ESPR & EU DPP delegated acts — dated status tracker

Art. 77(1) mandates the battery passport from 18 February 2027 for LMT, industrial batteries >2 kWh, and EV batteries. This is a Battery Regulation obligation, not ESPR — ESPR's own Art. 77 amends a different directive and is unrelated. Scope is battery-category-specific (not every portable battery).

The Detergents Regulation (EU) 2026/405 is adopted law: it mandates a product passport with a data carrier and a central-registry entry from 23 September 2029. This is a standalone obligation under the Detergents Regulation, not conditional on an ESPR delegated act.

The Toy Safety Regulation replaces Directive 2009/48/EC; Art. 19 mandates the toy DPP from 1 August 2030 when the Regulation applies. Notified-body articles (28–44, 49–55) apply from 1 January 2026. The passport replaces the EU Declaration of Conformity under the Directive — this is a standalone obligation, not an ESPR delegated act.

Art. 13(1) requires each vehicle placed on the market from 1 September 2032 to have a Digital Circularity Vehicle Passport, aligned and interoperable with the battery passport under Art. 77 of Regulation (EU) 2023/1542. Art. 2(3) excludes buses, lorries and trailers (M2, M3, N2, N3, O) and Art. 2(4) excludes L-category vehicles from this article, so the duty covers cars and vans (M1, N1). This is a standalone obligation under the End-of-Life Vehicles Regulation, not an ESPR delegated act.

ESPR is a framework regulation: it mandates no Digital Product Passport field itself. Every product-group obligation flows through a delegated act adopted under Art. 4 of ESPR. As of this check date, no such delegated act has been adopted for any product group under ESPR (iron & steel and textiles are in preparation — see those rows).

Establishes the technical and operational rules for the EU DPP registry under ESPR Art. 13(5). The registry is operational (opened July 2026) but enrol-only: no battery or other passport can complete a registration yet. The Commission has published the registration API specification and the battery data model submissions are validated against, but the registry's validation against that model is not yet switched on; the Commission has said registration will be available to economic operators from February 2027. The registry checks a back-up link only where the product's own law requires a back-up copy, which the Battery Regulation does not.

Cites six harmonised EN standards in support of ESPR (unique identifier, interoperability, data carrier, API, data exchange, data storage). These are ESPR-only — no DPP standard is cited under the Battery Regulation (2023/1542). Its one harmonised standard, EN 18060:2025 (Implementing Decision (EU) 2026/2048, Official Journal of 16 September 2026), covers EV battery performance and durability, not the battery passport. Two further standards (EN 18239 access rights, EN 18246 integrity) were published by CEN on 16 September 2026 but are not yet cited in the Official Journal.

The draft Implementing Regulation is on Have Your Say (initiative 16473) for feedback from 19 October to 16 November 2026. It names who may access the restricted battery passport data (Annex XIII points 2 and 4) — for example repairers, recyclers and the battery's purchaser — and limits how they may use and share it. It is not adopted: the statutory deadline of 18 August 2026 was missed, and the Commission aims for a committee vote in December 2026 or early January 2027. Q4 2026 is the portal's planned adoption quarter — indicative. The battery passport obligation (18 February 2027) does not depend on this act.

The draft Delegated Regulation was open for feedback on Have Your Say (initiative 14460) from 29 September to 27 October 2026; the window has closed. It would replace the ISO/IEC 15459 series in Battery Regulation Art. 77(3) with EN 18220:2026 for the QR code and EN 18219:2026 for the unique identifier, "or their equivalent", and it also sets minimum performance and durability values for industrial batteries. It is not adopted, and the portal's planned adoption quarter (Q3 2026) has passed. Until it is published in the OJ, Art. 77(3) keeps ISO/IEC 15459.

The draft Implementing Regulation (Have Your Say initiative 14456) was published on 15 December 2025; feedback closed on 26 January 2026. It sets harmonised specifications for the battery labels in Battery Regulation Art. 13(1)–(3) — the general information label, the capacity label and the "non-rechargeable" indication — and for the Art. 7 carbon footprint label. It is not adopted: the statutory deadline of 18 August 2025 was missed, and the portal's planned adoption quarter (Q2 2025) has passed. The Art. 13(1) label applies from 18 August 2026 or 18 months after this act enters into force, whichever is later. The QR code on batteries (Art. 13(6), from 18 February 2027) does not depend on this act.

Have Your Say initiative 17672 — the public consultation ran 20 May–12 August 2026. Q4 2026 is the Commission's planned adoption quarter per initiative 17672 and the ESPR Working Plan COM(2025) 187 — indicative until the act is published in the OJ. The ~2028 DPP-obligation estimate is from the Commission's DPP roadmap (DG GROW, May 2026), consistent with ESPR Art. 4's ≥18-month transition; the delegated act will fix the mandatory date.

Have Your Say initiative 16116 — still at the planning stage (announced 18 December 2025). Q1 2027 is the Commission's planned adoption quarter — indicative until adopted in the OJ. The ~2029 DPP-obligation estimate is from the Commission's DPP roadmap (DG GROW, May 2026), consistent with ESPR Art. 4's ≥18-month transition; the delegated act will fix the date.

No ESPR delegated act initiative for aluminium on Have Your Say yet. Working plan (COM(2025) 187): indicative adoption 2027; no passport date set. Obligation estimate (~2029) from the Commission's DPP roadmap (DG GROW, May 2026), indicative per ESPR Art. 4; the delegated act will fix the date.

No ESPR delegated act initiative for tyres on Have Your Say yet. Working plan (COM(2025) 187): indicative adoption 2027; no passport date set. Obligation estimate (~2029) from the Commission's DPP roadmap (DG GROW, May 2026), indicative per ESPR Art. 4; the delegated act will fix the date.

No ESPR delegated act initiative for furniture on Have Your Say yet. Working plan (COM(2025) 187): indicative adoption 2028; no passport date set. Obligation estimate (~2030) from the Commission's DPP roadmap (DG GROW, May 2026), indicative per ESPR Art. 4; the delegated act will fix the date.

No ESPR delegated act initiative for mattresses on Have Your Say yet. Working plan (COM(2025) 187): indicative adoption 2029; no passport date set. Obligation estimate (~2030–2031) from the Commission's DPP roadmap (DG GROW, May 2026), indicative per ESPR Art. 4; the delegated act will fix the date.

No specific ESPR delegated act initiative for ICT products on Have Your Say (a repairability initiative, 17873, is on the portal but is not the product-group DPP act). ICT products are not a discrete product-group row in the working plan; they are covered by the horizontal 'recycled content and recyclability of electrical and electronic equipment' measure (COM(2025) 187), indicative adoption ~2029. No product-group DPP act adopted; no passport date set.

CPR (EU) 2024/3110 is adopted and in force; Chapter X (Arts. 75–80) creates a DPP legal framework for construction products. However, the passport obligation on manufacturers (Art. 22(7)) does not take effect until 18 months after the Art. 75(1) delegated act specifying which products carry a DPP. That delegated act has not been adopted and has no initiative on Have Your Say. Stage here reflects the passport duty, not the regulation itself.

PPWR mandates marking, labelling and a QR data carrier (Art. 12) for reusable packaging — the QR requirement is not universal; it applies only to reusable packaging, not all packaging. No Digital Product Passport obligation flows from PPWR itself; the word 'passport' appears in PPWR only as a cross-reference to the ESPR passport framework.

Paints & coatings fall under substance law (VOC Directive 2004/42/EC and REACH). No delegated act under ESPR has been adopted, drafted, or initiated for this product group. There is no passport duty.