Official-source briefs covering ESPR, Digital Product Passports, harmonised standards, batteries and Environmental Footprint methods.
13 official-source briefs
Recent operational and standardisation updates from official publishers.
EU legal acts, policy instruments and official planning documents.
This binding implementing regulation defines the DPP Registry’s architecture, onboarding, registration, access, verification, customs use, semantic repository, audit logging and operational responsibilities.
The Decision publishes six DPP harmonised-standard references in the Official Journal, enabling presumption of conformity with the ESPR Articles 10 and 11 requirements they cover.
The first ESPR working plan identifies priority products and horizontal measures for rulemaking through 2030 and provides indicative adoption dates.
The Decision formally establishes the Ecodesign Forum as the Commission expert group supporting ESPR and energy-labelling policy development and implementation.
ESPR creates the EU framework for product-specific ecodesign performance and information requirements and establishes the horizontal legal architecture for Digital Product Passports.
The Batteries Regulation is the first sector legislation to make a product passport mandatory and defines battery-specific content, access tiers, identifiers and lifecycle responsibilities.
The current Commission Recommendation establishes the Product Environmental Footprint and Organisation Environmental Footprint methods and the role of product- and sector-specific rules.
Practical instructions, official portals and maintained reference indexes.
A practical guide for economic operators covering EU Login, organisation enrolment, eIDAS verification, application status and the current DPP submission workflow in the European Commission’s live Registry.
The European Commission’s central implementation hub explains the DPP lifecycle, stakeholder roles, sector rollout and the EU DPP Registry, which became operational on 20 July 2026.
The Commission’s maintained PEF guidance explains the study workflow and serves as the official index of Commission-supported PEFCRs that are new, in development or under revision.
Commission and JRC evidence, methods and technical foundations.
A practical step-by-step JRC method for deciding which data should enter product-group DPPs and why, designed to support ESPR delegated acts and impact assessments.
The JRC evidence base evaluates candidate product groups and horizontal requirements for the first ESPR working plan using environmental, market, policy and strategic-autonomy criteria.