Digital Product Passport for furniture
Furniture is a priority group on a later schedule than textiles or tyres — and, unlike them, it is split, with mattresses handled as their own group a year afterwards.
Short answer. The furniture delegated act is indicatively scheduled for 2028, with mattresses following separately in 2029. Nothing binds today. The ESPR framework listed furniture “including mattresses”, but the working plan separated them into distinct rows with distinct years.
What is in scope
The working plan lists furniture as a priority final product with an indicative 2028 act, and mattresses as a separate row indicatively in 2029. Sources that describe a combined “furniture and mattresses 2027–2028” window are conflating them.
Furniture is a hard group to define. It spans flat-pack and solid wood, domestic and contract, upholstered and not, and the supply chains differ completely. Expect the scope question to take up much of the act's drafting.
Timeline for Furniture
- 16 April 2025 Working plan names furniture as a priority, indicative act 2028; mattresses separately in 2029.
- During 2028 Furniture delegated act indicatively scheduled. The ESPR working plan mid-term review also falls this year.
- During 2029 Mattresses delegated act indicatively scheduled.
Data the passport has to carry
No delegated act exists for this group, so the product-specific field list does not yet exist. What is fixed is the ESPR framework's own Annex III data elements, which every passport must carry whatever the product. Those are listed below, together with the group-specific parameters the Commission has signalled.
Anything marked Expected is informed anticipation for data-collection planning, not a specification.
| Field | What it means in practice | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Unique product identifier | Persistent, connected to a data carrier on the product, its packaging or accompanying documentation. | In force |
| Unique operator identifiers | Manufacturer, other operators in the chain, and the EU-established responsible operator. Plus unique facility identifiers. | In force |
| Commodity codes | TARIC or equivalent, used at the customs verification step. | In force |
| Compliance documentation | Declaration of conformity, technical documentation, conformity certificates. | In force |
| Substances of concern | Name or code, location within the product, concentration or range, safe-use instructions and end-of-life handling. Framework-level under Article 7(5). | In force |
| Material composition | Wood species and origin, board types, metals, plastics, textiles and foams. Deforestation-relevant materials also engage the EU Deforestation Regulation. | Expected |
| Durability | Structural performance against defined test methods — the furniture sector already has established EN standards here. | Expected |
| Repairability & spare parts | Availability of fixings, fittings and components, and whether the product can be disassembled non-destructively. | Expected |
| Recycled content | Particularly for board materials, where recycled wood content is already commercially tracked. | Expected |
| Design for disassembly | Glued composite assemblies are the obvious target — they are cheap to make and effectively impossible to recycle. | Expected |
What this means if you sell furniture on PrestaShop
Furniture retailers have a longer runway than most, and one adjacent obligation arriving much sooner.
The EU Deforestation Regulation applies to large and medium operators and traders from 30 December 2026, and to micro and small enterprises from 30 June 2027. If you sell wooden furniture, that is a real near-term obligation with its own due diligence statements and five-year record retention — and it lands roughly two years before anything passport-related.
The useful framing: EUDR forces you to build wood traceability. That traceability is most of what a furniture passport will want for material origin. Doing the first properly makes the second much cheaper.
How to prepare now
Treat EUDR as the first phase of your passport work
Species, country of harvest, and supply chain documentation are required for deforestation due diligence and will be wanted again for the passport. Build the data model once.
Start on disassembly documentation
Assembly instructions you have. Disassembly information — what comes apart, in what order, with what tools, and what is glued — you almost certainly do not, and it is the kind of thing only the manufacturer can produce.
Questions
Are mattresses covered by the furniture act?
Does the EU Deforestation Regulation affect us before the passport does?
What about second-hand and antique furniture?
Sources
Other product groups
Batteries
The only product group with a binding passport date already set. LMT, EV and industrial batteries above 2 kWh, from 18 February 2027.
Textiles & apparel
First named priority under ESPR, and already subject to the unsold-goods destruction ban that took effect in July 2026.
Tyres
A priority group with an indicative 2027 act, and one that already carries mandatory EU labelling.
Get the data before you need the passport
Whatever your product group, the bottleneck is the same: supplier data you do not have yet. The readiness checklist tells you what to start asking for.