What market surveillance authorities can read
Point 3 of Annex XIII is a single indent in the official text and a single data point: the results of the test reports proving the battery complies with the Regulation, or with any delegated or implementing act adopted under it. It is the only part of the annex addressed to authorities alone, which Article 77(2)(b) defines as notified bodies, market surveillance authorities and the Commission. One line of the annex is also the whole of what those authorities are explicitly granted beyond point 2, and that turns out to matter more than its length suggests.
Test reports, for notified bodies and market surveillance
A single indent in the official text, and the only part of the annex addressed to authorities alone.
Notified bodies, market surveillance authorities and the Commission.
Art. 77(2)(b)
Every line is addressable: the reference number in the first column is the Commission’s own numbering, and /data-points/authorities#dp-50 opens this page on 1 data point 50.
Where the article and the annex do not say the same thing
Visible only when Article 77(2) and the Annex XIII headings are read side by side. It is not settled by the implementing act under Article 77(9), which was due on 18 August 2026 and has not been adopted.
Authorities are not given the data about the individual battery
Article 77(2)(b) grants authorities points 2 and 3. Point 4, the record of the individual pack with its state of health, its status and its incident history, appears only in Article 77(2)(c), the legitimate interest level.
A market surveillance authority investigating one specific battery therefore has no explicit grant to the data about that battery. It reads like an oversight rather than a decision, but the implementing act under Article 77(9) cannot close it: that empowerment covers who qualifies as a person with a legitimate interest, not which points each audience reaches. Changing the attribution takes a delegated act amending Annex XIII, or the legislator.
59 data points, one date, and a lead time in between
Collecting these is a project, and it runs against a date that does not move. The deadline page walks the legal chain article by article, and the price of carrying the list is published rather than quoted.
Data point numbers, names and the applicability column come from the European Commission guidance Digital Batteries Passport, data points by category, version 2.0 of 15 August 2026, European Commission, DG GROW, © European Union, 2026, reused under CC BY 4.0 (Commission page). Changes made: rows are regrouped by Annex XIII point, the electric-vehicle and industrial columns are omitted, and the access level is added; this version supersedes version 1.0 of 28 July 2026, which is still cited elsewhere. That document states that it is not the Commission’s official position, that it is not authoritative, and that the European Commission is not liable for any consequence stemming from the reuse of this publication; it is provided without warranties, as its own licence notice sets out. Reuse here does not imply that the Commission endorses this page. Legal references are to Regulation (EU) 2023/1542, consolidated text of 31 July 2025, CELEX 02023R1542, the version the guidance itself cites; access levels are those of Article 77(2). Last checked 18 August 2026. This page is a reference to the legal text and not legal advice.