Requirements for a Digital Product Passport to Boost the Circular Economy

Abstract

The Digital Product Passport (DPP) is a concept to collect and share product-related information along a product's lifecycle. The aim is to provide all stakeholders during the product lifecycle with the information they need such that a successful Circular Economy can be implemented. At the moment, several varieties of DPPs are being developed, most of them sector-specific. As of today, however, there is no common standard as to what a DPP should look like. This paper collects requirements for the DPP from different perspectives that must be fulfilled to make it broadly applicable.