ESPR: Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (EU) 2024/1781
In force- Scope
- Framework for nearly every physical product placed on the EU market, regardless of company size or country of establishment.
- Real status
- In force since 18 July 2024. Framework regulation: it creates the Digital Product Passport but activates it product group by product group.
- Deadline
- No single switch-on date: each product group follows its own delegated act, typically with a transition period of around 18 months.
- What it implies
- The DPP becomes a condition for placing covered products on the EU market: a passport reachable through a QR code, NFC tag or RFID, free and easy access for the categories of actors the regulation names, among them customers, professional repairers, refurbishers, recyclers and market surveillance authorities, a list left open by a final catch-all for other relevant actors (Article 11, point b), and interoperable, machine-readable data built on open standards such as GS1 Digital Link and JSON-LD. The regulation sets no access tier of its own: it defers the split of rights to each product group's delegated act (Articles 9(2)(f) and 10(1)(g)), and none of those acts is published to date.