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

Scope. C1 tyres for passenger cars, C2 for light commercial vehicles and C3 for heavy-duty vehicles under existing tyre information law, which is not a future passport scope.

What Digital Product Passport rules apply to tyres?

Tyres do not currently have an adopted product-specific Digital Product Passport requirement under the ESPR. The public status is in official development, and the Commission's implementation timeline puts sector-specific requirements for textiles, aluminium and tyres at Q3 to Q4 2027 as the adoption of ESPR delegated acts. The same material labels that timeline indicative.

Two sentences from the Commission's own FAQ do the work here. Inclusion of a product group in the Working Plan does not itself mean a DPP is already mandatory. And the product-specific process still determines the appropriate ecodesign requirements, whether the DPP is the right information tool and the final legally binding compliance date. Economic operators get a transition period of at least 18 months after adoption.

So the correct present-day sentence is not that tyres need passports from 2027. It is that the Commission currently plans the tyre delegated act for that window.

What is worth doing now is the reuse question. Tyres already generate label and EPREL data. Some of it is a good candidate for a future passport, and some of it is model-level data that should not be treated as item-level truth.

2 pages here: the status in full, and which tyre label and EPREL data you can reuse.

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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