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"Selling Batteries in the EU – update to Battery Regulation" is the topic on Friday, 15 August 2025, at 10 a.m. live in our free online Compliance Talk with our experts Magdalena Barylska and Heiko Rendle from take-e-way. You will have the opportunity to talk to other affected sellers in person. In order to present the topics to our domestic and international customers, the webinar will be held in English. Please feel free to recommend it to your international partners.

The German Federal Council is asking the federal government to examine a deposit solution for certain lithium-ion batteries. It is questionable whether the Battery Implementation Act will replace the Battery Act on 18 August 2025.

The blocking of individual ASINs, warnings under competition law, fines and account blocking can be the result if there is no ElektroG registration or WEEE numbers are incorrectly assigned.

If certain limit values are exceeded, a so-called "declaration of completeness" must be submitted to the Foundation Central Agency Packaging Register (ZSVR) by 15 May of the following year at the latest. Failure to submit a declaration of completeness can be penalised with fines of up to 100,000 euros.

"Authorised Representative in an EPR and Compliance Context" is the topic on Friday, 20/06/2025, at 10 a.m. live in our free online compliance talk with our expert Magdalena Barylska from take-e-way. You will have the opportunity to talk to other affected parties in person. The event will be held in English due to the extent to which our foreign customers in particular are affected. You are therefore welcome to recommend the Compliance Talk to your partners.

The German battery registration board has published information on the security deposit for batteries depending on battery type, chemical composition, disposal costs and return rate. It can be assumed that the authorised take-back systems will pass on the costs for the security deposit to the system participants.