Digital Product Passport and ESPR readiness for product teams

What the ESPR sets at EU level

The ESPR replaces the previous ecodesign directive for many product categories and adds tools such as the digital product passport, destruction bans on unsold goods in scope, and green public procurement criteria where adopted.

The passport is meant to give authorities, repairers and other actors standardised access to product information across the value chain. The exact data fields, access rules and timelines depend on each product group's delegated act.

Phased obligations, not one date for all products

The Commission publishes work programmes and adopts delegated acts per product group (for example batteries under related legislation, or iron and steel under ESPR schedules where adopted). Until an act applies to your category, you prepare data governance and supplier evidence rather than publishing a passport.

Track the official ESPR timeline and the Digital Product Passport hub on the European Commission website. National market surveillance and customs rules may add local procedures once a group is in force.

Evidence to organise before your group is in scope

• Stable SKU identification, bill of materials and supplier contacts linked to each reference.
• Technical documentation and test reports you already hold for safety or packaging rules.
• Supplier declarations and certificates collected through secure upload links.
• Version history when a component, supplier or material share changes.
• An exportable inspection dossier per SKU for internal reviews or authority requests.

What Product Registry does not do

Product Registry does not register a passport with the European Commission, does not operate the future EU registry, and does not decide whether your product falls inside a delegated act. It helps SMEs keep catalogue, supplier and complaint data aligned so you can respond faster when a DPP format becomes mandatory for your group.

Treat this guide as operational context, not legal advice. Confirm applicability with your counsel and the published acts for your product family.

How Product Registry helps

Import your catalogue with CSV, request missing documents through the supplier evidence portal, run the public GPSR complaint form with an internal register, and export an inspection dossier per SKU (PDF summary plus files). The same graph feeds PPWR packaging and other modules you already use.

When Commission schemas and delegated acts are final for your category, you can map existing fields and files to the required passport data set instead of rebuilding spreadsheets from scratch.