CSRD (Directive (EU) 2022/2464) expands EU sustainability reporting to far more companies and requires they report against the ESRS — a single set of standards covering environmental, social and governance topics, with double materiality at their core. Reporting is company-wide and annual: emissions, workforce, value-chain impacts, governance.
A Digital Product Passport is the opposite altitude: it describes one product, not the whole company. The two connect because product-level data feeds upward — a product's carbon footprint, recycled content and supply-chain attributes are exactly the granular inputs a CSRD report aggregates. TracePass sits on the product side: it produces and publishes passports and surfaces the underlying field data, but it does not generate a CSRD report. It feeds the reporting layer; it is not the reporting tool.
Frequently asked
Is a Digital Product Passport the same as a CSRD report?
No. A DPP describes a single product; a CSRD report describes the whole company over a year. They share data — product carbon footprint and recycled content roll up into company reporting — but they are different documents at different altitudes.
Does TracePass produce CSRD reports?
No. TracePass operates at the product level: it produces Digital Product Passports and exposes the structured field data behind them. That data can feed a CSRD/ESRS reporting workflow, but TracePass is not the reporting tool — it is an upstream source for it.