Requirements and legislation

The EU Digital Product Passport (DPP) is part of the European Union’s green transition strategy, aiming to increase transparency, support sustainable choices, and enhance data usage throughout the entire product lifecycle. For companies, this means a new way of managing and sharing product information – standardized and digital. Pimmix provides a platform that enables product passports to be built, managed, and automatically distributed to all required systems and stakeholders.

EU product passport (Digital Product Passport, DPP) requirements are permanently changing the way companies manage and share product information. The new regulation requires companies to provide information about products' origin, composition, sustainability and recyclability in a standardized, digital format. Pimmix helps companies meet DPP requirements centrally and automatically without manual work.

The EU's digital product passport, i.e. the Digital Product Passport (DPP), is a digital data set linked to a product, intended to make essential product information more easily available throughout the product's entire life cycle. Behind it is, in particular, the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation, i.e. the ESPR Regulation, which came into force in July 2024. The idea of the DPP is that information related to a product's sustainability, characteristics, use, repairability and recyclability can be shared with consumers, businesses and authorities in a more controlled and consistent way.

The digital product passport (Digital Product Passport, DPP) is an EU-developed digital dataset that is attached to a product and enables key product-related information to be shared throughout the product’s lifecycle. Its purpose is to make product information more transparent and more easily accessible to businesses, consumers, and authorities alike. The DPP is part of the EU’s sustainable product design regulation and is specifically linked to the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR).

The EU's digital product passport (Digital Product Passport, DPP) is closely tied to how companies manage product-related information. The digital product passport is essentially based on product information that must be collected, maintained and reliably shared with various actors throughout the product's entire lifecycle. Therefore the DPP is not merely a new regulatory requirement, but also a sign that the importance of product information management will grow significantly in the coming years.

In many companies, the ERP system serves as the central source of product-related information. As the EU’s Digital Product Passport (Digital Product Passport, DPP) is phased in across different product groups, many companies are wondering whether the ERP system will be sufficient to implement the digital product passport. While ERP often contains part of the required product information, the digital product passport typically requires broader product information management and the consolidation of data from multiple sources.

The EU's digital product passport (Digital Product Passport, DPP) introduces a new requirement for businesses to manage product-related information more systematically. Because the digital product passport is based on information related to the product's lifecycle, for many companies the biggest challenge is not the passport itself but how that information is collected, maintained and updated efficiently. This is where automation plays a central role.