How to overprice batteries

There is a big fuss over a new amendment regarding waste. After SNS MP's created an uproar with proposals concerning packages, critics of electrowaste law clauses are also starting to talk. According to them, there is a threat that the MP's will overprice certain products along with batteries. One of the main reasons behind the waste legislation amendations is an obligation to incorporate directives regarding batteries and accumulators into Slovak rule of law. While so far the law has been accommodating mostly automobile and industrial batteries and accumulators, the amendment refers to all kinds. For these products, money should be put into the Recycling Fund, unlike electrowaste, where producers and importers pay the fund only if they don't meet the requirements for collecting and processing which are normally arranged via collective organizations. The Slovak IT Association estimates that due to new rules the price of certain batteries and accumulators might increase by 15 to 160%. (author)