An EU Battery Regulation term that imports the Waste Framework Directive idea of checking, cleaning, or repairing waste products for re-use without other pre-processing.
Preparation for re-use imports the Waste Framework Directive concept of checking, cleaning, or repairing waste products so they can be reused without other pre-processing. It is a waste-law transition step, narrower than ordinary re-use, because it concerns recovery operations on objects that have entered a waste-management context.
The EU Battery Regulation defines preparation for re-use by reference to Article 3, point 16, of the Waste Framework Directive. The boundary matters: preparation for re-use is not the same as repurposing, preparation for repurposing, recycling, or simple continued use outside waste-law handling.
Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 concerning batteries and waste batteries
preparing for re-use as defined in Article 3, point (16), of Directive 2008/98/EC;
Reference: Article 3, point 29
Waste-battery workflows should capture the waste-battery identifier, component identity, checking record, cleaning step, repairing step, responsible operator, reuse decision, and status change showing why the object can be reused without other pre-processing.
Preparation for re-use is a waste-law reuse-readiness control: the evidence consequence is that records can distinguish checking, cleaning, or repairing waste objects for reuse from ordinary continued use, repurposing, recycling, or disposal.