EU DPP Dates by Category: Every Date, and What Kind of Date It Is
Which product categories have a Digital Product Passport date, what kind of date each one is, and which have none. Every row names the page it comes from.
Direct answer
Three product categories have a date on which a passport duty itself starts: batteries on 18 February 2027, detergents on 23 September 2029 and toys on 1 August 2030. Every other date on this page is an entry into force, an application date for something other than a passport, a milestone, or an indicative date that can move.
The estate states 32 dated rows in all. Eighteen are adopted, three planned, ten indicative and one proposed. Nine of the eleven product categories carry at least one date of their own; food supplements and ICT and electronics carry none, and that is the answer for them rather than a gap.
Adopted means a duty exists in law from that date. Planned means an institution has committed to a measure or a milestone. Indicative means an official planning date that can move. Proposed means a measure that has been proposed and not adopted. Every row below is stated on the DPP timeline or the EU Product Regulation Action Radar before it appears here, and the whole set is on the data page as JSON and CSV.
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Batteries
Scope. Light means of transport batteries, industrial batteries above 2 kWh and electric-vehicle batteries placed on the EU market or put into service.
- 17 August 2023. Adopted. Entry into force. Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 entered into force.
- 18 August 2026. Adopted. Legal implementation deadline. Statutory date in Article 77(9) for detailed legitimate-interest access rules.
- Q4 2026. Indicative implementing-act date. Commission roadmap indicates Battery access-rights implementing act.
- 18 February 2027. Adopted. DPP application date. Battery Passport becomes mandatory for covered LMT, EV and industrial batteries above 2 kWh.
Detergents
Scope. Detergents and end-user surfactants placed on the Union market, rather than every surfactant upstream of them.
- 22 March 2026. Adopted. Entry into force. Regulation (EU) 2026/405 entered into force.
- 23 September 2029. Adopted. Application date. Regulation (EU) 2026/405 generally applies.
Toys
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.
- 1 August 2030. Adopted. Application date. Regulation (EU) 2025/2509 applies.
Iron and steel
Scope. Not drawn yet. The Working Plan treats iron and steel as an intermediate-product priority rather than as one final consumer-product category.
Construction products
Scope. Products within the scope the Construction Products Regulation sets in Article 2, less those exempt under Article 14.
- 8 January 2026. Adopted. Application. Regulation (EU) 2024/3110 generally began to apply.
- Q2 2027. Indicative delegated-act date. Commission roadmap indicates construction DPP delegated act.
Aluminium
Scope. Not drawn yet. The Working Plan prioritises aluminium as an intermediate-product category, which is not the same as every product containing aluminium.
- Q3–Q4 2027. Indicative delegated-act date. Commission roadmap / Working Plan track.
Tyres
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.
- Q3–Q4 2027. Indicative delegated-act date. Commission roadmap / Working Plan track.
Textiles
Scope. Not drawn yet. Textiles and apparel are a priority group and the adopted measure will set the legal product scope.
Food supplements
Scope. Ordinary food supplements marketed as food, which sit outside the ESPR. A product presented or functioning as a medicinal product is a different classification question.
No dated obligation is stated for this category. That is not the same as none existing, and it is not a reason to wait.
Footwear
Scope. Footwear, which the Working Plan treats as a separate product category from textiles and apparel.
- End 2027. Planned. Study milestone. Working Plan indicates study milestone.
ICT and electronics
Scope. No single group. ICT and electronics reach the Working Plan through horizontal repairability work and horizontal recycled-content and recyclability work for electrical and electronic equipment.
No dated obligation is stated for this category. That is not the same as none existing, and it is not a reason to wait.
Dates that belong to no single category
These 17 rows are the framework, the registry, the standards and the horizontal duties. They reach every category, which is why none of them appears above.
- 18 July 2024. Adopted. Entry into force. Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 entered into force.
- 24 Nov 2025. Planned. Corrected implementing-act deadline, passed. Article 28 creates future label/carrier duties; the corrected deadline for the implementing act has passed, but the application clock runs from that act's entry into force.
- 15 July 2026. Adopted. Standards milestone. Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2026/1736 referenced six harmonised DPP standards.
- 19 Jul 2026. Adopted. Application. Destruction is prohibited for the covered scope; recycling counts as destruction under the ESPR definition.
- 20 July 2026. Adopted. Registry milestone. EU DPP Registry became operational.
- 31 Jul 2026. Adopted. Transposition and application of national measures. EU deadline passed; product scope is Annex II based and national implementation varies.
- 12 Aug 2026. Adopted. General application. PPWR now applies; Article 12 creates future harmonised labels/digital-carrier rules and a single-carrier rule where product law also uses a carrier.
- September 2026. Indicative implementation milestone. Commission roadmap indicates decision on the remaining two DPP standards.
- 3 Sep 2026. Proposed. Status check. EUR-Lex procedure 2023/0085/COD remains marked ongoing.
- 27 Sep 2026. Adopted. National measures apply. Binding consumer-law changes move into application through national law.
- 30 Dec 2026. Adopted. Main application. Due diligence, geolocation and evidence must be ready for in-scope products.
- Q2–Q3 2027. Indicative horizontal implementation. Commission roadmap indicates service-provider delegated action.
- 17 Jun 2027. Adopted. Transposition. EU framework now fixes national producer registers, PROs and core producer-cost principles.
- 30 Jun 2027. Adopted. Due diligence, geolocation and evidence must be ready for in-scope products.
- 2028. Indicative delegated-act year. Working Plan track.
- 17 Apr 2028. Adopted. Schemes established. EU framework now fixes national producer registers, PROs and core producer-cost principles.
- 2029. Indicative delegated-act year. Working Plan track.
What this page will not do
It will not add the framework's minimum transition period to an indicative adoption date and publish the answer as a deadline. The minimum runs from entry into force, an act nobody has adopted has no entry into force, and the provision that sets the minimum allows less than it in duly justified cases.
It will not carry a date the estate does not state on a page of its own. A category with nothing dated says so.
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Primary sources
- EU Digital Product Passport timeline
- EU Product Regulation Action Radar
- The obligations dataset, as JSON and CSV
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