Synton measures how much of a named, dated, cited dataset your products already carry, and separates the half that is law in force from the half that is still expected. It will not tell you that you are compliant, because on this subject nobody honestly can yet.
Read from the primary texts: the ESPR consolidated text (CELEX 02024R1781-20240628), Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 and Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1778. Last reviewed 20 August 2026. Every figure on this page is dated so you can see how old it is.
7 decisions separate a passport readiness report from a compliance score. Each one can be checked against the instrument it names.
A field is on your list because an instrument in force names it, or because the preparatory work names it consistently and we say which. Each point carries the regulation, the article and the reason it is there, so you can check the reading against the text instead of trusting a number. The alternative, an unsourced field list turned into a percentage, is what most passport tooling ships.
A point is marked specified when an instrument in force names it, and candidate when it is expected in a delegated act that has not been adopted. The two are scored as separate bands with separate denominators. A single average across both would imply a certainty that does not exist, hide the one obligation that is real, and manufacture urgency around several that are not.
When a dataset asks for something we have nowhere to store, that point is reported as uncapturable, excluded from your denominators and listed on its own. Counting our missing columns as your missing data would flatter us at your expense; listed separately, the same fact is our roadmap. The battery dataset reports none of these today, and the two that remain are expected textile points.
ESPR Article 10 requires a passport to differentiate what each audience may read, and the battery dataset splits along the same three audiences: anyone who scans the carrier, people with a legitimate interest such as repairers, remanufacturers and recyclers, and authorities. A passport that serves every field to every scanner is not a more generous passport, it is your supply chain published. Restricted points are stripped before the page is built, and the viewer is told how many were withheld and under which tier, so a redacted passport does not read as an incomplete one. A tier comes from an authenticated decision and can never be claimed in a query string.
The code points at a GS1 Digital Link over your own GTIN, not at an identifier we minted. ESPR Articles 11 and 12 require a persistent identifier free of vendor lock-in, and Article 77(6) of the Batteries Regulation requires the code on a battery to reach a unique, permanent address serving that battery's passport, which a product page that breaks on your next replatform does not satisfy. A lot or serial number narrows the answer to that unit and never widens back to the model. GS1 Digital Link is the carrier form the Commission's preparatory work points at: a strong candidate, not a legal designation, and we label it that way.
The battery passport covers LMT batteries, electric vehicle batteries, and rechargeable industrial batteries above 2 kWh. It does not cover a portable cell, and it does not cover an SLI starter battery. The word "batteries" alone cannot separate a 60 kWh traction pack from a hearing aid cell, so the scope check has three answers and the third one matters most: undetermined, meaning tell us which kind this is. Showing every battery seller a February 2027 date would be the easy, confident, wrong answer, and a false deadline on a regulated subject costs a supplier programme nobody needed.
ESPR Article 13 has the Commission setting up a digital registry by 19 July 2026, and Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1778 lays down how it operates. We build the registration record its Articles 8 and 9 describe, validate it, and tell you exactly what is still missing. We do not post it: we hold no credentials for the interface and have not read its request schema. The registration identifier is minted by the Commission, so ours stays empty until the registry returns one. A value we generated there would be a forged regulatory reference.
3 situations, and only 1 of them has a date. Anything offering you a fourth is quoting an expectation as though it were a rule.
Adopted. The dataset is named in the Annex.
LMT batteries, electric vehicle batteries, and rechargeable industrial batteries above 2 kWh. Portable cells and SLI starter batteries sit outside it. This is the one product group with an obligation a merchant can miss, and we treat it accordingly.
Framework in force. The textiles delegated act is not adopted.
Until that act exists, the mandatory field list, the product granularity, the access rights split and the transition period are all legally undetermined. We carry the expected fields so you can collect them early, and every one of them is labelled expected rather than required. Any textile deadline you have been quoted is a prediction about when the act will land, not a rule.
No product specific delegated act.
You get the framework level only: the persistent unique identifier, the responsible economic operator and the carrier any passport will need. Collecting those early carries no regret. Not holding them today breaks no rule, and we will not pretend otherwise to sell you a project.
The horizontal standards, the CEN and CENELEC JTC 24 series covering identifiers, data carriers, access rights and interoperability, were still in progress at our last review. Interoperability details will move, which is why the position above carries a date. The framework itself sits in Regulation (EU) 2024/1781, Chapter III, Articles 9 to 15.
A passport claim is a regulated statement. Telling a merchant they are compliant with a rule nobody has written yet is the most damaging thing this product could do, so it is designed out rather than reviewed for.
That is not caution for its own sake. A compliance percentage built from an unsourced field list is worse than no number at all: it is precise, it is confident, and it is about nothing. It sends people to buy supplier data they do not need, and it goes quiet on the one dataset that is adopted and does have a date.
Anyone can list what a product does. This is the part you can hold us to, and the part a compliance score will not print.
Coverage measures how much of a named dataset you hold. It does not replace the conformity procedures the Regulation requires, and it does not judge whether a document you hold is adequate. Presence is scored; adequacy is not.
We prepare the registration record and stop. Preparation is all it is, and the record itself says so.
Because there is not one. The delegated act was not adopted at our last review, so the honest answer to "when do I need this" for a textile product is that nobody knows yet.
State of health is measured per battery and it decays, so an undated reading is a number of unknown age presented as current. A reading with no date scores as missing, and you keep the value you typed.
We cite the instrument and the article so your own counsel can check the reading rather than take our word for it. That is what the citations are for.
Connect a store, pick a product group, and read the coverage split into law in force and expected, with the article printed beside every line.
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