A land register records who owns a plot and where it lies. The deed itself is not in the land register but with the owner. That is exactly how the EU register for Digital Product Passports works: it records that your passport exists, where it lives and that it has not changed. The product data stays with you and your service provider.
Since 16 July 2026 this register is law: the EU adopted Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1778. We covered the draft back in April in The EU DPP register: what the Commission draft proposes. This is about what changed on the way to adoption, and about what the register now asks of you.
Updated on 7 September 2026: the registry has been operational since 20 July 2026, and the EU DPP Help Desk has clarified that only the company itself may register a passport. The sections below reflect that.
What it asks of you
Two things. Register each passport, and prove who you are.
You prove your identity with the EU’s official digital means, a qualified electronic signature or seal or an equivalent attestation. In return you get a sealed proof of registration you can hand to a customer or an authority. The registration data is kept for ten years.
That is the whole shape of it. Your data stays with you, the register keeps only the directory.
What we prepare for you
Registering is your own act. The registry accepts the entry only from the company placing the product on the market (ESPR Art. 13(4) and (5); for batteries Art. 77(10) of the Batteries Regulation) and checks your identity in the process. The registry offers no access for service providers yet; the Commission has said it is examining whether to open the process to them, and we follow that closely.
What we do is make the entry short.
Every passport already carries what the register asks for: the unique product identifier, the address where the passport lives and the fingerprint that proves it is unchanged. Once the interface is final, you enter that once and receive the sealed proof of registration.
Until then, you can already collect the data the entry will later require with us, at low cost, well looked after, without building anything yourself. And there is no need to wait: your passports can already be published, shown in marketing, used in repair. The entry into the registry is yours, once it is your turn; the data for it is ready.
Why this is a quiet day for us
We have spent months building to exactly this, and tracking the European standards as they moved from draft to final. Now that they have stopped moving, the honest result on our side is: almost nothing to change.
Our platform already does what the registry assumes.
Every passport version is signed and checks out in any browser. Once your passports are registered, every version is kept in a tamper-proof archive for the full ten years, chained so any gap shows up at once. The data model is open and follows the standards, the fingerprint the registry records is one we already compute, and the split, your data with you and the directory with the registry, is the architecture we were built on.
We mapped our platform against the EU DPP standards clause by clause while they were still drafts, as we wrote up in Standard by standard. Now that the texts are fixed, that work stands. No scramble, and no need for one.
The one honest caveat
The registry went into operation on 20 July 2026 with a test environment, but the technical interface is still being described, the shared data definitions are still being rolled out, and Member States name their national contacts by February 2027. So the registry is law and running, but the way in is not final yet, and it is a moving target.
That is fine, and it is the right order. When the interface is final, registration is a short entry with data we have already prepared for you, not a system you rush to build.
Where we stand
The registry confirms the model we already run and the standards we already meet. If you are choosing where your passports will live for the next ten years, the regulation just wrote your checklist, and we are glad to be built to it. Start now, and you start on a fixed target, on a platform that has been getting ready for this day for months.
