Digital Product Passport
Create, manage and exchange standardized digital product information across the entire lifecycle of a product.
Quick facts
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The Digital Product Passport (DPP) is a sustainability initiative of the European Union under the legal basis of the European Union's Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR). A DPP is a digital record that provides standardized information about a product's origin, composition, environmental impact, and lifecycle. It creates transparency across value chains and enables organizations to share relevant product information with business partners, customers, and authorities.
The DPP use case in Catena-X enables the secure, sovereign, and standardized exchange of the data required for Digital Product Passports across company boundaries. Uniform processes and shared rules ensure an efficient process for all companies while allowing each participant to maintain full control over its data. This supports efficient collaboration across complex supply networks and helps organizations prepare for evolving regulatory requirements.
A DPP helps companies:
• Demonstrate compliance with regulatory requirements
• Improve product transparency and traceability
• Support circular economy initiatives
• Share sustainability information with customers and partners
• Enable efficient R-strategies: reuse, repair, remanufacturing, recycling, ...
First implementation in Catena-X: The first large-scale DPP implementation in Catena-X is the Battery Passport. Under the EU Battery Regulation, the first Digital Product Passports for certain battery categories will become mandatory from February 2027. Other priority product categories are supposed to follow quickly such as Iron and steel, energy-related products, Textiles, tyres, and aluminium, ICT products and more.
Key Features
- Full lifecycle tracking
- Standardized and secure data exchange
- Uniform processes and efficient partner collaboration
• Streamlines product data exchange across the entire supply chain.
• Reduces the administrative burden of managing multiple customers.
• Ensures secure, reliable, and trusted data sharing via standards.
• Automates validation to eliminate manual processing errors.
• Lowers operational costs through standardized digital workflows.
• Enhances transparency and compliance for all business partners.
• All Catena-X Use Cases in one interface.
• Simple to use
• Built on trust
• True interoperability
• Enables compliance with EU Battery Regulation and ESPR
• Supports interoperable data exchange within Catena-X
• Aggregates data across multi-tier supply chains
• Bridges data infrastructure and usable DPP applications
• Supports static and dynamic lifecycle data
• Enables secure, sovereign data sharing via EDCs
• Accelerates DPP readiness through proven pilots
• Reduces complexity of multi-party data integration
Worldwide, the fastest Catena-X BPN Release
- Provides a dedicated link to issueBPN via Cofinity-X ecosystem
- Issue BPN quickly through a simplified process at no additional cost
Global OEM data submission requirements fully addressed
- Global-standard data exchange, Catena-X certified solution provider (data exchange between certified solutions)
- Cofinity-X’ use case marketplace updates via Cofinity-X (provides customers with the latest information)
The only single-platform among Catena-X certified applications
- Core Setup from ECOPASS(DPP & BatteryPass) / PCF Exchange / CCM and more
- Diverse Usecaseapplications provided on a single platform
Enterprise data security
- To protect sensitive manufacturing data, on-premises or DMZ deployment is available
- Effortless OEM Compliance: Instantly meet incoming customer and regulatory requests for standardized product data by utilizing the certified Catena-X DPP Standard (CX-0143).
- Absolute Data Sovereignty: You decide exactly who sees what. Powered by the Eclipse Dataspace Components (EDC) framework, your proprietary manufacturing, material, and asset data remains strictly under your control.
- Plug-and-Play Connectivity: Connect effortlessly with your customers and your own suppliers using built-in Catena-X standards for Digital Twins (CX-0002) and Dataspace Connectivity (CX-0018).
- Trusted Business Networks: Seamlessly verify partner identity data and certificate authenticity using the Industry Core standards (CX-0126 and CX-0127).
- Reduced Complexity: Eliminate manual email chains and fragmented spreadsheets. View and share all required product passport assets in a single, unified interface.
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1. Join the Catena-X ecosystem
To getting started with Digital Product Passports (DPP) (as of today Battery Passport) in Catena-X, your company first needs to have an active registration to the Catena-X dataspace through Cofinity-X.
What you'll need:
- Register with Cofinity-X
- Complete company verification
- Receive your Business Partner Number (BPN) and the required Catena-X credentials
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2. Connect your systems
Before you can exchange data within the ecosystem, you need to set up your technical environment.
What you'll need
- An EDC connector (dataspace connector)
- Registration of your EDC connector in the Catena-X ecosystem
Explore EDC connectors on the Cofinity-X Marketplace
3. Identify the products in scope
Define which products require a Digital Product Passport (DPP) and which business objectives you want to address.
Examples:
- DPP for Battery Passport (Becoming mandatory for Batteries > 2kWh by EU-regulation starting February 18 2027)
- Sector-specific DPP requirements for textiles, aluminium and tyres (Q3–Q4 2027)
- DPP requirements for construction products and service providers (Q2 2027)
- ...
4. Get your DPP app
The Cofinity-X Marketplace hosts certified solution for the Battery Passport. Choose the app that meets your business needs:
5. Connect product and lifecycle data and create DPPs
Gather the information required for the Battery Passport across the product lifecycle.
Examples:
- Product identification
- Battery and material composition
- Sustainability information
- Product characteristics
- Commercial information
- Documents and certifications
- Performance, safety, conformity and lifecycle information
Transform the collected information into Catena-X-compliant passport data models and connect them to relevant Digital Twins of your products.
6. Share DPP information securely
Exchange passport data with customers, suppliers, authorities and service providers according to defined access rights and data sovereignty principles with the help of your EDC connector. Use passport information to support product transparency, sustainability reporting and regulatory compliance.
7. Scale across your network
Expand the DPP approach to additional suppliers, customers and production sites to improve sustainability and transparency throughout the supply chain.
1. Join the Catena-X ecosystem
Need help?
Further questions can be addressed either through our Help Center or through qualified consultants available in the Cofinity-X Marketplace. For technical details, standards and implementation guidance, please refer to the Catena-X Developer Kit.