The Digital Product Passport for electronics.
A digital product passport for electronics is the product-level data record that the EU's Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation can require for electrical and electronic equipment, while devices with batteries also fall under the EU Battery Regulation.
Electronics are expected to face the Digital Product Passport twice: once under ESPR as a priority category, and again wherever a device contains a battery in scope of the EU Battery Regulation, whose passport is mandatory from 18 February 2027. One identity architecture should answer both.
DPP for electronics, in three facts.
ESPR 2024/1781 · electronics in the ESPR pipeline · battery-powered devices also face Reg. (EU) 2023/1542 from 18 Feb 2027.
The Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 entered into force on 18 July 2024; digital product passports apply product group by product group as delegated acts are adopted.
Source: Regulation (EU) 2024/1781The European Commission opened the Digital Product Passport Registry on 20 July 2026.
Source: European Commission, 23 July 2026From 18 February 2027 every light-means-of-transport battery, every EV battery and every industrial battery over 2 kWh placed on the EU market needs a battery passport (Regulation (EU) 2023/1542, Article 77).
Source: Regulation (EU) 2023/1542
Two regulations, one device.
An ESPR passport for the device
Repairability, spare-parts availability, material content and durability information, reachable from a carrier on the product — fields fixed by the electronics delegated act.
A battery passport inside it
Devices with in-scope batteries inherit Reg. (EU) 2023/1542: from 18 Feb 2027 covered batteries must carry a QR-accessible passport with composition, carbon footprint and performance data.
Serial-level identity, not model-level
Repair history, warranty state and battery health are unit facts, not model facts. A passport that describes the model but not the unit answers neither regulators nor customers.
A carrier that survives the product's life
Electronics live 5–15 years through resale and repair. The carrier — and the identity behind it — must still verify at end-of-life, when recycling obligations bite.
The timeline, as it stands.
ESPR is in force with electronics in the pipeline via delegated acts; the battery passport date is fixed in law. Design once for both and you avoid building twice.
Three moves that de-risk the deadline.
Split the device from its battery
Inventory which products carry in-scope batteries — those have a fixed 2027 date regardless of when the electronics delegated act lands.
Pick serial-level identity now
Move from model-level records to unit-level identity while product cycles allow it. Retrofitting serialization after the mandate is the expensive path.
Wire repair events into the record
Repairs, part swaps and battery replacements should write to the unit's custody log — that history is exactly what ESPR's repairability agenda wants surfaced.
One chip that answers both passports.
Aeroz gives each device a dual-frequency chip identity that resolves to its ESPR passport and, where applicable, its battery passport — one carrier, two records, verified by a phone tap or a dock read. Custody and repair events append to an EPCIS 2.0 log, so the unit's story survives resale, repair and recycling.
DPP for electronics, answered.
When do electronics need a Digital Product Passport?
ESPR is in force and electronics sit in the delegated-act pipeline, with category requirements phasing toward 2030. Devices containing in-scope batteries have an earlier, fixed obligation: the battery passport applies from 18 February 2027.
Do I need separate carriers for the device and its battery?
No. The battery passport must be reachable via QR code under Reg. 2023/1542, and the device's DPP needs its own carrier under ESPR — but one well-designed identity architecture can resolve both records from the product.
What data will the electronics DPP require?
Expect repairability scoring, spare-parts and software-support windows, material and substance data, and durability information — the exact fields are set by the delegated act for the category.
Why does unit-level identity matter for electronics?
Because the facts that matter — repair history, battery health, warranty state, recall exposure — differ unit by unit. Model-level passports cannot carry them, and refurbished-market trust depends on them.
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More answers: Digital Product Passport questions in the compliance FAQ
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