A New Era for Batteries Within the EU: Batteries and Waste Batteries Regulation 2023/1542
Whitepaper Overview:
This whitepaper provides an overview of the new Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 on Batteries and Waste Batteries.
The objectives of the Regulation include:
- Promoting sustainability in battery production and minimizing environmental impact across their lifecycle,
- Encouraging circularity by providing data for second-life usage and enhancing recycling in terms of both quality and quantity,
- Ensuring safety by protecting human health and the environment,
- Improving transparency and providing consumers with information on the environmental and safety performance of batteries.
This Whitepaper Covers:
- The scope of the Regulation,
- Economic operators,
- Supply chain due diligence obligations,
- CE marking,
- Circular economy,
- QR Code,
- Digital battery passport,
- Responsibility for fulfilling the battery passport requirements,
- Replaceability of batteries,
- Key compliance deadlines and other important dates.
*This whitepaper was originally published on 13th December, 2023 and updated on September 29th, 2025. Further regulatory developments may have occurred after publication. To keep up-to-date with the latest compliance news, sign up to our newsletter.
Author
Dila Şen, Senior Regulatory Compliance Specialist, Compliance & Risks
Dila is a Senior Regulatory Specialist and has been at C&R for 5+ years. She is a sworn translator and qualified lawyer in Türkiye who was admitted to the Union of Turkish Bar Association in 2012. Following this, she worked as a lawyer in different law firms, industries and also in the biggest asset management company in Türkiye and has more than 10 years of working experience.
She has been leading and managing several global requirements projects for C&R clients and supports them with their AI, battery and pressure equipment-related compliance challenges globally. She specializes in research and monitoring legislative and regulatory activity related to all aspects of our product and topic coverage. She also works on special customer consulting and assessment projects that cover international standards and regulatory activity.
She holds a Bachelor of Law (LL.B.) from Yeditepe University in Istanbul, Türkiye, where she received a full scholarship based on her high score on the national exam. She continued her academic studies with a European Master in Law and Economics, where she studied in three different universities and was awarded triple master’s degrees from Bologna University (Italy), Ghent University (Belgium), and Haifa University (Israel), respectively. Additionally, she has a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Communication from Istanbul University, Türkiye.
She is highly interested in artificial intelligence and, after completing Washington, US-based independent non-profit research organization Center for AI and Digital Policy’s AI Policy Clinic with distinction last year, she continued her contributions as a research team lead and as a teaching fellow. This semester, she will continue her contribution as a Policy Group Member.
She is also a member of the Artificial Intelligence Working Group of the Istanbul Bar Association’s Information Technology Law Commission.
Dila is a native Turkish speaker and she is fluent in English.
September 27th, 2025
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