Detergents get a passport with a date, chemicals already have a disclosure duty.One record answers both, from the ingredient list to the substance notification.
The detergents regulation puts a digital product passport, a data carrier and a registry entry on a fixed date. Substance disclosure duties in the chemicals regulation and the waste directive have been running for years. Norruva carries composition, hazard and substance data once, then serves it to consumers, authorities and the registry.
Northline Industrial Degreaser 5 L · SKU IDG-5L-EU
Regulation (EU) 2026/405
GS1 Digital Linkdpp.brand.com/01/09506000134116
Sample data. Northline is a fictional brand and the GTIN comes from the GS1 example range.
Passport data6 of 8 fields
Intentionally added substances6 substances declared, with CAS numbersVerified
Hazard pictogramsGHS05, GHS07Verified
Candidate list substancesNone above 0,1 % weight by weightVerified
Candidate list versionVersion and date recorded at issuanceVerified
Biodegradability evidenceTest method reference and result on fileVerified
Dosage informationRecommended dose per wash loadPending
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Last updated May 12, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Chemicals and detergentsRegulation (EU) 2026/405
The law
The regulation that governs it.Every statement below names the instrument it comes from, the article it sits in, and the date of the copy we hold.
Held instrument
Regulation (EU) 2026/405
The detergents regulation is the second held instrument to put a digital product passport on a date. It is the closest model there is for what a passport outside batteries looks like in law.
Before placing a detergent or end user surfactant on the market, the manufacturer must create a digital product passport for that product.Art. 21(1) · 23 September 2029In law
The passport must be connected through an indelible data carrier on the label or packaging to a persistent unique product identifier, and must stay available for ten years from the date the product is placed on the market, including if the operator that created it ceases activity in the Union.Art. 21(2) and Art. 21(4) · 23 September 2029In law
The unique product identifier must be entered in the registry. Customs checks that an imported product has a passport run automatically through the registry's interconnection with the EU Customs Single Window, from the application date or from when that interconnection is operational, whichever is later.Art. 24 and Art. 25(4) · 23 September 2029In law
Surfactants, and surfactants contained in detergents, must meet the biodegradability requirements set out in Part A of Annex I.Art. 4(1) · 23 September 2029In law
Source: CELEX 32026R0405 · as of 2 March 2026
Held instrument
Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006
The chemicals regulation is the substance disclosure duty behind every substances of concern field in a passport. It is in force now, and it moves whenever the candidate list does.
A supplier of an article containing a candidate list substance above 0,1 % weight by weight must give the recipient enough information to allow safe use of the article, including as a minimum the name of that substance.Art. 33(1) · 1 June 2007In law
On request by a consumer, the same information must be provided free of charge within 45 days of receiving the request.Art. 33(2) · 1 June 2007In law
Source: CELEX 02006R1907 · as of 11 May 2026
Held instrument
Directive 2008/98/EC
The waste framework directive turns that supply chain duty into a notification to the European Chemicals Agency. Same substance data, a second recipient.
Member States must ensure that any supplier of an article provides the substance information it passes down the supply chain to the European Chemicals Agency as well.Art. 9(1)(i) · 5 January 2021In law
Source: CELEX 02008L0098 · as of 16 October 2025
Held instrument
Regulation (EU) 2024/1781
The framework regulation names chemicals in the first working plan. That is an adoption intention, not an application date.
The first working plan must prioritise chemicals for the setting of ecodesign requirements.Art. 18(5)(i)Roadmap
No delegated act setting ecodesign and information requirements for chemicals has been adopted, so outside the detergents regulation there is no chemicals passport date.Art. 4Not adopted
Source: CELEX 32024R1781 · as of 28 June 2024
Dates
Dates that apply.Only obligations that carry a date in a held text appear here.
Chemicals and detergents obligations
Each date below restates a dated obligation in the instrument named on the card.
11 June 2007
A supplier of an article containing a candidate list substance above 0,1 % weight by weight must give the recipient enough information to allow safe use of the article, including as a minimum the name of that substance.
Art. 33(1) · In law
25 January 2021
Member States must ensure that any supplier of an article provides the substance information it passes down the supply chain to the European Chemicals Agency as well.
Art. 9(1)(i) · In law
323 September 2029
Before placing a detergent or end user surfactant on the market, the manufacturer must create a digital product passport for that product.
Art. 21(1) · In law
The detergents passport is the only dated passport duty here. The substance disclosure duties are already running, and what they cover changes every time the candidate list is updated.
Data model
What the passport carries.Every field, the sample value it takes, and the platform module that models it.
Sample values are fictional. Northline is an invented brand.
Chemicals and detergents passport templateNorthline Industrial Degreaser 5 L8/8 mapped
Intentionally added substances6 substances declared, with CAS numbersIn modelHazard pictogramsGHS05, GHS07In modelCandidate list substancesNone above 0,1 % weight by weightIn modelCandidate list versionVersion and date recorded at issuanceIn modelBiodegradability evidenceTest method reference and result on fileIn model+3 more fields in the template
The cost of waiting
What happens if you don't adapt?
A passport is checked at the point a product enters the market. When the record is missing, the product is what waits.
Market access check
Import declarationPort of Rotterdam · EU entryEntry held
Industrial Degreaser 5 LSKU IDG-5L-EUGS1 Digital Link scanneddpp.brand.com/01/09506000134116
Passport checkGS1 Digital Link resolvesResolvedDigital Product PassportNot foundSupplier evidenceMissingRisk signal for customsHigh
Products blocked from the EU market
Where an instrument requires a Digital Product Passport for a product group, products without one risk restricted access to the EU market.
A data project that becomes an emergency
A passport is a data project before it is a compliance one. Started late, it turns into re-keying, chasing suppliers and rework across systems, against a fixed date.
Audit risk and regulatory exposure
Fragmented or incomplete product data raises the risk of a failed audit, penalties and a correction you have to make in public.
The workflow
From your systems to a verified passport.Five steps, the same on every industry page, because the path does not change with the product group.
01
Create the product record
Start from the SKUs you already hold. The product record is what the passport hangs on, one per trade item.
02
Collect supplier data
Request the fields you do not hold from the party that holds them, with a due date and a trail of who answered.
03
Attach evidence
Test reports, declarations and certificates land in the evidence vault, attached to the field they support.
04
Run compliance checks
The industry template checks every required field and names the gaps before anything is published.
05
Publish the passport
The passport resolves from the product GS1 Digital Link, showing each audience only what it is allowed to see.
The bundle
The products behind it.The same platform, assembled for this product group.
The passport data model, identifiers, data carriers and exchange formats follow EN 18216, EN 18219, EN 18220, EN 18221, EN 18222 and EN 18223, the six standards cited in the Official Journal by Implementing Decision (EU) 2026/1736. Norruva implements them as the rails every passport runs on.
Questions, answered.What teams in chemicals and detergents ask before they start.
If the answer you need names a date, it comes from the held text of the instrument cited above it.
No. The held passport duty covers detergents and end user surfactants under Article 21 of Regulation (EU) 2026/405. For other chemicals no delegated act has been adopted, so there is no passport date to plan against.
At least the data in Part A of Annex VI, and it must be accurate, complete, up to date, available in the languages the Member State requires and reachable through a data carrier on the label or packaging.
Ten years from the date the product is placed on the market, including in cases of insolvency, liquidation or cessation of activity in the Union. That is Article 21(2)(g), and it is why hosting continuity is part of the product rather than an add on.
Article 33(1) of the chemicals regulation sends the information down the supply chain, Article 33(2) sends it to a consumer who asks, within 45 days, and Article 9(1)(i) of the waste directive sends the same information to the European Chemicals Agency. One substance record, three recipients.
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Model chemicals and detergents in test mode, or talk to us about the rollout across your catalog.
