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Textiles: DPP rules, dates and guides

Textile passports: what is decided, what is not and what to do now

There is no textile passport duty yet, and no date by which one must exist. The rules that already reach clothing are fibre labelling and the ban on destroying unsold stock. The work worth doing now is the product data you will need either way. Read the full answer: Textile and Apparel Digital Product Passport Requirements

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01 · The timeline

Planned is not a deadline

Pick your size. Click a date for what it means.

In law Planned, can moveToday

  1. Traders making covered business-to-consumer environmental claims in the EU

    Environmental claims rules from 27 September 2026

  2. Member States and textile producers as implemented nationally

    Textile EPR dates and producer fees

  3. This is not a textile compliance deadline. Final fields, access, granularity and application timing remain to be set.

    See every DPP date and what it means

  4. Member States and textile producers as implemented nationally

    Textile EPR dates and producer fees

  5. Large enterprises, and medium enterprises from 19 Jul 2030, placing apparel, clothing accessories and footwear within the covered product scope. Micro and small enterprises are exempt

    Reaches: Medium enterprises

    The unsold textiles destruction ban

Every date here is a row in the obligations dataset, as JSON and CSV.

02 · The decisions

Six calls a textile business has to make

1 · TimingDo we have to do anything now?Not for the passport. The duty is conditional on a delegated act, and none exists for textiles. The destruction ban and fibre labelling already apply.What to do now, and what to refuse 2 · DataWhat will a textile passport need?Not fixed until the act. Some of it is already governed now: fibre names, Candidate List notification and producer registration in some markets.The 22-field guide 3 · LevelModel, batch or item?The product act decides, and none of the three is a variant level. One style of 1,200 garments can mean one passport or 1,200.Model, batch or item 4 · StartWhat can we build from what we already have?More than most expect. In our controlled textile test the open questions averaged 5.1 per product once existing data was resolved.Build from a handful of inputs 5 · CostWhat will it cost?Published estimates price the first year. The recurring cost of answers that move is the line they leave out.What a programme costs 6 · GapsWhat do we say when we do not know?A stated blank is a governed answer. A guess is not.Publishing what you do not know

03 · Your route

Start from where you are

Brand with a PIM or ERP

You hold most facts. The job is ownership.

  1. 1Which system owns each fact
  2. 2Model, batch or item
  3. 3When integration matters

Small business

You hold more than you think.

  1. 1What your Shopify fields give you
  2. 2Facts you can verify yourself
  3. 3Product data without a PIM

Seller or importer

The platform or the buyer asks before the law does.

  1. 1Marketplace listing blocked
  2. 2Where a DPP appears on a product page
  3. 3What a retailer actually asks for

Supplier or maker

Your evidence is what the brand will need.

  1. 1What a tech pack can establish
  2. 2When a test contradicts a declaration
  3. 3Certifications machines can read
  4. 4Factory and country of origin

04 · Moving parts

What changed, and what is next

Changed

27 Sep 2026New rules on environmental claims apply20 Jul 2026EU DPP Registry operational19 Jul 2026Unsold apparel and footwear ban, large enterprises

Next

17 Jun 2027Textile EPR transposition deadlineQ4 2027Textile passport act, planned17 Apr 2028Textile EPR schemes in place

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