Chemicals
The PFAS Restriction and Declarations in the Passport
Writing "PFAS-free" is easy; proving it is hard. The universal restriction is not yet decided, but the declaration field in the passport should be designed today.
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Adjacent EU Regulation
How CBAM, CSRD, CSDDD, EUDR, PPWR and Green Claims intersect with the DPP.
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Chemicals
The PFAS Restriction and Declarations in the Passport
Writing "PFAS-free" is easy; proving it is hard. The universal restriction is not yet decided, but the declaration field in the passport should be designed today.
CBAM
CBAM Definitive Period 2026: What Steel Exporters Must Do
The liability sits with the importer, the data burden with the producer. In the definitive period, a producer without verified actual data is priced at default values.
Chemicals
The CLP Revision: Digital Labelling and the DPP
The chemical label is going partly digital for the first time. One QR can serve both CLP and the passport; or two codes can compete on the same pack.
Textile
Separate Textile Waste Collection (2025) and the DPP
A garment you sell today will enter a sorting line in 2035. The passport's composition fields decide whether that line can work.
Textile
Textile EPR: France, the Netherlands and the EU Scheme
France has had textile EPR since 2007 and the Netherlands since 2023; a harmonised EU scheme is coming. Product data will set the fee.
Automotive
ELV: The End-of-Life Vehicles Regime and the DPP
A vehicle's end begins in its design. The ELV regime makes that measurable through material data.
Repairability
The Right to Repair Directive and the DPP
Repair is now a right — which means spare part and repair information becomes publishable data.
Recycling & EPR
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) and the DPP
What happens after the product is still your responsibility — and good data can cut the cost of it directly.
Electronics
Where WEEE, RoHS and REACH Meet the DPP
Electronics already answers to three regimes that want substance and waste data. The passport brings them into one record.
Green Claims
The Green Claims Directive and Greenwashing
Calling something "eco-friendly" is no longer free. An unevidenced claim is becoming a visible legal risk.
Furniture
EUDR: The Deforestation Regulation and Traceability
EUDR pushes traceability down to plot coordinates — which is also infrastructure for a passport's origin fields.
CSRD / ESRS
CSDDD: Supply Chain Due Diligence
The same supply chain map, two different obligations. There is no reason to build it twice.
CSRD / ESRS
CSRD, ESRS and Product-Level Data
A corporate report is the sum of product data. Collecting the two separately is one of the most expensive mistakes available.
CBAM
CBAM and the Digital Product Passport
Two different regimes, one data source. Merging CBAM and DPP work halves the cost.