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Directive (EU) 2015/1535
Notification: 2025/0455/BE
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MSG: 20252236.EN
1. MSG 001 IND 2025 0455 BE EN 21-08-2025 BE NOTIF
2. Belgium
3A. SPF Economie, PME, Classes moyennes et Energie
Direction générale Qualité et Sécurité - Service Bureau de Liaison - BELNotif
NG III – 2ème étage
Boulevard du Roi Albert II, 16
B - 1000 Bruxelles
Tel: 02/277.53.36
be.belnotif@economie.fgov.be
3B. Bruxelles Environnement
Département Ressources et Déchets
4. 2025/0455/BE - S20E - Waste
5. Draft decree by the Government of the Brussels-Capital Region amending their previous decree of 1 December 2016 on waste management and related provisions
6. Extended responsibility of battery producers
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8. In response to the proposal by Minister Alain Maron, the decree of 1 December 2016 on waste management (henceforth referred to as ‘Brudalex’) was amended to comply with European Regulation 2023/1542 of 12 July 2023 on batteries and battery waste. This regulation replaces and repeals Directive 2006/66/EC of 6 September 2006 on batteries, accumulators and their related waste, which had been transposed into Brudalex. It establishes a new implementation framework for extended battery producer responsibility in Europe. Among the new obligations incumbent on these producers is the need to apply to the competent authorities for registration and authorisation to continue to market batteries in Member States and to properly manage their extended producer obligations and responsibilities. The regulation leaves some flexibility to Member States in terms of the organisational arrangement of the competent authority, administrative rules and procedures for registration and authorisation, supervising the fulfilment of producer obligations, data collection on batteries and battery waste, and information provision. Therefore, all these aspects are regulated in the current draft decree based on environmental conventions or the already in force requirements under Brudalex. These areas are vital since they determine the framework within which producers, or the relevant organisations involved in extended producer responsibility, may carry out their obligations within the Brussels-Capital Region territory.
9. In 2023, a new European regulation repealed and replaced Directive 2006/66/EC of 6 September 2006 on batteries, accumulators, and their related waste. This was Regulation 2023/1542 of 12 July 2023 on batteries and battery waste, henceforth referred to as the “Batteries Regulation”. This shift from a directive to a regulation has a significant impact on regulatory action in Brussels since there is no need to transpose European regulations. The latter immediately and uniformly apply in all Member States. This means that the transposition of Directive 2006/66/EC, carried out previously in the decree of 1 December 2016 on waste management (again, Brudalex), must be replaced by one that complies with the current regulation. On one hand, the transposing of a European regulation into national legislation is prevented since the former is immediately applicable in Belgium. This also implies that it is essential to reform Brudalex to avoid any contradiction or repetition vis-à-vis the European regulation. On the other hand, while European regulations are directly applicable, they do not always guide all aspects of their actual implementation. Member States are sometimes left to determine certain technical facets within their national regulations. For this reason, the current draft decree regulates certain technical points relating to the management of battery waste by producers.
10. References to the basic texts:
11. No
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13. No
14. No
15. No
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TBT aspects: No
SPS aspects: No
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European Commission
Contact point Directive (EU) 2015/1535
email: grow-dir2015-1535-central@ec.europa.eu
