Battery EPR compliance schemes and producer responsibility organisations
Extended producer responsibility is a national duty even where the rule behind it is European, which is why the 23 schemes here are organised one country at a time. A producer responsibility organisation registers you with the authority, collects waste batteries against the volumes you report and files the returns. Coverage is what differs. Some take portable batteries only. Others handle industrial and EV packs. A few carry your packaging obligations alongside.
Every company in this category
23 records-
Batteriretur
- Ownership
- Privately held
- Role under the EU battery rules
- Authorised representative, Producer responsibility organisation
- Role in the battery passport chain
- Obligated operator
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Bebat
- Ownership
- Not for profit
- Role under the EU battery rules
- Authorised representative, Producer responsibility organisation
- Role in the battery passport chain
- Obligated operator
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Biosystem
- Ownership
- Privately held
- Role under the EU battery rules
- Authorised representative, Producer responsibility organisation
- Role in the battery passport chain
- Obligated operator
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Cobat
- Ownership
- Not for profit
- Role under the EU battery rules
- Authorised representative, Producer responsibility organisation
- Role in the battery passport chain
- Obligated operator
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Corepile
- Ownership
- Not for profit
- Role under the EU battery rules
- Authorised representative, Producer responsibility organisation
- Role in the battery passport chain
- Obligated operator
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ECOBAT s.r.o. (CZ)
- Ownership
- Privately held
- Role under the EU battery rules
- Authorised representative, Producer responsibility organisation
- Role in the battery passport chain
- Obligated operator
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Ecosurety
- Ownership
- Privately held
- Role under the EU battery rules
- Authorised representative, Producer responsibility organisation
- Role in the battery passport chain
- Obligated operator
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Ecosystem
- Ownership
- Not for profit
- Role under the EU battery rules
- Authorised representative, Producer responsibility organisation
- Role in the battery passport chain
- Obligated operator
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El-Kretsen
- Ownership
- Privately held
- Role under the EU battery rules
- Authorised representative, Producer responsibility organisation
- Role in the battery passport chain
- Obligated operator
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Erion
- Ownership
- Not for profit
- Standards named on their site
- IATA DGR, ISO 14001, ISO 9001
- Role under the EU battery rules
- Authorised representative, Producer responsibility organisation
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EUVerify
- Ownership
- Privately held
- Services
- EU authorised representative, EPR registration
- Pricing model
- Subscription
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Landbell Group / ERP
- Ownership
- Privately held
- Services
- EPR compliance, multi-market registration, authorised representative
- Role under the EU battery rules
- Authorised representative, Producer responsibility organisation
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MACH TRADE
- Ownership
- Privately held
- Standards named on their site
- REACH
- Role under the EU battery rules
- Authorised representative, Producer responsibility organisation
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Nord Recycling
- Ownership
- Privately held
- Role under the EU battery rules
- Authorised representative, Producer responsibility organisation
- Role in the battery passport chain
- Obligated operator
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Re-Battery
- Ownership
- Privately held
- Standards named on their site
- ISO 14001, ISO 9001
- Role under the EU battery rules
- Authorised representative, Producer responsibility organisation
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REBA Organizacja Odzysku
- Ownership
- Privately held
- Role under the EU battery rules
- Authorised representative, Producer responsibility organisation
- Role in the battery passport chain
- Obligated operator
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Recser
- Ownership
- Privately held
- Role under the EU battery rules
- Authorised representative, Producer responsibility organisation
- Role in the battery passport chain
- Obligated operator
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Recyclia
- Ownership
- Not for profit
- Role under the EU battery rules
- Authorised representative, Producer responsibility organisation
- Role in the battery passport chain
- Obligated operator
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SNRB
- Ownership
- Not for profit
- Role under the EU battery rules
- Authorised representative, Producer responsibility organisation
- Role in the battery passport chain
- Obligated operator
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Stibat
- Ownership
- Foundation
- Role under the EU battery rules
- Authorised representative, Producer responsibility organisation
- Role in the battery passport chain
- Obligated operator
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Stiftung GRS Batterien
- Ownership
- Foundation
- Services
- battery take-back, EPR compliance, producer registration support
- Role under the EU battery rules
- Authorised representative, Producer responsibility organisation
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take-e-way
- Ownership
- Privately held
- Standards named on their site
- ISO 14001, ISO 9001, REACH, RoHS
- Role under the EU battery rules
- Authorised representative, Producer responsibility organisation
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Valpak
- Ownership
- Subsidiary
- Parent company
- Reconomy Group
- Standards named on their site
- ISO 14001, ISO 9001, REACH, RoHS
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What to check before you shortlist
The duty stays with the producer. A scheme does the work and reports in your name. It does not become the obligated party. An authority that finds an under-reported volume comes back to the producer rather than to the scheme. So the useful question is not what a scheme covers. It is what it needs from you each quarter and what happens when your figures arrive late.
Selling into a market where you have no legal entity is the case that catches sellers out. Several entries here act as an authorised representative for foreign producers. One group covers many member states from a single contract. The alternative is a separate scheme, a separate reporting calendar and a separate set of deadlines in every country you sell into.
One dated obligation belongs in the same plan. Recycled content disclosure obligations begin on 18 August 2028. Ask now what your scheme will hand over as evidence towards that, because the collection and treatment records it holds are where the evidence starts. A return built for a national registry is not automatically a document an auditor will accept.
Fees are the part nobody publishes. Almost no scheme here shows a price, because the charge depends on chemistry, on weight and on the tonnage you place on the market. Expect to hand over a year of volumes before you get a number back. What you can compare without a quote is the reporting burden: the frequency, the fields and whether the scheme will take an export from your own system.
Questions buyers ask before they shortlist
Do we need a scheme in every country we sell into?
In practice yes, unless you appoint one provider to hold those memberships for you. Registration and reporting sit at national level, which is why this category reads as a list of countries. Most entries work in a single market. One group in the list sells multi-market coverage on a single contract. That is the shape most cross-border sellers end up buying.
If the scheme reports the wrong figure, who is liable?
The producer. A producer responsibility organisation files on your behalf and does not take the obligation off you, whatever the service agreement says. So read what a scheme commits to when a figure is disputed, how long it keeps the evidence and what it charges to correct a submitted return. Those answers separate schemes better than a headline fee ever will.
What does a scheme need from us each year?
Volumes, split the way the national register wants them. That normally means quantities placed on the market by battery type and chemistry, by weight, on the reporting calendar of that country. Getting the split wrong is the common failure and it is expensive to correct after submission. Agree the data mapping in your first month with the scheme rather than in your first reporting window.
Is EPR the same thing as the battery passport?
No. They are separate regimes with separate reporting. EPR deals with what happens to a battery after use: collection, treatment and the tonnages reported to a national authority. The passport is a data record that travels with the product while it is in service. They meet in one place worth planning for, which is material and recycled content data, since evidence for both comes out of the same treatment chain.