Industry Guides
Introduction
Passport obligations are set at product group level, so the practical answer to almost every question depends on the sector you operate in. This section interprets the general framework for specific industries, covering the product groups named in the ecodesign working plan and the regimes that already impose passport style duties.
What This Section Covers
- Sector by sector scope: which product groups are prioritised and on what timeline.
- The data points that matter most in each sector, and where they typically come from.
- Sector specific supply chain challenges, including contract manufacturing and material tracing.
- Existing sectoral regimes that overlap with ESPR, and how to avoid duplicating effort.
Who Should Read This
Manufacturers, product owners and compliance teams who already understand the general framework and now need to know what it means for textiles, electronics, batteries, construction products, furniture or their own category.
Recommended Reading Order
- What Is a Digital Product Passport?: the general model.
- Regulations: the framework and the delegated act process.
- What Data Goes in a Digital Product Passport, and Where Does It Come From?: the data origin model every industry guide applies to its own sector.
- Digital Product Passports for Batteries: What Companies Need to Know: the first sector guide, and the one regime where the passport is already law with a date attached.
- Digital Product Passports for Construction Products: What Companies Need to Know: the contrasting case, where the passport is law but its date depends on a delegated act, and where the record is built on an established declaration and conformity regime.
- Digital Product Passports for Textiles and Apparel: What Companies Need to Know: the third case, where no product-specific act exists at all, parts of the framework already bite, and the real difficulty is a multi-tier supply chain the responsible operator does not own.
- Digital Product Passports for Electronics: What Companies Need to Know: the fourth case, where the sector is not separately prioritised at all, obligations are currently expected to arrive horizontally rather than through one product act, and preparation means integrating existing product, component and compliance data that already exists under several other regimes.
- Digital Product Passports for Furniture: What Companies Need to Know: the fifth case, where the sector is named in the regulation itself as a priority but no product act exists, and the hard problems are product identity across variants and made-to-order configurations, wood provenance, and supplier data held by contract manufacturers.
- Digital Product Passports for Steel and Aluminium: What Companies Need to Know: the sixth case, and the first covering intermediate products rather than finished goods, where iron and steel and aluminium sit first on the statutory priority list, no product act exists, and the hard problems are heat and cast identity, mass balance recycled content, and embedded emissions data that carbon border compliance has already started to produce.
- Further Industry Guides articles for your sector, as they are published.
Published Articles
- Digital Product Passports for Batteries: What Companies Need to Know: the EU battery passport under Regulation (EU) 2023/1542, covering which battery categories are in scope, the 18 February 2027 date, who carries the duty, the Annex XIII content and its access tiers, where the data comes from, supplier evidence across multiple tiers, architecture for both small and large organisations, and how to run the programme after launch.
- Digital Product Passports for Construction Products: What Companies Need to Know: the construction passport under Regulation (EU) 2024/3110, covering why no product-level passport date can currently be stated, how the obligation is measured from a delegated act, how the passport is assembled from the declaration of performance and conformity and the technical documentation, where the data and evidence come from, and how manufacturers of every size should prepare.
- Digital Product Passports for Textiles and Apparel: What Companies Need to Know: the textile passport position under Regulation (EU) 2024/1781, covering why no textile passport date exists, what the 2025-2030 working plan does and does not commit the Commission to, the ban on destroying unsold apparel applying to large companies from 19 July 2026, what a textile passport is likely to carry, the model, batch or item granularity question, and how to prepare across a multi-tier supply chain the brand does not own.
- Digital Product Passports for Electronics: What Companies Need to Know: the electronics position under Regulation (EU) 2024/1781, covering why no electronics passport date exists, why the 2025-2030 working plan routes ICT through horizontal measures on repairability and on recycled content and recyclability rather than a sector act, what substance, waste equipment, 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: the furniture and mattress position under Regulation (EU) 2024/1781, covering why furniture is a statutory priority group with no passport date, what deforestation due diligence, general product safety, chemical and packaging law already require, the identity problem created by variants and made-to-order configurations, and how manufacturers of every size, including small workshops, should prepare.
- Digital Product Passports for Steel and Aluminium: What Companies Need to Know: the iron, steel and aluminium position under Regulation (EU) 2024/1781, covering why these groups sit first on the Article 18(5) statutory priority list without any adopted delegated act, what it means that they are intermediate products in scope alongside finished goods, how carbon border adjustment obligations under Regulation (EU) 2023/956 already force consignment-level embedded emissions accounting, and how producers, service centres and fabricators should build heat and cast identity, honest recycled content accounting and evidence binding now.
Further articles in this section are in preparation. They will appear here and in the navigation as they are published, so this page never links to unfinished material.
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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.