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Principal (importer): …, company/identifier …, registered office ….
First agent (manufacturer): …, company/identifier …, registered office ….
Second agent (service provider): ANB Consult Ltd, VAT BG208982488, Bratiya Miladinovi 12, 4230 Asenovgrad, Bulgaria.
The principal imports batteries made by the first agent and places them on the Union market. As the economic operator placing those batteries on the market, the principal hereby authorises:
- the first agent to create, complete and update in the Battery Compliance platform the digital passports of the batteries that the first agent assigns to the principal and that the principal confirms there, based on the first agent's data as the manufacturer, and to decide on the principal's behalf requests for access to their non-public data under the Regulation;
- the second agent to store, publish, update and back up those passports on behalf of the principal under Articles 77 and 78; to keep their permanent addresses resolving or, after a switch, redirecting to the provider named by the principal; to give access to their non-public data to persons with a legitimate interest, the Commission, market surveillance authorities and notified bodies under the Regulation; to register them on behalf of the principal in the registry under Article 13 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 where EU law and the registry allow it, for the registrations the principal starts in the platform; and, if the second agent stops the Service, to hand them over to the principal, to a provider named by it or to a depositary established in the European Union, as set out in the terms of use.
The passports of the batteries confirmed by the principal name the principal as the economic operator responsible for them. By confirming a batch, the principal adopts as its own the identifiers, QR codes and labels that the first agent prepared for those batteries and ratifies the first agent's acts on their passports before the confirmation. The principal remains solely responsible towards the second agent and third parties for the conformity of those passports with the Regulation; the first agent remains responsible towards the principal for the accuracy of the data it provides as the manufacturer. The second agent is not responsible for that data.
The principal may add in the platform the information that depends on it (commercial warranty, service, sources of spare parts, separate collection and take-back); the first agent cannot change it.
This authorisation covers the batteries the principal confirms while it is in force. It is for an indefinite period and may be withdrawn in writing or by ending the link in the platform. After the link ends, no new batch can be confirmed; the first agent may still update the passports of batches already confirmed until the principal withdraws that power by notice to the second agent. Withdrawal does not affect the passports already confirmed or the continuity obligations in section 5 of the terms of use.
The principal gives this authorisation only in the Battery Compliance platform, when its account owner accepts the link with the first agent or invites the first agent there; the platform records who gave it, when, from which address and which version of this text. The account owner who gives it declares that it is entitled to bind the principal. An importer that is not on the platform yet registers first. No version of this authorisation is signed on paper.
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