Best practices and standards for the DPP

StandICT.eu 2026’s principal goal is to strengthen its global reach in the European ICT Standardisation Ecosystem. StandICT.eu was asked by the European Commission to prepare a landscape of standards in view of the need of Digital Product Passports (DPP). So a Technical Working Group Digital Product Passport (TWG DPP) was established in September 2022.The created list covers now more than 200 open standards of international standards development organisations, which are made available or will be made available to the general public and are developed (or approved) and maintained via a collaborative and consensus driven process. In addition, the landscape of standards also includes initiatives on product circularity data, as harmonization and standardization facilitate the exchange and processing of information

Roles: #manufacturer, #distributor, #economic operator, #DPP service providers

This document defines a standard for secure and efficient data exchange protocols and data formats to be used for the digital product passport. Data exchange protocols establish the rules and procedures that systems follow when communicating and exchanging information. Data formats define the structure and presentation of that information so it can be understood and processed correctly by the involved systems. Together, protocols and formats ensure that data can be exchanged in a manner that is secure, interoperable, reliable, and compatible across various platforms and sectors.

May 2026

This document defines the principles and specifies the requirements and guidelines for unique product identifiers, unique economic operator identifiers, and unique facility identifiers used in digital product passports.

May 2026

This document specifies requirements for data carriers used in a digital product passport system. This covers: symbology characteristics, format, error correction codes, encoding methods, printing and production quality, and durability. This document also specifies requirements on graphical or other indicators for easy recognition of DPP data carriers and the indication on the data carrier placement, machine readability, quality checking, links between physical product and digital representation.

May 2026

This document specifies requirements for data storage, archiving, and data persistence of digital product passports, all based on a decentralized approach. The archiving functionality securely stores historical passport data, preserving a comprehensive record of past information. Persistence ensures that data included in the digital product passport remains available even when the economic operator creating the digital product passport is no longer active. This document also specifies requirements for the replication between economic operators and back-up operators as well as rules for data lifetime definition.

May 2026

This document aims to standardize the specifications for the API of the digital product passport (DPP) as mandated by the ESPR of the European Commission. The purpose of this API is to facilitate the searchability of DPPs, as well as to provide the necessary means for interactions throughout the lifecycle of a product's DPP.

May 2026

The scope of this document includes: - the semantic description of a product, including its properties where relevant and the semantic aspects to represent the product lifecycle; - a common information model allowing for the implementation of data dictionary systems; - metadata models and formats to be used in exchange and representation, allowing for the integration of dictionaries; - rules on how to systematically use such metadata models when developing product group specific data models and dictionaries; - technical and organizational interoperability. This document follows the approach of standard interoperability layers and proposes the following aspects in this regard.

May 2026