Batteries Regulation
Producer registration since August 2025, labelling requirements from 18 August 2026 (or later, depending on an implementing act), QR code, removability and battery passport from 18 February 2027.
- Reference
- Regulation (EU) 2023/1542
- Status
- Applies in stages
- Sources last checked
What it is
The regulation covers the whole life cycle of all batteries — portable, LMT, SLI, industrial and EV — including batteries built into devices. Requirements phase in until the 2030s; due-diligence duties were postponed to 18 August 2027 by Regulation (EU) 2025/1561.
Who is affected
Manufacturers, producers (whoever first makes batteries available in a Member State — also inside appliances), importers, distributors and fulfilment providers.
What you have to do
- Register as producer in every Member State where you first make batteries available — including batteries inside devices.
- Prepare the general information label (Annex VI Part A: e.g. manufacturer, category, chemistry, hazardous substances) and, for portable, LMT and SLI batteries, the capacity information — applicable from 18 August 2026 or later (see dates).
- Plan for QR code, battery passport (LMT, industrial > 2 kWh, EV) and user-replaceable portable batteries from February 2027.
Fact check
Not correct “A battery built into a device is the device maker’s problem, not the importer’s.”
Whoever first makes the battery available in a Member State — also inside an appliance — is the producer for extended producer responsibility. For imports that is usually the importer.
Sources
- Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 (Batteries) — Official Journal text (opens external website) ↗
- Regulation (EU) 2025/1561 — postponement of due diligence (opens external website) ↗
- Batteries — overview (opens external website) ↗
General information, not legal advice. Authentic are only the texts published in the Official Journal of the EU and the Austrian Federal Law Gazette.
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