The Digital Product Passport for textiles and apparel

Where the textile passport stands

The regulation itself names no products. The working plan the Commission adopted on 16 April 2025 does: textiles and apparel are listed with furniture, tyres, mattresses, iron and steel, and aluminium as the first groups to receive delegated acts. The delegated act for textiles is the step that fixes the data set, the identifier rules and the date from which a textile product cannot be placed on the EU market without a passport. Until it is published, the dates to plan against are the ones the regulation already sets. The passport articles (arts. 9 to 11) and the central registry (art. 13) bind a group as soon as its act applies. The ban on destroying unsold apparel and footwear has applied to large companies since 19 July 2026, with medium-sized companies following in 2030. The Commission's published DPP timeline puts the textile delegated act in Q3–Q4 2027, after iron and steel (Q4 2026). The ESPR fact sheet keeps the full calendar.

What a textile passport will have to carry

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

• Product identity as a resolvable identifier: in practice a GS1 Digital Link address derived from the GTIN, so the code on the care label leads to the passport
• Fibre composition, with recycled content stated as a share and the evidence behind that share
• Carbon footprint of the product, declared against a stated method
• Substances of very high concern above 0.1 %, as REACH article 33 already requires today
• Durability, repairability and recyclability, as the Annex III data categories describe them, on the scale the textile act will set for each
• Country of manufacture and the operators responsible for the product: manufacturer, importer, authorised representative

Other rules that meet at the same record

REACH, article 33

A garment is an article under REACH: if it contains a Candidate List substance above 0.1 %, the customer must be told and a consumer answered within 45 days, and since 2021 the article must be notified to ECHA's SCIP database. The substance field of a textile passport is that same disclosure, kept current as the list grows.

Green claims

Recycled-content and lower-impact claims are common on textiles, and from 27 September 2026 Directive (EU) 2024/825 bans generic environmental claims that cannot be backed. In Listrar a claim carries its substantiation level in the open, so a self-declared share reads as self-declared.

UFLPA

For textiles sold into the United States, cotton origin is a border question: since June 2022 the UFLPA presumes goods linked to Xinjiang are made with forced labour unless the full chain is traced. Listrar's textile profile asks for the declared country of manufacture as the first origin evidence a record holds.

Unsold stock

ESPR article 25 bans large companies from destroying unsold apparel and footwear, in force since 19 July 2026, and article 24 requires the volumes discarded to be disclosed. Neither is a passport field; both are record-keeping duties the same operator owes.

What a Listrar textile record holds today

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