Digital Product Passport
Find out what the Digital Product Passport means for your business.
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 introducing Digital Product Passport requirements product group by product group. The dates and required information depend on the rules that apply to each product.
What to do
Establish scope and product facts, define requirements, inspect provider evidence, then run implementation as one programme.
What is law. What is planned. What to prepare for.
Digital Product Passport 2026, an evidence-led executive report for buyers and decision-makers.
Adopted requirements / Indicative timelines / Rules under development
Read the executive report →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
235 commercial suppliers across 35 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
Published findings
Published findings distinguish capabilities supported by public evidence from capabilities stated publicly by the supplier. Areas without a published finding are not shown.
From the Register: Digital Product Passport suppliers in Europe · Battery passport providers · Digital Product Passport software comparison
Buyer guides: Digital Product Passport FAQ for buyers · How to choose a provider · Evidence requirements · Readiness assessment · Procurement
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. 2026-10-19
- Public Digital Product Passport suppliers 235 commercial suppliers with a sourced identity, counted in the yellow3 Digital Product Passport Supplier Register: 253 organisations mapped across 35 countries, less 8 flagged not-a-supplier, 6 EU projects and 4 standards bodies. Availability of suppliers, not their capability. Capability research is being expanded supplier by supplier, with every published finding tied to its source. 2026-11-02
- GS1 Digital Link adoption proxy GS1 reports 51 countries, representing 90% of global GDP, piloting or implementing 2D barcodes, the migration most Digital Product Passport carriers ride on. 2026-10-19
- Implementable standards (published as EN) Of the 8 JTC 24 areas, how many are published as EN and stable enough to build against today. All eight since 16 September 2026. 2026-10-19
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.
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.