What are my Responsibilities as a Distance Seller?

Each producer or distributor who supplies Batteries and accumulators by means of distance communication (i.e. over the internet, telesales, mail order etc.) has to;

• register with the National Registration Body, as per the requirements of Article 17,
• notify the Registration Body that he/she supplies Batteries via distance communication,
• and provide information when requested to do so by the Registration Body or the relevant enforcement agency, demonstrating he/she has complied with his/her obligations in accordance with the provisions of Article 23 of the Directive to provide financing for the environmentally sound management of waste batteries deposited by customers of the distance seller concerned at collection points in any of the Member States of the EU where the end-users of the waste batteries reside, provided that such end-users did not place on the market for the first time within the territory of any Member state concerned on a professional basis the batteries involved.