# What Does EN 18060:2025 Change for the EU Battery Passport?

Source: https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/digital-product-passport/batteries/en-18060-2025
Last verified: 25 September 2026
Summary: 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.

On 16 September 2026, EN 18060:2025 gained an Official Journal citation under the EU Batteries Regulation. For EV batteries, that changes the conformity-evidence route for covered performance and durability requirements. It does not create new Battery Passport fields, change which batteries need a passport or move the 18 February 2027 deadline.

## 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.

The legal effect is conditional. Article 15(3) of the Batteries Regulation gives a presumption of conformity only **to the extent that the relevant legal requirements are covered by the cited harmonised standard or parts of it**. The citation does not make EN 18060 the law, does not prove that every requirement in Articles 9, 10, 12, 13, 14 and 78 is covered and does not make use of EN 18060 blanket-mandatory.

For Battery Passport preparation, the useful change is narrower. EN 18060's authorised public scope covers EV road-vehicle battery performance and durability evidence including capacity, power, internal resistance, round-trip energy efficiency and expected lifetime in reference cycles. Those evidence families overlap with some performance and durability information already required under Article 10 and Annex IV, some of which is later surfaced in the Battery Passport. The measurement and conformity route can therefore change while the passport content does not.

If you are looking for the underlying passport scope, data and deadline, use the existing [Battery Passport requirements and scope](https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/digital-product-passport/batteries) owner. This page is about what the EN 18060 citation changes around EV battery evidence.

## What changed on 16 September 2026?

EN 18060 already existed as a European standard. The change on 16 September was its legal status within the Batteries Regulation conformity framework.

Before the citation, EN 18060 could be a relevant technical standard, but its reference had not been published in the Official Journal for the Batteries Regulation. Decision 2026/2048 changed that. From the date of publication, conformity with EN 18060 or the relevant parts can support the Article 15(3) presumption of conformity for requirements the standard actually covers.

That is a meaningful change for an EV battery conformity programme. It gives operators a recognised harmonised route for covered requirements. It is not a new Battery Passport obligation.

| Question | What changed on 16 September 2026? |
|---|---|
| EN 18060 legal status | Its reference was published in the Official Journal under Decision (EU) 2026/2048. |
| Conformity evidence | A presumption of conformity can now attach for Batteries Regulation requirements actually covered by EN 18060 or relevant parts. |
| Battery Passport fields | No change. Article 77 and Annex XIII still determine Battery Passport information. |
| Battery Passport scope and date | No change. Article 77 still applies from 18 February 2027 to the battery categories within its scope. |
| DPP technical architecture | No change established. EN 18060 is not the horizontal DPP technical standard stack. |

## What does the presumption of conformity actually mean?

Article 15(3) is the important legal bridge. It names requirements in Articles 9, 10, 12, 13, 14 and 78, but it immediately limits the presumption to the requirements covered by the cited harmonised standard or parts of it. Where minimum values apply under Articles 9 and 10, those minimum values also still matter.

That limitation prevents two common overstatements.

First, an Official Journal citation does not mean every requirement in every Article named in Article 15(3) is now covered by EN 18060. Decision 2026/2048 publishes the reference to the standard. It does not publish a complete public clause-by-clause relationship map.

Second, the citation does not make EN 18060 compulsory in the sense of replacing the Regulation. Harmonised standards provide a recognised route to a presumption of conformity. A business can use another technical solution, but it still has to demonstrate that the legal requirement is met and it cannot claim the EN 18060 presumption for requirements it has not established through the cited standard or relevant parts.

### Why the exact Annex ZA mapping matters

The full EN 18060 text and its complete Annex ZA relationship mapping are not established from the lawful public material used for this article. Public standards-body material confirms that a relationship section exists, but it does not support reconstructing exact clause numbers, test conditions or a full requirement-by-requirement crosswalk.

So the safe implementation boundary is clear: use EN 18060 at the **requirement-family level** where public scope and the Regulation align, then use the full authorised standard and your conformity process to establish the exact parts relied on. Do not infer a clause map from a Battery Passport field name that happens to sound similar.

## Which EV battery performance and durability evidence families are relevant?

The authorised public scope is specific to road-vehicle EV battery applications. Public standards-body material covers alkali-ion chemistries including Li-ion and Na-ion, lead, NiMH and combined chemistries. It also describes performance and durability testing and calculation across EV battery systems, packs, modules and cells, while the cited title itself refers to EV modules and batteries.

Public scope material supports five especially relevant evidence families:

| Evidence family | What the public EN 18060 scope establishes | Battery Passport preparation relevance |
|---|---|---|
| Rated capacity and capacity fade | Test procedures and calculation methods for capacity and its degradation. | Can support governed capacity and lifecycle-performance evidence where the Regulation requires the corresponding value. |
| Power and power fade | Performance and degradation of power capability. | Can support relevant Article 10 performance evidence and overlapping passport values where applicable. |
| Internal resistance and increase | Initial resistance and change over life. | Can support resistance-related performance evidence without implying that every resistance field or granularity is covered. |
| Round-trip energy efficiency and fade | Round-trip efficiency and its degradation. | Can support efficiency evidence where the corresponding legal requirement and passport value apply. |
| Expected lifetime in reference cycles | Expected lifetime expressed as reference cycles. | Can support cycle-life evidence. Public scope does not establish a calendar-years method for the separate calendar-life value. |

The table deliberately stops at evidence families. It does not claim that every similar Annex IV or Battery Passport data point is legally harmonised by EN 18060. Exact coverage depends on the standard's relationship to the legal requirement, including the parts actually applied.

The category boundary matters too. Public material supports an EV road-vehicle reading, including M/N traction batteries and L-category traction batteries over 25 kg. That is not authority to extend EN 18060 across light means of transport batteries generally, industrial batteries above 2 kWh or stationary battery energy storage simply because some performance metrics look similar.

## How can EN 18060 evidence overlap with Battery Passport preparation?

Article 10 and Annex IV already require performance and durability information for rechargeable industrial batteries above 2 kWh, LMT batteries and EV batteries. EN 18060 does not create those requirements. Its September 2026 citation changes the conformity route for the covered requirements within the standard's much narrower EV scope.

The Battery Passport connection comes later in the chain. Annex XIII requires performance and durability information in the passport, including values that overlap with Article 10 evidence families. For an EV battery programme, that creates a practical opportunity to keep the conformity evidence and the passport value aligned.

A sensible sequence is:

- establish the performance value using the method and conformity route chosen for the legal requirement;
- record the EN 18060 edition and the parts actually applied where the harmonised route is used;
- retain the underlying test reports, calculations and technical documentation;
- govern the approved value at the correct model or individual-battery level;
- publish the applicable Battery Passport value from that governed evidence rather than reinterpreting the test result inside the passport layer.
That sequence is an implementation recommendation, not a new legal five-step process. The legal point is that the passport should not become a second, disconnected source of performance truth.

If the harder question is which of the Commission's 71 preparation data points actually applies to a particular battery, that remains with [the 71 Battery Passport data points owner](https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/digital-product-passport/batteries/71-data-points). EN 18060 does not change that denominator or the underlying applicability analysis.

## What did EN 18060 not change?

The September citation is important because it is narrow. Several things did **not** move with it.

- **No new Battery Passport fields.** Article 77 and Annex XIII remain the legal content basis. EN 18060 can affect evidence for some values, not create new passport information requirements.
- **No change to the 18 February 2027 date.** The Battery Passport application date is still set by Article 77.
- **No change to Article 77 scope.** Covered LMT batteries, industrial batteries above 2 kWh and EV batteries remain the passport categories defined by the Regulation. EN 18060's public scope is materially narrower.
- **No blanket change to the Commission's 71-row preparation guidance.** The standard may be relevant to the evidence behind a subset of EV performance values, but it does not add or remove rows.
- **No established SOCE mapping.** Article 14 sits inside the Article 15(3) legal envelope, but the public EN 18060 material reviewed does not establish that EN 18060 is the harmonised method for state of certified energy or other specific Annex VII BMS parameters.
- **No established Article 78 system-architecture mapping.** Article 78 is also named in the legal envelope, but the public scope reviewed is performance and durability. It does not establish that EN 18060 supplies the Battery Passport's interoperability, access, persistence, authentication, security or privacy architecture.
- **No authority to generalise to all LMT or industrial batteries.** Similarity of metrics is not enough. Scope has to be established.
For the current Battery Passport implementation baseline beyond EN 18060, use the [2027 readiness guide](https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/digital-product-passport/batteries/2027-readiness).

## How is EN 18060 different from the horizontal DPP standards?

There are now two standardisation stories that can appear in the same Battery Passport programme, but they do different jobs.

| EN 18060:2025 | Horizontal DPP standards |
|---|---|
| Cited for the Batteries Regulation through Decision (EU) 2026/2048. | Cited under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation through Decision (EU) 2026/1736. |
| EV battery performance and durability testing and calculation territory. | Product-agnostic DPP technical-system territory such as identifiers, carriers, exchange, storage, interfaces and interoperability. |
| Relevant to conformity evidence for covered battery requirements. | Relevant to how the common DPP technical system is structured and interoperates. |
| Does not define Battery Passport content. | Does not define Battery-specific Annex XIII content. |

The Commission's Battery Passport page makes the split explicit: the Battery Passport is introduced by the Batteries Regulation but relies on the common DPP technical system established under ESPR.

So EN 18060 is not **the Battery Passport standard**. It is a battery performance and durability standard that can support conformity evidence for covered EV battery requirements. The horizontal standards address a different layer. For their current scope and citation status, use [what the European DPP standards cover](https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/status/what-the-standards-cover).

## What should an EV battery economic operator do differently now?

If you are responsible for an EV battery conformity and Battery Passport programme, the useful response is to tighten the evidence route, not redesign the passport.

### 1. Confirm that the battery is inside EN 18060's public scope

Start with the actual road-vehicle EV application and chemistry. Do not use Article 10's broader legal scope as proof that EN 18060 covers an LMT, industrial or stationary battery.

### 2. Map the relevant Article 10 performance evidence to the EN 18060 evidence families

Capacity, power, internal resistance, round-trip efficiency and expected lifetime in reference cycles are the clearest public-scope overlaps. Treat them as evidence families until the exact authorised standard relationship establishes the parts relied on.

### 3. Decide whether to use the harmonised route for the covered requirements

The new OJ citation makes EN 18060 a recognised route to the Article 15(3) presumption where the requirement is covered. It does not force you to use the standard for everything.

### 4. Record the edition and parts actually applied

Your technical documentation should make the conformity route auditable. Where EN 18060 is used, record the standard reference, the relevant parts applied and the supporting test reports or calculations. If another technical method is used for a requirement, keep that method and its evidence explicit rather than presenting it as EN 18060 conformity.

### 5. Reuse governed values in the Battery Passport where they overlap

Where an established Article 10 performance value is also an applicable Annex XIII passport value, carry the governed value and its provenance into the passport. Do not create a parallel number merely because the destination is now a Digital Product Passport.

### 6. Keep the passport system work on its own track

Identifiers, carriers, data exchange, storage, interfaces, interoperability and access controls remain part of the DPP technical-system work. EN 18060 does not replace that programme.

### 7. Watch the specific gaps that could change the answer

The next useful evidence is not another broad Battery Passport explainer. It is authoritative detail on EN 18060's exact Annex ZA relationship, any official clarification of Article 14 or Article 78 coverage, a new or corrected OJ citation and any later horizontal DPP standards decision.

The wider sequence for preparing and testing the passport itself remains with [Battery Passport 2027 readiness](https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/digital-product-passport/batteries/2027-readiness). For the full Battery knowledge journey, return to the [Batteries hub](https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/category/batteries).

ActivateDigital [keeps performance evidence beside the value it supports](https://activatedigital.ai/battery-passport-software), which is the part of this that does not change when the standard does.

## What would change this page

This answer should be reviewed if any of the following happens:

- Decision (EU) 2026/2048 is corrected, amended, repealed or supplemented by a later Official Journal citation;
- Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 changes Articles 10, 15, 77 or the relevant Annex IV or Annex XIII requirements;
- EN 18060 is revised, superseded or an authoritative source publishes a fuller legal relationship map;
- lawful access to the complete Annex ZA establishes clause-level coverage that changes the requirement-family boundaries used here;
- the Commission or another authoritative source establishes a specific EN 18060 relationship to Article 14 SOCE/BMS requirements or Article 78 DPP-system requirements;
- a later Official Journal decision changes the horizontal DPP standards citation status;
- the Commission updates its Battery Passport data-point guidance in a way that changes the current preparation model.

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## Sources

- [Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 concerning batteries and waste batteries, especially Articles 10, 15, 77 and 78 and Annexes IV and XIII.](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/1542/oj) EU law
- [Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2026/2048, publishing the reference to EN 18060:2025.](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dec_impl/2026/2048/oj)
- [European Commission: Digital Product Passport for Batteries.](https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/single-market/digital-product-passport/batteries_en) European Commission
- [Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2026/1736, on harmonised standards for digital product passports under ESPR.](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dec_impl/2026/1736/oj) Delegated act
- [BSI: BS EN 18060:2025, authorised public standards metadata and scope.](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)
- [EVS: EVS-EN 18060:2025 and AENOR: EN 18060:2025, authorised public standards metadata used to bound scope and avoid unsupported clause-level claims.](https://www.evs.ee/en/evs-en-18060-2025)
[https://tienda.aenor.com/p/norma-cen-en-18060-2025-77365](https://tienda.aenor.com/p/norma-cen-en-18060-2025-77365)