What Data Goes Into a Digital Product Passport?

The short answer

A Digital Product Passport contains a product's identification, composition, durability and repairability, environmental footprint and end-of-life data. The exact detail depends on the category: each sector's delegated act sets the precise list of fields.

At Arianee, we structure this data for more than 4 million passports in production — here is, family by family, what the texts require and what it means in practice.

Family 1 — Identification

The foundation of every passport:

• •Unique Product Identifier (UPI), at model, batch or item level
• •Brand, model, reference, serial number
• •Identity and contact details of the party placing on the market (manufacturer or importer)
• •Customs codes and regulatory category

This is the easiest part to collect — it already lives in your PIM and ERP systems. The work is normalisation: our platform connects to these systems through APIs to generate passports without re-entry.

Family 2 — Composition and substances

• •Materials and their mass (per component for complex products)
• •Recycled content share, per material
• •Substances of concern (SVHC): presence, location, concentration
• •Origin of critical raw materials (batteries in particular)

This is the most demanding family: the data lives with your suppliers, sometimes at tier 2 or 3. Start this workstream first.

Family 3 — Durability and repairability

• •Expected lifetime, warranties
• •Repairability score or index
• •Spare parts availability and references
• •Dismantling and repair instructions (often restricted to professional repairers)

Family 4 — Environmental footprint

• •Product Carbon Footprint (PCF), in kg CO2-eq over the life cycle
• •Water footprint and other indicators depending on the sector
• •Calculation methodology used — delegated acts mandate specific reference frameworks

Family 5 — End-of-life and circularity

• •Sorting, collection and recycling instructions
• •Recyclability rate, depollution instructions (WEEE)
• •Take-back or resale programmes

Not everything is mandatory: the Commission's three tiers

The European methodology (report JRC145830, our breakdown here) classifies every data point into three tiers:

The strategic reading: the essential tier makes you compliant, strongly recommended makes you visible to distributors and repairers, voluntary builds the customer relationship. The brands we work with — from Breitling to Fnac Darty — use precisely this third layer to turn the passport into an engagement channel.

Not everyone sees everything: access tiers

The passport is not a single public page. The Commission defines differentiated access rights: consumers see scores and care instructions, repairers access dismantling schematics, recyclers see detailed composition, market surveillance authorities get the full documentation. Our architecture has handled these role-based rights since 2018, with a signed event log.

Where to start your data collection

1. 01.Map the essential fields for your category (delegated acts + regulation pages)
2. 02.Locate each data point: your systems, your suppliers, or to be calculated
3. 03.Prioritise composition and carbon footprint — supplier lead times run in months
4. 04.Validate schema compliance before publication — that is what our Compliance Engine does

To assess your current data coverage: request a demo.