Your iron and steel passport ready before it must be
A digital product passport for iron and steel is coming. The date is not yet fixed — those who start now will only need a button later.
Expected around 2028. This date is not yet fixed: ESPR work plan 2025-2030: first delegated act expected in 2026, obligations eighteen months later. Once the act is published, the date will be shown here.
What must be in the passport
13 mandatory fields for this product group. We retrieve what you already have, and request the rest from your suppliers.
GTIN or other article number
Source: ESPR Annex III
Model designation
Source: ESPR Annex III
Manufacturer
Source: ESPR Annex III
Address of the manufacturer
Source: ESPR Annex III
Production date or batch
Source: ESPR Annex III
Country of production
Source: ESPR Annex III
Declaration of conformity
Source: ESPR Article 9
Substances of concern
Source: ESPR Annex III
What must happen at end of life
Source: ESPR Annex III
From catalogue to passport
- The product scan. You provide your catalogue — an export from your inventory system is enough. We classify each product in its group and show what is missing per product.
- Supplement. What you know yourself, you fill in. For supply chain data we send one request per supplier — not four separate emails about the same product.
- Publish. The passport goes live at its own address, with a QR code that you place on the product or packaging.
- Maintain. If anything changes, the passport changes with it — and the old version is retained. That must be: in a recall, the question is always what was there on the day of sale.
Latest articles
Will supervision of the digital product passport change this year already?
The regulation is in place, but it has not yet been determined everywhere in the Netherlands who will actually carry out inspections. This article looks at a r
Read more →The most common mistake when recording the digital product passport in steel purchasing contracts
Many companies include the digital product passport too late or too vaguely in their steel purchasing contracts. This article shows
Read more →What documents do I need if I process steel into a new product?
An overview of the documents that belong to a digital product passport when you process raw steel into a different product, and wha
Read more →When is your product group due?
Not all groups at once. Batteries have a fixed date in their own regulation; for the rest, a delegated act determines when it is time, and that has not yet been established. What is called "expected" below is therefore not a deadline.
| Batteries | 18 February 2027 | fixed date in the regulation |
| Iron and steel | expected around 2028 | awaiting the delegated act |
| Aluminium | expected around 2029 | awaiting the delegated act |
| Textiles and clothing | expected around 2029 | awaiting the delegated act |
| Tyres | expected around 2029 | awaiting the delegated act |
| Furniture | expected around 2030 | awaiting the delegated act |
| Mattresses | expected around 2030 | awaiting the delegated act |
| Electronics and ICT | expected around 2030 | awaiting the delegated act |
The answer is already there
With the reference in the regulation, so you can check it yourself. Everything is free to read.
Does the digital product passport apply to my steel?
Read the answer →When does the product passport become mandatory for steel?
Read the answer →Who is responsible for the steel product passport?
Read the answer →What data is included in the steel product passport?
Read the answer →My supplier does not provide the data — what can I do?
Read the answer →How do I approach the product passport for steel step by step?
Read the answer →One entry fee, then a subscription
Entry
one-time · excl. VAT
Subscription
per month · excl. VAT
Included
passports per year
Need more passports? Then the tier in which your number falls applies — view the scale.
Are you in multiple groups? Start at prodpas.eu
This site covers one product group. If your assortment falls into multiple groups — and for importers that is more rule than exception — you create on prodpas.eu product passports for all eight groups from one account. One subscription, one login, and a product that falls into two groups you enter once with two passport layers.
Are you already a customer here and want to switch? Then you only pay the difference in registration fee — € 250.00 — and the passports you have already settled go with you. You do not pay twice for the same step.