EU Battery Regulation 2023/1542
The EU's first mandatory product passport
What the Battery Regulation is
Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 replaced the old Batteries Directive and governs the full lifecycle of batteries on the EU market — from composition, origin and carbon footprint to collection, reuse and recycling. It also introduces the first MANDATORY digital product passport in the entire EU regime — the battery passport, mandatory from 18 February 2027.
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What does the Battery Regulation mean for your digital product passport?
Here the passport is the regulation's own requirement: from 18 February 2027 every EV battery, LMT battery and industrial battery above 2 kWh needs a registered passport to be sold in the EU. It holds a unique identifier, chemistry and composition, carbon footprint, recycled content, state of health and due-diligence data. Our battery solution walks through those fields.
DigitalProductPassport by WIARA has a ready battery template, so those fields are a form to fill in rather than a schema to design. Portable batteries in electronics sit outside the passport scope. Manufacturers in either group can open a demo passport or check what applies to their product.
Key requirements
EU Battery Regulation 2023/1542
Key dates
18 August 2025
Supply-chain due-diligence obligations take effect for larger economic operators.
18 February 2027
The battery passport becomes mandatory — the first hard deadline in the entire DPP regime. The EU's central registry has been live since 20 July 2026.
Phased to 2028
The carbon-footprint declaration requirements expand across battery categories.
From 2031
Minimum recycled-content levels apply to new batteries.
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Requirements for the replaceability of portable batteries, for separate collection, labelling and recycling targets.
Publish this passport with DigitalProductPassport by WIARA
The battery passport arrived first, and it set the pattern ESPR and CPR now follow: one product, one identifier, one page an authority can open.
DigitalProductPassport by WIARA is a cloud platform built by WIARA, a software company. You enter the product data once; the platform publishes a passport page with a permanent QR code and a GS1 Digital Link URL, in all 24 official EU languages, keeping public, professional and authority fields apart. ESPR and CPR templates come ready made.
The free plan covers 3 passports in total. What the platform does is set out on the product page, and the plans and their limits are on pricing.
Battery Regulation
Frequently asked questions
From 18 February 2027. This is the first hard deadline in the entire EU Digital Product Passport regime.
Electric-vehicle (EV) batteries, light-means-of-transport (LMT — e-bikes, scooters) batteries, and industrial batteries above 2 kWh.
A unique identifier, chemistry and composition, verified carbon footprint, recycled-content share, state of health, and supply-chain due-diligence data.
The battery passport is registered in the EU's central registry, which returns a unique registration identifier — a condition for placing the battery on the market.
Start collecting data on chemistry, composition and carbon footprint, build supply-chain due diligence, and test registration in the open test environment — 18 February 2027 is approaching.
Related solutions
How to prepare
DPP for Batteries
The first product group with a mandatory passport under the Battery Regulation — from 18 February 2027.
DPP for electronics
The most complex products among the first with a digital passport — composition, repairability, substances and critical raw materials.
DPP for Manufacturers
Manufacturers create and maintain DPP, prove compliance and sustainability, earn trust and improve their processes.
