ESPR published: ecodesign and the Digital Product Passport

2024-06-28 · Publisher : Union européenne · Domain : Industry 4.0 & 5.0

The ESPR, Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 published on 28 June 2024, extends ecodesign to almost all products and creates the Digital Product Passport. The 2025-2030 plan first targets steel, aluminium, textiles, furniture, tyres and mattresses.

What changes

  • Possible requirements on durability, repairability, recycled content and carbon footprint, set product by product via delegated acts.
  • Digital Product Passport (DPP) as the main information carrier.
  • Working plan of 16 April 2025: steel and aluminium, textiles, furniture, tyres, mattresses first.
  • Ban on destroying certain unsold goods (Annex VII) from 19 July 2026.

### What changes Published in the Official Journal on 28 June 2024 and in force twenty days later, the **ESPR** (Regulation (EU) 2024/1781) replaces the Ecodesign Directive, which only covered energy-related products. Almost all physical products can now receive environmental performance and information requirements, carried by the **Digital Product Passport**. ### Timeline - **28 June 2024**: OJ publication; entry into force on the twentieth day after. - **16 April 2025**: 2025-2030 working plan (press release IP/25/1071); priorities: steel and aluminium, textiles (apparel), furniture, tyres, mattresses, plus horizontal repairability and recyclability measures for electrical equipment. - **19 July 2026**: ban on destroying unsold goods listed in Annex VII and Commission registry for passports. ### Why it matters The passport requires each product to be linked to reliable data (materials, footprint, repairability): this affects the engineering bill of materials, production traceability (MES, unique identifiers) and data exchange with suppliers. Steel and aluminium, the first targets, feed all of mechanical engineering. ### Key takeaway The ESPR makes product data a regulatory obligation: ecodesign becomes an industrial information system topic as much as a design one.

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Tags : Réglementation, UE, Durabilité, Passeport numérique, Données