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 34
(34) Batteries placed on the Union market should be durable and of high performance. It is therefore necessary to set out performance and durability parameters for portable batteries of general use as well as for rechargeable industrial batteries, LMT batteries and electric vehicle batteries. For electric vehicle batteries, the informal UNECE Working Group on Electric Vehicles and the Environment has developed in-vehicle durability requirements that are to apply in the Union through a future regulation on type-approval of motor vehicles and engines and of systems, components and separate technical units intended for such vehicles, with respect to their emissions and battery durability (Euro 7) (‘Euro 7 Regulation’). Therefore this Regulation should only set information requirements for the performance and durability of electric vehicle batteries. On the other hand, in the area of batteries for energy storage, existing measurement methods to test battery performance and durability are not considered to be sufficiently precise and representative to enable introducing minimum requirements. The introduction of minimum requirements related to performance and durability of these batteries should be accompanied by available adequate harmonised standards or common specifications.