A Digital Product Passport is a digital record attached to a physical product - its materials, origin, repairability, recyclability and compliance - readable from a QR code or chip. The EU is making it law.
Under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation, most products sold in the EU will need one. The deadlines are phased and already in law, and the data layer behind a passport takes 12 to 18 months to build. No passport, no sale.
If you make, import or sell physical goods in Europe, this is a board-level deadline, not an IT project. The real question is whether you start the data foundation now or scramble later.
This instrument tracks whether the EU is delivering the DPP system on schedule - and whether industry is ready. Graded in public, updated weekly.
We take positions only where the evidence supports them - and grade them in public.