A regulatory term referring to an establishment or undertaking that is permitted in accordance with Directive 2008/98/EC to carry out the treatment of.
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 therefore ties recycling and treatment claims to a specific regulatory status of the facility itself.
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
This term matters when companies audit downstream partners and need to confirm that treatment, recycling, or recovery activities are occurring at a properly authorised facility. It also matters when deciding whether a claimed recycling step counts for compliance purposes or is just an informal operational arrangement.
For Minespider, permitted facility is an evidence-quality term as much as an operations term. If a company cannot link waste-battery treatment records to the permitted status of the receiving facility, circularity claims become much harder to trust.