Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 · Annex XIII
Battery Passport: EU obligation from 18 February 2027
The Battery Passport is the first mandatory sectoral DPP. Verisav helps you structure Annex XIII data, expose a GS1 Digital Link identifier and maintain a living passport — linked to after-sales service, repair and second life.
What is the Battery Passport?
It is a mandatory digital record for certain batteries placed on the EU market from 18 February 2027. Accessible via a data carrier (QR / Digital Link), it contains the regulatory information in Annex XIII of the Batteries Regulation and serves authorities, economic operators, repairers and, depending on access rights, consumers.
Legal basis and link to ESPR
This is not a marketing option: it is a market-placement obligation.
Batteries Regulation 2023/1542
Defines the Battery Passport, the timeline and information requirements. Annex XIII details the datasets to expose by battery type and access profile.
ESPR 2024/1781
The general framework for Digital Product Passports. The Battery Passport is the first concrete sectoral rollout; other categories will follow via delegated acts.
EU DPP registry
The European index allows verification of passport existence and accessibility. Business data remains decentralised with the economic operator or its service provider.
Who is in scope?
Three priority families — with differentiated information obligations.
Electric vehicle (EV) batteries
Traction batteries for electric vehicles. High requirements on composition, performance, usage history and end of life.
LMT (light means of transport)
Batteries for light means of transport (e.g. e-bikes, scooters). Traceability and safety / circularity information.
Industrial batteries > 2 kWh
Industrial batteries above the capacity threshold. Broad scope for industry, storage and professional equipment.
Operational timeline
Before the obligation date, data, processes and physical carriers must be ready.
Data structuring
Map ERP/PLM/suppliers, align Annex XIII attributes, choose the identifier and publication model.
Pilots & carriers
Prototype GS1 Digital Link QR, role-based access rights, machine-readable exports (JSON-LD) and completeness checks.
Market-placement obligation
Covered batteries placed on the EU market without a compliant passport = non-compliance risk and blocked market access.
What Annex XIII actually requires
Beyond the QR: a governed product memory, with differentiated access.
- Product identity and economic operator
- Composition, materials and critical substances
- Performance, durability and carbon footprint (by profile)
- Repair, reuse and recycling information
- Event history useful for second life
- Access rights by recipient (public, operator, authority)
How Verisav industrialises the Battery Passport
A DPP platform built for compliance and lifecycle — not a simple QR generator.
Annex XIII data model
Attribute structuring, completeness validation, JSON-LD export and open Verisav DPP vocabulary (RDF/OWL).
GS1 Digital Link & carriers
Resolvable identifier, production-ready QR, canonical passport URL, compatible with market surveillance.
Living passport + after-sales
After-sales events (diagnosis, repair, parts) enrich the passport — essential for battery second life.
Free preparation tools
Compliance checker and DPP QR generator to scope the project before industrialisation.
FAQ
Before February 2027, the bottleneck is not the QR — it is the data.
Audit your Annex XIII maturity, run a first battery model pilot and connect the passport to your after-sales flows.