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Billions of products enter the European Union through online shopping every year, often arriving directly at consumers’ doorsteps from sellers outside the EU. For customs and market surveillance authorities, ensuring that these products meet European safety and sustainability requirements is becoming increasingly difficult. A collaborative white paper explores how DPPs could help authorities access reliable product information and identify compliance risks.

The latest VERA platform release delivers new capabilities that make Digital Product Passport management more scalable, transparent, and easier to operate. From enhanced analytics and governance to automation and bulk operations, the new features help organizations reduce manual effort, gain greater visibility into their Product Passport ecosystem, and streamline collaboration across enterprise systems.

Spherity has officially achieved ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification for our Information Security Management System (ISMS).

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.

Spherity and b.telligent are combining their expertise to provide companies with end-to-end support on their journey toward the Digital Product Passport. The partnership brings together b.telligent’s expertise in data integration, data quality, and automation with Spherity’s DPP technology, creating a seamless process from fragmented enterprise and product data to trusted, regulatory-compliant Digital Product Passports.

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

Gartner positions Spherity as the only vendor in the "Pioneers" quadrant of the Emerging Market Quadrant for Digital Product Passport – Established Vendors.

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.

As part of the L'Essenza Siciliana project, Sicilian fashion brands and emerging designers took to the official runway at **Düsseldorf Fashion Days**, one of Europe's leading fashion industry events. Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the partnership between Palermo and Düsseldorf, the initiative strengthens collaboration between Sicily and Germany while creating new international opportunities for regional fashion brands.

The European Commission starts a DPP Registry

Spherity becomes a Premium Partner of DIGITAL-PRODUCT-PASSPORT.PRO, strengthening our commitment to advancing trusted and interoperable Digital Product Passport (DPP) solutions.

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.

Companies across Germany and Europe are moving from general awareness of the Digital Product Passport to a more practical question: which provider can actually support implementation in a way that fits their products, data landscape, and regulatory timeline?

Discover how the Digital Product Passport (DPP) is evolving from a regulatory hurdle into a strategic industrial enabler. In an interview with Automazione News, Spherity’s Sales Director, Giuseppe Benenati, explains how verifiable, machine-readable data secures compliance while driving digital transformation and automation across value chains.

Digital Product Passport (DPP) Glossary 2026: A clear guide to essential terms for ESPR, digital identity, technical fundamentals, and compliance.