Hungary battery EPR fee 2026 (statutory decree, MOHU concession)
Hungary charges 2.4× more per kg for batteries and accumulators used for starting, lighting and ignition than for portable batteries and accumulators (2026). Basis: Batteries and accumulators used for starting, lighting and ignition · Portable batteries and accumulators
How fees are set
MOHU (state concession) — Statutory concession company for the Hungarian EPR system; battery fee categories and amounts set by Decree 33/2025. (XI. 28.) EM, Annex 4.
Hungary does not leave battery fees to a scheme tariff: they are set in the same ministerial decree, and in the same annex, as the packaging and textile fees already in this dataset. Annex 4 of Decree 33/2025. (XI. 28.) EM lists five battery fee codes — A11 portable, A21 light means of transport, A31 electric vehicle, A41 starting, lighting and ignition, and A51 industrial — which map one to one onto the five categories of Regulation (EU) 2023/1542. That makes Hungary the cleanest category split in this dataset, and also the coarsest: there is no chemistry or weight-band differentiation at all, one rate per category per kilogram. The concession company MOHU is the single operator. For every battery code the municipal element of the fee is empty, so what the producer pays equals the element due to the concession company.
Declaration basis: HUF per kg by statutory fee code, collective compliance; no euro normalisation applied. Official rates page: magyarkozlony.hu ↗
Rates
| Material / item | As published | Conditions | Effective | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portable batteries and accumulators Code POR-UNS-ANY | 160 HUF/kg | Category 1 portable batteries (Regulation (EU) 2023/1542, Art. 3). Hungarian fee code A11. Column E total = 160 HUF/kg due to the concession company, with no municipal component. Collective compliance. No weight band or chemistry split is published: Hungary prices the whole category at one rate per kilogram. | 2026-01-01 | magyarkozlony.hu ↗ 2026-08-26 official |
| Light means of transport batteries and accumulators Code LMT-UNS-ANY | 239 HUF/kg | Category 2 light means of transport (LMT) batteries (Regulation (EU) 2023/1542, Art. 3). Hungarian fee code A21. Column E total = 239 HUF/kg due to the concession company, with no municipal component. Collective compliance. No weight band or chemistry split is published: Hungary prices the whole category at one rate per kilogram. | 2026-01-01 | magyarkozlony.hu ↗ 2026-08-26 official |
| Electric vehicle batteries and accumulators Code EVB-UNS-ANY | 239 HUF/kg | Category 5 electric-vehicle batteries (Regulation (EU) 2023/1542, Art. 3). Hungarian fee code A31. Column E total = 239 HUF/kg due to the concession company, with no municipal component. Collective compliance. No weight band or chemistry split is published: Hungary prices the whole category at one rate per kilogram. | 2026-01-01 | magyarkozlony.hu ↗ 2026-08-26 official |
| Batteries and accumulators used for starting, lighting and ignition Code SLI-UNS-ANY | 390 HUF/kg | Category 3 starting, lighting and ignition (SLI) batteries (Regulation (EU) 2023/1542, Art. 3). Hungarian fee code A41. Column E total = 390 HUF/kg due to the concession company, with no municipal component. Collective compliance. No weight band or chemistry split is published: Hungary prices the whole category at one rate per kilogram. | 2026-01-01 | magyarkozlony.hu ↗ 2026-08-26 official |
| Industrial batteries and accumulators Code IND-UNS-ANY | 239 HUF/kg | Category 4 industrial batteries (Regulation (EU) 2023/1542, Art. 3). Hungarian fee code A51. Column E total = 239 HUF/kg due to the concession company, with no municipal component. Collective compliance. No weight band or chemistry split is published: Hungary prices the whole category at one rate per kilogram. | 2026-01-01 | magyarkozlony.hu ↗ 2026-08-26 official |
ᴮ bonus / discount · ᴹ malus / surcharge. The five Hungarian fee codes A11 to A51 map one-to-one onto the five battery categories of Regulation (EU) 2023/1542, which is unusual — most schemes in this channel use a category axis of their own.
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Provenance
Method version 1.9.0 · snapshots taken 2026-08-26
- https://magyarkozlony.hu/hivatalos-lapok/8MSuGKoXoYTCV5A0zNg16924b8d383432/dokumentumok/af15118cd9ecb895c998c2352f0d4e96bffd78f5/letoltes
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How to cite
EPR Rates (2026). Hungary Battery EPR Fee 2026 (MOHU, statutory decree) — HUF/kg. https://eprrates.com/battery/hungary/2026/ · Retrieved 2026-08-27. CC BY 4.0.
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title = {Hungary Battery EPR Fee 2026 (MOHU, statutory decree) — HUF/kg},
author = {{EPR Rates}},
year = {2026},
url = {https://eprrates.com/battery/hungary/2026/},
note = {Retrieved 2026-08-27. CC BY 4.0}
}
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