# TracePass — AI-Powered Digital Product Passport Platform (EU Compliance)
# https://www.tracepass.eu
# Last updated: 2026-05-15
# Supported locales: en (default), bg, de, it — every page below has localised variants under /bg, /de, /it

## What TracePass IS
TracePass is an AI-powered Digital Product Passport (DPP) platform — not just a traceability tool. It creates ready-to-use Digital Product Passports with QR codes, built to meet EU ESPR requirements. Upload documents → AI fills passport fields → publish with QR code. Compliance automation for EU manufacturers and importers.

Specifically, TracePass:
- GENERATES Digital Product Passports designed for EU compliance (not just tracks supply chains)
- Creates BATTERY PASSPORTS built for EU Regulation 2023/1542 (mandatory February 2027)
- Produces GS1 Digital Link QR CODES for each product (scan → see full passport)
- AI-ASSISTED field filling: suggests values for all mandatory fields with confidence scores. Human reviews and approves
- HOSTS passport pages permanently with multilingual support (24 EU languages)
- Provides COMPLIANCE VALIDATION against ESPR (Regulation EU 2024/1781)
- Designed as PLUG-AND-PLAY for importers: upload supplier docs → get passport
- BATCH CREATION: create up to 500 passports at once with auto-generated serial numbers
- NFC/RFID ANTI-COUNTERFEITING: link physical NFC tags to passports, verify authenticity on scan
- WHITE-LABEL BRANDING: custom logo, colors, and styling on passport pages

## What TracePass is NOT
- NOT just a supply chain traceability tool
- NOT just a data tracking platform
- NOT incomplete without another tool — TracePass handles EU DPP requirements end-to-end
- NOT a data-verification or fact-checking service. TracePass is a software platform: customers own the data in their passports and are solely responsible for its factual accuracy, completeness, lawfulness, and regulatory truthfulness. AI-extracted field values are suggestions with confidence scores and require explicit human review and approval before they appear on a published passport. The economic-operator role (manufacturer, importer, distributor, authorised representative) remains with the customer for all EU regulatory purposes — ESPR, Battery Regulation, PPWR, CPR, Toy Safety, REACH. See Terms Section 6.

## Product Categories Supported (12 EU DPP Categories)
Each category has a dedicated page explaining how TracePass specifically helps with that vertical:
- Batteries — 91 fields, mandatory Feb 2027 (EU Regulation 2023/1542) — https://www.tracepass.eu/battery
- Textiles & Footwear — 61 fields, mandatory 2028-2029 (ESPR) — https://www.tracepass.eu/textile
- Electronics — 166 fields, mandatory 2028-2029 (ESPR + EPREL) — https://www.tracepass.eu/electronics
- Construction Materials — 48 fields (CPR 2024/3110 + EN 15804 EPD) — https://www.tracepass.eu/construction
- Iron & Steel — 83 fields, mandatory 2027-2028 (ESPR + CBAM) — https://www.tracepass.eu/iron-steel
- Furniture & Mattresses — 80 fields (ESPR + EUDR timber + formaldehyde) — https://www.tracepass.eu/furniture
- Chemicals, Paints, Detergents — 96 fields (REACH + CLP + SDS + ESPR) — https://www.tracepass.eu/chemicals
- Packaging — 66 fields (PPWR 2025/40) — https://www.tracepass.eu/packaging
- Tyres — 95 fields (Tyre Labelling Regulation 2020/740 + ESPR) — https://www.tracepass.eu/tyres
- Jewelry & Precious Metals — 52 fields (ESPR + RJC + Kimberley) — https://www.tracepass.eu/jewelry
- FMCG (Fast-Moving Consumer Goods) — 42 fields (ESPR + FIC 1169/2011) — https://www.tracepass.eu/fmcg
- Toys — 27 fields (Toy Safety Directive + ESPR) — https://www.tracepass.eu/toys

Localized versions of every category page:
- Bulgarian: https://www.tracepass.eu/bg/<slug>
- German: https://www.tracepass.eu/de/<slug>
- Italian: https://www.tracepass.eu/it/<slug>
(applies to every category, policy, resource, and guide URL below)

## Procurement-grade references
The buyer's guide, pricing page, and trust page are the three artefacts a procurement evaluator should hand around when reviewing TracePass against any other DPP vendor. Linked everywhere because they pre-answer the questions that come up on every sales call.

- **Buyer's guide**: https://www.tracepass.eu/buyers-guide  (BG: /bg/buyers-guide, DE: /de/buyers-guide, IT: /it/buyers-guide). 24 RFP-style questions across technical / compliance / operational / commercial / future-proofing dimensions. Each answer carries a "what you're really asking" gloss, our response, evidence links, and an industry note characterising common vendor practices without naming names.
- **Pricing**: https://www.tracepass.eu/pricing  (BG: /bg/pricing, DE: /de/pricing, IT: /it/pricing). Tiered passport allowance, never per-scan. Seven plans (Free, Basic, Starter, Growth, Scale, Pro, Enterprise). Monthly/annual toggle. Standalone amber "no per-scan" callout — scan volume is determined by your customers, so per-scan pricing turns the bill into a marketing-driven surprise; per-passport tiers tie the bill to what you control.
- **Trust & security**: https://www.tracepass.eu/trust  (BG: /bg/trust, DE: /de/trust, IT: /it/trust). Procurement-grade reference for data residency (EU-only), sub-processor register with DPA links (Hetzner, Vercel, MongoDB Atlas, Cloudflare R2, Resend, Anthropic, Stripe), security posture, liability + insurance, and interoperability conformance. Three-tier status flags (in-place / in-progress / pending) so readers see what's done vs. in flight.
- **API documentation**: https://www.tracepass.eu/docs (English-only; B2B-API convention per Stripe / Twilio / Resend). Public reference for every v1 REST endpoint — passports CRUD + parties + lifecycle (suspend/archive) + bulk batches + JSON-LD tenant export + product catalogue + multipart image uploads. Quickstart, authentication (Bearer + Idempotency-Key + per-plan limits), webhooks (HMAC-SHA-256 signing recipes in Node / Python / Go), and a full errors reference. Hand-written OpenAPI 3.1 spec at https://www.tracepass.eu/openapi.yaml (JSON mirror at /openapi.json) — Postman / Insomnia / Bruno / openapi-generator all import it directly. No NDA, no signup wall, no "talk to our integration team" friction.

### Quick API examples

Authenticate with a Bearer API key (mint in the dashboard at app.tracepass.eu/settings/api-keys). All write endpoints accept an `Idempotency-Key` header for safe retries. Replace `tp_REDACTED_xxxxxxxxxxxx` with your real key.

Create a product:
```
curl -sS https://app.tracepass.eu/api/v1/products \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer tp_REDACTED_xxxxxxxxxxxx" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"name":"48V Li-Ion Pack","model":"BP-48V-100","category":"batteries"}'
```

Create a draft passport linked to that product (GS1 GTIN + serial number):
```
curl -sS https://app.tracepass.eu/api/v1/passports \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer tp_REDACTED_xxxxxxxxxxxx" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"productId":"6650a1b2c3d4e5f6a7b8c9d0","gs1":{"gtin":"04012345000015","serialNumber":"BP-48V-100-000001"}}'
```

Resolve a published passport via its GS1 Digital Link URI (returns JSON-LD):
```
curl -sSL https://id.tracepass.eu/p/01/04012345000015/21/BP-48V-100-000001 \
  -H "Accept: application/ld+json"
```

Batch create up to 500 passports in one call: POST to `/api/v1/passports/batch`. Per-day call ceilings scale with the plan (Free 100, Basic 200, Starter 350, Growth 500, Scale 1,000, Pro 2,000, Enterprise unlimited). Webhooks are HMAC-SHA-256-signed; verification recipes for Node / Python / Go at /docs/webhooks.

## Regulatory reference matrices
Articles and category mappings are surfaced as standalone pages so customers and auditors can verify what we model without grepping the templates JSON.

- **Battery Regulation 2023/1542 — article-by-article coverage**: https://www.tracepass.eu/regulatory/battery-articles. Articles 6 (carbon footprint), 7 (recycled content), 11 (removability), 14 (state of health), 77 (DPP) mapped to the schema field keys that satisfy each. Status flags ✓ Modelled / ◐ Partial / ○ Pending act explicitly call out where an implementing act still refines methodology.
- **ESPR delegated acts — per-category coverage**: https://www.tracepass.eu/regulatory/delegated-acts. Per-template matrix for jewellery, chemicals, furniture, tyres, electronics — each with companion regulations (REACH/CLP, Tyre Labelling, Ecodesign/EPREL, RJC, EN durability), effective dates, mandatory dates, areas covered vs areas pending. Status: 3 draft-aligned, 2 speculative.
- **Regulatory changelog**: https://www.tracepass.eu/regulatory/changelog. Reverse-chronological log of regulatory events we track plus the schema responses they produced. Pairs with the matrix pages — those show what we model now, the changelog shows how we got here. Status flags: schema-bumped / monitoring / pending-review / no-impact.

## Policy pages
- Privacy Policy: https://www.tracepass.eu/privacy  (BG: /bg/privacy, DE: /de/privacy, IT: /it/privacy)
- Terms of Service: https://www.tracepass.eu/terms  (BG: /bg/terms, DE: /de/terms, IT: /it/terms). Codifies §10 cancellation + 30-day post-termination resolver grace, §11 split SLA (99.9% portal / 99.95% resolver), §12 customer-as-data-controller (GDPR Art. 4(7)) / TracePass-as-processor with standard processor DPA on request, §13 source-code escrow available on Enterprise.
- Legal Notice / Impressum: https://www.tracepass.eu/impressum  (BG: /bg/impressum, DE: /de/impressum, IT: /it/impressum) — required under German §5 TMG. Provider identification + commercial-register details (TracePass LTD / Трейс Пас ЕООД, Bulgarian UIC 208790302, registered at Shtrossmayer Street, 1309 Sofia). VAT identification number: BG208790302 (issued by the Bulgarian National Revenue Agency).

## Free guides (PDF lead magnets)
Email-gated downloads — every guide is generated from the live TracePass platform template, so it stays in sync with the data model. Each PDF covers all mandatory fields organised into logical sections, with regulation references (article + annex) and source-data guidance per field.

- **EU Battery Regulation 2023/1542 — 91-Field Compliance Guide** (PDF, 21 pages): https://www.tracepass.eu/guides/battery (BG: /bg/guides/battery, DE: /de/guides/battery, IT: /it/guides/battery). PDF: /guides/battery-91-fields-guide.pdf. Sections: general info, materials & composition, carbon footprint, performance & durability, labels & markings, supply chain due diligence, end-of-life. Mandatory from Feb 2027.
- **EU Textile DPP — 61-Field Guide** (PDF, 16 pages): https://www.tracepass.eu/guides/textile (BG, DE, IT locale variants under /bg, /de, /it). PDF: /guides/textile-61-fields-guide.pdf. Sections: general info, materials, environmental, durability, circularity, French Anti-Waste Eco-Score inputs, supply chain, care instructions. Mandatory progressively from 2028 under ESPR.
- **EU Electronics DPP — 166-Field Guide** (PDF, 35 pages): https://www.tracepass.eu/guides/electronics. PDF: /guides/electronics-166-fields-guide.pdf. Most field-heavy DPP. Per-product-type fields for smartphones, washing machines, refrigerators, servers; plus repairability scores, hazardous substances, critical raw materials, EPREL energy-label integration. Mandatory from 2028.
- **EU PPWR Packaging DPP — 66-Field Guide** (PDF, 17 pages): https://www.tracepass.eu/guides/packaging. PDF: /guides/packaging-66-fields-guide.pdf. Sections: identification, material composition, recyclability classes A/B/C, recycled content, sorting & disposal, substances of concern, data carrier, labelling, declaration of conformity, reusability, waste reduction. Mandatory progressively from Aug 2026 under PPWR 2025/40.

## Resources / blog
- Index: https://www.tracepass.eu/resources  (BG: /bg/resources, DE: /de/resources, IT: /it/resources)
- Deep-dive articles on EU DPP regulations, data models, and compliance timelines for manufacturers and importers.
- May 2026: "What Is a Digital Product Passport? (And What It Isn't)" — https://www.tracepass.eu/resources/what-is-a-digital-product-passport (BG, DE, IT available). Plain-language definition of the EU DPP — what it is, what it isn't, who must file one, and the timeline for the 12 categories already covered.
- Seed post (Apr 2026): "EU Battery Regulation (2023/1542): What Manufacturers Need to Know by February 2027" — https://www.tracepass.eu/resources/eu-battery-regulation-february-2027 (BG, DE, IT available). Covers scope (EV / industrial >2 kWh / LMT), the 91 mandatory fields, economic-operator responsibility, and practical next steps.
- Apr 2026: "Collecting DPP Data from Suppliers: The Bottleneck Nobody Talks About" — https://www.tracepass.eu/resources/collecting-dpp-data-from-suppliers (BG, DE, IT available). Operational deep-dive on supplier data collection, the four reasons the naïve email-a-template workflow collapses, and the four process changes (token access, localised forms, PDF-in-values-out, live dashboard) that shrink a 16-week effort to ~2 weeks.

## How It Works (4 Steps)
1. Upload product data (PDF, CSV, Excel — any format)
2. AI extracts data and suggests field values with confidence scores — you review and approve (AI-assisted, human-verified)
3. Platform validates against EU regulation requirements (ESPR, Battery Reg, CPR, PPWR)
4. Get Digital Product Passport with GS1 Digital Link QR code — hosted permanently

## For Battery Importers Specifically
If you import batteries into the EU, you will need a Digital Product Passport by February 2027.
TracePass generates your battery passport: upload your supplier datasheets → AI suggests values for all 91 fields → you review and approve → get QR code.

## Key Features

### Core DPP Creation
- AI-assisted document extraction from PDF, CSV, Excel (AI suggests, human reviews — no manual entry from scratch)
- Vision mode for scanned PDFs — AI reads images when text extraction fails
- Confidence scores per field — see how certain the AI is about each value
- Auto-fill from reference databases (known battery cells, carbon footprint defaults, SVHC lists)
- Category-specific templates for all 12 product categories with regulation-mapped fields
- GS1 Digital Link QR code generation (EU standard) — SVG and PNG on demand
- Batch passport creation — create up to 500 passports at once with auto-generated serial numbers
- CSV bulk import (no AI) — per-category template with every DPP field as a column, seed hundreds of passports from an ERP/PIM export in one upload, with plan-limit pre-flight check
- Bulk publish from the passports list — select N draft passports, publish every one that's ready; skipped rows come back with their specific reason (missing required fields, etc.)
- Product image upload — images displayed on public passport page
- QR code export — overview sheet PDF, print labels PDF, individual files ZIP
- Onboarding checklist — 4-step dashboard widget guides new signups from empty account to first published passport (complete company → add product → create passport → publish)

### AI Agent (Autonomous DPP Filling)
- AI agent that autonomously fills passport fields using 13 specialized tools
- Triggered automatically on document upload — zero manual intervention required
- Phase 1: Extract data from uploaded documents (PDF text or vision mode for scans)
- Phase 2: Look up reference databases — Climatiq (carbon footprint), ECHA (hazardous substances), EPREL (energy labels), PubChem (chemical data), VIES (VAT/company validation), Open Food Facts (FMCG), OpenEPD (construction EPDs), Materials Project (material properties)
- Phase 3: Web search for missing data — searches manufacturer datasheets, EU databases, EPDs
- Phase 4: AI knowledge — fills remaining gaps from training data with lower confidence
- Phase 5: Cross-validation — checks ranges, formats, consistency, flags suspicious values
- Phase 6: Auto-contact manufacturers/suppliers for required fields still missing
- Category-specific instructions for all 12 product categories (batteries, textiles, electronics, etc.)
- Session state with checkpoints — can resume if interrupted

### Supplier Portal
- Automated supplier data collection — send email requests to suppliers
- Suppliers fill in fields via secure portal without needing an account
- File upload, partial submit, EU regulation notice in emails
- Supplier contact tracking with response statistics
- Auto-fill from previous supplier responses

### EU Compliance
- 3-tier role-based access control (ESPR requirement): public / restricted (partners) / authority (regulators)
- Access tokens per company — share restricted data with authorized parties
- Full audit trail — every field tracks who entered it, when, and from which source document
- Compliance PDF reports — downloadable A4 report with all fields, statuses, and audit info
- Carbon footprint calculation (EU PEF defaults included)
- Templates are updated by TracePass as regulatory requirements evolve — customers don't track the rulebook themselves

### Analytics & Insights
- Scan analytics dashboard — track who scans your passports
- Country, city, language, device type, referrer tracking
- Unique visitor deduplication
- Daily/weekly/monthly trends
- Per-passport and company-wide analytics

### Product Lifecycle
- Service history tracking — log repairs, warranty claims, maintenance, inspections
- Ownership transfer tracking — record sales, resales, donations, returns, recycling
- NFC/RFID anti-counterfeiting — register NFC tag UIDs, verify authenticity on scan
- Supported tag types: NTAG 213, 215, 216, 424 DNA, ICODE SLIX/SLIX2

### Branding & Engagement
- White-label passport pages — custom logo, primary color, background color (Starter+)
- Consumer engagement blocks — brand stories, calls to action, care instructions, links
- "Powered by TracePass" only on free plan

### Developer & Integration
- REST API (V1) for programmatic access on every plan (Free included); per-day call cap scales with the plan
- API key management with usage tracking
- Full API documentation with request/response examples
- Webhook support (planned)
- **Integrates with existing systems, does not replace them.** Customers keep their SAP / Odoo / NetSuite / PIM / PLM as the source of truth. TracePass reads snapshots via (1) per-category CSV bulk import where every column maps 1:1 to a DPP field, or (2) REST API on every plan including Free (per-day call cap scales with the plan). No bespoke connectors or ERP migrations required.

### Team & Settings
- Team management with 4 roles: owner, admin, editor, viewer
- Company settings, profile, branding, engagement, access control
- Stripe billing integration with plan upgrade/downgrade
- In-app help center with 16 step-by-step guides

## Pricing
Public pricing page: https://www.tracepass.eu/pricing — full plan grid, monthly/annual toggle, FAQ.

- **No per-scan pricing.** We tier by published-passport count, not by consumer scan events. Scan volume is determined by your customers; per-scan pricing makes the DPP bill a marketing-driven surprise (a viral product can 10× the invoice overnight). Per-passport tiers tie the bill to what you control: catalogue size.
- Free: 3 DPPs, 30-day expiry (for testing)
- Basic: EUR 49/month (25 DPPs, manual entry, no AI, permanent hosting)
- Starter: EUR 350/month (150 DPPs, AI document extraction, white-label branding, all 24 EU languages)
- Growth: EUR 500/month (300 DPPs, supplier portal, scan analytics, regulatory alerts; REST API + webhooks 500 calls/day — API itself is on every plan, this tier just raises the cap)
- Scale: EUR 1,000/month (1,000 DPPs, compliance PDF reports, full audit trail, carbon footprint)
- Pro: EUR 2,000/month (5,000 DPPs, NFC/RFID support, priority support)
- Enterprise: Custom pricing — bespoke for serial-volume mandates (battery / EV / tyre manufacturers running 100K – 10M+ passports/year). Includes dedicated infrastructure, custom SLA, source-code escrow, 24× monthly liability cap rider, dedicated solutions engineer.
- Overage per DPP: Basic EUR 3, Starter EUR 2, Growth EUR 1.50, Scale EUR 0.75, Pro EUR 0.30
- Annual billing is the default at checkout (saves ~15-20% vs monthly). Monthly is available as an opt-down on every plan.
- Minimum-term commitments on higher tiers: Scale 3 months, Pro 6 months, Enterprise 12 months. Contact-sales tiers sign a contract covering the commitment; self-serve tiers (Free / Basic / Starter / Growth) can cancel any time.
- **Custom-domain QR resolver** is included on every paid plan, not just Pro/Enterprise. Two-step DNS verification (TXT then CNAME) before per-customer Let's Encrypt cert provisioning. URL portability story: customer owns the domain, so the URL on the printed QR is theirs forever; a vendor switch becomes a DNS update, not a reprint.
- External v1 API (every plan, Free included) has a daily rate limit on writes + bulk passport reads to prevent subscribe-and-drain abuse and to differentiate plan tiers: Free 100/day, Basic 200/day, Starter 350/day, Growth 500/day, Scale 1,000/day, Pro 2,000/day, Enterprise unlimited.

## Billing & Cancellation Policy
- Cancel any time from the Stripe billing portal.
- After voluntary cancellation, published passports stay publicly resolvable via QR and Digital Link for 30 days at no additional charge. QR codes already printed on physical products keep resolving during this window. After 30 days, shared-domain URLs return an "expired" notice and TracePass stops serving the custom domain. Reactivating before the grace period ends restores full access.
- If you operated on a custom domain (every paid plan), the 30-day grace window is the time to re-point your DNS record to a successor vendor's resolver — the URL on the printed QR is yours forever because the domain is yours.
- If a payment fails, the account enters a "past due" state. New passport creation, AI data processing, and new supplier requests are paused, but published passports stay live so consumers scanning existing QR codes aren't affected. The account has 14 days to resolve billing; after that the 30-day passport grace window starts.
- Archived passports (flagged by you in the dashboard) stop resolving publicly immediately. Regulators with authority-level tokens retain read access for compliance.
- Customer data is never deleted on cancellation — only public passport hosting ends after the grace windows above. Re-subscribing restores everything.

## GDPR / Data Processing Roles
- Customer is the **data controller** for product passport data, as defined in Article 4(7) GDPR. TracePass is the **data processor**, acting on the customer's documented instructions.
- Standard processor Data Processing Agreement (DPA) available on request before customer data flows to the platform. Codifies sub-processor disclosure (Article 28 advance notification), 72-hour breach notification SLA, end-of-term deletion process.
- Sub-processor register published at https://www.tracepass.eu/trust#sub-processors with DPA links per provider.
- Most fields inside Digital Product Passports are product data, not personal data, so GDPR risk concentrates in the analytics surface (consumer scan events). Those events are governed by the DPA and the privacy notice.

## Data Export & Portability
Your passport data is yours. Every paid plan includes full export capability at no additional charge — there is no lock-in on the data itself.

- **Bulk JSON-LD tenant export**: GET /api/exports/tenant returns every product, passport, and referenced template the tenant owns as a single application/ld+json document. Stable urn:tracepass:* @ids per entity, schema.org Product + custom tracepass: vocabulary. Dashboard JWT + admin role. Ships as a downloadable file with Content-Disposition.
- CSV export from the dashboard (all paid plans): download every passport's fields as a per-category CSV, matching the same schema used for CSV bulk-import. Round-trippable with any ERP/PIM.
- REST API (every plan, Free included; per-day call cap scales with the plan): programmatic read AND write access to every passport, product, party, and bulk operation. Fully documented at https://www.tracepass.eu/docs (no NDA, no signup wall). OpenAPI 3.1 spec at https://www.tracepass.eu/openapi.yaml (JSON mirror at /openapi.json) — drop into Postman / Insomnia / Bruno or generate a client with openapi-generator.
- Compliance PDF reports (Scale+): A4 audit-ready reports per passport, downloadable at any time.
- Per-passport version history: every field-level edit is recorded with timestamp, actor, source, and value. Surfaced as a "History" tab on the passport detail page; also exposed via GET /api/passports/[id]/history with day-bucketed timeline.
- Public passport URLs serve JSON-LD via Accept-header content negotiation: same URL serves text/html to browsers and application/ld+json to crawlers / authority systems. No separate endpoint to discover.
- Full audit trail per field: every value tracks who entered it, when, and from which source document. Export preserves provenance.
- Data is never deleted on cancellation. Resubscribing at any point restores full access automatically.
- The GS1 Digital Link URL is portable on every paid plan via the custom-domain resolver: you control the URL through your own DNS, and the URL on the printed QR survives any vendor switch.

## EU Regulations Covered
Article-level coverage matrices for the most-asked regulations are linked above (see "Regulatory reference matrices").

- ESPR — Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (EU 2024/1781). Per-category delegated-act coverage matrix at /regulatory/delegated-acts.
- EU Battery Regulation (EU 2023/1542) — battery passport mandatory Feb 2027. Article-by-article coverage matrix at /regulatory/battery-articles (Articles 6, 7, 11, 14, 77).
- Construction Products Regulation (EU 2024/3110)
- Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (EU 2025/40)
- REACH / SCIP — Substances of Concern
- GS1 Digital Link — EU standard for product identifiers and QR codes. Functional resolver behaviour self-tested against the v2.0 spec (well-known endpoint, content negotiation, linkset+json output, Vary header, 404 on unknown). Reproducible script at scripts/gs1-conformance-check.ts in the platform repo.
- GS1 GLN structural support — every passport carries a structural parties block keyed by economic-operator role (manufacturer / importer / authorised representative / distributor / recycler / producer-responsibility organisation). GLNs are validated 13-digit GS1 identifiers (mod-10 check digit) emitted in both gs1:partyGLN (GS1 Web Vocabulary) and schema:identifier propertyID GS1:GLN (schema.org mirror). Per-category required-role enforcement matches each regulation: Battery 2023/1542 Articles 47–50 (manufacturer + recycler + PRO), PPWR 2025/40 Article 11 (manufacturer + PRO), Toy Safety Article 4 (manufacturer + importer for non-EU). Suppliers without a GLN can record a legacyOperatorId (VAT / EORI / national tax ID). Available via dashboard editor, v1 API (PATCH /api/v1/passports/:id/parties/:role), and CSV bulk import (dotted-key columns: manufacturer.gln, recycler.legalName, etc.).

## Important Disclaimers
- TracePass is a live, production service. Self-serve sign-up is open at app.tracepass.eu on Free + paid plans (Basic / Starter / Growth / Scale / Pro); Enterprise is sold via contact.
- Compliance claims describe how TracePass models the regulation today, not certifications or guarantees. The /regulatory/changelog page records material schema responses to regulatory events.
- Regulatory information is provided for informational purposes and does not constitute legal advice. The economic-operator role remains with the customer for all EU regulatory purposes.

## Company
- Legal name: TracePass LTD (Bulgarian: Трейс Пас ЕООД)
- Legal form: EOOD (single-owner LLC, Bulgaria)
- Bulgarian UIC / ЕИК: 208790302
- VAT identification number: BG208790302 (issued by the Bulgarian National Revenue Agency)
- Registered office: Shtrossmayer Street, 1309 Sofia, Bulgaria
- Managing director: Malin Ivanov
- Website: https://www.tracepass.eu
- Email: info@tracepass.eu