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Insights & Practical Guidance
Practical guides on Digital Product Passports, starting with the first to apply: the EU Battery Passport.
Insights & practical guidance
Start with the rules that shape market access.
Each guide sets out what the regulation asks, where the official guidance stands and what manufacturers can do now, with links to the sources we drew on.
Carbon footprint and recycled content, ahead of time
Neither the carbon footprint declaration nor recycled-content quotas apply yet, but both need evidence that takes years to build. What's coming, and how to start the trail now.
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Supply-chain due diligence for battery materials
From 18 August 2027, larger battery companies must run and verify due diligence on cobalt, lithium, nickel and natural graphite. Who is covered, the five steps, and what it means for the passport.
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What a battery passport costs, and what missing one costs
Most of the cost of a battery passport is gathering data, not software. Where the money goes, why spreadsheets don't hold up, and what non-compliance puts at risk.
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A readiness checklist for 18 February 2027
Fourteen checks to work through before the battery passport deadline, in the order they usually need to happen, with the dates behind each one.
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