The method set out in Annex I shall be used to calculate the recycling efficiency of a process for recycling waste lead-acid, nickel-cadmium and other batteries and accumulators.

The method set out in Annex II shall be used to calculate the rate of recycled lead content for any recycling process.

The method set out in Annex III shall be used to calculate the rate of recycled cadmium content for any recycling process.

Recyclers shall report the information shown in Annex IV, Annex V and Annex VI, as applicable, on an annual basis and shall send it to the F1competent authority by no later than four months from the end of a calendar year concerned. Recyclers shall send their first annual reports no later than the 30 April 2015.

Reporting on the recycling efficiency shall cover all individual steps of recycling and all corresponding output fractions.

Where a recycling process is carried out at more than one facility, the first recycler is responsible for submitting the information required under point 4 to the F2competent authority.