Battery knowledge · Supply chain and regulation
RoHS
The EU directive restricting ten substances in electrical and electronic equipment — lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, two families of brominated flame retardants and four phthalates — to 0.1 % by weight of each homogeneous material, 0.01 % for cadmium. Batteries themselves fall under battery law instead, but the chargers and devices around them must comply.
- Also called
- Directive 2011/65/EU, Restriction of Hazardous Substances
Example
Supply chain and regulation: an example situation
Carbon footprints can be compared only with compatible boundaries and functional units.
Read RoHS alongside Conformity assessment and CE marking in this context. The procedure by which a manufacturer shows a battery meets the EU Battery Regulation — safety, performance, durability and labelling — before affixing the CE mark. For EV and industrial batteries a notified body is involved; the Regulation replaces the Low Voltage Directive route the old rules used.
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References & further reading
Further reading on this topic
These sources provide broader context; they are not presented as citations for every statement in this entry.
- Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 concerning batteries and waste batteries
European Union / EUR-Lex · 2023
Topic background · Battery sustainability, information, waste management and battery passport provisions. Consult the current consolidated text and applicable implementing acts.