Batteries Act Section 23 Transitional provisions

Batteries Act Section 23 Transitional provisions

(1) Section 3 (1) and (2), Section 17 (1) and (3) and (6) sentence 1 shall not apply for batteries first placed on the market in a Member State of the European Union before the entry into force of this Act.

(2) When refunding deposits under Section 10 (1) sentence 2, deposits collected before 1 January 2002 shall be subject to the conversion rates stipulated in Article 1 of Council Regulation (EC) No 2866/98 of 31 December 1998 on the conversion rates between the euro and the currencies of the Member States adopting the euro (OJ L 359, 31.12.1998, p. 1), last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 694/2008 (OJ L 195, 24.7.2008, p. 3) and as amended from time to time.

(3) When determining the collection rate under Section 15 (1) sentence 1 no. 4, (2) and (3), Section 2 (19) shall apply for the 2009 calendar year such that the mass of waste batteries collected in that calendar year shall be divided by the mass of batteries placed on the market for the first time in that calendar year.

(4) For the 2010 calendar year, paragraph (3) shall apply such that the mass of waste batteries collected in the 2010 calendar year shall be divided by the average mass of batteries placed on the market for the first time in each of the years 2009 and 2010.

(5) Paragraphs (3) and (4) shall, regardless of the then current calendar year, apply mutatis mutandis to the first two years of operation of a producer-specific collection scheme.