- EBA, Recharge, and Japan’s BASC sign MoU to boost battery value chain.
- Cooperation spans recycling, data-sharing, talent development, and industry events.
- Partnership strengthens EU-Japan supply chain resilience and green transition goals.
The European Battery Alliance (EBA) has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Recharge, Europe's organization for advanced rechargeable and lithium batteries, along with Japan’s Battery Association for Supply Chain (BASC), focused on enhancing collaboration throughout the battery value chain.
The accord seeks to bolster connections between the developing battery industries of Europe and Japan to improve competitiveness in each area. It sets up a structure for teamwork on recycling and circularity, information exchange, skill enhancement, and inter-industry collaboration. The partners intend to speed up innovation, lessen strategic dependencies, and enhance their industries' global standing.
“From closer collaboration on skills training to new joint work on black mass recycling, this industry-led MoU opens new growth opportunities for both European and Japanese companies, along our respective battery value chains” said Stéphane Séjourné, Executive Vice-President of the European Commission for Prosperity and Industrial Strategy. “It thus helps to reduce our respective strategic dependencies and deepens our EU-Japan cooperation towards a cleaner and more circular world.”
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This partnership stems from the shared pledge made by EU and Japanese leaders in Tokyo to bolster supply chain resilience, diversify critical minerals value chains, and safeguard developing technologies. It additionally backs the EU-Japan Green Alliance, confirmed at the Tokyo Summit in July 2025, which highlights the joint dedication to a worldwide, clean transition and to enhancing climate ambition in this crucial decade.
Strategic areas of cooperation include recycling, with a focus on accelerating the market growth of black mass. In data-sharing, both sides aim to establish systems for battery information exchange to support a circular economy. Human resource collaboration will involve sharing information on educational initiatives and fostering the development of highly skilled talent for the battery industry in both countries.
Additionally, cooperation on industry-wide developments will include contributions to jointly organised exhibitions, academic conferences, and workshops led by Japanese and European industry associations and alliances.