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Furniture is an ESPR priority group without an adopted act yet: what the furniture pack checks today - substances, formaldehyde and deforestation-free wood.
DPP Shield editorial team · Updated:
Furniture is a priority product group in the ESPR working plan, with a delegated act indicatively planned for 2028 - not yet an application date. Today's checks in DPP Shield cover REACH substance information, the formaldehyde limit for furniture and the EUDR due-diligence statement for wooden furniture in scope.
What applies today
No furniture passport is mandatory yet: the Commission's working plan indicates 2028 for the furniture delegated act under the ESPR.
What applies now: REACH, including the information duty for substances of very high concern and the restriction on formaldehyde released from furniture (0.062 mg/m³ under the restriction's test conditions), and the EU Deforestation Regulation for wooden furniture within its commodity and CN-code scope, which the pack treats as applying from 30 December 2026 (30 June 2027 for micro and small operators).
What the pack checks
DPP Shield validates a passport against the bundled EU-FURNITURE 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
- 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.
- The EUDR due-diligence statement reference for wooden furniture in scope.
- Formaldehyde emission within 0.062 mg/m³.
Evidence to collect
Attach these in Documents and link them to the passport, or request them from suppliers.
Typical evidence
- Timber certificates (for example FSC or PEFC) with their numbers.
- EUDR due-diligence statement reference numbers from the EU information system.
- Formaldehyde emission test reports for wood-based panels.
- Flame-retardant declarations from foam and textile suppliers.
- Assembly and care instructions.
Build the passport step by step
- Create the product with the category Furniture - in Products, by CSV import or from a connected store.
- Open DPPs and choose Create passport: the form shows the furniture fields together with the shared blocks (identifiers, manufacturer, materials, substances of concern, data carrier and passport availability).
- Record product type, dimensions, weight and wood species, with the timber certification and its certificate number.
- Ask panel and foam suppliers for formaldehyde and flame-retardant declarations.
- Add expected lifetime and warranty only where you stand behind them.
- 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.
Collecting this data now means the furniture delegated act becomes a matter of adding fields, not starting over.