Batteries Act Section 11 End-user obligations

Batteries Act Section 11 End-user obligations

(1) Persons in possession of waste batteries shall discard them through a separate collection channel from unsorted municipal waste. Sentence 1 shall not apply to waste batteries incorporated in other products; it shall apply without prejudice to the Electrical and Electronic Equipment Act and without prejudice to the End-of-Life Vehicles Ordinance.

(2) Waste portable batteries shall be solely collected by collection points participating in the Joint Collection Scheme or in a producer-specific collection scheme. End-users who are commercial or other economic operators or are public institutions may make arrangements other than those stipulated in sentence 1 concerning how and where they return their waste portable batteries.

(3) Waste automotive batteries shall be solely collected through distributors, public waste management authorities and treatment facilities under Section 12. As an alternative to sentence 1, end-users who are commercial or other economic operators or are public institutions may deliver their waste automotive batteries directly to producers or commercial battery waste management companies.

(4) If other arrangements are not made under Section 8 (2), waste industrial batteries shall be solely collected through distributors, treatment facilities under Section 12 (2) and commercial battery waste management companies; compliance with the requirements under Section 14 shall also be ensured.