Build a passport for electrical and electronic equipment
RoHS, WEEE, energy labelling and the smartphone and tablet rules: what the electronics pack checks and how to prepare the passport.
DPP Shield editorial team · Updated:
Electrical and electronic equipment already falls under RoHS and WEEE, energy-labelled products under EPREL registration, and smartphones and tablets under their own ecodesign and labelling rules. In DPP Shield, choose the product group, declare RoHS compliance and markings, add repairability and spare-parts commitments, and attach the declaration of conformity.
What applies today
The RoHS Directive 2011/65/EU and the WEEE Directive 2012/19/EU apply to all electrical and electronic equipment: restricted substances below their maximum concentrations, an EU declaration of conformity with CE marking, the crossed-out wheeled bin symbol and producer registration in each Member State of supply. Energy-labelled products are registered in EPREL under Regulation (EU) 2017/1369.
Smartphones and tablets have product-specific rules: an energy label with a repairability class (Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/1669) and ecodesign requirements for operating-system updates and spare parts (Regulation (EU) 2023/1670). Choose the product group on the passport so the pack applies them. Displays and household appliances need their own product-specific acts; large appliances have a separate category.
What the pack checks
DPP Shield validates a passport against the bundled EU-EEE 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
- EU declaration of conformity reference (with CE marking) and a RoHS compliance declaration.
- The crossed-out wheeled bin symbol.
- A spare-parts availability commitment wherever you declare repairability.
- A chain-of-custody document behind any recycled-content claim.
- SVHC information above 0.1 % w/w, with the SCIP number.
- For smartphones and tablets: the repairability class.
What it flags for review
These do not block publication, but resolve each one before the passport goes public.
Check - flagged for review
- Model identifier and repairability information.
- WEEE category, and the producer's WEEE registration in the Member State of supply.
- EPREL registration for energy-labelled products.
- For smartphones and tablets: at least 5 years of operating-system updates and 7 years of spare parts after the last unit is placed on the market.
Evidence to collect
Attach these in Documents and link them to the passport, or request them from suppliers.
Typical evidence
- RoHS technical documentation and supplier material declarations.
- EU declaration of conformity.
- WEEE registration numbers per country, and the EPREL registration.
- Spare-parts and software-support policy.
- Recycled-content certificates for any claim.
Build the passport step by step
- Create the product with the category Electronics - in Products, by CSV import or from a connected store.
- Open DPPs and choose Create passport: the form shows the electronics fields together with the shared blocks (identifiers, manufacturer, materials, substances of concern, data carrier and passport availability).
- Choose the product group first; it switches on the smartphone and tablet rules.
- Record repairability and spare-parts commitments together - a repairability claim without the commitment is a required finding.
- Link component passports for batteries or modules that carry their own.
- Attach the evidence in Documents and send supplier requests for anything you cannot support yourself.
- Run Validate EU and work through the findings until no required finding is left.
- 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.
Dismantling instructions, schematics and service credentials are withheld from the public view; give repairers and treatment facilities an access grant instead.