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Toys: what applies, what a passport must carry and when
Scope. Products designed or intended for use in play by children under 14, subject to the exclusions in Annex I to the Toy Safety Regulation.
What Digital Product Passport rules apply to toys?
Toys have an adopted Digital Product Passport under Regulation (EU) 2025/2509, applying from 1 August 2030. That is the furthest out of the three adopted passport dates, and it is fixed rather than indicative.
One earlier date belongs to the same instrument. A group of implementation and governance provisions, including the Commission's DPP technical powers, apply from 1 January 2026. Those are obligations on the Commission and on the system, not a compliance date for a toy manufacturer.
Two content questions are already worth answering. Allergen information is specific to this regime, and what a toy passport must carry is not what a toy label carries today. Safety warnings are the other, and whether they are mandatory in the passport is a different question from whether they are mandatory on the product.
The third question is classification, and it is where most toy businesses get caught. A connected toy can be a toy, a radio product and a product with cyber obligations at the same time, and each instrument has its own scope test. Checking one and inferring the rest is how a product ends up failing a rule nobody read.
4 pages here.
Dates, and what kind of date each one is
- 1 August 2030 Adopted Application date. Regulation (EU) 2025/2509 applies
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.
Everything under Toys 4
- Toy Digital Product Passport RequirementsWhat the EU Toy Digital Product Passport contains, when it applies, how model-level identity works.
- What Allergen Information Must Be in a Toy Digital Product Passport?What allergen data must a Toy DPP contain under EU Regulation 2025/2509?
- Are Toy Safety Warnings Mandatory in the Toy Digital Product Passport?Not universally. Learn which toy safety warnings are optional DPP content, which warnings are mandatory elsewhere and what stays in…
- Connected Toys: Toy, Radio Product, Cyber Product or Several at Once?A connected toy can sit under toy safety, radio and cybersecurity rules at once.