EU DPP
Digital Product Passport — Articles 9-15 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 (ESPR)
Topic : Circularity & waste · Level : Regional
Today
Registry live 20 Jul 2026; 6 DPP standards cited. No passport mandatory yet; batteries first (18 Feb 2027).
Summary
The Digital Product Passport is a digital record of a product's materials, origin and environmental data, accessed by QR code. Each ESPR delegated act decides when it applies; batteries come first, in February 2027.
Who is concerned
- Turnover
- non précisé
- Employees
- non précisé
- Listed company
- non précisé
- Sectors
- Batteries (first)
- Iron and steel
- Textiles
- Electronics
- Triggering activities
- Placing a product covered by a DPP act
- Importing such product into the EU
- Selling it online to EU users
- Extraterritorial reach
- Yes
Non-EU manufacturers must feed passport data; importers check it exists before placing goods on the market.
- Examples
- EV battery pack maker in China
- Textile brand selling in the EU
- Steel product exporter to the EU
What the law requires
- Create a passport with the data set required by the product act
- Link it to the product via a data carrier such as a QR code
- Keep the data available and updated for the product's lifetime
- Register the unique identifier in the EU registry
Penalties
Set by Member States under ESPR; non-compliant products can be withdrawn by market surveillance.
What this changes for a supplier in China
Chinese manufacturers become the primary source of passport data (materials, origin, footprint). Without structured data, EU buyers cannot place the goods on the market.
Expected evidence
- Material composition and substances of concern
- Manufacturing site and origin data
- Carbon footprint and recycled content
Tiers : Tier 1-N