Policy brief – Success factors for the Digital Product Passport
The Digital Product Passport is an EU initiative, part of the upcoming Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR). It aims to unleash access to data and information across products' value chains. Information is key to sustainable design, more informed consumer choice, access to repair, and better recycling of products. Read more in this analysis from ECOS and CircThread.
This policy brief builds on the results of the CircThread project on how to develop the Digital Product Passport (DPP). After a short overview of the current context, the brief dives into CircThread’s analysis of use cases for the DPP, namely which data is needed by which actor, and develops a vision for an ideal DPP. This vision is compared to the current proposal for a DPP presented by the European Commission in its proposal for an Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation. Finally, recommendations are made to bridge the gap between the vision and what is currently feasible, and what should be kept in mind to assess the DPP’s success in the future
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