Issue 03: The fight over what goes in the box
Last issue the infrastructure arrived before the rules. This fortnight the argument moved to content: retail's lobby published its case for cutting parts of…
The Brief
Month: August 2026
The full archive of DPP Signal — what moved on the EU Digital Product Passport, fortnight by fortnight.
A denim pilot just aimed at the actual DPP bottleneck
World Collective, Denim Deal and Green Story have put digital product passports on three denim fabrics from a single Indian mill. The idea is…
Retail’s lobby has published its list of what to cut from the textile passport
On 10 August EuroCommerce published two detailed position papers on the textile DPP and the ESPR apparel delegated act. They want model-level identification as…
The Registry rules are in force. The first step is a procurement job, not an IT job.
Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1778 took effect on 6 August. Before you can register a single passport you must become a verified economic operator —…
The next EU deadline for fashion isn’t the DPP. It’s 27 September.
From 27 September 2026 every seller of consumer goods in the EU must display a harmonised legal guarantee notice, and a producer durability guarantee…