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Textiles and the DPP: What Apparel Brands Must Prepare
No textile passport is mandatory today — the delegated act is due, indicatively, in 2027, and cannot normally apply earlier than 18 months after it enters into force. The data it will require is being fixed now, in the collections brands are designing today.
Battery PassportBattery Passport from February 2027: What Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 Requires
From 18 February 2027, EV, LMT and larger industrial batteries placed on the EU market must carry a battery passport. Who is obliged, which data it holds — composition, carbon footprint, recycled content, state of health — and how QR access works.
ESPR TimelineESPR and the Digital Product Passport: Which Products, and When
The ESPR brings the Digital Product Passport in product group by product group. The Commission's Working Plan 2025–2030 names the order — steel, textiles, tyres, aluminium, furniture, mattresses — and the registry and customs checks are already in the Regulation.
Anti-CounterfeitingA Label Can Be Copied in Seconds. A Product History Cannot.
A hologram can be photographed and a QR code reprinted. What cannot be copied is a registered, unique identity with a tamper-evident history. How the Digital Product Passport turns product identity into proof that customers, authorities and customs can check.
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The Digital Product Passport is becoming the information layer of European product law: the ESPR (Regulation (EU) 2024/1781) introduces it product group by product group, the Batteries Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 already mandates a battery passport from 18 February 2027, and customs and market surveillance authorities verify product identities against an EU registry. Rules written in Brussels decide market access in every member state — so we read them at the source and publish what they mean in practice.
Ledger Consortium is the infrastructure behind the passport: we aggregate client product data, anchor it on a governed blockchain and manage regulatory updates over time — with predictable costs, no tokens or crypto, and GDPR/eIDAS alignment. In Italy the Ledger DPP is distributed by Il Sole 24 Ore (Valore24). Start from a working product, not a promise: open the live demo.