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title: Steel Passports — your CBAM + datasheets, one pipeline
description: Already report CBAM emissions? Reuse that data. TracePass fills 83 steel-DPP fields — grade, chemistry, mechanicals, scope 1/2 emissions — from one upload.
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# Steel Passports — your CBAM + datasheets, one pipeline

> Already report CBAM emissions? Reuse that data. TracePass fills 83 steel-DPP fields — grade, chemistry, mechanicals, scope 1/2 emissions — from one upload.

You're already compiling CBAM embedded-emissions data. TracePass reuses it as structured fields in your steel DPP, adds grade / chemistry / mechanicals from the mill datasheet, and publishes a batch-level passport per heat.

## Who it's for

Steel mills, rerollers, distributors, and downstream converters placing steel coils, sheets, long products, pipes, or wires on the EU market.

## How TracePass helps

- Research agent reads SSAB / ArcelorMittal / TATA / grade datasheets — fills composition, mechanicals, and typical grade values in seconds.
- CBAM fields (scope 1, scope 2, precursor emissions, grid intensity) as first-class structured data — the same numbers feed your DPP and your quarterly CBAM return.
- Heat-number + batch-number lineage built-in, because that's how the industry already tracks.
- Inspection-certificate URI field with evidence capture — point at the EN 10168 cert and we keep it attached to every coil passport.
- Corporate sustainability-report metrics (recycled scrap %, EAF vs BOF) filled from your existing ESG disclosures.

## What the template covers

- Grade + EN designation
- Chemical composition per element
- Mechanical properties (yield, tensile, elongation, hardness)
- Heat + batch number, inspection-cert URI
- CBAM embedded emissions (scope 1 / 2 / precursor)
- Electricity grid intensity, kWh/tonne
- Recycled (scrap) content % + facility type

## FAQ

### When will a steel Digital Product Passport be mandatory?

No ESPR delegated act for iron & steel has been adopted yet. The indicative timeline from the ESPR Working Plan (COM(2025) 187 final, CELEX 52025DC0187 — a Commission Communication adopted 16 April 2025, not a binding act) points to a delegated act around Q4 2026 and a mandatory DPP from approximately 2028. Treat those as best-estimate dates; the obligation only becomes firm when the delegated act is formally adopted. Note that CBAM (Regulation (EU) 2023/956) already requires embedded-emissions data for steel imports today — that data is a natural head start for the future DPP.

### Can we avoid double data-entry between DPP and our CBAM reports?

That's the point. TracePass stores CBAM fields as structured data on each passport. Export per-batch CBAM contribution for your quarterly return from the same source your DPP reads from.

### One passport per coil is a lot. Is there a less granular option?

Passports are per heat or per batch, not per coil — industry practice. Each physical coil carries a QR back to its heat-level passport. Typical throughput: one passport covers 20–40 tonnes.

### Can you trace the production route — smelting, rolling, finishing — as EPCIS events?

Yes. Each production step serialises as an EPCIS 2.0 TransformationEvent — smelting, casting, rolling, finishing — using GS1 Core Business Vocabulary where it exists and TracePass-published vocabulary URIs for the steel-specific steps it doesn't cover. The event history is a standards-valid EPCIS 2.0 document, included on every paid plan and advertised on the product's GS1 Digital Link QR. The Capture interface lets mills and processors push events directly; the query interface answers the EPCIS 2.0 query grammar via a self-hosted OpenEPCIS node. Volume meter scales by tier — high-throughput mill operators sit on Scale (1M events/mo) or Pro (10M); Enterprise is unlimited. EPCIS is the recommended traceability vehicle for ESPR Article 5(5)(o).