Every electric vehicle, industrial and light means of transport battery placed on the EU market must carry a battery passport from that date. There is no transitional period. Certus DPP prepares your product data, publishes the passport and keeps it current.
Everything else under the Ecodesign Regulation is still waiting on a delegated act. Batteries are not: the date is fixed in the Battery Regulation itself, and it is checked where goods enter the market.
Battery identity, cell chemistry and material composition, critical raw materials, capacity, performance and durability, state of health and end-of-life handling — as a structured, machine-readable record.
A QR code on the cell, module or pack resolves to the passport. Market surveillance authorities, recyclers and customs read the same record the buyer does.
A battery whose QR code does not resolve to a valid passport cannot lawfully be placed on the EU market from 18 February 2027, and can be stopped at customs clearance.
This is where most supply chains get caught out. The manufacturer holds the data, but the party that owes the passport is often someone else entirely.
Cell chemistry, capacity, sourcing and footprint all originate with you. You may not be the party legally on the hook, but your EU customers cannot comply without what you supply — and they will start asking well before 2027.
If you are the one placing the battery on the EU market, the passport is your responsibility, including for products you did not manufacture. You must obtain the data from your supplier and be able to show it.
You are expected to verify that a passport exists and resolves before making the product available. Selling a battery without one exposes you, not only the party upstream.
You tell us what you sell and who places it on the market. We work out what applies, gather the data, publish the passport and keep it current.
Which of your batteries are in scope, which entity in your chain carries the obligation, and what your real deadline is per product line.
We request the required fields from your cell supplier or manufacturer and chase what is missing — usually composition detail and critical raw material data.
The passport goes live on an established platform, the QR carrier resolves to it, and the product is registered where the regulation requires.
Data changes as models change. We keep the record accurate and flag the categories that come into scope after batteries.
The battery passport comes from the Battery Regulation and its date is already law. Every other category waits on an Ecodesign delegated act, and those dates have moved before.
EV batteries, industrial batteries above 2 kWh and LMT batteries, such as those in e-bikes and scooters, must carry a passport. No transitional period for products placed on the market from that date.
First product-specific delegated act under the Ecodesign Regulation, with compliance following 18 to 24 months after adoption.
Delegated act anticipated in 2027 covering fibre composition, recycled content and durability, with compliance most likely in late 2028 or 2029.
Further categories phase in through the Ecodesign working plan, which is reviewed in 2028.
We don't build the passport platform. We do the part that takes the time: working out what applies to you, getting the data out of your supply chain, and keeping the record right.
Establish which of your products are in scope and who owes the passport, collect and structure the required data, publish it through an established platform, and keep it accurate afterwards.
We are not a certification or conformity assessment body, and we do not take on your obligations as an economic operator. The product and its compliance remain yours.
The platforms already work. What breaks a battery passport project is the data — getting composition and sourcing detail out of a cell supplier who has never been asked for it, in time. That is the work.
LMT stands for light means of transport: wheeled vehicles powered by an electric motor and weighing under 25 kg. In practice this means e-bikes, e-scooters, electric mopeds and similar. Their batteries are in scope from 18 February 2027 with no minimum capacity threshold, unlike industrial batteries where the threshold is 2 kWh.
If it is placed on the EU market on or after 18 February 2027, yes. The date comes from the Battery Regulation rather than the Ecodesign Regulation, which is why it is already fixed while other product categories are still waiting on delegated acts.
Legally, the obligation sits with whoever places the battery on the EU market — usually your importer or your EU entity. Practically it is your problem too, because they cannot produce the passport without data only you hold. Most of the work is getting that data assembled.
Manufacturer and battery identity, chemistry and material composition, hazardous substances, critical raw materials, capacity and performance, durability, state of health, safety and end-of-life handling. Not everything lands at once: carbon footprint declarations and responsible sourcing information are held back at the February 2027 date because their passport format depends on an implementing act that has not been adopted yet. Anyone telling you a full carbon footprint is due in February 2027 is ahead of the legislation.
The passport must resolve from the QR code on the cell, module or pack. A battery whose code does not resolve to a valid passport cannot lawfully be placed on the market, and can be stopped at clearance. There is no grace period for products placed on the market from the deadline onwards.
Later, and the dates are not final. Those categories fall under the Ecodesign Regulation and each needs its own delegated act, followed by 18 to 24 months before compliance bites. Current expectations put textiles around 2028 to 2029. Preparation is worthwhile; panic is not.
Tell us what you sell and who places it on the EU market. We'll tell you which of your products are in scope, who carries the obligation, and what has to happen before February 2027.