A practical guide for textile brands. What the ESPR requires, what data you need, and how to go from spreadsheets and supplier emails to a compliant, hosted Digital Product Passport with a QR code.
A Digital Product Passport (DPP) is a structured digital record that contains information about a product's composition, manufacturing, environmental impact, and end-of-life handling. It's mandated by the EU's Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), adopted in 2024.
For textile products, the DPP must be accessible via a data carrier — typically a QR code on the product label — that links to a hosted digital page. The data must be structured (machine-readable) and include information about materials, substances of concern, manufacturer details, care instructions, and circularity.
The ESPR requires that DPP data be accessible to consumers, market surveillance authorities, and recyclers. It must persist for the expected lifetime of the product.
The ESPR and draft textile delegated act specify 9 data categories. Here's what each one means and what you need to provide.
Product name, model number, GTIN (barcode number) if you have one, product type, country of origin, and product images. Most of this comes from your existing product catalogue.
Auto-filled from your store sync
Who is responsible for the product on the EU market? Manufacturer name and address, plus EU authorised representative or importer details if you're based outside the EU.
Auto-filled from your organisation profile
Fibre breakdown with percentages — e.g. 95% organic cotton, 5% elastane. Whether fibres are recycled, natural, or synthetic. This is the most important section for textiles.
You know this — it's on your care label already
Production stages and their countries — spinning, weaving, dyeing, assembly. You don't need full Tier 5 visibility. Just the stages and countries you know.
You know your direct suppliers
Carbon footprint, water usage, energy consumption. Optional fields — Passportly can calculate the French Eco-Score automatically from your material and manufacturing data.
Calculated automatically via Ecobalyse
Declaration of SVHC (Substances of Very High Concern) above 0.1% concentration. REACH compliance status. If you hold OEKO-TEX certification, this is largely covered.
Simple yes/no + certificate number
Is the product recyclable? How should it be recycled? Expected lifetime in washes or years. Any take-back schemes. Repair information if applicable.
Straightforward — you know your product
Washing, drying, ironing, bleaching, dry cleaning. Passportly auto-suggests care instructions based on your fibre composition using ISO 3758 standards.
Auto-suggested from your materials
GOTS, OEKO-TEX, Fair Trade, or other certifications. Certificate numbers, validity dates, issuing bodies. Passportly verifies OEKO-TEX and GOTS certificates automatically.
Enter certificate number — we verify it
A brand with 200 products might have 10-15 distinct product groups. All your organic cotton t-shirts share the same materials, manufacturing, and care data. Create a DPP for one product, save it as a template, and apply it across the group.
Select multiple products, apply a template to all of them, then bulk-publish. Download all QR codes as a ZIP file. What sounds like months of work becomes an afternoon of setup plus a few minutes per new product.
Any brand selling textiles into France must provide an Eco-Score. Third parties can publish default scores for brands that haven't calculated their own.
The ESPR textile delegated act is expected to require DPPs for textile products entering the EU market. QR code on every product linking to structured data.
The technical specifications for the EU DPP Registry are expected. This will define how DPP data is submitted to the central EU system.
Machine-readable structured data following the ESPR/CIRPASS-2 ontology. Served via content negotiation at your product's GS1 Digital Link URI.
A branded, mobile-first product page with your logo and colours. Consumers see a storytelling page. Authorities access the full technical data.
A QR code encoding a GS1-compliant URI. Download as PNG or SVG for your garment labels. Scan to reach the DPP page.
Start free with 3 products. The guided questionnaire takes about 30 minutes for your first product. Templates make subsequent products take minutes.