A UK Waste Batteries Regulations term for an exporter approved under regulation 59.
Approved battery exporter is an export-approval actor, not a treatment operator or any logistics provider sending batteries abroad. The approval status, shipment, destination facility, and evidence-note pathway all matter.
This is a UK source-specific export-actor term. It is not a treatment operator; keep it distinct from treatment-operator, recycler, transporter, and scheme roles, and do not generalise it into a global battery-export compliance definition.
The Waste Batteries and Accumulators Regulations 2009
an exporter who has been approved under regulation 59.
Direct UK regulation definition from the interpretation provision for waste-battery producer responsibility and collection/recycling obligations.
Reference: Regulation 2(1)
Reviewed public draft page. Aligns with battery stewardship operations policy: separates scope gates, approvals, collection, transport, processing, registration, refurbishment, and management-obligation evidence.
UK context: UK Waste Batteries Regulations defines this term in UKSI 2009/890. This is useful UK-side context, not an EU Battery Regulation definition.
Implementation records should capture exporter identifier, approval status, shipment record, destination facility, waste-battery batch, export date, receiving country, evidence note, compliance scheme link, and treatment/recycling outcome evidence.
Approved battery exporter is the export-approval control for UK waste-battery evidence. It should connect approval, shipment, destination, evidence notes, and downstream treatment outcomes so export does not become a blind spot in circularity claims.