Governance & Assurance
Governance & Assurance
Introduction
Governance & Assurance answers four questions: who is responsible, who can decide, what evidence can be trusted, and how the organisation keeps the passport controlled over time.
Governance decides who owns each obligation, who may change the data that satisfies it, and how those decisions are recorded. Assurance proves that the arrangement is working: the evidence exists, the controls run, and the published result can be defended to an authority. This section covers the operating principles behind both, applied to Digital Product Passport obligations and to the wider product compliance estate around them.
This is not the reusable framework estate. Named methodologies and models are catalogued in the Framework Library, and practical tools that apply them are in Templates. Worked applications of both sit in Examples.
Start Here
- DPP Governance: Who Owns What?: separates legal responsibility, accountability, data ownership, evidence ownership, system ownership and process responsibility, then turns those distinctions into an illustrative operating model, decision rights, a governance cadence, and workable arrangements at SME and enterprise scale.
What This Section Covers
- Ownership and accountability: distinguishing legal responsibility from internal assignment.
- Obligation mapping: turning legal provisions into testable requirements.
- Controls and decision rights: who decides, who owns, who is accountable.
- Evidence models: what counts as proof, how long it must be retained, and who may see it.
- Roles and accountability across manufacturer, importer, distributor and authorised representative.
- Assurance and internal control, including review cycles and change management.
- Readiness assessment and gap analysis methods.
Who Should Read This
Compliance professionals, quality and assurance teams, and programme leads who need a defensible structure rather than a checklist. Useful to consultants running readiness assessments for clients.
Recommended Reading Order
- Regulations: establish which obligations apply.
- Governance & Assurance articles: structure those obligations into a controllable model.
- Implementation: deliver against the model.
Published Articles
Further articles in this section are in preparation and will appear here and in the navigation as they are published.
About This Article
tieback Knowledge is a continuously maintained reference library covering Digital Product Passports, product traceability, product compliance and related regulations. Articles are reviewed regularly as legislation, standards and implementation guidance evolve.