Batteries
EU Battery Passport software
32 fields. One battery. 18 February 2027 is already law.
Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 is adopted. From 18 February 2027 each LMT battery, each industrial battery above 2 kWh and each EV battery needs a passport. Article 77 and what it requires
Live beta. Add a bill of materials, a cell datasheet or a test report and it goes further.
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fields in our operational battery model, each mapped to its source in Regulation (EU) 2023/1542. Not every field applies to every battery.
18 Feb 2027
statutory for the Article 77 categories. Adopted law, not a proposal. The date and its scope
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access points in Annex XIII. Who may read a field is a property of the field. Public, restricted or limited
No GTIN yet? GS1 UK issues GTINs in the UK, with the barcodes that carry them. Your own GTINs are recognised by retailers and marketplaces worldwide, and they're what the GS1 Digital Link on a passport is built from.
From a product number to a live battery passport
Start with the least you have. Every one of the 32 is discoverable from something a battery maker already holds, so a blank is a gap to close rather than a fact about the future.
- 01 ConnectA product number and a nameThat's enough to start. A bill of materials, a cell datasheet, a test report or the conformity file take it further.
- 02 BuildMapped to source, category and accessEach field to its legal source, battery category, applicability, access class and owner. You review, approve and add what's missing.
- 03 ActivateLive in one clickClick Print and the passport goes live on dppcode.org at its GS1 Digital Link, with access classes carried from the start.
A live battery passport is a complete result. If you need it, the same identity can go down to each battery, with state of health and use data attached. That part is in beta. Protect (coming) finds codes that have been copied, and isn't live yet.
What the Batteries Regulation fixes, and what it doesn't
Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 is adopted. From 18 February 2027 each light means of transport battery, each industrial battery with a capacity greater than 2 kWh and each electric-vehicle battery placed on the EU market or put into service must have an electronic battery passport. Portable cells aren't in that list.
What's still arriving is implementation detail. Dates, delegated acts and current status live in Knowledge and are kept current there.
The 32 fields, in full
For a battery, the field set is already settled in law rather than proposed. These are what the engine builds and you review against.
Article 77 includes this information to the extent applicable to the battery category and subcategory, so applicability is part of the mapping rather than an afterthought. We call the 32 our operational model for that reason, not because the law is vague.
Why this rather than a field list in a spreadsheet
Most battery passport tooling starts from the Commission's 71 rows and gives you 71 empty boxes. Ours starts from what you already hold and fills them for you.
- Instead of 71 empty boxes71 is a map, not a checklistThe Commission's August 2026 guidance breaks the requirements into 71 numbered implementation rows. Some are mandatory, some optional, some apply only in particular circumstances and some aren't filled as of February 2027.The guidance says itself that it doesn't extend the obligations created by legislation. What the 71 are
- Instead of one flat recordModel facts and battery facts are different jobsArticle 77 carries information about the battery model and information specific to the individual battery, including data produced by its use. One is stable. The other changes over the battery's life.A flat field list hides that exactly where per-unit data starts to matter. When lifecycle data needs item-level identity
- Instead of one public pageAccess class is a property of the fieldAnnex XIII splits the passport across four points. Point 1 is public. Point 2 is restricted model information. Point 3 is compliance test results for notified bodies, market surveillance and the Commission. Point 4 is individual performance, state of health, status and use.The record carries the access class from the start rather than bolting permissions on at publication.
- Instead of a status wordA second life gets its own passportArticle 77(7) requires a new passport, linked to the original, once a battery has been prepared for re-use, prepared for repurposing, repurposed or remanufactured. Responsibility moves to the operator placing it on the market.Simple re-use isn't in that trigger list, so the record keeps the operation rather than one word. What happens after reuse
Where the individual battery is the commercial question
Once per-unit data matters, identity stops being a labelling detail. The same record can carry one identity per physical battery and make reuse of that identity visible.
- One identity per unitissued and resolvable, so state of health and use data attach to a battery rather than to a model.
- Protect (coming)finds codes that have been copied. Not live yet. How Activate&Track works
- The passport keeps the chainoriginal and second-life passports stay linked, with the operation that created the new one recorded.
What we will and won't call these
The 32 are ActivateDigital's operational model: the fields the engine builds against, each mapped to its legal source in Regulation (EU) 2023/1542. The legal anchor is Article 77 with Annex XIII, and Article 78 sets the technical design and operation requirements.
Bring one battery
Batteries is live in the Workspace today. Start from a product number and a name, and see how much of the 32 is already answered. When it's built, see how registration in the EU Registry works.
Build a Battery Passport