The Digital Product Passport (DPP) exists to help the EU move to a circular economy. In a circular economy, products stay in use longer and their materials are recovered instead of thrown away.
Repairing, reusing or recycling a product takes information that mostly sits with the business that made it. What is it made of? How does it come apart? Which parts can be replaced? The passport makes that information available to the people who need it later. A buyer can compare products before choosing one. A repairer can find spare parts and instructions. A recycler can see which materials and substances are inside. Authorities can check the product meets the rules.
Does the passport cut emissions?
Not by itself. The emission and resource savings come from the ecodesign rules each product group must meet, on durability, repairability or recycled content for example. The passport is how the data behind those rules travels with the product.
Where this comes from: Ecodesign Regulation (EU) 2024/1781, Articles 1 and 9.