An introduction to Digital Product Passports (DPP)
Digital Product Passports are becoming the new standard for doing business in Europe. You need to comply according to law, but DPPs are also a way to show leadership in sustainability and traceability.
What is a Digital Product Passport?
A Digital Product Passport (DPP) is a digital record that captures essential details about a product’s materials, components, and environmental footprint, offering complete transparency across its entire lifecycle.
By unlocking this data, DPPs empower businesses and consumers alike to make informed, responsible choices while driving innovation and circularity. Digital Product Passports are becoming the new standard for doing business in Europe. Compliance isn’t just a legal requirement, it’s an opportunity to demonstrate leadership in sustainability, traceability, and product excellence.
The European Union introduced Digital Product Passports (DPPs) as a core component of the European Green Deal and Sustainable Product Regulation (ESPR).
Adopting DPPs today means future-proofing your products, building customer trust, and staying ahead of upcoming regulations - while avoiding the risk of market restrictions or penalties.
Why it’s important
Improves transparency and traceability across the supply chain.
The goal is to improve traceability and resource efficiency for optimising sustainability targets across the entire value chain. The passports will include detailed information about a product’s composition, origin and environmental impact - accessible to all relevant stakeholders: manufacturers, customers, repairers, recyclers, authorities and others.
Supports reuse, repair and recycling for reduced environmental impact
Digital Product Passports (DPPs) empower smarter decisions for every stakeholder:
- For companies: DPPs unlock innovation, ensure compliance, strengthen competitiveness, and build lasting trust with customers and partners.
- For customers: DPPs provide transparency that makes sustainable, responsible, and confident choices easy.
- For regulators: DPPs deliver reliable data to enforce standards and monitor real progress toward circular economy goals.
Where to start?
For digital product passports to work in practice, several components must come together. Getting started can feel challenging but breaking it into clear first steps make it manageable.
1. Understand requirements and scope
- Review upcoming EU and international regulations
- Identify which product categories will require DPPs
2. Map your product and data flows
- Begin requesting traceability information
- Discuss standardised data formats
3. Engage suppliers and partners
- Pick one product line to test a DPP
- Upload basic info: Composition, repairability, recyclability
4. Choose a technology approach
- Inventory products and their materials/components
- Map your product information, reuse rate and what you need to develop
5. Start small with pilots
- Explore available DPP solutions. If you already have a good CCMS-CDP solution in place, you should use it to store and make DPP data avilable.
6. Build capabilities for data maintenance
- Create cross-department workflows and build processes for how to collect and manage DPP data
7. Plan for scaling
- Scale implementation across products in phases, maintain compliance
Finally, remember that the IT solution stores and shares the data but the real value lies in the quality and accuracy of the product information. Standardized, complete, and trustworthy data is critical for compliance and for delivering real business value, no matter how advanced the technical solution is.
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