An EU Battery Regulation transition term for operations that prepare a waste battery, or parts of it, for a different purpose or application.
Preparation for repurposing covers operations that prepare a waste battery or its parts for a different purpose or application from the original design. It is a readiness step before the second-use outcome and should show what was inspected or tested, what decision was made, and whether unresolved safety or performance issues remain.
This page is anchored in Article 3, point 30, of the EU Battery Regulation. It is closely related to repurposing, but it is not the same term: preparation for repurposing describes the waste-battery preparation operation, while repurposing describes the later non-waste battery outcome.
Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 concerning batteries and waste batteries
any operation, by which a waste battery, or parts thereof, is prepared so that it can be used for a different purpose or application than that for which it was originally designed;
Reference: Article 3, point 30
Reviewed public draft page. Aligns with EPR/recycling responsibility policy: separates producer obligations, scheme evidence, recycling actor roles, repurposing transitions, waste-management quality, and process-yield proof.
Implementation records should capture battery batch, inspection record, test result, repurposing decision, operator identifier, safety issue, repair or preparation action, state-of-health evidence, destination/new-use candidate, and status date. The record should show the battery was prepared so that it can be used for a different purpose or application.
Preparation for repurposing is the repurposing-readiness control for battery evidence. It should separate inspection and preparation work from the later repurposed-battery outcome so teams can prove why a battery was routed to reuse, recycling, or disposal.