This new regulatory proposal on new sustainability requirements for the raw material sourcing, manufacture, marketing, labelling and recyclability of batteries has been on the back-burner for a while. It will be interesting to see how the criteria overlap in due course with the evolving (overarching) dictionary on the sustainability of economic activities that is the EU Taxonomy.
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The European Commission will table new EU-wide regulations this autumn to ensure that batteries manufactured or imported into Europe are “the greenest on this planet,” a top EU official told EURACTIV. The new regulation will impose “mandatory requirements for the greenest, safest and most sustainable batteries on this planet,” said Maroš Šefčovič, the European Commission’s vice-president in charge of foresight and interinstitutional relations. The new EU-wide rules will be tabled “this autumn” and follow a fast track procedure so that they can be in place “as of 2023 onwards,” Šefčovič told EURACTIV in an exclusive interview.
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