Digital Product Passports
How DPPs will reshape product transparency and traceability across the EU.
DPP and product traceability: the supply-chain data work the passport actually demands
The Digital Product Passport is a traceability instrument before it is a consumer-facing artefact. Here's the data chain — identifier, components, suppliers, substances, country of origin, evidence — that any DPP under ESPR or the Batteries Regulation will demand, and how to start capturing it now.
DPP for textiles: what sellers should track now
The Digital Product Passport lands on textiles before most other categories. Here is what fashion and apparel sellers should be capturing in 2026 to be ready.
EU Digital Product Passport: what brands need to know before 2027
Under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation, product data moves from paper files to structured, machine-readable passports with tiered access. What a passport contains, which categories come first, why it is a data problem rather than a document problem, and what to organise during 2026.
What is a Digital Product Passport (DPP)? The EU's per-SKU data record, in plain English
The Digital Product Passport is the structured digital record the EU is rolling out under ESPR — batteries first (Feb 2027), textiles next, then most physical product categories through 2030. Here's what it actually contains, who has to issue one, and what to do this quarter.
What is a Digital Product Passport and when does your product need one?
A Digital Product Passport (DPP) is a machine-readable digital record that consolidates essential information about a product's identity, composition, compliance, sustainability, and lifecycle. Mandated under the EU's Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) — Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 — the DPP is intended to make supply chains more transparent, support circular economy objectives, and give consumers, regulators, and recyclers structured access to product information.