Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These regulations prescribe the charges to be paid to the Department of the Environment by small producers, battery compliance schemes, battery treatment operators and battery exporters under the Waste Batteries and Accumulators Regulations 2009.
The charges are:
an annual administrative charge of £30 for a small producer;
an application charge of £17,000 for a battery compliance scheme;
an annual subsistence charge of £118,000 for a battery compliance scheme plus £680 for each scheme member;
a charge of £110 for an approved battery exporter to extend approval to an additional site to which the exporter proposes to export waste batteries and accumulators;
an annual application charge of £500 or £2,590 (depending on the amount of waste batteries and accumulators treated) for a battery treatment operator per treatment site;
an annual application charge of £500 or £2,590 (depending on the amount of waste batteries and accumulators treated) for a battery exporter.