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 "url": "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/digital-product-passport/footwear",
 "title": "Does Footwear Need a DPP? Why Shoes Do Not Follow Every Textile Rule",
 "description": "Footwear is a separate category from textiles under ESPR. Its Digital Product Passport (DPP) status, labelling, unsold-goods rules, EPR and the 2027 study.",
 "territory": "dpp",
 "category": "footwear",
 "direct_answer": "Footwear is a separate product category from Textiles under the EU Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR). No final Footwear DPP schema or application date is established as at 25 September 2026, but footwear already sits inside several current and adopted EU rules that matter now.",
 "last_verified": "2026-09-25",
 "verified_label": "Last verified",
 "datePublished": "2026-09-03",
 "dateModified": "2026-09-25",
 "legislation": [
  {
   "@id": "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/digital-product-passport#legislation-32024r1781",
   "celex": "32024R1781",
   "name": "Regulation (EU) 2024/1781, ESPR",
   "legislationDate": "2024-06-13"
  },
  {
   "@id": "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/digital-product-passport/batteries#legislation-32023r1542",
   "celex": "32023R1542",
   "name": "Regulation (EU) 2023/1542, Battery passport Articles 77-78",
   "legislationDate": "2023-07-12"
  },
  {
   "@id": "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/digital-product-passport/detergents/dpp-vs-sds#legislation-32006r1907",
   "celex": "32006R1907",
   "name": "Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006, REACH. Particularly Annex XVII restrictions relevant to articles, including defined jewellery uses.",
   "legislationDate": "2006-12-18"
  },
  {
   "@id": "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/digital-product-passport/footwear#legislation-31994l0011",
   "celex": "31994L0011",
   "name": "Directive 94/11/EC on footwear material labelling - material information for upper, lining/sock and outersole.",
   "legislationDate": "1994-03-23"
  },
  {
   "@id": "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/regulation/connected-toy-regulatory-classification#legislation-32022r0030",
   "celex": "32022R0030",
   "name": "Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/30, consolidated and Regulation (EU) 2023/2444 - cybersecurity-related RED requirements and 1 August 2025 application date.",
   "legislationDate": "2021-10-29"
  },
  {
   "@id": "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/regulation/connected-toy-regulatory-classification#legislation-32024r2847",
   "celex": "32024R2847",
   "name": "Regulation (EU) 2024/2847 - Cyber Resilience Act - staged application dates and horizontal cyber framework.",
   "legislationDate": "2024-10-23"
  },
  {
   "@id": "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/regulation/destroying-unsold-stock#legislation-32026r0002",
   "celex": "32026R0002",
   "name": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/2",
   "legislationDate": "2026-02-09"
  },
  {
   "@id": "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/regulation/smart-clothing-connected-textiles#legislation-32011r1007",
   "celex": "32011R1007",
   "name": "Regulation (EU) No 1007/2011 on textile fibre names and labelling - current textile-product information framework where its scope is met.",
   "legislationDate": "2011-09-27"
  },
  {
   "@id": "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/regulation/smartwatch-regulatory-classification#legislation-32014l0053",
   "celex": "32014L0053",
   "name": "Directive 2014/53/EU - Radio Equipment Directive.",
   "legislationDate": "2014-04-16"
  },
  {
   "@id": "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/regulation/textile-epr#legislation-32025l1892",
   "celex": "32025L1892",
   "name": "Directive (EU) 2025/1892",
   "legislationDate": "2025-09-10"
  }
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  {
   "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:52025DC0187",
   "name": "COM(2025) 187, ESPR and Energy Labelling Working Plan 2025–2030 - separates Footwear from Textiles/apparel and sets the end-2027 Footwear study milestone."
  },
  {
   "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2026/296/oj",
   "name": "Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2026/296 - derogations associated with the unsold apparel/footwear destruction prohibition."
  },
  {
   "url": "https://susproc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/product-bureau/fi/product-groups",
   "name": "JRC Product Bureau product groups and JRC Footwear project page - public status check at the accepted cutoff."
  },
  {
   "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dec/2016/1349/2026-01-06/eng",
   "name": "EU Ecolabel footwear criteria and Decision (EU) 2026/66 - voluntary criteria and current validity."
  },
  {
   "url": "https://environment.ec.europa.eu/news/new-eu-rules-measuring-environmental-impact-clothes-and-shoes-2025-06-25_en",
   "name": "Commission Apparel & Footwear PEFCR and Product Environmental Footprint method - official environmental-footprint methods."
  }
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  "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/glossary#delegated-act",
  "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/glossary#digital-product-passport",
  "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/glossary#epr",
  "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/glossary#espr",
  "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/glossary#eudr",
  "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/glossary#granularity",
  "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/glossary#implementing-act",
  "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/glossary#jrc",
  "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/glossary#mdr",
  "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/glossary#reach"
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   "state": "not required yet",
   "point": "A footwear passport",
   "because": "No footwear-specific ESPR delegated act requiring a DPP has been adopted as at 3 September 2026."
  }
 ],
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