How you contribute to the Green Deal with the Digital Product Passport
The European Commission’s Green Deal aims for a 55 % reduction of CO2 emissions by 2030 (compared to 1990). To achieve this ambitious goal, the Commission has revised numerous directives and tightened their requirements over the last two years, including the Ecodesign Directive, which has now been converted into a regulation. An important element of this revision was to increase transparency vis-à-vis the authorities and the public. Which is why the lawmakers decided to implement a so-called Digital Product Passport for several product categories when it comes to complying with the Ecodesign Regulation.
Over the next 5 years, the EU Commission will gradually designate product groups that may no longer be placed on the European market at all without a well-filled product passport. In this context, tec4U-Solutions is already working with the leading protagonists of the automotive industry in the Catena X network on the creation of standardized data and information flows along the entire value chain to develop and trial Digital Product Passports: www.catena-x.net
Ecodesign Regulation Requirements
Chapter III and Annex III of the new Ecodesign Regulation describe in detail all the formal and substantive requirements for the Digital Product Passport. Right at the beginning of Chapter III, it states: “[…] The information requirements stipulate that products may only be placed on the market or put into service if a digital product passport is available […]”.
The content of the product passport is specifically regulated depending on the type of product. The product passport should contain the following contents, among others:
Package of advantages in DataCross 2.0 –
Module Digital Twin / Product Passport
How will DataCross 2.0 support you concerning Eco Design?
As a DataCross 2.0 user, you can create a Product Passport by building on the function modules. The passport serves to meet the statutory communication requirements. An even greater benefit of the Product Passport lies in customer communications. The DataCross Product Passport can for example be used to send (end) consumers the latest offers, safety advice and operating instructions.
The DataCross software has long been successfully used by companies to request declarations and documents relating to legal substance-related and environmentally relevant requirements from suppliers, and then analyze and manage them. In combination with the established modules confirming material compliance requirements and enforcing the Supply Chain Act, and with the new module for mapping the CO2 footprint, many of the Product Passport’s required contents are already realized in DataCross today. Thanks to expansions in the calculation of the recyclability, the tec4U Product Passport extensively maps the individual product attributes as a Digital Twin.
How the Product Passport works with DataCross 2.0
Module Digital Twin / Product Passport
To make these functions available to the user, tec4U brought 30 years of experience and expertise to bear on the app development. In addition to which tec4U Solutions will also support you in the individual formulation of Product Passports/Digital Twins, always in view of the available data and the structural and economic possibilities of your company.
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