EU digital product passports

Who it applies to

Manufacturers, importers and distributors placing products on the EU market in categories covered by EU product rules that require a digital product passport. Batteries come first. Other categories, such as textiles, iron and steel, and furniture, follow as the Commission adopts product-specific rules under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR). Suppliers outside the EU are affected when their customers need the data.

What it requires, in plain terms

A digital product passport is a structured set of data about a product, reachable through a data carrier such as a QR code on the product or its packaging. Depending on the product, it can include:

• the materials and substances it contains, including substances of concern;
• its origin and manufacturing details;
• its carbon footprint and recycled content;
• repair, disassembly and end-of-life information.

The detailed content for each product group is set by delegated acts, so the requirements arrive category by category.

Key dates

As of November 2026:

What it means for your systems

• Passport data is drawn from product master data, bills of materials, supplier declarations and production records. In most manufacturers these live in different systems, and some only in spreadsheets or email.
• The same product and supplier records serve customer questionnaires, traceability requests and passports, so it is cheaper to build one clean record than to answer each request separately.
• Supplier data must be requested, received, checked and versioned, because a passport has to stay accurate over the product's life.

Official sources

• European Commission: Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (opens in a new tab)
• Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 on batteries (EUR-Lex) (opens in a new tab)
• myBusinessFuture: what manufacturers must do (opens in a new tab)

How this connects to our work

A data foundation gives each product and supplier one reliable record, drawn from the ERP, drawings and supplier documents, which passport and customer requests can then be answered from. See also Manufacturing.