EU Battery Regulation 2023/1542: What It Requires

The EU Battery Regulation 2023/1542 requires every EV battery, industrial battery above 2 kWh, and light means of transport (LMT) battery placed on the EU market to carry a Digital Product Passport (DPP) from 18 February 2027.

What the regulation covers

The Battery Regulation replaces the old Batteries Directive (2006/66/EC) and introduces new obligations across the entire battery lifecycle — from raw material sourcing through manufacturing, use, and end-of-life recycling. The DPP is the regulation's primary enforcement mechanism: a digital record that travels with the battery and makes compliance data accessible to customs authorities, market surveillance bodies, and recyclers.

Article 77 of the regulation establishes the battery passport requirement. Article 78 creates the EU DPP Registry — a central database operated by the European Commission where every passport must be registered.

Who it affects: four economic operator roles

The regulation assigns obligations to four types of economic operator. Your obligations depend on which role you hold.

What data goes into the passport

The regulation's Annex XIII defines the mandatory data fields for battery passports. These fall into four groups:

1. Identity and origin — manufacturer name, manufacturing location, manufacturing date, battery model, GTIN, and passport number.
2. Performance — rated capacity, voltage, energy density, cycle life, and expected lifetime under reference conditions.
3. Sustainability — carbon footprint (kg CO₂e per kWh), recycled content percentages for cobalt, lithium, nickel, and lead, and supply chain due diligence declarations.
4. Supply chain — the economic operators involved, including raw material suppliers, cell manufacturers, and recyclers.

DPP Cloud structures the passport creation wizard around these four groups. Each field maps directly to an Annex XIII requirement.

Key dates

The regulation's obligations phase in over several years. The three dates that matter most right now:

• 18 August 2025 — Phase 1: carbon footprint declarations and supply chain due diligence required for LMT and industrial batteries above 2 kWh. This date has passed.
• 19 July 2026 — The EU DPP Registry goes live. DPP Cloud switches from mock submission mode to live registry submission automatically.
• 18 February 2027 — Phase 3: the battery passport mandate. Every in-scope battery placed on the EU market must have a registered DPP. No passport means the battery cannot clear EU customs.

What DPP Cloud does

DPP Cloud is a battery passport platform that handles the full compliance workflow: creating passports with Annex XIII data, generating GS1 Digital Link QR codes for battery labels, and submitting passports to the EU DPP Registry. It does not replace your obligation to gather the underlying data (carbon footprint assessments, recycled content calculations, supply chain records) — but it gives you the digital infrastructure to turn that data into a compliant, registered passport.