DPP Readiness Guide 2026
Everything a small or medium-sized brand needs to know about the digital product passport, without the legal fog. Real deadlines by industry, the data you will need, honest costs and a step-by-step checklist.
Articles. Texts about the passport, with sources.
Reports from the registry, standards in plain words, industry deadlines and costs. A new text every week, each with a link to the regulation or the Commission document.
The Commission DPP FAQ: what it says, and the three things it leaves out
EN 18219 in plain language: the passport identifier standard you have to buy to read
We logged in to the EU DPP Registry. You still cannot register a passport in it.
The Commission just missed a legal deadline. Your deadline did not move.
Do you need GS1 for a digital product passport? No - and the reason is not the price
The first step in the DPP registry has no deadline - and it is the one nobody is talking about
The first field-by-field DPP access map is public, and it copies battery rules that do not exist yet
Twelve days to the battery passport access deadline, and there is still no draft
Six EN standards now define how a digital product passport must be built
