About DPPera

Who writes this

DPPera is written and built by Łukasz Głuch, working solo. Not a law firm, not a consultancy, not a team of analysts - one person who reads the source documents and writes down what they actually say.

The background is design and physical products rather than compliance consulting. I also run QRSona, a product built around QR codes on physical goods, which is where the practical side of this comes from: how a code survives a print run, what a label supplier actually needs to receive, and why an address that dies with a subscription is a problem when it is already sewn into a garment. Those turn out to be the parts of the passport conversation that most compliance material skips.

Write to me at contact@dppera.com. If an article on this site is wrong, that address is the fastest way to get it fixed.

Why this site exists

Information about the EU Digital Product Passport currently comes in two flavours. Vendor marketing, which wants you to believe the deadline is closer and scarier than it is. And legal analysis, which is accurate and unreadable if you are a twelve-person clothing brand trying to work out whether any of this applies to you yet.

DPPera is the missing third option: plain language, aimed at small and mid-size brands, with the regulation cited so you can check the claim yourself. There is also almost nothing on this subject written in Polish, which is why every article here exists in both English and Polish.

How the content is made

• Primary sources, named in the text. Regulation numbers, adoption dates and Official Journal publication dates go in the article itself, not in a vague "according to the EU". If a claim traces back to a Commission page, a standards body or the Official Journal, you should be able to follow it.
• Certain and expected are kept apart. Batteries on 18 February 2027 is a date in force. The textile delegated act "expected in 2027, obligations realistically 2028-2029" is a forecast, and it is labelled as one. Blurring the two is the single most common error in this field, and usually not an accident.
• "Nothing applies to you yet" is a valid answer. For most brands reading this today, it is the correct one, and articles here say so plainly even when it is commercially inconvenient.
• Corrections are visible. When the facts move, the article is updated and its modification date changes with it. Regulatory content that silently rots is worse than no content.
• Every article ships in English and Polish. Same substance in both, not a machine-translated afterthought.

What DPPera offers

• A free DPP guide and a deadline calendar with reminders for your sector.
• A free passport demo generator: a live page with a working QR code and a print-ready label file, in about a minute, with no account.
• DPPera Brief, a short monthly monitor of what actually changed in EU DPP regulation.
• A full passport creation tool, in development. The waitlist is here. Being straight about the timing: the first hard deadline for most of our readers is years out, and the tool is being built to be ready well before it, not to sell you urgency today.

Independence

DPPera is self-funded. No investors, no vendor sponsorships, no affiliate commissions on the tools mentioned in articles. When an article names a competitor or a standard, there is no money behind the mention. DPPera does sell its own tool, and articles that touch it say so openly.

Where it runs

The site is built and hosted in the EU. Data handling is described in the privacy policy.