Textiles and clothing

In textiles, the digital passport has a date.

Textiles are among the six priority groups of the ESPR 2025-2030 working plan, along with iron and steel, aluminium, furniture, tyres and mattresses: the delegated act is expected in 2027 and application not before the end of 2028. It is the only sector we serve where the passport will become mandatory. Meanwhile, fibre composition is already law.

Regulation (EU) 1007/2011

Fibre composition is law now

To describe the composition of a textile product you may use only the names listed in Annex I. This is not a future deadline: it has been in force for years, and it is enforced by the Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy, which relies on the Chambers of Commerce (Legislative Decree 190/2017, art. 6).

FormulaPass compares every fibre against the names allowed by Annex I and checks that the declared percentages add up. When the data you hold is not enough to decide, it tells you instead of choosing for you.

Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 — ESPR

The passport arrives with the delegated act

The ESPR introduces the passport for product groups through delegated acts. For textiles the delegated act is expected in 2027, with application not before the end of 2028: the exact fields it will need to contain are not yet set.

What the ESPR already sets out on its own, we do: a persistent identifier and a machine-readable passport. The fields the delegated act will still need to define are there, and the public page states that they are an early look.

What it handles, in practice

A garment is created from the editor, published, and has a public page with fields specific to textiles. Every item below is in the platform today.

Annex I names

Every fibre is compared against the allowed list: a warning flags unrecognised names and likely typos before they end up on the label.

Sum of percentages

The declared percentages are summed, even when given as a range. A total that does not add up is an error you see before printing.

GS1 Digital Link QR code

The garment receives a persistent identifier and a QR code compliant with the GS1 standard, downloadable as SVG or PNG, with high error correction.

Public page with no tracking

Whoever scans it reads the passport with no cookies, no JavaScript and no IP address saved. No consent banner to manage.

Packaging data

Packaging components with material, the Decision 97/129/EC code and the collection scheme: gathered in structured form and reusable for PPWR compliance.

Scan statistics

How many times the passports are scanned, by how many distinct visitors, and how it changes over time, with no external analytics tools.

What we do not do, to be clear

The textile delegated act has not been published: no one, today, can tell you that its passport will meet requirements that do not exist yet. When the fields are set, passports already published will need to be updated, and that is work done on the data you have already entered, not from scratch.

FormulaPass collects, compares and flags. It issues no declarations of conformity and does not replace the assessment of whoever places the product on the market. On the EU DPP Registry page you can find what being a verified operator will mean for textiles.

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