Detergents get a passport from their own EU regulation

Detergents need a digital product passport, and the adopted detergents regulation, Regulation (EU) 2026/405, creates the duty in its own text. The duty does not come from the ecodesign regulation. The European Commission plans to use the ecodesign regulation for steel, textiles and furniture.

This page is short because the verified material is short. It can name the instrument. It cannot give you a date, a data field or the exact scope, and it does not guess at any of them.

Two mistakes follow from the wrong law. The first is to monitor the ecodesign programme for a detergent date. That programme holds no detergent date, so you monitor and see nothing. The second is to accept a date from a supplier who cannot name the article that sets it.

The detergents regulation carries the duty, and the ecodesign regulation does not

The ecodesign regulation is the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation, Regulation (EU) 2024/1781. It has been in force since 18 July 2024.

By itself that regulation requires no passport for any product. Each product group needs its own rule, called a delegated act. As at 14 August 2026 the European Commission has adopted no such rule for any product group. See what is a delegated act.

Detergents sit outside that process, as do the three other product groups in the table below.

Each of these has its own page: toys, construction products and packaging.

This site holds no date, no data fields and no scope for detergents

Read this section before you plan any work.

The date. No source behind this site gives a date for a detergent passport. There is no date to mark in force, adopted, planned or indicative, because this site holds none.

The data. No source here lists what a detergent passport must hold. The data fields for a product group come from the instrument that creates the duty. This site does not hold that text.

The scope inside the category. A laundry liquid, a dishwasher powder, a wool wash and an industrial floor cleaner may not all be covered. This site cannot say which of them the regulation reaches.

A guess on any of the three would look the same as a checked fact. You would then spend money on it. So this page states the gap instead.

The ecodesign programme does not give you the date

The Commission publishes a table of years for ecodesign product groups. Those years are the years it expects to adopt each rule. They are not compliance dates, and how to read the timeline works through the arithmetic.

Some ecodesign summaries also list detergents among the prioritised product categories. That list sets an order of future work. No delegated act covers detergents, and no delegated act covers any other group either.

So you can read the ecodesign programme correctly and still get no date, because the date belongs to a different instrument. Which products need a passport, and when shows where each product group takes its duty from.

If you sell a cleaning chemical that is not a detergent, check paints, lubricants and chemicals as well.

The six cited standards answer the ecodesign regulation, not this one

Implementing Decision (EU) 2026/1736 cites six European passport standards. That citation gives a product a presumption of conformity against the ecodesign regulation. It says nothing about the detergents regulation.

This site cannot say if the detergents regulation points to the same six standards. So ask a supplier which regulation its conformity claim answers, and ask for the article number. A supplier who cannot name the article has given you an opinion. See the six standards.

This site cannot confirm who carries the detergent duty

Two other passport laws put the duty on the operator that places the product on the EU market. The battery regulation, Regulation (EU) 2023/1542, says so in Article 77(4). The ecodesign regulation uses the same test in Article 13(4) for the registry upload.

This site cannot confirm the test that the detergents regulation uses.

If you have no EU office, the responsible operator is usually your EU importer. An EU-funded consortium paper states that a non-EU manufacturer stays a duty holder as well. The importer can pass on only the data that you send. See who is the [economic operator](/who-is-the-economic-operator/) and what a non-EU exporter must supply.

New Zealand guidance does not cover detergents

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 report names the ecodesign regulation. It gives years for steel, textiles and apparel, tyres, aluminium, furniture and mattresses. Detergents are not in that list. Those years are adoption years, and they are not compliance dates.

No other New Zealand government publication is dedicated to passports. So a New Zealand maker of a wool wash or a dairy plant cleaner finds nothing useful at home. See what this means for New Zealand exporters and what New Zealand agencies have said.

Ask for the regulation text, and ask your EU customer

Warning: do not treat this page as your date. Find the date in the detergents regulation. Stop watching the ecodesign programme for it.

1. Ask for the Official Journal text of Regulation (EU) 2026/405.
2. Read the article that creates the passport.
3. Read the article that sets the date.
4. Ask your EU customer what data they need, and when.
5. Ask which article sets any date that a supplier gives you.
6. Do not buy a passport system on a date that nobody can source.

One task is worth doing whatever the date turns out to be. Find out where you keep your product data, and who owns it. Agreeing data duties with your EU importer sets out how to record that in a contract.