September 2026: no ESPR act for textiles, tires, furniture

As at 3 September 2026, not one of the prioritised ESPR product groups has an adopted delegated act. That applies equally to textiles and clothing, tires, furniture and mattresses. All procedures are at the preparatory or consultation stage: preparatory studies, stakeholder involvement, work in the Ecodesign Forum. There is no draft that would bindingly set out the mandatory information in a textile or furniture passport.

Why this matters

The Ecodesign Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 only creates the framework. The actual DPP obligation - which products are covered, what information the passport must carry, from when - arises only through the delegated act for the respective product group. As long as that is missing, there is no legally binding cut-off date and no binding data field list for textiles, tires, furniture and mattresses.

Where the years come from

The dates in circulation - textiles and tires 2027, furniture 2028, mattresses 2029 - come from the European Commission’s first ESPR working plan of April 2025. That plan is a planning document, not a legal act. It names indicative points in time for adopting the acts, not the dates from which companies have to deliver. Anyone reading a report that textiles are “subject to the DPP from 2027” is reading a planning figure, not a legal consequence. A mid-term review of the working plan is scheduled for 2028; shifts are therefore expressly built in.

On top of that comes the transition period: under the working plan, the date of application of a delegated act may as a rule be no earlier than 18 months after it enters into force. Between adoption and obligation there are therefore usually at least one and a half years.

What that means in practice

Anyone planning today against a hard textile deadline is planning against a figure with no legal basis. Conversely, the delay is no reason to wait: the time-consuming part is not producing the passport but obtaining the data in the supply chain - material composition, origin, certificates per article. That part is independent of whichever data model the act eventually prescribes.

The deadlines that do not come from the ESPR are unaffected: the battery passport on 18 February 2027 and the toy passport on 1 August 2030.

The current overall position is tracked in the guide When does the Digital Product Passport become mandatory?; whether your own range is affected can be narrowed down with the ESPR deadline checker.