Prepare a vehicle circularity record

What applies today

The pack follows the End-of-Life Vehicles Regulation (EU) 2026/1738, recorded as applying from 1 September 2028; the Digital Circularity Vehicle Passport applies from 1 September 2032, and its detailed data are being specified by implementing acts. Confirm these dates and the data set before relying on them.

Related data exists already: type approval, the environmental vehicle passport of the Euro 7 Regulation (EU) 2024/1257 and, for electric vehicles, the traction battery's own battery passport, which the vehicle record can link.

What the pack checks

DPP Shield validates a passport against the bundled EU-AUTO pack, which is a draft readiness pack, plus the ESPR core checks every category shares: identifiers, the economic operator, the data carrier, substances of concern and passport availability. Required findings block publication; findings to check are flagged for review. Each finding in the console names its rule and source.

Required - blocks publication

• The Digital Circularity Vehicle Passport identifier.
• Removal and replacement information for parts and components.
• Whether parts contain lead, mercury, cadmium or hexavalent chromium, and which parts.
• The recycled-content declaration.
• A link to the official spare parts catalogue.
• SVHC information above 0.1 % w/w, with the SCIP number.

What it flags for review

These do not block publication, but resolve each one before the passport goes public.

Check - flagged for review

• Manufacturer identity.
• At least 85 % reusable or recyclable, and 95 % reusable or recoverable, by mass.
• Recycled plastic from post-consumer waste for vehicle types approved from 1 September 2032 (15 %, rising to 25 % from 2036).

Evidence to collect

Attach these in Documents and link them to the passport, or request them from suppliers.

Typical evidence

• Type-approval documents and the recyclability and recoverability calculation.
• Material data for restricted substances, typically from your IMDS records.
• Recycled-content declarations for plastics, steel and aluminium.
• Dismantling information for treatment facilities, such as an IDIS entry.
• The spare parts catalogue.

Build the passport step by step

1. Create the product with the category Automotive - in Products, by CSV import or from a connected store.
2. Open DPPs and choose Create passport: the form shows the automotive fields together with the shared blocks (identifiers, manufacturer, materials, substances of concern, data carrier and passport availability).
3. Record the vehicle category, model designation and type-approval number.
4. Link the traction battery's passport for electric vehicles.
5. Keep a per-vehicle VIN out of the public view: it can identify the keeper, and the platform withholds it from anonymous readers.
6. Attach the evidence in Documents and send supplier requests for anything you cannot support yourself.
7. Run Validate EU and work through the findings until no required finding is left.
8. Preview the public page, redact commercially sensitive fields, then publish.

Before you publish

Because the bundled packs are drafts, publishing needs an accountable override approved by a second owner or administrator until your platform operator activates a legally reviewed pack. The readiness score is not a legal assessment: confirm the obligations that apply to your product with your compliance adviser.

Treat this pack as preparation: the implementing acts will define the final data set, and the regulatory watch reports changes to the pack.