What is the textile Digital Product Passport?
The Digital Product Passport (DPP) is already established in EU law through the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR). It is not yet a single mandatory textile template. The product-specific delegated act for textiles/apparel will determine the final dataset, data carrier, product granularity, access rights and transition period.
The Commission’s 2025–2030 working plan gives 2027 as the indicative year for adoption of the textiles/apparel ecodesign measure. That is an adoption target, not a universal “all garments need a DPP on 1 January 2027” deadline.
What does the ESPR already require?
- A DPP must be connected through a data carrier to a persistent unique product identifier.
- The carrier must be physically present on the product, packaging or accompanying documentation, as the delegated act specifies.
- DPP data must use open standards and an interoperable, machine-readable, searchable and transferable format without vendor lock-in.
- The passport must be available to customers before they are bound by a sale, including distance selling.
- The economic operator placing the product on the market remains responsible for providing the required information.
What is still undecided for textiles?
The textile delegated act must still define which fields are mandatory, whether the passport sits at model, batch or item level, who can see or update each field, where the carrier appears and when the obligations apply. Footwear is being studied separately under the working plan.
How should textile companies prepare?
- Create one canonical product record for every style/SKU.
- Structure fibre composition, country and facility information rather than storing them only in PDFs.
- Maintain evidence and provenance for claims, certificates and supplier declarations.
- Choose persistent identifiers that can resolve beyond a seasonal ecommerce URL.
- Separate public, restricted and authority-only data.
- Design the QR and consumer experience after the identity and data model are stable.