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  • Curated feed of every EU Digital Product Passport regulatory event — ESPR delegated acts, Battery Regulation amendments, EU Central Registry technical specs, GS1 / CIRPASS-2 standards.
  • We aim to publish new entries within 48 hours of the underlying regulatory event. Weekly email digest summarises the prior 7 days.
  • Each entry tags an urgency level (Critical / High / Medium / Low) and links to the official EUR-Lex or EU Commission source.
  • Plain-English summaries written by compliance specialists with hands-on platform implementation experience — not legal text.
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Medium Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 (ESPR), Art. 4 & Art. 9; ESPR Working Plan COM(2025) 187

ESPR Textiles: JRC Preparatory Study Reaches Third Milestone — Delegated Act Still Expected 2027

The ESPR Working Plan 2025–2030 (COM(2025) 187, adopted 16 April 2025) lists textiles and apparel among the first-wave priority product groups. No textile delegated-act draft has been published. The JRC published the third milestone of its preparatory study on 12 December 2025; the written stakeholder consultation on it closed on…

Action required Textile and apparel manufacturers, importers, and industry associations should review the draft delegated act text, assess the proposed data field requirements against their current data capabilities, and submit comments during the consultation period. Companies should begin mapping their supply chains…
Low Regulation (EU) 2023/1542, Art. 13 & Art. 77; Regulation (EU) 2024/1781, Art. 9-10; ISO/IEC 18975

GS1 Digital Link Is Now ISO/IEC 18975: What That Means for DPP QR Codes

GS1 Digital Link has been published as international standard ISO/IEC 18975, formalising a URL syntax that lets a single QR code identify a product and resolve to its digital information. The EU Battery Regulation (2023/1542) mandates a QR code data carrier for the battery passport from 18 February 2027; ESPR…

Action required Manufacturers and DPP platform providers should review the updated GS1 Digital Link 1.3 implementation guide. Verify that existing QR code generation systems support serial-level identification (required for battery passports) and that resolver services meet the new conformance criteria. If using…
High Regulation (EU) 2024/1781, Article 13

EU Central DPP Registry: What the 19 July 2026 Set-Up Deadline Means

The European Commission must set up the EU Central Digital Product Passport Registry by 19 July 2026 under Article 13(1) of the ESPR (Regulation (EU) 2024/1781). This is the Commission's set-up deadline — not a public launch, and not an operator-registration date. The registry's detailed technical specification will be set…

Action required DPP platform providers must implement the EU Central Registry API before July 2026. Economic operators should confirm that their chosen platform supports registry integration. Companies should also verify that their EORI (Economic Operators Registration and Identification) number is active and…
Critical Regulation (EU) 2023/1542, Article 77 & Annex XIII

EU Battery Passport: 18 February 2027 Date of Application Confirmed in Regulation (EU) 2023/1542

Under Regulation (EU) 2023/1542, the Digital Battery Passport obligation in Article 77 applies from 18 February 2027 to EV, LMT and industrial batteries above 2 kWh. The date is set in the regulation itself; no proposal to postpone it has been published. The due-diligence postponement (Reg (EU) 2025/1561, to 18…

Action required All economic operators placing batteries on the EU market must begin Annex XIII data collection immediately. This includes engaging Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers for raw material origin, carbon footprint, and recycled content data. Companies should evaluate DPP platform…

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Regulatory Radar is a free, curated feed of every change to EU Digital Product Passport regulations — ESPR delegated acts, EU Battery Regulation amendments, EU Central Registry technical specifications, GS1 Digital Link updates, and CIRPASS-2 working-group decisions. Each update is summarised in plain English, tagged with an urgency level, and linked back to the official EU source. Subscribers receive a weekly digest by email; the archive lives at traceable.digital/resources/regulatory-radar/.

New entries are published as soon as the underlying regulatory event occurs — typically within 48 hours of an EU Commission press release, JRC publication, or delegated-act publication in the Official Journal. The weekly email digest summarises every entry posted in the previous seven days. Critical-urgency events (binding deadline changes, scope extensions, enforcement clarifications) trigger an additional out-of-cycle alert email.

EUR-Lex is the canonical legal text repository — exhaustive, searchable, but written for lawyers. The Commission newsroom publishes press releases without legal interpretation. Regulatory Radar sits between the two: every entry is written by compliance specialists who read the underlying regulation, summarise the practical impact for product manufacturers, and explicitly call out what action manufacturers must take. Source links to EUR-Lex / Commission press releases are included in every entry for verification.

Critical: a binding regulatory event with a hard deadline within 12 months affecting most market participants (e.g. final battery passport delegated act). High: a delegated act, technical specification, or enforcement clarification with a 12-24 month implementation window. Medium: working-group consultation, draft delegated act, or industry-standard publication that will become binding but is still in formative stage. Low: contextual background, related-regulation development, or interpretive guidance that does not directly affect a product manufacturer's compliance roadmap.

Regulatory Radar is curated by the Traceable Digital compliance team, who track ESPR delegated-act drafting through the EU Commission's Better Regulation Portal, attend CIRPASS-2 and BatteryPass Consortium working groups, and monitor the JRC Digital Product Passport platform. Every entry is reviewed by at least one compliance specialist with direct experience implementing the regulation in question for a paying customer.

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