The EU battery passport is one of the first large-scale Digital Product Passport obligations to become operational. This brief turns the regulation and current Commission guidance into a practical preparation map.
Each electric-vehicle battery, light-means-of-transport battery, and industrial battery above 2 kWh placed on the EU market or put into service must have an electronic battery passport.
ARTICLE 77 / PRIMARY SOURCE↗The 18 February 2027 passport requirement covers each EV battery, each LMT battery, and each industrial battery with capacity greater than 2 kWh placed on the market or put into service.
Use the Commission's current battery-passport data-point guidance to identify which fields are mandatory, conditional, optional, or not required for the relevant battery category.
Battery-passport information is not one public dataset. The regulation creates different access layers for the public, authorities, and actors with a legitimate interest.
The battery passport is linked through the Article 13 QR code to a unique identifier attributed by the economic operator placing the battery on the market.
Individual-battery records include changing information such as state of health, status, use history, cycles, incidents, operating conditions, and state of charge.
The economic operator placing the battery on the market or putting it into service must upload the unique identifier to the EU DPP Registry.
The Commission's current guidance consolidates 71 battery-passport data points and indicates whether each is mandatory, conditional, optional, or not required as of February 2027 for EV, LMT, and industrial batteries. Treat that guidance as an implementation aid and read it together with the Batteries Regulation and subsequent acts.
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