Commission Adopts Implementing Rules for Waste Reporting

The European Commission recently adopted an Implementing Regulation establishing harmonised reporting formats for battery flows across the EU. The new regulation defines how Member States must report data under the Batteries Regulation – including the amounts of batteries placed on the market and collected, their chemical composition, and recycling and recovery efficiencies.

By introducing standardised formats for both data reporting and quality checks, the regulation aims to improve transparency, ensure consistency across national reporting, and facilitate compliance monitoring. The templates also cover the recovery of critical raw materials and include a separate reporting obligation for batteries collected via extended producer responsibility (EPR) schemes.

The initiative is part of the broader implementation of the Batteries Regulation, which entered into force in 2023 and introduces ambitious circularity and sustainability requirements for portable, industrial, and electric vehicle batteries placed on the EU market.