What Battery Passport Check is — and what it isn't
Battery Passport Check screens your batteries against the EU Batteries Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2023/1542) and tells you which need a battery passport from 18 February 2027, whether you are the economic operator who owns that passport, and which obligations already apply to you today.
The deadline is fixed. Knowing whether it's yours is the hard part.
From 18 February 2027 every EV, LMT (e-bike/scooter) and industrial battery over 2 kWh placed on the EU market must carry a QR-linked battery passport. But "does this apply to me, and am I the one on the hook?" is not obvious from the regulation's text — the answer turns on the battery's category, your role in the chain, and whether you place it on the market or put it into service in your own equipment. Some obligations, like the carbon-footprint declaration, are already in force and quietly missed. This report resolves those questions for the specific batteries you sell, cited to the article of the regulation.
If you place a battery on the EU market, this is for you.
Battery manufacturers
Cell and pack manufacturers producing EV, LMT or industrial batteries who carry the passport obligation directly.
E-bike, LMT & e-mobility importers
Companies bringing e-bikes, scooters and light electric vehicles — or their batteries — into the EU, who typically become the responsible economic operator.
Industrial-battery makers & integrators
Makers of stationary storage and industrial packs over 2 kWh, and integrators who put a built-in battery into service inside their own machinery or equipment.
EV-pack assemblers
Assemblers and OEMs placing traction batteries on the market, for whom the carbon-footprint declaration has applied since February 2025.
Non-EU sellers, including UK & US
Brands outside the EU — a UK e-bike label, a US storage brand — placing batteries or battery-powered products on the EU market are economic operators under the regulation like any other.
A screening, not a legal opinion.
There is a second reason to treat the output as a plan rather than a final specification. The passport's exact data fields, its access rules, and the QR/identifier standard that resolves it are still being finalised — through a delegated act the Commission must adopt by 18 August 2026, and through standardisation work that is still converging. The deadline of 18 February 2027 is fixed in the regulation; the technical detail behind it is not yet fully settled. So the report tells you where you stand today and what to prepare, and states the date it was produced — which is exactly why it carries one. It is a position as at its date, not a frozen final answer.
A dated position report you can act on.
For each battery you list: whether it needs a passport from 2027, whether you are the responsible economic operator, and which already-in-force obligations (carbon footprint, labelling) apply now. Plus a passport data inventory — the fields you'll need to gather — and supplier data-request letters so you can start pulling the numbers from your cell supplier before the deadline arrives.