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Digital Product Passport infrastructure

Connect product identity, supplier evidence, and role-specific views through a maintainable data pipeline.

The operating problem

A QR code is simple. Collecting verifiable information from suppliers, resolving conflicting values, and maintaining that information across a product lifecycle is the engineering work.

See the mechanism

One identifier, four audiences, one history.

A passport is reached from a data carrier on the product. The same identifier resolves to a different view for the public, repairers, recyclers, and authorities, and each lifecycle step adds to the record.

Passport lifecycle · illustrative record
Data carrier resolves to

https://id.example.comResolver/01/09506000134352GTIN/10/LOT26-091Batch/21/SN0417Serial

Passport view · Publicafter manufacture
  • Product and modelCordless drill D-18
  • Care and repair guideNot recorded yet
  • Spare parts and disassemblyNot in this view
  • Repair historyNot recorded yet
  • Materials and substancesNot in this view
  • End-of-life routeNot recorded yet
  • Supplier declarationsNot in this view
  1. E1
    Passport created with supplier evidenceManufacturer · hash 3fa1…9c0e
  2. E2
    Placed on the market, consumer view publishedBrand · hash b72d…41aa · prev 3fa1…9c0e
  3. E3
    Repair recorded against the serialAuthorised repairer · hash 0e9c…d317 · prev b72d…41aa
  4. E4
    End of life recorded, sorting route setRecycler · hash c5f4…7b28 · prev 0e9c…d317
An invented product and a decorative code. The same identifier resolves to a different view for each role, and every lifecycle step adds an event instead of rewriting the record. Real field lists come from the rules for your product group.

What we build with you.

01

Identity & schema

Product, batch, or item identifiers and a versioned data model mapped to the requirements confirmed for your product group.

02

Evidence intake

Supplier submissions, ERP/PLM connections, certificates, validation rules, and field-level source attribution.

03

History & access

Recorded changes and separate views for the public, service teams, recyclers, and authorized reviewers.

04

Resolution & operations

Carrier-to-record resolution, exports, availability monitoring, and a process for supplier corrections.

Where the rules stand

What is fixed, and what waits on delegated acts.

The Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation, Regulation (EU) 2024/1781, was published on 28 June 2024 and entered into force on 18 July 2024. It creates the digital product passport, but a product needs one only once a delegated act for its product group requires it. That act decides whether the passport is kept per model, batch, or item, and it cannot apply earlier than 18 months after entering into force, except in duly justified cases.1

The first fixed passport date comes from the Batteries Regulation, Regulation (EU) 2023/1542. From 18 February 2027, each LMT battery, each industrial battery with a capacity greater than 2 kWh, and each electric vehicle battery placed on the market or put into service must have a battery passport, accessible through a QR code.2

On 16 April 2025 the Commission adopted its working plan for 2025 to 2030, naming steel and aluminium, textiles with a focus on apparel, furniture, tyres, and mattresses as priority products.3 The EU passport registry went live on 20 July 2026: passport data stays decentralised, but each passport must be registered.4 Dates for individual product groups stay indicative until their delegated acts are adopted.

The regulation requires a data carrier connected to a persistent unique product identifier, both complying with standards listed in its Annex III, and passport data based on open standards in an interoperable format.1 GS1 Digital Link encodes identifiers such as the GTIN, batch, and serial number in a web address that any carrier able to hold a URL can store,5 and GS1's vocabulary defines a dedicated link type for a digital product passport.6

For technical reviewers

The carrier holds a GS1 Digital Link URI, and a request for the gs1:dpp link type asks the resolver for the passport itself.56 Field names under ex: are placeholders until the delegated act for your product group defines them. Every value names its source.

passport record · illustrative excerpt
{
  "@context": {
    "gs1": "https://ref.gs1.org/voc/",
    "ex": "https://example.com/dpp/"
  },
  "@id": "https://id.example.com/01/09506000134352/10/LOT26-091/21/SN0417",
  "gs1:gtin": "09506000134352",
  "ex:granularity": "item",
  "ex:passport": "https://id.example.com/01/09506000134352/10/LOT26-091/21/SN0417?linkType=gs1:dpp",
  "ex:fields": [
    {
      "name": "recycledContentShare",
      "value": 0.18,
      "views": ["public", "authority"],
      "source": {
        "supplier": "urn:example:supplier:4411",
        "evidence": "evidence/declaration-2026-117.pdf",
        "attestedAt": "2026-08-02"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "disassemblySequence",
      "value": "evidence/repair-guide-v3.pdf",
      "views": ["repairer", "authority"],
      "source": { "supplier": "self", "attestedAt": "2026-08-10" }
    }
  ],
  "ex:history": {
    "events": 3,
    "head": "sha256:c5f4...7b28",
    "rule": "corrections append events; earlier values stay readable"
  }
}
A useful starting point

Your first engagement.

Run a data-gap assessment for one product family, then build a pilot from supplier evidence to the public product view.

  • Product family and target markets
  • Requirements confirmed by your regulatory adviser
  • Supplier records, product identifiers, and source-system owners
Sources

Evidence and further reading

Primary sources for the standards and practices referenced on this page. They describe the field, not Verne's own results.

  1. Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 establishing a framework for the setting of ecodesign requirements for sustainable products (opens in a new tab)Official Journal of the European Union · 13 June 2024, published 28 June 2024Chapter III on the digital product passport, delegated acts per product group, the 18-month minimum in Article 4(4), and carrier and identifier rules in Article 10.
  2. Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 concerning batteries and waste batteries (opens in a new tab)Official Journal of the European Union · 12 July 2023, published 28 July 2023Article 77: the battery passport from 18 February 2027 for LMT, industrial above 2 kWh, and EV batteries, reached through a QR code.
  3. Commission rolls out plan to boost circular and efficient products in the EU (opens in a new tab)European Commission press release IP/25/1071 · 16 April 2025Adoption of the 2025 to 2030 ESPR working plan and its priority products.
  4. The Digital Product Passport Registry is now live (opens in a new tab)European Commission, DG GROW · 20 July 2026The registry launch, decentralised passport data, and mandatory registration of each passport.
  5. GS1 Digital Link Standard: URI Syntax (opens in a new tab)GS1 · Release 1.7.0, ratified August 2026How GTIN, batch, and serial are expressed in a web URI that any URL-capable data carrier can encode.
  6. gs1:dpp (Digital Product Passport link type) (opens in a new tab)GS1 Web Vocabulary · undated, status stableThe link type a resolver uses to point from a product identifier to its passport.
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