Digital Product Passport
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Digital Product Passport (DPP): Overview​
For vocabularies, JSON-LD contexts, and schemas see the UNTP DPP pages.
A Digital Product Passport (DPP) is a core credential defined by the UN Transparency Protocol (UNTP). Issued by the shipper of goods, it carries a lightweight, verifiable snapshot of:
- product identity (model, batch, or serialised item)
- key dimensions and classifications
- facility of production and material provenance
- sustainability or conformity claims, each linked to supporting evidence
- links to traceability events that connect finished product back to raw materials
Because it travels with the product rather than the facility, one DPP supplies the minimum data receivers need—such as Scope-3 emissions per shipment—and acts as upstream B2B feedstock for any country- or sector-specific product-passport regulations.
RBTP context – The standard UNTP DPP is reused across RBTP. Specialized profiles—the Digital Battery Passport (DBP) and Digital Electronic Goods Passport (DEGP)—extend the same model with battery- or electronics-specific data fields, while remaining fully interoperable with the core DPP.
🔍 Key Points​
| Feature | UNTP reference |
|---|---|
| Granularity options | DPP-01: model, batch, or serialised item. |
| Product classifications | DPP-02: supports multiple classification schemes (UN-CPC, etc.). |
| Materials provenance | DPP-03: mass fraction and origin country. |
| Produced-at facility link | DPP-04: resolvable facility ID. |
| Dimensions | DPP-05: Product dimensions |
| Traceability links | DPP-06: references UNTP Digital Traceability Events. |
| Conformity claims & evidence | DPP-09 – DPP-13: topic, metric, criterion, and supporting credential links. |
✅ Summary​
- The DPP is the product-level credential in UNTP, used by RBTP to convey identity, provenance, and sustainability data for every shipped item or batch.
- Digital Battery Passports (DBP) and Digital Electronic Goods Passports (DEGP) are RBTP extensions of the same UNTP DPP model.
- Each passport is a W3C Verifiable Credential with a resolvable ID and links to facility records, conformity evidence, and traceability events.
- This lightweight structure meets B2B due-diligence needs and supplies authoritative data that downstream actors—or national regulations—can reuse without modification.
For complete information on Digital Product Passports, please refer to the UN/CEFACT specification.