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Detergents: getting ready for the passport.

What to have ready before issuing passports for detergents, from the same records as the rest of this site. Print it or save it as a PDF. It is a starting point, not legal advice.

About detergents in Odal

  1. Does it need a passport, and from when?

    • Yes, required from 23 September 2029

      For the first year, products that meet the old rules may still be placed on the market without one.

      From the text

    Detergents Regulation (EU) 2026/405

  2. Who is responsible

    The duty sits with whoever places the product on the EU market, usually the manufacturer. Where a passport is required, it has to exist before the product is sold, and stay available for years afterwards.

  3. What the passport carries

    This is the passport as the software builds it for detergents. It describes what is modelled, not what the law requires: the act for this product group sets that.

    Kinds of product it tells apart: Laundry, Dishwashing, Surface cleaner, Personal care.

    Parts not shown to the public: none yet; everything is public for now.

  4. On the product

    A data carrier, such as a QR code, that links to the passport. The act for the product group says which carrier to use and where it goes.

  5. Questions to settle inside your company

    • Where does this product data live today?Spreadsheets, a product or ERP system, or supplier documents. The node imports CSV and Excel files, including exports from an ERP.
    • Which of your web domains will carry your company's identity?Anyone who checks a passport checks its signature against an identity published on your own web domain.
    • Who in your company may sign passports?The signing key is generated and held on your own infrastructure, so someone has to be responsible for it.
    • Who will run the node, and where?It runs on your own infrastructure, or on a cloud you control.
    • Who will ask to read the parts that are not public?Repairers, recyclers and authorities read those parts, each on a credential.
    • Who keeps the passports available after the product is sold?A passport has to stay available for years after the product is sold.

Next step

Talk to us about detergents.

Odal Node is software you run yourself to issue, sign and publish your passports. Tell us what you make and how you keep its data today, and we will tell you where the software stands for detergents.

Email us about detergentsCheck another product

Or write to contact@odal-node.io. We aim to reply within a week.

From odal-node.io/product-groups/detergent/checklist. Not legal advice.