Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 · Annex XIII · SECTOR · BAT

Battery Passport, mandatory 18 Feb 2027.

Every EV, industrial, and light-means-of-transport battery ≥ 2 kWh placed on the EU market from 18 February 2027 must carry a machine-readable Digital Product Passport. QRRegistry issues the GS1 Digital Link QR, stores the Annex XIII fields, and serves the passport for the full regulated life of the battery.

Regulation

EU 2023/1542

Annex

XIII (data requirements)

Mandatory from

18 February 2027

Applies to

EV, industrial, LMT ≥ 2 kWh

What the passport must include.

Annex XIII prescribes the exact fields. QRRegistry's battery workspace validates every submission against these requirements — a passport that's missing a carbon-footprint value or a cell-chemistry breakdown will fail to publish until the gap is closed.

manufacturer.name

Legal manufacturer or importer name

battery.chemistry

Cathode / anode chemistry (e.g. NMC, LFP)

battery.capacity_kwh

Nominal energy capacity in kWh

battery.carbon_footprint

kg CO₂-eq / kWh over full life-cycle (Article 7)

battery.recycled_content

Share of recycled Co, Li, Ni, Pb in active materials

battery.raw_material_origin

Cobalt, lithium, nickel, natural graphite provenance

battery.soh

State-of-Health telemetry (per-unit, Annex XIII §4)

battery.eol_instructions

End-of-life dismantling and recycling guidance

Why a permanent QR matters here.

A battery lives 10+ years across multiple owners — first installation, second-life (stationary storage), then recycling. The QR printed at the factory has to keep serving the passport through every transition. QRRegistry's Digital Link QR never changes, so a scanner at a recycler in 2038 gets the latest State-of-Health and chemistry data from the same code that left the assembly line today.

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