A supplier questionnaire is only useful if it collects the evidence your notified body and downstream customers will actually need.
This version is organized around Articles 49 to 52, not around generic ESG prompts.
Structured answer sets in this page tree.
Cited legal and guidance references.
Articles 48 to 52 make supplier evidence the critical path for battery due diligence. A weak questionnaire creates false comfort because it collects policy language but not the traceability, risk, audit, and remediation material that the economic operator must maintain for 10 years after the last battery under the policy is placed on the market.
Start by fixing the scope. Ask the supplier which raw materials listed in Annex X are relevant to the batteries or active materials supplied, which facilities are involved, and which exact products or model families are covered by the response.
If the supplier cannot identify the covered facilities or materials, the later answers will not be reliable enough for Article 49 traceability.
Ask for the documented due diligence policy, the standards used to shape it, the top management owner, the grievance mechanism, and the contract clauses used with upstream suppliers. Article 49 is explicit that the management system must be tied to top management oversight, contract controls, traceability, and grievance handling.
This is also where you test whether the supplier policy is battery specific or merely a generic supplier code.
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Article 49 requires a chain of custody or traceability system identifying upstream actors in the supply chain. Ask for actual evidence fields, not only process descriptions. The minimum useful response covers the material type, supplier identity, country of origin, transaction chain, quantities, and any third party verification reports already available.
Where material comes from conflict affected or high risk areas and third party reports are not available, ask for the additional OECD style information the Regulation points to.
Article 50 requires risk identification, risk assessment, measurable mitigation, monitoring, and reporting back to top management. Ask for the current risk register, active mitigation plan, supplier escalation criteria, and how failed mitigation triggers suspension or disengagement. Also ask for any notified body verification or supplier level verification reports the operator may rely on.
The goal is to see whether the supplier can support the operator own risk management plan, not merely state that it complies with OECD guidance.
Article 52 requires annual public reporting and downstream information sharing. Suppliers should therefore be asked which data can be passed to immediate downstream purchasers, which information is confidential, and how changes will be communicated. A supplier that cannot support downstream disclosure will create recurring remediation work.
This section also helps align the questionnaire with the operator public report and customer diligence requests.