Acts and standards

This is the reference behind the website’s regulations page: every EU act and standard the code cites, grouped by what the software does with it, with the articles it relies on, and then the acts it does not apply yet but is preparing for.

How this list was made

We searched the core library and the engine for every act and standard cited in source, schemas and rules, and kept only those the code acts on. We then checked EUR-Lex for every act adopted or proposed under the Batteries Regulation and ESPR, and under the other acts that create a passport, and kept those that bind a product group the software models, a feature on the roadmap, or the software itself. Acts cited only for background are listed separately at the end. It is not legal advice, and it is not a list of everything that applies to a product.

Acts that create or displace a passport

These are records in the core library’s instrument catalog, and the website’s regulations page is generated from them, with dates and where each date comes from.

Act	Passport provision the catalog rests on
Batteries Regulation (EU) 2023/1542	Art. 77(1), from 18 February 2027; access by Art. 77(2) and Annex XIII
Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (EU) 2024/1781	Art. 9(1), dated act by act through delegated acts; access by Art. 11(b)
Construction Products Regulation (EU) 2024/3110	Art. 22(7): 18 months after the Art. 75(1) delegated act, not yet adopted
Detergents Regulation (EU) 2026/405	Art. 21(1), applying from 23 September 2029 (Art. 37); transition in Art. 36(2)
Toy Safety Regulation (EU) 2025/2509	Art. 19(1), applying from 1 August 2030 (Art. 59)
End-of-Life Vehicles Regulation (EU) 2026/1738	Art. 13(1): a vehicle passport from 1 September 2032
Delegated Regulation (EU) 2026/296 and Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/2	No passport: the unsold-goods destruction derogations and disclosure format
Regulations (EU) 2023/1670 and 2023/1669	No passport: product information goes to EPREL
Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (EU) 2025/40	No passport: a shared data carrier only

Acts the software applies

Signing and seals

Act	Relied on for	What the code does
eIDAS, Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 as amended	Art. 3(27) qualified seal; Art. 22 trusted lists; Art. 32 applied to seals by Art. 40; Art. 42 qualified time stamps	Seals published passports (its local sealer makes full long-term seals, marked as not qualified) and reports whether a seal is qualified; until the operator’s company holds a qualified certificate, every seal says it is not, and so carries none of the Art. 35(2) presumptions
Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/248	Annex I reference formats; Annex II formats lawful until February 2028	Makes seals in CAdES (ETSI EN 319 122-1); JAdES headers carry the certificate chain (x5c)
Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1945	Validation of qualified seals, including revocation freshness	The seal audit reports in ETSI EN 319 102-1 terms, and treats “cannot be read” as its own result, not a failure
Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/1505, as amended by (EU) 2025/2164	Annex I trusted-list signature profile	Reads and verifies the EU trusted lists to check who issued a seal’s certificate

The EU registry and standards

Act	Relied on for	What the code does
Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1778	Art. 8(3) granularity; Art. 8(7)(c)–(d) fields the registry checks; Art. 9(2)(a) proof of registration; commodity codes	Models registration and the identifiers the registry checks; registering for real needs the operator’s legal identity, and the live connection is not finished yet
Implementing Decision (EU) 2026/1736, with ESPR Art. 41(2)	The six harmonised passport standards and their presumption of conformity	Identifiers follow EN 18219, in three of its schemes, and earlier passport versions are kept as EN 18221 describes; see Harmonised standards

Who answers for a product

Act	Relied on for	What the code does
Market Surveillance Regulation (EU) 2019/1020	Art. 4(4) operator contact details; Art. 4(5) product scope	Records the responsible economic operator in the EU and the basis they are named under, as ESPR Annex III(k) requires
General Product Safety Regulation (EU) 2023/988	Art. 15, as ESPR Annex III(k) cites it (the responsible-person provision itself is Art. 16)	An alternative basis for the same record; a third is “similar tasks pursuant to other Union law”

Substances

Act	Relied on for	What the code does
REACH, Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006	Art. 33(1), the 0.1 % w/w threshold	Records substances of very high concern and checks declarations against a compiled part of the candidate list (32 substances), flagging that the list is partial
RoHS Directive 2011/65/EU	Annex II restricted substances	The phone and tablet record notes compliance

Product information

Act	Relied on for	What the code does
Tyre Labelling Regulation (EU) 2020/740	Annex I label classes; Part C noise bands against the Regulation (EC) No 661/2009 limits	Tyre passports carry fuel efficiency, wet grip and noise classes
Energy Labelling Regulation (EU) 2017/1369	Art. 12, the EPREL product database	The phone and tablet record carries the energy class; EPREL is the system that displaces a passport for them
Critical Raw Materials Act (EU) 2024/1252	The list of critical raw materials	Battery passports and the phone and tablet record list the ones a product contains

Unsold goods and end of life

Act	Relied on for	What the code does
Combined Nomenclature, Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87	Annex I product codes, as Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/2 Art. 3 requires	Groups discarded products by CN code
Waste Framework Directive 2008/98/EC	Art. 3(15)–(19): recovery, preparing for reuse, recycling, disposal	Treatment categories in the unsold-goods disclosure; a product’s waste status at end of life
Company Law Directive (EU) 2017/1132	The European unique identifier (EUID)	Identifies the undertaking in the unsold-goods disclosure

Acts the software is preparing for

The code applies none of these today. Each binds a product group the software models, a feature on the roadmap, or the software itself. Drafts and proposals are listed as they stand on EUR-Lex and may change before adoption.

Act	Status	Why it is here
Draft Delegated Regulation on the carbon footprint of electric vehicle batteries, Ares(2024)3131389	Draft, under Batteries Regulation Art. 7(1), fourth subparagraph, point (a)	The calculation method behind the carbon footprint a battery passport carries. The software calculates no battery carbon footprint before it is adopted
Draft Implementing Regulation on the format of the carbon footprint declaration, Ares(2024)3131449	Draft, under Art. 7(1), fourth subparagraph, point (b)	The declaration format that goes with the method
Commission proposal COM(2025) 504, amending Regulations (EU) 2023/1542, (EU) 2024/1781 and others as regards digitalisation and common specifications	Proposal, procedure 2025/0134(COD)	Where other Union law requires a digital product passport, the EU declaration of conformity and the instructions would be provided in it
Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1943	In force	Annex II: the reference standards for qualified certificates for electronic seals, including ETSI EN 319 412-3. A seal can be qualified only with such a certificate
Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/650	In force	Security assessment standards for qualified seal creation devices, for qualified seals and for keys held in hardware
Deforestation Regulation (EU) 2023/1115	In force	Annex I covers new pneumatic tyres of rubber (ex 4011), and Art. 4(2) requires a due diligence statement before they are placed on the market. The tyre product group does not record it
Cyber Resilience Act, Regulation (EU) 2024/2847	In force; Art. 14 reporting applies from 11 September 2026 and the rest from 11 December 2027 (Art. 71(2))	Cybersecurity requirements for products with digital elements. It concerns the software itself, not passport content

Commission guidance the code follows

Guidance is not law, but the code follows these documents where the acts leave the detail open, so the version matters.

• Digital Product Passport Registry User Guide, version 1.02 (24 August 2026). The identifier and field rules of the registry model.
• Digital battery passport data points by category. The battery rules follow version 1.0 (28 July 2026). Version 2.0 (15 August 2026) is current and is not yet reflected in them.
• Ecodesign for Sustainable Products and Energy Labelling Working Plan 2025-2030, COM(2025) 187. The order and indicative years of the product groups still to come.

Cited for background, not applied

• Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, Regulation (EU) 2023/956. The steel and aluminium checks use reference carbon values as warnings only. CBAM sets no per-product limit a passport is checked against.
• Accounting Directive 2013/34/EU, Arts. 19a and 29a. Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/2 Art. 2(2) lets an undertaking point its unsold-goods disclosure at its sustainability reporting instead. The software does not model that route yet.
• Earlier acts being replaced. Each is still in force while the act replacing it takes over in stages: Directive 2006/66/EC (batteries, by Regulation (EU) 2023/1542), Directive 2009/48/EC (toys, by Regulation (EU) 2025/2509), Regulation (EC) No 648/2004 (detergents, by Regulation (EU) 2026/405), Regulation (EU) No 305/2011 (construction, by Regulation (EU) 2024/3110), Directive 2009/125/EC (ecodesign, by Regulation (EU) 2024/1781) and Directive 2000/53/EC (end-of-life vehicles, by Regulation (EU) 2026/1738).
• Repealed acts, cited so the history reads correctly: Regulation (EC) No 1222/2009 (tyre labels) and Directive 1999/93/EC (electronic signatures).

Standards

The standards the code relies on, and what each is used for, are on Standards & interoperability.

Read next

• ESPR overview: the framework and where each product group stands.
• Access control: who may read which part of a passport.
• EU Central Registry: registration and its legal prerequisite.