Obligation Check matches your project inputs (country, role, capacity, commissioning date) against a maintained national rule set and returns a structured list of compliance and end-of-life obligations, each with a deadline or trigger, a primary source, and a retrieval date.
What it does not do
It does not read market data or rank any vendor.
It does not give legal advice.
It does not estimate facts it cannot verify — those are marked Not yet certain.
business.gov.nl / Rijkswaterstaat (official government portal)
Germany
Umweltbundesamt (official federal agency)
ADR transport
UNECE — ADR 2025 official text
Vendor pages are not used as sources. Where a fact is genuinely still open (for example, the exact form of the Belgian financial guarantee above 16 MWh, or when the Dutch industrial-battery collective system becomes operational), it is recorded under Not yet certain rather than asserted.
Uncertainty handling
Three of the four “Not yet certain” items are structural, not data gaps:
1. The amount and form of the Belgian financial guarantee above 16 MWh is not specified in the cited source.
2. Belgium’s supplementary regional rules are still being finalised (expected autumn 2026).
3. The Dutch UPV Industrial Batteries Foundation has no operational date yet, and what an individual plan must contain is not specified.
4. The specific terms for German industrial storage batteries under the OfH scheme are not detailed in the cited sources.
Pending legislation we disclose
A Commission proposal COM(2025) 982 would suspend the authorised-representative obligation (Article 56(3) of Regulation (EU) 2023/1542) until 1 January 2035. It is pending and not adopted as of 27 September 2026. The suspension targets EU-established producers selling cross-border; the obligation for third-country producers remains in force.
Coverage
Covered today: Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany.
Planned: France, Poland, Romania (then the remaining European markets).
Versioning
The rule set is versioned. When a rule changes, the version number increments and the retrieval dates on affected entries are refreshed. The version shown on the tool page must match the version here.
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*This methodology is part of BessCare’s “methodology is public” commitment. It does not constitute legal advice.*
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