Insights & Perspectives
Guides, analysis and industry news on the Digital Product Passport and the ESPR regulation.
One stream, one direction: how data flows into the passport
ERP, MES, PLM and PIM feed the Digital Product Passport yet keep control. Data flows in one direction only, and all that comes back are receipts.
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Disclosure doesn't cost you the signature
Anyone shown protected fields usually has to trust the platform. We sign each field on its own, so those fields carry their own proof.
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The DPP Registry Is Law, and We Are Ready
The EU register for Digital Product Passports became law on 16 July 2026. What it asks of you, and what we take off your hands.
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Standard by Standard: How Transpareo Meets the Harmonised DPP Norms
Six DPP standards have been harmonised since 15 July 2026. The target has stopped moving, and we already meet it.
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From AAS Submodel to Published DPP: The Checklist
A Digital Nameplate plus Asset Administration Shell gets you far, but not all the way to a passport. The seven steps still missing.
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The AAS Is the Foundation of the Digital Product Passport
The Asset Administration Shell provides the structure, the Digital Product Passport the published output. Where exactly the gap between them sits.
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EN 18223 Is Verbose - Open Semantics Turns It Into a Formatting Exercise
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.
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The Brussels effect explained: why EU rules apply worldwide
Why a regulation decided in Brussels reaches into a factory in Guangdong - and who the 2027 battery passport duty really affects.
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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. Two drew a reply, and one changed our own verifier.
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The DPP forces digitisation - and that is the real opportunity
For most companies the first hurdle is not the deadlines but product data spread across PDFs, emails and a dozen spreadsheets.
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Trust that outlives the product: signatures and certificates in the DPP
A DPP has to stay verifiable for ten years; a platform rarely lasts that long. So trust attaches to the record, not to the provider.
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One data set, two regimes: a single DPP for the EU and China
Supplying batteries to Europe and China means facing two opposed sets of rules. Why a single product data set is still enough.
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One DPP, many standards: why the vocabulary decides interoperability
The DPP invents no new language; it brings several existing ones together. How GS1, OpenEPCIS and the sector vocabularies fit together.
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Have Your Say: what we wrote to the EU Commission on the DPP register regulation
Four submissions on the draft DPP register regulation. What we told the Commission about minimum requirements, long-term verification and the API.
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The EU DPP register: what the Commission draft of 29 April proposes
The draft implementing regulation for the EU DPP register is out. What it settles on verification, granularity and retention.
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ESPR timeline 2027: what battery manufacturers need to know now
From 18 February 2027 every battery above 2 kWh needs a product passport. What is settled, and what the implementing act still leaves open.
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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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