EU product regulations are expanding across every category. CEvidence helps companies of any size understand what applies to their products, who is responsible, and what documentation holds up in practice.
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ESPR, PPWR, BWBR and other frameworks have introduced new obligations across almost every product category. Keeping up requires continuous monitoring, and most companies do not have that capacity in house.
Under current EU law, obligations extend to manufacturers, importers, distributors, and other economic operators. Inside companies, it is often unclear who must provide, review, and document which information, and at what stage.
Evidence scattered across email threads, shared drives and supplier portals is not the same as a structured, traceable compliance record. The difference matters when market surveillance authorities ask questions.
Four areas of work focus on making compliance clear, traceable, and manageable for companies that are building or strengthening their internal compliance capabilities.
For decades, production and consumption in the European Union (EU) have largely followed a linear model: raw materials are extracted, processed into products, placed on the market and ultimately discarded. Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 establishing a framework for the setting of ecodesign requirements for sustainable products (Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation, ESPR) addresses exactly this problem. At the same time, packaging represents a significant share of waste, while batteries depend heavily on critical raw materials and global supply chains involving social and environmental risks.
The shift in European product law is already visible today. With the ESPR and Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 concerning batteries and waste batteries (Batteries Regulation, BWBR), it has already become concrete. With Regulation (EU) 2025/40 on packaging and packaging waste (Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation, PPWR), the next major step is close.
At the heart of this shift is the move away from a linear product model towards an approach that takes durability, repairability and recyclability into account already at the design stage. Digital product information is becoming a mandatory part of this new system. The Digital Product Passport is a central instrument under the ESPR. The BWBR complements this for batteries through battery-specific digital information requirements, including the battery passport, while the PPWR introduces its own digital labelling and information requirements.
For companies, this means compliance becomes more data-driven, sustainability becomes more verifiable and responsibility across the supply chain becomes more visible. Further requirements are already being prepared. In its 2025 to 2030 working plan under the ESPR, the European Commission identifies textiles, furniture, tyres, mattresses, and iron, steel and aluminium among the priority groups.
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