Digital product passport

A digital product passport is a structured set of product information that travels with the product. It is not a separate regulation. The legal basis is the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation, Regulation (EU) 2024/1781. Which fields a textile product must carry will be decided in the delegated act for that product group.

The Commission timeline is marked as indicative and able to change. In July 2026 the framework for the passport registry was in place, with an implementing act for the registry and an implementing decision on six standards. The registry itself became operational on 20 July 2026. An implementing decision on the remaining two standards was planned for September 2026. In the fourth quarter of 2026 the timeline lists a delegated act for iron and steel, and an implementing act on battery access rights. From 18 February 2027 a passport is mandatory for certain batteries: electric-vehicle batteries, batteries for light means of transport, and industrial batteries.

For textiles, the same timeline points to adoption of the delegated act in the third to fourth quarter of 2027. The textile page plans that adoption for the fourth quarter of 2027. Adoption is not the day the duty starts. Companies then have a transition of at least 18 months, so a textile passport is expected around 2029. The battery date in February 2027 does not create a textile obligation.

There is no separate CELEX number for a textile passport. The text to read is still the ESPR, and the Commission pages are the source for the calendar. A company can build a data model now. It cannot yet treat that model as the Union list of mandatory textile fields, because that list has not been adopted. Brands, retailers and producers who place products on the Union market should expect to be asked for the data once a product act applies. Access rights for a textile passport will follow the delegated act and the implementing rules.

The passport duty will fall on the company the textile delegated act names, in practice the one that places the product on the Union market. The registry is a Commission system. National authorities supervise the product rules. Battery obligations from 18 February 2027 do not by themselves create a textile obligation.

For apparel, the relevant event is adoption of the textile delegated act, planned indicatively for late 2027, followed by a transition of at least 18 months. A textile digital product passport is expected around 2029. Fibre, facility and supplier data collected now can be mapped later. That data is not yet the mandatory passport content.

JOYNN can already publish a product passport with a QR code, and can store the chain and facility data behind it. That helps a company prepare and answer data requests. It is not the textile passport the delegated act will specify, and it does not make a product compliant with a rule that has not been adopted. JOYNN is not legal advice. The JOYNN Index remains a criteria set for audits, not a consumer label under product-passport law.