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 "url": "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/digital-product-passport/batteries/en-18060-2025",
 "title": "What Does EN 18060:2025 Change for the EU Battery Passport?",
 "description": "What EN 18060:2025 changed on 16 September 2026 for EV battery conformity evidence, and what it did not change for the EU Battery Passport.",
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 "direct_answer": "Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2026/2048 was adopted on 14 September 2026 and published in the Official Journal on 16 September. It entered into force on the day of publication. Its practical effect was to publish the reference to EN 18060:2025 as a harmonised standard supporting Regulation (EU) 2023/1542.",
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 "datePublished": "2026-09-25",
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   "@id": "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/digital-product-passport/batteries#legislation-32023r1542",
   "celex": "32023R1542",
   "name": "Regulation (EU) 2023/1542, Battery passport Articles 77-78",
   "legislationDate": "2023-07-12"
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   "name": "Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2026/1736",
   "legislationDate": "2026-07-14"
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   "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dec_impl/2026/2048/oj",
   "name": "Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2026/2048, publishing the reference to EN 18060:2025."
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  {
   "url": "https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/single-market/digital-product-passport/batteries_en",
   "name": "European Commission: Digital Product Passport for Batteries."
  },
  {
   "url": "https://knowledge.bsigroup.com/products/road-vehicles-rechargeable-batteries-with-internal-energy-storage-performance-and-durability-of-alkali-ion-li-ion-na-ion-pb-nimh-and-combined-chemistries-ev-modules-and-batteries",
   "name": "BSI: BS EN 18060:2025, authorised public standards metadata and scope."
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.evs.ee/en/evs-en-18060-2025",
   "name": "EVS: EVS-EN 18060:2025 and AENOR: EN 18060:2025, authorised public standards metadata used to bound scope and avoid unsupported clause-level claims."
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