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The Global Battery Alliance (GBA) is a public-private platform bringing together leading international organizations, NGOs, industry actors, academics and governments to align collectively in a pre-competitve approach, to drive systemic change along the entire battery value chain.

Lobbying Activity

Response to Evaluation of the Public Procurement Directives

7 Mar 2025

Public procurement is a strong lever for creating demand for sustainably produced batteries to power the energy transition, consistent with the EU's Clean Industrial Deal. The Global Battery Alliance suggests the EU Public Procurement directives include strong, clear, measurable and transparent criteria for environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance into battery vehicle and storage procurement in the Union and in Member States. The GBA's Battery Passport offers a harmonised framework for measuring batteries' sustainability performance, which the EU Public Procurement criteria can draw upon as a tool. Please see our full feedback attached. https://www.globalbattery.org/
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Response to Carbon footprint methodology for electric vehicle batteries

28 May 2024

The Global Battery Alliance wishes to provide feedback on sections 2.2.3, 2.3.6, 2.4, 2.5 & 2.6 of the draft Delegated Act. The GBA requests that the EU facilitate harmonisation of requirements across its legislation and globally by applying the cut-off rule of the EU PEF Method (3%) to the methodology for EV batteries without changes. The GBA has worked out a commonly agreed proposal to change to the DQR Evaluation Matrix (Table 2) based on its members experiences and those of Catena-X, Together for Sustainability (TfS) and the WBCSD Partnership for Carbon Transparency (PACT). The GBA would like to propose these changes to the DQR Evaluation Matrix (Table 2) for the EUs consideration (see attached document). The draft Delegated Act aligns somewhat with the PMA Rule Set of the GBA GHG Rulebook, except that it does not take energy attributes contracted by means of a Power Purchase Agreement (Case B) into consideration, and does not appear to allow the use of sub-national grid mixes where appropriate (i.e., in the case of very large countries such as the USA, Canada, Russia and China, in which several electrical grids operate and data providers are internationally recognized). The GBA requests that the EU Delegated Act take Case B into consideration and mandate use of national or sub-national grid mixes in accordance with the text of its GHG Rulebook v2.0. The GBA considers that its HMA Rule Set result is an essential complementary indicator to ensure comparison an a consistent basis. Therefore, the Delegated Act should require dual, synchronous communication of results using the GBA GHG Rulebook physically modelled approach (rule set #2) within the CFB Declaration and results using the GBA GHG Rulebook harmonised market approach (rule set #1) as additional information within the format. Rather than use the price difference between at least two co-products for the derogation described in Section 2.5.1., the GBA proposes to use a ratio of the economic values in relation to the proposed threshold ratio of ten. The following hierarchy is proposed to determine the economic factor to use: 1. Global market price, 2. Regional market price, 3. Processing cost, 4. Other factors (e.g. Sales price) (see attached document). The GBA considers the CFF a barrier to generating accurate, and differentiating CFBs. The choice of EoL modelling approach significantly affects the CFB result (e.g., by 40%). Harmonisation of CFBs across borders is preferable. Producers, recyclers, and governments expect to share benefits of recycling along value-chains. Much work is required to ensure that recycling takes place in a sustainable way. This will require complementary (legislative) measures in different countries. To avoid obscuring those efforts from view, EU CFB Declarations must not use the CFF to present sustainable end-of-life recycling as a fait accompli.
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Meeting with Maroš Šefčovič (Executive Vice-President) and

15 Apr 2024 · Meeting WEF CEO Action Group for the European Green Deal