Regulatory Guide
EU DPP Compliance FAQ
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The EU Digital Product Passport compliance FAQ answers common manufacturer questions: what a DPP is, whether and when it is mandatory, which products and data it covers, who is responsible, how the ESPR and the Battery Regulation relate, the EU DPP registry, GS1 Digital Link, access rights, retention, penalties, supplier data, GDPR and where to find the official texts. The first binding date is 18 February 2027, when the battery passport applies to LMT, EV and industrial batteries above 2 kWh under Regulation (EU) 2023/1542.
Key Takeaways
- A passport is mandatory where the law requires one: from 18 February 2027 for LMT, EV and industrial batteries above 2 kWh, and for ESPR product groups once a delegated act applies.
- The obligation falls on the economic operator placing the product on the market, not necessarily the manufacturer.
- For batteries, Annex XIII of Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 sets which passport data is public and which is restricted.
- Start with batteries (Feb 2027), then textiles and other categories follow.
- The EU DPP registry was launched on 20 July 2026; battery identifiers must be uploaded to it (Article 77(10)), but as of 26 September 2026 it cannot yet accept battery registrations.
Frequently Asked Questions About EU Digital Product Passports
The EU Digital Product Passport is one of the most significant product compliance obligations to emerge in the last decade. The questions below address the regulatory framework, technical requirements, and practical steps manufacturers need to understand.
What is a Digital Product Passport?
A Digital Product Passport (DPP) is a structured digital record linked to a specific product that contains data about its composition, origin, environmental impact, repairability, and end-of-life handling. The DPP is accessible via a data carrier, typically a QR code, on the product, its packaging or accompanying documentation (ESPR Article 10(1)(b)). It is defined in Article 2(28) of the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), Regulation (EU) 2024/1781, as “a set of data specific to a product” that includes the information specified in the applicable delegated act and “that is accessible via electronic means through a data carrier”.
Is the DPP mandatory?
Only where Union law requires one. Under the ESPR, a DPP becomes mandatory for a product group when a delegated act adopted under Article 4 requires it and that act applies; products it covers can then only be placed on the market or put into service if a DPP is available (Article 9(1)), and the Commission may exempt a product group (Article 9(4)). The Battery Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2023/1542) independently requires a battery passport from 18 February 2027 for LMT batteries, industrial batteries above 2 kWh and electric vehicle batteries (Article 77(1)).
When does the DPP become mandatory?
The timeline varies by product category. The battery passport under Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 applies from 18 February 2027 for industrial batteries above 2 kWh, electric vehicle batteries, and LMT (light means of transport, e.g. e-bike and e-scooter) batteries. Under the ESPR, no product-specific delegated act has been adopted as of 26 September 2026. The Commission’s working plan (COM(2025) 187) gives indicative adoption years, such as 2026 for iron and steel and 2027 for textiles and tyres, and under Article 4(4) a delegated act applies no earlier than 18 months after it enters into force, except in duly justified cases. Each delegated act will define the application date for its product category.
Which products need a DPP?
The ESPR applies to any physical goods placed on the market or put into service, including components and intermediate products, except those listed in Article 1(2), such as food, feed, medicinal and veterinary medicinal products, living plants, animals and micro-organisms, and certain vehicle aspects. However, DPP requirements only become active when a delegated act adopted under Article 4 requires a passport for a product group. Article 18(5) lists the first priorities for the working plan, including iron and steel, aluminium, textiles, furniture, tyres, detergents, paints, lubricants, chemicals, energy-related products, and ICT products and other electronics. Batteries are covered separately by the battery passport under Regulation (EU) 2023/1542. The Commission’s working plan of 16 April 2025 gives indicative adoption years for each product group.
What data must a DPP contain?
Article 7(2) of the ESPR sets the floor: the information requirements in each delegated act must include, at minimum, the digital product passport requirements of Chapter III of the ESPR plus substances-of-concern requirements (Article 7(5)), subject to the exceptions in Article 7(5) and (6), the chemical identity, location in the product, and concentration of each substance of concern, and information relevant to its safe use and end-of-life handling. Where appropriate for the product group, information requirements can also cover a performance, durability, or repairability score, a carbon or environmental footprint, installation, use, maintenance, and repair instructions, and end-of-life treatment information (Article 7(2), point (b)). Each delegated act will specify the precise data elements for its product category, as the requirements differ between textiles, batteries, electronics, and other product groups.
Who is responsible for creating the DPP?
The economic operator who places the product on the EU market bears responsibility for creating and maintaining the DPP. The ESPR sets these obligations out in its economic-operators chapter: Article 27 places the primary duty on manufacturers, including ensuring a digital product passport is available and keeping technical documentation; Article 28 lets a manufacturer appoint an authorised representative for a defined set of these tasks; Article 29 places equivalent obligations on importers. Where a product is manufactured outside the EU, the importer who first places it on the EU market takes on the DPP obligation.
What is the ESPR?
The ESPR, Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation, Regulation (EU) 2024/1781, is the EU’s framework regulation for sustainable product design. It replaces and expands the original Ecodesign Directive (2009/125/EC), which applied only to energy-related products. The ESPR extends ecodesign requirements to nearly all physical products on the EU market and introduces the Digital Product Passport as a key compliance mechanism. It entered into force on 18 July 2024.
What is the EU Battery Regulation?
Regulation (EU) 2023/1542, the EU Battery Regulation, governs the sustainability, safety, and lifecycle management of batteries placed on the EU market. It is the first EU regulation to mandate a Digital Product Passport (the “battery passport”) and serves as a precedent for how DPPs will work under the ESPR. Annex XIII of the Battery Regulation specifies the data requirements for the battery passport, and Article 77 establishes the access framework for that data.
How does the DPP relate to existing regulations like REACH, WEEE, and RoHS?
The DPP does not replace REACH (Regulation (EC) 1907/2006), WEEE (Directive 2012/19/EU), or RoHS (Directive 2011/65/EU); those obligations continue to apply alongside it. Under Annex III, point (a), of the ESPR, a delegated act may require the passport to include information required by other Union law applicable to the product group, and Article 7(5) requires information on substances of concern, a category that includes substances identified under REACH Article 59(1) (Article 2(27)). What a given passport must contain from these other laws depends on the delegated act for that product group; for batteries, Annex XIII of Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 sets the content, including the hazardous substances present in the battery (point 1(b)).
What is the EU Central DPP Registry?
Article 13 of the ESPR requires the Commission to set up a digital registry that stores at least the unique identifiers of products, the commodity code for products to be released for free circulation, and the unique identifiers of batteries under Article 77(3) of Regulation (EU) 2023/1542. It does not host the DPP data itself, which is stored by the economic operator or a DPP service provider (Article 11, point (c)); the economic operator uploads the identifiers and receives a unique registration identifier (Article 13(4) and (5)). Article 13(1) set a 19 July 2026 deadline, and the Commission launched the registry on 20 July 2026. Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1778, adopted 16 July 2026, lays down how the registry operates, including the verification of economic operators. As of 26 September 2026 the registry does not yet accept battery passport registrations.
What is a GS1 Digital Link QR code?
A GS1 Digital Link is a standardised URI structure that encodes a product’s Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) into a web-resolvable URL. When encoded in a QR code, it allows a simple smartphone scan to resolve to the product’s Digital Product Passport. The ESPR references the use of data carriers that comply with ISO/IEC standards, and GS1 Digital Link is the leading candidate for DPP data carriers. It combines the established GS1 identification system with web accessibility, making it suitable for both supply chain scanning and consumer-facing DPP access.
Who can access DPP data?
The ESPR does not define a single, fixed access-tier system that applies to every product category. Article 11, point (b), lists who is entitled to free, easy access to the DPP, customers, manufacturers, importers, distributors, dealers, professional repairers, independent operators, refurbishers, remanufacturers, recyclers, market surveillance authorities, customs authorities, civil society organisations, and trade unions, but the specific access rights each of these actors gets (which fields, at what level of detail) are set per product category in that category’s own delegated act under Article 4, not fixed in the ESPR itself. For batteries specifically, the Battery Regulation’s own Annex XIII sets out the battery passport’s access rules.
How long must DPP data be retained?
There is no single, ESPR-wide fixed retention period. Article 11, point (e), requires the DPP to remain available “for the period specified in delegated acts adopted pursuant to Article 4”, the exact duration is set product category by product category, including after the responsible economic operator’s insolvency, liquidation, or cessation of activity. Separately, Article 27(3) sets a 10-year default for manufacturers to keep technical documentation and the EU declaration of conformity (unless a delegated act specifies otherwise), and Article 27(7) requires digital instructions to stay accessible for at least 10 years after the product is placed on the market, so a 10-year figure does recur through the ESPR, attached to documentation and instructions rather than a single blanket DPP-data-retention rule.
What are the penalties for non-compliance?
Article 74 of the ESPR requires Member States to lay down penalties that are “effective, proportionate and dissuasive.” The specific penalties are defined in national legislation, not the ESPR itself, so they will vary across the 27 Member States. Member States must at least be able to impose fines and time-limited exclusion from public procurement procedures (Article 74(3)); market surveillance authorities can require corrective action and restrict, prohibit, withdraw or recall non-compliant products (Articles 69 and 71), and customs authorities may release a covered product for free circulation only after verifying its registration identifier against the registry (Article 15(2)). For batteries, penalties are laid down under Article 93 of Regulation (EU) 2023/1542. The most immediate commercial consequence is loss of EU market access: a product without a compliant DPP cannot legally be placed on the market.
Can I use my existing ERP/PLM data?
In most cases, yes, partially. Your ERP and PLM systems likely already contain much of the data needed for the DPP: bill of materials, material specifications, supplier information, compliance certificates, and product identifiers. However, DPP data must follow the content and structure the applicable law sets: Annex XIII of Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 for batteries, and the applicable delegated act for ESPR product groups, with harmonised standards for DPPs (referenced by Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2026/1736) supporting interoperability. This typically requires mapping your internal data fields to the DPP data model, filling gaps (especially for substance of concern data and end-of-life instructions), and exporting in a machine-readable format.
Do I need to collect data from my suppliers?
Yes. The DPP requires data that the manufacturer alone rarely possesses, particularly detailed material composition, substance of concern declarations, and recycled content percentages at the component level. Under Article 7(2), point (a), and Article 7(5) of the ESPR, information requirements must make it possible to track substances of concern, including their name, location and concentration, which manufacturers usually need from upstream suppliers. Manufacturers must establish data collection processes with their supply chain, including contractual requirements for timely and accurate material declarations. The earlier you start this process, the smoother the compliance effort.
What about GDPR and personal data in the DPP?
Under ESPR Article 10(1)(e), personal data relating to customers must not be stored in a DPP without their explicit consent, and recital 43 says customers’ personal data should not be stored in it. Personal data can still arise, for example where a manufacturer’s name and contact details identify a sole trader, and in systems that manage access to restricted passport data, which process requesters’ names, credentials and access logs. Recital 43 of the ESPR states that any processing of personal data under the Regulation must comply with data protection law: Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) for competent national authorities, and Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 for processing by the Commission, including in the registry. Economic operators processing personal data are subject to the GDPR. Manufacturers must ensure their DPP systems apply data minimisation, implement appropriate security measures, and maintain lawful bases for processing access-related personal data.
How do I get started with DPP compliance?
Start with three steps. First, identify whether your products fall within a product category for which a delegated act has been adopted or is expected, the Commission’s ESPR working plan lists priority product groups. Second, audit your existing data: map what you already have in ERP/PLM systems against the expected DPP data requirements, and identify gaps, especially in substance data and supply chain traceability. Third, engage your suppliers early, the data collection process takes months, and suppliers need time to compile accurate material declarations. Starting well before a delegated act’s application date leaves time for this.
What is Traceable and how does it help?
Traceable is an EU Digital Product Passport platform for batteries under Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 and for textiles, ahead of any ESPR delegated act for textiles. The platform covers data collection from suppliers through a supplier portal, passport creation, QR code generation with a GS1 Digital Link resolver, field-level access control that separates public passport data from data restricted to persons with a legitimate interest or to authorities, and an EU registry readiness checklist; as of 26 September 2026 the EU DPP registry cannot yet accept battery registrations. Traceable’s Regulatory Radar is a subscription feed of regulatory updates.
Where can I find the official regulation texts?
All EU regulations are published in the Official Journal of the European Union and available free of charge on EUR-Lex. The key texts are: Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 (ESPR) at eur-lex.europa.eu under CELEX number 32024R1781; Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 (Battery Regulation) under CELEX number 32023R1542; Regulation (EC) 1907/2006 (REACH) under CELEX number 32006R1907. ECHA publishes the SVHC Candidate List at echa.europa.eu/candidate-list-table. The Commission publishes DPP-related consultations and preparatory studies on its Ecodesign pages.
This guide reflects the regulatory position as of 26 September 2026. Delegated acts, implementing acts, and technical standards for the Digital Product Passport are being developed on a rolling basis by the European Commission and CEN-CENELEC. Subscribe to Traceable’s Regulatory Radar for updates as new requirements are published that affect your products and compliance obligations.
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If you are reading this FAQ, you are likely trying to understand whether and how DPP compliance affects your business. The short answer: if you place an LMT battery, an industrial battery above 2 kWh or an electric vehicle battery on the EU market from 18 February 2027, or a product covered by an ESPR delegated act that requires a passport once that act applies, you need a compliant Digital Product Passport.
The complexity varies by product category and company size, but the fundamental requirement is the same for everyone, from solo founders to multinational OEMs.
Action Steps
- Determine which regulations apply to your products (Battery Regulation, ESPR delegated acts).
- Identify your role as an economic operator (manufacturer, importer, or distributor).
- Use the Deadline Hub to find the dates that apply to your products.
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Frequently Asked Questions
A Digital Product Passport (DPP) is a structured digital record linked to a specific product that contains data about its composition, origin, environmental impact, repairability, and end-of-life handling. The DPP is accessible via a data carrier, typically a QR code, on the product, its packaging or accompanying documentation (ESPR Article 10(1)(b)). It is defined in Article 2(28) of the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), Regulation (EU) 2024/1781, as “a set of data specific to a product” that includes the information specified in the applicable delegated act and “that is accessible via electronic means through a data carrier”.
Only where Union law requires one. Under the ESPR, a DPP becomes mandatory for a product group when a delegated act adopted under Article 4 requires it and that act applies; products it covers can then only be placed on the market or put into service if a DPP is available (Article 9(1)), and the Commission may exempt a product group (Article 9(4)). The Battery Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2023/1542) independently requires a battery passport from 18 February 2027 for LMT batteries, industrial batteries above 2 kWh and electric vehicle batteries (Article 77(1)).
The timeline varies by product category. The battery passport under Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 applies from 18 February 2027 for industrial batteries above 2 kWh, electric vehicle batteries, and LMT (light means of transport, e.g. e-bike and e-scooter) batteries (Article 77(1)). Under the ESPR, no product-specific delegated act has been adopted as of 26 September 2026. The Commission’s working plan (COM(2025) 187) gives indicative adoption years, such as 2026 for iron and steel and 2027 for textiles and tyres, and under Article 4(4) a delegated act applies no earlier than 18 months after it enters into force, except in duly justified cases. Each delegated act will define the application date for its product category.
The ESPR applies to any physical goods placed on the market or put into service, including components and intermediate products, except those listed in Article 1(2), such as food, feed, medicinal and veterinary medicinal products, living plants, animals and micro-organisms, and certain vehicle aspects. However, DPP requirements only become active when a delegated act adopted under Article 4 requires a passport for a product group. Article 18(5) lists the first priorities for the working plan, including iron and steel, aluminium, textiles, furniture, tyres, detergents, paints, lubricants, chemicals, energy-related products, and ICT products and other electronics. Batteries are covered separately by the battery passport under Regulation (EU) 2023/1542. The Commission’s working plan of 16 April 2025 gives indicative adoption years for each product group.
Article 7(2) of the ESPR sets the floor: the information requirements in each delegated act must include, at minimum, the digital product passport requirements of Chapter III of the ESPR plus substances-of-concern requirements (Article 7(5)), subject to the exceptions in Article 7(5) and (6), the chemical identity, location in the product, and concentration of each substance of concern, and information relevant to its safe use and end-of-life handling. Where appropriate for the product group, information requirements can also cover a performance, durability, or repairability score, a carbon or environmental footprint, installation, use, maintenance, and repair instructions, and end-of-life treatment information (Article 7(2), point (b)). Each delegated act will specify the precise data elements for its product category, as the requirements differ between textiles, batteries, electronics, and other product groups.
The economic operator who places the product on the EU market bears responsibility for creating and maintaining the DPP. The ESPR sets these obligations out in its economic-operators chapter: Article 27 places the primary duty on manufacturers, including ensuring a digital product passport is available and keeping technical documentation; Article 28 lets a manufacturer appoint an authorised representative for a defined set of these tasks; Article 29 places equivalent obligations on importers. Where a product is manufactured outside the EU, the importer who first places it on the EU market takes on the DPP obligation.
The ESPR, Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation, Regulation (EU) 2024/1781, is the EU’s framework regulation for sustainable product design. It replaces and expands the original Ecodesign Directive (2009/125/EC), which applied only to energy-related products. The ESPR extends ecodesign requirements to nearly all physical products on the EU market and introduces the Digital Product Passport as a key compliance mechanism. It entered into force on 18 July 2024.
Regulation (EU) 2023/1542, the EU Battery Regulation, governs the sustainability, safety, and lifecycle management of batteries placed on the EU market. It is the first EU regulation to mandate a Digital Product Passport (the “battery passport”) and serves as a precedent for how DPPs will work under the ESPR. Annex XIII of the Battery Regulation specifies the data requirements for the battery passport, and Article 77 establishes the access framework for that data.
The DPP does not replace REACH (Regulation (EC) 1907/2006), WEEE (Directive 2012/19/EU), or RoHS (Directive 2011/65/EU); those obligations continue to apply alongside it. Under Annex III, point (a), of the ESPR, a delegated act may require the passport to include information required by other Union law applicable to the product group, and Article 7(5) requires information on substances of concern, a category that includes substances identified under REACH Article 59(1) (Article 2(27)). What a given passport must contain from these other laws depends on the delegated act for that product group; for batteries, Annex XIII of Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 sets the content, including the hazardous substances present in the battery (point 1(b)).
Article 13 of the ESPR requires the Commission to set up a digital registry that stores at least the unique identifiers of products, the commodity code for products to be released for free circulation, and the unique identifiers of batteries under Article 77(3) of Regulation (EU) 2023/1542. It does not host the DPP data itself, which is stored by the economic operator or a DPP service provider (Article 11, point (c)); the economic operator uploads the identifiers and receives a unique registration identifier (Article 13(4) and (5)). Article 13(1) set a 19 July 2026 deadline, and the Commission launched the registry on 20 July 2026. Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1778, adopted 16 July 2026, lays down how the registry operates, including the verification of economic operators. As of 26 September 2026 the registry does not yet accept battery passport registrations.
A GS1 Digital Link is a standardised URI structure that encodes a product’s Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) into a web-resolvable URL. When encoded in a QR code, it allows a simple smartphone scan to resolve to the product’s Digital Product Passport. The ESPR references the use of data carriers that comply with ISO/IEC standards, and GS1 Digital Link is the leading candidate for DPP data carriers. It combines the established GS1 identification system with web accessibility, making it suitable for both supply chain scanning and consumer-facing DPP access.
The ESPR does not define a single, fixed access-tier system that applies to every product category. Article 11, point (b), lists who is entitled to free, easy access to the DPP, customers, manufacturers, importers, distributors, dealers, professional repairers, independent operators, refurbishers, remanufacturers, recyclers, market surveillance authorities, customs authorities, civil society organisations, and trade unions, but the specific access rights each of these actors gets (which fields, at what level of detail) are set per product category in that category’s own delegated act under Article 4, not fixed in the ESPR itself. For batteries specifically, the Battery Regulation’s own Annex XIII sets out the battery passport’s access rules.
There is no single, ESPR-wide fixed retention period. Article 11, point (e), requires the DPP to remain available “for the period specified in delegated acts adopted pursuant to Article 4”, the exact duration is set product category by product category, including after the responsible economic operator’s insolvency, liquidation, or cessation of activity. Separately, Article 27(3) sets a 10-year default for manufacturers to keep technical documentation and the EU declaration of conformity (unless a delegated act specifies otherwise), and Article 27(7) requires digital instructions to stay accessible for at least 10 years after the product is placed on the market, so a 10-year figure does recur through the ESPR, attached to documentation and instructions rather than a single blanket DPP-data-retention rule.
Article 74 of the ESPR requires Member States to lay down penalties that are “effective, proportionate and dissuasive”, and to be able to impose at least fines and time-limited exclusion from public procurement procedures (Article 74(3)). The specific penalties are defined in national legislation, so they will vary across the 27 Member States. Market surveillance authorities can also require corrective action and restrict, prohibit, withdraw or recall non-compliant products (Articles 69 and 71), and customs authorities may release a covered product for free circulation only after verifying its registration identifier against the registry (Article 15(2)). The most immediate commercial consequence is loss of EU market access: a product covered by a delegated act cannot be placed on the market without a DPP (Article 9(1)). For batteries, penalties are laid down under Article 93 of Regulation (EU) 2023/1542.
In most cases, yes, partially. Your ERP and PLM systems likely already contain much of the data needed for the DPP: bill of materials, material specifications, supplier information, compliance certificates, and product identifiers. However, DPP data must follow the content and structure the applicable law sets: Annex XIII of Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 for batteries, and the applicable delegated act for ESPR product groups, with harmonised standards for DPPs (referenced by Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2026/1736) supporting interoperability. This typically requires mapping your internal data fields to the DPP data model, filling gaps (especially for substance of concern data and end-of-life instructions), and exporting in a machine-readable format.
Yes. The DPP requires data that the manufacturer alone rarely possesses, particularly detailed material composition, substance of concern declarations, and recycled content percentages at the component level. Under Article 7(2), point (a), and Article 7(5) of the ESPR, information requirements must make it possible to track substances of concern, including their name, location and concentration, which manufacturers usually need from upstream suppliers. Manufacturers must establish data collection processes with their supply chain, including contractual requirements for timely and accurate material declarations. The earlier you start this process, the smoother the compliance effort.
Under ESPR Article 10(1)(e), personal data relating to customers must not be stored in a DPP without their explicit consent, and recital 43 says customers’ personal data should not be stored in it. Personal data can still arise, for example where a manufacturer’s name and contact details identify a sole trader, and in systems that manage access to restricted passport data, which process requesters’ names, credentials and access logs. Recital 43 of the ESPR states that any processing of personal data under the Regulation must comply with data protection law: Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) for competent national authorities, and Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 for processing by the Commission, including in the registry. Economic operators processing personal data are subject to the GDPR. Manufacturers must ensure their DPP systems apply data minimisation, implement appropriate security measures, and maintain lawful bases for processing access-related personal data.
Start with three steps. First, identify whether your products fall within a product category for which a delegated act has been adopted or is expected; the Commission’s ESPR working plan lists priority product groups. Second, audit your existing data: map what you already have in ERP/PLM systems against the expected DPP data requirements, and identify gaps, especially in substance data and supply chain traceability. Third, engage your suppliers early; the data collection process takes months, and suppliers need time to compile accurate material declarations. Starting well before a delegated act’s application date leaves time for this.
Traceable is an EU Digital Product Passport platform for batteries under Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 and for textiles, ahead of any ESPR delegated act for textiles. The platform covers data collection from suppliers through a supplier portal, passport creation, QR code generation with a GS1 Digital Link resolver, field-level access control that separates public passport data from data restricted to persons with a legitimate interest or to authorities, and an EU registry readiness checklist; as of 26 September 2026 the EU DPP registry cannot yet accept battery registrations. Traceable’s Regulatory Radar is a subscription feed of regulatory updates.
All EU regulations are published in the Official Journal of the European Union and available free of charge on EUR-Lex. The key texts are: Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 (ESPR) at eur-lex.europa.eu under CELEX number 32024R1781; Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 (Battery Regulation) under CELEX number 32023R1542; Regulation (EC) 1907/2006 (REACH) under CELEX number 32006R1907. ECHA publishes the SVHC Candidate List at echa.europa.eu/candidate-list-table . The Commission publishes DPP-related consultations and preparatory studies on its Ecodesign pages. This guide reflects the regulatory position as of 26 September 2026. Delegated acts, implementing acts, and technical standards for the Digital Product Passport are being developed on a rolling basis by the European Commission and CEN-CENELEC. Subscribe to Traceable’s Regulatory Radar for updates as new requirements are published that affect your products and compliance obligations.