Featured in The Long Game – 02-2023

Shaping the EU battery value chain

The new EU Batteries Regulation is a blueprint for product legislation, regulating the whole life cycle of batteries in the European Union. Kinga Timaru-Kast, director of communications for the Recharge advanced rechargeable and lithium batteries association, says that successful implementation of the new regulation requires the prioritization of safety, information reliability, feasibility, market surveillance, and enforcement.

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08 Feb 2023

Recharge argues that the establishment of a lithium battery supply chain in Europe will require a consistent regulatory framework. | Photo: Forsee Power

The EU’s new Batteries Regulation shapes the conditions for a European battery value chain. With the goal of a competitive battery ecosystem, the EU Strategic Action Plan on Batteries had already, in 2017, envisaged a new legislative setting. In December 2020, the European Commission announced a key element of the European Green Deal: a proposal …

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