EU DPP regulations, tracked article-by-article
How TracePass maps the EU regulations behind the Digital Product Passport — the Battery Regulation article-by-article, ESPR delegated acts per category, the boundary with CSRD reporting, and a changelog of how our schema responds to each change.
The Digital Product Passport isn't one regulation — it's a stack of them, each landing on a different timeline. These pages show exactly how TracePass reads each one and what it means for the data you'll need to publish.
We track the legal text article-by-article rather than summarising it, so you can trace any field in a passport back to the requirement that put it there.
TracePass tracks 4 regulatory surfaces behind the DPP — the Battery Regulation, ESPR delegated acts, the CSRD boundary, and a schema changelog.
Regulations we track
Battery Regulation 2023/1542
Per-article coverage of EU Battery Regulation 2023/1542: Article 6 carbon footprint, Article 7 recycled content, Article 11 removability, Article 77 DPP.
RegulatoryESPR delegated acts
ESPR delegated act coverage — iron & steel, tyres, electronics, chemicals, furniture, jewellery: companion regulations, indicative dates, status.
RegulatoryRegulatory changelog
EU DPP regulatory events with schema responses: ESPR 2024/1781, Battery Regulation 2023/1542, implementing acts, per-category templates. Reverse-chronological.
RegulatoryDPP and CSRD — where the product passport ends and reporting begins
TracePass is the product-level DPP and evidence layer that feeds your CSRD/ESRS reporting — it does not produce the report. Here's where the two meet.
RegulatoryRelated
Frequently asked questions
- Is TracePass a legal or compliance advisory service?
- No. These pages explain how our passport schema maps to the regulations, not legal advice. TracePass is software that helps you build and publish a Digital Product Passport; the positioning is "AI suggests, human approves".
- Does TracePass do CSRD or ESRS reporting?
- No. CSRD/ESRS is a separate corporate-reporting regime. The DPP can feed data into it, but TracePass is not a CSRD reporting tool — the CSRD page explains where the product passport ends and reporting begins.
- How often is the regulatory tracking updated?
- Each page carries its own last-reviewed date, and the changelog records how the TracePass schema responded to each regulatory change as the EU's implementing and delegated acts are published.
- When does the DPP become mandatory?
- It phases in by regulation. The EU battery passport is first, mandatory from February 2027. Other categories follow under ESPR (Regulation 2024/1781) through roughly 2027–2030 as each delegated act is adopted. Packaging has its own timeline under the PPWR (2025/40).
- What's the difference between ESPR and the Battery Regulation?
- The Battery Regulation (2023/1542) is a standalone law that mandates the battery passport directly. ESPR (2024/1781) is the framework regulation under which most other categories get a DPP, one delegated act at a time. The battery passport is furthest along; ESPR categories follow.
Maintained by the TracePass team · Last reviewed 19 June 2026