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Regulatory changelog — what we tracked, what we changed

Every regulatory event we track that touches a Digital Product Passport schema, paired with the action we took (or deliberately didn't take). The companion to the matrix pages — those show what we model today; this shows how we got here.

Status

Schema-bumped
We changed something in response — added fields, changed an enum, bumped a template version.
Monitoring
Tracking the event; no schema change is needed yet, or the change hasn't landed.
Pending review
Noted, full impact assessment ongoing — likely to graduate to monitoring or schema-bumped.
No impact
Observed, not relevant to current schemas — kept here for the audit trail.

Watching for

Battery DPP becomes mandatory — 18 February 2027
Tyres + electronics ESPR delegated acts — expected 2028 entry into force
Furniture + chemicals ESPR delegated acts — expected 2029-2030
Carbon-footprint final implementing act under Battery Reg Article 6

27 May 2026 · EU · Battery Regulation · ESPR

Commission battery-passport webinar — official timeline, corrigendum 2026/90285, EN 18219/18220, Omnibus IV

Monitoring

DG GROW's 27 May 2026 webinar set out the official DPP implementation timeline: DPP Registry operational July 2026, battery passport mandatory 18 February 2027, then ESPR delegated acts for iron & steel (Q4 2026), textiles/aluminium/tyres (2027), and DPP mandatory for packaging/iron & steel/construction (2028), ICT/tyres/aluminium/textiles/detergents (2029) and toys (2030). Three discrete legal changes to track: corrigendum 2026/90285 (10 Apr 2026) corrects Battery Reg Annex XIII point 1(q) marking reference from Article 13(3)+(4) to 13(4)+(5); the QR/unique-identifier standards move to EN 18219 + EN 18220 via delegated act this year (current standards stay valid as equivalent); and Omnibus IV adds Annex XIII point (t), printable instructions for stationary battery energy storage systems.

Impact

No schema change today. The corrigendum's marking reference (13(4)+(5)) and the EN 18219/18220 carrier-standard move are tracked against the battery template; we update field references when the delegated acts land. Timeline confirms our 18 Feb 2027 battery focus and dates the later category templates.

Links

30 April 2026 · TracePass · ESPR · GS1 Digital Link

Enum localisation across all templates (24 EU locales)

Schema-bumped

Machine-readable enum values across all 12 product-category templates now carry localised labels in 24 EU languages. The display layer resolves the consumer's locale to the right label; the underlying enum keys are unchanged so passports created before this change continue to validate.

Impact

No schema-key change. Label additions only. No migration required for in-flight passports.

15 April 2026 · TracePass · ESPR · Templates

Per-category templates v1 — jewellery, chemicals, furniture, tyres, electronics

Schema-bumped

Five new templates published (jewellery 52 fields, chemicals 96, furniture 80, tyres 95, electronics 166). Each is speculative-but-anchored against companion regulations: REACH + CLP for chemicals, Tyre Labelling 2020/740 for tyres, Ecodesign + EPREL for electronics, EN durability standards + FSC for furniture, RJC + OECD + Kimberley for jewellery.

Impact

Net new templates. Existing battery and textile templates unchanged. Schema-bump per template version.

Battery carbon-footprint methodology — implementing-act drafts in flight

Pending review

The Joint Research Centre and the European Commission continue to refine the carbon-footprint calculation rules and performance-class boundaries that implement Article 6 of Regulation (EU) 2023/1542. The final implementing act will lock the methodology used to declare values for electric-vehicle, light-means-of-transport (LMT), and rechargeable industrial batteries above 2 kWh.

Impact

Pending review. The battery template's CF fields are already in place; values declared against an older methodology stay valid until the customer republishes. We expect to bump the schema only if new fields are introduced — not for value-recalculation only.

ESPR (EU) 2024/1781 entered into force

Monitoring

The Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) entered into force, establishing the framework for ecodesign requirements across product categories. The regulation does not create per-category obligations directly — those will come through delegated acts on per-category timelines, which TracePass tracks separately.

Impact

Monitoring. Templates v1 followed in April 2026 — speculative-but-anchored coverage for the five categories most likely to receive early delegated acts.

Links

17 August 2023 · Battery Regulation · Framework

Battery Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 entered into force

Schema-bumped

The foundational regulation for the EU Battery Passport. Articles 6, 7, 11, 14, and 77 establish the core data points for industrial, electric-vehicle, light-means-of-transport, and SLI batteries. The Battery Passport itself becomes mandatory on 18 February 2027 under Article 77.

Impact

Battery template created in response. The article-by-article coverage is documented separately on the Battery Reg matrix page.

Links

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Reviewed by Malin Ivanov, Managing Director — on 2026-05-27