Building 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:

1. Has anyone built battery passport or traceability tools? I've built a small pilot registration portal and would love feedback.
2. 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.