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 "url": "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/digital-product-passport/timeline",
 "title": "Digital Product Passport Timeline: What Applies When?",
 "description": "Adopted, in force, applying or only planned: every Digital Product Passport date by category, and which of those four kinds of date each one is.",
 "territory": "dpp",
 "category": "timeline",
 "direct_answer": "There is **no single EU Digital Product Passport deadline**. Different laws and product groups move on different tracks.",
 "last_verified": "2026-09-01",
 "verified_label": "Last verified",
 "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/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#legislation-32026r0405",
   "celex": "32026R0405",
   "name": "Regulation (EU) 2026/405 on detergents and surfactants",
   "legislationDate": "2026-02-11"
  },
  {
   "@id": "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/digital-product-passport/toys#legislation-32025r2509",
   "celex": "32025R2509",
   "name": "Regulation (EU) 2025/2509 on the safety of toys",
   "legislationDate": "2025-11-26"
  },
  {
   "@id": "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/evidence/how-product-evidence-travels-downstream#legislation-32026d1736",
   "celex": "32026D1736",
   "name": "Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2026/1736",
   "legislationDate": "2026-07-14"
  },
  {
   "@id": "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/regulation/how-to-register-a-dpp-eu-registry#legislation-32026r1778",
   "celex": "32026R1778",
   "name": "EUR-Lex, Regulation (EU) 2026/1778",
   "legislationDate": "2026-07-16"
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   "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:52025DC0187",
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  },
  {
   "url": "https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/single-market/digital-product-passport_en",
   "name": "European Commission, Digital Product Passport implementation timeline"
  },
  {
   "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"
  },
  {
   "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"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/single-market/digital-product-passport/iron-steel_en",
   "name": "European Commission, Digital Product Passport for Iron & Steel"
  },
  {
   "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"
  }
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  "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/glossary#cpr",
  "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#espr",
  "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/glossary#eudr",
  "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/glossary#implementing-act",
  "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/glossary#jrc",
  "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/glossary#legitimate-interest",
  "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/glossary#traceability"
 ],
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