The CoR opinion suggests that the proposed legislation should exempt certain categories of battery from the sales ban due to a lack of alternatives on the market: lead in car batteries and accumulators; cadmium in batteries and accumulators for aeroplanes and trains; mercury in button cells for hearing aids; cadmium for industrial applications.

Concerning cadmium, portable batteries and accumulators, including those incorporated in appliances, with a cadmium content by weight of more than 0,002 % are prohibited (except for portable batteries and accumulators for use in emergency and alarm systems or medical equipment).

Button cells with a mercury content of no more than 2 % by weight are exempted from this prohibition until October 2015 (in the case of button cells for hearing aids, this exemption will, however, remain under review by the Commission).

the introduction of a requirement for the design of appliances to ensure that batteries and accumulators can readily be removed so as to facilitate their collection, treatment and recycling; harmonisation of the registration procedures for producers so as to reduce the administrative burden; clarification of the grounds on which producers of very small quantities of batteries may be exempted from contributing to the financing regime; inclusion of the net costs of public information campaigns among the costs to be assumed by producers; distributors must take back waste batteries and accumulators at no charge unless alternative existin ...[+++]g schemes are at least as effective in protecting the environment; the capacity of the batteries and accumulators must be indicated from 12 months after the transposition date.

It had an internal lithium battery that would recharge and hold the memory long enough for you to install a new battery.

On the next page there is a photograph of one of our demonstration units for our portable fuel cell.