Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2026/1736 of 14 July 2026 on harmonised standards for digital product passports drafted in support of Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 of the European Parliament and of the Council
Date: 2026-07-14
Institutions: Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, European Commission
Subjects: European standard, access to information, ecodesign, harmonisation of standards, product designation, sustainable product, technical specification, technical standard








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Official Journal of the European Union


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2026/1736


15.7.2026







            COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION (EU) 2026/1736
of 14 July 2026
         
on harmonised standards for digital product passports drafted in support of Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 of the European Parliament and of the Council
(Text with EEA relevance)


THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,


Having regard to Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2012 on European standardisation, amending Council Directives 89/686/EEC and 93/15/EEC and Directives 94/9/EC, 94/25/EC, 95/16/EC, 97/23/EC, 98/34/EC, 2004/22/EC, 2007/23/EC, 2009/23/EC and 2009/105/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Council Decision 87/95/EEC and Decision No 1673/2006/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (1), and in particular Article 10(6) thereof,

Whereas:







(1)


In accordance with Article 41(2) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 of the European Parliament and of the Council (2), digital product passports which are in conformity with harmonised standards or parts thereof, the references of which have been published in the Official Journal of the European Union, are to be presumed to be in conformity with the requirements set out in Articles 10 and 11 of that Regulation covered by those harmonised standards or parts thereof.












(2)


By Commission Implementing Decision C(2024) 5423 (3), as amended by Implementing Decision C(2025) 8024 (4), the Commission made a request to the CEN, Cenelec and ETSI for drafting harmonised standards in support of the requirements that are set out in Article 10 and Article 11 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 (‘the request’).












(3)


On the basis of the request, CEN, Cenelec and ETSI drafted harmonised standards EN 18216:2026, EN 18219:2026, EN 18220:2026, EN 18221:2026, EN 18222:2026, and EN 18223:2026 for digital product passports in support of Regulation (EU) 2024/1781.












(4)


The Commission, together with CEN, Cenelec and ETSI, has assessed whether harmonised standards EN 18216:2026, EN 18219:2026, EN 18220:2026, EN 18221:2026, EN 18222:2026 and EN 18223:2026 comply with the request.












(5)


Harmonised standards EN 18216:2026, EN 18219:2026, EN 18220:2026, EN 18221:2026, EN 18222:2026 and EN 18223:2026 satisfy the requirements set out in Articles 10 and 11 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1781. It is therefore appropriate to publish the references of those harmonised standards in the Official Journal of the European Union.












(6)


Compliance with a harmonised standard confers a presumption of conformity with the corresponding essential requirements, set out in Union harmonisation legislation from the date of publication of the reference of such standard in the Official Journal of the European Union. This Decision should therefore enter into force on the day of its publication,





HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:



Article 1
The references of harmonised standards for digital product passports drafted in support of Regulation (EU) 2024/1781, listed in the Annex to this Decision, are hereby published in the Official Journal of the European Union.


Article 2
This Decision shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.





Done at Brussels, 14 July 2026.


For the Commission


The President

Ursula VON DER LEYEN
            





(1)  
            OJ L 316, 14.11.2012, p. 12, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2012/1025/oj.

(2)  Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 June 2024 establishing a framework for the setting of ecodesign requirements for sustainable products, amending Directive (EU) 2020/1828 and Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 and repealing Directive 2009/125/EC (OJ L 2024/1781, 28.6.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1781/oj).

(3)  Commission Implementing Decision C(2024) 5423 of 31 July 2024 on a standardisation request to the European Committee for Standardisation, the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardisation, and the European Telecommunications Standards Institute as regards digital product passports in support of Union policy on ecodesign requirements for sustainable products and on batteries and waste batteries.

(4)  Commission Implementing Decision C(2025) 8024 of 28 November 2025 amending Implementing Decision C(2024)5423 as regards the legal basis and the deadlines for the adoption of the standards.




ANNEX






No


Reference of the standard




1.


EN 18216:2026
Digital product passport – Data exchange protocols




2.


EN 18219:2026
Digital product passport – Unique identifiers




3.


EN 18220:2026
Digital product passport – Data carriers




4.


EN 18221:2026
Digital product passport – Data storage, archiving, and persistence




5.


EN 18222:2026
Digital Product Passport – Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for product passport lifecycle management and searchability




6.


EN 18223:2026
Digital Product Passport – System interoperability







ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec_impl/2026/1736/oj
ISSN 1977-0677 (electronic edition)