The DPP space — without the noise.
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.
Europe Just Made the 44% Illegal: The Fragmented Reality of EU Anti-Greenwashing Enforcement
In Italy, from 27 September 2026, an undocumented per-garment recycled or organic claim is no longer just a marketing risk. The same is happening in Europe.
The Fashion Press Has a DPP Problem: It is not covering it.
A recap of Fashion Industry media coverage on one of the bigger challenges that will impact the whole network.
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Most "ESPR-ready" DPP claims have never been put through the actual conformance tooling.
Develop a DPP meant develop an enforcement tool, not a product.
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The RAG Stack Behind Reeco
A Technical Assessment Against the 2026 Production Baseline
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The certificates were all valid. (44% of the material was not)
A three-year audit of 656,309 yards and what it reveals about the structural gap in textile DPP verification.
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The Ladder Has a Sixth Rung. It Just Isn't Where You'd Expect It.
Applying the Bernier–Hbeich interoperability ladder to textile DPP — and what semantic interoperability still does not verify.
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Issuing a DPP Is a Convergence Problem.
Here Is the Actual List of Streams That Must Close on the Same Date.
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Fake It Until You Make It
How "DPP" became the most abused word in textile compliance — and why non compliant companies will pay the price.
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The Data Is Already in the Box
Every bulk shipment in the textile industry arrives with a Lab Test Report. That report contains the Durability Index. No one has been computing it — until now.
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Most DPP providers who declare “ESPR readiness” have never read Annex III of the regulation in the context of an actual customs inspection.
This is a falsifiable thesis: ask them to show you an access endpoint for market surveillance authorities. You’ll see what happens.
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Why the fashion DPP is not the battery DPP
The 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.
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From Specification to Resolvable Artifact: Notes on the First Italian DPP
A UN/CEFACT UNTP 0.7.0 Digital Product Passport, issued from Prato and publicly verifiable.
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