The DPP is a digital identity card for each product, designed to simplify access to specific information on three themes in particular: sustainability, circularity and legal conformity.
It will be associated with a European register of passports containing at least one identifier enabling a link to be made with each product, notably to facilitate checks.
And it represents a certain number of requirements in terms of information to be provided, particularly data on product eco-design, in addition to the physical eco-design requirements.
“There’s a very important point to bear in mind when thinking about the Ecodesign Regulation and this passport,” emphasized Gaëlle Saint-Jalmes, “which is that the aim is to bar access to the European market to products that don’t meet ecodesign requirements. The passport is a means of providing transparency on the ecodesign criteria that must necessarily be met, but it’s also a condition for being able to put products on the market!”

Which products?

The scope of this regulation is very broad, since it applies to all physical goods placed on the market or in service (except for food, medicines, living organisms, products of human origin, plant and animal reproductive products and certain vehicles).
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