The European Union’s Digital Product Passport (DPP) regime moves into its compliance phase for batteries early next year after the Commission confirmed that DPP registration and the battery passport will become mandatory for certain battery types on 18 February 2027. The EU DPP pages list that date explicitly for electric‑vehicle, light‑means‑of‑transport (LMT) and industrial batteries above 2 kWh.
What the guidance sets out
The European Commission has published detailed guidance that enumerates the precise fields battery passports should contain. The document used by industry lists 71 numbered data points and marks each entry as mandatory, optional, conditional or “not to be filled/displayed” at the 18 February 2027 launch; the guidance was revised as recently as 19 October 2026 (version 3.2). That guidance is the working checklist manufacturers and pack integrators are using to prepare compliance data flows.
Not every figure listed in the 71 will be visible to every user from day one. The guidance and Commission materials make clear that access levels differ by user role and that a number of fields (for example certain recycled‑content and carbon‑footprint entries) are flagged as not required to be filled or displayed at the 18 February 2027 launch — they will phase in later under delegated acts.
What this means for the market
For carmakers, battery suppliers and CEE battery plants the timetable is immediate and constraining: the EU DPP Registry has been live since 20 July 2026, giving economic operators the technical route to register, but the requirement to supply the battery passport dataset arrives on 18 February 2027. That leaves roughly 14 weeks from today for manufacturers, tier‑1 integrators and contract packers to finish IT integration, provenance tracing and role‑based access controls where they are still incomplete.
