Sectors and timing
Construction products get a passport from their own law
Construction products get a passport from their own law, not from the ecodesign rules. The Commission plans the rule for Q2 2027, and that is not your date.
Construction products need no digital product passport today. When a duty arrives, it comes from the construction products regulation, Regulation (EU) 2024/3110, through a delegated act that the Commission has not yet adopted. It does not come from the ecodesign regulation.
That separation decides how you find your date. If you ignore it, you monitor the ecodesign programme. You see no construction row, and you decide that nothing applies to you. Your duty is in a law that the ecodesign programme never mentions.
The instrument is Regulation (EU) 2024/3110
The instrument number is the one construction fact that this site can support. Construction products, toys and detergents each get a passport from their own regulation. None of the three is an ecodesign product group.
This page holds the instrument number and very little else. The table below separates what is verified from what is not.
Warning: application dates for a construction passport circulate in commentary. This site has verified none of them. Do not plan a budget on a year that you cannot trace to the regulation itself.
| Item | Status here |
|---|---|
| The instrument | Regulation (EU) 2024/3110, verified |
| The source of the duty | That regulation, not the ecodesign regulation, verified |
| The adoption date of a delegated act | Q2 2027, as the Commission web page states |
| The application date | Not verified |
| The data fields | Not verified |
| The link to paperwork that you already produce | Not verified |
| Use of the EU passport registry | Not verified |
The Commission gives an adoption date, and not an application date
Warning: one publisher gives the quarter below, and the page marks its own timeline as indicative. This site reports it as a Commission plan. See every dated milestone for the other plans on the same page.
The European Commission runs a web page on digital product passports. Its timeline puts a delegated act for construction materials in Q2 2027, under the Construction Products Regulation. The page gives no regulation number, and this site supplies the number above.
Read that quarter as the date the rule gets written. It is not the date a construction product needs a passport. The application date row in the table above stays unverified, and this date does not fill it.
The ecodesign lists do not name construction products
The ecodesign regulation is the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation, Regulation (EU) 2024/1781. It is the frame for most passports, and it has been in force since 18 July 2024. It reaches a product group only when the European Commission adopts a separate rule for that group, called a delegated act. See what is a delegated act.
The Commission publishes an indicative list of the groups it plans to cover. That list names iron and steel, textiles, aluminium, tyres, furniture, and information and communication technology. Construction products are not on it.
The New Zealand material leaves them out too.
This site searched for New Zealand material on 16 August 2026, in fifteen separate searches, and read 104 separate pages. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade wrote the substantial government account, in a market report of October 2025. See what New Zealand agencies have said.
That category timeline names steel, textiles and apparel, tyres, aluminium, furniture and mattresses. Construction products are absent. See what New Zealand agencies have said.
So you can read both lists and find nothing, if you sell radiata pine framing timber, laminated veneer lumber or wool insulation. Absence from those lists is not an exemption. It only means that your rule is in another law.
This site has no verified application date and no verified field list
Three points matter most to you. This site cannot give any of the three.
- The date. No verified application date exists in this reference.
- The data. No verified list of passport fields exists here.
- The fit. This site cannot say how a passport changes the documents that you already send with your product.
This site states the gap. If you guess early, you buy a passport system that no law requires. If you guess late, your duty starts before you are ready.
Check the neighbouring rules as well as your own
One physical product can meet more than one European rule. Make three checks.
Steel and aluminium are ecodesign product groups in their own right. If you sell a steel bracket or an aluminium window frame, check those two groups. Which products need a passport, and when gives the indicative adoption year for each.
Furniture is also its own ecodesign group. Check furniture and mattresses for a fitted cabinet.
Your packaging is a separate physical good in European law, under Regulation (EU) 2025/40. That regulation started to apply in August 2026, with phased implementation. Check packaging whatever your product is.
A cited standard is not the same as your requirement
Implementing Decision (EU) 2026/1736 cites six European passport standards. A cited standard stays voluntary. It gives a product built to it a presumption of conformity against the ecodesign regulation. This site cannot say if those standards reach a construction passport. So ask a supplier which regulation its conformity claim answers. See which standards apply.
Test one more claim when a supplier makes it. The ecodesign regulation names neither GS1 nor GS1 Digital Link. It names the ISO/IEC 15459 series. Nothing in this reference says which identifier scheme Regulation (EU) 2024/3110 names. Ask for the article number before you buy anything. See identifier schemes: what is verified.
Pilots exist, and a pilot is not a law
An EU-funded project called CIRPASS-2 runs passport pilots. One of its target value chains is construction materials.
A pilot binds nobody. Treat a pilot data model as a preview of what a customer may ask for, not as a legal requirement.
Read Regulation (EU) 2024/3110, and agree the data duties in writing
- Read Regulation (EU) 2024/3110. It is the instrument that carries your duty.
- Ask your EU customer what data they need, and when.
- Ask that customer who places the product on the EU market.
- Agree in writing who supplies each data item, and who updates it.
- Do not buy a passport system on a date you cannot trace.
Step three decides who carries the legal duty. Warning: do not assume that the importer carries it. This reference cannot say who the responsible operator is under Regulation (EU) 2024/3110. Your work does not stop either way, because an importer cannot supply data that you never sent. See what a non-EU exporter must supply and agreeing data duties with your [EU importer](/agreeing-data-duties/).
Do one task before any date is confirmed. Find out where your product data is, and who owns it. See first steps for a New Zealand exporter.