EU Regulations for the Digital Product Passport
Framework Sector regulations
The Digital Product Passport doesn't arrive on its own — it is part of a broader wave of European sustainability and transparency regulations. Below are the key regulations that introduce or affect the DPP, each with its own page:
Key regulations
- ESPR — the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products framework
- EU Battery Regulation 2023/1542
- PPWR — Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation
- CRMA — Critical Raw Materials Act
- CBAM — Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism
- CPR — Construction Products Regulation
- Toy Safety Regulation
- Detergents Regulation
- Right to Repair Directive (EU) 2024/1799
- Empowering Consumers Directive (EU) 2024/825
- Waste Framework Directive (EU) 2025/1892 — textile EPR
- EU Circular Economy Act
- European Product Act — market surveillance
When each obligation actually starts
The Commission's indicative timeline gives the adoption date of each delegated act — not the date the obligation applies. After adoption, operators get a transition period of roughly 18 months. The one exception is batteries: their date comes from a separate regulation and is final. The table separates the two, because almost every published summary merges them.
Product group
Act adoption (indicative)
Obligation applies
Batteries (EV, LMT, industrial > 2 kWh)
Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 — its own regulation, not an ESPR act
18 February 2027 — hard date
Iron and steel
ESPR — Q4 2026
around 2028
Construction products
CPR — Q2 2027
around 2028–2029
Textiles
ESPR — Q3–Q4 2027
around 2029
Aluminium
ESPR — Q3–Q4 2027
around 2029
Tyres
ESPR — Q3–Q4 2027
around 2029
Furniture
ESPR — 2028
around 2029–2030
Mattresses and recycled content
ESPR — 2029
around 2030–2031
The platform behind this guide: DigitalProductPassport by WIARA
These regulations converge on the same requirement: one digital record per product, reachable from the product itself.
DigitalProductPassport by WIARA is the cloud platform behind the worked examples on this site, built by WIARA, a software company. You enter the product data once and it publishes the passport page, the QR code and the machine-readable file, in all 24 official EU languages, with model, batch and item level passports and a full change history.
The free plan covers 3 passports in total. What the platform does is set out on the product page, and the plans and their limits are on pricing.
Which act, which date
Reading this page
Only for batteries. The rest of the table has two columns for a reason: the first is when the Commission is expected to adopt the delegated act, the second is when the obligation actually applies. Between them sits a transition period of roughly 18 months. Almost every published summary merges the two, which is where “textiles in 2027” comes from.
Iron and steel, not textiles. Its delegated act is expected indicatively in Q4 2026, which puts the obligation around 2028. Textiles follow later: an act in the second half of 2027 and compliance around 2029. This ordering is routinely reported backwards, so it is worth checking against the table above before planning around it.
