Importing batteries? Confirm the passports your manufacturers make
How it works
You check what you are responsible for; you never retype your manufacturer's data.
Register and link your manufacturers
Accept their invitation or invite them. Your acceptance is your written authorisation (Art. 77(4)).
Receive the batches
Your manufacturer assigns you the batteries of each shipment: serial numbers, container, expected arrival.
Check and confirm
You see the passport as it will be published with your company, the missing data, the EU declaration of conformity to keep and how many passports the batch adds to your plan.
Add what depends on you
Your warranty, service, spare parts and take-back points – shown on the passports of your batteries.
Ready for release
Register the passports of each batch before the batteries are released for free circulation: prepare the batch's file for the EU registry. The registration identifiers are listed per batch, and the serial numbers can be downloaded for your customs broker.
Who does what
The manufacturer describes the battery; the importer places it on the EU market as the responsible economic operator and pays for its passport.
| What | Manufacturer outside the EU | Importer |
|---|---|---|
| Passport data | Makes it: model, composition, performance, carbon footprint, documents | Checks it; is named in it as the responsible economic operator |
| EU declaration of conformity | Draws it up (Art. 18) | Checks it and keeps a copy for 10 years (Art. 41) |
| Warranty, service, spare parts, take-back | Its own, when no importer adds one | Adds its own for its batteries |
| Batches | Assigns the batteries of each shipment | Confirms or rejects them |
| Paying for the passports | Pays nothing to prepare them; may pay for chosen importers or batches | Pays for the passports it places on the EU market |
| EU registry | Sees the state | Registers each batch – with the file the platform prepares |
| Customs | — | Releases the batteries for free circulation – by then the passports must exist and be registered |
What you will use
The features of the platform this situation relies on most.
- Importers and manufacturers outside the EU
- EU registry registration
- Bulk verification
- Service and support
- Access by level
Good to know
- The operator that places the battery on the EU market pays: the passports of a batch count in your plan when you confirm it. Your manufacturer may pay for your batches instead – you still confirm them.
- The data comes ready from your manufacturer. Not on the platform yet? Invite it by e-mail – or make the passports yourself on your own plan.
- Batteries under your own brand, or changed by you, make you the manufacturer (Art. 3(33)): you make those passports, your factory gives the data through the supplier portal.
- Distributors need no account: they check the passports of what they sell with the free bulk verification.
The responsibility for the passport stays with the importer (Art. 77(4)); the platform acts on its written authorisation. This page explains the service, it is not legal advice.
Other situations
What the platform does for you depends on who places the battery on the EU market.
- For EU manufacturersYou make batteries in the EU and place them on the market.
- For manufacturers outside the EUPrepare each passport once. The operator that places the battery on the EU market pays – your importers, or you if you choose.
- For brand ownersMade by someone else, sold under your name: you are the manufacturer.
Be ready before your next container arrives
Register as an importer, link your manufacturers and confirm the batches they assign you.