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Guides, analysis and industry news on the Digital Product Passport and the ESPR regulation.
The DPP Registry Is Law, and We Are Ready
The EU has adopted the rulebook for its Digital Product Passport registry. We have been tracking the standards behind it for months, so here is the short version of what it means, and why, now that the rules are final, there is almost nothing for us to change.
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Standard by Standard: How Transpareo Meets the Harmonised DPP Norms
The EU has cited the first six Digital Product Passport standards in the Official Journal. The target is now fixed - and our platform meets it today, standard by standard, from the product identifiers to the trust layer.
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From AAS Submodel to Published DPP: The Checklist
If you already keep clean AAS regulatory submodels, you have done most of the work for the Digital Product Passport already. What is left is manageable. Here is the friendly, practical checklist for the last steps to a published, EU-compliant passport.
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The AAS Is the Foundation of the Digital Product Passport
The Asset Administration Shell structures product data to an Industry 4.0 standard and is one of the most important industrial data standards of recent years. What it does not produce on its own is a published, EU-compliant Digital Product Passport. That regulatory output layer is exactly where Transpareo fits.
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EN 18223 Is Verbose - Open Semantics Turns It Into a Formatting Exercise
Converting clean JSON-LD into EN 18223's expanded serialization turns three lines into twenty. The verbosity is not a flaw in the standard - it is the price of a closed dictionary. Once meaning lives in open, resolvable namespaces from the start, the conversion becomes a formatting exercise.
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The Brussels effect explained: why EU rules apply worldwide
A cell factory in Korea, a pack maker in Shenzhen, an importer in Hamburg - the moment the goods reach the EU market, the same rules apply to all of them. Why a regulation decided in Brussels reaches a factory in Guangdong.
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Shaping the global standard: our six comments on the UN Transparency Protocol
Six comments on the public review of the UN Transparency Protocol (UNTP): on proof formats, verification, tiered disclosure, multilingual content and the bridge to the EU product passport. Two already drew a response - one moved our own verifier to the standard cryptosuite.
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The DPP forces digitisation - and that is the real opportunity
The biggest effort with the Digital Product Passport is not the obligation, but digitising and consolidating the product data. Anyone who starts today first gains clean product-data management - and is DPP-ready as a by-product.
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Trust that outlives the product: signatures and certificates in the DPP
A DPP has to stay verifiable for ten years - even if the platform provider disappears tomorrow. The answer is not trust in the company, but in the artefact.
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One data set, two regimes: a single DPP for the EU and China
Anyone supplying batteries to Europe and China faces two sets of rules that could hardly be more opposed. Why a single product data set is enough nonetheless - and where the honest limits lie.
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One DPP, many standards: why the vocabulary decides interoperability
The Digital Product Passport does not invent a new language - it brings existing ones together: GS1 EPCIS, OpenEPCIS, W3C and sector-specific vocabularies. Why consistency is the real effort here.
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Have Your Say: what we wrote to the EU Commission on the DPP register regulation
Four submissions to the open consultation: on the definition of DPP service provider obligations, on long-term verifiability, on data release under Article 17, and on publishing the API before entry into force.
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The EU DPP register: what the Commission draft of 29 April proposes
The Commission has published the draft implementing regulation for the DPP register. What it contains, what it means for manufacturers, and how Transpareo maps the required capabilities.
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ESPR timeline 2027: what battery manufacturers need to know now
The first mandatory Digital Product Passport launches in 2027 for batteries. Which data fields are settled, what do the delegated acts bring, and how do manufacturers use the time that remains?
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Why GS1 Digital Link is the right standard for DPPs
Proprietary QR codes or an international standard? A technical comparison and what GS1 Digital Link means for interoperability.
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Textile industry: closing the data gaps in the supply chain
Fibre-to-finished-product: how fashion brands meet the 2029 ESPR obligations by contractually obliging tier-1 to pass on tier-2/3 data.
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From compliance document to marketing tool
Every QR scan is a consumer interaction. How companies use their DPPs as a lead-generation channel - without greenwashing.
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40 languages automatically: how our AI translation handles technical terminology
A look behind the scenes of our automatic product-data translation - and why technical terminology has to be treated differently from a novel.
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Carbon footprint in the DPP: which method to choose?
Cradle-to-gate, cradle-to-grave, EPD - a pragmatic guide to the CO2 calculation methods that the ESPR accepts.
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Construction products without a GTIN: how the DPP works anyway
Cement, bricks, steel beams - the construction sector has many products without a classic trade identifier. We show the route via batch IDs.
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ERP integration in 2 weeks: a playbook for your own API integration
From SAP to Odoo - this is how you connect Transpareo to your existing system via our REST API, in two weeks instead of a six-month project.
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Cosmetics: 20 years of product transparency as a blueprint for DPPs
What other sectors can learn from Cosmetic Analysis - lessons learned from almost two decades of ingredient transparency.
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What the DPP obligation really costs - and what penalties cost
Platform subscription against a fine: why a planned DPP introduction is structurally below the cost of a reactive retrofit.
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