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# Resources

> Guides and explainers on EU Digital Product Passports, ESPR, and the Battery Regulation.

Articles on Digital Product Passport compliance from the TracePass team.

- [What Is a Digital Product Passport? (And What It Isn't)](https://www.tracepass.eu/resources/what-is-a-digital-product-passport.md): Plain-language definition of the EU Digital Product Passport — what it is, what it isn't, who must file one, and the timeline for the 12 covered categories.
- [Collecting DPP Data from Suppliers: The Bottleneck Nobody Talks About](https://www.tracepass.eu/resources/collecting-dpp-data-from-suppliers.md): 60% of a DPP project timeline is supplier data collection, not the regulation. The four process changes that shrink a 16-week effort to 2 weeks.
- [EU Battery Regulation 2023/1542: February 2027 Compliance Guide](https://www.tracepass.eu/resources/eu-battery-regulation-february-2027.md): Battery passports become mandatory in February 2027. What the regulation requires, which batteries are in scope, and what manufacturers need to prepare now.
- [DPP Software vs Compliance Consulting: What Actually Fills the Fields](https://www.tracepass.eu/resources/dpp-software-vs-consulting.md): A battery DPP is 94 fields; electronics, 166. What decides your cost and timeline is how they get filled — a consulting project, or an automated pipeline.
- [Textile Digital Product Passport: What Brands Must Prepare](https://www.tracepass.eu/resources/textile-digital-product-passport.md): Textiles are an ESPR priority for the EU Digital Product Passport. What a textile DPP will require, the honest timeline, and how to prepare now.
- [When Does My Product Need a DPP? ESPR Timeline by Group](https://www.tracepass.eu/resources/when-does-my-product-need-a-dpp.md): Batteries need a DPP by 18 Feb 2027. Other ESPR groups await delegated acts. Find your group, your date, and the honest caveats.
- [Second-Life Batteries: Do They Need a New DPP?](https://www.tracepass.eu/resources/second-life-battery-passport.md): Repurposing an EV battery for storage is a new placing on the market — it generally needs a new battery passport linked to the original.
- [A Bulgarian jeweller puts Digital Product Passports on its pieces](https://www.tracepass.eu/resources/vantony-jewellery-dpp-pilot.md): How Vantony, a Bulgarian fine-jewellery brand, became a TracePass design partner — putting provenance and materials data on every piece, before any mandate.
- [Why a Tier-1 Supplier Declaration Isn't Enough for a DPP](https://www.tracepass.eu/resources/why-supplier-declarations-fail-dpp.md): A tier-1 supplier declaration tells you what your direct supplier asserts — not what's verifiable or upstream. Why DPP data needs evidence and chain depth.
- [Where Do You Fill In a Digital Product Passport?](https://www.tracepass.eu/resources/dove-si-compila-il-dpp.md): No EU portal accepts DPP data. You build a DPP on a compliant platform: pick a template, fill the fields, and publish — generating a GS1 Digital Link QR code.
- [Do Lamps Need a Digital Product Passport?](https://www.tracepass.eu/resources/brauchen-lampen-einen-dpp.md): Lamps have no binding DPP deadline. ESPR sets no requirements directly — obligations need a delegated act, none adopted for lamps or electronics yet.
- [Battery Regulation: Three Distinct Documentation Obligations](https://www.tracepass.eu/resources/battery-regulation-accompanying-documentation.md): Art. 13 labelling, Annex VIII technical docs, and the Art. 77 passport are three distinct obligations under EU Reg 2023/1542, with staggered dates.