Labs

What becomes possible once a product can be identified and read?

Labs is the part of the estate that is not about compliance. A passport makes a product addressable, and once software can identify a specific item the question shifts from what the law requires to what is now possible.

Three of those are open here. Whether presence or condition can become a business event with nobody scanning anything, which turns on sensing and cost rather than on identity. What an identity plus an event history can flag as suspicious, which is the diversion and counterfeit case and depends on whether the history is complete enough to make an absence mean something. And when proximity becomes permission, where the position is flat: proximity is evidence, not permission.

None of this is a regulatory requirement and none of it is claimed as one. The EU framework fixes what a passport must carry for a product group. Nothing in it asks a product to report its condition, trigger a workflow or authorise a transaction.

These pages test whether the identity a regulation forces you to create has a use you would have paid for anyway, and they say plainly which parts are not established. Read them after the regulation pages, not instead of them.