What the EU Battery Regulation requires
The EU Battery Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 replaced the 2006 Battery Directive with directly-applicable rules across every Member State. Its centrepiece for industry is the digital battery passport: from 18 February 2027, every LMT, industrial (>2 kWh), and EV battery placed on the EU market must carry a passport with a defined set of data, reachable from a QR code on the battery and resolvable through a unique identifier.
- Digital battery passport mandatory from 18 February 2027 for LMT, industrial (>2 kWh), and EV batteries.
- Carbon footprint declaration per battery model, with a calculated CO₂e/kWh figure and a defined methodology.
- Recycled-content shares for cobalt, lead, lithium, and nickel — declared, then rising to minimum thresholds on the staged timeline.
- Supply-chain due diligence: documented policies on the social and environmental risks of raw-material sourcing.
- State-of-health and durability data for the battery management system, accessible to authorised parties.
- Unique identifier + data carrier (QR) resolving to the passport, following the GS1 / EU data-model conventions.
The software
How TracePass fills the battery passport
Fill 91 fields from your datasheets
TracePass reads cell datasheets, safety data sheets, and test certificates and fills chemistry, capacity, voltage, weight, and safety data automatically — you review, you don't re-type.
Carbon-footprint defaults you can replace later
When you don't yet have a verified LCA, defaults from the Battery Pass Consortium / EU PEF fill the CO₂e/kWh field so the passport is complete — swap in your measured figure later without losing the passport.
Request supplier-only data automatically
Scope-1 emissions, exact cobalt provenance, due-diligence attestations — when only the cell maker holds a value, TracePass emails them from a token-linked portal and writes the answer back into the field.
Reference-database prefill for known cells
Known cell models (Panasonic NCR18650B, Samsung, LG, CATL) prefill dozens of fields in seconds from reference-database lookups — you start from a populated passport, not a blank form.
Batch passports for the production line
Batch-create up to 500 passports per run, with auto-generated serial numbers and per-unit QR codes ready for the line — importers can build the passport they're legally responsible for from a single OEM datasheet.
Every field carries source, confidence, and an audit trail
Auto-extracted values are suggestions with a source and a confidence score, queued for explicit human review before publishing — so your QA signs off on the passport, and the audit trail shows where every value came from.
Who it's for
Cell manufacturers, pack assemblers, EV / e-bike / industrial-battery brands, and importers compiling battery passports — including for cells they don't manufacture themselves.
Looking for the 91-field battery passport capability itself? See the battery DPP page.
EU Battery Regulation — frequently asked
- When does the EU battery passport become mandatory?
- From 18 February 2027, under Regulation (EU) 2023/1542, every LMT, industrial (>2 kWh), and EV battery placed on the EU market must carry a digital battery passport reachable via a QR code. The data model needs to be in place ahead of that date, not after it.
- How many fields does the battery passport require?
- TracePass structures 91 mandatory fields spanning identity, chemistry, carbon footprint, recycled content, supply-chain due diligence, performance, and end-of-life. Many populate automatically from datasheets and reference databases; the rest are requested from suppliers or entered once and reused across the batch.
- Is this different from the EU Battery Directive?
- Yes. Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 replaced the 2006 Battery Directive. As a regulation it applies directly in every Member State without national transposition — so the obligations, including the battery passport, land on the same dates across the EU. The older term "Batterierichtlinie" refers to the superseded directive.
- We import cells we don't manufacture. Can we still produce the passport?
- Yes — as the importer the passport obligation is yours, and TracePass is built for it: upload the OEM datasheet, the platform extracts what it can and requests the supplier-only values through a token-linked portal, so you can compile a compliant passport even when the manufacturer abroad hasn't produced one.
Be passport-ready before 18 February 2027
Start from your existing datasheets. TracePass fills the 91 fields, requests the rest from suppliers, and publishes a GS1-compliant passport per battery.
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