Understanding Your Account Type and Role

Your account type determines which economic operator role appears on your passports' public viewers and what obligations you have under EU Battery Regulation 2023/1542.

You set your account type when you first create your DPP Cloud account. To see or change it, go to Settings → Organisation.

The four account types

Manufacturer — You design, produce, or brand the battery and place it on the EU market under your own name. You create and maintain Digital Product Passports.

Importer — You bring batteries from outside the EU and place them on the EU market. The public DPP viewer identifies your organisation as the responsible EU party. You create passports on behalf of the manufacturer.

Authorised Representative — A non-EU manufacturer has formally appointed you to act as their EU regulatory representative. You create passports on behalf of multiple manufacturer clients. DPP Cloud's AR account type lets you manage passports for multiple manufacturers under a single account.

Distributor — You make batteries available on the EU market but did not manufacture or import them. You verify compliance rather than create passports. Your DPP Cloud account is used for scanning and verification.