Textile DPP

Textiles are one of the product groups ESPR names for priority, but no textile passport is required yet: the delegated act that would require one has not been adopted.

Where textiles stand

ESPR Art. 18(5) lists “textiles, in particular garments and footwear” among the product groups the first working plan must prioritise. The Commission’s 2025–2030 working plan selects textiles as a final product, with an indicative adoption year of 2027 for its delegated act. Until that act is adopted there is no textile passport obligation, no date, and no legally defined set of fields or access rights; everything below is what the software models ahead of it.

What a textile passport carries

The software’s textile schema covers fibre composition (each fibre with its share and country of origin), country of origin and of raw material, care instructions (ISO 3758 symbols or free text), recycled content, carbon footprint, water use, microplastic shedding per wash, repair and durability scores, expected wash cycles, product weight, allergens and substances of concern (with CAS numbers and, where notified, a SCIP identifier), recyclability class, disassembly instructions, spare-part availability, end-of-life instructions and reuse condition.

A few of those fields are held back for credential holders by the software’s own model; ESPR leaves the actual split to the delegated act. See Access control.

What is checked today

Because the act is not adopted, a textile passport is validated structurally: fibre shares must add up to a whole composition, country codes must be valid ISO 3166-1, and declared substances are checked against the part of the REACH candidate list the software holds. A binding compliance verdict waits for the act. How structural validation is kept apart from a binding determination is described in the ESPR Overview.

The schema is versioned: when the act is adopted, a new version is added without breaking passports issued under an older one, and every passport records which version it was validated against.

Unsold goods are a separate duty

ESPR Art. 25 has prohibited large companies from destroying unsold apparel, clothing accessories and footwear since 19 July 2026, and Art. 24 requires companies that discard unsold consumer products to disclose what they discarded each year. Neither involves a passport: both are duties on a company over a financial year, not on a product. The software models the disclosure separately; see The unsold-goods disclosure.