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
Recital 21
(21) In line with the Communication of the Commission of 12 May 2021 on ‘Pathway to a Healthy Planet for All – EU Action Plan: “Towards Zero Pollution for Air, Water and Soil” ’, Union policies should be based on the principle that preventive action should be taken at source. In its Communication of 14 October 2020 on ‘Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability – Towards a Toxic-Free Environment’ (the ‘Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability’), the Commission underlines that the REACH Regulation (Chemicals) of the European Parliament and of the Council and Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council should be reinforced as the Union’s cornerstones for regulating chemicals in the Union and that they should be complemented by coherent approaches to assess and manage chemicals in existing sectorial legislation. The use of hazardous substances in batteries should therefore primarily be restricted at source in order to protect human health and the environment and to manage the presence of such substances in waste. This Regulation should complement the REACH Regulation (Chemicals) and Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 and allow the adoption of risk management measures related to substances including the waste phase.