-users and the industry’s competitiveness.
Article 10
Performance and durability requirements for rechargeable industrial batteries, LMT batteries and electric vehicle batteries
For batteries referred to in the first subparagraph, the technical documentation referred to in Annex VIII shall contain an explanation of the technical specifications, standards and conditions used to measure, calculate or estimate the values for the electrochemical performance and durability parameters. That explanation shall include, at least, the elements set out in Part B of Annex IV.
By 18 February 2027, the Commission shall adopt a delegated act in accordance with Article 89 to supplement this Regulation by establishing minimum values for the electrochemical performance and durability parameters set out in Part A of Annex IV that LMT batteries shall attain.
In preparing the delegated acts referred to in the first and second subparagraph, the Commission shall consider the need to reduce the life cycle environmental impact of rechargeable industrial batteries with a capacity greater than 2 kWh, except of those with exclusively external storage, and of LMT batteries, and ensure that the requirements laid down therein do not have a significant adverse impact on the functionality of those batteries or the appliances, light means of transport or other vehicles into which those batteries are incorporated, their affordability and industry’s competitiveness.
Article 11
Removability and replaceability of portable batteries and LMT batteries
A portable battery shall be considered readily removable by the end-user where it can be removed from a product with the use of commercially available tools, without requiring the use of specialised tools, unless provided free of charge with the product, proprietary tools, thermal energy, or solvents to disassemble the product.
Any natural or legal person that places on the market products incorporating portable batteries shall ensure that those products are accompanied with instructions and safety information on the use, removal and replacement of the batteries. Those instructions and that safety information shall be made available permanently online, on a publicly available website, in an easily understandable way for end-users.
This paragraph shall be without prejudice to any specific provisions ensuring a higher level of protection of the environment and human health relating to the removability and replaceability of portable batteries by end-users laid down in any Union law on electrical and electronic equipment as defined in Article 3(1), point (a), of Directive 2012/19/EU.
By way of derogation from paragraph 1, the following products incorporating portable batteries may be designed in such a way as to make the battery removable and replaceable only by independent professionals:
appliances specifically designed to operate primarily in an environment that is regularly subject to splashing water, water streams or water immersion, and that are intended to be washable or rinseable;
professional medical imaging and radiotherapy devices, as defined in Article 2, point (1), of Regulation (EU) 2017/745, and in vitro diagnostic medical devices, as defined in Article 2, point (2), of Regulation (EU) 2017/746.
The derogation set out in point (a) of this paragraph shall only be applicable where such derogation is required to ensure the safety of the user and the appliance.
Article 12
Safety of stationary battery energy storage systems
By 18 August 2024, the technical documentation referred to in Annex VIII shall:
demonstrate that the stationary battery energy storage systems are compliant with paragraph 1 and include evidence that they have been successfully tested for the safety parameters set out in Annex V, for which state-of-the-art testing methodologies shall be used. The safety parameters shall only apply in so far as a corresponding hazard exists for the stationary battery energy storage system in question when it is used under the conditions envisaged by the manufacturer;
include an assessment of possible safety hazards of the stationary battery energy storage system that are not addressed in Annex V;
include evidence that the hazards referred to in point (b) have been successfully mitigated and tested; state-of-the-art testing methodologies shall be used for such testing;
include mitigation instructions in case the identified hazards could occur, for example a fire or explosion.
The technical documentation shall be reviewed if a battery is prepared for re-use, prepared for repurposing, remanufactured or repurposed.
CHAPTER III
Labelling, marking and information requirements
Article 13
Labelling and marking of batteries
The separate collection symbol shall cover at least 3 % of the area of the largest side of the battery up to a maximum size of 5 × 5 cm.
In the case of cylindrical battery cells, the separate collection symbol shall cover at least 1,5 % of the surface area of the battery and shall have a maximum size of 5 × 5 cm.
Where the size of the battery is such that the separate collection symbol would be smaller than 0,47 × 0,47 cm, the battery does not need to be marked with that symbol. Instead, a separate collection symbol measuring at least 1 × 1 cm shall be printed on the packaging.
The relevant chemical symbol indicating the heavy metal content shall be printed beneath the separate collection symbol and shall cover an area of at least one-quarter the size of that symbol.
From 18 February 2027, all batteries shall be marked with a QR code as described in Part C of Annex VI. The QR code shall provide access to the following:
for LMT batteries, industrial batteries with a capacity greater than 2kWh and electric vehicles batteries, the battery passport in accordance with Article 77;
for other batteries, the applicable information referred to in paragraphs 1 to 5 of this Article, the declaration of conformity referred to in Article 18, the report referred to in Article 52(3) and the information regarding the prevention and management of waste batteries laid down in Article 74(1), points (a) to (f);
for SLI batteries, the amount of cobalt, lead, lithium or nickel recovered from waste and present in active materials in the battery, calculated in accordance with Article 8.
This information shall be complete, up-to-date and accurate.
Article 14
Information on the state of health and expected lifetime of batteries
Read-only access to the data for the parameters set out in Annex VII through the battery management system referred to in paragraph 1 shall be provided, respecting the intellectual property rights of the battery manufacturer, on a non-discriminatory basis to the natural or legal person who has legally purchased the battery, including independent operators or waste management operators, or any third party acting on their behalf at any time, for the purpose of:
making the battery available to independent aggregators or market participants through energy storage;
evaluating the residual value or remaining lifetime of the battery and capability for further use, based on the estimation of the state of health of the battery;
facilitating the preparation for re-use, preparation for repurposing, repurposing or remanufacturing of the battery.
CHAPTER IV
Conformity of batteries
Article 15
Presumption of conformity of batteries
Article 16
Common specifications
In exceptional cases, the Commission may adopt implementing acts laying down common specifications for the requirements laid down in Articles 9, 10, 12, 13, 14 and 78 or tests referred to in Article 15(1), where:
those requirements or tests are not covered by harmonised standards, or parts thereof, for which references have been published in the Official Journal of the European Union;
the Commission has requested one or more European standardisation organisations to draft a harmonised standard for those requirements or tests; and
at least one of the following conditions has been fulfilled:
the request of the Commission has not been accepted by any of the European standardisation organisations,
the Commission observes undue delays in the adoption of the requested harmonised standards, or
a European standardisation organisation has delivered a standard that does not entirely correspond to the request of the Commission.
Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 90(3).
When preparing the draft implementing act establishing the common specifications, the Commission shall take into account the views of relevant bodies or the expert group and shall duly consult all relevant stakeholders.
Article 17
Conformity assessment procedures
Conformity assessment of batteries with the requirements laid down in Articles 6, 9, 10, 12, 13 and 14 shall be carried out in accordance with one of the following procedures:
for batteries manufactured in series:
‘Module A – Internal production control’, set out in Part A of Annex VIII, or
‘Module D1 – Quality assurance of the production process’, set out in Part B of Annex VIII;
for batteries not manufactured in series:
‘Module A – Internal production control’, set out in Part A of Annex VIII, or
‘Module G – Conformity based on unit verification’, set out in Part C of Annex VIII.
Conformity assessment of batteries with requirements laid down in Articles 7 and 8 shall be carried out in accordance with one of the following procedures:
‘Module D1 – Quality assurance of the production process’ set out in Part B of Annex VIII for batteries manufactured in series; or
‘Module G – Conformity based on unit verification’ set out in Part C of Annex VIII for batteries not manufactured in series.
Article 18
EU declaration of conformity
Article 19
General principles of the CE marking
The CE marking shall be subject to the general principles set out in Article 30 of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008.
Article 20
Rules and conditions for affixing the CE marking
CHAPTER V
Notification of conformity assessment bodies
Article 21
Notification
Member States shall notify the Commission and the other Member States of the conformity assessment bodies authorised to carry out conformity assessment tasks in accordance with this Regulation.
Article 22
Notifying authorities
Article 23
Requirements relating to notifying authorities
Article 24
Information obligation on notifying authorities
Member States shall inform the Commission of their procedures for the assessment and notification of conformity assessment bodies and for the monitoring of notified bodies, and of any changes thereto.
The Commission shall make that information publicly available.
Article 25
Requirements relating to notified bodies
A conformity assessment body, its top level management and the personnel responsible for carrying out the conformity assessment tasks shall not be directly involved in the design, manufacture, marketing, importation, distribution, installation, use or maintenance of those batteries, or represent the parties engaged in those activities. They shall not engage in any activity that could conflict with their independence of judgement or their integrity in relation to conformity assessment activities for which they are notified. This shall in particular apply to consultancy services.
A conformity assessment body shall ensure that the activities of its parent or sister companies, subsidiaries or subcontractors do not affect the confidentiality, objectivity or impartiality of its conformity assessment activities.
At all times, and for each conformity assessment procedure set out in Annex VIII, for periodical audits in accordance with Article 48(2) and third-party verification in accordance with Article 51, and for each category of batteries in relation to which it has been notified, a conformity assessment body shall have at its disposal:
the necessary personnel with technical knowledge and sufficient and appropriate experience to perform the conformity assessment tasks;
the necessary descriptions of procedures in accordance with which conformity assessment is carried out, ensuring the transparency of those procedures and their ability to be reproduced;
appropriate policies and procedures to distinguish between activities that it carries out as a notified body and other tasks;
the necessary procedures for the performance of conformity assessment tasks which take due account of the size of an undertaking, the sector in which it operates, its structure, the degree of complexity of the battery technology in question and the mass or serial nature of the production process.
A conformity assessment body shall have the means necessary to perform the technical and administrative tasks related to its conformity assessment activities in an appropriate manner and shall have access to all necessary information, testing equipment or facilities. This shall include establishment and the supervision of internal procedures, general policies, codes of conduct or other internal rules, the assignment of personnel to specific tasks, and conformity assessment decisions, without delegating them to a subcontractor or a subsidiary.
The personnel responsible for carrying out conformity assessment tasks shall have the following:
sound technical and vocational training covering all the conformity assessment activities in relation to which the conformity assessment body has been notified;
satisfactory knowledge of the requirements of the assessments they carry out and adequate authority to carry out those assessments;
appropriate knowledge and understanding of the requirements and obligations laid down in Articles 6 to 10 and Articles 12, 13 and 14 and in Articles 48 to 52, of the applicable harmonised standards referred to in Article 15 and common specifications referred to in Article 16 and of the relevant provisions of Union harmonisation legislation and of national law;
the ability to draw up certificates, records and reports demonstrating that conformity assessments have been carried out.
The remuneration of the top-level management and the personnel responsible for carrying out the conformity assessments tasks shall not depend on the number of conformity assessments carried out or on the results of those assessments.
Article 26
Presumption of conformity of notified bodies
Where a conformity assessment body demonstrates its conformity with the criteria laid down in the relevant harmonised standards, or parts thereof, for which references have been published in the Official Journal of the European Union, it shall be presumed to comply with the requirements laid down in Article 25 in so far as the applicable harmonised standards cover those requirements.
Article 27
Subsidiaries of and subcontracting by notified bodies
Article 28
Application for notification
Article 29
Notification procedure
Article 30
Identification numbers and lists of notified bodies
Article 31
Changes to notifications
Article 32
Challenge to the competence of notified bodies
Article 33
Operational obligations of notified bodies
Article 34
Appeal against decisions of notified bodies
Member States shall ensure that an appeal procedure against the decisions of notified bodies is available.
Article 35
Information obligation on notified bodies
A notified body shall inform the notifying authority of the following:
any refusal, restriction, suspension or withdrawal of a certificate of conformity or approval decision;
any circumstances affecting the scope of, or the conditions for, its notification;
any request for information which it has received from market surveillance authorities regarding its conformity assessment activities;
on request, any conformity assessment activities performed within the scope of its notification and any other activity performed, including cross-border activities and subcontracting.
A notified body shall provide other notified bodies carrying out similar conformity assessment activities covering the same categories of batteries with relevant information on issues relating to:
negative and, on request, positive conformity assessments; and
any restriction, suspension or withdrawal of an approval decision.
Article 36
Exchange of experience and good practice
The Commission shall provide for the organisation of exchange of experience and good practice between the Member States’ authorities responsible for notification policy.
Article 37
Coordination of notified bodies
The Commission shall ensure that appropriate coordination and cooperation between notified bodies are put in place and properly operated in the form of a sectoral coordination group of notified bodies.
Notified bodies shall participate in the work of the sectoral coordination group, directly or by means of designated representatives.
CHAPTER VI
Obligations of economic operators other than the obligations in Chapters VII and VIII
Article 38
Obligations of manufacturers
When placing a battery on the market or putting it into service, including for the manufacturers’ own purposes, manufacturers shall ensure that the battery:
has been designed and manufactured in accordance with Articles 6 to 10 and Articles 12 and 14, and is accompanied by clear, understandable and readable instructions and safety information in a language or languages which can be easily understood by end-users, as determined by the Member State in which the battery is to be placed on the market or put into service; and
is marked and labelled in accordance with Article 13.
Article 39
Obligations of suppliers of battery cells and battery modules
Suppliers of battery cells and battery modules shall provide the information and documentation necessary to comply with the requirements of this Regulation when supplying battery cells or modules to a manufacturer. That information and documentation shall be provided free of charge.
Article 40
Obligations of authorised representatives
The authorised representative’s mandate shall be valid only when accepted in writing by the authorised representative.
An authorised representative shall perform the tasks specified in the mandate received from the manufacturer. The authorised representative shall have the appropriate means to perform the tasks specified in the mandate. The authorised representative shall provide a copy of the mandate to the market surveillance authority, upon request, in a Union language determined by that authority. The mandate shall include at least the following tasks:
keep the EU declaration of conformity, the technical documentation, the verification report and approval decision referred to in Article 51(2) and the audit reports referred to in Article 48(2) at the disposal of national authorities for 10 years after the battery has been placed on the market or put into service;
further to a reasoned request from a national authority, provide it with all the information and documentation necessary to demonstrate the conformity of the battery. That information and the documentation shall be provided in electronic format and, on request, in paper format;
cooperate with the national authorities, at their request, on any action taken to eliminate the risks posed by batteries covered by the authorised representative’s mandate.
Article 41
Obligations of importers
Before placing a battery on the market, importers shall verify that:
the EU declaration of conformity and technical documentation referred to in Annex VIII have been drawn up and that the relevant conformity assessment procedure referred to in Article 17 has been carried out by the manufacturer;
the battery bears the CE marking referred to in Article 19, and is marked and labelled in accordance with Article 13;
the battery is accompanied by the documents required pursuant to Articles 6 to 10 and Articles 12, 13 and 14 and by instructions and safety information in a language or languages which can be easily understood by end-users, as determined by the Member State in which the battery is to be made available on the market; and
the manufacturer has complied with the requirements laid down in Article 38(6) and (7).
Where an importer considers or has reason to believe that a battery is not in conformity with Articles 6 to 10 and Articles 12, 13 and 14, the importer shall not place that battery on the market until it has been brought into conformity. Furthermore, where the battery presents a risk, the importer shall inform the manufacturer and the market surveillance authorities giving details of the non-compliance and of any corrective action taken.
Article 42
Obligations of distributors
Before making a battery available on the market, distributors shall verify that:
the producer is registered in the register of producers referred to in Article 55;
the battery bears the CE marking referred to in Article 19 and is marked and labelled in accordance with Article 13;
the battery is accompanied by the documents required pursuant to Articles 6 to 10 and Articles 12, 13 and 14 and by instructions and safety information in a language or languages which can be easily understood by end-users, as determined by the Member State in which the battery is to be made available on the market or put into service; and
the manufacturer and the importer have complied with the requirements laid down in Article 38(6) and (7) and Article 41(3) respectively.
Article 43
Obligations of fulfilment service providers
Fulfilment service providers shall ensure that, for batteries that they handle, the conditions during warehousing, packaging, addressing or dispatching, do not jeopardise the batteries’ compliance with Articles 6 to 10 and Articles 12, 13 and 14.
Without prejudice to the obligations of the relevant economic operators laid down in this Chapter, fulfilment service providers shall, in addition to the requirement referred to in the first paragraph, perform the tasks laid down in Article 40(3), point (c), and Article 40(4).
Article 44
Case in which obligations of manufacturers apply to importers and distributors
An importer or distributor shall be considered a manufacturer for the purposes of this Regulation and shall be subject to the obligations of a manufacturer under Article 38, where any of the following applies:
a battery is placed on the market or put into service under that importer’s or distributor’s own name or trademark;
a battery already placed on the market or put into service is modified by that importer or distributor in such a way that compliance with the relevant requirements of this Regulation could be affected; or
the purpose of a battery already placed on the market or put into service is modified by that importer or distributor.
Article 45
Obligations of economic operators placing on the market or putting into service batteries that have been subject to preparation for re-use, preparation for repurposing, repurposing or remanufacturing
Article 46
Identification of economic operators
Economic operators shall, upon a request of a national authority, provide the following information to the market surveillance authorities:
the identity of any economic operator that has supplied them with a battery;
the identity of any economic operator to which they have supplied a battery, as well as the quantity and exact models.
CHAPTER VII
Obligations of economic operators as regards battery due diligence policies
Article 47
Scope of this Chapter
This Chapter does not apply to economic operators that had a net turnover of less than EUR 40 million in the financial year preceding the last financial year, and that are not part of a group, consisting of parent and subsidiary undertakings, which, on a consolidated basis, exceeds the limit of EUR 40 million.
This Chapter does not apply to economic operators in relation to the placing on the market or putting into service of batteries that have been subject to preparation for re-use, preparation for repurposing, repurposing or remanufacturing, if such batteries had already been placed on the market or put into service before undergoing such operations.
This Chapter applies without prejudice to the provisions laid down in Union law on due diligence obligations in relation to minerals and metals originating from conflict-affected and high-risk areas.
Article 48
Battery due diligence policies
The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 89 to:
amend the list of raw materials in point 1 of Annex X and of risk categories in point 2 of Annex X, in view of scientific and technological progress in battery manufacturing and chemistries and amendments to Regulation (EU) 2017/821;
amend the list of international instruments in point 3 of Annex X, in accordance with developments within the relevant international fora concerning standards related to due diligence policies and to protection of the environment and of social rights;
amend the obligations on the economic operators referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article which are laid down in Articles 49 and 50 in view of amendments to Regulation (EU) 2017/821, and amend the list of internationally recognised due diligence instruments set out in point 4 of Annex X.
Article 49
Economic operator’s management system
Each economic operator referred to in Article 48(1) shall:
adopt, and clearly communicate to suppliers and the public, a company battery due diligence policy, concerning raw materials listed in point 1 of Annex X, and associated social and environmental risk categories listed in point 2 of Annex X;
incorporate in its battery due diligence policy standards that are consistent with the standards set out in the internationally recognised due diligence instruments listed in point 4 of Annex X;
structure its internal management system to support its battery due diligence policy by assigning responsibility to its top management level to oversee its battery due diligence policy as well as maintain records of that system for a minimum of 10 years;
establish and operate a system of controls and transparency regarding the supply chain, including a chain of custody or traceability system, identifying upstream actors in the supply chain;
incorporate its battery due diligence policy, including risk management measures, into contracts and agreements with suppliers; and
establish a grievance mechanism, including an early-warning risk-awareness system and a remediation mechanism, or provide for such mechanisms through collaborative agreements with other economic operators or organisations or by facilitating recourse to an external expert or body, such as an ombudsman; such mechanisms shall be based on the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.
The system referred to in paragraph 1, point (d), shall be supported by documentation that provides at least the following information:
a description of the raw material, including its trade name and type;
the name and address of the supplier that supplied the raw material present in the batteries to the economic operator that places the batteries containing the raw material in question on the market;
the country of origin of the raw material and the market transactions from the raw material’s extraction to the immediate supplier to the economic operator that places the battery on the market;
the quantities of the raw material present in the battery placed on the market, expressed in percentage or weight;
third-party verification reports issued by a notified body and concerning the suppliers as referred to in Article 50(3);
if the reports referred to in point (e) are not available and where the raw material originates from a conflict-affected and high-risk area, additional information in accordance with the specific recommendations for upstream economic operators, as set out in the OECD Due diligence guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas, where relevant, such as the mine of origin, locations where the raw material is consolidated, traded and processed, and taxes, fees and royalties are paid.
Third party verification reports referred to in point (e) of the first subparagraph shall be made available by suppliers as referred to in Article 50(3) to the downstream operators of the supply chain.
Article 50
Risk management obligations
The economic operator referred to in Article 48(1) shall:
identify and assess the risk of adverse impacts in its supply chain, associated with the risk categories listed in point 2 of Annex X as part of its management plan, including on the basis of the information provided pursuant to Article 49 and any other relevant information that is either publicly available or provided by stakeholders, by reference to its battery due diligence policy;
design and implement a strategy to respond to the identified risks to prevent, mitigate and otherwise address adverse impacts by:
reporting findings of its risk assessment to its top management level assigned in accordance with Article 49(1), point (c);
adopting risk management measures that are consistent with the internationally recognised due diligence instruments listed in point 4 of Annex X, considering its ability to influence, and where necessary take steps to exert pressure on, suppliers, including their subsidiaries and subcontractors, who can most effectively prevent or mitigate the identified risk;
designing and implementing a risk management plan, monitoring and tracking performance of risk mitigation efforts, reporting back to its top management level assigned in accordance with Article 49(1), point (c), and considering suspending or discontinuing engagement with a supplier or its subsidiary or subcontractor after failed attempts at mitigation, based on relevant contracts and agreements referred to in Article 49(1), point (e);
undertaking additional fact and risk assessments for risks requiring mitigation, or after a change of circumstances.
Article 51
Third-party verification of battery due diligence policies
The notified body shall carry out third-party verifications. Such third-party verifications shall:
cover all activities, processes and systems used by economic operators to fulfil their due diligence obligations in accordance with Articles 49, 50 and 52;
have as their objective the determination of conformity of the due diligence practices of economic operators placing batteries on the market in accordance with Articles 49, 50 and 52;
where relevant, include checks on undertakings and gather information from stakeholders;
identify, for the economic operators that place batteries on the market, areas of potential improvement in relation to their due diligence practices;
respect the audit principles of independence, competence and accountability, as set out in the OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas.
Article 52
Disclosure of information on battery due diligence policies
Article 53
Recognition of due diligence schemes
When making a determination on the recognition of a due diligence scheme, the Commission shall take into account the diverse industry practices covered by that scheme and shall have regard to the risk-based approach and method used by that scheme to identify risks.
CHAPTER VIII
Management of waste batteries
Article 54
Competent authority
Member States shall lay down the details of the competent authority’s or authorities’ organisation and operation, including the administrative and procedural rules for:
the registration of producers in accordance with Article 55;
the authorisation of producers and producer responsibility organisations in accordance with Article 58;
the oversight of implementation of extended producer responsibility obligations in accordance with Article 57;
the collection of data on batteries and waste batteries in accordance with Article 75;
making information available in accordance with Article 76.
Article 55
Register of producers
Producers shall submit the application for registration via an electronic data-processing system as referred to in paragraph 9, point (a).
Producers shall only make available batteries, including those incorporated in appliances, light means of transport or other vehicles, on the market of a Member State, if they or, in the case of authorisation, their authorised representatives for extended producer responsibility, are registered in that Member State.
The application for registration shall include the following information:
name, and brand names if available, under which the producer operates in the Member State and address of the producer, including postal code and place, street and number, country, telephone number, if any, web and email address, indicating a single contact point;
national identification code of the producer, including its trade register number or equivalent official registration number and the European or national tax identification number;
the category, or categories, of batteries that the producer intends to make available on the market for the first time within the territory of a Member State, namely portable batteries, industrial batteries, LMT batteries, electric vehicle batteries, or SLI batteries, and their chemistry;
information on how the producer meets its responsibilities laid down in Article 56 and the requirements under Articles 59, 60 and 61, respectively:
for portable batteries or LMT batteries, the requirements of point (d) shall be met by providing:
for SLI batteries, industrial batteries and electric vehicle batteries, the requirements of point (d) shall be met by providing:
a statement by the producer or, where applicable, authorised representative for extended producer responsibility or the producer responsibility organisation appointed in accordance with Article 57(1), stating that the information provided is true.
Where obligations under this Article are fulfilled on a producer’s behalf by an authorised representative for extended producer responsibility that represents more than one producer, in addition to the information required under paragraph 3, that authorised representative shall provide the name and the contact details for each of the represented producers separately.
The competent authority shall:
make available on its website information about the application process via an electronic data-processing system;
grant registrations and provide a registration number within a maximum period of 12 weeks from the moment that all the information required under paragraphs 2 and 3 is provided.
The competent authority may:
lay down modalities with regard to the requirements and process of registration without adding substantive requirements to those laid down in paragraphs 2 and 3;
charge cost-based and proportionate fees to producers for the processing of the applications referred to in paragraph 2.
The competent authority shall withdraw the producer’s registration if it has ceased to exist.
Article 56
Extended Producer Responsibility
The financial contributions to be paid by the producer shall cover the following costs for the products that the producer makes available on the market in the Member State concerned:
costs of separate collection of waste batteries and their subsequent transport and treatment, taking into account any revenues obtained from preparation for re-use or preparation for repurposing or from the value of secondary raw materials recovered from recycled waste batteries;
costs of carrying out a compositional survey of collected mixed municipal waste in accordance with Article 69(5);
costs of providing information on prevention and management of waste batteries in accordance with Article 74;
costs of data gathering and reporting to the competent authorities in accordance with Article 75.
Where a battery referred to in paragraph 2 is subject to more than one extended producer responsibility, the first producer making that battery available on the market shall not bear additional costs as a result of the cost sharing mechanism referred to in the first subparagraph.
The Commission shall facilitate the exchange of information and sharing of best practices among Member States regarding such cost sharing mechanisms.
Article 57
Producer Responsibility Organisation
In the case of a collective fulfilment of extended producer responsibility obligations, producer responsibility organisations shall ensure equal treatment of producers regardless of their origin or size, without placing a disproportionate burden on producers of small quantities of batteries, including small- and medium-sized enterprises. They shall also ensure that the financial contributions paid to them by producers:
are modulated in accordance with Article 8a(4), point (b), of Directive 2008/98/EC and as a minimum by battery category and battery chemistry, taking into account as appropriate the rechargeability, the level of recycled content in the manufacture of batteries and whether the batteries were subject to preparation for re-use, preparation for repurposing, repurposing or remanufacturing, and their carbon footprint; and
are adjusted to take account of any revenues obtained by the producer responsibility organisations from preparation for re-use or preparation for repurposing or from the value of secondary raw materials recovered from recycled waste batteries.
Article 58
Authorisation on fulfilment of extended producer responsibility
The authorisation shall be granted only where it is demonstrated:
that requirements laid down in Article 8a(3), points (a) to (d), of the Directive 2008/98/EC are complied with and the measures put in place by the producer or producer responsibility organisation are sufficient to fulfil the obligations set out in this Chapter with regard to the amount of batteries made available on the market for the first time within the territory of a Member State by the producer or producers on whose behalf the producer responsibility organisation acts; and
by providing documentary evidence, that the requirements of Article 59(1) and (2) or the requirements of Article 60(1), (2) and (4), are complied with and that all the arrangements are in place to make it possible to attain and maintain durably at least the collection target referred to in Article 59(3) and Article 60(3), respectively.
Article 59
Collection of waste portable batteries
Producers of portable batteries or, where appointed in accordance with Article 57(1), producer responsibility organisations, shall ensure that all waste portable batteries, regardless of their nature, chemical composition, condition, brand or origin, are collected separately in the territory of a Member State where they make portable batteries available on the market for the first time. For that purpose they shall:
establish a waste portable battery take-back and collection system;
offer the collection of waste portable batteries, free of charge, to the entities referred to in paragraph 2, point (a), and provide for the collection of waste portable batteries from all entities that have made use of that offer (‘connected collection points for waste portable batteries’);
provide for the necessary practical arrangements for collection and transport of waste portable batteries, including the provision, free of charge, of suitable collection and transport containers meeting the requirements of Directive 2008/68/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 5 ), to the connected collection points for waste portable batteries;
collect, free of charge, the waste portable batteries collected at the connected collection points, with a frequency that is proportionate to the area covered and the volume and hazardous nature of the waste portable batteries usually collected through the connected collection points for waste portable batteries;
collect, free of charge, the waste portable batteries removed from waste electrical and electronic equipment, with a frequency that is proportionate to the volume and hazardous nature of the waste portable batteries;
ensure that the waste portable batteries collected from the connected collection points for waste portable batteries and removed from waste electrical and electronic equipment are subsequently subject to treatment in a permitted facility by a waste management operator in accordance with Article 70.
Producers of portable batteries or, where appointed in accordance with Article 57(1), producer responsibility organisations, shall ensure that the waste portable battery take-back and collection system:
consists of collection points set up by them in cooperation with one or more of the following:
distributors in accordance with Article 62;
end-of-life vehicle treatment facilities subject to Directive 2000/53/EC;
public authorities, or third parties carrying out waste management on their behalf, in accordance with Article 66;
voluntary collection points in accordance with Article 67;
waste electrical and electronic equipment treatment facilities subject to Directive 2012/19/EU; and
covers the whole territory of the Member State taking into account population size and density, expected volume of waste portable batteries, accessibility for and proximity to end-users, not being limited to areas where the collection and subsequent management of waste portable batteries is profitable.
Producers of portable batteries or, where appointed in accordance with Article 57(1), producer responsibility organisations, shall attain, and maintain durably, at least the following collection targets for waste portable batteries:
45 % by 31 December 2023;
63 % by 31 December 2027;
73 % by 31 December 2030.
Producers or, where appointed in accordance with Article 57(1), producer responsibility organisations, shall calculate the collection rate referred to in this paragraph in accordance with Annex XI.
Article 60
Collection of waste LMT batteries
Producers of LMT batteries or, where appointed in accordance with Article 57(1), producer responsibility organisations, shall ensure that all waste LMT batteries, regardless of their nature, chemical composition, condition, brand or origin, are collected separately in the territory of a Member State where they make batteries available on the market for the first time. For that purpose they shall:
establish a waste LMT battery take back and collection system;
offer the collection of waste LMT batteries, free of charge, to the entities referred to in paragraph 2, point (a), and provide for the collection of waste LMT batteries from all entities that have made use of that offer (‘connected collection points for LMT batteries’);
provide for the necessary practical arrangements for collection and transport of waste LMT batteries, including the provision, free of charge, of suitable collection and transport containers meeting the requirements of Directive 2008/68/EC, to the connected collection points for LMT batteries;
collect, free of charge, the waste LMT batteries collected at the connected collection points for LMT batteries, with a frequency that is proportionate to the area covered and the volume and hazardous nature of the waste LMT batteries usually collected at those collection points;
collect, free of charge, the waste LMT batteries removed from waste electrical and electronic equipment, with a frequency that is proportionate to the volume and hazardous nature of the waste LMT batteries;
ensure that the waste LMT batteries collected from the connected collection points for LMT batteries and removed from waste electrical and electronic equipment are subsequently subject to treatment in a permitted facility by a waste management operator in accordance with Article 70.
Producers of LMT batteries or, where appointed in accordance with Article 57(1), producer responsibility organisations, shall ensure that the take back and collection system for waste LMT batteries:
consists of collection points set up by them in cooperation with one or more of the following:
distributors in accordance with Article 62;
end-of-life vehicle treatment facilities subject to Directive 2000/53/EC;
public authorities, or third parties carrying out waste management on their behalf, in accordance with Article 66;
voluntary collection points in accordance with Article 67;
waste electrical and electronic equipment treatment facilities subject to Directive 2012/19/EU; and
covers the whole territory of the Member State taking into account population size and density, expected volume of waste LMT batteries, accessibility for and proximity to end-users, not being limited to areas where the collection and subsequent management of waste LMT batteries is profitable.
Producers of LMT batteries or, where appointed in accordance with Article 57(1), producer responsibility organisations, shall attain, and maintain durably, at least the following collection targets of waste LMT batteries:
51 % by 31 December 2028;
61 % by 31 December 2031.
Producers of LMT batteries or, where appointed in accordance with Article 57(1), producer responsibility organisations shall calculate the collection rate referred to in this paragraph in accordance with Annex XI.
Producers of LMT batteries or, where appointed in accordance with Article 57(1), producer responsibility organisations, shall:
set up the collection points referred to in paragraph 2, point (a), with suitable collection infrastructure for the separate collection of waste LMT batteries meeting the applicable safety requirements and cover the necessary costs incurred by those collection points in relation to the take back activities; the containers for collection and temporary storage of such waste batteries at the collection points shall be suitable in view of the volume and hazardous nature of waste LMT batteries that are likely to be collected through those collection points;
collect waste LMT batteries from the collection points referred to in paragraph 2, point (a), with a frequency that is proportionate to the storage capacity of the separate collection infrastructure and the volume and hazardous nature of waste batteries that are usually collected through those collection points; and
provide for the delivery of waste LMT batteries collected from the collection points referred to in paragraph 2, point (a), of this Article to permitted facilities for treatment in accordance with Articles 70 and 73.
Article 61
Collection of waste SLI batteries, waste industrial batteries and waste electric vehicle batteries
Producers of SLI batteries, industrial batteries and electric vehicle batteries or, where appointed in accordance with Article 57(1), producer responsibility organisations, shall take back, free of charge and without an obligation on the end-user to buy a new battery, nor to have bought the battery from them, and shall ensure that all waste SLI batteries, waste industrial batteries and waste electric vehicle batteries regardless of their nature, chemical composition, condition, brand, or origin of the respective category that they have made available on the market for the first time in the territory of that Member State are collected separately. For that purpose, they shall accept to take back waste SLI batteries, waste industrial batteries and waste electric vehicle batteries from end-users, or from take-back and collection systems which include collection points set up by them in cooperation with:
distributors of SLI batteries, industrial batteries and electric vehicle batteries in accordance with Article 62(1);
operators carrying out remanufacturing or repurposing of SLI batteries, industrial batteries and electric vehicle batteries;
waste electrical and electronic equipment and end-of-life vehicle treatment facilities referred to in Article 65 for the waste SLI batteries, waste industrial batteries and waste electric vehicle batteries arising from their operations;
public authorities or third parties carrying out waste management on their behalf in accordance with Article 66.
Member States may adopt measures to require that the entities referred to in the first subparagraph, points (a) to (d), may collect waste SLI batteries, waste industrial batteries and waste electric vehicle batteries only if they have concluded a contract with the producers or, where appointed in accordance with Article 57(1), producer responsibility organisations.
Where waste industrial batteries require prior dismantling at the premises of private, non-commercial users, the obligation of the producer to take back those waste batteries shall not result in any costs related to the dismantling and collection of those waste batteries being borne by those users.
Producers of SLI batteries, industrial batteries and electric vehicle batteries or, where appointed in accordance with Article 57(1), producer responsibility organisations, shall:
provide the take back and collection systems referred to in paragraph 1 with suitable collection infrastructure for the separate collection of waste SLI batteries, waste industrial batteries and waste electric vehicle batteries meeting the applicable safety requirements, and cover the necessary costs incurred by those take back and collection systems in relation to the take back activities; the containers for collection and temporary storage of such waste batteries at the take back and collection systems shall be suitable in view of the volume and hazardous nature of waste SLI batteries, waste industrial batteries and waste electric vehicle batteries that are likely to be collected through those collection points;
collect waste SLI batteries, waste industrial batteries and waste electric vehicle batteries from the take back and collection systems referred to in paragraph 1 with a frequency that is proportionate to the storage capacity of the separate collection infrastructure and the volume and hazardous nature of waste batteries that are usually collected through those take back and collection systems; and
provide for the delivery of waste SLI batteries, waste industrial batteries and waste electric vehicle batteries collected from end-users and from the take back and collection systems referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article to permitted facilities for treatment in accordance with Articles 70 and 73.
Article 62
Obligations of distributors
Distributors shall take back waste batteries from the end-user free of charge and without imposing an obligation on the end-user to buy or to have bought a new battery, regardless of their chemical composition, brand or origin as follows:
for waste portable batteries, at or in the immediate vicinity of the distributor’s retail outlet;
for waste LMT batteries, waste SLI batteries, waste industrial batteries and waste electric vehicle batteries, at or in the vicinity of the distributor’s retail outlet.
The take back obligation laid down in paragraph 1:
shall not apply to waste products containing batteries;
shall be limited to the categories of waste batteries which the distributor has or had as batteries in its offer and, for waste portable batteries, to the quantity that non-professional end-users normally discard.
For the purposes of compliance with Article 30(1), points (d) and (e), of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, providers of online platforms, falling within the scope of Section 4 of Chapter III of that Regulation, that allow consumers to conclude distance contracts with producers shall obtain the following information from producers offering batteries, including batteries incorporated in appliances, light means of transport or other vehicles, to consumers located in the Union:
details concerning the register of producers referred to in Article 55 and the producer’s registration number or registration numbers in that register;
a self-certification by the producer committing to only offer batteries, including those incorporated in appliances, light means of transport or other vehicles, with regard to which the extended producer responsibility requirements referred to in Article 56(1), (2), (3) and (4), Article 57(1) and Article 58(1), (2) and (7) are complied with.
Article 63
Deposit return systems for batteries
By 31 December 2027, the Commission shall assess the feasibility and potential benefits of establishment of deposit return systems for batteries, in particular for portable batteries of general use. To that end, the Commission shall submit a report to the European Parliament and to the Council and consider taking appropriate measures, including the adoption of legislative proposals.
Article 64
Obligations of end-users
Article 65
Obligations of operators of treatment facilities
Article 66
Participation of public waste management authorities
Public waste management authorities shall ensure that collected waste batteries are treated in accordance with Article 70, either by:
handing them over to producers of the relevant category of batteries or, where appointed in accordance with Article 57(1), to producer responsibility organisations, or to waste management operators selected in accordance with Article 57(8); or
carrying out the treatment of the collected waste batteries themselves in accordance with Article 68(2).
Article 67
Participation of voluntary collection points
Article 68
Restrictions regarding handover of waste portable batteries and waste LMT batteries
Article 69
Obligations for Member States regarding collection targets for waste portable batteries and waste LMT batteries
Where the competent authority communicates its observations on the draft corrective action plan, the producer or the producer responsibility organisations shall, within one month of receipt of those observations, draw up the corrective action plan, taking into account those observations, and shall implement it accordingly.
The content of the corrective action plan and the compliance with it by the producer or the producer responsibility organisation shall be taken into account when evaluating whether the conditions for the registration laid down in Article 55 and, where applicable, the authorisation laid down in Article 58 continue to be met.
Article 70
Treatment
Article 71
Targets for recycling efficiency and recovery of materials
Article 72
Shipment of waste batteries
Where the competent authorities in a Member State establish that an intended shipment of used batteries consists of waste batteries, the costs of appropriate analyses, inspections and storage of the used batteries suspected to be waste may be charged to the producers of the relevant category of batteries, to third parties acting on their behalf or to other persons arranging the shipment. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 89, supplementing the minimum requirements set out in Annex XIV, in particular on the state of health, to distinguish between the shipment of used batteries and waste batteries.
Article 73
Preparation for re-use or preparation for repurposing of waste LMT batteries, waste industrial batteries and waste electric vehicle batteries
In order to document that a waste LMT battery, waste industrial battery and waste electric vehicle battery subject to preparation for re-use or preparation for repurposing, is no longer waste, the battery holder shall demonstrate the following upon request by a competent authority:
evidence of a state of health evaluation or state of health testing carried out in a Member State in the form of a copy of the record confirming the capability of the battery to deliver the performance relevant for its use following preparation for re-use or preparation for repurposing;
further use of the battery that has been subject to preparation for re-use or preparation for repurposing, is documented by means of an invoice or a contract for the sale or transfer of ownership of the battery;
evidence of appropriate protection against damage during transportation, loading and unloading, including through sufficient packaging and appropriate stacking of the load.
Article 74
Information on prevention and management of waste batteries
In addition to the information referred to in Article 8a(2) of Directive 2008/98/EC, producers or, where appointed in accordance with Article 57(1), producer responsibility organisations shall make available to end-users and distributors the following information regarding the prevention and management of waste batteries with regard to the categories of batteries that they supply within the territory of a Member State:
the role of end-users in contributing to waste prevention, including by information on good practices and recommendations concerning the use of batteries aimed at extending their use phase and the possibilities of re-use, preparation for re-use, preparation for repurposing, repurposing and remanufacturing;
the role of end-users in contributing to the separate collection of waste batteries in accordance with their obligations under Article 64 to allow their treatment;
the separate collection, take-back and collection points, preparation for re-use, preparation for repurposing and treatment available for waste batteries;
the necessary safety instructions to handle waste batteries, including in relation to the risks associated with, and the handling of, batteries containing lithium;
the meaning of the labels and symbols on batteries in accordance with Article 13 or printed on their packaging or in the documents accompanying batteries; and
the impact of substances, in particular hazardous substances, present in batteries on the environment and on human health or the safety of persons, including the impact due to inappropriate discarding of waste batteries, such as littering or discarding as unsorted municipal waste.
That information shall be made available:
at regular time intervals for each battery model from the moment the battery model concerned is being made available on the market for the first time in a Member State, as a minimum at the point of sale in a visible manner and through online platforms;
in a language or languages which can be easily understood by end-users, as determined by the Member State in which the battery is to be made available on the market.
From the moment that a battery is supplied within the territory of a Member State producers shall make available electronically, free of charge and upon request, to waste management operators carrying out preparation for re-use, preparation for repurposing or treatment, as far as it is needed by those operators to carry out those activities, the following battery model specific information regarding the proper and environmentally sound treatment of waste batteries:
the processes for the dismantling of light means of transport, vehicles and appliances in a way that allows the removal of incorporated batteries;
the safety and protective measures, including as regards occupational safety and fire protection, applicable to the storage, transport, and the treatment processes for waste batteries.
The information referred to in points (a) and (b) of the first subparagraph shall identify the components and materials and the location of all hazardous substances in a battery, as far as it is needed by operators carrying out preparation for re-use, preparation for repurposing or treatment, in order to enable them to comply with the requirements of this Regulation.
That information shall be made available in a language or languages, which can be easily understood by the operators mentioned in the first subparagraph, as determined by the Member State on whose market the battery is to be made available.
Distributors shall provide the information referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 also when they sell their products through online platforms that allow consumers to conclude distance contracts with traders.
Article 75
Minimum requirements for reporting to the competent authorities
Producers of portable batteries and producers of LMT batteries or, where appointed in accordance with Article 57(1), producer responsibility organisations shall report to the competent authority, for each calendar year, at least the following information according to the chemistry and category of batteries and waste batteries:
the amount of portable batteries and LMT batteries made available on the market for the first time in the territory of a Member State, excluding batteries that have left the territory of that Member State in that year, before being sold to end-users;
the amount of portable batteries of general use made available on the market for the first time in the territory of a Member State, excluding portable batteries of general use that have left the territory of that Member State in that year, before being sold to end-users;
the amount of waste portable batteries and waste LMT batteries collected in accordance with Articles 59 and 60, respectively;
the collection rate reached by the producer or producer responsibility organisation for waste portable batteries and waste LMT batteries;
the amount of collected waste portable batteries and waste LMT batteries delivered to permitted facilities for treatment;
the amount of collected waste portable batteries and waste LMT batteries exported to third countries for treatment, preparation for re-use or preparation for repurposing;
the amount of collected waste portable batteries and waste LMT batteries delivered to permitted facilities for preparation for re-use or preparation for repurposing.
Where waste management operators other than producers or, where appointed in accordance with Article 57(1), producer responsibility organisations, collect waste portable batteries or waste LMT batteries from distributors or other collection points for waste portable batteries or waste LMT batteries, they shall report to the competent authority for each calendar year the amount of waste portable batteries and waste LMT batteries collected according to their chemistry.
Producers of SLI batteries, industrial batteries and electric vehicle batteries or where appointed in accordance with Article 57(1) producer responsibility organisations, shall report to the competent authority for each calendar year the following information, according to chemistries and categories of waste batteries:
the amount of SLI batteries, industrial batteries and electric vehicle batteries made available on the market for the first time in a Member State, excluding batteries that have left the territory of that Member State in that year, before being sold to end-users;
the amount of collected waste SLI batteries, waste industrial batteries and waste electric vehicle batteries delivered to permitted facilities for preparation for re-use or preparation for repurposing;
the amount of collected waste SLI batteries, waste industrial batteries and waste electric vehicle batteries delivered to permitted facilities for treatment;
the amount of collected waste SLI batteries, waste industrial batteries and waste electric vehicle batteries exported to third countries for preparation for re-use, preparation for repurposing or for treatment.
Where waste management operators collect waste batteries from distributors or other collection points for waste SLI batteries, waste industrial batteries and waste electric vehicle batteries or from end-users, they shall report to the competent authority for each calendar year the following information according to chemistries and categories of waste batteries:
the amount of waste SLI batteries, waste industrial batteries and waste electric vehicle batteries collected;
the amount of collected waste SLI batteries, waste industrial batteries and waste electric vehicle batteries delivered to permitted facilities for preparation for re-use or preparation for repurposing;
the amount of collected waste SLI batteries, waste industrial batteries and waste electric vehicle batteries delivered to permitted facilities for treatment;
the amount of collected waste SLI batteries, waste industrial batteries and waste electric vehicle batteries exported to third countries for preparation for re-use, preparation for repurposing or for treatment.
Waste management operators carrying out treatment and recyclers shall report to the competent authorities of the Member State where treatment of waste batteries takes place, for each calendar year and by Member State where the waste batteries were collected, the following information:
the amount of waste batteries received for treatment;
the amount of waste batteries that began to undergo preparation for re-use, preparation for repurposing or recycling processes;
data on recycling efficiency for waste batteries, recovery of materials from waste batteries and the destination and yield of the final output fractions.
Reporting on the recycling efficiency and recovery of materials shall cover all individual steps of recycling and all corresponding output fractions. Where recycling operations are carried out at more than one facility, the first recycler shall be responsible for collecting the information and reporting that information to the competent authorities.
The competent authority of the Member State where the treatment of waste batteries takes place, shall provide the information referred to in this paragraph to the competent authority of the Member State where the batteries were collected, if different.
Waste batteries sent to another Member State for treatment in that other Member State shall be included in the recycling efficiency and recovery of materials data and shall count towards the attainment of the targets set out in Annex XII by the Member State in which that waste was collected.
Article 76
Reporting to the Commission
Member States shall make publicly available in an aggregated form for each calendar year and in the format established by the Commission in the implementing act adopted pursuant to paragraph 5, the following data on portable batteries, LMT batteries, SLI batteries, industrial batteries and electric vehicle batteries, according to battery categories and their chemistries:
the amount of batteries made available on the market for the first time in a Member State, including those incorporated in appliances, vehicles or industrial products, but excluding batteries that have left the territory of that Member State in that year, before being sold to end-users;
the amount of waste batteries collected in accordance with Articles 59, 60 and 61, and collection rates calculated on the basis of the methodology set out in Annex XI;
the amount of waste industrial batteries and the amount of waste electric vehicle batteries collected and delivered to permitted facilities for preparation for re-use or preparation for repurposing;
the values for the recycling efficiencies achieved as referred to in Part B of Annex XII and the values for the recovery of materials achieved as referred to in Part C of Annex XII, regarding the batteries collected in that Member State.
Member States shall make those data available within 18 months of the end of the reporting year for which the data are collected. They shall make those data public electronically in the format established by the Commission in accordance with paragraph 5, using easily accessible data services. The data shall be machine readable, sortable and searchable, and shall respect open standards for third party use. Member States shall notify the Commission when the data referred to in the first subparagraph are made available.
The first reporting period shall concern the first full calendar year after the entry into force of the implementing act that establishes the format for reporting to the Commission, in accordance with paragraph 5.
In addition to the obligations under Directives 2000/53/EC and 2012/19/EU, data referred to in paragraph 1, first subparagraph, points (a) to (d), of this Article shall include batteries incorporated into vehicles and appliances, and waste batteries removed from those vehicles and appliances in accordance with Article 65.
CHAPTER IX
Digital battery passport
Article 77
Battery passport
The information in the battery passport shall comprise:
information accessible to the general public in accordance with point 1 of Annex XIII;
information accessible only to notified bodies, market surveillance authorities and the Commission in accordance with points 2 and 3 of Annex XIII; and
information accessible only to any natural or legal person with a legitimate interest in accessing and processing that information for the purposes referred to in points (a) and (b) of the third subparagraph in accordance with points 2 and 4 of Annex XIII.
The purposes for accessing and processing the information as referred to in point (c) of the second subparagraph, shall:
concern dismantling of the battery, including safety measures to be taken during the dismantling, and the detailed composition of the battery model and be essential to allow repairers, remanufacturers, second-life operators and recyclers to conduct their respective economic activities in accordance with this Regulation; or
in the case of individual batteries, be essential to the purchaser of the battery or parties acting on the purchaser’s behalf, for the purpose of making the individual battery available to independent energy aggregators or energy market participants.
The information referred to in the second subparagraph shall be included in the battery passport to the extent applicable to the category or sub-category of battery concerned.
The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 89 to amend Annex XIII as regards the information to be included in the battery passport in view of technical and scientific progress.
The QR code and the unique identifier shall comply with the ISO/IEC standards 15459-1:2014, 15459-2:2015, 15459-3:2014, 15459-4:2014, 15459-5:2014 and 15459-6:2014 or their equivalent.
The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 89 to amend the second subparagraph of this paragraph in light of technical and scientific progress by replacing the standards referred to in that subparagraph or adding other European or international standards with which the QR code and the unique identifier shall comply.
Where the status of a battery changes to that of a waste battery, the responsibility for the fulfilment of the obligations under paragraph 4 of this Article shall be transferred either to the producer or, where appointed in accordance with Article 57(1), the producer responsibility organisation, or the waste management operator selected in accordance with Article 57(8).
The criteria for specifying the persons referred to in paragraph 2, point (c), and for determining the extent to which they can download, share, publish and re-use the information referred to in points 2 and 4 of Annex XIII shall be the following:
the necessity of having such information in order to evaluate the status and residual value of the battery and its capability for further use;
the necessity of having such information for the purpose of preparation for re-use, preparation for repurposing, repurposing, remanufacturing or recycling of the battery, or for choosing between those operations;
the need to ensure that the accessing and processing of information in the battery passport that is commercially sensitive is limited to the minimum necessary in accordance with applicable Union law.
Article 78
Technical design and operation of the battery passport
The technical design and operation of the battery passport shall comply with the following essential requirements:
the battery passport shall be fully interoperable with other digital product passports required by Union law concerning eco-design, in relation to the technical, semantic and organisational aspects of end-to-end communication and data transfer;
consumers, economic operators and other relevant actors shall have access to the battery passport free of charge and based on their respective access rights set out in Annex XIII and the implementing act adopted pursuant to Article 77(9);
the data included in the battery passport shall be stored by the economic operator responsible for the fulfilment of the obligations under Article 77(4) or (7), or by operators authorised to act on their behalf;
if the data included in the battery passport are stored or otherwise processed by operators authorised to act on behalf of the economic operator responsible for the fulfilment of the obligations under Article 77(4) or (7), those operators shall not be allowed to sell, re-use or process such data, in whole or in part, beyond what is necessary for the provision of the relevant storing or processing services;
the battery passport shall remain available after the economic operator responsible for the fulfilment of the obligations under Article 77(4) or (7) ceases to exist or ceases its activity in the Union;
the rights to access, introduce, modify or update information in the battery passport shall be restricted based on the access rights specified in Annex XIII and the implementing act adopted pursuant to Article 77(9);
data authentication, reliability and integrity shall be ensured;
the battery passport shall be such that a high level of security and privacy is ensured and fraud is avoided.
CHAPTER X
Union market surveillance and Union safeguard procedures
Article 79
Procedure at national level for dealing with batteries presenting a risk
Where, in the course of the evaluation referred to in the first subparagraph, the market surveillance authorities find that the battery does not comply with the requirements laid down in this Regulation (‘non-compliant battery’), they shall without delay require the relevant economic operator to take all appropriate corrective action, within a reasonable period prescribed by the market surveillance authorities and commensurate with the nature of the risk, to bring the battery into compliance with those requirements, to withdraw it from the market, or to recall it.
The market surveillance authorities shall inform the relevant notified body accordingly.
The market surveillance authorities shall inform the Commission and the other Member States, without delay, of those measures.
The information referred to in paragraph 4, second subparagraph, shall include all available details, in particular the data necessary for the identification of the non-compliant battery, the origin of that battery, the nature of the non-compliance alleged and the risk involved, the nature and duration of the national measures taken and the arguments put forward by the relevant economic operator. In particular, the market surveillance authorities shall indicate whether the non-compliance is due to any of the following:
failure of the battery to be in conformity with Articles 6 to 10 or Article 12, 13 or 14;
shortcomings in the harmonised standards referred to in Article 15;
shortcomings in the common specifications referred to in Article 16.
Article 80
Union safeguard procedure
On the basis of the results of that evaluation, the Commission shall adopt an implementing act determining whether the national measure is justified or not. That implementing act shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 90(3).
If the national measure is considered justified, all Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that the non-compliant battery is withdrawn from their market, and shall inform the Commission accordingly.
If the national measure is considered unjustified, the Member State concerned shall withdraw that measure.
Article 81
Compliant batteries which present a risk
Article 82
Joint activities
Market surveillance authorities may carry out joint activities with organisations representing economic operators or end-users. Such joint activities may include the setting up by Member States or market surveillance authorities of battery competence centres, with a view to promoting compliance, identifying non-compliance, raising awareness and providing guidance in relation to the requirements laid down in this Regulation, in accordance with Article 9 of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020.
Article 83
Formal non-compliance
Without prejudice to Article 79, where a Member State makes one of the following findings, it shall require the relevant economic operator to put an end to the non-compliance concerned:
the CE marking has been affixed in violation of Article 30 of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008 or of Article 20 of this Regulation;
the CE marking has not been affixed;
the identification number of the notified body, where required under Annex VIII, has been affixed in violation of Article 20 or has not been affixed;
the EU declaration of conformity has not been drawn up or has not been drawn up correctly;
the technical documentation referred to in Annex VIII is either not available, or not complete;
the information referred to in Article 38(7) or Article 41(3) is absent, false or incomplete;
any other administrative requirement provided for in Article 38 or 41 has not been met;
Article 84
Non-compliance with due diligence obligations
CHAPTER XI
Green public procurement and procedure for amending restrictions on substances
Article 85
Green public procurement
Article 86
Restriction procedure for substances
If the restriction dossier demonstrates that action on a Union-wide basis is necessary, in addition to any measures already in place, the Member State shall submit it to the Agency in the format set out in Annex XV to Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006, in order to initiate the process described in paragraphs 4 to 9 of this Article, and Articles 87 and 88.
The Agency shall make publicly available on its website the restriction dossier, including the restrictions suggested pursuant to paragraphs 2 and 3 without delay, clearly indicating its date of publication. The Agency shall invite all stakeholders concerned to submit individually or jointly, within four months of the date of publication:
comments on the restriction dossier and the suggested restrictions;
a socioeconomic analysis of the suggested restrictions, including an analysis of alternatives, or information which can contribute to such an analysis, examining the advantages and drawbacks of the suggested restrictions. Such analysis shall conform to the requirements of Annex XVI to Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006.
Article 87
Opinion of the Agency’s Committees
Article 88
Submission of an opinion to the Commission
CHAPTER XII
Delegated powers and committee procedure
Article 89
Exercise of the delegation
Article 90
Committee procedure
Where the committee delivers no opinion, the Commission shall not adopt the draft implementing act and Article 5(4), third subparagraph, of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 shall apply.
CHAPTER XIII
Amendments
Article 91
Amendments to Regulation (EU) 2019/1020
Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 is amended as follows:
in Annex I, point 21 of the list of Union harmonisation legislation is replaced by the following:
Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 July 2023 concerning batteries and waste batteries, amending Directive 2008/98/EC and Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 and repealing Directive 2006/66/EC (OJ L 191, 28.7.2023, p. 1) ;’.
Article 92
Amendment to Directive 2008/98/EC
In Article 8a(7) of Directive 2008/98/EC, the following subparagraph is added:
‘ ►C1 For batteries, as defined in Article 3(1), point (1), of Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 of the European Parliament and of the Council ( *4 ) ◄ , Member States shall take measures to ensure that extended producer responsibility schemes that have been established before 4 July 2018, comply with this Article by 18 August 2025.
CHAPTER XIV
Final provisions
Article 93
Penalties
By 18 August 2025 Member States shall lay down the rules on penalties applicable to infringements of this Regulation and shall take all measures necessary to ensure that they are implemented. The penalties provided for shall be effective, proportionate and dissuasive. Member States shall, without delay, notify the Commission of those rules and of those measures and shall notify it, without delay, of any subsequent amendment affecting them.
Article 94
Review
Taking account of technical progress and practical experience gained in Member States, the Commission shall, in its report, include an evaluation on the following aspects of this Regulation:
the list of common formats falling under the definition of portable batteries of general use;
the sustainability and safety requirements laid down in Chapter II, including the possible need to introduce an export ban on batteries which are non-compliant with the restrictions set out in Annex I;
the labelling and information requirements laid down in Chapter III;
the battery due diligence requirements laid down in Articles 48 to 53;
the measures regarding management of waste batteries laid down in Chapter VIII, including the possibility of introducing two sub-categories of portable batteries namely rechargeable and non-rechargeable portable batteries, with separate collection targets, and of introducing a separate collection target for portable batteries of general use;
the measures regarding the battery passport set out in Chapter IX;
infringements and the effectiveness, proportionality and dissuasiveness of penalties as set out in Article 93;
analysis of the impact of this Regulation on the competitiveness of, and on the investments in, the batteries sector, and of the administrative burden resulting from this Regulation.
Where appropriate, the report referred to in paragraph 1 shall be accompanied by a legislative proposal for amendment of the relevant provisions of this Regulation.
The Commission shall publish a report containing the results of such assessment by 12 months after the date of entry into force of any of the legislative acts referred to in the first subparagraph, or by 30 June 2031, whichever is the earliest. Where appropriate, the Commission shall accompany its report with a legislative proposal amending Chapter VII.
Article 95
Repeal and transitional rules
Directive 2006/66/EC is repealed with effect from 18 August 2025.
However, the following provisions shall continue to apply as set out below:
Article 11 until 18 February 2027;
Article 12(4) and (5) until 31 December 2025, except as regards the provision concerning transmission of data to the Commission which shall continue to apply until 30 June 2027;
Article 21(2) until 18 August 2026.
References to the repealed Directive shall be construed as references to this Regulation.
Article 96
Entry into force and application
The following provisions shall apply as follows:
Article 11 shall apply from 18 February 2027;
Article 17 and Chapter VI shall apply from 18 August 2024, except for Article 17(2) which shall apply from 12 months after the date of the first publication of the list referred to in Article 30(2);
Chapter VIII shall apply from 18 August 2025.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
ANNEX I
RESTRICTION ON SUBSTANCES
Column 1 Designation of the substance or group of substances |
Column 2 Conditions of restriction |
1. Mercury CAS No 7439-97-6 EC No 231-106-7 and its compounds |
Batteries, whether or not incorporated into appliances, light means of transport or other vehicles, shall not contain more than 0,0005 % of mercury (expressed as mercury metal) by weight. |
2. Cadmium CAS No 7440-43-9 EC No 231-152-8 and its compounds |
Portable batteries, whether or not incorporated into appliances, light means of transport or other vehicles, shall not contain more than 0,002 % of cadmium (expressed as cadmium metal) by weight. |
3. Lead CAS No 7439-92-1 EC No 231-100-4 and its compounds |
1. From 18 August 2024, portable batteries, whether or not incorporated into appliances, shall not contain more than 0,01 % of lead (expressed as lead metal) by weight. 2. The restriction set out in point 1 shall not apply to portable zinc-air button cells until 18 August 2028. |
ANNEX II
CARBON FOOTPRINT
1. Scope
This Annex provides essential elements on how to calculate the carbon footprint.
The methodology for calculation and verification of the carbon footprint to be provided for by means of the delegated act adopted pursuant to Article 7 shall build on the essential elements included in this Annex, be in compliance with the latest version of the Commission Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) method and relevant Product Environmental Footprint Category Rules (PEFCRs) and reflect the international agreements and technical/scientific progress in the area of life cycle assessment.
The calculation of the life cycle carbon footprint shall be based on the bill of materials, the energy and the auxiliary materials used in a specific manufacturing plant to produce a specific battery model. In particular, the electronic components, for example battery management units and safety units, and the cathode materials shall be accurately identified, as they can become the main contributor for the battery carbon footprint.
2. Definitions
For the purposes of this Annex, the following definitions apply:
‘activity data’ means the information associated with processes while modelling Life Cycle Inventories (LCI), whereby the aggregated LCI results of the process chains that represent the activities of a process are each multiplied by the corresponding activity data and then combined to derive the carbon footprint associated with that process;
‘bill of materials’ means a list of the raw materials, sub-assemblies, intermediate assemblies, sub-components and parts, and the quantities of each, needed to manufacture the battery;
‘company-specific data’ means data that are directly measured or collected from one or multiple facilities (site-specific data) that are representative of the activities of the company, such data are also known as ‘primary data’;
‘functional unit’ means the qualitative and quantitative aspects of the functions, services, or both, provided by the battery;
‘life cycle’ means the consecutive and interlinked stages of a product system, from raw material acquisition or generation from natural resources to final disposal (ISO 14040:2006 or an equivalent standard);
‘life cycle inventory (LCI)’ means the combined set of exchanges of elementary, waste and product flows in an LCI dataset;
‘life cycle inventory (LCI) dataset’ means a document or file with life cycle information on a specified product or other reference, such as the site or process, covering descriptive metadata and quantitative life cycle inventory, which could include a unit process dataset, partially aggregated or an aggregated dataset;
‘reference flow’ means the measure of the outputs from processes in a given product system required to fulfil the function expressed by the functional unit (based on ISO 14040:2006 or an equivalent standard);
‘secondary data’ means data that are not directly collected or measured from a specific process within the supply-chain of the company or estimated by that company, but that are sourced from a third party LCI database or other sources; such data include industry average data, for example from published production data, government statistics, and industry associations, as well as literature studies, engineering studies and patents, and can also be based on financial data, and contain proxy data and other generic data; and also include primary data that go through a horizontal aggregation step;
‘system boundary’ means the aspects included or excluded from the life cycle stages.
Additionally, the harmonised rules for the calculation of the carbon footprint of batteries shall include any further definition necessary for their interpretation.
3. Functional unit and reference flow
The functional unit is defined as one kWh (kilowatt-hour) of the total energy provided by the battery system over the battery’s service life, measured in kWh. The total energy is obtained from the number of cycles multiplied by the amount of delivered energy over each cycle.
The reference flow is the weight of battery needed to fulfil a specific function and shall be measured in kg of battery per kWh of the total energy delivered by the battery over its service life. All quantitative input and output data collected by the manufacturer to quantify the carbon footprint shall be calculated in relation to the reference flow.
By way of exception to the first paragraph, for back-up batteries that have as their primary function to ensure continuity of a power source, the functional unit is defined as the ability to provide one kWmin (kilowatt-minute) of backup power capability at any moment over the lifetime of the battery. Accordingly, the reference flow for back-up batteries is the weight of battery needed to fulfil the defined function and shall be measured in kg of battery per kWmin of backup power capability divided by the service life of the battery in years. All quantitative input and output data collected by manufacturers of back-up batteries to quantify the carbon footprint shall be calculated in relation to that reference flow.
In exceptional cases, such as for batteries for hybrid non -plug-in vehicles, the methodology may define a different functional unit.
4. System boundary
The following life cycle stages and the processes involved therein shall be included in the system boundary:
Life cycle stage |
Processes involved |
Raw material acquisition and pre-processing |
Includes mining and other relevant sourcing, pre-processing and transport of active materials, up to the manufacturing of battery cells and battery components (active materials, separator, electrolyte, casings, active and passive battery components), and electric or electronic components. |
Main product production |
Assembly of battery cells and assembly of batteries with the battery cells and the electric or electronic components |
Distribution |
Transport to the point of sale |
End of life and recycling |
Collection, dismantling and recycling |
The following processes involved in the life cycle stages shall be excluded from the system boundary:
The use phase shall be excluded from the life cycle carbon footprint calculations, as it is not under the direct influence of manufacturers except where it is demonstrated that choices made by battery manufacturers at the design stage can make a non-negligible contribution to that impact.
5. Use of company-specific and secondary datasets
Due to the high number of battery components and the complexity of manufacturing processes, the economic operator shall limit, where justified, the use of company specific data to process and component analysis of the battery-specific parts.
In particular, all activity data related to the battery’s anode, cathode, electrolyte, separator and cell-casing shall refer to a specific battery model produced in a specific production plant. Accordingly, no default activity data shall be used. The battery-specific activity data shall be used in combination with the relevant PEF-compliant secondary datasets.
As the carbon footprint declaration is specific to a battery model produced in a defined production site, sampling of data collected from different plants producing the same battery model shall not be allowed.
Where there is a change in the bill of materials or energy mix used to produce a battery model, the carbon footprint for that battery model shall be recalculated.
The harmonised rules to be provided for via a delegated act as referred to in Article 7(1) shall include detailed modelling of the following life cycle stages:
6. Carbon footprint impact assessment
The carbon footprint of the battery shall be calculated using the ‘climate change’ life cycle impact assessment method recommended in the 2019 Joint Research Centre report entitled ‘Suggestions for updating the Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) method’.
The results shall be provided as characterised results without normalisation and weighting. The list of characterization factors to be used is available at the European Platform on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA).
7. Offsets
Offsets are calculated relative to a baseline that represents a hypothetical scenario for what emissions would have been in the absence of the mitigation project that generates the offsets.
Offsets shall not be included in the carbon footprint declaration, but may be reported separately as additional environmental information and used for communication purposes.
8. Carbon footprint performance classes
Depending on the distribution of the values in the carbon footprint declarations of batteries placed on the market, a meaningful number of classes of performance shall be identified, with category A being the best class with the lowest carbon footprint life cycle impact, to enable market differentiation of the battery categories referred to in Article 7(1).
The setting of the threshold for each class of performance, as well as the width of that class, shall be based on the distribution of performances of the battery categories referred to in Article 7(1) placed on the market in the previous three years, the expected technological improvements, and other technical factors.
9. Maximum carbon thresholds
Based on the information collected through the carbon footprint declarations and the relative distribution of the carbon footprint performance classes of battery models placed on the market, and taking into account the scientific and technical progress in the field, the Commission shall set maximum life cycle carbon footprint thresholds for the battery categories referred to in Article 7(1), after having carried out a dedicated impact assessment to determine the values for the thresholds.
In setting maximum life cycle carbon footprint thresholds referred to in the first subparagraph, the Commission shall take into account the relative distribution of the carbon footprint values for batteries on the market, the extent of progress in reducing the carbon footprint of batteries placed on the market and the actual and potential contribution of those life cycle carbon footprint thresholds to the Union’s objectives on sustainable mobility and climate neutrality by 2050.
ANNEX III
ELECTROCHEMICAL PERFORMANCE AND DURABILITY PARAMETERS FOR PORTABLE BATTERIES OF GENERAL USE
Part A
Parameters for non-rechargeable batteries
1. Minimum average duration: minimum average time reached by a sample of batteries on discharge when used under specific conditions, such as temperature and relative humidity.
2. Delayed discharge performance: the relative decrease of the minimum average duration, with the initially measured minimum average duration as the reference point, after a defined period and under specific conditions, such as temperature and relative humidity.
3. Resistance to leakage: resistance to unplanned escape of electrolyte, gas or other material.
Part B
Parameters for rechargeable batteries
1. Rated capacity: the capacity value of a battery, under specific conditions, such as temperature and relative humidity, and declared by the manufacturer.
2. Charge (capacity) ( 6 ) retention: the capacity that a battery can deliver after storage, under specific conditions, such as temperature and relative humidity, for a specific time, without a subsequent recharge and expressed as a percentage of the rated capacity.
3. Charge (capacity) recovery: the capacity that a battery can deliver with a subsequent recharge after storage, under specific conditions, such as temperature and relative humidity, for a specific time and expressed as percentage of the rated capacity.
4. Endurance in cycles the number of charge and discharge cycles a battery can perform under specific conditions, such as temperature and relative humidity, before the capacity drops below a specified fraction of the rated capacity.
5. Resistance to leakage: resistance to unplanned escape of electrolyte, gas or other material.
ANNEX IV
ELECTROCHEMICAL PERFORMANCE AND DURABILITY REQUIREMENTS FOR LMT BATTERIES, INDUSTRIAL BATTERIES WITH A CAPACITY GREATER THAN 2 KWH AND ELECTRIC VEHICLE BATTERIES
For the purposes of this Annex the following definitions apply:
‘Rated capacity’ means the total number of ampere-hours (Ah) that can be withdrawn from a fully charged battery under reference conditions.
‘Capacity fade’ means the decrease over time and upon usage in the amount of charge that a battery can deliver at the rated voltage, with respect to the original rated capacity.
‘Power’ means the amount of energy that a battery is capable of providing over a given period under reference conditions.
‘Power fade’ means the decrease over time and upon usage in the amount of power that a battery can deliver at the rated voltage.
‘Internal resistance’ means the opposition to the flow of current within a cell or a battery under reference conditions, that is, the sum of electronic resistance and ionic resistance to the contribution to total effective resistance including inductive/capacitive properties.
‘Energy round trip efficiency’ means the ratio of the net energy delivered by a battery during a discharge test to the total energy required to restore the initial state of charge by a standard charge.
Part A
Parameters related to electrochemical performance and durability
1. Rated capacity (in Ah) and capacity fade (in %).
2. Power (in W) and power fade (in %).
3. Internal resistance (in Ω) and internal resistance increase (in %).
4. Where applicable, energy round trip efficiency and its fade (in %).
5. The expected life-time of the battery under the reference conditions for which it has been designed, in terms of cycles, except for non-cycle applications, and calendar years.
Part B
Elements to explain the measurements for parameters listed in Part A
1. Applied discharge rate and charge rate.
2. Ratio between nominal battery power (W) and battery energy (Wh).
3. Depth of discharge in the cycle-life test.
4. Power capability at 80 % and 20 % state of charge.
5. Any calculations performed with the measured parameters, if applicable.
ANNEX V
SAFETY PARAMETERS
1. Thermal shock and cycling
This test shall be designed to evaluate changes in the integrity of the battery arising from expansion and contraction of cell components upon exposure to extreme and sudden changes in temperature, and potential consequences of such changes. During a thermal shock, the battery shall be exposed to two temperature limits and held at each temperature limit for a specified period.
2. External short circuit protection
This test shall evaluate the safety performance of a battery when applying an external short circuit. The test can evaluate the activation of the overcurrent protection device or the ability of cells to withstand the current without reaching a hazardous situation (e.g. thermal runaway, explosion, fire). The main risk factors are heat generation at cell level and electrical arcing, which can damage circuitry or lead to reduced isolation resistance.
3. Overcharge protection
This test shall evaluate the safety performance of a battery in overcharge situations. The main safety risks during overcharge are the decomposition of the electrolyte, cathode and anode breakdown, exothermic decomposition of the solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) layer, separator degradation, and lithium plating, which can lead to self-heating of the battery and thermal runaway. The factors affecting the outcome of the test shall, as a minimum, include, the charging rate and the finally reached state of charge. The protection can be ensured either by voltage control (interruption after reaching the limit charging voltage) or current control (interruption after exceeding maximum charging current).
4. Over-discharge protection
This test shall evaluate the safety performance of a battery in over-discharge situations. Safety risks during over-discharge include polarity reversal leading to oxidation of the anode current collector (Copper) and to plating on the cathode side. Even minor over-discharge can cause dendrite formation and ultimately short-circuiting.
5. Over-temperature protection
This test shall evaluate the effect of temperature control failure or failure of other features for protection against internal overheating during operation.
6. Thermal propagation protection
This test shall evaluate the safety performance of a battery in thermal propagation situations. A thermal runaway in one cell can cause a cascading reaction throughout the entire battery which can be composed of numerous cells. It can lead to severe consequences including a significant gas release. The test shall take into account the tests that are under development for transport applications by ISO and the UN Global Technical Regulation.
7. Mechanical damage by external forces
These tests shall simulate one or more situations in which a battery is accidentally exposed to mechanical stresses and remains operational for the purpose for which it was designed. The criteria to simulate these situations should reflect real life uses.
8. Internal short circuit
This test shall evaluate the safety performance of a battery in internal short-circuit situations. The occurrence of internal short circuits, one of the main concerns for battery manufacturers, potentially leads to venting, thermal runaway, and sparking which can ignite the electrolyte vapours escaping from the cell. The generation of such internal short circuits can be triggered by manufacturing imperfections, the presence of impurities in the cells or dendritic growth of lithium, and is the cause of most in-field safety incidents. Multiple internal short circuit scenarios are possible (e.g. electrical contact of cathode/anode, aluminium current collector/copper current collector, aluminium current collector/anode) each with a different contact resistance.
9. Thermal abuse
During this test, the battery shall be exposed to elevated temperatures (in IEC 62619 the temperature is 85 °C) which can trigger exothermal decomposition reactions and lead to a thermal runaway in the cell.
10. Fire test
The risk of explosion shall be assessed by exposing the battery to fire.
11. Emission of gases
Batteries can contain significant amounts of potentially hazardous materials, for example highly flammable electrolytes, corrosive and toxic components. If exposed to certain conditions, the integrity of the battery could be compromised, resulting in the release of hazardous gases. Therefore, it is important to identify emissions of gases from substances released from the battery during tests: the risk of toxic gases emitted from non-aqueous electrolytes shall be properly taken into account for all safety parameters listed in points 1 to 10.
ANNEX VI
LABELLING, MARKING AND INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS
Part A: General information on batteries
Information on the label of a battery shall comprise the following information regarding the battery:
information identifying the manufacturer in accordance with Article 38(7);
the battery category and information identifying the battery in accordance with Article 38(6);
the place of manufacture (geographical location of a battery manufacturing plant);
the date of manufacture (month and year);
the weight;
the capacity;
the chemistry;
the hazardous substances present in the battery, other than mercury, cadmium or lead;
usable extinguishing agent;
critical raw materials present in the battery in a concentration of more than 0,1 % weight by weight.
Part B: Symbol for separate collection of batteries
Part C: QR code
The QR code shall be in high contrast to the background colour and of a size that is easily readable by a commonly available QR reader, such as those integrated in hand-held communication devices.
ANNEX VII
PARAMETERS FOR DETERMINING THE STATE OF HEALTH AND EXPECTED LIFETIME OF BATTERIES
Part A
Parameters for determining the state of health of electric vehicle batteries, stationary battery energy storage systems and LMT batteries:
For electric vehicle batteries:
state of certified energy (SOCE).
For stationary battery energy storage systems and LMT batteries:
the remaining capacity;
where possible, the remaining power capability;
where possible, the remaining round trip efficiency;
the evolution of self-discharging rates;
where possible, the ohmic resistance.
Part B
Parameters for determining the expected lifetime of stationary battery energy storage systems and LMT batteries:
the date of manufacture of the battery and, where appropriate, the date of putting into service;
the energy throughput;
the capacity throughput;
the tracking of harmful events, such as the number of deep discharge events, time spent in extreme temperatures, time spent charging in extreme temperatures;
the number of full equivalent charge-discharge cycles.
ANNEX VIII
CONFORMITY ASSESSMENT PROCEDURES
Part A
MODULE A – INTERNAL PRODUCTION CONTROL
1. Description of the module
Internal production control is the conformity assessment procedure whereby the manufacturer fulfils the obligations set out in points 2, 3 and 4, and ensures and declares on its sole responsibility that the batteries concerned meet the requirements laid down in Articles 6, 9, 10, 12, 13 and 14 that apply to them.
2. Technical documentation
The manufacturer shall draw up the technical documentation. The documentation shall make it possible to assess the battery’s conformity with the relevant requirements referred to in point 1 and shall include an adequate analysis and assessment of the risks.
The technical documentation shall specify the applicable requirements and cover, as far as relevant for the assessment, the design, manufacture and operation of the battery. The technical documentation shall, where applicable, contain at least the following elements:
a general description of the battery and its intended use;
the conceptual design and manufacturing drawings and schemes of components, sub-assemblies and circuits;
the descriptions and explanations necessary for the understanding of the drawings and schemes referred to in point (b) and the operation of the battery;
a specimen of the label required in accordance with Article 13;
a list of the harmonised standards referred to in Article 15, applied in full or in part, including an indication of which parts have been applied, a list of the common specifications referred to in Article 16, applied in full or in part, including an indication of which parts have been applied, and a list of other relevant technical specifications used for measurement or calculation purposes;
where the harmonised standards and the common specifications referred to in point (e) have not been applied or are not available, a description of the solutions adopted to meet the applicable requirements laid down in Articles 6, 9, 10, 12, 13 and 14 or to verify the compliance of batteries with those requirements;
the results of design calculations made and the examinations carried out, and the technical or documentary evidence used; and
the test reports.
3. Manufacturing
The manufacturer shall take all measures necessary so that the manufacturing process and the monitoring thereof ensure the batteries comply with the technical documentation referred to in point 2 and with the applicable requirements referred to in point 1.
4. CE marking and EU declaration of conformity
The manufacturer shall affix the CE marking to each individual battery that meets the applicable requirements referred to in point 1, or, where that is not possible or not warranted due to the nature of the battery, to the packaging and the documents accompanying the battery.
The manufacturer shall draw up an EU declaration of conformity for each battery model in accordance with Article 18 and keep it together with the technical documentation at the disposal of the national authorities for 10 years after the last battery belonging to the respective battery model has been placed on the market. The EU declaration of conformity shall identify the battery model for which it has been drawn up.
A copy of the EU declaration of conformity shall be made available to the national authorities upon request.
5. Manufacturer’s authorised representative
The manufacturer’s obligations set out in point 4 may be fulfilled by the manufacturer’s authorised representative, on its behalf and under the manufacturer’s responsibility, provided that they are specified in the mandate.
Part B
MODULE D1 – QUALITY ASSURANCE OF THE PRODUCTION PROCESS
1. Description of the module
Quality assurance of the production process is the conformity assessment procedure whereby the manufacturer fulfils the obligations set out in points 2, 4 and 7, and ensures and declares on its sole responsibility, without prejudice to the obligations of other economic operators in accordance with this Regulation, that the batteries concerned meet the applicable requirements laid down in Articles 7 and 8, or, at the choice of the manufacturer, all applicable requirements laid down in Articles 6 to 10 and Articles 12, 13 and 14.
2. Technical documentation
The manufacturer shall draw up the technical documentation. The technical documentation shall make it possible to assess the battery’s conformity with the relevant requirements referred to in point 1, and shall include an adequate analysis and assessment of the risks.
The technical documentation shall specify the applicable requirements and cover, as far as relevant for the assessment, the design, manufacture and operation of the battery. The technical documentation shall, where applicable, contain at least the following elements:
a general description of the battery and its intended use;
the conceptual design and manufacturing drawings and schemes of components, sub-assemblies and circuits;
the descriptions and explanations necessary for the understanding of the drawings and schemes referred to in point (b) and the operation of the battery;
a specimen of the label required in accordance with Article 13;
a list of the harmonised standards referred to in Article 15, the common specifications referred to in Article 16, or of both, applied, and, in the event of partly applied harmonised standards, common specifications, or both, an indication of which parts have been applied;
a list of other relevant technical specifications used for measurement or calculation purposes and descriptions of the solutions adopted to meet the applicable requirements laid down in Articles 6 to 10 and Articles 12, 13 and 14 or to verify the compliance of batteries with those requirements, where harmonised standards, common specifications, or both, have not been applied or are not available;
the results of design calculations made and the examinations carried out, and the technical or documentary evidence used;
a study supporting the carbon footprint values referred to in Article 7(1) and the carbon footprint class referred to in Article 7(2), containing the calculations made in accordance with the methodology set out in the delegated act adopted pursuant to Article 7(1), fourth subparagraph, point (a), and the evidence and information determining the input data for those calculations;
a study supporting the recycled content share referred to in Article 8, containing the calculations made in accordance with the methodology set out in the delegated act adopted pursuant to Article 8(1), second subparagraph, and the evidence and information determining the input data for those calculations; and
the test reports.
3. Availability of technical documentation
The manufacturer shall keep the technical documentation at the disposal of the national authorities for 10 years after the battery has been placed on the market.
4. Manufacturing
The manufacturer shall operate an approved quality system for production, final product inspection and testing of the batteries concerned as specified in point 5, and shall be subject to surveillance as specified in point 6.
5. Quality system
1. The manufacturer shall lodge an application for assessment of its quality system with the notified body of its choice, for the batteries concerned.
The application shall include:
the name and address of the manufacturer and, if the application is lodged by the manufacturer’s authorised representative, its name and address as well;
a written declaration that the same application has not been lodged with any other notified body;
all relevant information for the battery category envisaged;
the documentation concerning the quality system referred to in point 5.2;
the technical documentation referred to in point 2.
2. The quality system shall ensure that the batteries comply with the applicable requirements laid down in Articles 6 to 10 and Articles 12, 13 and 14.
All the elements, requirements and provisions adopted by the manufacturer shall be documented in a systematic and orderly manner in the form of written policies, procedures and instructions. The quality system documentation shall make it possible to have a consistent interpretation of the quality programmes, plans, manuals and records.
The quality system documentation shall, in particular, contain an adequate description of:
the quality objectives and the organisational structure, responsibilities and powers of the management with regard to product quality;
the procedures for documenting and monitoring the parameters and data necessary for calculating and updating the recycled content share referred to in Article 8 and, where applicable, the carbon footprint values and class referred to in Article 7;
the corresponding manufacturing, quality control and quality assurance techniques, processes and systematic actions that will be used;
the examinations, calculations, measurements and tests that will be carried out before, during and after manufacture, and the frequency with which they will be carried out;
the quality records, such as inspection reports and calculation, measurement and test data, calibration data, qualification reports on the personnel concerned;
the means of monitoring the achievement of the required product quality and the effective operation of the quality system.
3. The notified body shall assess the quality system to determine whether it meets the requirements referred to in point 5.2.
It shall presume conformity with those requirements in respect of the elements of the quality system that comply with the corresponding specifications of the relevant harmonised standard.
In addition to experience in quality management systems, the auditing team shall have at least one member with experience of evaluation in the relevant product field and product technology concerned, and knowledge of the applicable requirements laid down in Articles 6 to 10 and Articles 12, 13 and 14.
The audit shall include an assessment visit to the manufacturer’s premises.
The auditing team shall review the technical documentation referred to in point 2 in order to verify the manufacturer’s ability to identify the applicable requirements laid down in Articles 6 to 10 and Articles 12, 13 and 14 and to carry out the necessary examinations, calculations, measurements and tests with a view to ensuring that the battery complies with those requirements. The auditing team shall check the reliability of data used for the calculation of the recycled content share referred to in Article 8 and, where applicable, the carbon footprint values and class referred to in Article 7 as well as the proper implementation of the relevant calculation methodology.
After having assessed the quality system, the notified body shall notify its decision to the manufacturer. The notification shall contain the conclusions of the audit and the reasons for that decision.
4. The manufacturer shall undertake to fulfil the obligations arising from the quality system as approved and to maintain it so that it remains adequate and efficient.
5. The manufacturer shall keep the notified body that has approved the quality system informed of any intended change to the quality system.
The notified body shall evaluate any proposed changes and decide whether the modified quality system will continue to meet the requirements referred to in point 5.2 or whether reassessment is necessary.
The notified body shall notify the manufacturer of its decision. The notification shall contain the conclusions of the examination and the reasoned assessment decision.
6. Surveillance under the responsibility of the notified body
The purpose of surveillance is to make sure that the manufacturer duly fulfils the obligations arising from the approved quality system.
The manufacturer shall, for assessment purposes, allow the notified body access to the manufacture, inspection, testing and storage sites and shall provide it with all necessary information, in particular:
the quality system documentation referred to in point 5.2;
the technical documentation referred to in point 2;
the quality records, such as inspection reports and calculation, measurement and test data, calibration data and qualification reports on the personnel concerned.
The notified body shall carry out periodic audits to make sure that the manufacturer maintains and applies the quality system, and shall provide the manufacturer with an audit report. During such audits, the notified body shall check at least the reliability of data used for the calculation of the recycled content share referred to in Article 8 and, where applicable, the carbon footprint values and class referred to in Article 7, as well as the proper implementation of the relevant calculation methodology.
In addition, the notified body may pay unexpected visits to the manufacturer. During such visits, the notified body may, if necessary, carry out examinations, calculations, measurements and tests, or have them carried out, in order to verify that the quality system is functioning correctly. The notified body shall provide the manufacturer with a visit report and, if tests have been carried out, with a test report.
7. CE marking and EU declaration of conformity
The manufacturer shall affix the CE marking, and, under the responsibility of the notified body referred to in point 5.1, the latter’s identification number to each individual battery that meets the applicable requirements referred to in point 1, or, where that is not possible or is not warranted due to the nature of the battery, to the packaging and the documents accompanying the battery.
The manufacturer shall draw up an EU declaration of conformity for each battery model in accordance with Article 18 and keep it at the disposal of the national authorities for 10 years after the last battery belonging to the respective battery model has been placed on the market. The EU declaration of conformity shall identify the battery model for which it has been drawn up.
A copy of the EU declaration of conformity shall be made available to the national authorities upon request.
8. Availability of quality system documentation
The manufacturer shall, for a period of 10 years after the battery has been placed on the market, keep at the disposal of the national authorities:
the quality system documentation referred to in point 5.2;
the change referred to in point 5.5, as approved;
the decisions and reports of the notified body referred to in points 5.5, 6.3 and 6.4.
9. Information obligations of the notified body
Each notified body shall inform its notifying authority of quality system approvals issued or withdrawn, and shall, periodically or upon request, make available to its notifying authority the list of quality system approvals refused, suspended or otherwise restricted.
Each notified body shall inform the other notified bodies of quality system approvals which it has refused, withdrawn, suspended or otherwise restricted, and, upon request, of quality system approvals which it has issued.
10. Manufacturer’s authorised representative
The manufacturer’s obligations set out in points 3, 5.1, 5.5, 7 and 8 may be fulfilled by the manufacturer’s authorised representative, on the manufacturer’s behalf and under the manufacturer’s responsibility, provided that they are specified in the mandate.
Part C
MODULE G – CONFORMITY BASED ON UNIT VERIFICATION
1. Description of the module
Conformity based on unit verification is the conformity assessment procedure whereby the manufacturer fulfils the obligations set out in points 2, 3 and 5, and ensures and declares on its sole responsibility, without prejudice to the obligations of other economic operators in accordance with this Regulation, that the battery concerned, which has been subject to the provisions of point 4, is in conformity with the applicable requirements laid down in Articles 7 and 8, or, at the choice of the manufacturer, all applicable requirements laid down in Articles 6 to 10 and Articles 12, 13 and 14.
2. Technical documentation
1. The manufacturer shall draw up the technical documentation and make it available to the notified body referred to in point 4. The technical documentation shall make it possible to assess the battery’s conformity with the relevant requirements referred to in point 1 and shall include an adequate analysis and assessment of the risks.
The technical documentation shall specify the applicable requirements and cover, as far as relevant for the assessment, the design, manufacture and operation of the battery.
The technical documentation shall, where applicable, contain at least the following elements:
a general description of the battery and its intended use;
the conceptual design and manufacturing drawings and schemes of components, sub-assemblies and circuits;
the descriptions and explanations necessary for the understanding of the drawings and schemes referred to in point (b) and the operation of the battery;
a specimen of the label required in accordance with Article 13;
a list of the harmonised standards referred to in Article 15, the common specifications referred to in Article 16, or of both, applied, and, in the event of partly applied harmonised standards, common specifications, or both, an indication of which parts have been applied;
a list of other relevant technical specifications used for measurement or calculation purposes and descriptions of the solutions adopted to meet the applicable requirements referred to in point 1 or to verify the conformity of batteries with those requirements, where harmonised standards, common specifications, or both, have not been applied or are not available;
the results of design calculations made and the examinations carried out, and the technical or documentary evidence used;
a study supporting the carbon footprint values and class referred to in Article 7, containing the calculations made in accordance with the methodology set out in the delegated act adopted pursuant to Article 7(1), fourth subparagraph, point (a), and the evidence and information determining the input data for those calculations;
a study supporting the recycled content share referred to in Article 8, containing the calculations made in accordance with the methodology set out in the delegated act adopted pursuant to Article 8(1), second subparagraph, and the evidence and information determining the input data for those calculations; and
the test reports.
2. The manufacturer shall keep the technical documentation at the disposal of the national authorities for 10 years after the battery has been placed on the market.
3. Manufacturing
The manufacturer shall take all measures necessary so that the manufacturing process and the monitoring thereof ensure that the manufactured battery is in conformity with the applicable requirements referred to in point 1.
4. Verification
A notified body chosen by the manufacturer shall carry out appropriate examinations, calculations, measurements and tests, as set out in the relevant harmonised standards referred to in Article 15, common specifications referred to in Article 16, or both, or equivalent tests, to check the conformity of the battery with the applicable requirements referred to in point 1, or have them carried out. In the absence of such a harmonised standard or common specification, the notified body concerned shall decide on the appropriate examinations, calculations, measurements and tests to be carried out.
The notified body shall issue a certificate of conformity in respect of the examinations, calculations, measurements and tests carried out and shall affix its identification number to the approved battery, or have it affixed under its responsibility.
The manufacturer shall keep the certificates of conformity at the disposal of the national authorities for 10 years after the battery has been placed on the market.
5. CE marking and EU declaration of conformity
The manufacturer shall affix the CE marking and, under the responsibility of the notified body referred to in point 4, the latter’s identification number to each battery that meets the applicable requirements referred to in point 1, or, where that is not possible or is not warranted due to the nature of the battery, to the packaging and the documents accompanying the battery.
The manufacturer shall draw up an EU declaration of conformity in accordance with Article 18 for each battery and keep it at the disposal of the national authorities for 10 years after the battery has been placed on the market. The EU declaration of conformity shall identify the battery for which it has been drawn up.
A copy of the EU declaration of conformity shall be made available to the national authorities upon request.
6. Manufacturer’s authorised representative
The manufacturer’s obligations set out in points 2.2, 4.2 and 5 may be fulfilled by the manufacturer’s authorised representative, on the manufacturer’s behalf and under the manufacturer’s responsibility, provided that they are specified in the mandate.
ANNEX IX
EU DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY No* …
* (identification number of the declaration)
1. Battery model (product, category, and batch or serial number):
2. Name and address of the manufacturer and, where applicable, its authorised representative:
3. This declaration of conformity is issued under the sole responsibility of the manufacturer.
4. Object of the declaration (description of the battery and identification allowing traceability, and which may, where appropriate, include an image of the battery):
5. The object of the declaration described in point 4 is in conformity with the relevant Union harmonisation legislation: … (reference to the other Union acts applied).
6. References to the relevant harmonised standards or the common specifications used or references to the other technical specifications in relation to which conformity is declared:
7. The notified body … (name, address, number) … performed … (description of intervention) … and issued the certificate(s): … (details, including its date, and, where appropriate, information on the duration of and conditions for its validity).
8. Additional information
Signed for and on behalf of:
(place and date of issue):
(name, function) (signature)
ANNEX X
LIST OF RAW MATERIALS AND RISK CATEGORIES
1. Raw materials:
cobalt;
natural graphite;
lithium;
nickel;
chemical compounds based on the raw materials listed in points (a) to (d), which are necessary for the manufacturing of the active materials of batteries.
2. Social and environmental risk categories:
environment, climate and human health, considering direct, induced, indirect and cumulative effects, including:
air, including air pollution such as greenhouse gas emissions,
water, including seabed and marine environment, and including water pollution, water use, water quantities (flooding or droughts) and access to water,
soil, including soil pollution, soil erosion, land use and land degradation,
biodiversity, including damage to habitats, wildlife, flora and ecosystems, including ecosystem services,
hazardous substances,
noise and vibration,
plant safety,
energy use,
waste and residues;
human rights, labour rights and industrial relations, including:
occupational health and safety,
child labour,
forced labour,
discrimination,
trade union freedoms;
community life, including that of indigenous peoples.
3. The international instruments covering the risks referred to in point 2 include:
the Ten Principles of the United Nations Global Compact;
the UNEP Guidelines for Social Life Cycle Assessment of Products;
the Convention on Biological Diversity, in particular Decision COP VIII/28 – Voluntary guidelines on Biodiversity-Inclusive impact assessment;
the UN Paris Agreement;
the eight fundamental ILO Conventions as defined under the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work;
any other international environmental conventions that are binding upon the Union or its Member States;
the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work;
the International Bill of Human Rights, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
4. The internationally recognized due diligence instruments applicable to the due diligence requirements laid down in Chapter VII of this Regulation:
the International Bill of Human Rights, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights;
the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights;
the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises;
the ILO Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy;
the OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Business Conduct;
the OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas.
ANNEX XI
CALCULATION OF COLLECTION RATES FOR WASTE PORTABLE BATTERIES AND WASTE LMT BATTERIES
1. Producers of the relevant category of batteries or, where appointed in accordance with Article 57(1), producer responsibility organisations, and Member States shall calculate the collection rate as the percentage obtained by dividing the weight of waste batteries, collected in accordance with Articles 59, 60 and 69, respectively, in a given calendar year in a Member State by the average weight of such batteries that producers either make available on the market directly to end-users or deliver to third parties in order to make them available on the market to end-users in that Member State during the three preceding calendar years. The collection rate shall be calculated for portable batteries in accordance with Article 59, and for LMT batteries in accordance with Article 60 respectively.
Year |
Data collection |
Calculation |
Reporting requirement |
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Year 1 |
Sales in year 1 (S1) |
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Year 2 |
Sales in year 2 (S2) |
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Year 3 |
Sales in year 3 (S3) |
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Year 4 |
Sales in year 4 (S4) |
Collection in year 4 (C4) |
Collection rate (CR4) = 3*C4/(S1+S2+S3) |
CR4 |
Year 5 |
Sales in year 5 (S5) |
Collection in year 5 (C5) |
Collection rate (CR5) = 3*C5/(S2+S3+S4) |
CR5 |
Etc. |
Etc. |
Etc. |
Etc. |
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2. Producers of the relevant category of batteries or, where appointed in accordance with Article 57(1), producer responsibility organisations, and Member States shall calculate the annual sales of batteries to end-users in a given year, as the weight of such batteries made available on the market for the first time within the territory of the Member State in the year concerned, excluding any batteries that have left the territory of that Member State in that year, before being sold to the end-users. Those sales shall be calculated separately for portable batteries and for LMT batteries.
3. For each battery, only the first time it is made available on the market in a Member State shall be counted.
4. The calculation provided for in points 1 and 2 shall be based on collected data or statistically significant estimates based on collected data.
ANNEX XII
STORAGE AND TREATMENT, INCLUDING RECYCLING, REQUIREMENTS
Part A: Storage and treatment requirements
1. Treatment shall, as a minimum, include removal of all fluids and acids.
2. Treatment and any storage, including temporary storage, at treatment facilities, including recycling facilities, shall take place in sites with impermeable surfaces and suitable weatherproof covering or in suitable containers.
3. Waste batteries in treatment facilities, including recycling facilities, shall be stored in such a way that they are not mixed with waste from conductive or combustible materials.
4. Special precautions and safety measures shall be in place for the treatment of waste lithium-based batteries during handling, sorting and storage. Such measures shall include protection from exposure to:
excessive heat, such as high temperatures, fire or direct sunlight;
water, such as precipitation and flooding;
any crushing or physical damage.
Waste lithium-based batteries shall be stored in their normally installed orientation, that is, never inverted, and in well-ventilated areas and they shall be covered with a high voltage rubber isolation. Storage facilities for waste lithium-based batteries shall be marked with a warning sign.
5. Mercury shall be separated during treatment into an identifiable stream, which is safely immobilised and disposed of and cannot cause adverse effects on human health or the environment.
6. Cadmium shall be separated during treatment into an identifiable stream, which is given a safe destination and cannot cause adverse effects on human health or the environment.
Part B: Targets for recycling efficiency
1. No later than 31 December 2025, recycling shall achieve at least the following targets for recycling efficiency:
recycling of 75 % by average weight of lead-acid batteries;
recycling of 65 % by average weight of lithium-based batteries;
recycling of 80 % by average weight of nickel-cadmium batteries;
recycling of 50 % by average weight of other waste batteries.
2. No later than 31 December 2030, recycling shall achieve at least the following targets for recycling efficiency:
recycling of 80 % by average weight of lead-acid batteries;
recycling of 70 % by average weight of lithium-based batteries.
Part C: Targets for recovery of materials
1. No later than 31 December 2027, all recycling shall achieve at least the following targets for recovery of materials:
90 % for cobalt;
90 % for copper;
90 % for lead;
50 % for lithium;
90 % for nickel.
2. No later than 31 December 2031, all recycling shall achieve at least the following targets for recovery of materials:
95 % for cobalt;
95 % for copper;
95 % for lead;
80 % for lithium;
95 % for nickel.
ANNEX XIII
INFORMATION TO BE INCLUDED IN THE BATTERY PASSPORT
1. PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE INFORMATION RELATING TO THE BATTERY MODEL
A battery passport shall include the following information relating to the battery model, which shall be accessible to the public:
the information specified in Part A of Annex VI;
the material composition of the battery, including its chemistry, hazardous substances present in the battery, other than mercury, cadmium or lead, and critical raw materials present in the battery;
the carbon footprint information referred to in Article 7(1) and (2);
information on responsible sourcing as indicated in the report on battery due diligence policy referred to in Article 52(3);
recycled content information as contained in the documentation referred to in Article 8(1);
the share of renewable content;
rated capacity (in Ah);
minimal, nominal and maximum voltage, with temperature ranges when relevant;
original power capability (in Watts) and limits, with temperature range when relevant;
expected battery lifetime expressed in cycles, and reference test used;
capacity threshold for exhaustion (only for electric vehicle batteries);
temperature range the battery can withstand when not in use (reference test);
period for which the commercial warranty for the calendar life applies;
initial round trip energy efficiency and at 50 % of cycle-life;
internal battery cell and pack resistance;
c-rate of relevant cycle-life test.
the marking requirements laid down in Article 13(3) and (4);
the EU declaration of conformity referred to in Article 18;
the information regarding the prevention and management of waste batteries laid down in Article 74(1), points (a) to (f).
2. INFORMATION RELATING TO THE BATTERY MODEL ACCESSIBLE ONLY TO PERSONS WITH A LEGITIMATE INTEREST AND THE COMMISSION
A battery passport shall include the following information relating to the battery model, which shall be accessible only to persons with a legitimate interest and the Commission:
detailed composition, including materials used in the cathode, anode and electrolyte;
part numbers for components and contact details of sources for replacement spares;
dismantling information, including at least:
safety measures.
3. INFORMATION ACCESSIBLE ONLY TO NOTIFIED BODIES, MARKET SURVEILLANCE AUTHORITIES AND THE COMMISSION
A battery passport shall include the following information relating to the battery model, which shall be accessible only to notified bodies, market surveillance authorities and the Commission:
4. INFORMATION AND DATA RELATING TO AN INDIVIDUAL BATTERY ACCESSIBLE ONLY TO PERSONS WITH A LEGITIMATE INTEREST
A battery passport shall include the following specific information and data relating to an individual battery, which shall be accessible only to persons with a legitimate interest:
the values for performance and durability parameters referred to in Article 10(1), when the battery is placed on the market and when it is subject to changes in its status;
information on the state of health of the battery pursuant to Article 14;
information on the status of the battery, defined as ‘original’, ‘repurposed’, ‘re-used’, ‘remanufactured’ or ‘waste’;
information and data resulting from its use, including the number of charging and discharging cycles and negative events, such as accidents, as well as periodically recorded information on the operating environmental conditions, including temperature, and on the state of charge.
ANNEX XIV
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR SHIPMENTS OF USED BATTERIES
1. In order to distinguish between used and waste batteries, where the holder, meaning the natural or legal person in possession of the used batteries or the waste batteries, claims that it intends to ship or is shipping used batteries and not waste batteries, that holder shall be required to have available the following to substantiate that claim:
a copy of the invoice and contract relating to the sale or transfer of ownership of the batteries which states that the batteries are destined for direct re-use and that they are fully functional;
evidence of evaluation or testing in the form of a copy of the records, such as the certificate of testing, proof of functionality for every battery or fraction thereof in the consignment, and the protocol containing all information on the record in accordance with point 3;
a declaration made by the holder that none of the material or equipment within the consignment is waste as defined by Article 3, point (1), of Directive 2008/98/EC; and
appropriate protection against damage during transportation, loading and unloading, in particular through sufficient packaging and appropriate stacking of the load.
2. Point 1(a) and (b) and point 3 shall not apply where it is demonstrated by documentary proof that the shipment is taking place in the framework of a business-to-business transfer agreement and that:
the used battery is sent back to the producer or a third party acting on its behalf for repair under warranty with the intention of re-use; or
if the used battery is for professional use, it is sent to the producer or a third party acting on its behalf or a third-party facility in countries to which OECD Council Decision C(2001)107/Final on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Wastes Destined for Recovery Operations applies, for refurbishment or repair under a valid contract with the intention of re-use; or
if the used battery is for professional use and is defective, it is sent to the producer or a third party acting on its behalf for root cause analysis under a valid contract, in cases where such an analysis can only be conducted by the producer or third parties acting on its behalf.
3. In order to demonstrate that the batteries being shipped constitute used batteries, rather than waste batteries, its holder shall carry out the following steps for testing and record-keeping:
the battery shall be tested for its state of health and the presence of hazardous substances shall be evaluated;
the results of the evaluation and testing referred to in point (a) shall be recorded.
the record shall be fixed securely but not permanently on either the used battery itself, if the used battery has not been packed, or on the packaging, so it can be read without removing the packaging;
the record shall contain the following information:
4. In addition to the documentation required in points 1, 2 and 3, every load, for example shipping container or lorry, of used batteries shall be accompanied by:
a relevant transport document; and
a declaration of responsibility by the person liable.
5. In the absence of proof that an object is a used battery, and not a waste battery, in the form of the appropriate documentation required in points 1, 2, 3 and 4, and of appropriate protection against damage during transportation, loading and unloading, in particular through sufficient packaging and appropriate stacking of the load, which are the obligations of the holder that arranges the transport, the object shall be considered waste and it shall be presumed that the load comprises an illegal shipment. In such cases, the load shall be dealt with in accordance with Articles 24 and 25 of Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006.
ANNEX XV
CORRELATION TABLE
Directive 2006/66/EC |
This Regulation |
Article 1 |
Article 1 |
Article 1, first paragraph, point 1 |
Article 1(1) |
Article 1, first paragraph, point 2 |
Article 1(1) |
Article 1, second paragraph |
— |
Article 2 |
Article 1(3), (4) and (5) |
Article 2(1) |
Article 1(3) and (4) |
Article 2(2) |
Article 1(5) |
Article 2(2), point (a) |
Article 1(5), point (a) |
Article 2(2), point (b) |
Article 1(5), point (a) |
Article 3 |
Article 3 |
Article 3, point 1 |
Article 3(1), point 1 |
Article 3, point 2 |
Article 3(1), point 2 |
Article 3, point 3 |
Article 3(1), point 9 |
Article 3, point 4 |
— |
Article 3, point 5 |
Article 3(1), point 12 |
Article 3, point 6 |
Article 3(1), point 13 |
Article 3, point 7 |
Article 3(1), point 50 |
Article 3, point 8 |
Article 3(2), point (a) |
Article 3, point 9 |
— |
Article 3, point 10 |
Article 3(1), point 53 |
Article 3, point 11 |
Article 3(1), point 26 |
Article 3, point 12 |
Article 3(1), point 47 |
Article 3, point 13 |
Article 3(1), point 65 |
Article 3, point 14 |
Article 3(1), point 16 |
Article 3, point 15 |
Article 3(1), point 22 |
Article 3, point 16 |
— |
Article 3, point 17 |
— |
Article 4 |
Article 6 |
Article 4(1) |
Annex I |
Article 4(1), point (a) |
Annex I, entry 1 |
Article 4(1), point (b) |
Annex I, entry 2 |
Article 4(2) |
— |
Article 4(3) |
— |
Article 4(3), point (a) |
— |
Article 4(3), point (b) |
— |
Article 4(3), point (c) |
— |
Article 4(4) |
— |
Article 5 |
— |
Article 6 |
Article 4 |
Article 6(1) |
Article 4(1) |
Article 6(2) |
— |
Article 7 |
Article 2 |
Article 8 |
Articles 59 to 62 and 64 to 67 |
Article 8(1) |
Article 59 |
Article 8(1), first subparagraph, point (a) |
Article 59(1), point (a) Article 59(1), point (b) |
Article 8(1), first subparagraph, point (b) |
Article 62 |
Article 8(1), first subparagraph, point (c) |
Article 61(1) Article 62(1) |
Article 8(1), first subparagraph, point (d) |
Article 59(2), point (a)(ii) Article 61(1), point (c) |
Article 8(1), second subparagraph |
Article 59(5) |
Article 8(2) |
Article 59(1) and Article 59(2) |
Article 8(2), point (a) |
Article 59(1) and Article 59(2) |
Article 8(2), point (b) |
Article 59(2) |
Article 8(2), point (c) |
— |
Article 8(3) |
Article 61 |
Article 8(4) |
Article 61 |
Article 9 |
— |
Article 10 |
Articles 59, 60 and 69 |
Article 10(1) |
— |
Article 10(1), second subparagraph |
Article 75(4) |
Article 10(2) |
Articles 59 and 60 |
Article 10(2), point (a) |
— |
Article 10(2), point (b) |
Article 59(3) and Article 60(3) |
Article 10(3) |
Article 69(2) and Article 76(1), second subparagraph |
Article 10(4) |
— |
Article 11 |
Article 11 |
Article 11, first paragraph |
Article 11(1) |
Article 11, second paragraph |
Article 11(3) |
Article 12 |
Article 70 |
Article 12(1) |
Article 70(2) |
Article 12(1), first subparagraph, point (a) |
Article 59(1), point (f), Article 60(1), point (f), and Article 61(3), point (c) |
Article 12(1), first subparagraph, point (b) |
Article 71(1) |
Article 12(1), second subparagraph |
— |
Article 12(1), third subparagraph |
— |
Article 12(2) |
Article 71(4) |
Article 12(3) |
Article 70(3) |
Article 12(4) |
Article 71(2) and (3) |
Article 12(5) |
Article 75(5), point (c), and Article 76(1), point (d) |
Article 12(6) |
Article 71(4) |
Article 13 |
— |
Article 13(1) |
— |
Article 13(2) |
— |
Article 14 |
Article 70(1) |
Article 15 |
Article 72 |
Article 15(1) |
Article 72(1) |
Article 15(2) |
Article 72(3) |
Article 15(3) |
Article 72(4) |
Article 16 |
Article 56 |
Article 16(1) |
Article 56(1) and (4) |
Article 16(1), point (a) |
Article 56(4), point (a) |
Article 16(1), point (b) |
Article 56(4), point (a) |
Article 16(2) |
— |
Article 16(3) |
Article 56(1), point (c) |
Article 16(4) |
Article 74(5) |
Article 16(5) |
— |
Article 16(6) |
— |
Article 17 |
Article 55 |
Article 18 |
Article 57(2), point (c) |
Article 18(1) |
— |
Article 18(2) |
— |
Article 18(3) |
— |
Article 19 |
Article 59(1), Article 60(1), Article 61(1), Article 62 and Articles 64 to 67 |
Article 19(1) |
Article 59(2), Article 60(2), Article 61(1) and Articles 62, 65, 66 and 67 |
Article 19(2) |
Article 57(2), point (c) |
Article 20 |
Article 74 |
Article 20(1) |
Article 74(1) |
Article 20(1), point (a) |
Article 74(1), point (f) |
Article 20(1), point (b) |
Article 74(1), point (b) |
Article 20(1), point (c) |
Article 74(1), point (c) |
Article 20(1), point (d) |
Article 74(1), point (b) |
Article 20(1), point (e) |
Article 74(1), point (e) |
Article 20(2) |
Article 74 |
Article 20(3) |
Article 74(4) |
Article 21 |
Article 20 Article 13, Annex VI, Part A, B and C |
Article 21(1) |
Article 13(4) |
Article 21(2) |
Article 13(2) |
Article 21(3) |
Article 13(5) |
Article 21(4) |
Article 13(4) |
Article 21(5) |
Article 13(4) |
Article 21(6) |
— |
Article 21(7) |
— |
Article 22a |
— |
Article 23 |
Article 94 |
Article 23(1) |
Article 94(1) |
Article 23(2) |
Article 94(2) |
Article 23(2), point (a) |
— |
Article 23(2), point (b) |
Article 94(2), first subparagraph, point (e) |
Article 23(2), point (c) |
Article 71(5) and (6) |
Article 23(3) |
Article 94(2), second subparagraph |
Article 23a |
Article 89 |
Article 23a(1) |
Article 89(1) |
Article 23a(2) |
Article 89(2) |
Article 23a(3) |
Article 89(3) |
Article 23a(4) |
Article 89(5) |
Article 23a(5) |
Article 89(6) |
Article 24 |
Article 90 |
Article 24(1) |
Article 90(1) |
Article 24(2) |
Article 90(3) |
Article 24(2), second subparagraph |
Article 90(3), second subparagraph |
Article 25 |
Article 93 |
Article 26 |
— |
Article 27 |
— |
Article 28 |
Article 95 |
Article 29 |
Article 96 |
Article 30 |
— |
Annex I |
Annex XI |
Annex II |
Annex VI, Part B |
Annex III |
Annex XII |
Annex III, Part A |
Annex XII, Part A |
Annex III, Part B |
Annex XII, Part B |
Annex IV |
Article 55 |
( 1 ) Council Directive 2009/71/Euratom of 25 June 2009 establishing a Community framework for the nuclear safety of nuclear installations (OJ L 172, 2.7.2009, p. 18).
( 2 ) Regulation (EU) No 168/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 January 2013 on the approval and market surveillance of two- or three-wheel vehicles and quadricycles (OJ L 60, 2.3.2013, p. 52).
( 3 ) Directive 2004/109/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 December 2004 on the harmonisation of transparency requirements in relation to information about issuers whose securities are admitted to trading on a regulated market and amending Directive 2001/34/EC (OJ L 390, 31.12.2004, p. 38).
( 4 ) Regulation (EU) 2019/943 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 June 2019 on the internal market for electricity (OJ L 158, 14.6.2019, p. 54).
( 5 ) Directive 2008/68/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 September 2008 on the inland transport of dangerous goods (OJ L 260, 30.9.2008, p. 13).
( *1 ) Regulation (EU) 2016/425 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2016 on personal protective equipment and repealing Council Directive 89/686/EEC (OJ L 81, 31.3.2016, p. 51).
( *2 ) Regulation (EU) 2016/426 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2016 on appliances burning gaseous fuels and repealing Directive 2009/142/EC (OJ L 81, 31.3.2016, p. 99).
( *3 ) Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 July 2023 concerning batteries and waste batteries, amending Directive 2008/98/EC and Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 and repealing Directive 2006/66/EC (OJ L 191, 28.7.2023, p. 1).’;
►C1 ( *4 ) Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 July 2023 concerning batteries and waste batteries, amending Directive 2008/98/EC and Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 and repealing Directive 2006/66/EC (OJ L 191, 28.7.2023, p. 1).’. ◄
( 6 ) IEC mentions charge and capacity. Both represent the same physical quantity (charge); the only difference is that charge is expressed in C = A*s whereas capacity is expressed in A*h. In practice, capacity is used in most cases.