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. 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, Global Regulatory & Requirements Compliance Specialist, Compliance & Risks

Dila Şen is a Global Regulatory & Requirements Compliance Specialist with the Global Regulatory Compliance team. She specializes in the topic of batteries.

As an experienced, extensively educated, and qualified lawyer, and a sworn translator (English to Turkish and vice versa) she has several years of expert experience and also has a strong legal academic background with a bachelor in law, bachelor of arts in communication, and a master in behavioral law & economics.

She has also been awarded with a triple master degree by each and every university in which she spent a term (Bologna, Ghent, and Haifa).