Digital Product Passport for tyres
Tyres are one of four final-product groups named as ESPR priorities, and one of the better-prepared sectors — they already carry mandatory EU labelling with a defined data set.
Short answer. The tyre delegated act is indicatively scheduled for 2027, with compliance likely following around eighteen months later. Nothing binds today. But tyres already carry mandatory EU labelling covering fuel efficiency, wet grip and noise, which gives the sector a head start most others lack.
What is in scope
The working plan names tyres as a priority final product with an indicative delegated act in 2027. The scope boundaries — passenger car, light commercial, heavy commercial, retreaded, part-worn — are not yet fixed.
Retreaded and part-worn tyres are the interesting cases. Both involve a product placed on the market a second time by someone other than the original manufacturer, which is exactly the situation the passport framework handles through linked passports rather than new ones. Expect the act to address this; do not assume how.
Timeline for Tyres
- 16 April 2025 Working plan names tyres as a priority group, indicative act 2027.
- During 2027 Tyre delegated act indicatively scheduled. Indicative, not binding.
- ~2028–2029 Realistic earliest compliance window if the act lands on schedule. An estimate, not a date.
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 |
| Fuel efficiency, wet grip, noise | Already mandatory under existing EU tyre labelling. The obvious foundation for a tyre passport. | In force |
| Load index & speed rating | Existing marking requirements. | In force |
| Recycled content | Share of recycled rubber and other recovered materials. | Expected |
| Durability | Expected mileage or tread-life against a defined test method. | Expected |
| Retreadability | Whether and how the casing can be retreaded — a circularity parameter the sector already understands commercially. | Expected |
| Microplastic release | Tyre wear is one of the largest sources of microplastic emissions, and a stated Commission concern. | Expected |
What this means if you sell tyres on PrestaShop
If you sell tyres online, the near-term work is not the passport — it is that you already have mandatory label information to display, and ESPR Article 31(3) requires dealers to reference label information in visual advertising and technical promotional material, and prohibits displaying other marks likely to be confused with it.
Article 32 gives you the right to obtain printed labels or digital copies from the operator placing the product on the market, free of charge, within five working days of asking.
Because tyre labelling data is already structured and already flows through the supply chain, tyre retailers are in an unusually good position: the hard part of a DPP — getting data out of suppliers — is partly solved. The gap will be the circularity fields, not the performance ones.
How to prepare now
Get your existing label data into structured storage
Most tyre retailers hold fuel efficiency, wet grip and noise as display strings on the product page. Move them into typed fields now. When the act lands, that is the foundation you build on, and it improves your product pages in the meantime.
Ask suppliers about recycled content and retreadability
These are the fields that do not exist today. Start asking now so you know which suppliers can answer.
Sort out identifiers
Tyres have well-established marking conventions, but the mapping between those and a persistent unique product identifier in your catalogue is usually loose. Tighten it before it matters.
Questions
Do tyres need a passport now?
What about part-worn and retreaded tyres?
We only sell tyres fitted, not boxed. Does that change anything?
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.
Electronics & appliances
Not one group but many. Electronics come in through energy-related products and horizontal rules, on a schedule running from 2026 to 2030.
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.