Build a toy product passport
CE marking, EN 71 safety and age grading today, and preparation for the passport the revised Toy Safety Regulation introduces.
DPP Shield editorial team · Updated:
The revised Toy Safety Regulation introduces a digital product passport for toys; verify its final scope and dates before relying on them. DPP Shield's toy pack models today's Toy Safety Directive 2009/48/EC data: the EU declaration of conformity behind the CE marking, the safety standard used, notified body details and substances of concern.
What applies today
Toys placed on the EU market need an EU declaration of conformity supporting the CE marking, an assessment against the harmonised EN 71 series (or EN IEC 62115 for electric toys), age grading with a warning for toys unsuitable under 36 months, and, where EC type-examination applies, the notified body's certificate.
The revised Toy Safety Regulation replaces the directive and adds a digital product passport; check the final text and its dates for your products.
What the pack checks
DPP Shield validates a passport against the bundled EU-TOYS 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 EU declaration of conformity supporting the CE marking.
- The notified body number where EC type-examination applies.
- SVHC information above 0.1 % w/w.
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 applicable EN 71 or EN IEC 62115 standard.
Evidence to collect
Attach these in Documents and link them to the passport, or request them from suppliers.
Typical evidence
- The EU declaration of conformity and EN 71 test reports.
- The EC type-examination certificate where it applies.
- Evidence for the chemical requirements of Annex II.
- Age grading and warning texts.
Build the passport step by step
- Create the product with the category Toys - in Products, by CSV import or from a connected store.
- Open DPPs and choose Create passport: the form shows the toys fields together with the shared blocks (identifiers, manufacturer, materials, substances of concern, data carrier and passport availability).
- Record the toy type, the minimum age and the under-36-months warning where it applies.
- Record whether the toy is battery-powered.
- Confirm chemical compliance only with the test reports behind it.
- 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.
When the regulation's passport requirements are confirmed, the pack will follow them; the safety data you record now remains the basis.