Who runs this index and how a record gets checked

{OPERATOR NAME} runs this index alone and no listed company has a say in it. This site is not affiliated with any of the firms it lists, holds no shareholding in them and takes no advertising, sponsorship or placement money from them. Nobody sees their record before it is published. If a supplier tells you it is an official partner of this site, it is wrong.

A record starts on the company's own website. What goes into it is what that page states: the products sold, the UN codes and approval numbers claimed for them, the countries shipped to. That claim stays attached to the company that made it. Every record shows the URL it came from and the date {OPERATOR NAME} opened it, so a reader can judge how stale it might be. Recheck is scheduled every {RECHECK INTERVAL}. The printed date is the day the source was actually opened rather than the day the recheck fell due, so a reader can see where the schedule has slipped.

No basket and no price sits on any record, so nothing on this site can be bought, least of all a 4GV case. Enquiries are never collected, which leaves a broker nothing to sell on. Nothing here is legal advice either. That matters more on this subject than on most: several dates in the EU Battery Regulation are conditional on delegated or implementing acts whose adoption this site has not confirmed.

Regulatory dates here came from secondary summaries rather than a direct read of the Official Journal. Every page carrying a date names the article behind it and the day it was checked. A direct fetch of eur-lex.europa.eu failed during the research pass on 4 August 2026 [VERIFIED: research pass 2026-08-04, direct fetch of eur-lex.europa.eu blocked], so no date on this site is quoted from the primary text and none should reach a specification without being read at source. Where sources conflicted the date is left out. An obligation whose delegated or implementing act has not been shown as adopted is described as pending rather than in force.

The carbon footprint declaration is the case in point. Some supplier pages give 18 February 2026 as the day it began applying to rechargeable industrial batteries above 2 kWh. Article 7 does set that date. It also makes application conditional on a delegated act laying down the calculation method. No adoption of that act had been found when this was checked on 4 August 2026, so the declaration is listed here as pending rather than in force [VERIFIED: Newcastle University comment on the EU battery carbon footprint delay, September 2025, read via search extract 2026-08-04; adoption unconfirmed at 2026-08-04].