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New Battery Legislation Introduced
The UK has transposed the European Directive by Statutory Instrument in 2 parts:-
1. 2008 No. 2164: The Batteries and Accumulators (Placing on the Market)
Regulations 2008 - which came into force on the 26th September 2008
2. 2009 No. 890: The Waste Batteries and Accumulators Regulations 2009 -
which came into force on 6th May 2009.
BATTERY REGULATIONS
Emergency lighting producers need to decide whether or not they are the producer of the industrial batteries in their products, ie the importer of the batteries or of Emergency Luminaires embodying battery packs. If they determine that they are, they should consider whether they wish to continue importing and thereby be bound by these Regulations, or to source their batteries from a UK supplier.
The duties of a producer are to:
· Mark the product with a crossed out wheeled bin
· Register with BIS on or before 16.10.09
· Print registration number on invoices etc
· Supply "sales" and "take back" data to BIS in weight by chemistry type as from 1.1.10 on or before 31.3.10
· Keep records for 4 years
· Have a free of charge "take back" service operational as from 1.1.10
· Publicise how the "take back" service operates on or before 1.12.09
· Inform the end user of:
· The potential effects on the environment and human health of the substances used in batteries;
· The desirability of participating in the separate collection of industrial batteries so as to facilitate treatment and recycling;
· The disposer's role in contributing to the recycling of waste batteries;
· The collection and recycling schemes available to disposers; and
· The meaning of the crossed out wheeled bin symbol shown in Schedule 5 and the chemical symbols "Hg", "Cd" and "Pb"(b).
A producer of industrial batteries must ensure that all identifiable waste batteries taken back or collected by that producer are delivered to and accepted by-
· an approved battery treatment operator for treatment and recycling; or
· an approved battery exporter for export for treatment and recycling outside the United Kingdom
For more information contact ernest@lumicom.co.uk
On 6th September 2006 the European Parliament passed Directive 2006/66/EC on "batteries and accumulators and waste batteries and accumulators". This set out a number of targets and other requirements which aimed to increase the collection and recycling of waste batteries of all types, thereby providing further environmental protection and helping to prevent heavy metal pollution which can be caused by some batteries if not dealt with correctly.