How to register battery production

Where can I register as a batteries producer?

This is where as a batteries producer you can register with your Environment Agency for portable batteries and with the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) for industrial and automotive batteries. To find out if you are a producer of batteries please refer to Batteries Guidance, please click here.

How do I register a battery?

You must register with your environmental regulator using the National Packaging Waste Database (NPWD) if you produce or place on the market: industrial or automotive batteries. You must apply to be registered using the NPWD within 28 days of the first day you place batteries on the market. National Waste Packaging Database (NWPD)

Do I need to register a battery in the UK?

If you manufacture or import batteries or EEE containing batteries and place them on the UK market for the first time, you must: register with your environmental regulator. If you design EEE or machinery that uses batteries you must:

What are the rules for putting batteries on the UK market?

Rules to follow if you put batteries, including batteries in vehicles or appliances, on the UK market for the first time. Battery producers are responsible for minimising harmful effects of waste batteries on the environment, by: It’s illegal to send waste industrial or vehicle and other automotive batteries for incineration or to landfill.

What is a battery producer responsibility?

Specifically, battery producers have a responsibility to finance the collection, recovery, treatment and management of waste batteries. They also must comply with registration and reporting requirements. They can enlist a producer responsibility organisation to help them with these obligations.

Who should register a battery?

According to Article 55 of the Battery Regulation, producers, or their authorised representatives, should register in the register of producers of the EU member state where they sell their products.