Build a packaging compliance record under the PPWR

What applies today

The PPWR applies from 12 August 2026: packaging placed on the market needs technical documentation and an EU declaration of conformity, lead, cadmium, mercury and hexavalent chromium together below 100 mg/kg, and food-contact packaging must keep PFAS below the regulation's limits.

Later obligations carry their own dates and depend on implementing and delegated acts: the harmonised material-composition label, design-for-recycling performance grades and recycled-content targets for plastic packaging. The pack flags them for review rather than blocking publication.

What the pack checks

DPP Shield validates a passport against the bundled EU-PPWR 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

• An EU declaration of conformity and the technical documentation for the conformity assessment (for authorities, not the public).
• Lead, cadmium, mercury and hexavalent chromium together below 100 mg/kg.
• For food-contact packaging: a PFAS declaration, below the limits.
• SVHC information above 0.1 % w/w, with the SCIP number.
• A chain-of-custody document behind any recycled-content claim.

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 reuse system for reusable packaging.
• The harmonised material-composition label.
• The design-for-recycling performance grade.
• Post-consumer recycled content of plastic packaging.
• An empty space ratio of at most 50 % for grouped, transport and e-commerce packaging.
• The producer's EPR registration in the Member State of supply.

Evidence to collect

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

Typical evidence

• The technical documentation file and the declaration of conformity.
• Heavy-metal and PFAS test reports or supplier declarations.
• Recycled-content certificates and chain-of-custody documents.
• EPR registrations per country.
• Reuse system agreements for reusable packaging.

Build the passport step by step

1. Create the product with the category Packaging - in Products, by CSV import or from a connected store.
2. Open DPPs and choose Create passport: the form shows the packaging fields together with the shared blocks (identifiers, manufacturer, materials, substances of concern, data carrier and passport availability).
3. Record the packaging level and the main material first.
4. Mark food-contact packaging: it switches on the PFAS checks.
5. Keep the technical documentation reference restricted.
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.

The dates for labelling, recyclability and recycled content move with the implementing and delegated acts; the regulatory watch reports when a pack changes.