You just scanned a Digital Product Passport
A product, told
from beginning to end.
A Digital Product Passport is a machine-readable record of what a product is made of, where it came from, how to care for it, and what to do with it when it’s done. You reached this page by scanning one.
01 · Why they exist
Regulation is asking product data to travel.
For most of the last century, product information stopped at the point of sale. You bought a jacket, a battery, a set of speakers, and whatever the brand knew about the object’s journey ended in a paper receipt.
The European Union’s Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR 2024/1781) changes that. It requires that every product placed on the EU market carry a persistent, machine-readable record of the data it needs to be repaired, resold, verified and eventually recycled — a Digital Product Passport.
The regulation is rolling out product category by product category through delegated acts. Batteries first (Regulation 2023/1542, in force from February 2027), then textiles, electronics, construction, cosmetics, tyres, furniture and beyond. The Passport you just scanned belongs to one of those categories.
02 · What they contain
Not marketing copy. Verifiable data.
A Passport is not a product page. Every field it carries is either regulator-required, testable against a standard, or referenced back to a verified source. Depending on the product category, you can typically expect:
- Materials & substances
- Fibre composition, recycled content share, substances of concern per REACH and the ECHA SCIP database.
- Supply chain journey
- Where each material was sourced, spun, cut, sewn, assembled or packed — step by step.
- Environmental footprint
- Product carbon footprint, water use, recyclability score computed per PEFCR or ISO 14067.
- Care & repair
- ISO 3758 care symbols, repair instructions, expected lifetime, spare-parts availability.
- Certifications
- OEKO-TEX, GOTS, Nordic Swan, EU Ecolabel, GRS — verified against the issuing body’s registry.
- End-of-life
- Take-back paths, disassembly instructions, recyclable percentage, WEEE handling.
03 · How they work
A QR code that resolves to the truth.
The Passport lives at a persistent URL. The QR you scanned encodes that URL as a GS1 Digital Link — an internet-native format that combines a product’s GTIN with structured identifiers for batch, variant and serial.
The label on the product is inexpensive and durable; the data behind the URL can be updated, versioned, translated, and inherited across ownership changes. When you scan it, the resolver serves the passport in your language, with the sections you are entitled to see.
The standards that govern how the Passport is built and how it can be trusted come from CEN/CENELEC JTC 24 (EN 18216 through EN 18223) and CIRPASS-2. They cover content, structure, interoperability, and archival — a passport served today must still resolve ten years from now.
04 · What DPP Agent does
The runtime behind this passport.
DPP Agent is the standards-compliant runtime the brand behind this product uses to publish, serve and evolve its Digital Product Passports. We handle the data model, the resolver, the label templates, the consumer pages and the audit trail so the brand can focus on what needs to be true about its product.
Compliance surface currently supported:
- ESPR (Regulation 2024/1781) — general framework, Article 4/7/9 field coverage
- EU Battery Regulation (2023/1542) — passport structure, chemistry, performance
- EN 18216 / 18219 / 18221 / 18223 — JTC 24 identifier, resolver, structure and interoperability standards
- GS1 Digital Link — resolvable URLs with GTIN + batch / variant / serial application identifiers
- CIRPASS-2 — alternative schema shape available on request
- AGEC (French Law 2020-105, Décret 2021-835) — textile disclosure fields + Triman / Info-tri sorting instructions
- ECHA SCIP, REACH Article 33 — substance-of-concern declaration
- ISO 3758 care symbols, ISO 14021:2016 recycled-content claims
- OEKO-TEX, GOTS, Nordic Swan, EU Ecolabel, GRS, RCS, RWS, Bluesign, PEFC, FSC — certification verification against issuing-body registries where APIs are available
We publish the technical documentation and the security posture openly so brands and their regulators can inspect what the passport is doing under the hood.
For brands
Are you a brand? See how DPP Agent runs this.
We publish passports for apparel, batteries, electronics, tyres, footwear, furniture, cosmetics and construction — standards-compliant on day one, brand-owned on the surface.