proofkeeperWhat is mandatory
Economic operator
Mandatory The registered name of the economic operator responsible for placing the product on the EU market.
Legal basis
A battery carries information identifying its manufacturer, and the battery passport publishes that label information, so a battery passport must name the economic operator.
“information identifying the manufacturer in accordance with Article 38(7)”
CELEX:32023R1542, Annex VI, Part A, point 1
Cited from Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 concerning batteries and waste batteries, amending Directive 2008/98/EC and Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 and repealing Directive 2006/66/EC, retrieved 2026-09-10. To be read again by 2027-09-10.
Recycled content
Mandatory in some cases The materials in the product that were recovered from waste, and the share of each that was.
Mandatory when Battery category is one of Industrial battery, Electric vehicle battery, SLI battery.
Legal basis
An industrial, electric vehicle or SLI battery containing cobalt, lead, lithium or nickel must be accompanied by documentation of how much of each was recovered from waste, so a passport for one of those categories must carry its recycled content.
“shall be accompanied by documentation containing information about the percentage share of cobalt, lithium or nickel that is present in active materials and that has been recovered from battery manufacturing waste or post-consumer waste”
CELEX:32023R1542, Article 8(1)
Cited from Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 concerning batteries and waste batteries, amending Directive 2008/98/EC and Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 and repealing Directive 2006/66/EC, retrieved 2026-09-10. To be read again by 2027-09-10.
Battery category
Mandatory The category the battery is classified into by what it is designed to power, which decides most of what else is required of it.
Legal basis
A battery must be labelled with the category it falls into, so a battery passport must say which category the battery is.
“the battery category and information identifying the battery in accordance with Article 38(6)”
CELEX:32023R1542, Annex VI, Part A, point 2
Cited from Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 concerning batteries and waste batteries, amending Directive 2008/98/EC and Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 and repealing Directive 2006/66/EC, retrieved 2026-09-10. To be read again by 2027-09-10.
Rated capacity
Mandatory The charge the battery is rated to deliver from full under the reference test conditions.
Legal basis
The publicly accessible part of a battery passport lists the battery’s rated capacity in ampere hours, so a battery passport must carry one.
“rated capacity (in Ah)”
CELEX:32023R1542, Annex XIII, point 1(g)
Cited from Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 concerning batteries and waste batteries, amending Directive 2008/98/EC and Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 and repealing Directive 2006/66/EC, retrieved 2026-09-10. To be read again by 2027-09-10.
Carbon footprint per kWh
Mandatory The product’s carbon footprint per kilowatt hour of energy it provides over its expected service life.
Legal basis
A battery’s carbon footprint declaration states the footprint per kilowatt hour the battery provides over its service life, and the passport publishes that declaration, so a battery passport must carry the figure.
“the carbon footprint of the battery, calculated as kg of carbon dioxide equivalent per one kWh of the total energy provided by the battery over its expected service life”
CELEX:32023R1542, Article 7(1)(d)
Cited from Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 concerning batteries and waste batteries, amending Directive 2008/98/EC and Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 and repealing Directive 2006/66/EC, retrieved 2026-09-10. To be read again by 2027-09-10.
State of health
Mandatory The capacity this individual battery still holds, as a share of the capacity it was rated at when new.
Legal basis
A battery passport must include the state of health of the individual battery it describes.
“information on the state of health of the battery pursuant to Article 14”
CELEX:32023R1542, Annex XIII, point 4(b)
Cited from Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 concerning batteries and waste batteries, amending Directive 2008/98/EC and Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 and repealing Directive 2006/66/EC, retrieved 2026-09-10. To be read again by 2027-09-10.
Charge cycles
Mandatory The number of charging and discharging cycles this individual battery has been through.
Legal basis
A battery passport must include the data resulting from the individual battery’s use, of which the number of charging and discharging cycles is named first.
“information and data resulting from its use, including the number of charging and discharging cycles and negative events”
CELEX:32023R1542, Annex XIII, point 4(d)
Cited from Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 concerning batteries and waste batteries, amending Directive 2008/98/EC and Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 and repealing Directive 2006/66/EC, retrieved 2026-09-10. To be read again by 2027-09-10.
What the passport holds
Identity
What the product is and how it is identified — the fields any passport needs before it can say anything else.
- Product name — Optional The name the product is placed on the market under, as it appears to the person buying it.
- Product image — Optional A photograph of the product as it is placed on the market.
- GTIN — Optional The Global Trade Item Number the product is identified by, as printed in its barcode.
- Placed on market — Optional The date the product was first made available on the EU market.
Economic operator
Who is responsible for the product on the EU market, and how they can be reached about it.
- Economic operator — Mandatory The registered name of the economic operator responsible for placing the product on the EU market.
- Operator contact page — Optional A web address at which the economic operator can be contacted about this product.
Substances of concern
Whether the product contains substances of concern, and where the declaration saying so can be read.
- SVHC present — Optional Whether the product contains a substance of very high concern above 0.1% by weight under REACH.
- Declaration of conformity — Optional A link to the declaration of conformity the manufacturer has issued for the product.
Carbon footprint
How the product’s carbon footprint was calculated, so that a number can be compared with another one.
- Footprint methodology — Optional The methodology the product’s environmental footprint figures were calculated under.
Recycled content
How much of what the product is made of came back out of waste rather than out of the ground.
- Recycled content — Mandatory in some cases The materials in the product that were recovered from waste, and the share of each that was. Mandatory when Battery category is one of Industrial battery, Electric vehicle battery, SLI battery.
- Material — Mandatory A single material of which some share was recovered from waste.
- Recovered share — Mandatory The share of this material present in the product that was recovered from waste rather than newly extracted.
Fields specific to this product group
- Battery category — Mandatory The category the battery is classified into by what it is designed to power, which decides most of what else is required of it.
- Rated capacity — Mandatory The charge the battery is rated to deliver from full under the reference test conditions.
- Carbon footprint per kWh — Mandatory The product’s carbon footprint per kilowatt hour of energy it provides over its expected service life.
- State of health — Mandatory The capacity this individual battery still holds, as a share of the capacity it was rated at when new.
- Charge cycles — Mandatory The number of charging and discharging cycles this individual battery has been through.
- Expected lifespan — Optional How long the product is expected to remain fit for its purpose under normal use.
Fields of this passport
Every field this passport can carry, a page each: what it holds, whether it is mandatory here, and the official vocabulary it anchors to.