EU Regulation delaying due diligence rules for batteries published in the OJEU

On 30 July 2025, the “Stop the Clock” Battery Due Diligence Regulation was published in the Official Journal of the EU. It comes into force on 31 July 2025. 

The Sustainable Batteries Regulation 2023 establishes due diligence requirements for operators who must verify the source of raw materials used in batteries placed on the EU market. These due diligence obligations were initially scheduled to apply from 18 August 2025. In addition, the European Commission was required to publish guidelines on the due diligence requirements by 18 February 2025. For more information on the 2023 Regulation, see our previous blog post.  

The “Stop the Clock” Battery Due Diligence Regulation postpones these due diligence obligations until 18 August 2027 and extends the deadline for publication of the guidelines to 26 July 2026. 

This Regulation forms part of the Omnibus IV simplification package published by the Commission on 21 May 2025. For further details on Omnibus IV, see our previous blog post. 

For more information on the status of the various Omnibus proposals, see our EU Omnibus Tracker.