What data goes in a passport, and why no list is settled

The delegated act for your product group sets the fields, and the European Commission has adopted none. So no settled field list exists for any product under the ecodesign regulation.

One real list does exist, and it belongs to the battery regulation. If you sell a battery in one of the three categories, that list is your specification from 18 February 2027.

This site searched 104 New Zealand pages on 16 August 2026. Seven of them ask what data a passport holds, and each one answers with a general description rather than a field list.

GS1 New Zealand names subjects, not fields, so nobody can build to that description

GS1 New Zealand, July 2026 describes a passport as a record of technical performance, materials and their origins. It adds repair activities, recycling capability and lifecycle environmental impact.

That description is accurate as a description, and it is not a specification. Nobody can build to it, because it names subjects rather than fields.

Every New Zealand page this site read gives a version of that same list. Each one traces back to Commission material describing the same subjects.

Warning: do not treat a subject list as a field list.

A subject list cannot tell you what to record, in what unit, or to what precision. So it cannot be the basis of a build.

The battery regulation is the one place with real requirements

Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 is in force, and Article 77 sets the battery passport. It applies from 18 February 2027 to three categories.

• each light means of transport (LMT) battery, such as an e-bike battery
• each industrial battery with a capacity greater than 2 kilowatt hours
• each electric vehicle battery

The duty is per battery. Each item carries its own passport and its own identifier, so one passport for a model or a batch is not enough.

Article 78 sets what happens to the data, and Article 78(e) covers survival of the passport. See batteries and the battery regulation.

Article 13(6) of the same regulation gives every battery a QR code. That code leads to other information, and it is not a passport. So a portable battery carries a code without carrying a passport.

Your importer will name fields before any law does

Your European importer carries the duty, and it will ask you for data as a condition of purchase. That request arrives before any delegated act does.

So the field list that reaches you first is commercial, not legal. It will be shorter than a law, and it may be longer.

Ask your importer four things.

1. Which fields do you need, named one by one?
2. Which rule are you asking under, and is it adopted?
3. What format do you want, and how do you want it sent?
4. How frequently must I update it?

Question two is the one that saves you money. An importer asking under an unadopted plan is asking for goodwill, and you may negotiate the scope.

The data you already hold is most of the answer

A merino jumper carries a trail through a farm, a scour, a mill and your own system. An e-bike battery carries one through a cell maker, an assembler and a test house.

Most of the likely fields already exist somewhere in those trails. The work is to find them, name their owner, and get them into one place you control.

That work costs little, and no act can make it wasted. See how would I build one and first steps for a New Zealand exporter.

This site publishes no field from a paywalled standard and no ecodesign field list

This site has not bought the six European standards, so it publishes no field from any of them. It states the number, the title and the citation status, and nothing else.

No adopted act sets ecodesign fields, so this site publishes no ecodesign field list. Where a page names a field, it names the instrument that sets it.

See what this site does not know and what New Zealand industry has published.