Schedule 8 NEW SCHEDULE 17 TO BE INSERTED INTO THE 2018 REGULATIONSI1I2

“SCHEDULE 17

MANAGEMENT OF WASTE BATTERIES

Regulation 6(1)

PART 1

Scope and interpretation

Scope

1.

This schedule applies to the activity of treating and the storage on a treatment facility, of waste batteries.

Interpretation

2.

In this schedule—

• “battery” means any source of electrical energy generated by direct conversion of chemical energy and consisting of one or more primary battery cells (non-rechargeable) or one or more secondary battery cells (rechargeable, an accumulator), but does not include—

  1. (a)

     equipment connected with the protection of essential security interests, arms, munitions and war material, with the exclusion of products that are not intended for specifically military purposes, or

  2. (b)

     equipment designed to be sent into space,

• “treatment” means any activity carried out on waste batteries and accumulators after they have been handed over to a treatment facility for sorting, preparation for recycling or preparation for disposal.

PART 2

Amendments to common framework provisions

Authorisations: conditions

3.

SEPA must ensure that an authorisation for the treatment and storage at a treatment facility of waste batteries must include such conditions as it considers appropriate to ensure that—

(a)

treatment, at a minimum, includes the removal of all fluids and acids,

(b)

treatment, and any storage, including temporary storage, takes place on impermeable surfaces with suitable weatherproof covering or in suitable containers.”