Batch passports
carrying identity, materials data and measured results, readable by any smartphone via NFC — each tap producing a one-time SUN code, so a copied tag fails verification.
EU Battery Regulation readiness
February 2027 is closer than it looks. From 18 February 2027, batteries placed on the EU market must arrive with a digital passport behind them — and the data that fills it has to have been collected all the way along, not assembled at the border.
18 February 2027
Regulation (EU) 2023/1542
What the regulation requires
Under Regulation (EU) 2023/1542, from 18 February 2027 EV batteries, light means of transport (LMT) batteries and industrial batteries above 2 kWh placed on the EU market must carry a battery passport: a QR-accessible digital record covering identity, materials, carbon footprint and supply-chain due diligence.
That is the shape of the obligation. The detail sits with the regulation and the guidance that accompanies it, and you should take specific compliance advice on your own product scope — our purpose here is to be clear about what kind of data trail the requirement implies.
The readiness gap
A passport is a reporting surface. What makes it defensible is the record underneath: where the materials came from, who held them, what was measured, and who signed off on each of those statements.
Most suppliers and exporters into the EU can produce that story today only as a reconstruction — spreadsheets, emailed certificates, a supplier's word for the upstream leg. Reconstruction works until someone tests it. And the data cannot be backfilled after February 2027, because the events it describes will already have happened.
The practical deadline is therefore earlier than the legal one. Whatever data trail you want to present in 2027 has to be running before then.
How VeriV maps to it
VeriV issues batch-level digital product passports built on signed records rather than documents. Applied to battery materials and packs, that means:
Signed custody records
at every handover, with the transit leg NFC-sealed so a gap in custody is visible rather than assumed away.
Materials provenance
carried from source assay through processing to final output, with each stage approved and signed by a named person at a human gate.
This is the same signed-stage pipeline used for metals recovery — from batch initialisation through purity certification to end-of-life audit — applied to battery inputs and finished packs. The end-of-life stage matters here in particular: it closes the loop, so recovered material re-enters as feedstock with its history intact rather than as anonymous black mass.
Underneath, records are signed with ECDSA-P256 in line with ISO/IEC 20248:2022, conformant and independently reviewed, and written to an append-only ledger. Records can be superseded or disputed on the record; they cannot be silently rewritten.
What to do now
Start with one product line. A single cathode input, one cell chemistry, or one pack SKU is enough to learn what your real data trail looks like and where it breaks.
A pilot on that scope tells you three things quickly: which upstream suppliers can actually supply provenance data, which handovers currently lose it, and how much of your passport can be populated from records rather than assertions. That is the input to a realistic internal timeline — and it is a far better position to be in than discovering the gaps against a fixed regulatory date.
Where the platform stands
VeriV is a working platform with a live demonstration environment at veriv.io, running end to end on serverless AWS infrastructure. We assess it at TRL 6–7: proven in a relevant environment, and honest that large-scale production deployment is ahead of us rather than behind us. We are in active pilot conversations with Thai petrochemical and refining majors.
Have the readiness conversation early
Bring us one product line and a target market, and we will map what a compliant data trail would need to capture — and what you already have.
Enquire about a pilot