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Guidelines to create a Digital Product Passport

Scope

The planned CEN/CENELEC Workshop Agreement defines guidelines for decision making on the process to design a Digital Product Passport including its data carrier, information portal contents, and information exchanges and applications, based on the experience of the H2020 project CircThread. The guidelines are envisioned for a new role, the DPP designer, for companies or organisations that need a DPP or part of a DPP to configure its content and the system around it. The results will help these organisations to either develop a DPP in-house within the European DPP system possibilities or contract a 3rd party to deploy a DPP for them to guide the 3rd party on their needs.The technical approach includes to evaluate the design of DPPs at individual item, batch, and product model level, where individual item DPPs are updatable across the life cycle of a product. The DPP focus is on B2C products and durable products. The envisioned content will include the context of the DPP, and the associated circular economy use cases, a check-list table about the product to guide the DPP setup, and a choice option decision-tree that forms the main guidance process to determine the design of the data-carrier, information portal, DPP contents and information exchanges. Decision-tree aspects includes user interests, collaboration actor involvement needs, information availability barriers, and operationalisation needs, and other APP needs within a wider circular economy information system. The outputs will include both the design process guidelines and examples of a ‘designer’ going through the guidelines based on the CircThread project example. The planned CEN/CENELEC Workshop Agreement is applicable to/is intended to be used by DPP designers within companies and collaboration parties that need DPPs for their users (e.g. consumer organisations, PROs. repairers, recyclers) to help them design their product DPPs structure and content. The planned CEN/CENELEC Workshop Agreement is not intended to include requirements and will be in line with the most updated standardization and regulatory developments.