Prepare your product data for regulations: DPP, PPWR and more

How does Inriver help with the EU Digital Product Passport?

Inriver helps with the Digital Product Passport by governing the product data behind the passport — complete, validated, and approved — and feeding it to the DPP partner who generates and hosts the passport itself. Passport fields like material origin, recycled content, repairability, and certifications become governed attributes on the product model, added as fields rather than built as a project, with workflow holding each product back until its required attributes are complete and approved.

GS1 export support and standard integrations hand the approved record to your passport partner — Rexidy, QlikTag, OrigoVero, or any provider you choose — who generates the QR code and hosts the passport the regulator and the consumer see. And when the next category comes into scope after batteries, that’s new fields on the same foundation, not another project.

What is the Digital Product Passport and when is it required?

The EU Digital Product Passport (introduced under Regulation (EU) 2024/1781) is a requirement to share verified product information — materials, origin, durability, repairability — through a scannable code such as a QR code, rolling out one product category at a time. Batteries need a passport from February 2027; textiles, furniture, tires, mattresses, iron and steel, aluminium, and several electronics categories are expected to follow, with passports targeted around 2028. Once a rule lands for a category, companies get roughly 18 months to comply.

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How does Inriver help with PPWR?

Inriver helps with PPWR by getting the packaging data behind every Declaration of Conformity complete, governed, and approved — modeled once per packaging format, not once per SKU. Material composition, weights, recycled content, and supplier substance declarations can be added as governed attributes, linked to products that use it, so one correction can update everything and there is one place the declaration is read from, linked to every product that uses it, so one correction updates everything and there is one place the declaration is read from.

Validation routes each format through the checks it needs: food-contact formats take the stricter PFAS and heavy-metal path, and a reusability claim can’t be approved without its collection, reconditioning, and redistribution evidence attached. The approved record then feeds the partner who delivers the paperwork — OrigoVero, or any provider you choose, produces the Declaration of Conformity from that governed data. However declaring conformity remains the responsibility of the seller.

What is PPWR and when does it apply?

The EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2025/40) sets rules for how packaging placed on the EU market is designed, labeled, and made reusable or recyclable — and it has applied since 12 August 2026, with no grace period, even for stock already in the pipeline. It covers all packaging in every material, and every unique packaging format needs its own Declaration of Conformity, backed by real data.

How does Inriver help with the EU Product Liability Directive?

Inriver helps with the Product Liability Directive by keeping everything a product says about its own safety — warnings, intended use, certifications, and the software inside it — as one governed, versioned record that can show what it said on any given date. Under the revised PLD, the practical question isn’t whether you were careful; it’s whether you can show what your product’s documented safety information said on the day a unit shipped.

Safety-relevant changes go through approval before they go live, and version history reconstructs the record on any date — the warning text, the certification, the firmware version, and who approved each — years after a unit shipped. If a claim or disclosure request arrives, legal works from a governed, timestamped export rather than a reconstruction from email. Inriver doesn’t prevent claims; it helps you produce the record if one comes in.

What is the Product Liability Directive and when does it take effect?

The revised EU Product Liability Directive (Directive (EU) 2024/2853) is strict, no-fault liability law for defective products — including, for the first time, software and AI as products in their own right — and it applies to products placed on the market from 9 December 2026. It also eases the burden of proof for claimants, lets courts order disclosure of internal records, and expands compensable damage to include psychological harm.