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Outside the EU, India, the US and China, battery-passport style rules are emerging through vehicle registration (South Korea), data-sharing ecosystems (Japan), stewardship reforms (UK, Australia, Canada) and global technical regulations.

All regulations · Last reviewed: 2 October 2026

South Korea battery ID
Since 17 Feb 2025
UN GTR No. 22 adopted
9 Mar 2022
GBA passport
Trials 2025–26
UK
Batteries regime under reform

Summary

Few jurisdictions outside the EU have a mandatory battery passport, but many are building pieces of one: a battery identification number in South Korea, industry data spaces for carbon footprint and due diligence in Japan, and EPR reforms in the UK, Australia and Canada.

International standards make passports interoperable. The UN GTR No. 22 defines how EVs monitor battery state of health; the Global Battery Alliance and the Battery Pass consortium define passport content; and GS1 Digital Link offers a widely used QR payload format.

Scope

Who is affected

Global OEMs and cell makers

Need one data model that can satisfy multiple national schemes.

Exporters to the EU

Non-EU suppliers are asked for passport data by EU customers regardless of home-country rules.

Jurisdictions

Country by country

United Kingdom

Great Britain still applies the Batteries and Accumulators (Placing on the Market) Regulations 2008 and the Waste Batteries and Accumulators Regulations 2009. The UK governments have announced a reform towards a fuller EPR model covering portable, industrial, automotive and EV batteries.

  • Producers register and finance collection and treatment under the existing regulations.
  • No battery-passport requirement in Great Britain at review.
  • Northern Ireland applies parts of the EU Batteries Regulation under the Windsor Framework, including later amendments such as Regulation (EU) 2025/1561.

Sources

Japan

Japan has no mandatory battery passport, but METI’s Ouranos Ecosystem supports a battery traceability project led by the Automotive and Battery Traceability Center Association (ABtC) to share carbon-footprint and due-diligence data across supply chains, aligned with the EU Batteries Regulation.

  • Focus on secure, controllable data sharing between companies.
  • Planned interoperability with European data spaces such as Catena-X.

Sources

South Korea

Since 17 February 2025, under the amended Motor Vehicle Management Act, EV batteries require government safety certification and each battery must carry an identification number recorded in the vehicle register, so batteries can be tracked from production to disposal.

  • Battery ID numbers are recorded at first registration and updated when a battery is replaced.
  • Certified batteries are subject to periodic safety inspections.
  • A bill on the management of used batteries was introduced in the National Assembly in May 2025.

Sources

Australia

Battery recycling has relied on B-cycle, a voluntary ACCC-authorised stewardship scheme for household batteries. New South Wales has made battery product stewardship mandatory through regulation commencing 1 October 2026. There is no established stewardship scheme for EV batteries yet.

  • NSW mandatory scheme targets household and small batteries.
  • Industry is studying whether EV and large batteries can join existing schemes.

Sources

Canada

Batteries are managed provincially. Ontario’s Batteries Regulation designates batteries under its EPR framework, but EV batteries are not covered. A voluntary national EV Battery Recovery Program, piloted in Quebec, went national in June 2025.

  • Provincial EPR schemes cover consumer batteries.
  • EV battery recovery is currently voluntary and opt-in.

Sources

International standards and initiatives

Standards and voluntary frameworks that shape passport content and interoperability worldwide.

  • UN GTR No. 22 (adopted 9 March 2022): on-board State of Certified Energy and Range monitors and minimum durability, e.g. 80% SOCE at 5 years / 100,000 km and 70% at 8 years / 160,000 km for light passenger vehicles. The EU applies durability requirements through Euro 7.
  • Global Battery Alliance Battery Passport: proof of concept launched January 2023, operational trials in 2025–26, with rulebooks for carbon footprint, child labour and human rights indicators.
  • Battery Pass consortium content guidance and DIN DKE SPEC 99100: attribute-level mapping of EU Annex XIII requirements.
  • GS1 Digital Link: web-resolvable product identifiers in QR codes.
  • ISO 14067 and ISO 14040/14044: carbon-footprint and life-cycle assessment principles; IEC 62660 series and UN 38.3 for cell performance, safety and transport testing.

Sources

EVstring

How EVstring helps

An honest mapping from obligation to product capability. EVstring supports compliance work; it does not make an operator compliant on its own.

Available
Built and working in the current platform.
In development
In the committed build plan, not yet released.
Roadmap
Planned extension; not yet scheduled for release.
Obligation / needEVstring capabilityStatus
One record that can serve several national schemesConfigurable passport ID with cross-reference fields for national identifiersRoadmap
Durability and SoH data per GTR 22 conceptsTelemetry with anchored Merkle roots; SoH trend on the passportAvailable
Standard QR payloadsGS1 Digital Link compatible QR URLsRoadmap
Verifiable organisation identities across bordersW3C DIDs and verifiable credentials for participantsIn development

Full requirement-by-requirement view: compliance mapping.

Sources

Official sources

Primary texts and regulator pages used for this guide. Last reviewed: 2 October 2026.