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The batteries regulations define three types of batteries:
If you are unsure about the type of battery that you are selling, you can use the battery scoping decision-tree to determine the type of battery.
A battery producer is any person or organisation that either manufactures or imports batteries or EEE incorporating batteries, and places them on the market in Ireland.
You are a battery producer if you do any one (or more) of the following in Ireland (including when using online distance selling):
Find out more about distance selling.
Important note: If you are importing vehicles with batteries, then you are a battery producer.
There is legislation for managing waste batteries in Ireland. This legislation sets out the rules and the legal obligations for anyone who makes, imports or sells batteries in Ireland. This legislation also sets the rules for the collection and recycling of waste batteries.
The legislation is as follows:
Download a copy of the batteries regulations
All battery producers must do the following:
Important note: If you are placing EEE on the Irish market and the EEE contains batteries, then you are an EEE producer and a battery producer. You will have to meet the obligations that apply to an EEE producer and a battery producer.
For more information, read the guidance for battery producers
Find out more about the legal obligations of EEE producers.
There are two ways for battery producers to finance the environmentally sound management of their waste batteries. You can either:
If you choose to self-comply, the EPA needs to know how you are meeting your legal obligations, therefore, self-complying battery producers must submit the following information to the EPA every year:
The EPA provides spreadsheet templates for battery producers to submit their WBMP and WBMR. You are required to download the spreadsheet, fill it in and email it to the EPA. The spreadsheets are macro-enabled and contain instructions on how to complete them.
Download the spreadsheet template for aWaste Battery Management Planor aWaste Battery Management Reportto make your next submission.
Important note: The EPAcharges a feeto self-complying battery producers. This feeprovidesfor reviewing your WBMP and WBMR. The fee is payable when you are submitting your WBMP.
Find out about the legal obligations that apply to distributors of EEE or batteries
Find out about the legislation that regulates WEEE and waste batteries
Find out who is responsible for doing what in the legislation by downloading the booklet: Who does what - WEEE & Battery Regulations
For the WEEE and batteries compliance scheme, check out WEEE Ireland
For the WEEE and batteries compliance scheme, check out the European Recycling Platform
If you are exporting WEEE or waste batteries abroad, then you will have legal obligations. Read more on the website of the National Transfrontier Shipment Office
Find out more about WEEE across the EU on the website of the European Commission
If a product needs a battery or a power supply to work properly it is electrical and electronic equipment or EEE for short. Household EEE includes products such as mobile phones, computers, power tools and hairdryers. EEE used by businesses includes data servers, hospital equipment and catering equipment.
When EEE no longer works properly and needs to be thrown away, it becomes a waste or waste electrical and electronic equipment or WEEE for short. WEEE is one of the fastest growing waste streams in the world. It is also one of the most difficult to manage safely.
A lot of the EEE in our homes contains batteries. Eventually, these batteries also reach the end of their useful life too and become waste batteries.
WEEE and waste batteries contain dangerous materials, such as mercury. If these materials get into the air or water, they can cause serious damage to the environment and to human health. They also contain valuable materials such as gold and platinum.
So, it’s very important to manage WEEE and waste batteries properly and safely. It is much better to recycle them instead of throwing them in the bin. When they are recycled, the valuable materials can be used again in new products and the dangerous materials will not cause any damage to the environment or to humans.
When you buy certain new EEE products, you must pay a small additional charge called a ‘visible Environmental Management Cost’ or vEMC. This is used to pay for the recycling of the product when it eventually becomes waste - WEEE. The vEMC applies to products such as fridges, TV’s and certain types light bulbs. The amount that you must pay depends on the type and size of the product. There is no vEMC for batteries.
We can all play our part in the safe and proper recycling of WEEE and waste batteries. In Ireland, there is a system to recycle these products.
Recycling WEEE and waste batteries is free.You can bring them to your local recyclingcentreor civic amenity site. You just drop them into the right box. ThevEMCpays for the WEEE to be collected and recycled safely.
Find the recycling centrenearest to you,where you can recycle your WEEE, batteries, and light bulbs.
You can also bring WEEE to a shop or retail outlet when you are buying a new product. It does not have to be the same place where you bought the original product. They must take it back when you are buying a new one but only if the shop sells the same type of product. For example, you can’t return a power drill to a shop that does not sell power drills.
You can return waste batteries to any retailer but only if they are selling the same types of batteries. For example, a retailer of car batteries does not have to accept portable batteries if they don''t sell them. You do not need to buy new batteries to return waste batteries at a retail outlet.
You can just drop waste batteries into the red or blue boxes that are displayed in many supermarkets and other shops. You don’t need to buy new batteries when dropping off the old ones.
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