THE HAGUE, Netherlands, 10 February 2026 – Circularise today announces its acceptance as a Supporting Partner in BatteryPass-Ready, a pre-competitive project supporting industry and SMEs in implementing battery passports by delivering a test system and guidance.
BatteryPass-Ready is developing a test environment that reflects real-world needs and supports EU Battery Passport implementation. The project focuses on validating data completeness and plausibility, verifying system functions, consistency and interoperability, and providing guidance for policy and implementers, including options for an operating model for the test system.
Battery passports are not just a data model, they are a multi-system handshake. BatteryPass-Ready is designed to address key challenges in the Digital Product Passport ecosystem, including high system complexity, tight timelines for technical standards, and the need for frequent validation as specifications evolve.
The test environment is intended to support early validation before large-scale implementation, safeguard interoperability across different systems, and improve implementation confidence through continuous collaboration and iterative improvement.
Supporting Partners help keep the project grounded in implementation constraints and day-to-day operational realities. In this role, Circularise will contribute through:
“Battery passports will only work at scale if the underlying data and systems can talk to each other reliably, without compromising business confidentiality,” said Jordi de Vos, Co-Founder of Circularise. “BatteryPass-Ready is an important step towards practical interoperability. It gives the ecosystem a structured way to test what works, find what breaks, and fix it before rollout pressure hits.”
Circularise’s role in BatteryPass-Ready aligns with the company’s focus on making product and supplier data verifiable, usable, and secure across complex value chains. By contributing real-world implementation experience, Circularise aims to help the project strengthen how battery passport data can be collected across tiers, validated for quality, and exchanged between systems in a way that supports interoperability, auditability, and operational efficiency.
As battery passport requirements evolve, testing and validation become a moving target. Circularise’s contribution will focus on reducing friction for implementers by helping ensure the test environment reflects the realities of the battery passport lifecycle, system integration, and the day-to-day constraints that determine whether a passport programme succeeds in practice.
Circularise is a supply chain traceability platform that enables companies to build resilient operations, reduce emissions, and create business value through circular models. Founded in 2016, the company specialises in collecting and managing product and supplier data across complex, multi-tier supply chains with secure, end-to-end traceability. Circularise supports the implementation of Digital Product Passports and enables compliance across multiple regulatory frameworks, including the ESPR, RED III, and EU Battery Regulation.
Trusted by industry leaders including Asahi Kasei, Teijin, and Domo Chemicals, Circularise’s technology safeguards sensitive supply chain data while delivering audit-ready insights that drive sustainable and profitable operations.
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BatteryPass-Ready is a two-year project running from April 2025 to March 2027, evolved from the Battery Pass project. It is structured across four work packages: (1) system requirements and stakeholder needs, (2) test system specification and implementation, (3) deployment, application and optimisation, and (4) project management and stakeholder involvement.
BatteryPass-Ready is co-funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWE) by resolution of the German Bundestag under grant agreement No 16BZF363C.