@shirendev14Building policy, not just products: a battery EPR draft law for Mongolia
Building policy, not just products 🇲🇳🔋
I just published version 2 of a draft law on batteries and waste batteries for Mongolia, now with a full English translation.
Mongolia imports thousands of used hybrid and electric vehicles, but has no system yet for what happens to their batteries. Our current Law on Waste even allows batteries to be landfilled. The draft sets up Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR): importers fund collection and recycling, batteries get a QR-linked digital record, and every EV battery is health-checked (SoH) before recycling, so usable ones get a second life.
v2 adds lessons from India's Battery Waste Management Rules: tracking black mass, bringing informal collectors into the system, and on-site inspections instead of paper-only reporting.
It's an independent proposal from my organisation, MCBI, not an official government draft. I'm preparing it for discussion with Mongolia's Ministry of Environment.
📄 Open access (Mongolian + English): zenodo.org/records/23647695
Two questions for this community:
- Has anyone built battery passport or traceability tools? I've built a small pilot registration portal and would love feedback.
- Anyone working with satellite imagery or computer vision for supply-chain monitoring? I'm exploring tracking Mongolia's mineral exports.
Happy to connect, especially with anyone in Prague or Czechia.
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If the Ministry adopts the QR-linked battery record, do you expect your portal to become the official registry, or compete in a tender?
Thanks Ryan, good question. Honestly, it's too early to say. Mongolia doesn't yet have a battery EPR law, so there's no legal basis for an official registry yet. We've presented an EPR framework to the Ministry and published an independent draft law proposal openly. MCBI is an initiative, so if the opportunity comes, we're ready to take it on, whether as the official registry or by competing in a tender. The portal is still a pilot on test data, but it's built to EU battery passport standards (EN 18219/18220) with open-source code. Our main goal is that Mongolia gets a registry that works and connects with Europe.
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If the Ministry adopts the QR-linked battery record, do you expect your portal to become the official registry, or compete in a tender?
Thanks Ryan, good question. Honestly, it's too early to say. Mongolia doesn't yet have a battery EPR law, so there's no legal basis for an official registry yet. We've presented an EPR framework to the Ministry and published an independent draft law proposal openly. MCBI is an initiative, so if the opportunity comes, we're ready to take it on, whether as the official registry or by competing in a tender. The portal is still a pilot on test data, but it's built to EU battery passport standards (EN 18219/18220) with open-source code. Our main goal is that Mongolia gets a registry that works and connects with Europe.