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# Industry Guides

## Docs

- [Industry Guides](https://tieback.io/docs/knowledge-base/industry-guides/overview.md): A section overview of sector specific interpretation of Digital Product Passport obligations, from textiles to electronics and construction.
- [Digital Product Passports for Batteries: What Companies Need to Know](https://tieback.io/docs/knowledge-base/industry-guides/digital-product-passports-for-batteries.md): A practical, legally disciplined guide to the EU battery passport under Regulation (EU) 2023/1542: which battery categories are covered, the 18 February 2027 date, who carries the duty, what Annex XIII requires and who may see each part of it, where the data actually comes from, how supplier evidence works across multiple tiers, and how to run the programme from first assessment through publication to lifecycle operation.
- [Digital Product Passports for Construction Products: What Companies Need to Know](https://tieback.io/docs/knowledge-base/industry-guides/digital-product-passports-for-construction-products.md): A practical, legally disciplined guide to the construction digital product passport under Regulation (EU) 2024/3110: how the new Construction Products Regulation replaces Regulation (EU) No 305/2011, why no universal product-level passport date can currently be stated, how the passport is built on the declaration of performance and conformity rather than replacing it, where the data and evidence actually come from, and how manufacturers of every size should prepare.
- [Digital Product Passports for Textiles and Apparel: What Companies Need to Know](https://tieback.io/docs/knowledge-base/industry-guides/digital-product-passports-for-textiles-and-apparel.md): A practical, legally disciplined guide to the textile digital product passport under Regulation (EU) 2024/1781: why no textile passport date exists yet, what the ESPR working plan actually commits the Commission to, which obligations already bite today including the ban on destroying unsold apparel from 19 July 2026, what a textile passport is likely to have to carry, and how brands, mills and small manufacturers should prepare across a multi-tier supply chain they do not own.
- [Digital Product Passports for Electronics: What Companies Need to Know](https://tieback.io/docs/knowledge-base/industry-guides/digital-product-passports-for-electronics.md): A practical, legally disciplined guide to Digital Product Passports for electronics: why no electronics passport date exists under Regulation (EU) 2024/1781, how the 2025-2030 working plan treats ICT through two horizontal measures rather than a sector act, what RoHS, WEEE, energy labelling and existing ecodesign rules already require, and how to prepare bill of materials, component, supplier and evidence data before product-specific requirements arrive.
- [Digital Product Passports for Furniture: What Companies Need to Know](https://tieback.io/docs/knowledge-base/industry-guides/digital-product-passports-for-furniture.md): A practical, legally disciplined guide to Digital Product Passports for furniture and mattresses: why no furniture passport date exists under Regulation (EU) 2024/1781, what the 2025-2030 working plan actually commits the Commission to, which obligations already bite today including deforestation due diligence for wood and general product safety traceability, what a furniture passport is likely to have to carry, and how manufacturers, retailers and small workshops should prepare across variant-heavy, made-to-order product ranges.
- [Digital Product Passports for Steel and Aluminium: What Companies Need to Know](https://tieback.io/docs/knowledge-base/industry-guides/digital-product-passports-for-steel-and-aluminium.md): A legally disciplined guide to Digital Product Passports for iron, steel and aluminium: why these two groups sit first on the statutory priority list in Article 18(5) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1781, what it means that they are intermediate products rather than finished goods, why no product-specific passport obligation or data field list yet exists, how the carbon border adjustment mechanism already forces embedded emissions accounting on the same materials, and what producers, service centres, fabricators and buyers should build now.