Digital Product Passport

Digital Product Passport for textiles

What is settled, what is not, and what you can audit yourself against today. There is no delegated act for textiles yet, so there is no textile passport field list — anything published as one is a forecast. What follows separates the two.

The EU regime

The instruments a textile passport sits inside, recorded from the official text with the confidence of every date stated. Only "confirmed" is settled; the others move, and have.

  • EU BPR (treated articles) Regulation (EU) No 528/2012
    • 2013-09-01confirmedA treated article may not be placed on the market unless every active substance in the biocidal products it was treated with, or incorporates, is on…
    • 2013-09-01confirmedWhere the manufacturer of a treated article makes a claim about its biocidal properties, or where the conditions attached to approval of the active substance require…
    • 2013-09-01confirmedRegardless of whether the Article 58(3) labelling duty is triggered, the person responsible for placing a treated article on the market must label it with any…
    • 2013-09-01confirmedA supplier of a treated article must, on request from a consumer, provide information on the biocidal treatment of that article within 45 days and free…
    • 2013-09-01confirmedThe labelling must be clearly visible, easily legible and appropriately durable. Where the size or function of the treated article requires it, the labelling must instead…
  • EU PFHxA restriction Commission Regulation (EU) 2024/2462
    • 2026-10-10scheduledFrom 10 October 2026, textiles, leather, furs and hides in clothing and related accessories for the general public, footwear for the general public, and mixtures for…
    • 2027-10-10scheduledFrom 10 October 2027, the same limits apply to textiles, leather, furs and hides for the general public other than clothing and related accessories, such as…
  • Empowering Consumers Directive Directive (EU) 2024/825
    • 2026-09-27confirmedDisplaying a sustainability label that is not based on a certification scheme, or not established by public authorities, is prohibited.
    • 2026-09-27confirmedMaking a generic environmental claim for which the trader cannot demonstrate recognised excellent environmental performance relevant to the claim is prohibited.
    • 2026-09-27confirmedMaking an environmental claim about the entire product, or about the trader's entire business, when it concerns only a certain aspect of the product or a…
    • 2026-09-27confirmedClaiming, based on the offsetting of greenhouse gas emissions, that a product has a neutral, reduced or positive impact on the environment in terms of greenhouse…
    • 2026-09-27confirmedPresenting requirements imposed by law on all products within the relevant product category on the Union market as a distinctive feature of the trader's offer is…
  • ESPR Regulation (EU) 2024/1781
    • 2026-07-19confirmedFrom 19 July 2026 the destruction of unsold consumer products listed in Annex VII is prohibited. The prohibition does not apply to micro and small enterprises,…
    • 2026-07-19confirmedAn economic operator not caught by the prohibition must not destroy unsold consumer products supplied to it for the purpose of circumventing that prohibition.
    • no date setconfirmedEconomic operators that discard unsold consumer products, directly or on their behalf, must disclose annually: the number and weight discarded per year by product type or…
    • no date setconfirmedWhere information requirements so provide, a product may only be placed on the market or put into service if a digital product passport is available in…
    • no date setconfirmedThe delegated acts establishing a digital product passport for a product group must specify, as appropriate: the data to be included pursuant to Annex III; the…
    • 2030-07-19confirmedFrom 19 July 2030 the prohibition on destroying unsold consumer products listed in Annex VII extends to medium-sized enterprises. Until that date it binds neither them…
    • 2027-Q4indicativeThe Commission plans to adopt the ESPR delegated act setting ecodesign and digital product passport requirements for textiles in the fourth quarter of 2027. Under Article…
  • EU Forced Labour Regulation Regulation (EU) 2024/3015
    • 2027-12-14scheduledProhibition on placing or making available on the Union market, and on exporting from it, products made with forced labour at any stage of production.
  • EUDR Regulation (EU) 2023/1115, as amended by Regulation (EU) 2024/3234
    • 2025-12-30confirmedRelevant commodities and relevant products may not be placed or made available on the market, or exported, unless all three conditions are met: they are deforestation-free;…
    • 2025-12-30confirmedOperators must exercise due diligence in accordance with Article 8 before placing relevant products on the market or exporting them, in order to prove compliance with…
    • 2025-12-30confirmedArticles 3 to 13, 16 to 24, and 26, 31 and 32 apply from 30 December 2025. For operators that were established as micro-undertakings or small…
  • GPSR Regulation (EU) 2023/988
    • 2024-12-13confirmedConsumer products not covered by sector-specific safety law must still be safe, carry traceability information, and have a responsible economic operator established in the Union.
  • Green Claims Directive COM(2023) 166 final
    • no date setproposedSubstantiation and independent verification of explicit environmental claims before they are made.
  • POPs Regulation Regulation (EU) 2019/1021
    • no date setconfirmedSubstances listed in Annex I may not be manufactured, placed on the market or used, including as constituents of articles, above the concentration limits that Annex…
  • PPE Regulation Regulation (EU) 2016/425
    • 2018-04-21confirmedProtective clothing must meet the essential health and safety requirements, carry CE marking, and — for Category II and III — pass a conformity assessment involving…
  • REACH Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006
    • no date setconfirmedA substance on its own, in a mixture or in an article for which Annex XVII contains a restriction may not be manufactured, placed on the…
    • no date setconfirmedAny supplier of an article containing a candidate-list substance above 0,1 % weight by weight must provide the RECIPIENT of the article with sufficient information, available…
    • no date setconfirmedOn request by a consumer, any supplier of an article containing a candidate-list substance above 0,1 % weight by weight must provide that consumer with sufficient…
  • Textile Labelling Regulation Regulation (EU) No 1007/2011
    • no date setconfirmedTextile products may only be made available on the market where they are labelled, marked or accompanied by commercial documents in compliance with this Regulation.
    • no date setconfirmedOnly the textile fibre names listed in Annex I may be used to describe fibre compositions on labels and markings. Those names are reserved to fibres…
    • no date setconfirmedOnly textile products composed exclusively of the same fibre may be labelled "100 %", "pure" or "all", and those or similar terms may not be used…
    • no date setconfirmedA textile product must be labelled or marked with the name and percentage by weight of all constituent fibres, in descending order. By derogation, a fibre…
    • no date setconfirmedThe presence of non-textile parts of animal origin in a textile product must be indicated using the phrase "Contains non-textile parts of animal origin" on the…
    • no date setconfirmedTextile products must be labelled or marked to indicate their fibre composition whenever they are made available on the market, and that labelling or marking must…
    • no date setconfirmedThe manufacturer placing a textile product on the market must ensure the label or marking is supplied and that the information on it is accurate; where…
  • WFD Directive 2008/98/EC, as amended
    • 2025-01-01confirmedMember states to set up separate collection of textile waste.

The rest of the register — other markets, and textile law beyond the passport

Tools

Free, and none of them produces a compliance position — a passport is not satisfied by a calculator.

  • DPP Annex III Readiness CheckScores how many of the twelve elements in Annex III of the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation you can already produce a document for. Annex III is the menu a…
  • Garment Carbon Passport EstimatorEstimates cradle-to-gate carbon for one finished garment across five stages - fibre, spinning, fabric formation, wet processing and garment make - and returns a range rather than a single figure,…
  • Textile Mill Carbon Footprint CalculatorEstimates mill carbon emissions from grid electricity and on-site boiler fuel, splitting Scope 1 and Scope 2, and expresses the result per kilogram of fabric and per operating year.
  • Total CO₂e Footprint Calculator (Scope 1, 2 & 3)Builds a mill's total equivalent carbon footprint by adding Scope 3 value-chain emissions — purchased fibre, chemicals, freight and waste — to its Scope 1 and 2 totals, with emission…
  • Water Footprint per Kilogram of Dyed FabricCalculates total and freshwater consumption per kilogram of dyed fabric, the recycling rate achieved, and the freshwater cost carried by each kilogram of production.
  • GRS Recycled Content through Differential Process LossRuns a recycled and virgin blend through separate process losses, compares the content claimed on input with the content the output actually carries, and solves the recycled input a target…

Related reading

Nothing here is about the passport itself — none has been written yet, and the honest thing is to say so rather than fill the section. These cover what a passport carries and what it is meant to produce.

For machines

A legal timetable moves and a training cutoff does not, so this register is published for assistants to query rather than recall.

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