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Implementation of the Single (Internal) Market Provisions of the Batteries and Accumulators and Waste Batteries and Accumulators Directive (2006/66/EC)
Starting Date: 12-05-08
Closing Date: 20-06-08
This consultation seeks views on draft regulations for implementing certain requirements of Directive 2006/66/EC on Batteries and Accumulators and Waste Batteries and Accumulators in the UK.
The Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) is seeking the views of producers, distributors, collectors and recyclers of batteries and accumulators and items containing batteries and accumulators, and any other interested parties, on the proposed approach for implementing provisions in the Directive relating to the placing on the market of new batteries and accumulators, and the design of certain battery-powered appliances. Responses to this consultation will help Government finalise the legislation that is needed to transpose these provisions into UK law.
This consultation follows the recent Consultation Document (URN 07/710) on the Implementation of the Batteries and Accumulators and Waste Batteries and Accumulators Directive (2006/66/EC) on all aspects of the UK’s implementation of the Directive that was issued on 20 December 2007 (7 January 2008 in Northern Ireland). The Government’s has decided to separate the transposition of the Single (Internal) Market provisions that affect the “Placing on the Market” of new batteries from the transposition of the Environmental Protection provisions which relate to the collection, treatment and recycling of waste batteries. The Government will bring forward a consultation document including draft Regulations on all of the other aspects of the proposed batteries legislation in the summer.
Responses to:
Peter Cottrell
Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform
Sustainable Development & Regulation Directorate
1 Victoria Street
London
SW1H 0ET
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