A UK Waste Batteries Regulations term for an exporter approved under regulation 59.
The UK Waste Batteries Regulations define an approved battery exporter by approval under regulation 59. The term matters because export can be part of a waste-battery compliance and evidence-note workflow, but it is a distinct actor role from treatment, producer responsibility, and scheme administration.
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)
UK Waste Batteries Regulations definition; use as a source-specific UK waste-battery operator or registration term rather than a general EPR actor definition.
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.
In implementation, approved battery exporter records should connect the export actor, approval status, waste-battery stream, destination pathway, and evidence-note or recovery documentation. Export may support a recycling pathway, but the exporter role itself is not evidence that recycling occurred.
For Minespider, the distinction is important because export, treatment, and recycling can sit in the same downstream story while requiring different evidence. The approved battery exporter identifies an authorised export role; the system still needs separate records for treatment, material recovery, and claims made from those events.