The EU Digital Product Passport wave is here — what asset owners must do now
From batteries to construction products to textiles, the DPP is arriving sector by sector. Here’s how tagged products get passport-ready.
The EU’s Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) makes the Digital Product Passport a legal reality, rolling out one product category at a time. A DPP is simply a data record a product carries through its whole life — and the cheapest way to carry it is on the product itself.
An unclonable NFC tag turns any physical item into the entry point for its passport: scan it and you reach its origin, materials, compliance documents and end-of-life instructions. Because TAGVU stores that data on EU infrastructure with a tamper-evident event log, the passport is both trustworthy and portable.
The owners who win are the ones tagging now, before their category’s deadline, so the data model is already in place when the regulation lands.