Digital Product Passport for automotive parts and tyres
The Digital Product Passport for automotive parts and tyres comes in stages, tyres likely from 2029. Vehicles add environmental and circularity passports.
Where Transpareo supports you
Once the act for tyres applies, no tyre is placed on the market without a product passport. Transpareo is the DPP platform on which tyre and parts manufacturers create that passport, share it with their customers and publish it. Each card names a task and leads to the section that explains it. What a tyre passport carries exactly is for the act to set.
Rolling resistance, wet grip and rolling noise are already on the tyre label. Transpareo keeps them as fields in the passport, and you maintain every value in one place.
You already hold the type approval and the test reports. In Transpareo they hang on the passport, visible only to the readers you choose.
Every tyre needs a unique identifier and a QR code to its passport. With a GTIN Transpareo creates a GS1 Digital Link, without one an identifier of its own.
Drivers, workshops, vehicle manufacturers and authorities need different information. In Transpareo you set for every field who may see it.
Vehicle manufacturers fill their environmental and circularity passports from supplier data, spare part numbers included. Through the API they take from your record what you entitle them to.
For natural rubber the location of every harvest plot counts from the end of 2026. With Transpareo Upstream your suppliers enter this information themselves, and you review it.
Every publication is a signed version, and earlier versions stay retrievable. You export your data at any time, as JSON-LD, CSV, Excel spreadsheet or SQL.
Once the act applies, your company enters every tyre passport in the EU registry itself. Transpareo checks the passport first and gathers the details for the entry.
The passport stays reachable for at least as long as the tyre lasts. It keeps its permanent address, and once registered, Transpareo Vault archives it for ten years.
What is coming for tyre and parts manufacturers
The Digital Product Passport for automotive parts and tyres starts with tyres. Vehicles get passports of their own beside it, and those belong to the vehicle manufacturer. Transpareo is the DPP platform on which tyre and parts manufacturers create their passport today.
Which passport belongs to whom
Under the Euro 7 regulation the vehicle manufacturer issues an environmental vehicle passport for every vehicle. It carries emissions, CO2, consumption, electric range and battery durability. For all new cars and vans Euro 7 applies from 29 November 2027. Heavy-duty vehicles follow on 29 May 2029.
The end-of-life vehicles regulation entered into force on 13 August 2026 and applies from 1 September 2028. From 1 September 2032 every new vehicle needs a Digital Circularity Vehicle Passport. It describes how parts come out of the vehicle safely. The Commission lays down the technical rules by August 2030.
Both passports belong to the vehicle manufacturer. Your own passport as a tyre or parts maker is the third one: the product passport under the Ecodesign Regulation.
Your duty is the tyre passport under the Ecodesign Regulation.
What is coming for tyres
Vehicles covered by type-approval law sit largely outside the Ecodesign Regulation. Tyres deliberately sit inside it. That is why the Commission’s working plan of 16 April 2025 lists tyres among the first product groups.
The Commission plans the act for tyres for the second half of 2027. After it, manufacturers get at least 18 months. That is where the year 2029 comes from. It is an expectation, and only the act will set the date.
Euro 7 also limits the abrasion of tyres. From 1 July 2028 only new C1 tyre types that meet Euro 7 get a type approval. From 1 July 2030 this applies to every C1 tyre placed on the market. New types of C2 and C3 tyres follow in 2030 and 2032.
What already applies today
Since 1 May 2021 every C1, C2 and C3 tyre has carried the EU tyre label. The tyre labelling regulation requires it. Before placing a tyre on the market the supplier enters every tyre type in the EU product database EPREL. It holds the label values and the protocols of the tests.
Whoever keeps that clean already holds a large part of what a tyre passport is likely to ask for.
From 30 December 2026 the deforestation regulation applies, to natural rubber and new tyres too. Whoever first places them on the market documents the location of the harvest plots. Since an amendment in 2025, a plant in the EU that processes rubber already declared files no statement of its own. It keeps the information of its suppliers and their reference numbers. For retreaded tyres, an amendment of September 2026 limits the regulation to the new tread.
What this page covers
This page is your reference work on the digital product passport for automotive parts and tyres. It shows the timeline with every date, the roles with their duties and the data the passport will carry. Then come the official sources and a sample spreadsheet to compare with your data. At the end are the questions tyre and parts manufacturers ask us most often. A term underlined with dots shows the wording of the provision on a click.
From the rules to the passport
The graphic leads from the sets of rules to the tyre passport. The rules stand in grey, the data you already have in teal. The Transpareo passport with its reading tiers stands in blue.
The three biggest hurdles in practice
- Three passports, one supply chain: the vehicle manufacturer owes two of the passports and fills them from supplier data. A parts maker who hands that data over cleanly is easier to buy from, well before any rule says so. In Transpareo your customers take the data through the API.
- The same data in four places: label values sit in EPREL and test reports in the type-approval file. Article data sits in the customer’s system, and soon in the passport too. Maintained separately they drift apart. A drifted wet-grip class is a market-surveillance matter. In Transpareo you maintain every value once.
- Origin down to the plot: from 30 December 2026 the location of every harvest plot counts for natural rubber. The rubber chain has never been asked this precisely. With a supplier request in Transpareo your suppliers enter this information themselves.
More on this: Why GS1 Digital Link is the right standard and ERP integration in two weeks.
Regulatory timeline for automotive parts and tyres
The key dates of the rules that apply to automotive parts and tyres or are still to come, in order. Dates that hang on acts not yet adopted are marked as such.
- 1 May 2021Tyre label and product database
Regulation (EU) 2020/740 applies. Every C1, C2 and C3 tyre carries a label with rolling resistance, wet grip and rolling noise, and the snow and ice symbols where earned. Suppliers enter every tyre type in EPREL before placing it on the market. The label already carries a QR code.
- 16 April 2025Working plan names tyres
The first working plan under the Ecodesign Regulation, for 2025 to 2030, lists tyres among the priority final products. The regulation itself has been in force since 18 July 2024. Vehicles sit largely outside its scope, tyres deliberately inside it.
- 20 July 2026EU DPP registry operational
The central registry for product passports goes live. Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1778 governs it, with a test environment for economic operators. Tyre passports go into it once the act for tyres applies.
- 13 August 2026End-of-life vehicles regulation in force
Regulation (EU) 2026/1738 of 8 July 2026 enters into force. It replaces the directives on end-of-life vehicles and on recyclability in type approval. Most of its rules apply from 1 September 2028.
- 29 November 2026Euro 7 for new vehicle types
Regulation (EU) 2024/1257 applies to new types of cars and vans. From 29 November 2027 it applies to all new vehicles of these categories. Each vehicle gets an environmental vehicle passport, which the manufacturer hands to the purchaser. Heavy-duty vehicles follow on 29 May 2029.
- 30 December 2026Deforestation duties reach natural rubber
Rubber and products made from it, new tyres included, fall under Regulation (EU) 2023/1115. Whoever first places them on the market files a due-diligence statement with the location of the harvest plots. Micro and small undertakings follow on 30 June 2027.
- Expected 2027Delegated act for tyres
The Commission’s indicative timeline puts the act for tyres in the second half of 2027, alongside textiles and aluminium. It has not been adopted yet. So nothing in it is final.
- 1 July 2028Abrasion of new C1 tyres
New types of C1 tyres get a type approval only if they meet the abrasion requirements of Euro 7. From 1 July 2030 this applies to every C1 tyre placed on the market. New types of C2 and C3 tyres follow in 2030 and 2032.
- 1 September 2028End-of-life vehicles regulation applies
Most rules of the regulation apply, among them the circularity requirements for vehicle design. From 1 September 2029 vehicle manufacturers release information on the safe removal of parts for new types.
- Expected 2029Passport duty for tyres
Economic operators get at least 18 months after a delegated act before its passport requirements apply. With an act at the end of 2027 that lands in 2029. The date hangs on an act the Commission has not adopted yet.
- 1 September 2032Digital Circularity Vehicle Passport
Every vehicle placed on the market needs a Digital Circularity Vehicle Passport. It carries the removal information, details on certain substances, the recycled content and the spare parts catalogue. The Commission lays down its technical rules by 14 August 2030.
Who is affected?
Duties for automotive parts and tyres: what falls on each economic operator on the way to the market.
Creates the passport for the product it places on the market and assigns the identifier. Once the act applies, the data in the passport has to be accurate, complete and up to date. For tyres it already holds much of it, as label values and test protocols sit in EPREL.
Whoever brings tyres or parts into the EU places them on the market. The importer carries the label, the database entry and, in future, the passport. For natural rubber the duties of the deforestation regulation reach it too. A plant outside the EU has rarely been asked about its harvest plots. With a supplier request in Transpareo the plant enters its information itself.
The dealer checks before selling that the label is present and correct. It keeps no data of its own, yet the customer asks it first. A passport in the customer’s language saves the counter many a phone call. For distance sales to consumers from outside the EU, the new Union Customs Code applies from 21 September 2027. The importer is then the seller or the marketplace, depending on the arrangements. That importer answers for the goods meeting the product rules.
Owes the environmental vehicle passport for every vehicle and from 2032 the Digital Circularity Vehicle Passport. It fills both from supplier data. This is where a parts maker’s passport becomes a sales argument.
What goes in the DPP for automotive parts and tyres?
Data fields for automotive parts and tyres: the key ones the relevant EU regulation requires.
Tyre class C1, C2 or C3, the rolling-resistance and wet-grip classes and the rolling noise in decibels with its class. Then the snow and ice symbols, where the tyre earns them. These are the same values that sit in EPREL.
The type approval and the rolling-resistance, wet-grip and noise test reports already exist. For the passport, what counts is who may read them. From July 2028 the abrasion test joins them for new C1 tyre types.
Original equipment (OE) numbers and your own article numbers, replacement intervals and fitting and removal information. Then the place where the instructions live. For a vehicle’s circularity passport this is the raw material.
Retreadability, the ground-rubber route, the materials recovered and how the part is removed safely. The end-of-life vehicles regulation asks the same question from the vehicle end. Written down once, the answer serves both.
The place of manufacture and, for natural rubber, the origin down to the harvest plot. Synthetic and natural shares are separate figures. They are rarely reported together.
Checklist for automotive parts and tyres
The EU has not yet published which data points a product passport for automotive parts and tyres has to carry: the act that fixes them is pending. As soon as it is public, a checklist for Automotive Parts & Tyres appears here, as a page and as a PDF, the way the battery checklists follow the regulation text today. Until then, the required data above and the official documents below are the reliable guide.
Downloads
The sample spreadsheet is the Transpareo template for automotive parts and tyres: the data the current rules already ask for and the fields a passport usually carries, as our data model, not as the delegated act. Open it next to your own product data, no account needed; we adjust the template when the act lands.
Sample row for automotive parts and tyres, filled in and with every column the import expects.
24 columns, sample values included
Transpareo for automotive parts and tyres
Transpareo is the DPP software for tyre and parts manufacturers. Tyre class, label values and tread depth are fields of the tyre template. Type approval, test reports, declaration of conformity and recycling instructions hang on the passport as documents. You create fields of your own, for abrasion for example.
Each field has its own visibility. Drivers see the label values without any login, workshops and dismantlers the removal detail, authorities the test reports. So one record serves every customer.
Data comes in through the web interface, by Excel import or through the API. A vehicle manufacturer takes through the API what you entitle it to. The sample spreadsheet above is a summer tyre 205/55 R16 with every column of the import.
Every publication is a signed version, and earlier versions stay retrievable. Any reader checks the signature with the Transpareo Time Machine in their own browser. Transpareo translates information for consumers into 40 languages, and you review the translation.
Frequently asked questions about the DPP for automotive parts and tyres
Which passport is which?
Three passports share the word, and they belong to different parties. The vehicle manufacturer issues the environmental vehicle passport under Euro 7 for a whole vehicle. The circularity passport under the end-of-life vehicles regulation is the vehicle manufacturer’s too. It describes how parts come out of the vehicle safely. The product passport under the Ecodesign Regulation belongs to the product you place on the market, here the tyre. A tyre maker owes the third and supplies data for the other two.
Is the DPP for tyres already law?
Not yet. The Ecodesign Regulation has been in force since 18 July 2024. Its requirements arrive per product group through delegated acts. The act for tyres has not been adopted. The Commission plans it for the second half of 2027. After that at least 18 months remain, so the duty is expected in 2029. The tyre label and the EPREL entry, by contrast, have applied since 1 May 2021.
We already register in EPREL. Is that not the same thing?
EPREL is a head start. The database holds label values and test protocols so that authorities can verify a class. A product passport speaks to every reader and goes further. It carries materials, origin, fitting, removal and end of life. It lives at an address the tyre itself points to. Still, the overlap is large, as the label values and test protocols are the same. In Transpareo they become fields and documents you maintain once.
Does this apply to importers too?
Yes. The duties fall on whoever places the tyre on the market. An importer owes the label, the EPREL entry and the future passport exactly as a plant in the EU does. For natural rubber the importer also carries the due-diligence statement from 30 December 2026. If your supplier holds no harvest data, that is a contract question. Such negotiations often take quarters. With a supplier request in Transpareo your supplier enters its data directly.
Do I need a GTIN?
The Ecodesign Regulation requires a persistent unique product identifier. Which number that is, it leaves open. Tyres usually have a GTIN, and it is worth using. With a GTIN, Transpareo turns it into a GS1 Digital Link. Your trade partners and their systems resolve it too. That matters in a channel that already runs on EAN and OE numbers. Without a GTIN the passport carries a unique Transpareo identifier beside your article number. More on this in why GS1 Digital Link is the right standard.
We supply several vehicle brands. Do we need a system per customer?
No. You maintain the product once and set per field who may read it. A brand customer sees the depth you agreed with it. The public sees the label values. Data comes in through the web interface, by Excel import or through the API. A customer’s system takes through the API what it is entitled to. Nobody needs another spreadsheet then.
Who sees which data in the passport?
You decide, field by field. Consumers see label values, fitting notes and disposal information without any login. Workshops and dismantlers see removal and material detail through access you grant. Type approval and test reports stay with authorities and the readers you name. The same QR code shows each reader what they are entitled to see. Which tiers the tyre passport has is for the act for tyres to set.
How long must the passport stay available?
The Ecodesign Regulation ties the passport at least to the expected lifetime of the product. A truck tyre outlives several retreads. The passport has to survive an insolvency of its issuer too. So have every provider explain before signing what happens to your passports after a cancellation. With Transpareo, published passports stay reachable at a permanent address. Our provider checklist names more questions.
Do I have to register the passport in the EU registry?
Yes, once the act for tyres applies. Whoever places the tyre on the market uploads its identifier to the EU registry. The registry has run since 20 July 2026. It holds the identifiers, and the data stays in the passport. Before the first entry your company proves its identity. Today your company makes the entry itself. A service provider may do it only where the act for the product group provides for it. The Commission says it is examining whether that changes. Transpareo checks every passport before publication and prepares the details the entry needs. More in our analysis of the registry regulation.
What does non-compliance cost?
The member states set the penalties. For the tyre label they already do. A wrong class or a missing EPREL entry is a market-surveillance matter today. From the deadline a tyre without a passport may not be placed on the market. A fitting season cannot be postponed by a quarter.
Official documents
Legal sources for automotive parts and tyres to read for yourself: what each document is and when you need it.
- Regulation (EU) 2020/740 on the labelling of tyresThe tyre label itself, applicable since 1 May 2021. It defines the classes and parameters and the duty to enter every tyre type in the product database before placing it on the market.
- Regulation (EU) 2024/1257 (Euro 7)Type approval with respect to emissions and battery durability. It requires an environmental vehicle passport for every vehicle and sets the dates from which C1 tyres have to comply with it. Read it if you supply vehicle manufacturers or have tyres type-approved.
- Regulation (EU) 2026/1738 on end-of-life vehiclesCircularity requirements for vehicle design and the management of end-of-life vehicles, adopted on 8 July 2026. From 1 September 2032 every vehicle placed on the market needs a Digital Circularity Vehicle Passport.
- Commission page on end-of-life vehiclesThe staged calendar of the new regulation in plain language, from entry into force to the recycled-content targets. Date changes appear here first.
- Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 on deforestation-free productsCovers rubber and certain products made from it, new tyres included. Regulation (EU) 2025/2650 amended it and set the dates to 30 December 2026 and 30 June 2027. Read it for the content of the due-diligence statement.
- Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 (ESPR)The framework regulation for the Digital Product Passport. Vehicles covered by type-approval law sit largely outside its scope, tyres inside it. That is why the tyre act is on the working plan and no vehicle act is.
- DPP page of the European CommissionThe official roadmap for the product passport with the indicative period of each delegated act and the state of the registry. Worth a look each quarter while the tyre act is being drafted.
Further reading on our blog
GS1 Digital Link is an international standard for the QR code on a product passport. What it means for interoperability.
How to connect your ERP to Transpareo in two weeks through the REST API of Transpareo Connect. The playbook covers everything from SAP to Odoo.
A product passport uses three existing dictionaries so that every reader understands every field. That keeps it readable in ten years too.
The EU register for Digital Product Passports became law on 16 July 2026. What it asks of you, and what we prepare for you.
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