Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 moves battery evidence from a loose supplier file into a lifecycle record. Lithium Record is built for that handoff. It stores customer-uploaded documents, publishes verifier-ready source URLs, records SHA-256 evidence hashes, and keeps the lithium evidence trail separate from claims that belong to auditors, notified bodies, regulators, or customers. 1 2
This is a pillar page for the Lithium compliance evidence cluster. It should act as the hub that spoke pages cite and return to.
Why lithium records need their own hub
Lithium sits close to the center of the Battery Regulation because it connects raw-material origin, chemical processing, cell manufacturing, carbon-footprint calculation, recycled-content declarations, due-diligence programs, and Battery Passport data. A buyer, OEM, recycler, or verifier may not need every source file on day one, but they need a stable evidence architecture before a question arrives. A lithium record hub gives the chain a single public place to describe what evidence exists, where it came from, when it was hashed, and how it can be checked without saying the software confers formal approval on the claim.
Regulatory frame
Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 applies to batteries placed on the Union market and introduces obligations across sustainability, safety, labelling, information, due diligence, carbon footprint, recycled content, and digital battery passports. The Regulation does not ask a lithium vault to become a regulator. It creates pressure for better evidence discipline. Lithium Record responds by creating durable record pages that can reference the regulation, map the evidence package, and preserve the distinction between hosted evidence and formal compliance determinations.
The vault role
A Lithium Record page should be read as an evidence container. It can host a supplier declaration, chain-of-custody statement, batch reference, laboratory file, material safety document, carbon-footprint input, or passport handoff note. It can hash the file and expose a verifier URL. It cannot inspect a mine, approve a conformity assessment, file a regulated declaration, or substitute the judgement of a qualified professional. That language must appear on every regulated page because it keeps the record useful and defensible.
How the spoke pages connect
The spokes below split the Battery Regulation into operational questions: scope, economic operators, evidence files, labeling information, and Battery Passport handoff. Each spoke links back to this pillar with a different anchor and links sideways to sibling pages so a compliance officer can move from broad regulatory duty to a specific file requirement without returning to the homepage.