Your legal presence in Europe — without building one.
Placing batteries on a European market makes you a producer there, with registration, reporting and financing obligations in every country you touch. If you have no legal entity in that market, in most regimes you cannot even register — unless you appoint an Authorised Representative. RAW TG acts as that appointed representative, market‑by‑market, and carries the obligation for you.
Selling into Europe makes you a producer — in every market, separately.
European producer responsibility is national, not European. Each member state (and the UK) runs its own register, its own compliance schemes, its own declaration calendar and its own fee structure. A battery producer selling into six markets holds six separate sets of obligations, in six languages, on six timetables.
For producers based outside Europe — including the many manufacturers we work with in China — the wall is higher still: most national regimes require a local legal entity or an appointed Authorised Representative before you can register at all. Selling through distributors doesn't remove the exposure; increasingly, marketplaces and customers ask for proof of registration before they will list or buy your product.
The cost of getting it wrong.
- Products delisted by marketplaces that now verify EPR registration.
- Sales blocked or fined by national enforcement bodies.
- Customers' own audits failing on an unregistered supplier.
- Back-payment of producer fees, with penalties, once caught.
Enforcement practice varies by market and changes over time — which is exactly why representation is monitored, not set-and-forget.
Appointed. Registered. Reported. Evidenced.
One appointment letter per market, and the obligation moves to us. These are the six functions we run continuously on your behalf.
1 · Producer registration
We register you (or ourselves as your representative, where the regime requires it) on each national producer register, and keep those registrations current as details change.
2 · Scheme membership
Where a market discharges obligations through a compliance scheme, we select, join and manage the scheme relationship — contracts, renewals and scheme audits included.
3 · Declarations & reporting
Quantities placed on market, by category and chemistry, declared on each market's calendar — monthly, quarterly or annually — from data we help you structure once, not six times.
4 · Fee management
Producer fees and eco-modulated charges calculated, checked and settled per market, with a single consolidated view back to you.
5 · Records & evidence
Every registration, declaration and payment is held as an auditable record on our digital platform — retrievable when a marketplace, customer or regulator asks.
6 · Regulatory watch
The EU Battery Regulation is phasing in year by year and national transpositions move at different speeds. We track the changes and adjust your obligations before they bite.
Market-by-market, built around your sales footprint.
Representation isn't sold as a bundle of flags. We map where you actually place batteries on the market — today and on your growth plan — and stand up representation in those markets, in the right order, at the right depth.
Physical operations in the UK, Italian capacity coming online, and representation arranged across EU markets give the coverage a spine: the same partner that registers you can also take the batteries back, recycle them and evidence the recovery.
- UK & EU markets covered against your actual footprint.
- One contract, one contact, one consolidated report.
- Structured for producers without any EU legal entity.
What do you owe Europe? Find out now.
Tick where you sell and what you place on the market. We'll show you the obligations you're likely carrying — and which of them RAW TG takes off your plate.
1Where do you sell?
2What do you place on the market?
3Do you have a legal entity in each of those markets?
Your likely obligation map
RAW TG carries all of the above as one partner — the AR appointments, the registrations and declarations, the fees, and the physical recycling and digital evidence behind them.
Indicative only, generated from your selections — regimes differ by market, category and volume, and this does not constitute legal advice. The first step of an engagement is a confirmed, written obligation map.
The regimes we run, at a glance.
Every market keeps its own register, calendar and fee logic. Open a market to see the typical shape of the obligation — the exact scope is confirmed in your written obligation map.
🇬🇧United Kingdom
Producer registration and, above the volume threshold, compliance-scheme membership financing collection and recycling. Reform toward a digital-first regime is underway.
🇩🇪Germany
Registration under the national battery law before placing on the market; scheme participation and regular declarations.
🇫🇷France
Producer registration with a unique identifier, eco-organisme membership and eco-modulated fees.
🇮🇹Italy
National producers' register entry; declarations and financing via the collective systems.
🇪🇸Spain
Producer register entry and reporting under the national batteries royal decree.
🇳🇱Netherlands
National producer register, scheme membership where applicable, periodic declarations and fees — confirmed per category during obligation mapping.
🇵🇱Poland
National producer register, scheme membership where applicable, periodic declarations and fees — confirmed per category during obligation mapping.
🇸🇪Sweden
National producer register, scheme membership where applicable, periodic declarations and fees — confirmed per category during obligation mapping.
🇧🇪Belgium
National producer register, scheme membership where applicable, periodic declarations and fees — confirmed per category during obligation mapping.
🇦🇹Austria
National producer register, scheme membership where applicable, periodic declarations and fees — confirmed per category during obligation mapping.
🇮🇪Ireland
National producer register, scheme membership where applicable, periodic declarations and fees — confirmed per category during obligation mapping.
🇵🇹Portugal
National producer register, scheme membership where applicable, periodic declarations and fees — confirmed per category during obligation mapping.
🇨🇿Czechia
National producer register, scheme membership where applicable, periodic declarations and fees — confirmed per category during obligation mapping.
🇷🇴Romania
National producer register, scheme membership where applicable, periodic declarations and fees — confirmed per category during obligation mapping.
🇭🇺Hungary
National producer register, scheme membership where applicable, periodic declarations and fees — confirmed per category during obligation mapping.
🇩🇰Denmark
National producer register, scheme membership where applicable, periodic declarations and fees — confirmed per category during obligation mapping.
🇫🇮Finland
National producer register, scheme membership where applicable, periodic declarations and fees — confirmed per category during obligation mapping.
🇬🇷Greece
National producer register, scheme membership where applicable, periodic declarations and fees — confirmed per category during obligation mapping.
🇸🇰Slovakia
National producer register, scheme membership where applicable, periodic declarations and fees — confirmed per category during obligation mapping.
🇪🇺Other EU / EEA
National producer register, scheme membership where applicable, periodic declarations and fees — confirmed per category during obligation mapping.
Four steps to compliant, in every market that matters.
Indicative timings — registration lead times vary by market and are confirmed in your written obligation map.
Week 1 · Map the footprint
We review what you sell, where, through which channels — and produce a market-by-market obligation map with priorities.
Weeks 2–4 · Appoint & register
Appointment letters per market, then registration on each national register and membership of the right compliance schemes.
In parallel · Structure the data
One reporting format from your side; we transform it to each market's categories, chemistries and calendars.
Ongoing · Report & evidence
Declarations filed, fees settled, records held on our platform — and a consolidated compliance statement back to you.
Built for producers selling in, not headquartered in.
Overseas manufacturers
Battery and cell makers — including our many China-based clients — selling into Europe without a local entity. We become your European legal presence for producer obligations.
OEMs & equipment brands
Producers placing batteries on the market inside appliances, tools, light mobility and equipment — often unaware each unit carries battery producer obligations too.
E-commerce & marketplace sellers
Direct-to-consumer sellers facing marketplace EPR verification. Registration numbers per market, supplied and kept valid, so listings stay live.
Three producers, three obligation maps.
Illustrative composites of the situations we're built for — not client case studies, and no counterparties described.
The cell maker with no EU entity
A China-based manufacturer sells packs into five EU markets through distributors. Marketplace audits start asking for registration numbers it doesn't have.
The map: AR appointments in five markets, registrations and scheme memberships stood up in priority order, one data flow, listings kept live.
The OEM that didn't know it was a battery producer
An equipment brand ships appliances with batteries inside. It has WEEE cover — but each unit also places a battery on the market, and packaging ships with everything.
The map: battery obligations scoped alongside WEEE and packaging, one appointment covering what actually ships, declarations aligned to one calendar.
The EV producer facing Feb 2027
An EV battery producer needs passports from February 2027 — and its passport vendor can't evidence end of life, which is where the hardest data lives.
The map: passport build aligned to the EU direction, recovery evidence generated at our own operations, EPR declarations fed from the same record.
Authorised Representative, answered.
Do I need an AR if I sell through a European distributor?
It depends on the market and on who legally "places the battery on the market". In many arrangements the obligation still reaches back to you — and customers increasingly ask for proof regardless. The first step of our engagement is an obligation map that answers this per market, in writing.
Can one AR cover the whole EU?
No single registration covers the EU — representation and registration are national. What one partner can do is run all of the national appointments coherently: one contract and one data flow from your side, discharged market-by-market on ours.
What information do you need from us?
Company details, what you sell (battery categories and chemistries), quantities placed per market, and your sales channels. We structure it once into a reporting format that serves every market you're in.
Does this cover packaging and WEEE as well as batteries?
Batteries rarely travel alone — the same shipment usually triggers packaging EPR, and equipment triggers WEEE. We scope those alongside battery obligations so one appointment covers what actually ships.
What happens at end of life?
This is where RAW TG differs from paper-only representatives: we operate recycling in the UK with Italian capacity coming online, and every movement is documented on our digital platform. The same partner that registers you can take the batteries back and evidence the recovery.
What does an Authorised Representative cost?
A fixed annual representation fee per market, plus each market's producer fees and scheme charges passed through at cost, itemised on one consolidated invoice. Send your footprint and you'll receive a written, itemised quote — see how our pricing works.
Can you take over from our current compliance provider mid-year?
Usually, yes. Registrations are transferred or re-filed, scheme memberships reviewed market-by-market, and reporting history reconciled so nothing falls between providers. The obligation map states exactly what transfers and when.
What does non-compliance actually cost?
Regimes differ, but the pattern repeats: blocked listings, back-dated producer fees, penalties, and customers' audits failing on an unregistered supplier. Registration is almost always cheaper than remediation — and dramatically cheaper than a delisting.
Six markets. One appointment. Zero surprises.
Send us your product list and sales footprint — we'll return a market-by-market obligation map.
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