Regulatory updates, market analysis and technical commentary on EU Digital Product Passport and ESPR compliance. Written by Stefano Cipriani — CIRPASS-2 Expert Member and JRC Registered Stakeholder — directly from the working groups where the rules are being written.
The Digital Product Passport market has 30+ providers. None of them — including the best-funded — solve the per-garment mass balance problem that ESPR actually requires. Here is why, and what it means for brands preparing for 2028.
This is a falsifiable thesis: ask them to show you an access endpoint for market surveillance authorities. You’ll see what happens.
SubstackThe battery passport is shipping in February 2027. The fashion passport is not — and the architecture that worked for one industry cannot be copy-pasted onto the other.
SubstackA UN/CEFACT UNTP 0.7.0 Digital Product Passport, issued from Prato and publicly verifiable.
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