E-Book32 chapters # EU Battery Regulation 2023/1542 Handbook An EU Battery Regulation 2023/1542 handbook: battery categories, economic operators, substance limits, carbon footprint, labelling and the battery passport. Most battery manufacturers and importers encounter the EU Battery Regulation the way it hurts most: when a carbon footprint declaration can't be produced on demand, or a shipment is held pending a digital battery passport that was never built. This book is built to prevent that collision. It walks through Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 from first principles to complete practical compliance: the five battery categories and how to determine which one governs your product, the legal framework that fully replaced the 2006 Battery Directive, every economic operator role, substance restrictions on mercury, cadmium, and lead, carbon footprint declarations for EV and industrial batteries, recycled content targets running through 2036, performance and safety requirements, conformity assessment and CE marking, complete labelling including the mandatory QR code, the digital battery passport in real depth, due diligence obligations for responsible sourcing, removability and design for circularity, waste battery collection and extended producer responsibility, recycling efficiency, and how this framework compares to battery regulation in China and the United States. Every chapter closes with a knowledge check drawn from the companion video course, and eight appendices turn the book's worksheets into templates you can put to work on your own product immediately. This book contains the use of artificial intelligence. ## What you'll learn * Determine which of the five battery categories governs your product and why that decision matters * Navigate substance restrictions, and understand which apply to which battery categories * Build a defensible carbon footprint declaration and understand the recycled content ratchet through 2036 * Assign every economic operator role correctly — manufacturer, importer, distributor, authorised representative * Select the right conformity assessment route and complete CE marking correctly * Design and verify complete labelling, including the mandatory QR code linking to the battery passport * Build and maintain a digital battery passport ahead of the February 2027 deadline * Prepare for due diligence obligations on responsible sourcing ahead of the August 2027 compliance date, meet removability, collection, and recycling efficiency requirements, and build your own compliance action plan $24.99 One-time purchase · Read in browser · No subscription * Determine which of the five battery categories governs your product and why that decision matters * Navigate substance restrictions, and understand which apply to which battery categories * Build a defensible carbon footprint declaration and understand the recycled content ratchet through 2036 Buy for $24.99 Secure checkout via Paddle Not what you expected? Contact us within 14 days. This book is included free when you enroll in the full course — [$149.00 for the complete video curriculum plus this book](/courses/21-eu-battery-regulation-2023-1542-battery-passport-compliance). Built from a regulatory graph already at work 2,051 users this week 658 guides 323 product types 9 markets ## Chapters Read Chapter 1 free → 1 EU Battery Regulation: The Big Picture Before any scoping decision or compliance checklist, it's worth understanding why an EU Regulation, not a Directive, now governs batteries end to end, and ex… 2 Is Your Product Covered? The Five Battery Categories and Scope This chapter is the one every later decision in this book depends on. 3 The Legal Framework: From the 2006 Directive to Regulation 2023/1542 Understanding why this regulation is structured the way it is means understanding what it replaced. 4 Economic Operators: Who Carries Which Obligation This regulation regulates every entity that touches a battery on its way to a customer. 5 Substance Restrictions: Mercury, Cadmium, and Lead Before this regulation talks about carbon footprints or digital passports, it starts where the 2006 directive started: hard limits on specific hazardous subs… 6 Carbon Footprint Declarations: EV and Industrial Batteries This chapter covers the first entirely new category of obligation this regulation introduces: a legal requirement to calculate and declare a battery's carbon… 7 Recycled Content Requirements: Cobalt, Lithium, Nickel, and Lead This is where the regulation's circularity philosophy becomes a hard numerical target: a minimum percentage of critical materials has to come from recycled s… 8 Performance, Durability, and Safety Requirements Underneath the newer sustainability obligations, this regulation still carries a traditional product-safety core. 9 Conformity Assessment and CE Marking A battery can meet every substantive requirement in this book and still be illegal to sell in the EU without the right conformity assessment procedure comple… 10 Labelling Requirements: What Has to Be on Every Battery Labelling under this regulation is a layered set of requirements covering the physical battery, its packaging, and a QR code linking to far more data than ph… 11 The Digital Battery Passport: What It Is and What It Contains If one obligation deserves to be called structurally new, it's this one. 12 Building and Maintaining a Battery Passport Understanding what a passport contains is different from actually building one. 13 Due Diligence: Responsible Sourcing Obligations A delayed deadline isn't a cancelled one. 14 Removability, Replaceability, and Design for Circularity This is where the regulation reaches furthest into product design: for portable and LMT batteries, removability by the end user becomes a legal requirement, … 15 Waste Batteries: Collection Targets and Extended Producer Responsibility This chapter covers what the regulation requires once a battery becomes waste, and who's legally responsible for making sure it's collected rather than disca… 16 Recycling Efficiency and End-of-Life Management Collecting a waste battery is only half the circularity story. 17 Common Failures and a Full Compliance Walkthrough This chapter names the failure patterns that recur most often across real compliance projects, then runs one complete industrial battery through the entire p… 18 Documentation, Recordkeeping, and Audit Readiness What you can produce during a surprise review matters as much as what you actually did. 19 How the EU Battery Regulation Compares Globally If you're manufacturing for more than one market, understanding why the EU, China, and the US take genuinely different regulatory approaches — and why they a… 20 Consumer and Market Communication A carbon footprint figure buried correctly in a passport record doesn't help if marketing publishes a different, unverified number. 21 Case Studies: A Compliant Launch and a Costly Recall This chapter makes the entire book concrete with two composite scenarios showing how the same battery category can go two very different ways depending on ho… 22 Your Compliance Action Plan This chapter turns the entire book into a sequence you can put on a calendar, and points you to real resources for questions specific to your own product. 23 What's Next You now have the complete framework this book set out to build: scope and the five battery categories, substance restrictions, carbon footprint declarations,… 24 Knowledge Checks Every module in this book closes with a knowledge check in the companion video course. 25 Appendix A — Battery Category Scoping & Classification Worksheet 26 Appendix B — Economic Operators & Conformity Route Selector 27 Appendix C — Carbon Footprint & Recycled Content Tracking Worksheet 28 Appendix D — Battery Passport Data Readiness Checklist 29 Appendix E — Due Diligence Policy & Supply Chain Mapping Worksheet 30 Appendix F — Labelling & QR Code Verification Checklist 31 Appendix G — EPR Registration & Recycling Compliance Tracker 32 Appendix H — Documentation & Audit Readiness Tracker Buy for $24.99 ## Want the full video course? 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