Find your next Digital Product Passport step.
A Digital Product Passport (DPP) is a structured digital record of a product's materials, origin, and sustainability data that the EU will require for more and more product categories. Choose your category, see what is official versus still planned, and start the data work before the rules land.
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Operator path
3 moves
An operator is any brand, manufacturer, importer, or seller placing products on the EU market. Use the atlas as a decision path: product category first, source certainty second, readiness work third.
START HERE
reviewed
Operator path
3 moves
An operator is any brand, manufacturer, importer, or seller placing products on the EU market. Use the atlas as a decision path: product category first, source certainty second, readiness work third.
- Scope
- EU operators
- First fixed deadline
- Batteries, Feb 2027
- Priority work
- Categories 2025-2030
- Start with
- Your product category
Choose your route
Start with the product or decision closest to you.
Each guide gives the practical status, who is affected, and the first readiness move.
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Timeline by certainty level
Adopted law, work-plan years, and market guidance are visible in separate status labels. A 2027 work-plan adoption year is not rewritten as a final passport deadline.
| Product category | Status | Timing | Market signal | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ESPR digital product passport framework Operators selling physical products into the EU market | Framework | In force since 18 Jul 2024; duties depend on delegated acts | ESPR legal text | Separate framework requirements from product-category obligations before writing any compliance claim. |
| EU Digital Product Passport Registry Operators responsible for products that applicable EU law requires to have a registered DPP | Adopted law | Operational since 20 Jul 2026; product duties follow applicable law | DPP Registry implementation regulation | Test organisation verification, identifier granularity, API or UI registration, and proof retention against the law for each product. |
| Batteries LMT batteries, industrial batteries over 2 kWh, and electric vehicle batteries | Adopted law | Passport required from 18 Feb 2027 for scoped batteries | Battery Regulation | Map battery models, individual-battery data, QR access, unique identifiers, and update responsibility. |
| Iron and steel Iron, steel, importers, processors, and downstream products using major steel inputs | Work plan | Indicative adoption: 2026 | EUR 152bn EU market size (2023) | Track the delegated act and start source mapping for material grade, supplier evidence, carbon data, and recycled-content claims. |
| Textiles and apparel Fashion, apparel, textile, ecommerce, and brand operators | Work plan | Indicative adoption: 2027 | EUR 78bn textiles/apparel; EUR 142bn including footwear (2019) | Inventory SKU hierarchy, material composition, supplier evidence, care data, and public sustainability claims. |
| Tyres Tyre manufacturers, importers, fleets, and mobility suppliers | Work plan | Indicative adoption: 2027 | EUR 45bn EU market size (2021) | Track recycled-content, recyclability, and end-of-life tyre evidence before turning pilots into compliance claims. |
| Aluminium Aluminium producers, importers, component makers, and high-material-use products | Work plan | Indicative adoption: 2027 | EUR 40bn EU market size (2019) | Prepare supplier evidence for recycled content, emissions, origin, and downstream data handoff. |
| Furniture Furniture, home goods, contract furniture, and importers | Work plan | Indicative adoption: 2028 | EUR 140bn EU market size (2021) | Map materials, repairability, durability, product lifetime evidence, and supplier documentation. |
Evidence scale
What the official sources already tell you.
The 2025-2030 working plan names product groups, indicative adoption years, and market-size estimates. Every fact on this site links back to the official source it comes from.
Working-plan scale
EUR 1tn+
Annual EU market sales for new final and intermediate products in the 2025-2030 working plan.
Wider ESPR products
~EUR 500bn
Annual EU market sales in new products from the wider ESPR scope, per the working plan.
Why the EU is acting
31% / 34%
Estimated climate-change and fossil-resource-use impacts in the EU consumption basket.
Adopted anchor
18 Feb 2027
Battery passport date for scoped batteries under Regulation (EU) 2023/1542.
Operating stance
What DPP Atlas will and won't tell you.
The workflow is simple: identify the product category, read the source status, map data gaps, and keep vendor promises away from official requirements.
No compliance badge
DPP Atlas is informational research and readiness guidance. It does not certify legal compliance.
Structured source data
Timeline rows, guide facts, source links, status labels, and review dates stay visible.
Multilingual-ready
English and French versions are live because operators search in their own language.
Corrections stay public
Methodology, corrections, disclaimer, privacy, and contact pages are published and linked from every page.
Source hierarchy
Official first. Vendor claims last.
Adopted law
EUR-Lex regulations and articles, used for hard requirements and dates.
Commission working plan
Official priority signals, adoption years, market sizes, and product groups.
Operator guidance
Practical preparation that stays separate from legal conclusions.
Vendor claims
Market statements are tracked as claims until evidence supports them.
Vendor intelligence
Vendor claims need source context before scoring.
Vendor coverage records what a company publicly claims, what evidence is visible, and where uncertainty remains. DPP Atlas does not publicly score vendors yet: the evidence model comes first.
CLAIM REVIEW RUBRIC
The buyer's guide focuses on the questions to ask vendors, not on vendor rankings.
CATEGORY DISPATCH
Get DPP deadline updates for your product category.
Updates cover official changes, category timing, source updates, and vendor-claim notes. No legal advice, no spam.