dpp
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CEN and CENELEC Publish the First Six Harmonized DPP Standards
EN 18216 through EN 18223 define the technical foundation of the EU Digital Product Passport. What the six standards cover and what that means for manufacturers.
Digital Battery Passport 2027: What the EU Regulation Actually Requires
Starting February 2027, the Digital Battery Passport becomes mandatory. A breakdown of required data fields, standards, registry requirements, and the current state of implementation.
Digital Battery Passport 2027: What the Industry Needs to Know Now
Starting February 2027, the Digital Battery Passport is mandatory for EV and industrial batteries. An overview of requirements, open issues, and current market developments.
Digital Battery Passport 2027: What the Industry Needs to Know Now
Starting February 2027, the Digital Battery Passport becomes mandatory. An overview of requirements, practical challenges, and current market developments.
Keeping DPP Data Current: What the ESPR Actually Requires
How often must DPP data be updated? What the ESPR regulation concretely demands, where real-world implementation gets tricky, and which technical patterns hold up in practice.
DPP Sector Update June 2026: Steel, Batteries, and GS1 Pilots
JRC steel draft, battery mandate from February 2027, Driscoll's serialization project: what June 2026's DPP developments mean for manufacturers.
The EU DPP Registry & the 2027 Battery Deadline: What to Prepare Now
Two regulatory clocks are ticking: the central EU Digital Product Passport registry is expected to come online in 2026 under ESPR, and the battery passport becomes mandatory on 18 February 2027. Lead times are long, so here is what to prepare now, with API code.
Automating Digital Product Passports with Webhooks
A Digital Product Passport is not a static page — every scan is an event you can build on. React to qr.scanned for analytics, re-orders and recall flags, keep passport data fresh from your ERP, and verify every payload with HMAC-SHA256. A developer-grade guide with code.
Free DPP Solutions, Honestly Compared (open-source vs SaaS)
Searching for a free Digital Product Passport solution? Open-source frameworks and EU pilot projects exist and the license can be zero, but the real cost is engineering and operations. An honest guide to open-source, pilots and hosted options, including where qr3 fits and where it does not.
JSON-LD for Digital Product Passports (and where EPCIS 2.0 fits)
A DPP is only useful to machines if it is machine-readable. This guide shows the real JSON-LD a qr3 passport exposes via the live resolver, how one URL serves both humans and machines through content negotiation, and where the complementary EPCIS 2.0 event standard fits.
DPP QR Codes: Sizing, Error Correction & GS1 (a developer's guide)
The QR code on a Digital Product Passport is not just any QR — it carries a GS1 Digital Link, has to survive printing on a product, and must resolve to the passport. The engineering details most guides skip, with print-ready generation code.
Build vs Buy a Digital Product Passport System (the honest answer)
You need EU Digital Product Passports before a regulatory deadline — build in-house or buy? An honest breakdown of cost, time and compliance, plus the third option most build-vs-buy posts conveniently skip.
The GS1 Digital Link Resolver, Explained (with a live example)
A DPP QR code is not a link to a web page — it is a GS1 Digital Link, and the resolver turns one identifier into many context-aware responses. Here is how it works, with a live passport you can curl right now.
Generate EU Digital Product Passports via API
Most DPP guides tell you what a passport must contain. This one shows how to create EU-compliant Digital Product Passports programmatically — with curl, the qr3 SDK, batch creation, validation, GS1 QR codes and webhooks.
DPP Regulation 2026: Registry Draft, ISO/IEC JTC 5, and New Legislation
The EU published the Registry draft, ISO/IEC JTC 5 begins its work, and the Bundestag passed the Ecodesign Act — a comprehensive overview of the current state of DPP regulation.
Keeping DPP Registry Entries Up to Date: What the Implementing Regulation Requires
How manufacturers correctly update EU Digital Product Passport registry entries — obligations, timelines, and technical requirements under the implementing regulation.
DPP, Batteries, Sunrise 2027: What Manufacturers Need to Do Now
The ESPR Registry launches in July 2026, the Battery Regulation kicks in August, and GS1 Digital Link becomes mandatory. A clear overview of the most pressing deadlines.
Europe's Textile Industry Under Pressure: What the New Regulatory Wave Means
EURATEX reports a third consecutive year of decline. Which EU regulations are structurally reshaping the industry — and what manufacturers need to do right now.