What Is Digital Product Passport?
A Digital Product Passport (DPP) is a digital record attached to a product throughout its lifecycle, containing all its relevant information: from raw materials and manufacturing processes to regulatory compliance and sustainability practices.
Why the EU Is Mandating DPPs
The DPP is central to the EU's Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation, which will progressively require passports for categories such as batteries, textiles and electronics sold in the EU. Each passport is accessed through a data carrier on the product, typically a QR code, linking the physical item to its digital record.
A key benefit of the DPP is its ability to improve sustainability practices. Visibility into the environmental impact of products across their lifecycles helps manufacturers identify improvements and adopt more eco-friendly practices, while consumers can make purchasing decisions aligned with their values. The DPP also supports circular economy principles by promoting product reuse, recycling and responsible disposal, reducing waste and conserving resources.
What a Digital Product Passport Contains
Why the DPP Matters
The DPP changes what a product must be able to prove:
- Visibility into environmental impact across the product lifecycle
- Informed purchasing decisions aligned with sustainability goals
- Supports circular economy: reuse, recycling, responsible disposal
- EU market access for regulated categories as rules phase in
- Deters counterfeits by pairing each product with a verifiable record
- Ethical sourcing evidence for buyers and regulators
DPP-Ready Infrastructure from Acviss
Origin by Acviss gives every unit the infrastructure a DPP needs: a unique identity, a Digital Twin holding origin, batch and lifecycle data, and blockchain-backed supply chain records accessible from a single scan.
Product authentication is built into the same scan, so consumers verify genuineness and view passport data in one step, while brands collect scan-level market intelligence.
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One scan opens the product's identity, origin, compliance record and authenticity verdict. Built for brands and manufacturers.
Book a Free DemoFrequently Asked Questions
A digital record attached to a product throughout its lifecycle containing its relevant information: raw materials, manufacturing processes, regulatory compliance, ownership history and sustainability data, usually accessed by scanning a QR code on the product.
Under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation, the EU is phasing in DPP requirements to improve transparency, support circular economy goals and let consumers and regulators verify a product's environmental footprint and compliance.
The EU is rolling out requirements by category, with batteries first, followed by textiles, electronics and other priority product groups. Brands exporting to the EU in these categories will need passport-ready data infrastructure.
Every genuine product is paired with a verifiable digital record. A counterfeit either has no passport or clones an existing identifier, which authentication systems expose the moment it is scanned, and ownership tracking makes stolen or diverted goods traceable.
It gives visibility into environmental impact across the lifecycle, helping manufacturers identify improvements, letting consumers choose products aligned with their values, and enabling reuse, recycling and responsible disposal through accessible material data.
