REPORT on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning batteries and waste batteries, repealing Directive 2006/66/EC and amending Regulation (EU) No 2019/1020

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(76) Producers should have extended producer responsibility for the management of their batteries at the end- of-life stage. Accordingly, they should finance the costs of collecting, treating and recycling all collected batteries, for reporting on batteries and waste batteries and for the provision of information to end-users and waste operators about batteries and appropriate re-use and management of waste batteries. The obligations related to extended producer responsibility should apply to all forms of supply, including distance selling. Producers should be able to exercise those obligations collectively, by means of producer responsibility organisations taking up the responsibility on their behalf. Producers or producer responsibility organisations should be subject to authorisation and they should document that they have the financial means to cover the costs entailed by the extended producer responsibility. Where necessary to avoid distortion of the internal market and to ensure uniform conditions for the modulation of the financial contributions paid to producer responsibility organisations by producers, implementing powers should be conferred on the Commission.

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(76) Producers should have extended producer responsibility for the management of their batteries at the end- of-life stage. It should consist of a set of rules defining specific operational and financial obligations for producers of products in which the producer's responsibility is extended to the post- consumer stage of a product's life cycle. Accordingly, they should finance at least the costs referred to in point (a) of paragraph 4 of Article 8a of Directive 2008/98/EC, including the costs of organising the separate collection, preparation for repurposing and remanufacturing, treatment, preparation for reuse and recycling of waste batteries, for reporting on batteries and waste batteries and for awareness campaigns to encourage end-users to discard waste batteries in an appropriate manner. The obligations related to extended producer responsibility should apply to all forms of supply, including distance and online selling. Producers should be able to exercise those obligations collectively, by means of producer responsibility organisations taking up the responsibility on their behalf. Producers or producer responsibility organisations should be subject to authorisation and they should document that they have the financial means to cover the costs entailed by the extended producer responsibility. Where necessary to avoid distortion of the internal market and to ensure uniform conditions for the modulation of the financial contributions paid to producer responsibility organisations by producers, implementing powers should be conferred on the Commission.