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ESPR & DPP Guides

Last updated · 2026-06-08

Plain-English guides to the concepts behind ESPR and the Digital Product Passport: carbon and environmental footprints, sustainable design, the circular economy, how the old ecodesign directive became today’s regulation, how delegated acts work, and exactly what data a passport carries. Each guide is definition-first and sourced.

TL;DR

  • Seven guides covering the footprint, design and circular-economy concepts that underpin ESPR requirements.
  • Two comparison guides - PEF vs PCF, and the Ecodesign Directive vs ESPR - with side-by-side tables.
  • We flag what is in force today versus what is expected via not-yet-adopted delegated acts.
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ESPR & DPP, explained simply

Product Carbon Footprint

The life-cycle greenhouse-gas emissions of a single product, in CO2-equivalent.

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Product Environmental Footprint

The EU life-cycle method for a product’s environmental impacts - and how PEF differs from PCF.

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Sustainable Product Design

Designing products to minimise impact across their whole life cycle, and how ESPR makes it law.

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Circular Economy

Keeping materials and products in use as long as possible, and ESPR’s role in it.

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Ecodesign Directive vs ESPR

The history and a side-by-side comparison of the old directive and the new ESPR.

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ESPR Delegated Acts

How binding rules arrive per product group, and the 2025-2030 Working Plan sequence.

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DPP Data Requirements

What fields a Digital Product Passport carries and how it is accessed.

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