Digital Product Passport timeline: every deadline from 2024 to 2030

Quick answer. As of August 2026: the ESPR framework, the EU DPP registry, and the destruction ban on unsold apparel are in force. The textile delegated act is expected in 2027, which puts the first mandatory textile passports around mid to late 2028. Batteries go first, in February 2027. The UK has no domestic deadline yet. This page tracks every date and is updated as each milestone lands.

Regulatory timelines drift. Adoption dates slip, transition windows get argued over, and a post written in one quarter reads stale two quarters later. This page takes the opposite approach: one timeline, kept current, with a change log at the bottom so you can see exactly what moved and when. Bookmark it rather than screenshot it.

Dates below are split into what is binding law, what is scheduled, and what is expected but not yet committed. The difference matters: build your compliance plan on the first two, and sanity-check it against the third.

In force today

• 18 July 2024: ESPR in force. The Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (2024/1781) is the framework everything else hangs off. It creates the Digital Product Passport as a legal instrument but delegates the product-specific rules to later acts.
• 19 July 2026: EU central DPP registry live. The database every passport must register against is operational. Sectors whose delegated acts publish from here on plug into live infrastructure rather than waiting for it.
• 19 July 2026: destruction ban on unsold apparel and footwear. Large enterprises may no longer destroy unsold clothing, footwear, or accessories in the EU. Medium enterprises follow in 2030; micro and small enterprises are exempt. This is the first ESPR obligation with teeth for the textile sector, and it applies now.
• 1 July 2026: California SB 707 producer registration open. Any producer with over 1 million dollars in annual global sales placing textiles on the California market can now register with the approved Producer Responsibility Organisation. Registration is the first compliance step of the first statewide textile EPR programme in the US.

Scheduled and dated

• Second half of 2026: EU public consultation on the textile delegated act. The impact assessment has been running through 2026 and the public consultation window is the next formal step. Responding to it is the one chance textile SMBs get to shape the field list before it is fixed.
• 18 February 2027: battery passport mandatory. Industrial and EV batteries placed on the EU market must carry a digital passport under the Battery Regulation (2023/1542). Watch this regime closely: the registry behaviour, data-carrier conventions, and enforcement posture set the precedent textiles will inherit.
• 2027: textile delegated act adoption. The ESPR Working Plan 2025-2030 lists textiles and apparel for adoption in 2027 (indicative). The act fixes the data fields, the SME tiers, and the compliance clock.
• April 2028: textile EPR operational in every EU member state. Under the revised Waste Framework Directive, each member state must run an operational textile extended-producer-responsibility scheme by this date. Producer registration and fee obligations apply per state where you sell.
• Mid to late 2028: first operative textile DPP deadline (expected). Adoption in 2027 plus the minimum 18-month transition lands here for large enterprises. SMEs are expected to follow in 2028-2029 with simplified or staged obligations.
• 2030: SB 707 full implementation and the EU destruction ban for medium enterprises. California's programme reaches full operation, and the EU unsold-goods ban extends down a size band.

Expected but not yet committed

• UK Textiles EPR consultation. The WRAP blueprint (January 2026) set out ten design principles, and the government's Circular Economy Growth Plan is the vehicle expected to commit a timetable. A formal DEFRA consultation is the likely next step. Details and what to do now are in the UK Textiles EPR guide.
• UK scheme operation, 2029-2030. A working assumption rather than a date. The EU's April 2028 member-state deadline is the reference point the UK scheme will be measured against.
• New York Fashion Act. Not passed in the 2026 session; re-introduction is likely. Brands over the 100-million-dollar revenue threshold doing business in New York should plan as if it returns.
• FTC Green Guides revision. Proposed in 2022, still pending, and repeatedly delayed. Enforcement under the existing 2012 guides continues in the meantime.

US brands tracking their own domestic obligations alongside these dates will find them collected in the US textile compliance checklist, with the EU-facing duties in ESPR for US textile brands.

How to plan against this timeline

The order of work is set by lead time, not by deadline order. Tier-2 supplier data collection takes 6 to 12 months to establish, which means a brand that waits for the textile delegated act to publish before starting has already spent most of its transition window. The month-by-month ESPR playbook turns these dates into a working plan, and the country-by-country guide covers what each market asks for beyond the EU. For a UK-specific starting point, begin with the UK DPP guide.

Where Filovera fits

Filovera issues Digital Product Passports for textile SMBs against the EU data model, so the dates above arrive as configuration changes rather than projects. When the textile delegated act fixes the final field list, passports issued on Filovera update to it; the supplier data you collected in the meantime carries over.

Change log

• 25 August 2026: page created. Registry launch and destruction ban recorded as in force. Textile delegated act consultation noted as expected in the second half of 2026, adoption in 2027, first operative deadline mid to late 2028.