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There is a way of interpreting the Digital Product Passport timeline that may seem reassuring: the first mandatory sector-specific DPPs, apart from the battery passport arriving in February 2027, will not become applicable until 2028-2029 for the most advanced sectors and until 2029-2031 for the others. A margin of two or three years. Enough time…

There is a conversation that many companies are not having with their cloud providers, but should have before signing their next software contract. The question is straightforward: if a US authority calls your cloud provider at three in the morning and requests access to your documents, what happens? If your provider is a US company:…

On 6 August 2026 (today), Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1778 of 16 July 2026 enters into force, establishing the rules for implementing the Digital Product Passport (DPP) Registry created by Article 13 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 (ESPR). From this moment onwards, the technical rules determining how the identity of economic operators is verified, how passports…

If you already know that the Digital Product Passport Registry is operational and that you need a qualified electronic seal to access it, the next question is natural: what now? This article covers the entire process, from accessing the platform to the moment when you can start registering digital passports. Everything is based on the…

On 20 July 2026, the European Commission opened access to the Digital Product Passport Registry. It is not a statement of intent or a working plan: it is a real platform, currently available at registry.product-passport.ec.europa.eu, managed by the Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW). We have spent months talking about the…

The short answer is the one that makes those who expected the ESPR to be an issue for other sectors most uncomfortable: it applies to almost all physical goods placed on the European market. Not only household appliances. Not only energy-consuming products. Almost all of them. Article 2 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 defines it with…

There is a difference that most companies have not yet understood. Storing a document is easy: any folder on a server can do it. Storing a document so that, ten years from now, you can prove before a court that it is authentic, that it has not been modified, that it has existed with exactly…

The Digital Product Passport is not arriving all at once. It is arriving sector by sector, with different deadlines, under different regulatory frameworks and with different content requirements. What all European DPPs have in common is the same underlying infrastructure: the European Commission’s Central Registry, unique identifiers, trust services that guarantee the authenticity of the…