EU Digital Product Passport for Fashion and Apparel Brands
No ESPR delegated act for textiles had been adopted as of 26 September 2026, so no garment needs a Digital Product Passport yet. Textiles, in particular garments and footwear, are an ESPR priority product group (Article 18(5)(c)), and the Commission's working plan gives 2027 as the indicative adoption year.
Designed for: Fashion brands, sportswear manufacturers, luxury fashion houses, fast fashion retailers, private label producers
Indicative timeline: ESPR delegated act for textiles not yet adopted
Anticipated fields, pending the ESPR textiles delegated act: ~85 (Traceable estimate)
ESPR 2024/1781 — Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation · ISO 1833, ISO 12947, OEKO-TEX, GOTS
ESPR-architecture form — category-specific mandatory fields will be confirmed and added when the delegated act is published.
Fibre Composition
14Full fibre breakdown by percentage. ISO 1833 test certification. Multi-material declarations for blended fabrics. Country of origin for each fibre type.
Environmental Footprint (PEF)
16Product Environmental Footprint per EU PEF methodology. Climate change, water use, resource depletion, eutrophication. Lifecycle assessment from fibre to end-of-life.
Durability & Quality
12Pilling resistance, abrasion resistance (ISO 12947), colour fastness (ISO 105), dimensional stability after washing. Minimum performance thresholds.
Chemical Substances
10REACH SVHC declarations. Restricted substance list compliance. OEKO-TEX certification status. Concentration and location of hazardous chemicals.
Circularity
12Recyclability assessment. Recycled content percentage (pre-consumer and post-consumer). Design for disassembly. Mono-material vs blended recyclability score.
Supply Chain Transparency
10Tier 1-4 supplier identification. Country of manufacturing for each process stage. Due diligence reports. Social audit results.
Care Instructions
6Machine-readable care labels. Washing temperature, drying, ironing instructions. Expected garment lifetime in washes.
Product Identification
5Unique product identifier (ESPR Article 2(30)). A data carrier linking to the passport, whose type the delegated act will choose (Article 9(2)(b)). Brand and model information.
How AI handles your textile documentation
Upload your existing documents. AI reads each one and proposes values for the fields of your textile passport, each with a High, Medium or Low confidence rating, for your team to approve.
- Fibre test certificates (ISO 1833)
- LCA / PEF environmental footprint studies
- REACH SVHC declarations
- OEKO-TEX / GOTS certificates
- Bills of Materials (fabric, trims, accessories)
- Supplier audit reports (social and environmental)
- Care label specifications
- Durability test reports (pilling, abrasion, colour fastness)
AI insight: Fashion supply chains are fragmented. A single garment may involve fibre suppliers, spinning mills, weavers, dyers and CMT factories in several countries. AI proposes values from the documents you and your suppliers upload, for your team to approve.
Your compliance timeline
Map fibre composition data across your product range. Identify which garments use blended fibres requiring detailed breakdown.
Upload fibre test certificates and existing sustainability reports. AI extracts composition and environmental data.
Supplier data collection. Invite spinning mills, weavers, dyers, and CMT factories to submit via the supplier portal.
PEF / LCA environmental footprint studies. Durability testing for pilling, abrasion, colour fastness.
Monitor the delegated act. Every plan includes regulatory-schema updates.
No ESPR delegated act for textiles had been adopted as of 26 September 2026. The Commission's working plan (COM(2025) 187, 16 April 2025) gives 2027 as the indicative adoption year. The application date will be set in the delegated act, no earlier than 18 months after it enters into force except in duly justified cases (ESPR Article 4(4)).
What compliance costs
Compliance Consultancy
€30,000–€120,000 implementation. Manual data collection from fragmented supply chains. Per-SKU ongoing costs.
Enterprise Platform
€80,000–€300,000/year. PLM integration. 12-18 month implementation. For large fashion houses with 5,000+ SKUs.
Traceable
Free trial. Then annual plans at €15 per published passport on Starter, falling to €6 or below at volume, or pay-as-you-go at €18. The supplier portal comes with Growth and above; AI document extraction is billed separately, based on the number of documents processed.
If you are a large fashion house with complex PLM integration requirements and 10,000+ SKUs, an enterprise platform may be necessary. Most fashion brands can use Traceable to start structuring passport data before the textiles delegated act is adopted.
Supply chain data requirements
Fibre Suppliers
Cotton, polyester, wool, viscose, elastane sourcing. Country of origin. Organic or recycled fibre certifications. GOTS and OCS documentation.
Spinning Mills
Yarn production data. Blend ratios. Spinning method. Energy consumption and waste data for PEF calculations.
Weaving / Knitting Mills
Fabric construction data. Weight, density, weave type. Production facility location and environmental data.
Dyeing & Finishing
Chemical inputs. Dye class and application method. Water and energy consumption. REACH-restricted substance declarations.
Cut-Make-Trim (CMT)
Garment assembly location. Trim and accessory materials. Social audit reports. Worker welfare documentation.
Garment Assembly
Final product specifications. Care label data. Packaging materials. Quality control and durability test results.
Suppliers sign in to the supplier portal with a one-time email code, answer your structured data requests and upload certificates. Each answer goes only to the brand that asked for it.
Built on large language models. Reads your textile documentation and proposes structured data with a High, Medium or Low confidence rating. Auditable.
On Scale and above, certification bodies review and attest your textile records in the Verifier portal. Tamper-evident audit trail.
The same platform handles textile passports and EU Battery Regulation passports. One account covers both.
Actively monitored: Every plan includes regulatory-schema updates.
Textile DPP rules are coming. Be ready before the delegated act lands.
Upload the PDFs you already have. Free trial, no credit card, no consultant. AI document extraction is billed separately, based on the number of documents processed.