Breaking down the DPP regulation
The Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) has laid the legal groundwork for digital product identities in the EU market. Products such as textiles and footwear will need a Digital Product Passport (DPP) carrying verified data on areas such as materials, sustainability, and recyclability. Compliance deadlines differ by product category, and the requirements keep evolving.
In this video series, Kezzler’s Chief Commercial Officer Cyrus Gilbert-Rolfe and Trimco Group’s Compliance & Sustainability Director Camilla Mjelde sit down to cut through the DPP’s complexity. Each one-minute episode digs into the latest developments and questions around the regulation.
Kezzler’s partnership with Trimco
DPP compliance touches every part of the textile and footwear value chain, from raw material data to the label sewn into the finished garment. No single technology covers all of it.
That’s why Kezzler partnered with Trimco Group, a global leader in brand identity, supply chain traceability, and RFID technology. Watch the video below to learn more about the partnership.
Episode 1: Where are we?
The Digital Product Passport regulation has a timeline — but it’s tighter than it looks. In this episode of the DPP minute, Camilla and Cyrus break down where the DPP process actually stands today: what the EU Joint Research Centre’s third milestone report means, when the delegated act is expected, and why November 2027 plus 18 months is not as much runway as it sounds. If you’re waiting for the final spec before you start planning, this episode is your wake-up call.
Episode 2: When 15 became 7
The JRC’s third milestone report brought a meaningful change to the DPP framework for apparel: data categories reduced from 15 to 7, and performance requirements replaced by information requirements. In this episode, Camilla from Trimco explains what the seven areas are, why repairability coming off the list is a bigger deal than it sounds, and what this means for brands that are still figuring out where to start.
Episode 3: From robustness to durability
Durability was too hard to measure, so the JRC replaced it with robustness — a category that already has standardized test reports behind it. In this episode of the DPP minute, we explain what robustness means in the context of the DPP, how garments will be scored, and why most brands already have more of this data than they think. The real work now is getting it structured and finding the gaps before 2027.
Episode 4: Maintenance and repair
The JRC’s milestone report ties maintenance directly to the ongoing Textile Labelling Revision, meaning fiber content and care icon requirements will follow whatever the TLR finalizes. Repair gets simpler: the JRC recommends dropping it as a regulatory requirement entirely, leaving it as a commercial decision for brands.
Episode 5: Environmental impact
The JRC’s latest direction narrows environmental impact dramatically: from a product’s full lifecycle down to the manufacturing stage, and from there down to carbon emissions only. It’s an information requirement, not a performance one, scored against a baseline.
Episode 6: Substances of concern
Substance of concern is a major category in the ESPR overall, but for textiles, much of it is already covered by REACH and the upcoming PFAS regulation.
Episode 7: The three design options
The JRC has grouped its seven key assessment areas into three design options, ranging from the most complex, four DPP data points, to the simplest, just one: recycled content. The European Commission still has to choose between them.
Episode 8: Granularity: model, batch, or item?
Model, batch, or item? It turns out that’s not the JRC’s call to make. The design options point toward style and model-level data, but for categories like chemical compliance, serialization could make more sense.
Episode 9: DPP in China
The EU isn’t the only one building a Digital Product Passport for apparel. China is working on one too, and it might land first.
We help shape the standard
Kezzler is an active contributor to CIRPASS-2, the EU initiative defining the infrastructure standards for the Digital Product Passport, and to CEN-CENELEC, the European standardization body developing the technical specifications that underpin DPP implementation. Because our teams are actively involved in writing the technical specifications, our solution reflects how the regulation is designed to work in practice.
