What the DPP means
The Digital Product Passport is the regulatory project that will reach deepest into manufacturers' production systems and information architectures. It is not a label. Not a document. It is a machine-readable data spine that follows a product across its life — from production through sale to disposal.
The legal basis is the Ecodesign Regulation ESPR 2024/1781. The first binding DPP requirements come from the Battery Regulation 2023/1542 — already in force for industrial and traction batteries. For textiles, the obligation is planned from 2026. For electronics, household appliances and construction materials, more categories follow.
The most common misunderstanding: "It doesn't affect me yet, because it's not mandatory yet." That thought is strategically short-sighted. Whoever waits builds a data infrastructure under time pressure that others have long been running. The competitive disadvantage is real.
The link to the technical file
The data for the DPP is largely the same data a complete conformity file should already contain: material composition, supplier information, test results. The difference is structure and machine readability. Whoever documents digitally and granularly today automatically builds the foundation for the DPP.
AltmannCert documents conformity data in a structured format from the start. Customers certifying with us today simultaneously lay the foundation for their DPP readiness. That is not coincidence. It is part of the system design.
Excerpt from: Dr. Raphael Nagel — "Marktzulassung. How to bring your product to market in Switzerland and the EU — without recall, without liability, without detours." Tactical Management Press, 2026.