DPP – CircThread Digital Circular Economy Conference

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Today product information is shared mainly for sales purposes when a product is sold, with sharing between manufacturers, retailers and other sales entities. Digital Product Passports (DPPs) will provide a key tool to transform and provide product information sharing between manufacturers, other economic operators, and consumers, across supply chains and the product life cycle, for sustainability, circular economy, and economic efficiency purposes.

Unlocking product information with DPP

The Digital Circular Economy Conference – organized by CircThread on May 8, 2025 in Brussels – will focus on how the sharing of product information can be transformed in the future, enable automation to reduce costs of manual data sharing, provide data access to other economic operators, and enable significant sustainability and circularity use cases using DPPs benefitting the economy. Use cases will be presented across different sectors including consumer electronics, construction and textiles, among others. The event provides a vision of the future of data sharing ecosystems using DPPs.

Sjoerd Rongen (CoE-DPP) keynote speaker

Sjoerd Rongen (Coordinator Centre of Excellence for Digital Product Passports – CoE-DPP; a part of CoE-DSC) is one of the keynote speakers during this event. He will present: The Dutch DPP Excellence Hub: Bringing ecosystem partners together for DPP use cases.

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The importance of standardisation for successful, interoperable Digital Product Passports
The importance of standardisation of data sharing for successful Digital Product Passports

More and more organisations are preparing for Digital Product Passports (DPPs). But how do we ensure that standards are put in place for data exchange so that interoperability can ultimately be achieved? We spoke with Jan Merckx (Sustainability Lead at GS1 Netherlands) and Sjoerd Rongen (Digital Product Passports Lead at TNO), both working for the Centre of Excellence for Digital Product Passports. GS1 Netherlands and the power of standardisation GS1 Netherlands is the national branch of GS1, a neutral, non-profit

Samenwerking GS1 en TNO in het Centre of Excellence for Digital Product Passports
Collaboration between GS1 and TNO in the Centre of Excellence for Digital Product Passports

GS1 and TNO are entering into a new partnership in the Centre of Excellence for Digital Product Passports (CoE-DPP). This is an important step for the development and implementation of Digital Product Passports in the Netherlands and beyond. According to the European Green Deal and the European Commission’s circular economy action plans, Digital Product Passports (DPPs) must be introduced from 2027 onwards to improve the traceability, sustainability, and recyclability of products. This regulation supports the EU’s broader objectives of becoming

Provide feedback on topics related to Digital Product Passports
Provide feedback on topics related to Digital Product Passports

The CoE-DPP is working closely with Jan Merckx, DPP project leader at GS1 Netherlands and chairman of the NEN working group, to achieve a interoperable Digital Product Passport (DPP) standard. A draft standard is currently available for public consultation and the NEN is collecting feedback. You can give your input until 18 August. Various topics related to Digital Product Passports that require feedback, are listed below. Click on the blue coloured topic to provide feedback on that topic: Unique identifiers:

An update on the status of Digital Product Passports (DPPs)
An update on the status of Digital Product Passports (DPPs)

Last year, we spoke with Sjoerd Rongen, Digital Product Passports Lead at TNO and associated with the CoE-DSC, about the status of Digital Product Passports (DPPs). Since then, various new developments have taken place, which is why we spoke with Sjoerd again to get an update on its status. What are DPPs and what is already there? Let’s start with a short recap: digital product passports (DPPs) provide organisations with detailed information about the entire lifecycle of a single product,