Industrial and automotive producers

You must register online using the National Packaging Waste Database (NPWD) within four weeks of first placing any batteries on the UK market. Your registration will be with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS).

How to use NPWD

What information do I need to give?

You need to provide information to BIS through NPWD showing the total amount in tonnes of industrial and/or automotive batteries you have placed on the market in the year (also called the relevant compliance period). You must divide this information into nickel cadmium, lead acid and other batteries.

Batteries placed on UK market to be used overseas

You will also be asked to give an estimate of the amount in tonnes of industrial and/or automotive batteries you placed on the UK market, but which will not be used in the UK and, therefore, will be unlikely to end up as waste here. Providing this estimate is optional.

Waste batteries

You must also report the total amount in tonnes of waste industrial and/or automotive batteries you have taken back or collected, and which you have delivered to an approved battery treatment operator (ABTO) or an approved battery exporter (ABE). You must divide this data by the type of battery and whether they are nickel cadmium, lead acid or other batteries.

What are the reporting deadlines?

For the first reporting period, you must report the batteries you placed on the market between 5 May 2009 and 31 December 2009. You must submit this information, signed by the appropriate person, through the National Packaging Waste Database on or before 31 March 2010.

Compliance periods after this cover a complete calendar year (1 January to 31 December). You must report the data from the previous calendar year on or before 31 March of the following year. For example, on or before 31 March 2011 you must report the amount of industrial and/or automotive batteries you placed on the UK market for the first time from 1 January 2010 to 31 December 2010.

If you only became a producer mid-way through a year or stopped being a producer mid-way through a year, you will only need to report for the period when you were a producer.

How much will it cost?