EU Digital Product Passport — Frequently Asked Questions

A Digital Product Passport (DPP) is a structured, machine-readable data record that accompanies a physical product throughout its lifecycle. It contains standardised information about the product's composition, origin, environmental footprint, repairability, and end-of-life handling. Under EU regulations ESPR 2024/1781 and Battery Regulation 2023/1542, DPPs are mandatory for products sold in the European Union — starting with batteries in February 2027, then expanding to textiles, tyres, electronics, and eventually all ESPR-regulated categories.

Any economic operator placing a regulated product on the EU market — manufacturers, importers, authorised representatives, and distributors. If you make, import, or sell batteries, textiles, tyres, or electronics in the EU, you will need DPPs. The obligation falls on the entity placing the product on the market, but supply chain data must come from upstream suppliers.

EU Battery Regulation 2023/1542 requires battery passports from February 18, 2027 for EV, LMT, and industrial batteries above 2 kWh. No ESPR delegated act has been adopted yet for textiles, tyres, or electronics. The Commission's Working Plan targets adoption around 2027 for textiles and tyres and names electronics/ICT in a 2029 indicative bucket, but no binding compliance date exists for any of these categories until the relevant delegated act is adopted. The European Commission confirms the EU Central DPP Registry itself goes live 20 July 2026, one day after the 19 July 2026 Article 13(1) deadline for the Commission to set it up.

Under ESPR Article 74, EU member states must set penalties that are "effective, proportionate, and dissuasive." Non-compliant products cannot legally be placed on the EU market. The regulation leaves the specific fine amounts to each member state's own national law rather than setting a fixed EU-wide figure, so the exact penalty varies by country. Beyond fines, consequences include product seizure at borders, market access suspension, and reputational damage.

Upload your existing technical documents (test reports, certificates, BOMs). AI extracts structured compliance data and maps it to the correct DPP fields. You review and approve every extraction. The platform scores your compliance in real time, collects missing data from your suppliers via a dedicated portal, and publishes a machine-readable passport with a GS1 Digital Link QR code.

With existing technical documentation, most users create their first compliant Digital Product Passport in under 60 minutes. AI document extraction handles the data entry — you review and approve. The longer process is gathering supply chain data from upstream suppliers, which the platform automates through the supplier portal.

We offer a free 30-day pilot with the full platform rather than a capped permanent plan: product creation, AI document extraction, compliance scoring, GS1 Digital Link QR codes, public passport pages, and export. No credit card required. After the pilot you pay only for the passports you publish, from €15 each and dropping to €6 or below at volume.

Yes. Most DPP data already exists in your technical documentation — test reports, IEC certificates, REACH declarations, carbon footprint studies, and bills of materials. Traceable's AI Document Intelligence extracts this data automatically and maps it to the correct regulatory fields. You do not re-enter data that already exists in a document.

Traceable covers 8 product categories today: EV batteries, LMT batteries, Industrial batteries, SLI batteries, Portable batteries, Textiles, Tyres, and Electronics — all covering mandatory ESPR fields. Additional categories (steel, cement, plastics, packaging, furniture, chemicals) will be added as their delegated acts are finalised. One account covers every category.

Traceable has 15 live AI capabilities: single and bulk document extraction, automatic document type detection, cross-document field mapping, product data autofill, certificate requirements suggestion, compliance checking, jurisdictional compliance, product compliance analysis, recall risk analysis, supply chain traceability checking, product category suggestion, DPP content translation, access-rights enforcement for each product group's delegated act, and a DPP Q&A assistant. Every AI output is human-reviewed before entering your passport. Sustainability AI capabilities (carbon footprint, trend analysis, upcycle suggestions) are on our 2026 roadmap.

Your suppliers receive an email with a one-time access code. They log in without creating an account, see only the data request you sent, enter component data, upload certificates, and leave. No friction, no cost to them. Every interaction is audit-logged. Your product data is invisible to your suppliers.

GS1 Digital Link is the international standard for encoding product identifiers in QR codes. Every DPP published on Traceable gets a GS1 Digital Link QR code in the format /01/[GTIN]/21/[serial]. Scanning the QR code resolves to the public DPP viewer. The ESPR requires DPP data carriers to comply with the standards referenced in its Annex III, and GS1 Digital Link is the leading real-world candidate manufacturers are building toward.

Yes. Traceable provides a RESTful API with endpoints for creating, managing, and publishing DPPs programmatically. JSON-LD structured data output. W3C Verifiable Credentials Data Model 2.0 is on our 2026 roadmap. API access is available on Growth plans and above.

Blockchain anchoring is currently in beta. It creates a cryptographic hash of your passport data on a public blockchain, providing tamper-proof evidence that your data existed in a specific state at a specific time. This is relevant for enterprise procurement RFPs that require immutability guarantees.

All data is hosted in EU data centres (Dublin, Ireland). No data leaves the European Union. Encryption at rest and in transit. GDPR-compliant by architecture with data processing agreements, subprocessor transparency, and data minimisation throughout.

Yes. Traceable is GDPR-compliant by design. We provide data processing agreements, maintain a transparent subprocessor list, support data subject requests, implement data minimisation, and offer full data export and deletion on request. Built-in GDPR tools help you manage the privacy aspects of your DPP data.

Yes. Full JSON-LD data export is available on all plans. CSV export for product data is also supported. Your data is yours — portable, exportable, and deletable on request.

Published passports remain accessible via their QR codes for a grace period after cancellation. You can export all your data before cancelling. Contact us for specific data retention details.

Yes. Scale plan customers can run Traceable under their own brand — custom domain, logo, colours, and pricing. White-label is designed for compliance consultancies, certification bodies, and industry associations serving multiple member companies.