Digital Product Passport
Digital Product Passport.
Everything yellow3 has built and learned for organisations that make, import or sell physical products in Europe. Track the rules, inspect the supplier market, understand the evidence, and run the buyer-side programme.
yellow3 does not operate the passports. The selected provider does. The buyer stays in control.
Digital Product Passport
Digital Product Passport in 30 seconds
Know what is changing.
Know what to do next.
The passport is the visible endpoint. The real work is the data, evidence, providers and decisions behind it.
What it is
A digital record attached to a physical product, covering materials, origin, repairability, recyclability and compliance.
Why it matters
The European Union is making it law for most physical products. The deadlines are phased. The data work starts much earlier.
What to do
Establish scope and product facts, define requirements, inspect provider evidence, then run implementation as one programme.
Product in practice
Run the programme.
Keep the evidence behind every decision.
The Buyer Platform turns regulation, product facts, supplier evidence and implementation work into one programme the buyer can explain and defend.
Digital Product Passport Buyer Platform / Live product
Plan it. Buy it.
Implement it. Prove it.
yellow3 works for the buyer. The selected provider operates the passports. The evidence stays visible while the decision and implementation move forward.
Scope, ownership, systems, data and gaps.
Requirements before provider comparison.
Demonstrated, stated and not established stay separate.
Conditions, gates, evidence and decision records.
Independent public research
Inspect the market
before you buy.
Public evidence remains separate from the commercial platform. Suppliers cannot pay to rank higher or change a finding.
01 / Supplier market
Supplier Register
169 commercial suppliers across 33 countries, with the source behind every fact and the date it was checked.
02 / Regulation tracker
EU registry record
Follow the European Union registry, delivery milestones and what has actually become operational.
03 / Supplier evidence
Capability evidence
The checks distinguish publicly evidenced findings, company statements and what remains not established.
Live delivery record
Is Europe delivering the system
on the dates it promised?
A dated public record of regulator delivery and industry readiness. Calls are falsifiable, graded only when due, and never rewritten after the fact.
Is the EU Digital Product Passport becoming real on schedule - on the regulator's side, and on industry's side?
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Track A
Regulator delivery
Is the European Union shipping the system it promised, on the dates it promised? Milestones are scored only when due.
Open the live record →Track B / Provisional
Industry readiness
A transparent basket of public readiness signals, kept visibly provisional until stronger buyer-side evidence replaces it.
See the evidence behind the signal →- Active Digital Product Passport pilots across value chains 13 pilots: textiles, EEE, construction, tyres. 2026-06-24
- Public Digital Product Passport suppliers: historical snapshot Historical observation as of 28 July 2026, not the current register total. 167 commercial suppliers with a sourced identity, counted in the yellow3 Digital Product Passport Supplier Register: 183 organisations mapped across 32 countries, less 8 flagged not-a-supplier, 5 EU projects and 3 standards bodies. The earlier figure of 15 was a market-mapping estimate, not a count. Availability of suppliers, not their capability - the ten capability checks are being carried out supplier by supplier and are not yet reflected here. 2026-07-28
- GS1 Digital Link adoption proxy GS1 Sunrise 2027 - the 2D / Digital Link migration most Digital Product Passport carriers ride on - is in pilot across 48 countries representing 88% of world GDP. 2026-06-24
- Implementable standards (published as EN) Of the 8 JTC 24 areas, how many are stable enough to build against today. 2026-06-24
Monday Briefing
The week in Digital
Product Passports,
without the noise.
Watch the latest edition, then browse the complete dated archive. Every source sits under the briefing.
Digital Product Passport insights
The analysis behind
the programme.
Substantial reads on deadlines, standards, leadership decisions and the work that starts before the passport becomes visible.
- Deadlines The Digital Product Passport Deadline You Already Missed Read →
- Executive The Digital Product Passport Report Executives Actually Need Read →
- Regulation Europe's Deadlines Are Firm. The Rulebook Is Not. Read →
- Reference GS1 is not one organisation Read →
- Implementation The autopilots will not build themselves Read →
Method and commercial boundary
Research earns the trust.
The product does
the work.
The Supplier Register is independent public research. The Buyer Platform is a paid buyer-side product. The hub shows both, and keeps the boundary explicit.
Digital Product Passport Buyer Platform
Ready to turn the evidence
into a programme?
Start with readiness. Know what applies before you choose what to buy.