A non-profit, commercial, or other economic undertaking or public body voluntarily collecting waste portable batteries or LMT batteries.
The term helps identify where waste portable and LMT batteries enter a collection network. It matters because collection points need records that connect received batteries to later transfer, treatment, and producer-responsibility evidence.
EU Battery Regulation Article 3 covers non-profit, commercial, other economic undertakings, and public bodies that are involved voluntarily in separate collection of waste portable batteries or waste LMT batteries. The voluntary collection role is narrower than the full treatment chain.
Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 concerning batteries and waste batteries
any non-profit, commercial or other economic undertaking or public body involved on its own initiative in the separate collection of waste portable batteries and waste LMT batteries, generated by it or by other end-users, before handing those waste batteries over to producers, to producer responsibility organisations or to waste management operators for subsequent treatment;
Reference: Article 3, point 55
Public draft page. Preserve EU Battery Regulation category, actor, and EPR-operation boundaries.
Implementation records should capture collection-point identity, location, actor type, accepted battery categories, collection records, handover events, receiving operator, dates, and any evidence needed to connect the point to downstream treatment.
Voluntary collection point is an entry point in the waste-battery evidence chain. It helps separate “battery received here” from later claims about treatment, recycling, or recovery.