The aim of this project is to establish itself as a contact point for the standardization committees. They are to compile key aspects from the standardization areas and develop answers with the involvement of the CLC-TCs. These should then harmonize the standardization work in connection with the identification, development and adaptation of IT standards so that the Digital Product Passport can be introduced taking into account the EU Ecodesign Regulation (ESPR) and the Battery Regulation.
The following aspects are particularly relevant in the individual areas:
Interoperability framework, principles, terminology: the interoperability of the DPP has an impact on the various supply chains at vertical, horizontal and even cross-domain level. This requires the validation of standards dealing with generic rules for sector-specific product categories (e.g. electronics and batteries) and the coordination and alignment of technical requirements for the system architecture (e.g. federated or distributed framework).
Processes, responsibilities and guidelines: Definition of responsibilities and rules for processes and process types (e.g. value stream and information flow), especially in relation to data and IT governance (i.e. IT service management, including auditability).
IT architecture (services and infrastructure): Ensuring access to information should be in line with the principle of granting access rights based on the role of actors in the product value chain (need-to-know principle), which requires standards for the management of identities, access and handling of data (i.e. data distribution, exchange, integration, processing and storage).
Data: The DPP must be based on a decentralized architecture. This means that the economic operator placing the product on the market (or a service provider contracted by it) is responsible for the information contained in the DPP. The DPP should enable cross-platform data exchange and processing of product information by multiple stakeholders and ensure product compliance.
Accessibility of information: The DPP must be implemented to include information linked to digital representations of physical products. The availability of digital data must meet the information requirements of different product aspects. To define a data set with qualitatively comparable information, the available product performance standards and minimum information requirements must be analyzed.
Identification and data carriers: The DPP is accessed via data carriers attached to the product (and possibly its packaging). Therefore, for a DPP framework to work, several important aspects need to be harmonized. One of these aspects is the durability of the data carrier and thus also the information stored on it, e.g. the URL with the DPP address. In addition, a unique assignment of a DPP to a product is required. In order to ensure technological neutrality, existing standards for unique identifiers and data carriers must be identified and analyzed with regard to their state of the art.
