Digital Product Passport for automotive parts and tyres

Three different ones share the word, and they belong to different parties. The environmental vehicle passport under Euro 7 is issued by the vehicle manufacturer for a whole vehicle. The circularity vehicle passport under the end-of-life vehicles regulation is also the vehicle manufacturer’s and covers safe removal of parts. The product passport under the ESPR belongs to the product you place on the market, which for this page means the tyre. A tyre maker owes the third, and feeds the other two with data.

Not yet. The ESPR has been in force since 18 July 2024, but requirements come per product group through delegated acts, and the tyres act has not been adopted. The Commission’s indicative timeline puts it in the second half of 2027, and operators get at least 18 months afterwards, so the duty is expected in 2029. The tyre label and the EPREL registration, by contrast, have applied since 1 May 2021.

No, but it is a head start. EPREL holds the technical documentation behind the label so authorities can verify a class. A product passport is reader-facing and much wider - materials, origin, fitting, removal, end of life - and it lives at an address the tyre itself points to. The overlap is real, though - the label values, the type-approval certificate and the three test reports are the same documents. In Transpareo they become fields and attachments you maintain once.

Yes. Placing on the market triggers the duties, not manufacturing, so an importer of tyres owes the label, the EPREL registration and the future passport exactly as a European plant does. For natural rubber the deforestation statement lands on the importer as well from 30 December 2026. If your supplier holds none of the harvest data, that is a contract question, and contract questions take quarters, not weeks.

No rule requires one, but tyres usually have one, and it is worth using. With a GTIN the identifier in Transpareo becomes a GS1 Digital Link that trade partners and their systems resolve too, which matters in a channel that already keys everything by EAN and OE number. Without one the passport carries a unique Transpareo identifier alongside your article number. More on this in why GS1 Digital Link is the right standard.

No. You maintain the product once and decide per field who may read it. Visibility is a property of every data field in Transpareo - public without any login, or restricted to a tier reached through logged access - so a brand customer sees the depth you agreed with it while the public sees the label values. Data goes in through the interface, by Excel import or via the REST API, so a customer’s system can pull what it is entitled to instead of asking for a spreadsheet.

You decide, field by field. Consumers get the label values, fitting notes and disposal information without any login. Workshops and dismantlers get removal and material detail through logged access. Type-approval certificates 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 is the only way one passport serves a driver, a fitter and a market-surveillance officer.

The ESPR ties the passport to the life of the product, and a truck tyre outlives several retreads. The duty therefore survives any change of provider, so the question worth asking every supplier before signing is what happens to your passports after a cancellation. With Transpareo, published passports stay reachable through a permanent address, and our provider checklist names the further questions.

Yes, once the tyre act applies, and you do it yourself. Product passports are registered in the central EU DPP register, operational since 20 July 2026, with Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1778 setting out how it works. Only the economic operator placing the product on the market may register it (ESPR Art. 13(4) and (5)); a service provider cannot do it for you unless the act for your product group provides for it. Registration happens before the product is placed on the market and returns a unique registration identifier; the register holds identifiers and a fingerprint, the data stays in the passport. Transpareo prepares what the entry asks for - product identifier, operator identifier, passport address and fingerprint - so you complete the entry yourself once the register’s interface is final; the Commission is examining whether service providers may do this in future. More in our analysis of the register regulation.

Member states set the penalties, and for the tyre label they already do - a wrong class or a missing EPREL entry is a market-surveillance matter today, not in 2029. The expensive part is the same as everywhere else, though. From the passport deadline, a tyre without a passport may not be placed on the market, and a fitting season is not a thing you can postpone by a quarter.