A producer or third party acting on the producer’s behalf that performs separate collection and treatment of waste batteries.
Waste management operator is the operational actor term for waste-battery movement, separate collection, and treatment. A battery can pass through several operators before evidence supports collection, treatment, recycling, or disposal claims.
EU Battery Regulation Article 3 defines waste management operator as a producer or third party acting on behalf of producers carrying out separate collection and treatment of waste batteries. The actor relationship to the producer is part of the definition.
Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 concerning batteries and waste batteries
any natural or legal person dealing on a professional basis with the separate collection or treatment of waste batteries;
Reference: Article 3, point 56
Reviewed public draft page. Aligns with EU battery classification and operations policy: separates regulated category assignment, producer-responsibility routing, waste-chain actor evidence, chemistry evidence, and collection/treatment obligations.
Implementation records should capture operator identifier, treatment permit, waste-battery batch, handover record, collection point, transport document, treatment facility, receipt timestamp, output fraction, destination, and audit or certification evidence.
Waste management operator is the waste-chain actor control for battery circularity evidence. Records should link each operator to the batch, permit, handover, treatment step, and output destination so a recycling or recovery claim is not based on a single shipment event.