E-Book34 chapters # ESPR & Digital Product Passport Handbook An EU ESPR and Digital Product Passport handbook for electronics: Regulation 2024/1781, delegated acts, durability and repairability, and DPP data. Most electronics manufacturers and importers meet the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation the way it hurts most: when a shipment is held at an EU border because a Digital Product Passport was never built, or a large-enterprise disclosure deadline arrives with no process behind it. This book is built to prevent that collision. It walks through Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 and the Digital Product Passport from first principles to complete practical compliance: the legal framework that replaced the old Ecodesign Directive, scope and the first 2025-2030 Ecodesign Working Plan, every performance and information requirement, substances of concern, the Digital Product Passport's data carrier, identifiers, registry, content, and access model, every economic operator role, conformity assessment and CE marking, the smartphone and tablet ecodesign regulation already in force, ecodesign rules for servers and enterprise ICT hardware, the Right to Repair Directive, the unsold consumer products destruction ban, green public procurement, enforcement through market surveillance and customs, and how this framework compares to circularity regulation in France, the United States, and China. Every chapter closes with a knowledge check drawn from the companion video course, and eight appendices turn the book's worksheets into templates you can put to work on your own product immediately. This book contains the use of artificial intelligence. ## What you'll learn * Tell the difference between ESPR being "in force" and a requirement being "enforceable" against your specific product * Navigate the 2025-2030 Ecodesign Working Plan and know exactly which obligations already reach electronics today * Apply the seven performance requirement categories — durability through carbon footprint — to a real product * Build a Digital Product Passport correctly — data carrier, identifiers, registry resolution, and tiered access * Assign every economic operator role correctly and complete conformity assessment and CE marking * Apply the smartphone and tablet ecodesign regulation already in force, and the rules for servers and ICT hardware * Meet repairability, unsold goods disclosure, and green public procurement obligations with confidence * Build your own compliance program, avoid the recurring failure patterns, and create your compliance action plan $24.99 One-time purchase · Read in browser · No subscription * Tell the difference between ESPR being "in force" and a requirement being "enforceable" against your specific product * Navigate the 2025-2030 Ecodesign Working Plan and know exactly which obligations already reach electronics today * Apply the seven performance requirement categories — durability through carbon footprint — to a real product Buy for $24.99 Secure checkout via Paddle Not what you expected? 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Built from a regulatory graph already at work 2,051 users this week 658 guides 323 product types 9 markets ## Chapters Read Chapter 1 free → 1 ESPR & the Digital Product Passport: The Big Picture Before any scoping decision or compliance checklist, it's worth understanding why an EU Regulation now governs nearly every physical product's sustainability… 2 The Legal Framework: From the Ecodesign Directive to Regulation 2024/1781 Understanding why this regulation is structured the way it is means understanding what it replaced, and why the EU chose a Regulation over another Directive. 3 Scope: What's Covered, What's Exempt, and How Delegated Acts Work This chapter is the one every later decision in this book depends on. 4 The 2025-2030 Working Plan and What It Means for Electronics Consumer electronics isn't named as a first-wave priority category in the first Ecodesign Working Plan — which is exactly the detail that leads companies ast… 5 Performance Requirements I: Durability, Reliability, Reusability, Upgradability, Repairability Every delegated act adopted so far draws from the same underlying menu of requirement categories. 6 Performance Requirements II: Recycled Content, Recyclability, and Carbon Footprint This chapter turns from the product's working life to what its materials are made of and where they go next — the three requirements most likely to require s… 7 Substances of Concern: Restrictions, Disclosure, and the Electronics Supply Chain If you already run a RoHS and REACH program, it's tempting to assume substances of concern is covered. 8 Information Requirements and the Digital Product Passport, Introduced Every performance requirement in this book needs somewhere to actually live — a place a regulator, recycler, or buyer can verify it's true. 9 Inside the Digital Product Passport: Data Carrier, Identifiers, and the EU Registry Understanding the passport conceptually is different from actually building the technical pieces underneath it. 10 What Goes Into the Passport: Data Categories and Access Tiers This is where every earlier chapter's compliance work becomes one populated record. 11 Economic Operators: Who Carries Which Obligation This regulation regulates every entity that touches a product on its way to a customer. 12 Conformity Assessment, Technical Documentation, and CE Marking A product can meet every performance requirement in this book and still be illegal to sell without the right conformity assessment procedure completed and CE… 13 Ecodesign for Smartphones and Tablets: The Regulation Already in Force Everything abstract elsewhere in this book becomes concrete here — Commission Regulation (EU) 2023/1670 has been fully binding since June 2025. 14 Ecodesign for Servers, Data Storage, and Enterprise ICT Hardware Enterprise hardware runs on its own inherited measure, binding since 2019, distinct from the consumer-facing smartphone rules. 15 Repairability in Practice: Spare Parts, Repair Information, and the Right to Repair Directive Repairability threads through nearly every chapter of this book. 16 The Unsold Consumer Products Destruction Ban and Disclosure Obligations Not every ESPR obligation is about what you sell — this one is about what you do with what you don't. 17 Green Public Procurement and Market Incentives ESPR doesn't only regulate what you're allowed to sell — it shapes what public money is allowed to buy, and that reaches further into your sales pipeline tha… 18 Enforcement: Market Surveillance, Customs Controls, and Penalties Every requirement in this book only means something if it's enforced. 19 Building Your Compliance Program: A Practical Roadmap This chapter is where every individual requirement in this book stops being a separate topic and becomes one working program inside your company. 20 Common Failures and a Full Compliance Walkthrough Four root causes explain most real compliance failures under this regulation. 21 Documentation, Recordkeeping, and Audit Readiness What you can produce during a surprise review matters as much as what you actually did. 22 How This Compares Globally If you sell electronics beyond the EU, ESPR isn't the only circularity framework shaping product design. 23 Case Studies: A Compliant Launch and a Costly Customs Hold Two composite scenarios show how the same product category and the same regulation can produce two very different outcomes, depending entirely on how serious… 24 Your Compliance Action Plan This chapter turns the entire book into a sequence you can put on a calendar, and points you to real resources for questions specific to your own product. 25 What's Next A short closing chapter — the delegated acts affecting your specific category will keep evolving. 26 Knowledge Checks Every module in this book closes with a knowledge check in the companion video course. 27 Appendix A — Scope & Delegated Act Applicability Worksheet 28 Appendix B — Performance & Information Requirements Gap Analysis 29 Appendix C — Digital Product Passport Data Readiness Checklist 30 Appendix D — Economic Operators & Conformity Route Selector 31 Appendix E — Smartphone & Tablet Ecodesign Compliance Checklist 32 Appendix F — Substances of Concern & Supply Chain Declaration Tracker 33 Appendix G — Unsold Products Destruction Disclosure Tracker 34 Appendix H — Documentation & Audit Readiness Tracker Buy for $24.99 ## Want the full video course? 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