Article 8 · Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1778

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Article 8Registration of a digital product passport#

1.For products referred to in Article 1(1), point (a), a digital product passport shall be registered by a verified economic operator placing the product on the market or putting it into service at the level specified in the applicable delegated acts (model, batch or item level) adopted pursuant to Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1781.

10.Upon successful submission by the relevant actor as referred to in paragraph 1, of the data in the registry, the Commission shall automatically communicate to that relevant actor the unique registration identifier for that specific product generated in accordance with paragraph 9. The unique registration identifier shall be communicated through the user interface or the API response, depending on the service used by the relevant actor during registration.

2.For products referred to in Article 1(1), points (b) to (f), a digital product passport shall be registered by the relevant actor at the level (model, batch or item level) specified in the relevant Union law.Where Union law provides for a third party to perform actions in the registry on behalf of the actors referred to in the first or second sub-paragraphs, such third party, once verified according to Article 19(4), will be allowed to perform registration actions in the registry.

3.Where the same product is subject to different Union rules requiring the registration of its digital product passport at different levels of granularity, the digital product passport shall be registered for that product at the most granular level required by the relevant Union legislation.

4.Where the digital product passport is created at item level, in accordance with paragraph 1, both batch and model identifiers shall be linked to that digital product passport where batch and model design exist for the product.

5.Where the digital product passport is created at batch level, in accordance with paragraph 1, the model identifier shall be linked to that digital product passport where model design exists for the product.

6.The relevant actor referred to in paragraph 1 shall register a digital product passport either through the secure user interface of the registry as provided for in Article 3, point (a), or through the API as provided for in Article 3, point (b).

7.Upon submission for registration, the Commission shall read the digital product passport content and automatically confirm:

(a)the semantic conformity of the data provided in the digital product passport, as provided for in the applicable delegated acts adopted pursuant to Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 or in the applicable delegated acts adopted pursuant to Article 77 of Regulation (EU) 2023/1542, or under other Union law providing for the data about the digital product passport to be registered in the digital product passport registry;

(b)where relevant, coherence of the mandatory data to be uploaded in the registry against the value of the data provided in the digital product passport;

(c)the conformity of the digital product passport with the granularity level (model, batch or item) as provided for in the applicable delegated acts adopted pursuant to Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 or in the applicable delegated acts adopted pursuant to Article 77 of Regulation (EU) 2023/1542, or under other Union law providing for a specific level for the digital product passport to be registered in the registry;

(d)where relevant, the validity of the commodity code of the product in relation to the permitted ranges for this product group;

(e)where relevant, the link to the back-up hosted by a digital product passport service provider.

8.Following a successful verification in accordance with paragraph 6, the registry shall generate and store a unique and persistent registration identifier as part of the registration data.

9.Additionally, the Commission shall store in the registry the following information as part of the registration data:

(a)where relevant, the unique identifiers;

(b)where relevant, the commodity code of the product;

(c)where relevant, reference to the digital product passport service provider;

(d)registrant information, including date and time of the registration and the integrity of the digital product passport as part of the evidence of the registration event.