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.

Three industries told the passport does not concern them. All three have a deadline

DPP categories come from two different laws. Almost nobody separates them

The Commission just missed a legal deadline. Your deadline did not move.

The first field-by-field DPP access map is public, and it copies battery rules that do not exist yet

DPP deadlines by industry: the real timeline (2026-2030)

Who does the DPP apply to? Small brands and non-EU sellers too