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Spain Issues Draft Legislation to Implement the New EU Battery Directive
March 21, 2007
Spain - Batteries
In September 2006, the EU adopted a new Batteries Directive (Directive 2006/66, hereinafter the “Batteries Directive”). The Batteries Directive, which applies to all batteries, disposable and rechargeable, regulates the heavy metal content of batteries, imposes marking and labeling requirements, and provides for separate collection and recycling of waste batteries, setting collection targets of 25 % and 45 % of the average sales figures for the previous three years for 2012 and 2016, respectively. In addition to the ban of 2000 on batteries containing mercury, a ban on cadmium is introduced by the new Batteries Directive and when the national provisions implementing the Directive enter into force its use will no longer be permissible in portable batteries.
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