{"id":5915,"date":"2026-06-03T07:10:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T05:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eadtrust.eu\/?p=5915"},"modified":"2026-06-10T10:15:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T08:15:42","slug":"dpp-sectors-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eadtrust.eu\/en\/blog\/dpp-sectors-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Which sectors will have DPP before 2030: the complete map"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Digital Product Passport <\/a>is not arriving all at once. It is arriving sector by sector, with different deadlines, under different regulatory frameworks and with different content requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What all European DPPs have in common is the same underlying infrastructure: the European Commission\u2019s Central Registry, unique identifiers, trust services that guarantee the authenticity of the data, and the same logic of differentiated access: public information for consumers, restricted information for authorities, and technical information for repairers and recyclers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What they do not have in common is urgency. For some sectors, the DPP is an obligation arriving in eighteen months. For others, there is a window until 2029 or beyond 2030. Knowing where your sector stands is the difference between planning calmly and arriving late for a fixed deadline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article is the map. One sector, its date, its regulation, its real urgency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I want to start preparing now, I want an entity seal.<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Concepts for better understanding<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

DPP (Digital Product Passport)<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A traceability tool that gathers technical, environmental and sustainability information<\/strong> about a product throughout its life cycle, accessible through a physical data carrier. It is mandatory for regulated product groups, with different deadlines depending on the sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DPP Central Registry<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A digital registry created and managed by the European Commission, operational from 19 July 2026<\/strong>, where the unique identifiers of all products with a DPP are stored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ESPR delegated act<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A Commission regulation that specifies the ecodesign requirements<\/strong>, and the DPP content, for a specific product group. The application date cannot be earlier than eighteen months after its adoption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ESPR Working Plan 2025\u20132030<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A Commission communication adopted on 16 April 2025 <\/strong>that defines the priority product groups for delegated acts and their estimated timelines over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DPP interoperability<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A requirement established in both the ESPR and the CPR: all sectoral DPPs must be interoperable with each other at technical, semantic and organisational levels. The battery passport is the initial technical reference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How the system works: why the deadlines are what they are<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Before looking at the map, it is useful to understand the mechanism that explains why some sectors arrive earlier than others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The DPP does not exist autonomously: it is always anchored to a regulatory act that defines its content, including what information it must contain, at what level of granularity, and who can access what. This may be a specific sectoral regulation, such as the Batteries Regulation<\/a>, or an ESPR delegated act<\/strong> for a specific product group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ESPR establishes that there must be a minimum of eighteen months<\/strong> between the adoption of a delegated act and its date of application. This means that the DPP for a sector arrives at least eighteen months after the Commission publishes the corresponding delegated act. The ESPR Working Plan 2025-2030<\/a> provides the estimated adoption dates for those acts: this is how DPP deadlines are calculated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sectors that reach the DPP<\/a> first are those with an already approved sectoral regulation, such as batteries, or those placed by the Working Plan in the first cycle of delegated acts, such as iron and steel, textiles, aluminium and tyres. Those that arrive later are the ones placed by the Plan in the second cycle, such as furniture and mattresses, or those that fall outside the first plan altogether and will be addressed in the next one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is also a special group: products with energy labels registered in EPREL<\/a>. For these, the ESPR provides that the Commission may exempt them from the DPP if it considers that EPREL already covers equivalent information objectives. This is not an automatic exemption: the Commission must expressly declare it in the delegated act for each group. But it is likely for most product groups already active in EPREL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The practical rule:<\/strong> your sector\u2019s DPP arrives 18 months after the delegated act. The delegated act arrives according to the Working Plan<\/a>. And the Working Plan has already been adopted since 16 April 2025. The dates are not merely indicative: they are the official calendar of the European Commission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n