What is a Digital Product Passport?
A Digital Product Passport is a structured collection of product-related, machine-readable data with pre-defined scope and agreed data management and access rights, conveyed through a unique product identifier that is accessible via electronic means through a data carrier.
What is the EU Digital Product Passport?
The EU DPP is a digital identity card for products, components, and materials, which will store relevant information to support products’ sustainability, promote their circularity and strengthen legal compliance.
This information will be accessible electronically, making it easier for consumers, manufacturers, and authorities to make more informed decisions and trace data provenance related to sustainability, circularity and regulatory compliance. It will allow custom authorities to perform automatic checks on the existence and authenticity of the DPPs of imported products.
Which products will need to have an EU DPP to be sold into the EU?
The focus is on resource intensive sectors with a high circularity potential. The EC have identified the following priority areas:
- Iron & Steel
- Aluminium
- Textiles – garments and footwear
- Furniture – including mattresses
- Tyres
- Detergents
- Paints, lubricants, chemicals
- Energy-related products
- ICT products, as well as other electronics
What information will need to be included in the EU DPP?
Information to be included in the DPP will be identified by the Commission, in close consultation with all relevant stakeholders, and will depend on the specific product in question. This information can include:
- Product’s technical performance
- Materials and their origins
- Repair activities
- Recycling capabilities
- Lifecycle environmental impacts
In this Solution Pack - Published June 2026
- Digital product passport - Data exchange protocols (BS EN 18216:2026)
- Digital product passport - Unique identifiers (BS EN 18219:2026)
- Digital product passport - Data carriers (BS EN 18220:2026)
- Digital product passport - Data storage, archiving, and data persistence (BS EN 18221:2026)
- Digital Product Passport - Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for the product passport lifecycle management and searchability (BS EN 18222:2026)
- Digital Product Passport - System interoperability (BS EN 18223:2026)
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