EU DPP timeline by product category

How to read the dates

Reviewed on 14 September 2026. This guide covers selected major product groups, not every sector law or exemption. ESPR entered into force on 18 July 2024 as a framework; product-specific obligations depend on the relevant measures. Read the scope, transitional provisions and any amendments together with each date.

Reference: EU · Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation

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Batteries: 18 February 2027

Article 77 of Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 sets a battery-passport requirement from 18 February 2027 for LMT batteries, industrial batteries with a capacity greater than 2 kWh, and electric-vehicle batteries placed on the market or put into service. The threshold is strictly greater than 2 kWh for the industrial category. Do not extend this date to every portable or SLI battery.

Reference: EU · Regulation (EU) 2023/1542, Article 77: Battery passport

Toys: 1 August 2030

Regulation (EU) 2025/2509 requires a digital product passport for toys under Article 19. Its general application date is 1 August 2030; some institutional and enforcement provisions apply earlier. Article 57 preserves the making available of toys already placed on the market in conformity with Directive 2009/48/EC before that date. Verify whether a product is a toy within the regulation’s scope.

Reference: EU · Toy Safety Regulation (EU) 2025/2509, Articles 19, 57 and 59

Detergents: 23 September 2029, with transition rules

Regulation (EU) 2026/405 applies generally from 23 September 2029 and Article 21 requires passports for detergents and end-user surfactants. Article 36 allows products compliant with the previous regulation and placed on the market before that date to continue to be made available indefinitely. It also permits products compliant with the previous rules placed on the market from 23 September 2029 to before 23 September 2030 to be made available until 23 September 2030. This is a separate sector regulation, not the ESPR textiles timetable.

Reference: EU · Regulation (EU) 2026/405, Articles 21, 36 and 37

ESPR: indicative adoption years, not passport deadlines

The table summarises the Commission’s working plan published on 16 April 2025, COM(2025) 187 final, section 2.2.1. It records the plan, not a live register of adopted acts. For implementation, locate the final product measure in EUR-Lex and check its DPP requirements and application date. ESPR generally provides at least 18 months between entry into force and application of a delegated act, subject to its stated exceptions; do not calculate a legal deadline from a year alone.

Reference: European Commission · Ecodesign and Energy Labelling Working Plan 2025–2030, COM(2025) 187 final (16 April 2025)

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Construction products: a legal trigger

Regulation (EU) 2024/3110 links the manufacturer’s passport obligation to 18 months after entry into force of the delegated act establishing the construction DPP system under Article 75(1). Articles 22(7) and 80 specify this trigger. The regulation’s general application date is not itself the passport start date. Check the Article 75 act and applicable product coverage before setting a project deadline.

Reference: EU · Construction Products Regulation (EU) 2024/3110, Articles 22(7), 75 and 80

Categories that need a separate check

ICT is addressed through horizontal measures and selected energy-related product work, rather than a single deadline for all electronics. The working plan’s energy-product table covers different adoption years, some through 2030, and can concern ecodesign or energy labels rather than a DPP. Footwear is treated separately from textiles: its study target of end-2027 is not a passport date. Detergents, paints and lubricants were not included in this first ESPR plan; that does not exempt them from separate sector legislation.

Reference: European Commission · Ecodesign and Energy Labelling Working Plan 2025–2030, COM(2025) 187 final (16 April 2025)

Turn dates into a preparation record

Only1 suggests keeping one record per product group: product definition, market-placement scenario, applicable act and version, passport trigger, data owner and supporting evidence. Assign a person to recheck official publications before procurement and release. This article is a dated editorial snapshot, not an automatically updated compliance service.