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Furniture ranks second among priority product groups for the Digital Product Passport in the European Commission's first ESPR Working Plan (April 2025), with an indicative timeline of 2028. For furniture manufacturers, retailers, and procurement teams, this means material origin, repairability, and end-of-life information will need to be machine-readable and verifiable.

Steel and aluminium are named among the product groups for which future delegated acts under the ESPR are planned, though no fixed timeline exists yet. In parallel, the Critical Raw Materials Act is advancing traceability for raw materials. For the metals industry, these are two complementary regulatory tracks pointing toward the same principle: traceable, verifiable product data across the full lifecycle.

Behind every Digital Product Passport sits a foundation that is not yet fully finished: the technical standards currently being developed by CEN/CLC JTC24, the joint committee of CEN and CENELEC. Until these standards are finalized, part of the technical detail behind the DPP remains in flux. Companies that build on open, cross-sector standards now reduce the risk of having to rebuild their systems later.

From February 18, 2027, light means of transport (LMT) batteries such as e-bikes and e-scooters, industrial batteries above 2 kWh, and EV batteries placed on the EU market must carry a digital battery passport. The battery passport is the sector-specific implementation of the digital product passport under the EU Battery Regulation (EU 2023/1542) and documents material composition, carbon footprint, performance data, and recycled content across the battery's lifecycle.

Tyres are listed as a priority product group for the Digital Product Passport in the European Commission's first ESPR Working Plan (April 2025), with an indicative timeline of 2027. The specific delegated act for tyres has not yet been adopted. Companies that start structuring material, origin, and performance data now will be ready once it is, rather than scrambling under deadline pressure.

The EU Business Wallet (EBW, under eIDAS 2.0 from 2027) verifies who a company is. The Digital Product Passport (DPP, under the ESPR) verifies what is inside a product. Both proofs rely on verifiable credentials and belong together technically: a DPP is only as trustworthy as the identity of the party that issued it. Companies that address both requirements on the same standards base, rather than separately, avoid duplicate infrastructure and are prepared for the next wave of

From 18 February 2027, the EU Battery Regulation requires a Battery Passport for every electric vehicle (EV) battery, every light means of transport (LMT) battery, and every industrial battery with a capacity greater than 2 kWh placed on the EU market or put into service. This affects organizations across automotive, micromobility, material handling, industrial equipment, agriculture and potentially marine applications.

What is the European Business Wallet? Find out how eIDAS 2.0 will transform KYB, KYS and AML processes for financial institutions by 2026 – including an overview of providers.

The European Commission starts a DPP Registry

CARO v1.3 is building on our existing partnership with the forward-thinking regulatory compliance experts from Legisym. From license checks to ATP credentials, Legisym is committed to enabling the highest level of compliance also within CARO.

Our CEO Dr. Carsten Stöcker contributed the concept of a Digital Copyright Passport, demonstrating how Verifiable Credentials and trusted digital identity infrastructure can enable verifiable copyright and licensing information across digital and physical assets.

This article recaps FDA DSCSA enforcement developments in the US pharmaceutical supply chain from 2023 to 2026, with a focus on the first publicly available DSCSA dispenser warning letter and the Sterling Distributors wholesaler case. It explains what went wrong, why Authorized Trading Partner checks and VRS readiness matter now as FDA waivers and exemptions continue to narrow, who is affected, when the remaining deadline applies, and how companies can strengthen DSCSA compli

How can Digital Product Passports and mineral fingerprinting technologies strengthen traceability in critical raw material supply chains? In the latest MaDiTraCe Talks episode, Prof. Eric Pirard speaks with PhD / Dr.-Ing. Doruk Şahinel, Technical Project Manager at Spherity, and Quentin Dehaine, Research Professor at Geological Survey of Finland (GTK) to discuss trusted material provenance, authentication, and transparency across the mining and processing value chain.

This document is based on a draft version of the Implementing Regulation (Ref. Ares(2026)4424976). Based on the draft European Commission implementing regulation, the EU is establishing a central Digital Product Passport (DPP) registry to securely store unique identifiers and monitor product compliance. To register or update a DPP, companies must comply with strict new identity and data requirements.

This article compares leading digital identity solution providers available in Europe in 2026. It explains what digital identity solutions are, why they matter under eIDAS 2.0 and the EU Digital Identity Wallet framework, who should evaluate providers, when companies should start preparing, and how businesses can choose a provider for wallets, verifiable credentials, identity verification, compliance, and trusted data exchange.

Modern economies increasingly rely on digital trust infrastructures built on public-key cryptography, from digital identity wallets and verifiable credentials to supply chain systems, Digital Product Passports, and enterprise authentication. As quantum computing capabilities advance, the long-term security assumptions behind these systems may no longer hold. A new research paper by Dr. Carsten Stöcker explores why quantum risk is not only a cybersecurity challenge, but a broa

The publication explores Trusted AI architectures for automotive ecosystems, including AI Service Passports, verifiable credentials, decentralised identifiers, the European Business Wallet, and provenance-aware vehicle data chains within ecosystems such as Catena-X.

A systematic overview for businesses of the terminology, regulatory context and technical foundations of the European Business Wallet. Following the introduction of the “European Digital Identity (EUDI) Wallet” as a digital wallet for citizens, the “European Business Wallet” is now being introduced as a complementary solution. It is intended to reduce bureaucratic barriers for businesses and simplify the secure exchange of data between companies, authorities and across com

Physical AI is moving beyond the digital space: With a projected growth rate of 38.5% through 2030, it is becoming a key driver of industrial value creation. Learn more about our Trusted AI architecture and additional use cases in the full Bitkom report (German).

Discover how the EUDI Wallet is transforming the financial landscape. In this final part of our series with PwC Germany, we explore how verifiable identity data enables secure payment processes, reduces fraud, and supports the shift toward embedded finance. Watch the recording to learn how to automate transactions and meet regulatory requirements with ease.