For every regulated market

Already today
Cosmetics
Ingredients (INCI), allergens, origin and cruelty-free status under the EU Cosmetics Regulation. An ESPR act for cosmetics is possible but not yet scheduled.
Food
Wine e-labels since 2023, EUDR supply-chain evidence, nutritional values and allergens - sector-specific obligations rather than an ESPR DPP.
Pharmaceuticals
Serialisation under the EU Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) since 2019. Guidance on submitting electronic product information (ePI) from 2026, mandatory with the pharmaceutical reform expected in 2028.
From 2027
Batteries
EU Batteries Regulation 2023/1542. Individual passports for EV, LMT and industrial batteries with capacity, lifespan and recycling data.
From 2028
Construction
EU Construction Products Regulation. Declaration of performance and conformity, CE marking, the environmental characteristics of Annex II and deconstruction information.
Metals
Iron, steel and aluminium: carbon footprint, recycled content, proof of origin and conflict-mineral declarations.
From 2029
Textiles & fashion
ESPR delegated act for textiles. Material composition, proof of origin, care instructions and recycling information in the DPP.
Furniture
Material origin, durability tests, repair options and recyclability in line with the ESPR for furniture and furnishings.
Car parts & tyres
Tyre passport under EU regulation. Rolling resistance, wet grip, rolling noise and recyclability. Spare parts with proof of origin.
Chemicals
Detergents and end-user surfactants need a passport from 23 September 2029. For chemicals generally there is no act yet; REACH and CLP already supply the safety data sheet, the hazardous-substance information and the disposal instructions.
FMCG
The Packaging Regulation has applied since 12 August 2026, labelling follows in 2028, recyclability and recycled content in 2030. Detergents get a real passport on 23 September 2029; for the rest of a consumer-goods range no date is fixed.
Probably 2029
Electronics
Repairability score, spare-parts availability, software updates and recycled content under the horizontal ecodesign acts. No passport date is fixed yet.
From 2030
Toys
New EU Toy Safety Regulation. Material composition, age rating, safety certificates and traceability.
Not yet dated
Luxury goods
No act of its own and no place in the first ecodesign working plan; apparel is reached by the textiles act expected in 2027. Certificates of authenticity, proof of origin, craftsmanship documentation and counterfeit protection are what a passport earns here today.

How to read the regulation landscape

The dates above come from three different kinds of law, and knowing which one reaches your product tells you how firm a date is.

Sector regulations with a passport of their own

The Batteries Regulation, the Toy Safety Regulation, the Detergents Regulation and the Construction Products Regulation write the passport into their own text, with a date: batteries from 18 February 2027, toys from 1 August 2030, detergents from 23 September 2029 (see chemicals and FMCG), construction products once the delegated act arrives. These dates are law; where details wait for a further act, the page says so.

Product groups under the Ecodesign Regulation

The ESPR, Regulation (EU) 2024/1781, sets no date itself. It empowers delegated acts per product group, and each act gives operators at least 18 months (Art. 4(4)). The working plan of 16 April 2025 names textiles, iron and steel, aluminium, tyres, furniture and mattresses, with indicative act years from 2026 to 2029. The years on those pages are therefore expectations, not deadlines: textiles, metals, tyres, furniture, electronics, luxury goods.

Duties that apply today without a passport

Cosmetics, food and pharmaceuticals carry product-information duties under older law, and the ESPR excludes food, feed and medicines for good. The passport there is a way to carry those duties where a label runs out of room, not a new obligation: cosmetics, food, pharmaceuticals.

How to use this reference

Each page carries the timeline with every date from the regulation text, the roles and what each owes, the required data, the official documents linked at their source, the questions we are asked most often and, where the law already fixes the content, a checklist to tick off online or as a PDF. We update every page as soon as new regulatory information is published.

Why the passport pays off before it is mandatory

None of the dates above obliges you to publish a passport today. Five reasons not to wait anyway, and one condition.

The data is the long road

Around 70 per cent of the required fields already exist in the company, spread across spreadsheets, data sheets and supplier emails. Bringing them together and procuring the missing 30 per cent costs months; the passport afterwards is a press of a button. Whoever starts today walks the long road calmly, not in the quarter before the deadline - why the DPP forces digitisation.

A sales argument that can be checked

Any brochure can claim sustainability. A passport makes it verifiable: every version is signed and verifies in any browser against a public key. Buyers, retailers and tenders already ask for origin, materials and repairability; the QR code on the product answers - from compliance document to marketing tool.

A fixed target, not a prototype

Six of the eight European DPP standards have been cited since 15 July 2026, the EU register has been operating since 20 July 2026, and every passport shares the same plumbing. What you publish today you do not throw away at the deadline. Still open are two standards and the registration interface; the entry into the register is yours to make, and your passport holds the data for it - the DPP registry is law.

The cheaper half of the sum

A passport costs a fraction of a container held at customs, a recall without batch reference or a Safety Gate entry with your brand on it. Whoever starts before the deadline chooses the planned scenario; whoever starts in the year of the deadline chooses the reactive one - what the DPP costs and what penalties cost.

One range for the EU and the world

For a manufacturer outside the EU the passport is market access, and what is structured for Europe carries into every other market with the same data. EU rules become the template for others - the Brussels effect explained.

The condition: real data

A verifiable passport exposes an embellished claim faster than a brochure ever did. And where the ESPR excludes an industry, such as food and medicines, the passport is an extension of the label, not a passport in the sense of the ESPR. With real data nothing stands in your way: an account is free and the first template stands in minutes - start today.

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