ESPR and Digital Product Passports

What ESPR does

ESPR is the framework for ecodesign requirements for sustainable products. It allows the Commission to set product-specific or horizontal requirements through delegated acts, including requirements to make product information available via a Digital Product Passport.

What the first working plan adds

The 2025-2030 working plan names the first priority products and measures: textiles/apparel, furniture, tyres, mattresses, iron and steel, aluminium, repairability, and recycled content and recyclability of electrical and electronic equipment.

Why the numbers matter

The working plan says the new final and intermediate products to be regulated account for over EUR 1 trillion in annual EU market sales, including nearly EUR 500 billion in new products in the wider ESPR scope.

• The same source estimates these products account for around 31% of climate-change impacts in the EU consumption basket.
• It also estimates around 34% of fossil-resource-use impacts for that basket.
• Those are policy-scale numbers, not revenue forecasts for any individual business.

The important caution

A working-plan year is an indicative timeline for adoption of a measure. It should not be rewritten as a universal business deadline unless the final delegated act says so.

Practical reading order

Use the ESPR for the framework, the working plan for category prioritisation, the delegated act for actual product obligations, and the vendor contract only after those first three layers are understood.