Digital Product Passport is a digital identity card for products, components, and materials, which will store relevant information to support products’ sustainability, promote their circularity and strengthen legal compliance.
Many unsold products in the EU are simply destroyed, a practice that wastes valuable resources. For the first time in the EU, the ESPR introduces measures to address this practice by introducing a ban on the destruction of unsold textiles and footwear, opening the way for similar bans in other sectors if evidence shows they are needed.
The ESPR will help steer these funds in a more sustainable direction by enabling mandatory Green Public Procurement rules to be set for specific products. Under those rules, public authorities who purchase the products concerned will be required to purchase products that meet the highest levels of performance in terms of sustainability and circularity.
