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 "url": "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/digital-product-passport/textiles",
 "title": "Textile Digital Product Passport Requirements",
 "description": "What is actually known about EU textile Digital Product Passport requirements, what Q4 2027 means, which data are still developing and what to prepare now.",
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 "category": "textiles",
 "direct_answer": "Textiles and apparel do **not yet have an adopted product-specific EU Digital Product Passport requirement under the [Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation](https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/digital-product-passport) (ESPR)**.",
 "last_verified": "2026-09-01",
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 "datePublished": "2026-09-01",
 "dateModified": "2026-09-01",
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  {
   "@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/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"
  }
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  {
   "url": "https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/single-market/digital-product-passport/textile-apparel_en",
   "name": "European Commission — Textile apparel and the Digital Product Passport. Current textile status and Q4 2027 planned delegated-act adoption."
  },
  {
   "url": "https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/single-market/digital-product-passport_en",
   "name": "European Commission — Digital Product Passport implementation timeline. Current cross-category roadmap, including Q3-Q4 2027 textiles/aluminium/tyres."
  },
  {
   "url": "https://susproc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/product-bureau/sites/default/files/2026-05/Textiles_DPP_20260513.pdf",
   "name": "JRC / Product Bureau — Study in support of the Digital Product Passport for textiles, May 2026. Official supporting study; candidate data, identifier, granularity and access analysis."
  },
  {
   "url": "https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/single-market/digital-product-passport/economic-operators_en",
   "name": "European Commission — DPP for Economic Operators. Transition statement following ESPR delegated acts."
  },
  {
   "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:52025DC0187",
   "name": "ESPR and Energy Labelling Working Plan 2025-2030, COM(2025) 187 final."
  },
  {
   "url": "https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/single-market/digital-product-passport/explore-our-faqs_en",
   "name": "European Commission — Digital Product Passport FAQs. Product-by-product evaluation and legally binding date distinction."
  },
  {
   "url": "https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/news/digital-product-passport-registry-now-live-2026-07-20_en",
   "name": "European Commission — The Digital Product Passport Registry is now live, 20 July 2026."
  },
  {
   "url": "https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/single-market/digital-product-passport/dpp-registry_en",
   "name": "European Commission — The DPP Registry. Registry scope and decentralised architecture."
  }
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  "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/glossary#access-rights",
  "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/glossary#data-carrier",
  "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/glossary#delegated-act",
  "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/glossary#digital-product-passport",
  "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/glossary#dpp-registry",
  "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/glossary#economic-operator",
  "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/glossary#espr",
  "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/glossary#granularity",
  "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/glossary#gs1-digital-link",
  "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/glossary#gtin",
  "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/glossary#legitimate-interest",
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 "decisions": [
  {
   "state": "not required yet",
   "point": "A textile passport field list",
   "because": "Textiles have no adopted product-specific requirement, and Q4 2027 is an indicative adoption date rather than a compliance deadline."
  },
  {
   "state": "reuse existing record",
   "point": "Fibre composition",
   "because": "Fibre-composition labelling is already required under Regulation (EU) No 1007/2011."
  }
 ],
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