EU Commission Holds Second Industry Webinar on Battery Digital Product Passport

The European Commission held its second industry webinar on the Digital Product Passport (DPP) for batteries today, providing a technical update alongside new survey data on industry readiness ahead of the February 2027 compliance deadline.

Survey reveals significant readiness gap
The Commission presented results from a pre-webinar survey of 91 industry participants, most of them large enterprises active in industrial batteries and electric vehicles. The findings point to a clear gap between the approaching deadline and actual operational readiness.

Only 15% of respondents said they feel very confident that the necessary battery passport data will be available within their value chain by February 2027. Data availability and quality was identified as the single biggest implementation challenge, cited by 63% of respondents, followed by unclear roles and responsibilities across the value chain (59%) and dynamic data and lifecycle management (58%). On the technical side, supplier data integration, data collection, and system integration with existing business processes were named as the areas requiring the most effort.

Registry and technical milestones confirmed
Beyond the survey, the Commission confirmed several concrete milestones for the DPP Registry:

• A testing environment for the Registry will go live on 19 July 2026, allowing economic operators to begin testing battery passport registration ahead of the production release.
• The full semantic document listing all required data points will be published by end of July 2026.
• A dedicated helpdesk (8:00–20:00 CET) and 24-hour automated support tool will accompany the testing environment.

The Registry itself performs only limited, formal checks meaning  verifying that mandatory fields are complete and correctly formatted. It does not validate the substance of the data; that responsibility lies with Market Surveillance Authorities.

What remains out of scope for February 2027
The Commission reiterated that carbon footprint declarations, carbon footprint labels, recycled content figures, and due diligence reporting are not required for the February 2027 deadline. These requirements will apply only once the relevant sector-specific rules enter into force, with more than a year of transition time expected once adopted.

Responsibility remains with the economic operator
The webinar also clarified that responsibility for creating and maintaining the battery passport rests with the economic operator placing the battery on the EU market - typically the manufacturer or importer. This responsibility cannot be delegated away: even where a third party is authorised to handle registration, the economic operator remains fully accountable for compliance.

What's next
The Commission indicated that further technical webinars will follow, with topics still under discussion, and that all future announcements on DPP milestones will be published through the DG GROW news section.