Regulation (EU) 2024/1781
The Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation — Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 — is the framework law bringing Digital Product Passports to almost everything sold in the EU, not just batteries. It was published on 28 June 2024 and entered into force on 18 July 2024. It doesn't set every product's rules directly; it sets the process for adding them, category by category, through delegated acts.
This is the detail most summaries miss. ESPR doesn't itself define the field list for, say, a textile passport, the way Annex XIII does for batteries. It sets the mechanism: the Commission adopts a delegated act per product category, which is what actually fixes durability, reparability, recycled-content and Digital Product Passport requirements for that category. That's why exact dates and field sets for categories after batteries are described as "set by their delegated act" rather than fixed today — because legally, they aren't fixed until that act is adopted.
Even though the specifics vary, ESPR structures every delegated act around the same kinds of ecodesign parameters: durability and reliability, reusability and upgradability, reparability and ease of maintenance, presence of substances that hinder recycling, energy and resource efficiency, recycled content, and expected environmental footprint. That consistency is exactly why a data model built around model-level and item-level records — the same shape we use for batteries — extends to every category without a rebuild. See how that plays out per category on our industries page.
The Commission's ESPR working plan has named several priority product groups for early delegated acts, including textiles & apparel, furniture, electronics & ICT equipment, and tyres. Construction products sit alongside ESPR under the related Construction Products Regulation (EU) 2024/3110. None of these have Annex XIII's level of legal specificity yet — that's what each delegated act will fix.
Every category under ESPR reports into the same central EU registry used for batteries — live since 19 July 2026 — which stores identifiers, not passport data. That shared infrastructure is part of why building for one category first, properly, is a reasonable way to be ready for the rest. Read our Digital Product Passport guide for how the registry and hosting model works.
Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation — Regulation (EU) 2024/1781, published in the Official Journal on 28 June 2024 and in force since 18 July 2024.
Not directly. Batteries are covered by their own dedicated law, the Battery Regulation (EU) 2023/1542, which takes precedence as lex specialis. ESPR applies to other product categories as the Commission brings them into scope.
Through a delegated act specific to that category, which sets the exact ecodesign requirements and Digital Product Passport data fields. ESPR is a framework regulation — it sets the process for adding categories, not a fixed list of fields for every one of them.
The Commission's working plan has named textiles, furniture, electronics and ICT equipment, and tyres among early priority categories, alongside construction products under the related Construction Products Regulation.
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