How must a battery maker show its extended producer responsibility registration number on batteries, packs and packaging in India?

Since the October 2023 amendment, batteries and packs must carry the producer's extended producer responsibility (EPR) registration number by 31 March 2025. A February 2025 amendment allows a barcode or Quick Response (QR) code instead, after written notice to the Central Pollution Control Board, and on one reading also the product brochure.

The marking rule

Schedule I, paragraph 2, clause (ia), as inserted in October 2023: producers shall, on or before 31 March 2025, ensure that all batteries or battery packs produced are appropriately marked with the EPR registration number issued under rule 4. The February 2025 amendment adds that this clause does not apply to packaging covered under rule 26 of the Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules, 2011.

The alternative in clause (ib), February 2025

A producer may fulfil clause (ia), if it gives the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) the information in writing, by doing the following.

• Print a barcode or QR code that contains the EPR registration number on one of: the battery or battery pack; equipment having a battery or pack; packaging of the battery or pack; packaging of the equipment; or bulk packaging of batteries or packs not for retail sale.
• Print the EPR registration number on the product information brochure.

What the text leaves open

The text lists the barcode or QR step and the brochure step as items A and B, with no word such as and or or between them. I read them as both being needed. Ask CPCB to confirm before you reprint packaging.

CPCB's list

CPCB shall publish a consolidated list of producers who have provided the information on the centralised online portal, and update their details every quarter.

A maker of inverter batteries, example

• Registers as a producer and receives a registration number on the CPCB portal
• Tells CPCB in writing that it will use the clause (ib) route
• Prints a QR code carrying the number on each carton and the number on the brochure in each pack

This is one way to follow the text as I read it. It is not a CPCB approval.

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Sources: MoEFCC, Battery Waste Management Rules, 2022 (Schedule I) with the amendments of 2023 and 2025

Last reviewed 2026-11-05. Read to the February 2025 amendment. CPCB can issue forms and guidance after that, so check the portal before you print.