The digital product passport (DPP) is the New European regulations that will transform the way in which manufacturers, importers and sellers manage the documentation and traceability of physical products.
What is Digital Product Passport (DPP)?
The digital product passport is a Digital registration that gathers key information of a product, from its design and manufacture to its reuse and recycling. This passport allows you to track and manage products more efficiently, improving transparency and facilitating sustainable practices. Includes data on materials, production processes, supply chain, instructions for use and guidelines for the end of life, accessible through technologies such as QR codes or NFC tags. Its main objective is Make products traceable and transparent, allowing manufacturers, distributors, consumers and recyclers to make informed decisions throughout the life cycle.
Cirpass as digital backbone
CirPass (Circular Product Information System for Sustainability) acts as an enabling platform to realize the DPP on a European scale. Your mission is Standardize how product data is collected and shared, ensuring that information is interoperable between different sectors, countries and actors.
This common framework connects manufacturers, consumers, repairers and recyclers, allowing everyone to consult and update relevant information during the life cycle. The deployment of the DPP and Cirpass fits into the vision of the European data spaces, whose objective is to create a Single data market that drives innovation and the digital economy. when offering Structured and accessible data on products, DPP can become a fundamental “building block” within these spaces, favoring new services based on data and circular business models.
Obligations of the DPP Regulation for Manufacturers and Importers
The DPP forces manufacturers and importers to provide a series of technical and compliance data in a digital and accessible way for each product they market in the European Union. The main obligations include:
- Data Carrier: Each product must carry a data carrier (such as a QR, NFC or RFID code) that allows DPP to be accessed quickly and safely.
- Passport structure: The DPP must contain key information: product identification, responsible economic operators, composition and materials, worrying substances, and ecodesign data (durability, repairability, recyclability), but, above all, what affects the most is in everything related to the declaration of conformity and the evaluation process of the same.
- Accessibility: The DPP must be available to consumers, regulators and supply chain partners throughout the product life cycle.
- Roles of the economic actor: The manufacturer or importer must designate an operator responsible for the DPP, who will be in charge of maintaining and updating the information.
The first entry dates vary by sector, but in general, electronic products, batteries and textiles will be the first to be affected, with obligation, from 2026-2028 according to the type of product.
Impact on technical documentation
The DPP requires that the information be structured, digitized and easily traceable. This implies that Data must be accurate, up-to-date, and accessible in real time, which requires reviewing and digitizing internal documentation management processes.With Zertify, you can automate all the regulatory compliance management of your physical product to operate without friction in any EU territory. Our tool automates the creation and updating of technical files, ensuring that all the technical documentation to be incorporated into the digital product passport is correct at a technical level and conformity assessment.
Labeling changes
One of the most visible changes will be the Obligation to include a QR, NFC or RFID code in the product or its packaging, which links directly to the DPP. This data carrier must be physically present and must comply with international standards (ISO/IEC 15459:2015), ensuring interoperability and information security.
The minimum information that must contain the DPP accessible through the labeling includes:
- Unique product identification (model, variant, lot)
- Responsible economic operators
- Composition and key materials
- Ecodesign and regulatory compliance data
Although the DPP does not require all the technical documentation, it does require the essential data for traceability and regulatory compliance. such as: declarations of conformity, safety data sheets, technical sheets or information on the conformity assessment process.
sectors and entry dates
The first sectors to be affected by the DPP will be:
- Electronics and Batteries (2026). Thanks to the DPP, the disassembly and reuse of components will be facilitated, reducing electronic waste and improving recycling, whose regulations we already have in force (Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 on batteries).
- Textiles (2028). The DPP will allow knowing the origin of the garments, the materials used and the working conditions of the factories, facilitating purchase decisions for consumers.
The European Commission plans to extend the obligation to other sectors (toys, detergents, chemicals, etc.) in the coming years, with the aim of covering up to 30 groups of products by 2030. It is therefore key that sellers and companies anticipate and Prioritize the adaptation of the products that enter these sectors, since the transition will be mandatory and the controls will be stricter.
Real problems for importers
Importers will have to face significant challenges, such as:
- Get Correct and up-to-date data from your suppliers About materials and composition
- guarantee traceability of products throughout the entire supply chain
- validate the Data coherence and accuracy RECEIVED
- adapt to different formats and systems of digital documentation
Through Zertify, manufacturers and sellers can face these challenges without problems, since users will have on the platform all the technical information, correctly structured and validated, they need to operate. Thanks to our platform, users can automatically manage all their technical documentation, thus reducing regulatory risk and facilitating the transition to DPP.
How can Zertify help you in the transition to DPP?
Our solution helps you in your adaptation process to the DPP, offering:
- Certification and technical documentation already structured and digitized.
- Generation of SDS, technical sheets or any similar.
- Compatible templates with the requirements of the DPP for each sector.
- direct integration With the system enabled by the European Commission for document loading, thus avoiding manual and repetitive tasks.
- Regulatory risk reduction through automation and continuous control of information.
- 24/7 monitoring of any regulatory changes that may affect you.
Zertify not only facilitates regulatory compliance, but also converts technical documentation management into an agile, safe and scalable process, preparing vendors and companies for the challenges of DPP. Ultimately, the digital product passport and Cirpass are not just technical tools, but strategic components of European policy to move towards a more transparent economy, focused on data and sustainable. The success of its implementation will depend on the capacity of the different actors to collaborate, invest in digital infrastructure and place sustainability at the center of their design and business decisions.
