EU LEGISLATION & DIRECTIVES

For more than a decade, the European Commission has developed policies and directives for battery technology and other areas dependent on the reduction of Europe’s fossil footprint. Here we link to the most important documents.

• New Batteries Regulation: EC Proposal for a Regulation on batteries and waste batteries (Dec 2020)
• Batteries Directive: DIRECTIVE 2006/66/EC
• Ecodesign Directive: DIRECTIVE 2009/125/EC
• Reach Regulation: REGULATION (EC) No 1907/2006
• Strategic Action Plan on Batteries: COM(2018) 293 final – Annex 2
• The list of Critical Raw Materials (2017): COM(2017) 490 final