EU Battery Regulation term for an establishment or undertaking permitted under Directive 2008/98/EC to treat waste batteries.
Permitted facility is the legal site-level gate for waste-battery treatment: the place must be authorised under EU waste law, not merely technically capable of handling batteries. The definition ties recycling and treatment claims to facility status, not only to actor identity.
This page is anchored in the EU Battery Regulation and its reference to Directive 2008/98/EC. Keep permitted facility separate from recycler, treatment, approved battery treatment operator, approved battery exporter, waste management, and generic facility language.
Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 concerning batteries and waste batteries
an establishment or undertaking that is permitted in accordance with Directive 2008/98/EC to carry out the treatment of waste batteries;
Reference: Article 3, point 57
Public draft page. EU facility-status term for waste-battery treatment under Directive 2008/98/EC; not the same as recycler or treatment.
Downstream-audit records should capture the facility identifier, permit reference, Directive 2008/98/EC authorisation basis, waste-battery treatment event, operator link, process record, material-output record, and limits of what the facility status proves.
Permitted facility is a facility-authorisation control: the evidence consequence is that treatment and recycling claims can link to the authorised receiving site while still requiring event, process, and material-output records.