There is no fixed date yet. The furniture Digital Product Passport depends on an ESPR delegated act that has not been published. The 2025-2030 ESPR working plan lists furniture as a priority group, indicatively around 2028, with compliance following after a transition period. These are planning windows, not law. Last verified July 2026.
For furniture the honest answer is: not yet, with an indicative date around 2028. Furniture falls under ESPR, Regulation (EU) 2024/1781, and becomes mandatory only when its delegated act is adopted. The 2025-2030 working plan, adopted 16 April 2025, lists furniture among the first priority product groups with an indicative delegated-act timing around 2028, followed by a transition period before passports are mandatory for furniture placed on the EU market. Those dates are indicative planning windows, not legal deadlines, and can move with the preparatory study and consultation. What is clear is the shape of the obligation: the furniture passport will demand multi-material composition, recycled content, durability and repairability, and restricted-substance data - and furniture is a multi-material, multi-supplier product where that data is genuinely hard to pull together. This page gives the honest status, the fields the draft points to, a no-regret preparation timeline, and how DPP Automate lets you build now so the ~2028 act is a schema update rather than a scramble.
Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 is the horizontal basis; the furniture obligation arrives only with a delegated act. Source: EUR-Lex 32024R1781.
The 2025-2030 working plan names furniture among the first priority product groups, indicatively around 2028. Indicative, not binding. Source: ESPR working plan.
The furniture delegated act is indicatively expected around 2028, fixing the binding data fields and conformity route. Not law until published. Source: ESPR working plan.
A transition period follows publication before passports are mandatory, so first mandatory furniture passports land after the act plus its transition. Indicative. Source: ESPR working plan.
When the furniture delegated act lands (indicatively ~2028), it is expected to apply to manufacturers, brands and importers placing furniture on the EU market, with the multi-material nature of furniture making composition and end-of-life data central. Office, domestic and contract furniture are all in the broad frame; the exact product boundaries and any small-enterprise thresholds will be set by the act. What is fixed today versus indicative: furniture is on the indicative ESPR track, later than steel (~2026) and textiles (~2027) and well after the fixed battery date (18 February 2027). The strategic point is that furniture is assembled from many components and suppliers, so verified multi-material composition, recycled content and restricted-substance data are slow to collect - the indicative date is not a reason to wait.
Because furniture is multi-material and its date is indicative, DPP Automate builds the furniture passport on the shared ESPR Annex III spine so it costs nothing to hold and nothing to rebuild when the act moves. You import your product catalogue via the REST API or the MCP `import_passports` tool, and the AI maps your PLM/component and supplier data - across wood, metal, foam and textile parts - onto the current furniture draft schema. Generate a passport from a product image plus your structured data, keep a human approving drafts in Review mode, and version every component field with provenance back to the supplier declaration or lab test. When the delegated act finalises the fields, you absorb the delta as a schema update and re-validate. Records export JSON-LD ready for the European DPP registry. So the slow multi-supplier data collection starts now, against a live draft, and the ~2028 act becomes a routine release.
Multi-material composition and restricted-substance data span many component suppliers and are slow to verify - the long pole regardless of the exact date.
Import your catalogue and start mapping component and supplier data onto the furniture draft schema; use the readiness check to find gaps.
Draft fields firm up; teams that have not begun face a moving target across a fragmented bill of materials.
Generate draft passports for core ranges with component composition populated and run them through Review mode.
The transition after publication is shorter than the multi-supplier data effort; waiting guarantees a scramble.
Keep a validated furniture passport pipeline live so you only re-map to the final fields and switch stable ranges to Auto.
Multi-material products with composition data scattered across component suppliers.
Shared-spine furniture profile, bulk import, AI mapping of component and supplier data, versioned with provenance.
Verified multi-material composition assembled ahead of the act, ready to re-map when it publishes.
Restricted-substance (flame retardant, finish) evidence hard to obtain.
Supplier data templates plus AI mapping onto the draft substance fields.
Defensible restricted-substance declarations ahead of the ~2028 act.
Unsure of scope boundaries and end-of-life data expectations.
Scope guidance plus a flexible profile that adapts as the act defines boundaries and routing.
A passport pipeline that absorbs the final furniture scope without a rebuild.
The recurring questions from teams in this product group, answered with the honest current status - including the uncertainty where it exists.
Run the free readiness check →There is no fixed date yet. The furniture DPP depends on an ESPR delegated act that has not been published. Furniture is a priority group in the 2025-2030 working plan, indicatively around 2028, with compliance after a transition period - indicative windows, not law.
No. It is an indicative timing from the ESPR working plan, not a legal deadline. It becomes binding only when the furniture delegated act is adopted and its transition period ends, so it can move.
Expected fields include a unique identifier, multi-material composition, recycled content, durability and repairability, restricted substances, emissions data and end-of-life routing, with public and restricted access layers. The delegated act fixes the exact set.
Manufacturers, brands and importers placing furniture on the EU market. The act may set thresholds or lighter obligations for small enterprises.
No. Furniture is multi-material, so verified composition and substance data across many suppliers is slow to collect - slower than the transition after the act publishes. Building on the shared ESPR spine now means the act is a schema update.
You import your catalogue in bulk, the AI maps your PLM, component and supplier data across materials onto the current furniture draft schema, and passports are generated, versioned with provenance and registry-ready - so when the act finalises you re-map rather than rebuild.
The furniture passport is coming on an indicative ~2028 track, and its multi-supplier composition data is the slow part. Run the free readiness check for your ranges, or open the furniture DPP guide, and let DPP Automate collect and map your component data now so the act is a schema update, not a scramble.
