New EU Battery Regulation: A Closer Look at Implications for Businesses
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Essentials to Know:
- CE Labeling: Mandatory for batteries to demonstrate compliance with EU safety, health, and environmental standards.
- Battery Management System (BMS): Required for ensuring battery health and efficiency.
- Carbon Footprint Declaration: Obligatory for manufacturers to reveal the environmental impact of their products.
Compliance is crucial for operating in the EU market; it's not a choice, but a requirement. It signifies a commitment to sustainability and positions companies as leaders in the shift towards eco-friendly technology.
Ensuring Compliance: CE Label and QR Code Requirements
From May 2026, all batteries sold must have the CE mark, showing they meet EU safety, health, and environmental standards. The CE mark should be visible, legible and indelible or placed on packaging documents.
A QR Code needs to be printed or engraved on each battery for easy access to information and traceability.
Enhancing Traceability: The Battery Passport Initiative
From May 2026, batteries over 2kWh in the EU must be digitally registered with a Battery Passport.
The Battery Passport has a QR code and CE mark for safety and traceability compliance assurance.
Improved Communication: The Battery Passport facilitates better communication between manufacturers, end users, and recycling operators.
The European Battery Passport contains info like manufacturer's details, battery type, batch/serial number, manufacturing date, chemical composition, and recycling info.
Batteries will have QR codes with info on capacity, performance, durability, and composition. They will also have a symbol for separate collection.
Certain batteries, like LMT batteries, industrial batteries over 2 kWh, and EV batteries, must have a digital battery passport. This passport contains details about the battery model and specific information for each battery.
Optimizing Battery Health: The Role of BMS
Starting from May 2024, all batteries are required to have a BMS, which allows for the monitoring of battery health and the determination of the state of charge and state of health. To ensure safety, protect intellectual property rights, and prevent fraud, we must define access to BMS data.
Advancing Sustainability: Carbon Footprint and Recycling
From May 2025, businesses must create a policy following global standards for due diligence and recycling. It addresses social and environmental risks related to battery raw materials. The regulation also establishes recycling requirements, emphasizing separate collection and appropriate disposal
The European Commission will establish mandatory performance and durability criteria for portable batteries from January 1, 2027. Rechargeable industrial batteries will also be subject to these requirements from January 1, 2026. The Commission will evaluate the possibility of phasing out non-rechargeable portable batteries by the end of 2030.
The EU Battery Regulation includes rules for calculating direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions throughout the battery's lifecycle. Manufacturers must provide a carbon footprint declaration with administrative information, facility location and footprint values per kWh.