The battery passport is mandatory from 18 February 2027. Under Article 77 of the EU Batteries Regulation (EU) 2023/1542, every EV battery, LMT battery and industrial battery above 2 kWh placed on the EU market from that date must carry a passport. This is a confirmed, binding deadline, not an indicative one. Last verified July 2026.
Batteries have the one hard, confirmed DPP deadline: 18 February 2027. It is set directly by Article 77 of the Batteries Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 - not by an ESPR delegated act - so it does not depend on a delegated act being published and will not slip the way the indicative textile or furniture dates might. From that date, an EV battery, a light-means-of-transport (LMT) battery, or an industrial battery with a capacity above 2 kWh cannot be placed on the EU market or put into service without an electronic battery passport, accessible via a QR code and a unique identifier. The passport carries structured lifecycle data - chemistry, carbon footprint, materials, state of health, due-diligence information - with tiered access for manufacturers, regulators, recyclers, repairers and second-life operators. This page gives the honest, confirmed answer, the specific data the regulation demands, a preparation timeline, and how DPP Automate imports your battery catalogue and generates each passport so you meet 18 February 2027 without hand-building anything.
Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 entered into force, replacing the old Batteries Directive and introducing the battery passport, due diligence, carbon footprint and recycled-content obligations. Source: EUR-Lex 32023R1542.
Under Article 77, from 18 February 2027 each EV battery, LMT battery and industrial battery above 2 kWh placed on the EU market or put into service must have a battery passport with a unique identifier and QR data carrier. This is the concrete, binding date - not indicative. Source: EUR-Lex 32023R1542, Article 77.
Alongside the passport, the regulation phases in a mandatory carbon footprint declaration and, later, minimum recycled-content levels for cobalt, lead, lithium and nickel. Exact dates depend on Commission implementing/delegated acts. Source: EUR-Lex 32023R1542.
The 18 February 2027 passport obligation applies to three battery categories placed on the EU market: EV batteries, LMT batteries (e-bikes, e-scooters and similar), and industrial batteries with a capacity above 2 kWh - including the stationary storage batteries behind much of the energy transition. Portable batteries (household cells) are NOT in the passport scope, though other parts of the regulation still apply to them. Who must comply: the manufacturer, or the importer or authorised representative that places the battery on the EU market - the party legally responsible for the battery is responsible for its passport. A battery without a passport after 18 February 2027 cannot be lawfully placed on the market, so the obligation reaches every brand, importer and OEM in the EV, micromobility and stationary-storage supply chains. What is out of scope here: the ESPR delegated-act sequence (textiles, steel, furniture) is a separate track on indicative dates; the battery date is fixed and earlier.
DPP Automate is built to hit a fixed date at catalogue scale. You import your battery models in bulk through the REST API or the MCP `import_passports` tool - no hand-typed JSON per SKU - and the AI maps your existing product, chemistry and supplier data onto the battery passport schema (the Article 77 / Annex XIII fields). For batteries you generate a compliant passport from a single product image plus your structured data; Review mode keeps a human approving each draft while you build confidence, Auto mode publishes at scale once your mapping is stable. Every value is versioned with provenance back to the supplier declaration or lab test, each passport is signed for independent verification, and the QR resolves through our GS1 Digital Link resolver to a tiered public/restricted record. Records export JSON-LD ready for the European DPP registry. The result: a battery maker with thousands of SKUs meets 18 February 2027 by importing and mapping, not by staffing a data-entry team.
The 18 February 2027 date is confirmed and binding - the data work (chemistry, carbon footprint, due diligence, recycled content) is the long pole, and suppliers are slow.
Import your battery catalogue into DPP Automate now, map the Article 77 fields, and start collecting supplier and lab data against the passport schema.
Carbon-footprint methodology and recycled-content evidence take iterations to get audit-ready; leaving them late risks unverifiable passports.
Have draft passports generated for your top models, run them through Review mode, and close supplier data gaps flagged by the readiness check.
From 18 February 2027 a battery without a passport cannot be placed on the EU market - a last-minute scramble risks blocked shipments.
Switch stable models to Auto mode, confirm QR carriers are on the physical batteries/labels, and verify registry-ready JSON-LD export for every SKU.
Thousands of cell/pack SKUs to passport by a fixed date with scattered supplier chemistry data.
Bulk import via the API, AI mapping onto the Article 77 schema, Review-then-Auto rollout, supplier gaps surfaced by the readiness check.
All in-scope SKUs passport-ready ahead of 18 February 2027, with signed, registry-exportable records.
Industrial batteries above 2 kWh from multiple cell suppliers, unsure which are in scope.
Scope classification (>2 kWh industrial = in scope), one platform for all suppliers, carbon-footprint fields versioned with provenance.
A single source of truth across suppliers and a clear in-scope inventory mapped to the deadline.
Imports LMT batteries and is the responsible economic operator, but has no manufacturer data pipeline.
Importer-as-operator workflow, supplier data templates, AI generation from product images plus declarations.
Passports issued as the responsible operator, QR carriers on labels, ready for market surveillance.
The recurring questions from teams in this product group, answered with the honest current status - including the uncertainty where it exists.
Run the free readiness check →From 18 February 2027. Article 77 of the Batteries Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 makes a battery passport mandatory for EV batteries, LMT batteries and industrial batteries above 2 kWh placed on the EU market from that date. It is a confirmed, binding deadline that does not depend on a delegated act.
EV batteries, light-means-of-transport (LMT) batteries, and industrial batteries with a capacity above 2 kWh. Portable/household batteries are not in the passport scope, although other parts of the regulation still apply to them.
The economic operator that places the battery on the EU market - the manufacturer, or the importer or authorised representative. If you import batteries, you are typically the responsible operator and must issue the passport.
A unique identifier and QR carrier, battery chemistry and composition, carbon footprint, recycled content of key materials, state of health, due-diligence information, and dismantling/recycling data, with tiered public and restricted access (Article 77, Annex XIII).
It is final and binding. Unlike the ESPR sector dates (textiles, steel, furniture), which are indicative until each delegated act is published, the battery date is fixed directly in the Batteries Regulation and does not depend on a further act.
You import your battery catalogue in bulk via the API or MCP, the AI maps your data onto the Article 77 passport schema, and each passport is generated, signed and QR-resolvable with registry-ready JSON-LD export - so you hit 18 February 2027 by importing and mapping, not by manual data entry.
18 February 2027 will not move - and supplier data is the slow part. Run the free readiness check for your battery catalogue, or open the battery passport guide for the full Article 77 field set, and let DPP Automate import and map your models so every in-scope battery is passport-ready in time.
