You must be an approved or appropriate person to apply for approval and submit data returns. See the guidanceon what constitutes an approved or appropriate person. Use the delegation of approved/appropriate pe. To apply for approval you must have: 1. at least one UK site for treating and recycling waste batteries 2. To apply for approval you must have some form of UK presence; an office, a site or UK employees. Once approved you must comply with the conditions of the approval. The cost depends on the tonnage of waste batteries you deal with each year. A small waste battery treatment operator or waste battery exporter is one that has, in the year the charge is pay. Make sure you know the difference between a battery collector and an ABTO or ABE. A person or business that collects batteries and doesn't sort or treat them need not be an A. You must record all the waste batteries you accept. Your records have two purposes; they provide: 1. proof that battery compliance schemes (BCS) have met their members' (batter.
