The Digital Product Passport (DPP) is the flagship tool of the EU Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR, Regulation (EU) 2024/1781), which entered into force on 18 July 2024. It will give each product a structured, machine-readable record of its identity, materials and compliance — accessible through a data carrier such as a QR code.

The timeline

• The European Commission must set up the central DPP registry by July 2026.
• The battery passport applies from February 2027.
• The ESPR working plan puts the first product waves — including textiles and furniture — from around 2027–2028.

It is phased, but the direction is clear, and it applies to any product placed on the EU market wherever it is made.

What a DPP holds

Expect product identifiers, material composition, compliance and safety information, and repair, spare-parts and recycling details — all tied to a unique product identity.

How to get ahead

The work that makes a DPP easy later is structuring your product data now: clean identifiers, materials, supplier inputs and compliance documents. Oyae turns scattered files into structured, reusable fields and can produce DPP-ready drafts, so you are building the data once instead of rebuilding it under deadline.

This article is general information, not legal advice.