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What product information the rules require before a business can sell, claim or publish.
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- What Product Rules Apply to a Clothing Brand NowNo product passport obligation reaches a clothing brand yet. One duty under the same framework has been in application since July…
- What Environmental Claims Can You Still Make in the EU from 27 September 2026?What EU businesses can still claim, what becomes prohibited or constrained, and what evidence and product data to prepare for 27…
- What Product Information Must an EU Online Listing Show Under the GPSR?The manufacturer, responsible-person, product-ID and safety information an EU online offer must show under GPSR Article 19…
- Who Needs a Digital Product Passport?In the general case the manufacturer carries it, and in the textile case nobody carries it yet, because the act that would create…
- EU DPP Registry: Where Passport Data Actually LivesThe registry the Commission opened in July holds identifiers, registration data and a pointer to a backup.
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Digital Product Passports and EU Customs: What Is Live
The law contains two customs duties and they switched on at different times.
Sources as at 28 August 2026
Do Retailers Require a Digital Product Passport?
Four supplier manuals were read directly for this page, from Zalando, a British department store group, a French department store…
Sources as at 30 August 2026
DPP Registration and Commodity Code Changes
A commodity code is not a fact about your product. It is a position in a classification that a different Commission regulation…
Sources as at 28 August 2026
DPP Transfer: Mergers, Brand Sales and Insolvency
A registered passport can move to another verified operator that takes over the obligations attached to it, from a date the parties…
Sources as at 28 August 2026
EPR Registration and Responsible Person
Almost everything blocking a listing today is a fact about the business rather than a fact about the garment. Who made it.
Sources as at 30 August 2026
ESPR Delegated Acts: What Is Inside One
The framework you keep being told about sets no ecodesign requirements for any product, whatever else it asks of you.
Sources as at 28 August 2026
EU DPP Registry: Where Passport Data Actually Lives
The registry the Commission opened in July holds identifiers, registration data and a pointer to a backup.
Sources as at 28 August 2026
GPSR and Product Passports: What Carries Across
Some of it, and less than you would hope. What you assembled about your company carries across almost completely.
Sources as at 30 August 2026
Is a Beauty Device a Cosmetic Product, Electronic Product or Medical Device?
“Beauty device” is a marketing category, not a single EU regulatory category.
Last verified 2 September 2026
Is a Smartwatch Jewellery, Electronics or Another DPP Category?
A smartwatch can be a “watch” for one legal or commercial purpose and still be electronic, radio and battery-containing equipment…
Last verified 2 September 2026
Second-Hand Garments and the Product Passport
Existing resale stock will not acquire a passport, and the reason is structural rather than an exemption written for the…
Sources as at 28 August 2026
UK Product Rules and the EU Passport Compared
The United Kingdom has a framework statute for product rules and there is no product passport in it.
Sources as at 28 August 2026
What an Online Listing Has to Carry by Law
A refused listing has two possible causes and they are fixed in different places.
Sources as at 28 August 2026
What Environmental Claims Can You Still Make in the EU from 27 September 2026?
What EU businesses can still claim, what becomes prohibited or constrained, and what evidence and product data to prepare for 27…
Last verified 1 September 2026
What Is a Textile Digital Product Passport?
A structured record of what a product is and what is known about it, reachable from the product itself through a code on the label.
Sources as at 28 August 2026
What Product Information Must an EU Online Listing Show Under the GPSR?
The manufacturer, responsible-person, product-ID and safety information an EU online offer must show under GPSR Article 19…
Last verified 1 September 2026
What Product Rules Apply to a Clothing Brand Now
No product passport obligation reaches a clothing brand yet. One duty under the same framework has been in application since July…
Sources as at 28 August 2026
Who Can Register a Digital Product Passport
Nothing obliges a textile business to register anything in the EU passport registry today.
Sources as at 28 August 2026
Who Needs a Digital Product Passport?
In the general case the manufacturer carries it, and in the textile case nobody carries it yet, because the act that would create…
Sources as at 28 August 2026