There is no fixed date yet. The textile Digital Product Passport depends on an ESPR delegated act that has not been published. The 2025-2030 ESPR working plan puts textiles (apparel) among the first priority groups, indicatively around 2027, with compliance typically 2028-2029 - but these are planning windows, not law. Last verified July 2026.
The honest answer for textiles is: not yet, and no binding date exists. Textiles fall under ESPR, Regulation (EU) 2024/1781, whose product-group requirements become mandatory only when a delegated act is adopted. The Commission put textiles (apparel first) among the first priority groups in the 2025-2030 working plan adopted on 16 April 2025, with the delegated act indicatively expected around 2027 and a compliance date typically 18-36 months later, so roughly 2028-2029. Those are indicative planning windows, not legal deadlines, and they can shift with the preparatory study and consultation. Anyone quoting a firm textile DPP date today is over-stating the position. What is certain is the direction: the textile passport will demand fibre composition, recycled content, durability, substances of concern and supply-chain data. This page gives the honest current status, the fields the draft points to, a no-regret preparation timeline, and how DPP Automate lets you build now so the act, when it lands, is a schema update rather than a scramble.
Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 applies from 18 July 2024 as the horizontal basis for the textile DPP; the textile obligation itself arrives only with a delegated act. Source: EUR-Lex 32024R1781.
The 2025-2030 ESPR working plan names textiles (apparel) among the first priority product groups, with an indicative timing for its delegated act. Indicative, not binding. Source: ESPR working plan.
The textile delegated act is indicatively expected around 2027. It will fix the binding data fields and conformity route. Not law until published. Source: ESPR working plan.
A delegated act typically gives 18-36 months before compliance, so first mandatory textile passports are indicatively ~2028-2029. Indicative. Source: ESPR working plan.
When the textile delegated act lands, it is expected to cover apparel first, with home textiles and footwear-adjacent items following, and to apply to manufacturers, brands and importers placing textile products on the EU market. Small and micro enterprises may get lighter obligations - the exact scope and any thresholds will be set by the act. What is out of scope today is a firm date: textiles are on an indicative track, not the battery track (18 February 2027, fixed) or the toy track (1 August 2030, fixed). The strategic point for textile teams is that the data the passport will need - verified fibre composition, recycled content, chemical declarations, supply-chain provenance - is exactly the data that is hardest to assemble and slowest to collect from suppliers, so the absence of a fixed date is not a reason to wait.
Because the textile date is indicative, the right architecture is one that costs nothing to hold and nothing to adjust when the act moves. DPP Automate builds every passport on the shared ESPR Annex III spine, so a textile profile is a schema, not a new system. You import your product catalogue in bulk via the REST API or the MCP `import_passports` tool, and the AI maps your PLM/PIM fibre and supplier data onto the current textile draft schema. Generate a passport from a product image plus your data; Review mode keeps a human in the loop; every field is versioned with provenance 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 - not a rebuild. Records export JSON-LD ready for the European DPP registry. So you start collecting the slow supplier data now, against a live draft, and the indicative ~2027 date becomes a routine release.
Fibre composition, recycled-content evidence and chemical declarations are slow to collect from tier 2-3 suppliers - the long pole regardless of the exact date.
Import your catalogue and start mapping fibre/supplier data onto the textile draft schema; use the readiness check to find gaps.
Draft fields firm up through consultation; teams that have not begun will be reacting to a moving target.
Generate draft passports for your core ranges, run Review mode, and keep supplier data flowing so a schema change is incremental.
The transition period after publication is shorter than the data-collection effort - waiting until then guarantees a scramble.
Have a validated textile passport pipeline already live so you only re-map to the final fields and switch stable ranges to Auto.
Wants a firm textile DPP date to budget against and cannot get one.
Treat ~2027 as an indicative window, build on the shared spine now, and start collecting supplier fibre and chemical data against the draft.
No-regret progress on the slow data while the act finalises; ready to re-map when it publishes.
Recycled-content claims are unverifiable across a fragmented supply chain.
Supplier data templates plus AI mapping onto the draft recycled-content fields, versioned with provenance.
Verifiable recycled-content data assembled ahead of the act, defensible to authorities.
Unsure whether its products fall in the textile scope or a later group.
Scope guidance plus a shared-spine profile that adapts as the act defines boundaries.
A flexible passport pipeline that absorbs the final 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 textile DPP depends on an ESPR delegated act that has not been published. Textiles (apparel) are a first priority group in the 2025-2030 working plan, with the act indicatively expected around 2027 and compliance likely 2028-2029 - 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 textile delegated act is adopted under ESPR and its transition period ends, so it can move.
Expected fields include a unique identifier, fibre composition, recycled and bio-based content, substances of concern, durability and care information, and supply-chain provenance, with public and restricted access layers. Exact fields are fixed by the delegated act.
Manufacturers, brands and importers placing textile products on the EU market. The act may set lighter obligations or thresholds for small and micro enterprises.
No. The slow part is collecting verified fibre, recycled-content and chemical data from suppliers, which takes longer than the transition period after the act publishes. Building on the shared ESPR spine now means the act is a schema update, not a scramble.
You import your catalogue in bulk, the AI maps your PLM/PIM and supplier data onto the current textile draft schema, and passports are generated, versioned with provenance and registry-ready - so when the act finalises, you re-map to the final fields rather than rebuild.
The textile passport is coming on an indicative ~2027 track, and the supplier data behind it is the slow part. Run the free readiness check for your ranges, or open the textile DPP guide, and let DPP Automate collect and map your fibre and supplier data now so the act is a schema update, not a scramble.
