EU product compliance · DPP intelligence
Written for compliance, sustainability, and product leaders at manufacturers, importers, and certifiers.
The Passport Brief is a free weekly email on EU product compliance and Digital Product Passports, published every Tuesday at 07:00 CET by Y. Lietzke, a former product-compliance lead and Digital Product Passport specialist. Each issue explains what the latest ESPR delegated act, EU Battery Regulation milestone, or DPP standard changes for your product lines, by when, and who has to own the data. It is read by compliance, sustainability, and product leaders at manufacturers, importers, and certifiers, and every deadline is traced to a primary source.
Every ESPR delegated act, DPP standard, and market-surveillance signal distilled into what actually changes for your product lines.
A rolling calendar of obligations by product category, flagged 6–18 months out so engineering and data work starts on time.
How manufacturers, importers, and notified bodies are actually wiring data carriers, registries, and supplier attestations.
Four dates decide most compliance programmes between now and 2030. Every issue traces movement on them back to the Official Journal or a named delegated act.
Compliance, sustainability, quality, and product leaders at EU manufacturers, importers, distributors, and conformity-assessment bodies — the people who have to turn an ESPR delegated act or a battery-passport data field into a plan for a real product line.
Every ESPR and Battery-Regulation obligation date that applies to your product line, delivered by email with the weekly brief.
A Digital Product Passport is a structured, machine-readable record of a product's identity, materials, performance, and due-diligence data, reachable through a data carrier such as a QR code and accessible to different parties with different access rights. Under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), DPP requirements switch on per product category through delegated acts.
Compliance, regulatory affairs, sustainability, quality, and product-data leaders at EU and non-EU manufacturers placing products on the EU market, importers and authorised representatives, notified bodies and testing labs, and compliance software teams.
A fixed house format: the one big thing, what it means for you, deadline watch, how companies are handling it, a tool or standard spotlight, five curated links with one-line takes, and two to three action items.
One issue a week, Tuesday at 07:00 CET. Subscription is free; paid playbooks, kits, and templates are sold separately on the resources page.
Yes. It is written independently of any vendor, certifier, or sponsor, and sponsored placements are always labelled. The editor is the founder of ProTag AS, a product-compliance software company; that relationship is disclosed and kept behind an editorial firewall.
The Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) and its delegated acts, the EU Battery Regulation and battery passport, DPP data-model and data-carrier standardisation work such as CEN-CENELEC and GS1 Digital Link, and national market-surveillance enforcement.
Primary sources cited in every issue include the Official Journal of the European Union, ESPR delegated acts and the Commission working plan, the EU Battery Regulation (2023/1542), CEN-CENELEC and CIRPASS DPP data-model work, GS1 Digital Link guidance, and national market-surveillance authority notices.
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