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EU Batteries

EU Batteries Regulation

EU Batteries Regulation hub for battery categories, economic-operator duties, labelling, CE conformity, due diligence, battery passports, collection and recycling.

Applies
18 Feb 2024
Penalties and waste
18 Aug 2025
General labels
18 Aug 2026 or later
Passport
18 Feb 2027

Understand EU Batteries Regulation

Classify a battery under the EU Batteries Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2023/1542), then map the duties that apply when it is placed on the EU market or put into service and across its later lifecycle.

Start with the battery category and your role. Then separate product-conformity duties from producer-responsibility, waste, passport, sustainability and supply-chain duties. Several obligations use category thresholds or depend on later Commission acts; for example, the Article 13 general-label date is 18 August 2026 or 18 months after the relevant implementing act enters into force, whichever is later.

Use the timeline and grouped guides in order: category, operator role, applicable obligations, start date, evidence owner, then post-market and waste responsibilities.

Quick scan

Classify the battery first

Category drives whether the page should focus on portable removability, LMT replacement, SLI markings, industrial thresholds, EV carbon-footprint work, or passport data.

Build the product file

Keep technical documentation, conformity assessment outputs, CE-marking logic, EU declaration of conformity, label content, QR-code destination, and passport data together.

Close the waste loop

Track producer registration, collection and take-back duties, recycler data, recovery rates, recycled-content claims, and end-user information without splitting the model record.

What the hub helps you check

  1. 1

    Category and scope

    Separate portable, LMT, SLI, industrial, and EV batteries before applying product, passport, waste, and producer-responsibility rules.

  2. 2

    Choose the conformity route

    Use the battery model and applicable requirements to record the assessment route and supporting release evidence.

  3. 3

    Evidence for the lifecycle

    Tie labels, QR codes, technical documentation, EU declarations of conformity, passport data, collection, recycling and due-diligence evidence to the same battery model.

Key dates for battery categories and duties

Track the staged dates for application, state-of-health data, Chapter VI conformity rules, penalties, Chapter VIII waste duties, labels, QR codes, battery passports, removability, collection targets, recycling efficiency, material recovery, and recycled-content rules. Treat 18 August 2026 as the earliest general-label date because Article 13 uses a whichever-is-later condition tied to an implementing act.

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Choose the next Batteries Regulation decision

New to the Regulation? Start with category and operator role. If those decisions are documented, jump to product evidence, sustainability and supply-chain duties, digital information, waste responsibilities, or the date you need to plan.

Start here: scope, category, and role

Decide whether the battery is in scope, route it to portable, LMT, SLI, EV, or industrial, and record the manufacturer, importer, distributor, producer, or other role that owns each duty.

Battery passport and digital information

Map Article 77 and Annex XIII data, access rights, provenance, QR-code resolution, lifecycle updates, and the distinction between a battery passport and the broader ESPR DPP framework.

Waste, deadlines, and enforcement

Plan producer registration, take-back, collection, recycling and reporting by Member State, then connect those controls to the phased legal dates and national penalty exposure.

Compare regimes or answer a focused question

Use the comparison when Batteries Regulation and ESPR work overlap, or open the FAQ when you already know the scope, label, passport, due-diligence, conformity, or waste question to resolve.

Sources

Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/606
eur-lex.europa.eu
Referenced sections
  • Supports the recycling and material-recovery framing by providing the adopted methodology for calculating and verifying recycling efficiency and recovery rates for waste batteries.
Commission Notice C/2025/214 on removability and replaceability
eur-lex.europa.eu
Referenced sections
  • Supports the hub's treatment of portable-battery removability and LMT-battery replaceability as specific design and documentation workstreams rather than generic compliance tasks.
"removability and replaceability of portable batteries and LMT batteries"
European Commission New Legislative Framework
single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu
Referenced sections
  • Supports the CE-marking, conformity-assessment, accreditation and market-surveillance context that the Batteries Regulation uses for batteries placed on the EU market.
European Commission: Batteries Regulation enters into force
environment.ec.europa.eu
Referenced sections
  • Supports the visitor-facing overview of the Regulation's lifecycle approach: lower carbon footprint, fewer harmful substances, collection, reuse, recycling, carbon footprint declarations, labels, QR access and raw-material due diligence.
"sourcing, manufacturing, use and recycling are addressed and enshrined in a single law"
Regulation (EU) 2023/1542
eur-lex.europa.eu
Referenced sections
  • Primary legal text for scope, battery categories, economic-operator obligations, conformity assessment, CE marking, labelling, QR codes, battery passports, waste duties, market surveillance, penalties and staged application dates, including the conditional Article 13 date for general, capacity and non-rechargeable labels.
"This Regulation should apply to all categories of batteries placed on the market or put into service within the Union"

Next steps

Plan battery compliance across the lifecycle

Assign confirmed product, sustainability, supply-chain, regulatory, and waste-battery duties in ESG Compliance. Keep the supporting product, supplier, conformity, passport, and recycling evidence in SSOT.

  • Start with the battery category, chemistry, capacity, use case, placing-on-the-market path, and responsible economic operator.
  • Use ESG Compliance to assign carbon-footprint, recycled-content, due-diligence, collection, recycling, and reporting work to accountable owners.
  • Use SSOT to keep technical documentation, EU declarations of conformity, label records, QR destinations, passport data, supplier evidence, and recycler reports together.
  • Escalate due-diligence timing and amendment questions against the current consolidated legal text before release planning.
  • Open ESG Compliance

    Manage carbon footprint, recycled content, due diligence, collection, recycling, and reporting work from one workflow.

  • Open SSOT

    Keep battery model records, conformity files, labels, passport data, supplier evidence, and waste reports in one governed system.

  • Align category, labelling, passport, conformity, producer-responsibility and recycling work with the legal dates.

  • Talk through readiness

    Review category classification, operator roles, evidence gaps, due-diligence questions, and release planning.