Digital Battery Passport

From 18 February 2027, the Digital Battery Passport will be mandatory under the EU Battery Regulation. It must be accessible via a QR Code on the product (or its packaging). Non-compliance with the requirements of the EU Battery Regulation can result in severe penalties. In this article, you can find out which batteries are affected by the Digital Battery Passport and which reliable solutions QR Planet offers at every stage of implementing the Digital Battery Passport. 

The Digital Battery Passport is a structured digital record containing all key information relating to the entire life cycle of the battery concerned. A QR Code must be affixed to the battery (or its packaging) to provide access to the Digital Battery Passport.

The Digital Battery Passport is the first Digital Product Passport to be introduced in the EU. 

The EU Battery Regulation forms the basis for the Digital Battery Passport. Find out more about this regulation in our article EU Battery Regulation.

The Digital Battery Passport will be mandatory for LMT batteries (light means of transport, e.g. e-bikes), industrial batteries with a capacity of more than 2 kWh and electric vehicle batteries, which are placed on the market or put into service within the EU.

If a complete digital battery passport is not required for a given battery (in accordance with the criteria mentioned above), certain “basic information” must still be made available via a QR Code on a product page. This means that every battery (regardless of size) must have a QR Code.

The Digital Battery Passport will become mandatory from 18 February 2027.

The following economic operators are subject to responsibilities regarding the Battery Passport:

• manufacturers
• authorised representatives of the manufacturer
• importers
• economic operators, placing reused or reconditioned batteries on the market or putting them into service

Further responsibilities:

• distributors: responsible for ensuring that all documentation, information and the CE marking are available and accessible, and that everything complies with the Battery Regulation and the Ecodesign Regulation; responsible for ensuring that information is accessible to customers, including in the case of distance selling
• fulfilment service providers (e.g. warehousing service providers): responsible for ensuring that warehousing etc. does not compromise conformity

The information that must be included in the Battery Passport is set out in Annex XIII of the EU Battery Regulation.

A distinction is made between:

• Publicly available information relating to the battery model
• Information on the battery model that is accessible only to persons with a legitimate interest and to the Commission
• Information that is accessible only to notified bodies, market surveillance authorities, and the Commission
• Information and data on individual batteries that is accessible only to persons with a legitimate interest

A detailed list of the required data would go beyond the scope of this article – for electric vehicle batteries alone, Annex XIII and Article 77 list around 80 mandatory data attributes covering the life cycle of a battery.

The digital battery passport must be accessible via a QR Code on the product (or its packaging). The QR Code must comply with ISO/IEC standards (ISO/IEC 15459-1:2014, 15459-2:2015, 15459-3:2014, 15459-4:2014, 15459-5:2014, 15459-6:2014).

General provisions regarding technical design are set forth in Article 78 of the Battery Regulation.

• Data integrity: The authenticity, reliability, and integrity of the data must be fully guaranteed.
• Interoperability: The battery passport must be able to work seamlessly with other digital product passports and systems.
• Security: A high level of IT security and privacy protection must be guaranteed.

Since the EU Battery Regulation contains only very general requirements for IT infrastructure, a so-called harmonization mandate was issued to the Joint Technical Committee JTC24 of the European standardization organizations CEN and CENELEC. CEN/CENELEC/JTC24 will now issue so-called harmonized standards that contain the necessary specifications for the technical infrastructure.

The final Harmonized Standards are expected to be published around mid-2026. QR Planet will keep you updated on this.

Currently (as of April 2026), only draft versions of the Harmonized Standards are available.

There will be 9 different harmonized standards:

• Data exchange protocols
• Unique identifiers
• Data storage media
• Data storage, archiving, and data persistence
• Application programming interfaces (APIs) for lifecycle management and searchability of the product passport
• System interoperability
• Management of user rights, IT security, and trade secrets
• Data authentication, reliability, and integrity
• Dictionary references: Concepts and principles

QR Planet offers everything you need for the Digital Battery Passport from a single source:

• DPP Manager solution for creating your battery passport
• Hosting of your digital battery passport
• System integration with your PIM/ERP
• Platform for generating (ISO/IEC-compliant) QR Codes

With our DPP Manager solution, digital product passports for a wide variety of product groups, including batteries, can be easily created and efficiently managed. Structured product information—such as technical specifications, sustainability data, material compositions, or compliance documents—can be centrally recorded, maintained, and updated at any time. Our DPP Manager is continuously updated in accordance with harmonized standards to ensure full compliance with technical infrastructure regulations. This allows you to efficiently manage your Digital Battery Passport and reliably meet current regulatory requirements.

In addition to creating the Digital Battery Passport, we also offer to host your data and Battery Passport. QR Planet has extensive hosting capabilities and can therefore reliably provide hosting services for both SMEs and enterprise customers. We host your data in Europe and are GDPR-compliant.

Upon request, we can also perform end-to-end system integration with your PIM/ERP system, ensuring that the necessary product information is automatically loaded into the DPP Manager. With QR Planet, you have access to experts with extensive experience in interface programming, making it possible to connect to any PIM/ERP system.

For QR Code generation, we provide our robust web-based platform, which allows you to create ISO/IEC 15459-compliant GS1 Digital Link QR Codes. The GS1 standards play a crucial role in ensuring that this system functions on a global scale. They provide the interoperable identification framework necessary to link the physical product with its digital twin (the Digital Battery Passport) and ensure that the data remains accessible and consistent across borders.

The EU Registry is a digital product passport registry that is scheduled to become available on July 19, 2026 (as of April 2026) and is created and managed by the European Commission. It must contain, at a minimum, the unique identifiers of batteries (and other products).

The EU web portal is a publicly accessible platform that contains the data included in the Digital Product Passports and allows users to search for and compare information. It is created and maintained by the European Commission.

• Do you need help creating QR Codes for your batteries?
• Are you looking for a hosting provider to store the information accessible via the QR Code?
• Would you like to integrate the system so that data from your existing PIM or ERP system can be made available automatically?

• EUR-Lex der Europäischen Union
• Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 (EU-Batterienverordnung), Stand 07.04.2026 Europäische Kommission
• The BatteryPass-Ready Project
• Europäische Kommission, ESPR FAQ 09/2024
• CEN/CENELEC
• TÜV Süd
• GS1 White paper Web enabled, structured path identification, Release 1.1, 08/2024
• https://gs1.eu/activities/digital-product-passport