LegalizeCommission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/2289 of 13 November 2025 laying down rules for the application of Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the format for the reporting of data as well as the assessment methods and operational conditions for the collection and treatment of waste batteries
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 July 2023 concerning batteries and waste batteries, amending Directive 2008/98/EC and Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 and repealing Directive 2006/66/EC (1), and in particular Article 76(5) thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Article 76(1) of Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 requires Member States to make publicly available the data collected pursuant to that paragraph, for each calendar year, in accordance with a format to be established by the Commission and report that data to the Commission. The format should ensure that the reported data provides a sound basis for verifying and monitoring the attainment of the minimum targets for the collection, as well as the attainment of the targets for the recycling efficiency and the recovery of materials.
(2) Article 76(3) of Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 requires that the data made available by Member States in accordance with paragraph 1 of that Article be accompanied by a quality check report.
(3) Comparability of the data reports and the quality check reports needs to be ensured in order to enable the Commission to review the data reported in accordance with Article 76(4) of Regulation (EU) 2023/1542, including the organisation of the data collection, the sources of data, the methodology used in Member States, as well as the completeness, reliability, timeliness and consistency of those data.
(4) The data provided by Member States should enable the Commission to assess whether it is appropriate to revise the targets for recycling efficiency and recovery of materials, due to market developments, in particular concerning battery technologies impacting the type of materials recovered and the existing and forecasted availability of cobalt, copper, lead, lithium or nickel or the lack thereof, and in view of technical and scientific progress. Furthermore, that data should enable the Commission to assess market developments impacting the type of materials that can be recovered and the technical and scientific progress, including emerging new technologies in waste management. Therefore, in order to assess whether it is appropriate to revise Part C of Annex XII to Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 and Part B of Annex XII to that Regulation, it is necessary to have additional information concerning materials for the recovery of materials and battery chemistries for the recycling efficiency.
(5) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee established by Article 39 of Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (2),
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
For the purposes of the reporting requirements set out in Article 76(1), points (a), (b) and (c), of Regulation (EU) 2023/1542, Member States shall use the reporting format set out in Tables 1 to 5 of Annex I to this Regulation.
The data shall be reported separately for each of the battery categories set out in Article 1(3) of Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 and shall be differentiated into battery chemistries.
For the purposes of the reporting requirements set out in Article 76(1), point (d), of Regulation (EU) 2023/1542, Member States shall use the format set out in Tables 6 and 7 of Annex I to this Regulation.
The data for recycling efficiency shall be reported in accordance with the battery chemistries referred to in the recycling efficiency targets set out in Annex XII, Part B, of Regulation (EU) 2023/1542. The data for the recovery of materials shall be reported in accordance with the materials referred to in the recovery of materials targets set out in Annex XII, Part C, of that Regulation.
Member States shall report data on the input and output fractions for the recycling efficiency and the recovery of materials using the format set out in Tables 1 to 4 of Annex II to this Regulation.
Member States shall submit a quality check report, referred to in Article 76(3) of Regulation (EU) 2023/1542, using the format set out in Annex III to this Regulation.
Member States shall report the data referred to in paragraphs 1 to 4 and 6 in electronic form, by means of an interchange standard set up by the Commission. Member States shall report the data referred to in paragraph 5 in electronic form to the Commission.
Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 13 November 2025.
For the Commission The President Ursula VON DER LEYEN
(1) OJ L 191, 28.7.2023, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/1542/oj.
(2) Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on waste and repealing certain Directives (OJ L 312, 22.11.2008, p. 3, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2008/98/oj).
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