Battery Regulation
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Table of Contents
Chapter I – General provisions
Chapter II – Sustainability and safety requirements
Chapter III – Labelling, marking and information requirements
Chapter IV – Conformity of batteries
Chapter V – Notification of conformity assessment bodies
Chapter VI – Obligations of economic operators other than the obligations in Chapters VII and VIII
Chapter VII – Obligations of economic operators as regards battery due diligence policies
Chapter VIII – Management of waste batteries
Chapter IX – Digital battery passport
Chapter X – Union market surveillance and Union safeguard procedures
Chapter XI – Green public procurement and procedure for amending restrictions on substances
Chapter XII – Delegated powers and committee procedure
Chapter XIII – Amendments
Chapter XIV – Final provisions
Recitals (143)
Annexes
Chapter IV – Conformity of batteries
Article 16
Common specifications
1. 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:
(a) 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;
(b) the Commission has requested one or more European standardisation organisations to draft a harmonised standard for those requirements or tests; and
(c) at least one of the following conditions has been fulfilled:
(i) the request of the Commission has not been accepted by any of the European standardisation organisations,
(ii) the Commission observes undue delays in the adoption of the requested harmonised standards, or
(iii) 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.
2. Batteries which are in conformity with common specifications or parts thereof shall be presumed to be in conformity with the requirements laid down in Articles 9, 10, 12, 13, 14 and 78 to the extent that those requirements are covered by such common specifications or parts thereof, and, if applicable, to the extent that the minimum values established for those requirements pursuant to Articles 9 and 10 are attained.
3. Where a harmonised standard is adopted by an European standardisation organisation and proposed to the Commission for the purpose of publishing its reference in the Official Journal of the European Union, the Commission shall assess the harmonised standard in accordance with European Standardisation Regulation. When the reference of a harmonised standard is published in the Official Journal of the European Union, the Commission shall repeal the implementing acts referred to in paragraph 1, or parts thereof which cover the same requirements or tests referred to in paragraph 1.