Glossary

DPP glossary

The terms you'll meet in Digital Product Passport legislation and projects.

BIM: Building Information Modelling, which the CPR passport must interoperate with.
Central registry: EU registry storing DPP identifiers (ESPR Art. 13), due 19 July 2026.
Data carrier: The physical means of accessing a passport, such as a QR code, NFC tag or RFID.
Delegated act: Commission legislation that sets product-specific requirements under ESPR.
DPP: Digital Product Passport — a structured digital record linked to a product via a data carrier.
DPP service provider: Third party hosting or processing passport data on behalf of an operator.
Economic operator: Manufacturer, importer, distributor or other party responsible for a product.
EN 18216 series: European DPP standards published in 2026.
EPCIS: GS1 standard for sharing lifecycle event data.
EPD: Environmental Product Declaration, common in construction.
EPREL: EU energy-label product database — not the same as a DPP.
ESPR: Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (EU) 2024/1781, the DPP framework law.
Granularity: Whether a passport applies per model, batch or individual item.
GS1 Digital Link: Standard for expressing GS1 identifiers as web URIs inside QR codes.
GTIN: Global Trade Item Number — GS1 identifier for a product class.
JTC 24: CEN/CENELEC committee writing horizontal DPP standards.
Legitimate interest: Battery-passport access level for repairers, remanufacturers and recyclers.
LMT battery: Light means of transport battery, e.g. e-bikes and e-scooters.
Omnibus IV: 2025 EU simplification package that delayed battery due diligence to 2027.
Resolver: Service that routes a scanned identifier to the right content.
SLI battery: Starter, lighting and ignition battery — no passport required.
Unique product identifier: A persistent code identifying a model, batch or item.
Verifiable credential: W3C standard for cryptographically provable claims.
Working plan: ESPR Working Plan 2025–2030, setting indicative priority product dates.