{"id":13289,"date":"2022-02-14T10:53:03","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T09:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euchems.eu\/newsletters\/?p=13289"},"modified":"2022-02-14T10:53:40","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T09:53:40","slug":"circular-economy-batteries-regulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euchems.eu\/newsletters\/circular-economy-batteries-regulations\/","title":{"rendered":"Circular economy: MEPs call for strengthening EU batteries regulations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Thursday 10 February, the members of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) adopted a report on the proposal for a regulation on batteries and waste batteries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This proposition defines a set of rules to govern the entire battery product life cycle, from design to disposal of batteries. MEPs also proposed introducing a new category of batteries: \u201cbatteries for \u2018light means of transport\u2019 (LMT)\u2019 (e.g., batteries in e-bikes). Amongst others, MEPs call for:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>producing more sustainable batteries with minimum levels of raw materials;<\/li>\n<li>designing easy removal and replacement systems for consumers and introducing common charger standards;<\/li>\n<li>implementing global value chain standards;<\/li>\n<li>increasing the batteries waste management target to 70% by 2025.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This report was presented by MEP Simona Bonaf\u00e8, the rapporteur. As a reminder, MEP Bonaf\u00e8 presented the new EU Sustainable Batteries Regulation during the EuChemS policy workshop on the lithium element, held on 1 December 2021. You can watch her intervention <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-U_mOh90IKA&amp;t=766s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on the EuChemS YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We invite you to read the press release <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/news\/en\/press-room\/20220202IPR22435\/meps-want-to-strengthen-new-eu-rules-for-batteries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday 10 February, the members of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) adopted a &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13290,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[9,135,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.6 - 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