Everything About Digital Product Passports (DPP)

Kiril Shivachev•28 October 2026•7 min read

A toy shop shelf with colourful wooden letters on wheels and small wooden tractors.

Digital product passport for toys: the passport is the declaration

DPP for Toys

Kiril Shivachev•26 October 2026•7 min read

Rows of open, empty brown corrugated cardboard boxes, seen from above at an angle.

One QR code for product and packaging: what PPWR Article 12 requires

DPP for Packaging

Kiril Shivachev•28 September 2026•7 min read

A blank white garment tag hanging on red fabric in raking light.

Day one of the green-claims ban: what changed, and where it did not

Kiril Shivachev•11 September 2026•7 min read

A stack of three thick white ring binders on a pale surface.

A tender that asks for your product passport

Kiril Shivachev•8 September 2026•9 min read

An engineer checks a product definition on screen against the physical part under a microscope.

Does the system that told you about Article 13 also perform Article 13?

Kiril Shivachev•1 September 2026•8 min read

27 September 2026: six green claims become automatically unfair

Kiril Shivachev•31 August 2026•6 min read

A wooden verification stamp resting on an open legal text.

You have an electronic signature. The EU registry wants an electronic seal.

Kiril Shivachev•26 August 2026•6 min read

Rows of industrial batteries with red and blue terminals — the 71 data points of the battery passport by category.

The battery passport: 71 data points, and the e-bike carries the most mandatory ones

Kiril Shivachev•26 August 2026•7 min read

Workers in a precision electronics plant assembling components that go into somebody else’s finished product.

No regulation names you. Your customer is already asking for the data.

Kiril Shivachev•24 August 2026•5 min read

A hand holding a phone showing a QR code — scanning opens the passport, but does not prove the product is genuine.

If someone copies the QR code from a real product onto a fake — will the passport lie to you?

Kiril Shivachev•21 August 2026•5 min read

3D illustration of a checklist — the questions to ask any Digital Product Passport service provider.

If your DPP provider goes under tomorrow — what happens to your passports?

Kiril Shivachev•20 August 2026•5 min read

Vintage upholstered sofa in a forest — illustration for the Digital Product Passport of a furniture item.

What a Digital Product Passport actually looks like — field by field

DPP for the Furniture Industry

Kiril Shivachev•18 August 2026•4 min read

Stacked car tyres — the Digital Product Passport for the tyre industry

DPP for Tyres: The Priority Group Few Are Ready For

DPP for tyres

Kiril Shivachev•4 August 2026•4 min read

Textile factory — fabric dyeing and finishing line

Digital Product Passport for Clothing: The Roadmap for Fashion Brands (2026–2030)

Kiril Shivachev•29 July 2026•4 min read

Products with QR codes and a cost calculation for the Digital Product Passport

How much does a Digital Product Passport cost in 2026?

Kiril Shivachev•28 July 2026•6 min read

CNC machining of an aluminium block, illustrating DPP requirements for tracing the carbon footprint of aluminium

DPP for aluminium: the passport of the most recyclable metal

DPP for Steel and Iron

Kiril Shivachev•22 July 2026•11 min read

Digital screens filled with programming code, representing the EU's central Digital Product Passport Registry

The EU's Digital Product Passport Registry is now live

Kiril Shivachev•17 July 2026•4 min read

Production of steel coils in a metallurgical plant and DPP traceability requirements for steel

DPP for Steel: Why Metallurgy Is the First Sector the EU Requires to Carry a Digital Passport

Anita Kisimova-Dzakova•3 July 2026•3 min read

Construction sector and DPP requirements for the traceability of building materials

DPP in construction: How the material passport turns a building into a bank of resources.

Anita Kisimova-Dzakova•1 July 2026•3 min read

Digital Product Passport for textiles with a barcode and product information

The DPP and the right to repair: How the passport obliges manufacturers to design for durability

DPP for End Consumers

Anita Kisimova-Dzakova•26 June 2026•5 min read

Model, Batch or Item: Which DPP passport level do you actually need?

DPP for the Furniture Industry

Kiril Shivachev•24 June 2026•5 min read

Illustration of partnership in WIARA's DPP program — a handshake around a sustainable business process.

WIARA launches the DPP Partner Program — a new business model for consultants and agencies

DPP for the Furniture Industry

Anita Kisimova-Dzakova•23 June 2026•3 min read

Visualisation of composition, origin and carbon-footprint data along the supply chain

DPP for importers: Why responsibility for the passport is yours, even if you didn't make the product