DPP Timeline: When Each Industry Must Comply
A category-by-category Digital Product Passport rollout calendar — textiles, batteries, electronics, furniture, tyres, construction — with the regulation behind each deadline.
The headline dates
The EU Digital Product Passport doesn't have a single switch-on date. ESPR is a framework regulation — each product category becomes mandatory as the Commission adopts its delegated act. The Battery Regulation and Construction Products Regulation run in parallel on their own timetables. Here's the full picture as it stands today.
Already locked in
- July 2024 — ESPR enters into force as Regulation (EU) 2024/1781.
- July 2026 — Destruction ban on unsold textiles and footwear applies to large companies under ESPR.
- 18 February 2027 — EU Battery Passport mandatory for EV, LMT and >2 kWh industrial batteries under Regulation (EU) 2023/1542. This is the first hard DPP deadline.
2027 — Textiles & the first ESPR wave
Textiles is the priority category under the ESPR 2025–2030 working plan. The delegated act is widely briefed to apply from 2027 and will cover apparel, footwear, accessories, home textiles and many semi-finished products. Brands placing finished textiles on the EU market will need:
- Unit-level identifiers with a scannable carrier on the product or label
- Fibre composition, recycled content, country of each major production stage
- Care, repair and end-of-life instructions
- Substances of concern aligned with SCIP / REACH
See our Fashion & Apparel DPP 2027 guide for the full picture.
2028 — Consumer electronics & small ICT
Smartphones, tablets, laptops and small ICT equipment are expected to follow textiles. Required data will include reparability scores, spare-parts availability, battery health, recycled content and software-support windows. Most major OEMs already capture much of this data internally for ecolabels — the work is mostly in making it externally accessible per unit.
2028 — Furniture (including mattresses)
Furniture is in the first ESPR wave alongside textiles and electronics. Expect requirements covering timber sourcing (FLEGT / EUDR alignment), foam and fabric composition, repair and disassembly guidance, and end-of-life routing. Mattresses are explicitly called out in the working plan.
2028 — Iron, steel & aluminium
Intermediate metals are getting a DPP regime focused on embodied carbon, recycled content and origin — designed to feed downstream products' own passports. This is a business-to-business DPP, not a consumer-facing one, but the data carrier and resolver pattern is the same.
2028 — Tyres
Tyres get their own delegated act covering rolling resistance, wear, microplastic release, retreadability and recycled-rubber content. Identifiers will sit at the individual-tyre level so the DPP can follow each unit through retreading and recycling.
2029 — Detergents, paints & lubricants
Chemicals-based consumer products get a DPP focused on hazard profiles, substances of concern, packaging recyclability and refill compatibility.
2030 — Construction products
Construction products are governed by the Construction Products Regulation (CPR) rather than ESPR, but the DPP architecture is the same. Major product families phase in from 2030, with embodied carbon, fire performance and recyclability central to the data set.
How to read this calendar
Dates marked "2027" or later are working-plan targets, not yet adopted delegated acts. They have moved before. The safe planning assumption is: if your products fall into one of the priority categories, treat the year shown as the latest reasonable deadline and start your data-gap analysis 18 months ahead.
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