What is a Digital Product Passport?

A DPP is a structured set of product data made accessible through a unique identifier and a data carrier such as a QR code or NFC tag, linked to an EU registry. It carries information on materials, recycled content, repairability, footprint, and end-of-life handling so buyers, repairers, and recyclers can act on it.

Which regulation creates the DPP?

The Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation, Regulation (EU) 2024/1781, is the framework that introduces the DPP. The specific data fields and timing for each product group are set out in delegated acts adopted under it, several of which are still being drafted.

Which products get a DPP first?

Batteries lead, with a battery passport required from February 2027 under the separate Battery Regulation. Textiles, electronics, and iron and steel are among the first ESPR priority groups, with furniture, tyres, and detergents in later waves.

How is the readiness score calculated?

Each data domain carries a weight reflecting how central it is to the passport — identifier, data carrier, materials, and registry integration weigh most. Your answers score full, half, or zero of each weight, and the total is expressed as a percentage of the maximum.

Are the exact data fields final?

Not yet for most categories. The headline domains — identification, materials, recycled content, repairability, disassembly, footprint, compliance, and registry capability — are stable, but the precise mandatory fields come from product-specific delegated acts. Use this as planning input, not a definitive field list.

What is the Digital Product Passport Readiness Checker?

Select a product category and grade your data maturity to score Digital Product Passport (DPP) readiness under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 — materials, recycled content, repairability, disassembly, footprint, data carrier, and registry integration. It runs free in your browser on Gera Tools, with nothing uploaded.

Digital Product Passport Readiness Checker

Name: Digital Product Passport Readiness Checker
Creator: Gera Tools
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The EU Digital Product Passport (DPP) makes product sustainability data travel with the product through a unique identifier and a data carrier linked to an EU registry. It is introduced by the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), Regulation (EU) 2024/1781, with detailed requirements set per product group through delegated acts. This checker scores how ready your product data is and lists the gaps to close.

How it works

The tool scores ten data domains, each weighted by how central it is to a working passport. Your answer for each domain earns full, half, or no credit:

yes      → full weight
partial  → half weight
no       → zero
readiness = Σ(earned weight) / Σ(max weight) × 100

Identifier, data carrier, material composition, and registry capability carry the highest weight because without them there is no passport at all. Recycled content, repairability, disassembly, footprint, and compliance documentation follow, with durability metrics weighted lowest.

Notes and example

A textiles brand that already tracks material composition and substances of concern but has no data carrier or registry plan will score in the developing band, with the carrier and registry domains flagged as the highest-leverage gaps to close first. Battery makers face the earliest hard deadline — a passport from February 2027 under the Battery Regulation — so they should treat anything below the strong band as urgent. Because the exact mandatory fields arrive through product-specific delegated acts that are still being finalised, treat this as a planning self-assessment rather than a compliance certificate. Everything runs locally in your browser.

What data a Digital Product Passport must carry

The ESPR framework identifies several categories of information that a DPP is expected to contain. While the exact mandatory fields vary per product category through delegated acts, the stable core domains across most categories are:

Identity and traceability

A unique product identifier (typically a UUID or GTIN) that ties the physical product to its passport record. This links to a data carrier — a QR code, NFC chip, or RFID tag — that end users, repairers, and recyclers can scan to retrieve the data. The identifier must be persistent across the product’s lifetime and resolvable to the EU registry.

Material composition

A structured list of materials and substances, including hazardous substances of concern as defined under relevant EU chemicals regulation. For many product categories this must go beyond a simple list to include weight fractions and information about where materials are located in the product.

Recycled content

The percentage of recycled material incorporated, often with a distinction between pre-consumer and post-consumer recycled content. This is one of the data points that downstream buyers and recyclers rely on most heavily.

Repairability and spare parts

Information on the availability of spare parts, tools required for repair, and the expected lifetime — particularly relevant for electronics, appliances, and textiles. The EU’s broader Right to Repair initiative reinforces this requirement.

Disassembly instructions

Instructions or guidance for disassembly to enable repair or end-of-life sorting. For complex products this may include ordered steps and tool specifications.

Carbon footprint

A lifecycle carbon footprint figure, calculated to an agreed methodology. Requirements for calculation methodology are expected to reference existing EU product environmental footprint standards.

The priority timeline: which sectors face earliest deadlines

The ESPR delegated acts introduce DPP requirements category by category. The confirmed and indicative order as of the regulation’s adoption:

Batteries (2027): The Battery Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2023/1542) introduces a battery passport specifically. Industrial and EV batteries above certain capacity thresholds face the earliest deadline.
Textiles (expected 2027–2028): Textile products are a first-wave ESPR priority and delegated act development was underway at the time of the regulation’s publication.
Electronics and ICT (expected 2028–2029): Smartphones and tablets are flagged; wider electronics follow.
Iron and steel, aluminium (expected 2028–2029): Material-level passports for construction-relevant products.
Furniture (expected 2030 onward): Later wave.

Businesses should plan readiness activities 18–24 months before their category’s expected delegated act finalisation, as data infrastructure typically takes significant time to implement.