> For clean Markdown of any page, append .md to the page URL. > For a complete documentation index, see https://tieback.io/docs/llms.txt. > For AI client integration (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.), connect to the MCP server at https://tieback.io/docs/_mcp/server. # Which Products Will Require a Digital Product Passport? > How the European Commission decides which product groups need a Digital Product Passport, which categories are covered today, which are prioritised next, and which remain undecided. ## Executive Summary The most common question asked about the [Digital Product Passport](/docs/knowledge-base/glossary/digital-product-passport) is also the hardest to answer badly: will my products need one? The honest answer has three parts, and most published material gives only one of them. First, a small number of products already carry a legally adopted passport obligation. That obligation does not come from the [Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation](/docs/knowledge-base/regulations/what-is-the-ecodesign-for-sustainable-products-regulation-espr) at all. It comes from Regulation (EU) 2023/1542, the Batteries Regulation, which contains its own battery passport requirement with its own dates. Second, a larger set of product groups has been formally prioritised for work under ESPR. Priority is not obligation. A product group named in the ESPR working plan is scheduled for study, consultation and eventual rule making. Until a [delegated act](/docs/knowledge-base/glossary/delegated-act) covering that group is adopted and applies, no ESPR passport requirement exists for it. Third, everything beyond the current working plan is genuinely open. ESPR gives the Commission a power that reaches almost every physical product placed on the EU market, but a power is not a plan and a plan is not a law. This article explains how the Commission chooses product groups, sets out what is adopted, what is prioritised, what is under consultation and what remains speculative, and introduces the Product Category Rollout Model, a four stage maturity model for reasoning about coverage without guessing. No product category is described here as covered unless an act covering it has been adopted and published in the Official Journal of the European Union. * Coverage is decided product group by product group, by delegated act, not by the ESPR framework itself. - The only widely applicable product passport obligation adopted in EU law today is the battery passport under Regulation (EU) 2023/1542, applying to specified battery categories from 18 February 2027. - ESPR working plan priorities, including textiles and iron and steel, are commitments to do rule making work. They are not requirements and carry no compliance date until a delegated act is adopted. - Selection is driven by the ESPR Article 18 criteria: environmental impact, volumes traded, improvement potential and coherence with other EU law. - Timelines differ between industries because data maturity, supply chain length, standardisation readiness and measurement methods differ. - The preparation with the longest lead time, identifiers, data ownership and supplier data clauses, does not depend on knowing the specification. This is the third article in the Regulations section and the seventh in the learning path that begins with [What is a Digital Product Passport?](/docs/knowledge-base/digital-product-passports/what-is-a-digital-product-passport). Framework TBF-007 The Product Category Rollout Model Groups product categories by rollout position so organisations can judge how soon a passport obligation reaches them. > **Educational scope** > > This article provides general educational information about EU product regulation concepts. It > does not determine the scope for any particular organisation or product, and it is not legal > advice. Whether a product falls within scope is a legal question that depends on specific facts. ## Table of Contents * [Definition](#definition) * [Why Products Are Introduced Gradually](#why-products-are-introduced-gradually) * [How Product Groups Are Selected](#how-product-groups-are-selected) * [The Product Category Rollout Model](#the-product-category-rollout-model) * [Products Already Covered](#products-already-covered) * [Products Expected Next](#products-expected-next) * [Products That May Follow](#products-that-may-follow) * [Why Timelines Differ Between Industries](#why-timelines-differ-between-industries) * [What Manufacturers Should Do](#what-manufacturers-should-do) * [What Importers Should Do](#what-importers-should-do) * [What Retailers Should Do](#what-retailers-should-do) * [Preparing Before Your Industry Is Covered](#preparing-before-your-industry-is-covered) * [Common Misconceptions](#common-misconceptions) * [Frequently Asked Questions](#frequently-asked-questions) * [Key Takeaways](#key-takeaways) * [Related Articles](#related-articles) * [Related Glossary Terms](#related-glossary-terms) * [References](#references) * [Page Metadata](#page-metadata) ## Definition The set of products for which a Digital Product Passport is legally required. Coverage exists only where a legal act in force names the product group and imposes the requirement. Under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation, that act is a product specific delegated act adopted by the European Commission. Outside ESPR, coverage may also be created directly by a sectoral regulation, as it is for batteries. A product group that is listed as a priority, studied in a preparatory review or discussed in consultation is not covered. Three consequences follow from that definition, and they resolve most of the confusion in this area. **Coverage is per product group, not per company.** There is no organisation wide switch. A manufacturer may hold one portfolio line that is covered from a fixed date and another line that has no obligation at all, for years. **Coverage has a date, not just a status.** Adoption, [entry into force](/docs/knowledge-base/glossary/entry-into-force) and application are three different moments. A delegated act typically applies some period after entry into force to give industry a transition. The date that matters commercially is the date of application to the products you place on the market. **Coverage attaches to placing on the market.** The obligation is triggered by making the product available in the EU, which is why importers can inherit obligations they did not design into the product. That allocation is set out in [Who Needs a Digital Product Passport?](/docs/knowledge-base/digital-product-passports/who-needs-a-digital-product-passport). > **The one question that settles any coverage claim** > > For any statement that a product category is covered, ask for the act, the article and the > Official Journal reference, plus the date of application. Adopted EU law always has all four. A > working plan entry, a consultation document, a standardisation request or a vendor roadmap has > none of them. ## Why Products Are Introduced Gradually A single act covering all products at once was never realistic, and the Union did not attempt it. Four constraints force a staged rollout. **Regulatory capacity.** Each product group requires a preparatory study, an impact assessment, consultation, expert group work, drafting, scrutiny by the European Parliament and the Council and then translation and publication. This is measured in years per group, and the Commission runs a finite number of workstreams in parallel. **Data maturity varies enormously.** Some sectors already hold structured [product data](/docs/knowledge-base/glossary/product-data) with established measurement methods. Others do not have an agreed way to measure the thing the regulation would require, which means a requirement written today would be unenforceable or would produce numbers that cannot be compared. **Standards must exist before requirements can be tested.** Requirements are normally supported by [harmonised standards](/docs/knowledge-base/glossary/harmonised-standard), and standardisation runs on its own timetable through the European standardisation organisations. Regulating ahead of the standard shifts the burden onto [conformity assessment](/docs/knowledge-base/glossary/conformity-assessment) in ways that are expensive and inconsistent. **Proportionality is a legal requirement, not a courtesy.** The Union must show that a measure is proportionate to the environmental gain. Sequencing by impact is how the largest gains are captured first while smaller categories are addressed when the machinery is cheaper to run. #### Why batteries went first Batteries had the conditions that make regulation tractable. The environmental case is well evidenced, the material composition is measurable, the supply chain is concentrated enough to be reachable, and there was existing sectoral legislation to build on. The result is that the battery passport was written directly into Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 rather than waiting for the ESPR machinery, and it therefore has a date in law while broader categories do not. ## How Product Groups Are Selected Selection is not discretionary in the informal sense. ESPR sets out criteria the Commission must take into account when prioritising product groups for delegated acts, and it must consult before choosing. | Selection factor | What the Commission is assessing | | ------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | **Environmental impact** | Contribution of the product group to climate, energy, water, resource use, pollution and waste across the lifecycle | | **Improvement potential** | Whether a meaningful improvement is achievable through design and information requirements | | **Volume placed on the EU market** | Scale of sales and trade, since impact per unit multiplied by volume determines the size of the prize | | **Coherence with other EU law** | Whether the product group is already regulated elsewhere, and whether ESPR would duplicate or conflict | | **Feasibility and data availability** | Whether measurement methods, standards and supply chain data exist to make a requirement enforceable | Around those criteria sits a procedure with a small number of visible checkpoints, each of which is public and each of which is a chance to see coverage coming. #### Working plan The Commission adopts a multi year ESPR working plan naming the product groups it intends to address and the sequence. This is a statement of intent, adopted as a Commission communication, not as binding product law. #### Preparatory study An evidence review examines the product group's environmental profile, market data, technical options and the cost of intervention. #### Consultation Calls for evidence and public consultations open on the Have Your Say portal, and the Ecodesign Forum and related expert groups meet. This is the point at which an organisation can influence the requirement. #### Draft delegated act A draft is published for feedback, then finalised. The text names the product group, the requirements, the passport data attributes and the dates. #### Scrutiny and adoption The European Parliament and the Council may object during the scrutiny period. If neither does, the act is adopted and published in the Official Journal, and only then is a product group covered. The mechanics of that final step, and why the framework alone never makes a product group covered, are explained in [What Are Delegated Acts?](/docs/knowledge-base/regulations/what-are-delegated-acts). Establishes the framework for setting ecodesign requirements, including the power to require a Digital Product Passport. Product coverage, data attributes, access rights and dates are set by product specific delegated acts. The Commission must adopt and periodically update a working plan identifying the product groups it intends to prioritise, and must consult before adopting acts. The framework itself imposes no product specific passport requirement on any product group until the relevant delegated act applies. ## The Product Category Rollout Model Coverage becomes far easier to reason about when product groups are placed on a maturity scale rather than sorted into "covered" and "not covered". The Product Category Rollout Model describes four stages. A product group moves down the scale over time, and the correct organisational response is different at each stage. 1 Products with existing legislation Adopted law A passport obligation already exists in an adopted act with a date of application. Batteries sit here, under Regulation (EU) 2023/1542. Response: comply to the specification, on the statutory timetable. 2 Highest ESPR priorities Working plan, no obligation yet Named in the ESPR working plan for early rule making: textiles and apparel, furniture, iron and steel, and aluminium, alongside electronics addressed through the existing ecodesign pipeline. Response: engage in consultation and prepare data foundations. There is no compliance date until a delegated act is adopted. 3 Future product groups Signalled, undetermined Categories flagged in Commission analysis, horizontal measures or later working plan cycles, including intermediate products such as chemicals and construction related materials handled under their own regimes. Response: monitor the working plan and calls for evidence. 4 Long term expansion Within scope of the power, not planned The remainder of the physical goods that ESPR could in principle reach, excluded categories aside. Nothing is scheduled and nothing should be assumed. Response: no action beyond generic data hygiene. Movement is one directional in practice but not automatic: a product group can remain at stage 2 or 3 for years, and inclusion in a working plan does not guarantee that a delegated act follows. Two rules make the model useful rather than decorative. **Never treat a stage as the stage below it.** The most expensive error in this area is buying, contracting or committing as though a stage 2 category were stage 1. The second most expensive is treating stage 2 as stage 4 and doing nothing at all. **Your evidence for a stage must be a document.** Stage 1 requires an Official Journal citation. Stage 2 requires a working plan entry. Stage 3 requires a Commission document that names the category. Stage 4 requires nothing, because it asserts nothing. ## Products Already Covered One category has an adopted, dated product passport obligation in EU law. **Batteries.** Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 requires a battery passport for industrial batteries with a capacity above 2 kWh, electric vehicle batteries and light means of transport batteries placed on the market or put into service from 18 February 2027. The passport must be accessible through a [QR code](/docs/knowledge-base/glossary/qr-code) on the battery, must be unique to each individual battery, and must carry information on composition, carbon footprint, due diligence, performance and durability, with different data visible to different audiences. Responsibility sits with the [economic operator](/docs/knowledge-base/glossary/economic-operator) placing the battery on the market. Two clarifications matter here. The battery passport is not an ESPR delegated act. It is a requirement written directly into a sectoral regulation adopted before ESPR entered into force. It is nevertheless the closest thing to a working reference implementation of the concept, and its architecture, unique identifier, data carrier, tiered access, is the pattern ESPR passports are expected to follow. Separately, the Construction Products Regulation (EU) 2024/3110 establishes a digital product passport system for construction products. The system is created by the regulation, but the obligations for specific construction product families depend on further acts and harmonised technical specifications, so most construction products should be treated as stage 3, not stage 1, until the applicable act names them. #### Reading the 2027 battery date as a general DPP deadline The 18 February 2027 date is frequently repeated as "the DPP deadline". It is not. It is the date of application of the battery passport under Regulation (EU) 2023/1542, and it applies only to the battery categories that regulation names. If you do not place those batteries on the EU market, that date imposes nothing on you. Planning a portfolio wide programme around it produces work with no legal driver and a delivery date that cannot be justified internally. ## Products Expected Next The ESPR working plan for 2025 to 2030, COM(2025) 187, sets the Commission's priorities for the first cycle of ESPR rule making. Every category below is at stage 2 of the rollout model. Each is a commitment to develop requirements, subject in every case to a future delegated act. | Product group | Rollout stage | Status | | -------------------------------------------- | ------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | **Textiles and apparel** | Stage 2 | Named as a priority final product group in the ESPR working plan. Requirements subject to a future delegated act. | | **Furniture** | Stage 2 | Named as a priority final product group. Requirements subject to a future delegated act. | | **Tyres** | Stage 2 | Named as a priority final product group. Requirements subject to a future delegated act. | | **Mattresses** | Stage 2 | Named as a priority final product group. Requirements subject to a future delegated act. | | **Iron and steel** | Stage 2 | Named as a priority intermediate product group. Requirements subject to a future delegated act. | | **Aluminium** | Stage 2 | Named as a priority intermediate product group. Requirements subject to a future delegated act. | | **Electronics and ICT** | Stage 2 | Addressed through both the ESPR working plan and the existing ecodesign pipeline. Product specific acts pending. | | **Energy related products under transition** | Stage 1 or 2 | Existing ecodesign measures continue to apply. Whether a passport is added depends on the act that replaces them. | Textiles is the group most often assumed to be settled, so it is worth being precise. Textiles are a declared priority. Preparatory work and consultation are under way. As of the review date of this article, no ESPR delegated act imposing a Digital Product Passport on textiles has been adopted, and therefore no textile product is legally required to carry an ESPR passport. Anyone quoting a firm textile compliance date is quoting a projection, not a law. #### Track the act, not the commentary Set a standing watch on three primary sources for each priority group that touches your portfolio: the ESPR working plan and its updates, the Have Your Say portal for calls for evidence and draft acts, and EUR-Lex for adoption. Those three tell you the stage of every category that matters to you, in order, and they publish before any trade press summary does. ## Products That May Follow Beyond the current working plan, ESPR's reach is wide. The framework applies to physical goods placed on the EU market, with a small number of exclusions such as food, feed, medicinal products and certain vehicles addressed by their own regimes. That means most remaining categories sit at stage 3 or stage 4: within the power, but with no adopted requirement and, in most cases, no schedule. Categories reasonably described as plausible future candidates, all of them explicitly subject to future delegated acts that have not been adopted, include chemicals and formulated products, packaging materials handled under the packaging regime, additional intermediate materials such as plastics and glass, toys, detergents, and further construction related product families as the Construction Products Regulation system is built out. Two disciplines matter when discussing this stage. **Say the quiet part.** Any statement about these categories should carry the qualifier explicitly: subject to a future delegated act that has not been adopted. Dropping the qualifier is how a plausible expectation becomes an internal deadline. **Do not infer scope from a study.** A preparatory study or a call for evidence naming a category is evidence of interest, not of intent to regulate on a given timetable. Some studied categories are deliberately not taken forward. #### Building a compliance roadmap out of expectations Roadmaps that assign dates to stage 3 categories look decisive and age badly. When the projected date passes without an act, the programme loses credibility internally and funding is withdrawn, which usually removes the genuinely useful preparation work along with the speculative parts. Assign dates only to stage 1. For stage 2 and 3, commit to capability milestones instead: supplier clauses signed, identifiers assigned, data audit complete. ## Why Timelines Differ Between Industries Two sectors of similar size and similar environmental impact can be years apart in the queue. The differences are structural. **Supply chain depth.** A garment may pass through fibre production, spinning, weaving, dyeing, cutting and assembly across several jurisdictions before it is branded. Every tier is a place where data must originate. A product with three suppliers can be specified far sooner than one with thirty across four tiers. **Measurement maturity.** Where a recognised method exists for the thing being regulated, a requirement can be written and tested. Where the method is contested, the requirement either waits or arrives as a disclosure duty rather than a performance threshold. **Standardisation readiness.** Requirements lean on harmonised standards. Where the relevant standards work is already in progress, the act can reference it. Where it is not, the act must wait for or trigger a standardisation request, which adds years. **Existing regulation.** Sectors already carrying detailed EU rules, batteries, construction products, packaging, are handled within those regimes to avoid duplication, which can make them either faster, because machinery exists, or slower, because two instruments must be reconciled. **Market structure.** Concentrated sectors with a few large operators are easier to consult, model and enforce than fragmented sectors with tens of thousands of small importers. #### Same ambition, different queue positions Textiles and steel are both stage 2 priorities, but for different reasons and with different bottlenecks. Steel is concentrated, well measured and has mature material data, and its challenge is reconciling ESPR with carbon and trade instruments. Textiles is fragmented, deeply tiered and weak on upstream data, and its challenge is whether suppliers several tiers up can supply attributes at all. Expect the two to arrive on different timetables even though they were prioritised together. ## What Manufacturers Should Do Manufacturers carry the primary obligation wherever a passport requirement applies, because they control design, specification and the data that describes the product. * **Classify the portfolio by rollout stage.** Produce a list of product families mapped to stage 1 to 4, with the supporting document for each classification. Refresh it when the working plan or EUR-Lex changes, not when a vendor publishes a blog post. * **Fix identifiers first.** A stable, unique [product identifier](/docs/knowledge-base/glossary/product-identifier) scheme, and a decision on whether identity is per model, per batch or per item, is a prerequisite for every passport regardless of which category is covered. See [How Does a Digital Product Passport Work?](/docs/knowledge-base/digital-product-passports/how-does-a-digital-product-passport-work). * **Audit data ownership.** For each candidate attribute, name the [system of record](/docs/knowledge-base/glossary/system-of-record) and the accountable owner. Most passport programmes stall on ownership, not technology. * **Put data clauses in supplier contracts now.** Contract cycles are long. A clause obliging suppliers to provide specified attributes in a machine readable form, with a right to update, is the single highest leverage action available before a specification exists. * **Participate in consultation.** For stage 2 categories, the consultation window is the only point at which the requirement can be shaped rather than absorbed. ## What Importers Should Do Importers frequently inherit the manufacturer's obligations for products brought into the EU from outside it, which makes coverage a commercial risk rather than a technical one. * **Map the origin of every covered and candidate line.** Identify which lines come from non EU manufacturers, since those are the lines where the obligation lands on you. * **Test supplier capability early.** Ask a stage 2 supplier for a structured data extract today. The response tells you whether the relationship survives a future requirement. * **Write compliance into purchase terms.** Include the obligation to supply passport data, warranties of accuracy, and the right to audit. Retrofitting these after an act is adopted is materially harder. * **Check the responsibility allocation per line.** Private label and rebranded goods can move you from importer to manufacturer in the legal sense, which changes the obligation entirely. ## What Retailers Should Do Retailers and distributors carry lighter but real duties, mostly around making the passport accessible and not disrupting it. * **Preserve the [data carrier](/docs/knowledge-base/glossary/data-carrier).** Repackaging, overlabelling and relabelling must not obscure or destroy the carrier that resolves the passport. * **Check presence before selling.** For stage 1 products, verify that a passport exists and resolves before listing, in the same way that CE marking is verified today. * **Plan the digital surface.** Where a passport exists, customers will find it through the product page as well as the physical carrier. Decide who owns that experience. * **Do not create obligations you do not have.** Retailers are not required to author passport data for products they merely distribute. Volunteering to become the data owner transfers accountability you cannot verify. ## Preparing Before Your Industry Is Covered The rational position for a stage 2 or stage 3 organisation is neither compliance projects nor inaction. It is capability building limited to work that would be needed under any plausible specification. #### Build the four things that survive any specification 1. **Identifier discipline.** Unique, persistent, resolvable identifiers with a defined granularity. 2. **A data inventory.** Every attribute you already hold, its system of record and its owner. 3. **Supplier data clauses.** Contractual rights to structured data, before the contract cycle closes. 4. **A traceability baseline.** Enough [product traceability](/docs/knowledge-base/glossary/product-traceability) to link a physical unit to its record. None of these depend on which attributes a future delegated act names, and all of them take longer to build than a transition period allows. Equally, four things should wait, because they depend on the specification: attribute level data models, formal conformity and verification processes, public disclosure decisions, and any irreversible technology commitment made on the promise that it is already compliant. > **A test for whether preparation is premature** > > Ask whether the work would still be needed if the delegated act named a completely different set > of attributes than you expect. If yes, do it now. If no, wait for the act. Scope work depends on knowing what you already hold and where it lives. That groundwork is covered in [What Is a System of Record?](/docs/knowledge-base/enterprise-systems-and-data-architecture/what-is-a-system-of-record) and [What Is Product Data Quality?](/docs/knowledge-base/enterprise-systems-and-data-architecture/what-is-product-data-quality), and the delivery sequence that follows a confirmed scope is in [How to Build a Digital Product Passport Implementation Roadmap](/docs/knowledge-base/implementation/how-to-build-a-digital-product-passport-implementation-roadmap). ## Common Misconceptions **"ESPR already requires a Digital Product Passport for my products."** ESPR creates the power and the machinery. The requirement for a specific product group arrives by delegated act. Until that act applies, there is no ESPR passport obligation on that group. **"Textiles are covered from a known date."** Textiles are a declared working plan priority. No ESPR delegated act imposing a textile passport has been adopted, and any specific date in circulation is a projection. **"February 2027 is the DPP deadline."** It is the date of application of the battery passport under Regulation (EU) 2023/1542, for the battery categories that regulation names. **"If my sector is not in the working plan, it never will be."** Working plans are periodically updated, and ESPR's scope covers most physical products. Absence today means no schedule, not permanent exclusion. **"Non EU manufacturers are unaffected."** Coverage attaches to placing products on the EU market. The obligation follows the product, and lands on whichever operator performs that act. **"One passport format will cover everything."** Each delegated act sets its own attributes and access rules, within a shared technical framework. Expect a common architecture and divergent content. **"We can wait until the act is published and then implement."** Transition periods are calibrated to organisations that already hold their product data. Assembling supplier data from a standing start rarely fits inside one. ## Frequently Asked Questions #### How do I find out definitively whether my product is covered? Search EUR-Lex for acts citing Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 and for any sectoral regulation covering your product family, then check the scope article and the date of application. If no act in force names your product group, it is not covered. Everything else, including working plans and consultations, tells you about the future, not the present. #### Does being in the ESPR working plan mean my sector will definitely be regulated? It means the Commission intends to develop requirements. Most prioritised groups do proceed, but the content, the scope boundaries and the timing are all decided later, and a group can be deferred or reshaped. Treat it as a strong signal with an undetermined date. #### How much notice will we get before a requirement applies? The signals arrive in sequence: working plan, preparatory study, consultation, draft act, adoption, then application after a transition period. In practice that is a multi year runway, but the visible part, between publication of the final act and its application, is much shorter, which is why the early signals are the ones worth monitoring. #### We sell in the EU and elsewhere. Should we build one passport or several? Build one data foundation and treat disclosure as a per market decision. The identifiers, data ownership and traceability work is common. What is published, to whom, and under which legal basis differs by jurisdiction. #### Do spare parts and components fall in scope? That depends on how each delegated act defines its product group, and ESPR explicitly reaches intermediate products, which is why iron, steel and aluminium appear as priorities. Components can be covered in their own right, and can also be required to supply data upward into a finished product's passport. #### What happens if a product is covered and has no passport? It is a non compliant product. National [market surveillance authorities](/docs/knowledge-base/glossary/market-surveillance-authority) can require corrective action, restrict or prohibit making it available, and apply penalties set by the Member State. See [market surveillance](/docs/knowledge-base/glossary/market-surveillance). ## Key Takeaways * Coverage exists only where an adopted act in force names the product group and sets a date of application. - Batteries are the clear stage 1 case, under Regulation (EU) 2023/1542, from 18 February 2027 for the categories it names. - Textiles, furniture, tyres, mattresses, iron and steel, aluminium and electronics are stage 2: prioritised in the ESPR working plan, subject to future delegated acts, with no compliance date today. - Everything else is stage 3 or 4: within the reach of the power, with no adopted requirement and, usually, no schedule. - Timelines differ because supply chain depth, measurement maturity, standardisation readiness, existing regulation and market structure differ. - Manufacturers, importers and retailers carry different duties, and private label arrangements can move an importer into the manufacturer's position. - Identifiers, data ownership, supplier data clauses and a traceability baseline are worth building before your category is named, because none of them depend on the specification. ## Related Articles * [What Are Delegated Acts?](/docs/knowledge-base/regulations/what-are-delegated-acts) * [When Will Digital Product Passports Become Mandatory?](/docs/knowledge-base/regulations/when-will-digital-product-passports-become-mandatory) * [What is the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR)?](/docs/knowledge-base/regulations/what-is-the-ecodesign-for-sustainable-products-regulation-espr) * [Digital Product Passports for Textiles and Apparel: What Companies Need to Know](/docs/knowledge-base/industry-guides/digital-product-passports-for-textiles-and-apparel) * [How Digital Product Passports Will Be Enforced](/docs/knowledge-base/regulations/how-digital-product-passports-will-be-enforced) * [Digital Product Passport](/docs/knowledge-base/glossary/digital-product-passport) * [Digital Product Passports for Electronics: What Companies Need to Know](/docs/knowledge-base/industry-guides/digital-product-passports-for-electronics) * [Digital Product Passports for Furniture: What Companies Need to Know](/docs/knowledge-base/industry-guides/digital-product-passports-for-furniture) ## Related Glossary Terms Definitions of record for the terms used above live in the [glossary](/docs/knowledge-base/glossary/overview). * [Digital Product Passport](/docs/knowledge-base/glossary/digital-product-passport) * [ESPR](/docs/knowledge-base/glossary/espr) * [Delegated Act](/docs/knowledge-base/glossary/delegated-act) * [Economic Operator](/docs/knowledge-base/glossary/economic-operator) * [Market Surveillance](/docs/knowledge-base/glossary/market-surveillance) * [Conformity Assessment](/docs/knowledge-base/glossary/conformity-assessment) * [Product Data](/docs/knowledge-base/glossary/product-data) * [Product Identifier](/docs/knowledge-base/glossary/product-identifier) * [Product Traceability](/docs/knowledge-base/glossary/product-traceability) * [Product Lifecycle](/docs/knowledge-base/glossary/product-lifecycle) * [Sustainability Data](/docs/knowledge-base/glossary/sustainability-data) * [Circular Economy](/docs/knowledge-base/glossary/circular-economy) * [Data Carrier](/docs/knowledge-base/glossary/data-carrier) * [QR Code](/docs/knowledge-base/glossary/qr-code) * [GS1](/docs/knowledge-base/glossary/gs1) * [GS1 Digital Link](/docs/knowledge-base/glossary/gs1-digital-link) ## References * Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 establishing a framework for the setting of ecodesign requirements for sustainable products, Official Journal of the European Union: [https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1781/oj](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1781/oj) * European Commission, ESPR working plan 2025 to 2030, COM(2025) 187: [https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A52025DC0187](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A52025DC0187) * Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 concerning batteries and waste batteries, including the battery passport, Official Journal of the European Union: [https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/1542/oj](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/1542/oj) * Regulation (EU) 2024/3110 laying down harmonised rules for the marketing of construction products, Official Journal of the European Union: [https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/3110/oj](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/3110/oj) * Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 on market surveillance and compliance of products, Official Journal of the European Union: [https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2019/1020/oj](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2019/1020/oj) * Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Article 290, delegated acts: [https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A12012E%2FTXT](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A12012E%2FTXT) * European Commission, Have Your Say portal, calls for evidence and draft acts open for feedback: [https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say](https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say) * European Commission, Register of Commission Expert Groups and Other Similar Entities: [https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/home](https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/home) * European Commission, Ecodesign and energy labelling policy pages: [https://energy.ec.europa.eu/topics/energy-efficiency\_en](https://energy.ec.europa.eu/topics/energy-efficiency_en) * EUR-Lex, official portal for European Union law: [https://eur-lex.europa.eu](https://eur-lex.europa.eu) ## 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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. ## Page Metadata | Field | Value | | ------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Published | 2026-08-07 | | Last Reviewed | 2026-08-07 | | Reading Time | 22 min | | Difficulty | beginner | | Author | tieback | | Category | Regulations | | Tags | Product Scope, ESPR Working Plan, Delegated Acts, Batteries Regulation, Textiles, Digital Product Passport | ## Related Docs * [Regulations](/docs/knowledge-base/regulations/overview) * [What is the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR)?](/docs/knowledge-base/regulations/what-is-the-ecodesign-for-sustainable-products-regulation-espr) * [What Are Delegated Acts?](/docs/knowledge-base/regulations/what-are-delegated-acts) * [How Does a Digital Product Passport Work?](/docs/knowledge-base/digital-product-passports/how-does-a-digital-product-passport-work)