Webinar | DRAILS | Digital infrastructures for circularity (12.12.25)
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Digital Infrastructures for Circularity:
The Role of Digital Product Passports under the ESPR
Online Workshop
12 December 2025 | 12am - 1pm CET
With the entry into force of Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 on eco-design for sustainable products (ESPR), another piece of the EU Green Deal puzzle has fallen into place. The ESPR aims to enhance the environmental performance of products by introducing harmonised energy efficiency and sustainability standards across the Union. A central innovation of this regulation is the creation of Digital Product Passports (DPPs), a new regulatory instrument designed to improve the end-to-end traceability of products throughout their entire value chain. DPPs exemplify a complex data governance framework which involves the active and high-quality participation of a series of actors. This in turn requires that each of these actors is digitally ‘fit’ to do so. Amongst these actors, public authorities (i.e. the Commission and national authorities) and the role they assume in the context of DPPs includes defining data and interoperability standards, assigning access rights, conducting market surveillance, and providing support and guidance to the stakeholders involved. Ensuring the successful implementation of DPPs will not only enhance product transparency and traceability but also significantly contribute in the EU’s transition towards a more circular and sustainable economy.
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Guest | Alexandra Papageorgiou is a Research Associate at the Centre for IT & IP Law of KU Leuven, conducting data and AI-related research in the context of Horizon and SBO projects. She is specialised in EU law (Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas) and IT& IP Law (KU Leuven). As her interests lie in environmental sustainability and data, she will soon be starting her PhD trajectory on the topic of the role of public authorities in environmental data governance.
Data, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Law & Society (DRAILS) is a CPDR - CRIDES research project
