EU will push a new directive which relative with battery and accumulator. The aim of this directive to reduce the output of hazardous batteries and accumulators, to increase the recycling, recovery rate of spent batteries and accumulators, and offer the information to consumers and encourage them to purchase the batteries which have longer life and more informed environmental choices.

The battery directive is similar as WEEE directive, it prescribe the producer must be registered in relevant departments, the dealers have responsibilities to recover the spent batteries, and each battery and accumulator should meet the demand of high recycle rate, etc. In addition, the design of appliances should be required to remove battery easily, in order to the consumers could deliver the spent batteries to the spot momently.

The key points of battery directive as following:

1.forbid the sale of batteries and accumulators whose containing more than 0.0005% by weight of mercury; and more than 0.002% by weight of cadmium. Except the batteries and accumulators which adopted in the alarm system, medical facilities and wireless electronic tools.

2.the dealers have the responsibility to recycle the spent batteries from consumers, so the dealers should apprize the duty to consumers. The recycle rate of each member states should get 25% in 2012, 45% recycle rate in 2016.

3.the producers must be registered. The plan of each member states should be consistently.

4.some enterprises can get exemption on the aspect of recycling in last draft,but in the new directive the exemption will be reduce a lot. The new draft list the detailed situation for producers which they could get the responsibility of exemption expenses.

5.on the aspect of recycle, the average weight of Pb-acid batteries and accumulators are 65%, Ni-Cd batteries are 75%, the other average weight of batteries are 50.

6.electrical equipment design appliances of producers should insure batteries removed easily for recycling.

7. the batteries directive for the each member states should be translated into national statute one year later, the producers should label the efficiency.

The aims of battery directive is to encourage consumers to purchase the longer life and more effective batteries.

When the new directive is be published, it will spent two years for each member states to translate into national statutes. The new directive will abolish the former battery directive(91/157/EEC) and other editing articles(91/101/EEC & 93/86/EEC), will be replaced by new directive.