Timeline
When passports arrive, year by year.
Batteries come first, in February 2027. Detergents, toys and vehicles follow on dates their own laws set, and the Commission plans acts for more product groups, each of which will set its own passport date.
Every entry says where it comes from:
- From the text stated in the law's text
- Our assumption our reading, with no text that states it
- Commission planan indicative year, not a law
Year by year
From the framework to the last dated passport.
2024
18 July 2024
The EU passport framework comes into force
The Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation sets up digital product passports. Each product group gets its own rules, and its passport date, through a later Commission act.
From the textRegulation (EU) 2024/1781, Article 80
2026
15 July 2026
Six European passport standards are cited
Following them gives a presumption that the requirements they cover are met.
From the textImplementing Decision (EU) 2026/1736
19 July 2026
Large companies may no longer destroy unsold clothes and shoes
The ban covers unsold clothing, clothing accessories and footwear. It needs no passport.
From the textRegulation (EU) 2024/1781, Article 25
19 July 2026
The EU registry of passports is due
The Commission's directory records where each registered passport lives, not what it says. The Regulation required it by this date.
From the textRegulation (EU) 2024/1781, Article 13
- Today, 5 October 2026
Planned for 2026
Iron and steel: Commission act planned
The act that will set this group's rules and its passport date.
Commission planEcodesign and Energy Labelling Working Plan 2025 to 2030, COM(2025) 187
2027
18 February 2027
For electric-vehicle batteries, light-transport batteries and industrial batteries over 2 kWh.
From the textRegulation (EU) 2023/1542
Planned for 2027
Textiles: Commission act planned
The act that will set this group's rules and its passport date.
Commission planEcodesign and Energy Labelling Working Plan 2025 to 2030, COM(2025) 187
Planned for 2027
The act that will set this group's rules and its passport date.
Commission planEcodesign and Energy Labelling Working Plan 2025 to 2030, COM(2025) 187
Planned for 2027
Aluminium: Commission act planned
The act that will set this group's rules and its passport date.
Commission planEcodesign and Energy Labelling Working Plan 2025 to 2030, COM(2025) 187
2028
Planned for 2028
Furniture: Commission act planned
The act that will set this group's rules and its passport date.
Commission planEcodesign and Energy Labelling Working Plan 2025 to 2030, COM(2025) 187
2029
23 September 2029
For the first year, products that meet the old rules may still be placed on the market without one.
From the textRegulation (EU) 2026/405
Planned for 2029
Mattresses: Commission act planned
The act that will set this group's rules and its passport date.
Commission planEcodesign and Energy Labelling Working Plan 2025 to 2030, COM(2025) 187
2030
19 July 2030
The unsold goods rules reach medium-sized companies
The ban on destroying unsold clothes and shoes, and the yearly report on discarded unsold goods, apply to medium-sized companies too.
From the textRegulation (EU) 2024/1781, Articles 24 and 25
1 August 2030
For every toy placed on the EU market.
From the textRegulation (EU) 2025/2509
2032
1 September 2032
Each new vehicle needs a vehicle passport of its own, which must work with its battery passport.
From the textRegulation (EU) 2026/1738
No date yet
Passports the law requires, with no date to act on yet.
The act requires a passport, but leaves when to a later Commission act that has not been adopted yet.
Construction Products Regulation
Reading a plan year
A planned act is not a passport date.
The Commission's working plan gives an indicative year for adopting each product group's act. The act then sets the rules and the passport date, which as a rule falls at least 18 months after the act comes into force. So a group whose act is planned for 2027 would, as a rule, need passports no earlier than the second half of 2028. Plan years can also move.
The plan years here are from the Ecodesign and Energy Labelling Working Plan 2025 to 2030, COM(2025) 187. Each act, once adopted, appears on the regulations page with its date, and this timeline updates with it.