Digital Product Passport and GS1 guides
We read the regulations, the standards and 100+ vendor offerings — so you don't have to. Start with these.
ESPR Guide The Complete Guide to ESPR & Digital Product Passports 
Textile Textile DPP: The Data You'll Need to Provide 
Batteries Battery Passport: Ready for February 2027? 
DPP guide What Is a Digital Product Passport? 2026 Guide 
Manufacturers Digital Product Passport for Non-EU Manufacturers 
2D barcodes Switching to 2D Barcodes: A Manufacturer's 2027 Roadmap 
GS1 GS1 Digital Link vs QR Code: What's the Difference? 
Textile Textile DPP Checklist for Exporting Suppliers 
Customs Digital Product Passports at EU Customs: How Checks Work Batteries EU Battery Regulation Due Diligence: The 2027 Rules Deforestation EUDR Due Diligence: What Exporters Must File Due diligence CSDDD After Omnibus: Who It Binds and When ESPR Guide ESPR Working Plan: Which Products Come First Batteries Battery Carbon Footprint: The Article 7 Rules Manufacturers DPP and SMEs: Which Rules Actually Exempt You Construction Products GS1 2D Codes in Construction: What the CPR Asks For, and When DPP Implementation Digital Product Passport Implementation: An Eight-Step Plan Mapped to the Law DPP Registry The EU Digital Product Passport (DPP) Registry: What It Is, Who Registers, and Its Real Status GS1 GS1 Digital Link Resolver: How It Answers Every Scan, and How to Test One Supplier Data Digital Product Passport Supplier Data: How to Request, Contract and Verify It DPP Benefits Digital Product Passport Benefits: An Owner, a Data Set and a Link for Each DPP Data Digital Product Passport Data Requirements: What to Collect, Where It Lives, Who Owns It DPP Granularity Digital Product Passport Granularity: How to Choose Model, Batch or Item Level Steel DPP Steel Digital Product Passport: What Mills, Stockholders and Service Centres Can Do Now Carbon Footprint Product Carbon Footprint for a Digital Product Passport: Eight Steps to a Verified Value What a Digital Product Passport is
A Digital Product Passport is a structured digital record of a product — its identity, materials, compliance documents and end-of-life information — reached through a data carrier on the product, usually a QR code. The EU is making it mandatory step by step: batteries from 18 February 2027 under the Battery Regulation, then product group by product group under the ESPR framework.
GS1 sits alongside it rather than inside it: the same square on the pack can carry a GS1 Digital Link, so one code serves both the checkout and the passport. That convergence is why these guides cover both subjects rather than one.
Which guide to start with
If you supply European buyers and want to know what will be asked of you, start with the passport guide and then your own category. If you are planning the work itself, start with the eight-step implementation plan and the registry guide. If your question is the code on the pack rather than the data behind it, start with GS1 2D barcodes.