Digital Product Passport: readiness before it becomes mandatory.
The EU Ecodesign Regulation (ESPR) rolls out the Digital Product Passport from 2027, product group by product group. DPP readiness means preparing your data and systems in time.
From February 2027
The battery passport leads, further product groups follow via delegated acts.
Data and systems
Machine-readable data with a unique product identifier, fed from ERP, PIM and the supply chain.
Our offer
Gap analysis, data audit, system integration and a pilot passport for a real product.
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The Digital Product Passport is our focus: at dpp-digitaler-produktpass.de we gather our consulting around DPP readiness, from impact assessment to a pilot passport.
What the Digital Product Passport requires.
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A data record on the product
The DPP is a machine-readable data record that accompanies a product across its life cycle. On the product sits a unique identifier with a data carrier, usually a QR code.
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- Material composition and substances of concern
- Recycled content, repairability and durability data
- Carbon and environmental footprint
- Instructions for repair, disassembly and end-of-life handling
- Conformity and traceability information from the supply chain
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Legal basis and deadlines
The basis is the EU Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR, Regulation (EU) 2024/1781), in force since July 2024. The delegated act defines what your product group has to deliver.
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Between a delegated act and its application there are typically around 18 months. The battery passport becomes mandatory on 18 February 2027 under EU Battery Regulation 2023/1542.
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The data stays with you
The EU runs no central product database. The registry holds identifiers and references, while the passport data has to stay current and machine-readable on your side.
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Consumers, market surveillance, customs and recyclers see different extracts, so the data model has to carry those rights. Without consistent article and batch logic in ERP and PIM, the first problem starts here.
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What DPP readiness covers
Impact and gap analysis, a data audit across ERP, PIM and Excel islands, the data model, supply-chain data collection, system integration and a pilot passport.
Data models and interfaces
The road to the DPP obligation.
Dates for delegated acts are indicative. Filled markers are already reality.
ESPR enters into force
Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 creates the legal basis for the Digital Product Passport.
First ESPR working plan
The Commission names the priorities: iron and steel, aluminium, textiles, tyres, furniture, mattresses.
Delegated act for iron & steel expected
The first ESPR product group in the plan. Data requirements travel up the steel supply chain.
Battery passport becomes mandatory
EV, LMT and industrial batteries above 2 kWh need a battery passport under Regulation 2023/1542, the blueprint for later passports.
Textiles, tyres, aluminium expected
The delegated acts for the next priority groups: composition, recycled content and supply-chain evidence for textiles.
Furniture, mattresses and further groups
A framework regulation that eventually covers almost all physical products on the EU market, apart from food, feed and medicines.
Is your product group on the plan?
Then your preparation window is running. We check when it hits you and which data you are missing today.
Frequently asked questions about the Digital Product Passport.
What is the Digital Product Passport (DPP)?
A machine-readable data record with a unique product identifier that carries sustainability, material and circularity information across a product life cycle, read via a data carrier such as a QR code.
When does the Digital Product Passport become mandatory?
Step by step. The battery passport becomes mandatory on 18 February 2027. For ESPR product groups the DPP applies after the delegated act: iron and steel expected from 2026, textiles, tyres and aluminium from 2027, further groups by 2030.
Does the DPP also affect small companies and non-EU manufacturers?
Yes. The obligations apply to products placed on the EU market, wherever they are made. Importers and distributors share responsibility. SMEs get support measures, the data obligations themselves remain.
What does a readiness check cost?
The readiness check is a compact fixed scope: impact, data situation and systems, with a findings report. We name the price after a short call about your product portfolio.
How DPP-ready are you?
The readiness check shows impact, data gaps and the sensible next steps, compact and understandable.
Request DPP readiness.
Name your industry and product group. We reply with a first assessment of impact and approach.
We usually reply within 24 hours.
Remote and on site in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. International projects on request.