Regulations / Packaging
Packaging obligations arrive earlier.
PPWR phases in from 2026 and touches every product you ship into the EU. Its labelling and material-disclosure data overlaps heavily with what a passport needs anyway.
What PPWR requires
Harmonised labelling, recyclability performance and material composition for packaging placed on the EU market.
- Harmonised material labelling
- Recyclability grading
- Recycled-content targets
- Reuse obligations for some formats
Where it overlaps with DPP
Both regimes want structured material data per component, tied to a supplier. Collect once, use twice.
- Component-level materials
- Supplier declarations
- Shared identifiers
The practical risk
Packaging data usually lives with procurement, not with product — so it is rarely in a system anyone can query.
- Data trapped in supplier PDFs
- No single source of truth
- Artwork and data out of sync
How we handle it
Packaging components are modelled alongside the product so both obligations read from the same record.
- Packaging as structured components
- Shared supplier registry
- One validation pass
Know where you stand before you implement.
Start with a DPP Readiness Assessment — fixed scope, fixed fee, no systems replaced.