01 / OPERATOR
European Commission
The Registry is central European Commission infrastructure, not a supplier-operated database.
02 / STORES
Identifiers and registration metadata
Enough information to identify the product, accountable economic operator and where the passport can be found.
03 / DOES NOT STORE
The passport itself
Material, durability, repairability, supply-chain evidence and supporting documentation remain outside the Registry.
Who operates it
Commission infrastructure, not a commercial service.
The Registry is established under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation and operated centrally by the European Commission. It is not operated by a member state, standards body, yellow3 or a Digital Product Passport supplier.
European Commission, Digital Product Passport Registry
The Commission's own reference page is the authoritative source for the Registry.
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The boundary
What sits in the Registry, and what stays outside it.
The distinction matters because Registry connectivity can easily be mistaken for Digital Product Passport capability. They are not the same thing.
The Registry stores
Index and registration information.
- Unique identifiers used to find the passport.
- Registration data about the product.
- High-level metadata about the responsible economic operator.
- Enough information for an authority to know who is accountable and where to look.
The Registry does not store
The substantive passport record.
- Material composition and product-level evidence.
- Durability or repairability information.
- Supply-chain evidence and supporting documentation.
- The maintained content hosted by the economic operator or its selected provider.
Buyer implication
Registry connectivity is necessary. It is not proof of the harder capability.
A provider that can register an identifier has demonstrated Registry connectivity. That does not establish that it can assemble, substantiate, maintain and defend the evidence a Digital Product Passport needs.
01
Do not confuse registration with delivery.
Registering an identifier does not mean a complete Digital Product Passport has been published.
02
Ask what sits behind the identifier.
The harder questions concern evidence, provenance, data ownership, maintenance and what happens when a claim is challenged.
03
Keep claims and demonstrated evidence separate.
A supplier statement about Registry access should not be treated as evidence of every other capability required by the programme.
Research boundary
yellow3 lab is independent. This page describes public European Commission infrastructure. yellow3 is not affiliated with, endorsed by or operating on behalf of the Commission.
Where the Commission's documentation and this page disagree, the Commission's documentation is authoritative.