The EU Digital Product Passport for manufacturers and exporters
What the Digital Product Passport is
The Digital Product Passport (DPP) comes from the EU's Ecodesign Regulation (ESPR, Regulation (EU) 2024/1781), in force since 2024. Each product will carry a scannable identifier - in practice a QR code using the GS1 Digital Link standard - that opens a public page with the product's composition, origin, certifications, care, durability and end-of-life information. Sector-specific rules arrive through delegated acts.
You manufacture outside the EU. Does it affect you?
Yes. The obligation follows the product placed on the EU market, not the factory's location. If your garments, furniture or electronics are sold in the EU, someone in the chain must publish the passport - and the data can only come from the manufacturer. In practice, EU brands and retailers are already pushing these data requirements upstream to their suppliers. A manufacturer that can hand over DPP-ready data (or the passport itself) is easier to buy from.
When it becomes mandatory
- Batteries: first with a firm date - battery passports become mandatory in February 2027 under Regulation (EU) 2023/1542.
- Textiles: among the first ESPR sectors. The delegated act is expected around 2027, with obligations landing around 2028-29.
- Already today: the General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR) applies since December 2024, and EU green-claims rules are tightening. Verifiable product data already matters commercially, before the DPP deadline.
What data the passport carries
The exact list per sector comes with each delegated act, but the working set for textiles is stable: fibre composition and percentages, country and stages of manufacture, certifications, care instructions, durability and repairability, recycled content, end-of-life guidance, and footprint data where available.
What to do now (without overbuilding)
Start with an inventory: for each product family, what do you know today about composition, origin and certifications - at product level, not factory level? Map which certificates cover which products. Choose how you will identify products (GS1 Digital Link works with your existing GTINs). Then decide who publishes the passport: you, or your brand clients with your data.
How we help
DPP Fácil is a done-for-you Digital Product Passport service. We build each product's passport from your existing data (spreadsheets, certificates, product pages), host it with its QR code, show your certifications as verifiable seals, sign it against tampering, and keep it current. We work in English and Spanish.
Frequently asked questions
Is the Digital Product Passport already mandatory?
Not yet for most sectors. Batteries go first (February 2027). Textiles are expected around 2028-29 after a delegated act around 2027. But GPSR and buyer requirements already apply today, so the data work starts earlier.
We manufacture outside the EU - does the DPP apply to us?
It applies to products sold in the EU regardless of where they are made. Your EU customers will need the data from you, so being DPP-ready is becoming a sales advantage for exporters.
Who is responsible: the manufacturer or the brand?
Legally, the economic operator placing the product on the EU market. In practice brands ask their manufacturers for the data - and manufacturers who can provide a ready passport win business.
Can one passport serve several markets?
Yes. One QR code opens the same public page, available in six languages (Spanish, English, French, German, Italian and Portuguese).
Want this done for you?
Send one product (name, composition, certificate references) and we reply with its passport built as a working example. We work in English and Spanish.
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