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Aluminium: what applies, what a passport must carry and when

Scope. Not drawn yet. The Working Plan prioritises aluminium as an intermediate-product category, which is not the same as every product containing aluminium.

What Digital Product Passport rules apply to aluminium?

Aluminium does not have a final product-specific EU Digital Product Passport field list today. The Commission's DPP roadmap puts the aluminium ESPR delegated act at Q3 to Q4 2027, indicative: that is planned adoption rather than application, and the same material says economic operators get a transition period of at least 18 months after an ESPR delegated act is adopted.

Aluminium is prioritised rather than pending. The first ESPR Working Plan names it as one of two priority intermediate products, on climate change, energy, air, water, biodiversity, soil pollution and resource resilience. Being prioritised is not being required, and the estate marks the rest not established: the application date, the field list, whether carbon, recycled content, facility information or origin become fields at all, the identifier implementation, the granularity and the access rights.

What is safe to prepare is the identity layer, because it holds regardless. Alloy, temper and batch are what actually identify a piece of aluminium, and a product record that cannot express them cannot carry any field list that arrives.

3 pages here, including the carbon exchange question, where PACT versioning and verification already shape how a footprint travels between companies.

Dates, and what kind of date each one is

  • Q3–Q4 2027 Indicative Indicative delegated-act date. Commission roadmap / Working Plan track

Adopted means a duty exists in law from that date. Planned means an institution has committed to a measure. Indicative means an official planning date that can move. Every row is in the obligations dataset.

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