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Battery Compliance
Simplifying your battery obligations
Why is battery compliance important for your business?
If you make, import, or sell batteries in the UK then you have a legal obligation to comply with various environmental regulations.
Please remember — failure to comply is an offence. Enforcement action may be taken. Contact ERP UK today for more information on battery compliance and avoid penalties.
How ERP UK can help your business
The following steps are how ERP UK can help your business with battery compliance:
- Managing your registration and reporting for portable, industrial, and automotive batteries
- Taking on your recycling obligations and recycling enough batteries on your behalf
- Fixing your annual compliance costs if you are a smaller producer
- Keeping you up to date with the regulations and any future changes
- Providing optional services for the take-back of industrial and automotive batteries
Contact us today: uk@erp-recycling.org
Your responsibilities
How do I know if I’m obligated?
For battery compliance, you have the following obligations to meet, if you:
- Have a UK presence and are the manufacturer or importer that firstly placed batteries on the UK market – including those in products
What do you need to do?
Here are a few simple steps to achieving battery compliance:
- Register as a battery producer within 28 days of placing batteries onto the UK market
- Report (data) how many batteries you placed on the market
- Join a compliance scheme and finance the collection and recycling of waste portable batteries (if applicable)
- Take-back waste industrial and automotive batteries (if applicable)
ERP UK can manage the above and ensure that your obligations are met. So don’t wait, begin your journey with us now.
Contact us today: +44 (0)20 3142 6452