ESPR Textile Compliance: EU Digital Product Passport for Apparel and Fabrics
How to prepare for the ESPR textiles delegated act, which the Commission's working plan expects to adopt in 2027. AI extracts fibre composition, environmental footprint and supply chain data from your existing product documentation.
Indicative adoption year for the textiles delegated act: 2027 (COM(2025) 187). No application date is set yet.
At a glance
Under ESPR (Regulation (EU) 2024/1781), textiles, in particular garments and footwear, are a priority product group for the first working plan (Article 18(5)(c)). The Commission's working plan for 2025 to 2030 gives 2027 as the indicative year for adopting the textiles delegated act, which will set the passport content and application date; as of 26 September 2026 it had not been adopted. Separately, ESPR Article 25 prohibits large enterprises from destroying unsold apparel and clothing accessories from 19 July 2026.
- ESPR Article 18(5)(c): textiles, in particular garments and footwear, are a priority product group.
- Working plan COM(2025) 187: indicative adoption year 2027 for the textiles delegated act.
- No textiles delegated act had been adopted as of 26 September 2026, so no passport date is set.
- Destroying unsold apparel and clothing accessories is prohibited from 19 July 2026 for large enterprises and from 19 July 2030 for medium-sized ones (Article 25, Annex VII).
- ESPR Article 4(4): a delegated act applies no earlier than 18 months after entry into force, except in duly justified cases.
What a textiles delegated act could cover
Fibre composition
Full material breakdown by percentage: natural, synthetic and recycled fibre content.
Environmental footprint
Carbon footprint, water usage, and chemical impact across the product lifecycle.
Supply chain mapping
Origin traceability from raw fibre to finished garment, including subcontractors.
Circularity data
Recyclability, repairability, and end-of-life handling instructions for every product.
How the AI engine handles textile compliance
Upload fibre test certificates, LCA reports and supplier declarations, and AI extracts the fields your textile passport needs for you to review. AI document extraction is billed separately, based on the number of documents processed.
Your completeness score updates as each field is filled, so you can see the gaps in your textile record early.
For your compliance team
Per published passport on Starter, dropping at volume.
Free trial at no cost, then annual plans priced per published passport.
AI document extraction, billed separately, based on the number of documents processed.
Your textile category
Apparel has a passport template today; technical and home textiles are monitored, with no template yet.
Fashion & Apparel
~85 anticipated fields (Traceable estimate, pending ESPR delegated act). Fibre composition, PEF, durability. For brands, retailers, and private labels.
See requirements →Technical Textiles
~75 anticipated fields (Traceable estimate, pending ESPR delegated act). Automotive, medical, geotextiles. Monitoring only, no template yet.
See requirements →Home Textiles
~80 anticipated fields (Traceable estimate, pending ESPR delegated act). Carpets, bedding, upholstery. Monitoring only, no template yet.
See requirements →Actively monitored: Every plan includes regulatory-schema updates.
For certification bodies
Verification built in, not bolted on.
On Scale, certification bodies use the Verifier portal to review the documents and claims you submit and attest on the record, instead of exported PDFs and email threads. Every AI-proposed value carries a high, medium or low confidence rating.
Independent, auditable attestation on the record, on Scale and above.
Every AI-proposed value carries a high, medium or low confidence rating for a person to approve.
Published passports keep past versions, each checked against a stored SHA-256 hash.
A fabric mill can keep its material specifications in a materials library in the portal. Each brand's request is still answered separately (Growth and above).
Certification bodies review and attest your textile records in the Verifier portal, instead of working from exported PDFs.
The same platform handles EU Battery Regulation passports and apparel textile passports.
Free resource
ESPR Compliance Guide for Textile Manufacturers
How ESPR 2024/1781 works, where the textiles delegated act stands, and how to prepare supplier data.
Textile DPP: common questions
The textiles delegated act will define the scope, and it had not been adopted as of 26 September 2026. ESPR Article 18(5)(c) names textiles, in particular garments and footwear, as a priority product group, and the Commission's working plan for 2025 to 2030 (COM(2025) 187) gives 2027 as the indicative year for adopting it.
The textiles delegated act will set them, and none are set yet. ESPR Annex I lists the product parameters ecodesign requirements can draw on, including durability, the use or content of recycled materials, the environmental footprint and the carbon footprint, and the working plan says information requirements under ESPR will work in synergy with the Textile Labelling Regulation, which is under review.
No date is set. The working plan gives 2027 as the indicative year for adopting the textiles delegated act, and ESPR Article 4(4) requires at least 18 months between a delegated act entering into force and applying, except in duly justified cases.
ESPR Article 18(5)(c) names textiles, in particular garments and footwear, as a priority product group. The Commission's working plan for 2025 to 2030 (COM(2025) 187) treats footwear as a separate category from textiles and commissions a study, to be completed by the end of 2027, on improving the environmental sustainability of footwear under ESPR.
There is none yet. Annex I, point (h), of ESPR lists use or content of recycled materials among the parameters ecodesign requirements may be based on, and Articles 4 and 5 empower the Commission to set such requirements in delegated acts. Any recycled content rule for textiles would come from the textiles delegated act, which had not been adopted as of 26 September 2026.
Further reading
Regulatory Guide
ESPR 2024/1781 — Complete Guide
The horizontal ESPR framework: scope, the working plan and how product-specific delegated acts set passport requirements.
Regulatory Guide
DPP Regulation Tracker
Tracker of ESPR product-category delegated acts: which are adopted, and what the working plan indicates for the rest.
Regulatory Guide
REACH SVHC & Chemicals in DPPs
How REACH chemicals disclosure maps onto DPP material composition fields — the SCIP database bridge for textile manufacturers.
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