Compliant battery passports, built from your raw data.

A Digital Product Passport is a digital record containing key information about a product—its materials, origin, sustainability data, and recycling instructions. The EU requires them for batteries from February 2027 under the Battery Regulation, and for more product categories under ESPR from about 2028.

The rules phase in from 2027 to around 2031, depending on your product category. The first confirmed deadline is 18 February 2027 for batteries (industrial, EV, and LMT). Iron & steel ESPR DPP enforcement is estimated for 2028. Textiles follow in 2029 (est.); an electronics/ICT act is not yet scheduled. CBAM financial obligations for iron & steel importers are already live from January 2026. We recommend starting now — collecting data from overseas factories can take months.

Yes, you share responsibility. Importers must make sure the manufacturer has met the requirements — including the passport — before the product is placed on the EU market, and keep the documentation available. If you sell under your own brand or modify the product, you take on the manufacturer's obligations yourself.

From 18 February 2027 (batteries) and an estimated 2028 (iron & steel), customs and market surveillance authorities can stop shipments that lack a valid digital identifier (QR code) linked to an interoperable Digital Product Passport. CBAM enforcement for iron & steel importers is already active — non-compliant carbon declarations can result in border adjustments today.

No. You can collect the technical data from your suppliers (in China, Turkey, etc.) and enter it into your PassportLab dashboard yourself. You then provide the generated QR codes to your factories for printing.

The retention period is set per product category in the relevant delegated act or product law, and ESPR requires a backup so the passport stays available even if the economic operator stops trading. PassportLab archives every passport for at least 10 years — matching the EU DPP Registry, which keeps registration data for 10 years (Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1778, Art. 10(3)).

Yes. PassportLab is built on GS1 standards. We natively support GS1 Digital Link URIs and Global Trade Item Numbers (GTINs), ensuring your Digital Product Passports are fully interoperable with global supply chain standards.

Under the EU Data Act (applicable since 12 September 2025), you have the right to data portability. You can export all your product passports in a machine-readable format at any time. This ensures that you can maintain your 10-year regulatory compliance even if you move to a different infrastructure.

PassportLab is a strictly B2B service. During registration, providing a valid Company Name is mandatory to verify your status as an entrepreneur (§ 14 BGB).

It depends on the product category. ESPR sets the basics every passport carries — unique product and operator identifiers, the commodity code, compliance documents and manufacturer or importer details. Delegated acts then add category-specific data such as material composition, recycled content, carbon footprint and repairability. For batteries, Annex XIII of Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 defines the data.

The Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 (ESPR) is EU legislation that replaces the Ecodesign Directive 2009/125/EC. It extends ecodesign requirements to nearly all physical product categories sold in the EU and introduces the Digital Product Passport (DPP) mandate. ESPR requires manufacturers and importers to create machine-readable, standardized product data records accessible via QR code. It phases in by product category as each delegated act is adopted: iron & steel is expected first, followed by construction products, textiles, aluminium, tyres, furniture and mattresses from 2028 onward. The battery passport (from February 2027) comes from the separate Battery Regulation (EU) 2023/1542.

GS1 Digital Link (ISO/IEC 18975) is an open standard that encodes a product's GTIN and other identifiers into a URI-format QR code (e.g. https://id.passportlab.io/01/04012345000010/21/ABC123). Any scanner — consumer apps, customs systems, or market surveillance tools — can resolve this URI to the product's Digital Product Passport without proprietary middleware. PassportLab generates GS1 Digital Link-compliant QR codes for every passport and points callers to the global GS1 resolver (id.gs1.org) when a GTIN isn't found locally.

Yes. PassportLab is designed to be accessible for SMEs, with no coding or EDI integration required — product data can be entered manually or imported via CSV. Supplier data from factories in China, Turkey, or elsewhere can be entered directly by the importer. Book a demo to see how it works for your specific product lines.

A CE mark is a conformity declaration that a product meets EU safety, health, and environmental standards — it is a marking on the physical product. A Digital Product Passport (DPP) is a dynamic digital data record linked to the product via a QR code. A DPP can contain CE Declaration of Conformity documents as attached evidence, but it also includes sustainability data (materials, carbon footprint, recyclability) that CE marking does not require. Both may be legally required simultaneously for products in regulated categories from 2027 onward.