ESPR — Iron & Steel delegated act
Digital Product Passport for iron and steel intermediate products (delegated act under Regulation (EU) 2024/1781)
Steel is named in the ESPR 2025–2030 Working Plan as the first intermediate product. Indicative delegated-act adoption ~2026. Initial scope likely information requirements: chemical composition, recycled content, embodied carbon (Scope 1 + 2 + 3 with primary data where available), supply-chain origin at the heat or coil level.
Significant interaction with the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) — many of the same Scope-1/2 data points are reported under CBAM today. The DPP is expected to reuse CBAM-quality data where the product is in scope of both regimes; double-reporting is being avoided in the working-plan design.
| Date | Clause | Applies to | Article ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| ~2026 (indicative) | Iron & steel delegated act expected | Intermediate steel products | Working Plan |
| TBD | Steel DPP obligation effective | Per delegated act | del-act + 18 months (typical for intermediates) |
- Per-heat traceability is the load-bearing complexity. The platform's existing GS1 Digital Link integration accommodates batch-level identifiers; the steel module will extend this with heat-number identifiers and EN 10204 inspection certificate (3.1 / 3.2) cross-references.
- Operators in scope: integrated steel producers, mini-mills, importers, EU authorised representatives.
- Recycled content + embodied carbon data flow is expected to align with the CBAM XML format where possible to avoid duplicate ingestion paths.
Module state: PLANNED. The Steel module is not yet available — the relevant ESPR delegated act has not been adopted. The platform tracks the regulatory text via the regulation-monitor agent and the bulletin; the module will switch to BETA on delegated-act adoption.