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Iron and steel: what applies, what a passport must carry and when

Scope. Not drawn yet. The Working Plan treats iron and steel as an intermediate-product priority rather than as one final consumer-product category.

What Digital Product Passport rules apply to iron and steel?

Iron and steel products do not have a final, generally applicable EU Digital Product Passport requirement today. The Commission plans an ESPR delegated act in Q4 2026, and that date is indicative: it is the planned adoption of the measure, not a compliance deadline.

What that leaves is a list the estate marks not established: the final product scope, the field list, the identifiers, the data carrier, the granularity and the access rights. The horizontal ESPR Registry architecture is established. The steel-specific registration implementation depends on the adopted measure, so building to a guessed field list now is building twice.

Two things are worth doing anyway, because they are true whatever the act says. Origin is one: country of origin and country of melt and pour are different facts with different evidence behind them, and steel buyers already ask for both. Evidence is the other: a mill test certificate proves some things about a heat and not others, and knowing which is which is work that does not get redone.

4 pages here, including the carbon question, where CBAM reporting and a future passport want overlapping but not identical data.

Dates, and what kind of date each one is

  • Q4 2026 Indicative Indicative delegated-act date. Commission plans ESPR delegated act

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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