Reg. (EU) 2023/1542 · Article 77 · mandatory for EV, LMT and >2 kWh industrial batteries placed on the EU market from 18 February 2027.
From 18 February 2027, every EV battery, LMT battery and industrial battery above 2 kWh placed on the EU market must carry a battery passport — a QR-accessible record of composition, carbon footprint, performance and lifecycle data. The date is fixed in law. What is not fixed is how packs, modules and cells stay identifiable through a 10–15 year service life.
Unique identification with composition, capacity, performance, durability and chemistry data, accessible through the QR code required by Article 13(6) — from 18 February 2027.
The passport carries the battery's carbon footprint declaration — production data that must be attributable to the actual battery, not the product family.
Annex XIII requires lifecycle telemetry over time — state of health, cycle data, negative events. The passport is a longitudinal record maintained for years, which is a platform obligation, not a label.
A repurposed battery needs a new passport linked to the passport(s) of the original batteries. Read the plural: module-level genealogy, which pack-level marking alone cannot deliver.
The battery passport is the DPP family's first fixed, unmissable date. Batteries placed on the EU market from 18 February 2027 without a compliant passport do not clear the border.
The regulation marks the pack; the economics live in the modules. Decide now how identity survives disassembly, repurposing and second life.
Carbon footprint, telemetry, custody: passport data accrues over the battery's life. Choose infrastructure that appends events for a decade, not a launch-day PDF.
Issue live passports for one line and walk them through a simulated border check and a simulated repurposing — before 2027 makes it an emergency.
Aeroz pairs the required QR with chip-bound identity at pack and module level, resolved through GS1 Digital Link, with every custody and lifecycle event appended to an EPCIS 2.0 log. When a pack is opened for second life, each module still knows who it is — which is exactly what Article 77(7)'s linked-passport requirement assumes and pack-only marking cannot provide.
EV batteries, light-means-of-transport (LMT) batteries, and industrial batteries above 2 kWh placed on the EU market from 18 February 2027, under Reg. (EU) 2023/1542 Article 77.
Article 13(6) requires a QR code from 18 February 2027, through which the passport is accessed. The regulation also empowers the Commission to approve alternative smart labels by delegated act — the door for chip carriers.
A repurposed battery must carry a new passport linked to the passports of the original batteries it came from. That demands identity below pack level — once a pack is opened, unmarked modules have no provable origin.
No vendor can honestly guarantee a field read-rate. Aeroz builds to a 99.9% read-rate engineering spec at its QC gate and validates real-world performance per deployment during the pilot.
A fixed-fee Aeroz audit maps your products against battery passport for ev requirements and returns a written readiness assessment, a data-mapping review, and a scoped pilot plan with cost and timeline.