Digital Product Passports for textiles and fashion
Bring the data of fabric mills, dye houses and garment makers into one record per style, and publish it as a passport.
- Legal basis
- Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (EU) 2024/1781; delegated act for textiles pending
- Status
- No passport obligation applies yet. The Commission’s working plan names 2027 as the indicative date for the textile act. The content of a textile passport is not final.
- Platform
- Available
Challenge
The challenge: many styles, long supply chains
A fashion brand launches hundreds of styles per season. The facts a passport is likely to ask for, such as exact fibre composition, substances of concern, recycled content or durability results, are held two or three steps up the chain by spinners, weavers, dye houses and garment factories.
The detailed requirements are still being written. Companies that wait for the final text will have to collect several seasons of data at once. Those that start now can build the routine with a manageable range and adjust the fields later.
Field set
Textile passport structure
| Textile passport structure | fields | Public | Legitimate interest | Authorities |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Identification | 5 | 5 | – | – |
| Manufacturer | 4 | 3 | – | 1 |
| Material | 2 | 2 | – | – |
| Durability | 5 | 4 | – | 1 |
| Chemical substances | 4 | 3 | 1 | – |
| Recycling | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| Organic content | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Environmental footprint | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| Σ | 32 | 23 | 4 | 5 |
Prototype after JRC draft, May 2026. Not law.
Functions
What the platform does for textiles today
- A textile field set, ready to use
- 32 fields in eight sections, from identification to environmental performance, modelled on a draft study for textiles. It is a prototype, not a legal template.
- Requests to mills and makers
- Ask each supplier for the fields they own, for example substances from the dye house and fibre shares from the mill.
- Audience per field
- Fibre composition is public; conformity evidence is reserved for authorities. You can change the audience per field.
- Passport and QR code per style
- Publish the passport and place the code on the care label, hangtag or packaging.
Process
Use case: a seasonal collection
A brand prepares passports for 40 styles of a new collection.
Create the styles
Product records are created with GTIN, category and the data the brand already has.
Ask the supply chain
The readiness matrix shows that chemical and durability fields are empty. Requests go to the dye house and the garment maker.
Review the answers
Product development checks the submitted values and approves them, or sends a request back.
Publish with the delivery
When the required fields are complete, passports are published and the codes go to label printing.
Data
Typical data
- Fibre composition and components
- Substances of concern and safe use
- Durability and care
- Recycled and organic content
- Recyclability and disassembly
- Manufacturer and facility identifiers
Benefits
What you gain
- A realistic picture of how complete your data is, style by style
- A supplier routine that is in place before a deadline is set
- Fields that can be adjusted when the final act is published
- One place for the answers to retailer and customer questions
The textile field set follows a draft, not adopted law. We adapt it when the delegated act is published.
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Model, batch and item level
Three audiences per field
Versioned publication
Hosted in Germany