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# EPREL

> EPREL (European Product Registry for Energy Labelling) is the EU's central database where suppliers must register energy-labelled products — appliances, electronics, lighting and more — before selling them in the EU. Established under Regulation (EU) 2017/1369, its energy-efficiency data is a ready source to reuse into the Digital Product Passports of those product groups.

EPREL (European Product Registry for Energy Labelling) is the EU's central database where suppliers must register energy-labelled products — appliances, electronics, lighting and more — before selling them in the EU. Established under Regulation (EU) 2017/1369, its energy-efficiency data is a ready source to reuse into the Digital Product Passports of those product groups.

EPREL has been live since 2019: any product carrying an EU energy label (fridges, washing machines, dishwashers, displays, light sources, and a growing list) must be registered in EPREL by the supplier before it goes on sale, and the public-facing part lets anyone look up a model's energy class and label. Each label already carries a QR code that links to the product's EPREL entry.

For the Digital Product Passport this is a head start, not a duplicate. Where a product group falls under both an energy label and a future ESPR DPP delegated act, the energy-efficiency attributes a supplier has already filed in EPREL are exactly the kind of regulated data the passport needs — so rather than re-entering it, the practical pattern is to reuse the EPREL data into the DPP. TracePass treats existing registry and label data as a source to pull from and attribute, not a field to retype.

## FAQ

### What does EPREL stand for?

EPREL is the European Product Registry for Energy Labelling — the EU's central database, established under Regulation (EU) 2017/1369, where suppliers register products that carry an EU energy label before placing them on the market.

### Is EPREL the same as the Digital Product Passport?

No. EPREL is a long-running, energy-label-specific registry; the DPP is a broader lifecycle record introduced by the ESPR. They overlap for energy-labelled products, where EPREL data can be reused to populate the passport rather than re-entered.

### Can EPREL data be reused in a product's DPP?

Yes, and that is the efficient path. For products covered by both schemes, the energy-efficiency attributes already registered in EPREL are exactly the regulated data a passport needs, so reusing them — with attribution to the EPREL source — avoids duplicate data entry.

## Related terms

- [Digital Product Passport (DPP)](https://www.tracepass.eu/glossary/digital-product-passport)
- [Source attribution](https://www.tracepass.eu/glossary/source-attribution)
- [ESPR](https://www.tracepass.eu/glossary/espr)
- [CE marking](https://www.tracepass.eu/glossary/ce-marking)