{"id":30725,"date":"2022-07-05T15:14:02","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T13:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.axfoundation.se\/?post_type=project&p=30725"},"modified":"2025-07-30T14:38:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T12:38:02","slug":"propare-digital-product-passport","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/www.axfoundation.se\/en\/projects\/propare-digital-product-passport","title":{"rendered":"ProPare \u2013 A Global Standard for Digital Product Passports"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Digital Product Passports must provide reliable sustainability data on products in real-time, regardless of industry or product category. To meet this objective, the underlying solution must be based on open, global and competition-neutral standards. <\/p>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n

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The Issue<\/h2>\n
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Consumers and purchasers need to have access to accurate product information in real time. This is a prerequisite if their choices are to contribute to meeting EU\u2019s climate goals and to a circular transition. But it is today difficult for consumers and purchasers to make sustainable choices. Too little product information is available in connection with purchases, and the information available is not always reliable. The European Commission has presented a proposal for so-called product passports for all products that are made available on the European market. The purpose of the product passport is to increase traceability and support a circular economy by manufacturers being required to share various sustainability data for their products.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n

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Uniform standardized infrastructure rather than fragmented solutions<\/h4>\n

To accelerate the transition to sustainable development and avoid fragmented solutions, it is important that Digital Product Passports are based on a set of open, global, and competition-neutral standards. However, the development towards such an infrastructure, risks being hampered by private, rigid, and non-compatible solutions, resulting in suboptimization and the risk of transparency and accessibility being lost.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n

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Our only competitor in ProPare is unsustainable production. We collaborated widely across industries and sectors to show the way to a practical solution for digital product passports that is generic, complies with the legislation, and works in the long term.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Joakim Stattin, Project Manager for Propare, Axfoundation<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n

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Our Solution<\/h2>\n
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The ProPare project developed a prototype for how a global, standardized infrastructure for Digital Product Passports could work in practice. The basis for this is a set of open and competition-neutral standards. With a common language used to identify every single unique product on the market, and a resolver pointing to the right data sources, all actors \u2013 suppliers and retailers as well as public authorities and consumers \u2013 can access relevant updated data in real-time, from multiple, decentralized sources, regardless of industry, company or product category.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n

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If, by 2025, we\u2019re to succeed in exchanging product information between each other, regardless of industry, supplier or product, this will require a basic global and competition-neutral product passport infrastructure. We want to create this using existing technology in a new way.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Staffan Olsson, GS1 Sweden\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n

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ProPare aimed to build an open infrastructure for digital product passports where all players can obtain reliable sustainability product data in real-time. <\/p>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n

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