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Registering as a producer

Does your company import or manufacture batteries or devices containing them to the Finnish market? If your answer is yes, register as a producer below and make sure that your products are recycled as required by the law.

A producer of batteries can easily take care of registration and other producer responsibility obligations through Recser Oy, which was established by battery producers. Recser Oy is a non-profit producer organisation in the form of a limited liability company to which producers can transfer their producer responsibility with an agreement. There are currently more than 1200 producers that have signed the agreement, see them all here. 

We cherish reliability and equality in all of our activities, so all agreements made with producers have the same contents.

Registration of foreign companies, such as distance sellers and online marketplace platforms, requires an authorized representative established in Finland. You can appoint Recser Oy as your authorized representative directly on the registration form:

• under “Select an authorized representative for the contract”, choose “Other”
• enter Recser Oy in the field

You can obtain further information on the pricing of the service by requesting it by email at info(a)recser.fi.

Once the agreement has been registered, we will submit a notification to the authorities and take care of arranging the waste management and recycling on behalf of the producer. The producer only has to tell its customers that it has taken care of its producer obligations in a responsible manner and provide Recser Oy with information regarding the amounts of products placed on the market in accordance with an agreed upon schedule.

Please note that the producer responsibilities concerning electric and electronic devices are completely separate, and that being a member of WEEE-producer organisation does not relieve companies of their battery producer responsibility. Registering as a battery producer must be carried out separately with the producer organisation for batteries, and other producer responsibilities must be carried out through their respective producer organisations. The producer responsibility also pertains to cars, tyres, paper and packages. You can read more about other producer responsibilities here: lvv.fi/en.