ESPR is a framework — it does not regulate any product until the Commission chooses to. The instrument it uses to choose is the working plan: a published list of the product groups that get ecodesign requirements and a Digital Product Passport first. If you want to know when your product comes into scope, the working plan is where to look.
Under ESPR (2024/1781), the Commission adopts a multi-year working plan naming priority product groups. It is the roadmap that turns the framework into concrete obligations, group by group, through delegated acts. Nothing becomes mandatory from the working plan itself — it sets the order of play.
The first ESPR working plan focuses on textiles and apparel, iron and steel, aluminium, furniture (including mattresses), and tyres, alongside several energy-related product groups carried over from the previous ecodesign framework. Batteries are handled separately, under the EU Battery Regulation, whose passport is the first to become mandatory — 18 February 2027.
Being named in the working plan does not set your date — the delegated act for your group does. Each act fixes the exact data set, the granularity (model, batch or item) and the start date. The deadline table tracks what is scheduled.
A DPP programme takes six to twelve months to stand up, and supplier data collection is the critical path. If your group is in the first working plan, the sensible move is to start now rather than wait for the act to land. The free readiness check maps your products to their regulations and dates in two minutes.
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