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 XIV – Final provisions
Article 96
Entry into force and application
1. This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
2. It shall apply from 18 February 2024, save as set out in the second subparagraph and in other provisions of this Regulation.
The following provisions shall apply as follows:
(a) Article 11 shall apply from 18 February 2027;
(b) 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);
(c) Chapter VIII shall apply from 18 August 2025.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.