Part 5. When it reaches your product

One firm date, for three kinds of battery. Everything else is a plan, and some products are excluded outright.

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Read the dates correctly first

Which products need a digital product passport, and when Only three kinds of battery have a firm date. Every other sector waits for a rule that does not exist yet.
How to read the digital product passport timeline The years in the EU plan are the dates rules get written, not the dates you must comply. Compliance is about two years later.

The one sector with a firm date

Which batteries need a digital product passport, and when Three battery categories need a passport from 18 February 2027. An e-bike battery is covered, whatever its size.

Sectors with a plan and no rule

When an iron or steel product needs an EU passport No steel passport rule exists yet. The Commission plans to adopt one in late 2026, so the earliest application is about mid 2028.
When clothing, footwear and textiles need an EU passport No EU rule for textiles is adopted. The Commission plans to adopt one in late 2027, so a textile passport applies in 2029 at the earliest.
Why the textile passport date is not 2027 Late 2027 is the planned adoption year for the EU textile rule. A textile passport applies in mid to late 2029 at the earliest.
Aluminium has no adopted EU passport rule The Commission plans to adopt a rule in late 2027, so an aluminium passport applies in 2029 at the earliest. That year rests on a work plan.
When a tyre needs a digital product passport No EU tyre passport rule exists. The Commission plans to adopt one in late 2027, so a tyre passport applies in 2029 at the earliest.
Furniture and mattresses: no EU passport rule exists yet The Commission plans to adopt a rule in 2028, so a furniture passport applies in late 2029 at the earliest. No published study stands behind that year.
When an electronics product needs an EU passport No electronics passport rule exists. The Commission plans to adopt one in 2029, which puts application in late 2030 at the earliest.
When an energy-related product needs an EU passport No passport rule covers an energy-related product today. The old EU ecodesign directive is not fully repealed, and parts of it still apply.
Paints, lubricants and chemicals have no passport rule yet The ecodesign priority list names all three and gives no year. They stay inside the ecodesign frame, so a rule can still arrive for them.

Sectors covered by another law

Does your packaging need a digital product passport? Packaging has its own EU rule, Regulation (EU) 2025/40. The food exclusion does not reach it, and no packaging passport duty is confirmed.
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.
Detergents get a passport from their own EU regulation A detergent passport comes from Regulation (EU) 2026/405, not from the EU ecodesign rules. This site holds no date for it.
Toys need a digital product passport from 1 August 2030 The EU toy regulation sets that date, and the ecodesign programme never names toys. Watch the toy law, and not the ecodesign work plan.

Products that are excluded

Food and feed are excluded from the EU passport rule ESPR Article 1(2) puts both outside the full regulation, so this is not a delay. The exclusion stops at the food and never reaches your packaging.
Wine, beer and spirits are outside the EU passport rule Drink is food in European law, so the EU ecodesign regulation does not reach wine, beer or spirits, but packaging rules still do.
Medicines are excluded from the EU passport rule ESPR Article 1(2) puts medicines and veterinary medicines outside the full regulation. The classification in your destination market decides.
Do cosmetics and natural health products need a passport? Cosmetics are inside the EU ecodesign regulation, and no rule covers them yet. A natural health product follows its classification.

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