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Battery Regulation 2023/1542 — article-by-article coverage

Five Battery Regulation articles map to the TracePass battery passport schema. Each article shows the requirement, the TracePass fields that satisfy it, and a status flag where an implementing act is still refining the detail.

Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning batteries and waste batteries

Status

  • Modeled

    First-class fields in the schema; no further implementing-act dependency.

  • Partial

    Modeled to draft, but an implementing act continues to refine methodology or thresholds.

  • Pending act

    Not modeled; awaiting the implementing act before we add fields.

Article 6

Carbon footprint

Partial

Requirement

Carbon footprint declaration for electric-vehicle, light-means-of-transport (LMT), and rechargeable industrial batteries above 2 kWh: total CF and per-lifecycle-stage breakdown, plus a study URL and a performance class.

TracePass fields

  • carbonFootprintTotal
  • cfRawMaterialAcquisition
  • cfMainProductProduction
  • cfDistribution
  • cfEndOfLifeRecycling
  • carbonFootprintPerformanceClass
  • carbonFootprintStudyUrl
  • carbonFootprintLabel

Notes

Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/1564 sets the calculation methodology and the performance-class boundaries; both can shift in subsequent amendments. The schema captures the data points already; values declared against an older methodology stay valid until the customer republishes.

EUR-Lex

Article 7

Recycled content

Modeled

Requirement

Declared recycled content for cobalt, lithium, nickel, and lead in industrial, EV, and SLI batteries — supported by documentation that the recycled fraction is verifiable.

TracePass fields

  • recycledContentCobalt
  • recycledContentLithium
  • recycledContentNickel
  • recycledContentLead
  • recycledContentDocumentation

Notes

Threshold percentages step up over time (notably from August 2031 and again from 2036 for EV batteries). The schema stores declared values; the verification of compliance against the active threshold is a customer responsibility, not a vendor one.

EUR-Lex

Article 11

Removability and replaceability

Modeled

Requirement

Portable batteries shall be readily removable and replaceable by end-users — with documentation on removal procedure, dismantling, available spare parts, and end-of-life safety.

TracePass fields

  • batteryRemovabilityReplaceability
  • removalInformation
  • dismantlingInformation
  • sparePartsInformation
  • safetyInformationEndOfLife
EUR-Lex

Article 14

State of health and lifetime

Partial

Requirement

For industrial batteries above 2 kWh and EV batteries: state-of-health, remaining capacity, fade values, charging history, and historical thermal conditions — accessible to authorised parties throughout the battery's life.

TracePass fields

  • stateOfHealth
  • stateOfCertifiedEnergy
  • remainingCapacity
  • remainingPowerCapability
  • remainingEnergy
  • currentInternalResistancePack
  • internalResistanceIncrease
  • capacityFade
  • powerFade
  • roundTripEfficiencyFade
  • evolutionOfSelfDischargeRate
  • numberOfFullEquivalentChargingCycles
  • numberOfChargingEvents
  • dateOfServiceEntry
  • negativeEvents
  • currentStateOfCharge
  • temperatureConditionsHistorical

Notes

Measurement methodology for state-of-health and the cycle-life test (Annex IV of the regulation, plus implementing acts) continues to evolve. Fields are present; reporting against newer methodology versions is a re-measurement at the customer level, not a schema migration.

EUR-Lex

Article 77

Battery Passport

Modeled

Requirement

Each LMT, industrial (>2 kWh), and EV battery placed on the EU market shall have a unique digital passport accessible via QR code, containing identifier, manufacturer details, manufacturing date and place, battery category, and lifecycle status.

TracePass fields

  • batteryUniqueIdentifier
  • batteryIdDmcCode
  • batteryPassportIdentifier
  • manufacturerName
  • manufacturerTradeName
  • manufacturerPostalAddress
  • manufacturerEmail
  • manufacturerWebAddress
  • manufacturingDate
  • manufacturingPlace
  • batteryCategory
  • batteryStatus

Notes

Article 77 mandate becomes binding 18 February 2027. The full Annex XIII data structure is reflected in the schema; the persistence + resolver pieces (QR code, GS1 Digital Link grammar, content-negotiated JSON-LD) are documented separately on the buyer's guide.

EUR-Lex

Where this fits: see the buyer's guide

/buyers-guide →

Last reviewed: 2026-05-07