An EU Battery Regulation pre-processing term for treating waste batteries before recycling, including storage, handling, pack dismantling, and separation of non-battery fractions.
Preparation for recycling covers treatment of waste batteries before recycling, including storage, handling, pack dismantling, and separation of non-battery fractions. It records the pre-processing boundary before material recovery, not the recycling-efficiency calculation itself.
This page is anchored in Article 3, point 54, of the EU Battery Regulation. Preparation for recycling can support a recycling pathway, but it is not the recycling process, the recycling-efficiency metric, repurposing, or re-use.
Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 concerning batteries and waste batteries
the treatment of waste batteries prior to any recycling process, including, inter alia, the storage, handling and dismantling of battery packs or the separation of fractions that are not part of the battery itself;
Reference: Article 3, point 54
Recycling evidence should capture the waste-battery input, pre-processing step, storage or handling record, pack-dismantling event, non-battery fraction, operator identifier, and downstream recycling process before material recovery or recycling-efficiency claims are made.
Preparation for recycling is a pre-recycling evidence control: the evidence consequence is that dismantling, sorting, and separation records stay distinct from material-recovery outputs and recycling-efficiency calculations.