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# EU DPP Registry

> The EU DPP Registry is the central system the European Commission operates to hold each product's unique identifier and the URL of its Digital Product Passport, so customs and market-surveillance authorities can find the right passport. Established under the ESPR (Regulation (EU) 2024/1781), it is scheduled to go live on 19 July 2026.

The EU DPP Registry is the central system the European Commission operates to hold each product's unique identifier and the URL of its Digital Product Passport, so customs and market-surveillance authorities can find the right passport. Established under the ESPR (Regulation (EU) 2024/1781), it is scheduled to go live on 19 July 2026.

The registry is deliberately thin. It does not store the full passport — that lives at the economic operator's chosen address, reached through the data carrier — but it does store the mapping: the product's unique identifier and a pointer to where the passport actually resides, plus a backup of certain core data. This index lets authorities (especially customs at the EU border) look up a product and verify a passport exists without crawling every operator's site.

The European Commission has scheduled the registry to go live on 19 July 2026, ahead of the first product-group DPP obligations. Note that go-live of the registry is distinct from any individual product's compliance date: a product only has to be registered once its product group's delegated act (or, for batteries, Regulation (EU) 2023/1542) makes the passport mandatory. The registry is the plumbing; the delegated acts decide when each product flows through it.

## FAQ

### When does the EU DPP Registry go live?

The European Commission has scheduled the central registry to go live on 19 July 2026. That is the registry's operational start; it does not by itself make any individual product's passport mandatory — that timing is set by each product group's delegated act (or, for batteries, Regulation (EU) 2023/1542).

### Does the EU DPP Registry store the whole passport?

No. It stores each product's unique identifier and a pointer to where the passport actually lives, plus a backup of certain core data. The full passport is hosted at the operator's chosen address and reached through the product's data carrier.

### Who uses the EU DPP Registry?

Primarily authorities — customs at the EU border and market-surveillance bodies — to look up a product by its identifier and confirm a registered passport exists. Economic operators register their products and identifiers into it; consumers normally reach a passport by scanning the carrier, not via the registry.

## Related terms

- [Unique product identifier (UPI)](https://www.tracepass.eu/glossary/unique-product-identifier)
- [Digital Product Passport (DPP)](https://www.tracepass.eu/glossary/digital-product-passport)
- [ESPR](https://www.tracepass.eu/glossary/espr)
- [Delegated act](https://www.tracepass.eu/glossary/delegated-act)