Checklist
Batteries: getting ready for the passport.
What to have ready before issuing passports for batteries, from the same records as the rest of this site. Print it or save it as a PDF. It is a starting point, not legal advice.
Does it need a passport, and from when?
For an electric vehicle · For light transport, such as an e-bike or e-scooter · Industrial, over 2 kWh
Yes, required from 18 February 2027
For electric-vehicle batteries, light-transport batteries and industrial batteries over 2 kWh.
From the text
Industrial, 2 kWh or less · Portable, such as for a phone or a power tool · A vehicle's starter battery
No passport for this type
The battery passport covers electric-vehicle, light-transport and industrial batteries over 2 kWh. The Batteries Regulation's other rules still apply.
Who is responsible
The duty sits with whoever places the product on the EU market, usually the manufacturer. Where a passport is required, it has to exist before the product is sold, and stay available for years afterwards.
What the passport carries
The Batteries Regulation splits the passport into four parts, and says who may read each.
Point 1: public information about the battery model
Material composition, carbon footprint, recycled content, rated capacity, expected lifetime, declaration of conformity, waste management information.
Read by: Anyone
Point 2: model information for readers with a legitimate interest, and the Commission
Detailed composition, part numbers and where to get spare parts, dismantling information, and safety measures.
Read by: Reader with a legitimate interest; Notified body, market surveillance, the Commission
Point 3: evidence of conformity
"Results of test reports proving compliance with the requirements laid down in this Regulation".
Read by: Notified body, market surveillance, the Commission
Point 4: the individual battery's own history
State of health, battery status, and "data resulting from its use, including the number of charging and discharging cycles and negative events, such as accidents, as well as periodically recorded information on the operating environmental conditions, including temperature, and on the state of charge".
Read by: Reader with a legitimate interest
On the product
A data carrier, such as a QR code, that links to the passport. The act for the product group says which carrier to use and where it goes.
Questions to settle inside your company
- Where does this product data live today?Spreadsheets, a product or ERP system, or supplier documents. The node imports CSV and Excel files, including exports from an ERP.
- Which of your web domains will carry your company's identity?Anyone who checks a passport checks its signature against an identity published on your own web domain.
- Who in your company may sign passports?The signing key is generated and held on your own infrastructure, so someone has to be responsible for it.
- Who will run the node, and where?It runs on your own infrastructure, or on a cloud you control.
- Who will ask to read the parts that are not public?Repairers, recyclers and authorities read those parts, each on a credential.
- Who keeps the passports available after the product is sold?A passport has to stay available for years after the product is sold.
Next step
Talk to us about batteries.
Odal Node is software you run yourself to issue, sign and publish your passports. Tell us what you make and how you keep its data today, and we will tell you where the software stands for batteries.
Or write to contact@odal-node.io. We aim to reply within a week.
From odal-node.io/product-groups/battery/checklist. Not legal advice.