The Digital Product Passport for furniture

Where the furniture passport stands

The regulation names no products; the Commission's working plan of 16 April 2025 does, and furniture is on it, next to textiles, tyres, mattresses, iron and steel, and aluminium. The furniture delegated act is the step that will fix the data set, the identifier rules and the date after which a piece of furniture cannot be placed on the EU market without a passport. What already applies is the frame: the passport articles (arts. 9 to 11) and the central registry (art. 13) bind a group as soon as its act does, and the operator duties of articles 27 to 35 — manufacturer, importer, distributor, dealer, marketplace — are written for every group at once. The Commission's published DPP timeline puts the furniture delegated act in 2028, after iron and steel (Q4 2026) and textiles (Q3–Q4 2027). The ESPR fact sheet keeps the full calendar.

What a furniture passport will have to carry

The regulation fixes the frame: a resolvable product identifier, the economic operators behind the product, and the Annex III data categories. The delegated act fills in the furniture-specific content. Working from the regulation, Annex III and the fields Listrar's furniture profile already models, a furniture record is built to hold:

• Product identity as a resolvable identifier: a GS1 Digital Link address derived from the GTIN, so the code on the product leads to the passport
• Durability rating, the parameter Listrar's furniture profile carries alongside carbon footprint, on the scale the delegated act will set
• Carbon footprint of the product, declared against a stated method
• Material composition by component: wood, board, metal, foam, textile covering, with recycled content where it is claimed
• Substances of very high concern above 0.1 %, as REACH article 33 already requires for any article
• Repairability and recyclability, as the Annex III data categories describe them
• The operators responsible for the product: manufacturer, importer, authorised representative

Other rules that meet at the same record

REACH, article 33

Furniture is an article under REACH, and its components — foams, coatings, treated wood, textile coverings — each need checking against the Candidate List. Above 0.1 % the customer must be told, a consumer answered within 45 days, and the article notified to the SCIP database. The substance field of a furniture passport is that disclosure, kept current as the list grows twice a year.

Green claims

Claims about recycled wood, certified forestry or a lower footprint fall under the consumer rules that Directive (EU) 2024/825 tightens from 27 September 2026: a generic claim with nothing behind it becomes a liability. In Listrar a claim carries its substantiation level in the open.

Supply-chain due diligence

Wood and upholstery chains are long, and the CSRD and CSDDD turn what a company says about them into reported, audited data. The operators and origin fields of a furniture record are the same facts, held at product level.

Product safety

Furniture sold to consumers already falls under the GPSR: a responsible economic operator inside the EU, traceability, and recall mechanics that reach buyers. A passport that resolves is how a dealer or a marketplace checks those facts before a listing goes live.

What a Listrar furniture record holds today

Listrar stores regulation-defined attributes as data rather than columns, so the furniture profile can take the delegated act's data set when it is published, without a migration. Today a furniture record already carries identity, material composition, the durability and carbon-footprint fields, substance disclosure under REACH, and the operators behind the product, each field with its source, verifier and validity window. Brands and manufacturers register the record; suppliers of boards, foams and fittings answer the composition questions once, with evidence, and reuse the answer for every customer.