A regulatory term referring to the obligations of an economic operator in relation to its management system, risk management.
Battery due diligence is part of the formal vocabulary used in battery regulation, battery passports, producer obligations, and EV or industrial battery compliance. For this glossary, the key point is understanding how the source defines the term and where that definition sits within broader compliance or data requirements.
Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 concerning batteries and waste batteries
the obligations of an economic operator in relation to its management system, risk management, third-party verifications and surveillance by notified bodies and disclosure of information, for the purpose of identifying, preventing and addressing actual and potential social and environmental risks linked to the sourcing, processing and trading of the raw materials and secondary raw materials required for battery manufacturing, including by suppliers in the chain and their subsidiaries or subcontractors;
Reference: Article 3, point 42
In practice, this term matters when companies collect, structure, verify, or communicate sustainability data within battery regulation, battery passports, producer obligations, and EV or industrial battery compliance.
For Minespider, battery due diligence is not just descriptive language. It is a modeling term that affects how sustainability, emissions, lifecycle, or product information should be captured and compared.