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Find out if you must offer free collection of old batteries - batteries you must take back, how to collect and send batteries to be recycled, penalties
Apply for approval as a facility to treat, recycle or export waste batteries for treatment and recycling and the rules you must follow.
Rules to follow if you put batteries, including batteries in vehicles or appliances, on the UK market for the first time.
Examples of acceptable evidence of broadly equivalent standards for packaging and equivalent standards for waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) and batteries.
Guidance for manufacturers on placing batteries and accumulators on the market.
Guidance for manufacturers, importers, distributors and retailers.
Find out how you can use, process or store similar free circulation goods in place of goods that you have declared for a customs special procedure.
Legacy resources to support button battery safety and raise awareness produced for a product safety campaign during 2021.
How to account for VAT if you’re a contractor or subcontractor installing energy-saving materials and grant-funded heating equipment.
Use the definitions, criteria and evidence given to classify portable and industrial batteries.
How the Office for Product Safety and Standards contributes to the national regulatory landscape.
Find out about the legal definitions of biofuel products, excise duty rates and the roles and responsibilities of producers from 1 April 2022.
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