Digital Product Passport

The continuous delivery of relevant information in digital form over the entire life cycle of products and their components is intended to make repair, reuse, repurposing and recycling the norm instead of disposal. This is in line with the goal of a sustainable circular economy.

The Digital Product Passport (DPP), defined by the European Commission in the proposal for the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), is accordingly intended to become a key instrument for ecological and digital transformation.

The Digital Product Passport represents a challenge for the digital economy in Germany as well as in the EU, but at the same time it also offers opportunities. Bitkom and its members therefore support the DPP in principle and will support its implementation constructive.

This position paper addresses the discussion of some aspects of the DPP and some critical questions about them.

The German version of the position paper can also be downloaded here.