The DPP is based on the regulatory principles of the EU Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR)4, 5 and the revised Construction Products Regulation (newCPR).6, 7, 8
- The ESPR extends the previous ecodesign requirements to a much broader range of products and sets stricter criteria for sustainability, resource efficiency and recyclability. These in turn require transparency and traceability, which means that detailed information on material composition, environmental and health impacts as well as repair and recycling options must be provided. The DPP serves as a central, digital system for collecting and providing this data.
- The newCPR relates specifically to construction products and requires them to be safe, sustainable and efficient. It builds on the ESPR and also requires comprehensive product information to be recorded in the DPP to demonstrate compliance in an easily recordable way and promote sustainability in the construction industry. These regulations ensure that construction products are transparent and sustainable throughout their life cycle, protecting both the environment and consumers.
The regulations relating to the ESPR, including the newCPR, address the following four key areas:
Extended area of application
- The new ESPR will fundamentally expand the existing focus, which was primarily on energy consumption, and extend to a much broader range of products in order to improve their sustainability.
Circular economy and environmental performance
- The ESPR will define requirements for the circular economy, energy efficiency and other environmental aspects in the subsequent regulations (so-called “delegated acts”) in order to make products more sustainable.
- This in turn will gradually lead to a restriction on the disposal of unsold products. Many unsold products in the EU are simply destroyed – a practice that wastes valuable resources. This regulation will initially be introduced for textiles, but in the medium term all product groups will be affected as a legal objective.
- Large and medium-sized companies in all product sectors are obliged to publish information on their website each year about the number and weight of products they dispose of and their reasons for doing so.
4 commission.europa.eu – Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation
5 EUR-Lex: Regulation – EU – 2024/1781-EN
6 single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu – Construction Products Regulation
7 data.consilium.europa.eu / ST-5762-2024-REV-1_en
8 The name for the revised Construction Products Regulation has not yet been officially defined. It is abbreviated with the acronym newCPR as well as revCPR. The acronym newCPR is used in this white paper.
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