Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/606 published establishing methodology to calculate/verify recycling efficiency and material recovery from waste batteries

The European Commission published Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/606 setting the methodology for calculating and verifying recyclers’ recycling efficiency (including for lead-acid, nickel-cadmium, lithium and other batteries) and for calculating/verifying material recovery (including cobalt, copper, lithium, nickel, and lead). The act also introduces a harmonised documentation format that recyclers must provide to Member State competent authorities. This is a binding implementing measure under Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 that affects how recyclers generate and substantiate performance data used for compliance with recycling-efficiency and material-recovery obligations and downstream reporting/data needs.