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Start by checking whether a product rule applies to your product at all. For a lot of small catalogues the honest answer today is the labelling, substance and safety rules that already applied, not a passport.

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01 · The timeline

Planned is not a deadline

Set to micro and small. What does not reach you steps back.

In law Planned, can moveToday

  1. Traders making covered business-to-consumer environmental claims in the EU

    Environmental claims rules from 27 September 2026

  2. Operators and traders dealing in relevant commodities and relevant products within Annex I, subject to the Regulation's role and timing rules

    Reaches: Large and medium enterprises

    Check whether your product is in EUDR scope

  3. A legally fixed passport date for the covered battery categories.

    See every DPP date and what it means

  4. Operators and traders dealing in relevant commodities and relevant products within Annex I, subject to the Regulation's role and timing rules

    Reaches: Micro and small enterprises

    Check whether your product is in EUDR scope

  5. This is not a textile compliance deadline. Final fields, access, granularity and application timing remain to be set.

    See every DPP date and what it means

  6. The adopted model-level detergent/surfactant DPP regime generally applies. See what the detergent passport must list.

    See every DPP date and what it means

  7. Large enterprises, and medium enterprises from 19 Jul 2030, placing apparel, clothing accessories and footwear within the covered product scope. Micro and small enterprises are exempt

    Reaches: Medium enterprises

    The unsold textiles destruction ban

  8. The adopted model-level Toy DPP regime applies.

    See every DPP date and what it means

Every date here is a row in the obligations dataset, as JSON and CSV.

02 · By size

Same rule, different start date by company size

When each rule reaches you, by company sizeSize decides the date. Pick the line for your business.
Unsold apparel and footwear ban
  • Large19 Jul 2026 Applies now
  • Medium19 Jul 2030 Ahead
  • Micro and smallExempt
EUDR applies to operators and traders
  • Large30 Dec 2026 Ahead
  • Medium30 Dec 2026 Ahead
  • Micro and small30 Jun 2027 Ahead

Source: the EU Product Regulation Action Radar. As at .

03 · The route

Eight steps, in order

  1. 01 · StartDoes a product rule reach you at all?
  2. 02 · ReadinessWhat to check first
  3. 03 · IdentifierYour first product identifier
  4. 04 · SelfFacts you can verify yourself
  5. 05 · GapsWhen information is missing
  6. 06 · WhereProduct data without a PIM
  7. 07 · ReadyThe data you already have
  8. 08 · NextWhat to do now, and what to refuse to do now

Comparing DPP providers? Use a representative-product test for choosing DPP software. Test the same ordinary product, meaningful variant differences, missing evidence, a conflict and a later change with every provider you shortlist.

04 · Something just happened

Start from the problem in front of you

A marketplace blocked a listingWhat the platform is asking for, and which law sits behind it.A buyer asked for product dataWhat a retailer actually asks for, and what it does not.Supplier evidence is missingAsk, solve it yourself or state the blank.You are entering a new marketGB, Northern Ireland and EU rules side by side.Product identity: where to startOne product. One stable identity. Many useful jobs.

05 · Straight answers

The questions small businesses ask most

Try it on one product

We tell you what applies and ask only what we cannot work out ourselves.

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Keep up when a date moves

Every change we record, with the date and the page it changed.

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