EU Battery Regulation: What you need to know

The EU Battery Regulation took shape as part of the European Union (EU) Green Deal in 2019, a transformative initiative to drive sustainability and climate neutrality across Europe. These new battery regulations mark a pivotal moment for sustainability across the battery industry, but they also present manufacturers, distributors and stakeholders with complex challenges.

Over 90 articles cover safety, performance, environmental impact assessment criteria, due diligence requirements and more across every stage of the battery life cycle. Addressing each of these articles requires greater transparency throughout the battery life cycle, necessitating robust data management and coordination with all supply chain partners. Additionally, many technical standards are still in development, leading to a lack of clarity surrounding specific requirements, and manufacturers and distributors are facing limited availability of critical raw materials, which threatens to impact production schedules.

Without the proper tools or resources to manage these new regulations in the face of other challenges, pursuing compliance can quickly become a daunting task.