Sustainability — Digital Product Passport
EU Digital Product Passport readiness for batteries, electronics and textiles — the same compliance-documentation discipline, applied to circularity data.
- EU ESPR
- DPP delegated acts (from 2027)
- EU Battery Regulation
- GS1 identifiers
- ISO 9001:2015
Advisory and implementation for the EU Digital Product Passport under ESPR, with requirements phasing in from 2027 for the EU's initial priority sectors — batteries, electronics and textiles. DPP is a data-traceability and compliance-documentation problem, which is precisely the discipline Crest already applies in CMP and QMS work. Delivered with our sustainability venture GreenX.
What this service covers
DPP readiness assessment
Which of your products fall in scope, under which delegated acts, on what timeline — and a gap analysis of your current product data against the data points a passport will require.
Data model & identifier design
Product data models covering composition, substances of concern, repairability and recycled content; unique identifier and data-carrier strategy (QR, RFID) aligned to emerging EU technical specifications and GS1 standards.
Traceability architecture
Mapping the supply-chain data flows that feed a passport — supplier declarations, batch and serial-level genealogy, factory systems — and the integration architecture that keeps passport data synchronised with production reality.
Compliance documentation
The evidence layer behind the passport: substantiating environmental claims, managing supplier attestations, and version-controlling passport data with the same rigour as a configuration management plan — because regulators will treat it that way.
Implementation with GreenX
Platform selection or build, systems integration with PLM/ERP, and pilot-to-rollout delivery in partnership with GreenX, Crest's sustainability venture focused on DPP.
The road to a compliant passport
The numbering below maps to actual engagement stages — each stage has an entry criterion, a deliverable and a decision point.
- Stage 01
Scope & regulatory mapping
Product portfolio screened against ESPR delegated acts and timelines; obligations mapped per product family so investment lands where enforcement starts.
- Stage 02
Data gap analysis
Required passport data points versus what your PLM, ERP and supplier records actually hold today — producing a costed data-acquisition plan.
- Stage 03
Data model & pilot
Passport data model and identifier scheme designed, then proven on one product family end to end — from supplier declaration to scannable passport.
- Stage 04
Rollout & operating process
Extension across the portfolio with the update, audit and supplier-onboarding processes that keep passports accurate after launch day — compliance as an operating routine, not a one-off project.
What you walk away with
- A per-product-family obligation map with dates you can plan investment against
- A passport data model and identifier strategy aligned to EU technical specifications
- A working pilot passport with the traceability pipeline behind it
- An operating process — ownership, updates, supplier onboarding — that survives audits
DPP engagements are delivered in partnership with GreenX, Crest's sustainability venture focused on Digital Product Passport platforms and EU ESPR compliance.
Discuss a digital product passport engagement
Tell us where you are — a tender requirement, a gap assessment finding, a product that needs building — and we'll respond with a concrete view on scope, approach and effort.