EU Commission to adopt a regulation on batteries, energy storage and electric vehicle batteries

摘要

On 28 May 2020, the European Commission (EC) published its inception impact assessment (IIA) to modernise the EU's batteries legislation, in particular Directive 2006/66/EC of 6 September 2006 on batteries and accumulators, and waste batteries and accumulators (the so-called Batteries Directive). The initiative is in line with the European Green Deal, which promotes the decarbonisation of the EU economy to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. The legislative proposal is also based on the Strategic Action Plan on Batteries adopted by the EC1 in 2018, which promotes the growth of safe and sustainable battery production, and a better functioning of the internal market as concerns batteries, products incorporating batteries and recycled materials. The IIA is open for citizens, companies and stakeholders to submit feedback until 9 July 2020.