The EU Battery Passport is the first live Digital Product Passport under EU law, and legal firm Hogan Lovells has published a detailed analysis of what its pilot reveals about how DPPs will work across other product categories under ESPR.
The battery sector is running ahead of textiles, but the structural questions are identical: what data must be collected, who in the supply chain is responsible for it, how is it verified, and how is it made machine-readable via a data carrier. The answers being stress-tested in batteries will shape the delegated acts that eventually hit apparel and footwear.
Pasera's view: pilot programmes in adjacent sectors are free intelligence. Brands that study the battery experience now will avoid the data-collection mistakes that battery manufacturers made under time pressure. Verified, structured supply-chain data is harder to assemble than it looks, and the time to build that capability is before the delegated act lands, not after.
Source: ESPR news.
Source: ESPR news ↗
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