EU Regulatory Compliance Hub
Key EU regulations and deadlines for Digital Product Passports, in one reference.
Key regulations
Battery Regulation 2023/1542
Digital passports mandatory for EV, LMT, and industrial batteries above 2 kWh.
Deadline: February 2027
Battery compliance →ESPR 2024/1781
Framework regulation for ecodesign requirements and digital product passports, set product group by product group in delegated acts.
Product delegated acts: none adopted yet
Textile compliance →CSRD
Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive — sustainability reporting for companies above threshold.
Phased, from financial year 2024
CBAM
Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism — carbon content reporting for imports of steel, aluminium, cement, and more.
Full application: January 2026
Regulatory guides
In-depth reference articles on the EU regulations that affect Digital Product Passports.
Foundations
What is a Digital Product Passport?
The complete explanation — what a DPP contains, who reads it, and why EU manufacturers need one.
Battery Regulation
EU Battery Regulation 2023/1542
Mandatory DPPs for EV, LMT, and industrial batteries above 2 kWh — full technical breakdown with timelines.
ESPR
ESPR 2024/1781 Explained
The Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation: the framework under which delegated acts can require passports for product groups such as textiles and tyres.
ESPR
Delegated Acts Tracker
Status of ESPR delegated acts and other passport laws by product category, with indicative adoption dates from the Commission's working plan.
Battery Regulation
Battery Passport Mandatory Fields
Every data field required in a Battery DPP — chemistry, carbon footprint, sourcing, capacity, and more.
Deadlines
Deadline Hub
Battery passport and EU passport registry dates, and the status of the ESPR delegated acts for textiles, tyres and electronics, with a countdown where a binding date exists.
Technical
GS1 Digital Link Explained
How GS1 Digital Link QR codes can link physical products to their Digital Product Passports, and why neither the ESPR nor the Battery Regulation requires GS1.
Technical
EU Central Registry
What the EU digital product passport registry is, who operates it and what it stores under ESPR Article 13 and Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1778. Traceable's EU Registry Readiness page prepares a registration submission file that you upload in your own registry session.
Privacy
GDPR & Product Passports
How GDPR applies to DPP data — what personal data can be included and privacy-by-design requirements.
Access Rights
Persons of Legitimate Interest
Who has the right to access the restricted data layer of a DPP and what information they can request.
Chemicals
REACH, SVHC & DPPs
How Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC) obligations under REACH intersect with DPP disclosure requirements.
Deforestation
EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR)
Due diligence and geolocation evidence for commodities covered by Regulation (EU) 2023/1115.
Packaging
Packaging & Packaging Waste (PPWR)
What Regulation (EU) 2025/40 changes for packaging labelling, recyclability and reuse targets.
Registry
DPP Registry Implementing Regulation
A plain-language read of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1778 and what it requires of economic operators.
Registry
DPP Registry Operator Guide
How the Commission expects economic operators to register a passport, and what is not yet possible.
FAQ
EU DPP Compliance FAQ
Direct answers on scope, deadlines, penalties and what a compliant passport must contain.
FAQ
Compliance FAQ
Answers to the most common questions on EU DPP compliance — who needs one, what it costs, and how verification works.
Deadline timeline
CBAM full application begins
Battery Regulation: passport mandatory for LMT batteries, industrial batteries above 2 kWh and electric-vehicle batteries (Article 77(1))
ESPR: textiles and tyres delegated acts indicated for adoption (working plan COM(2025) 187); no application date yet
ESPR: recycled content and recyclability of electrical and electronic equipment indicated for adoption (working plan COM(2025) 187)
How Traceable handles regulatory compliance
Upload your existing documentation. AI extraction reads PDF, PNG and JPG files and proposes values for the regulation fields, each with a High, Medium or Low confidence rating, for a person to approve. AI extraction is billed separately, by documents processed.
Suppliers open a secure link with a one-time email code, answer the structured data requests you send and upload certificates. One customer's answers are not copied automatically to another customer.
Independent verifiers review documents and claims in a verification queue on Traceable and approve or reject them against the passport, on the Scale and Custom plans. Every action is written to a hash-chained, tamper-evident audit log.
Find your deadline.
Start with the regulation that applies to your products. Get compliant before the deadline.