Where Textiles Actually Stand Right Now
The EU's Digital Product Passport comes from the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), Regulation (EU) 2024/1781. Batteries are the first product category in scope, with a confirmed deadline of February 18, 2027. Textiles are expected to follow as a separate, category-specific delegated act — but as of this writing, that act hasn't been adopted, and estimates for exactly when it will be vary. Treat any specific textile date you read, including here, as a projection, not a confirmed deadline.
Why Manufacturers Should Start Now, Not Brands
A DPP for a garment or textile product needs material origin, fiber composition, and manufacturing process data — information that lives with the manufacturer, not the brand that puts its label on the finished product. If a brand has to scramble for this data right before a deadline, it's the manufacturer who gets the phone call. Manufacturers who already have this data organized will be the suppliers brands prefer once the deadline is real.
What To Start Collecting Now
1. Material origin and composition at the batch or lot level, not just a general spec sheet.
2. Which specific facility or process stage each production run went through.
3. Any existing sustainability certifications tied to specific materials or suppliers, not just company-wide claims.
4. A system for connecting this data to individual products or production batches, not just aggregated reports.
Don't Wait for the Exact Date
Manufacturers who wait for a confirmed deadline before starting will be trying to reconstruct months or years of historical data under time pressure. The battery passport timeline is a preview of how this tends to go: an 18-month transition period after the delegated act is adopted, but the underlying data requirements don't change much in that window — they just start being enforced. Building the data infrastructure now means textiles becomes a formatting exercise later, not a data-collection scramble.
See This Working for a Denim Manufacturer
reGenesis is already helping a Pakistan-based denim manufacturer build DPP-ready infrastructure ahead of the mandate — connecting material origin, composition, and manufacturing data to a scannable record.
Read the Neela Denim case study →
