Which Regulations Require a Digital Product Passport?

Five texts, one direction

ESPR, Battery Regulation, WEEE, the French AGEC law, CSRD: compliance teams juggle texts with overlapping scopes. The good news: they all converge on the same underlying requirement — structured, reliable, accessible product data. One well-built data foundation feeds them all.

This is the approach we apply at Arianee: a single passport, validated by our Compliance Engine against the ESPR, Battery Pass and WEEE schemas, serves every obligation at once.

The comparison table

ESPR: the general DPP framework

The ESPR is the text that mandates the Digital Product Passport for nearly all products, sector by sector through delegated acts. If you follow only one text, it is this one.

Battery Regulation: the first mandatory passport

A standalone text, ahead of the ESPR delegated acts, it mandates the battery passport from February 2027 — at the level of each individual battery. It is the blueprint every other sector draws on.

WEEE: no passport, but end-of-life data

The WEEE directive does not require a digital passport. It imposes collection, depollution and information duties towards treatment operators for electrical and electronic equipment. Those data points — composition, dismantling instructions — are precisely fields of the upcoming DPP: fill them once in the passport and you prepare both compliances. Details on our WEEE page.

AGEC: the French forerunner

Since 2023, the French AGEC law has required an environmental information sheet for many products sold in France: repairability, recycled content, hazardous substances, EPR bonuses and penalties. It is a DPP before its time, at national scale. Brands that structured their data for AGEC have a head start on the ESPR — our AGEC & CSRD page maps one onto the other.

CSRD: not a passport, but the same data

The CSRD imposes sustainability reporting at company level, not product level. But the required indicators (carbon footprint, circularity, value chain) aggregate from product data — exactly what the DPP structures. A well-designed passport becomes a feed for CSRD reporting.

How to avoid doing the work five times

1. 01.Use the DPP as your foundation: it is the most granular requirement — whoever can do more can do less
2. 02.Map the shared fields: composition, repairability and end-of-life serve ESPR, WEEE and AGEC simultaneously
3. 03.Pick a multi-schema infrastructure: Arianee's Compliance Engine validates one passport against several regulatory frameworks
4. 04.Track the sector timeline: our regulatory timeline consolidates the deadlines

More than 3.4 million passports operated by Arianee already follow this "one data set, several compliances" logic. Request a demo to map your obligations.