European cylindrical lithium battery selection standard

The General Product Safety Regulation covers safety aspects of a product, including lithium batteries, which are not covered by other regulations. Although there are harmonised standards under the regulation, we could not find any that specifically relate to batteries.

The European standardisation organisations CEN and CENELEC are currently drafting EN standards addressing performance, durability, safety, and sustainability for batteries, mandated by Standardisation request M/579 from 2021 (the 2021 version was based on a draft Regulation – an amendment is under preparation).

JRC. C.4 : Elena Paffumi This report gives the JRC authors' technical viewpoint on sustainability criteria which could be used in the preparation of the EU Battery Regulation, expected to be adopted in 2021. It is based on the work performed by JRC in support to DG GROW and DG ENV during the preparation of the mentioned Regulation.

The scope covers lithium-ion batteries used for e-mobility and stationary energy storage applications. Batteries for other applications, such as consumer devices, are covered by the EU Regulation and may be regulated as well using some of the same criteria, but are outside the scope of this document.

Batteries for other applications, such as consumer devices, are covered by the EU Regulation and may be regulated as well using some of the same criteria, but are outside the scope of this document. The sustainability criteria examined fall in the following categories: Electrochemical performance and durability (from cell to vehicle level).

In the EU, waste and recycling of batteries and accumulators is regulated by Regulation 2006/66 (and the related Regulation 493/2012 defining how to calculate the recycling efficiency of the recycling processes ). As said in the Introduction, this regulatory framework is now under revision. It is expected that specific