Digital Product Passports and the Future of Mobile Devices

Key Takeaways

• Participants agreed that a digital product passport (DPP) must be a lifecycle record, not a one-time certificate.
• DPP adoption is a governance problem before a technology one.
• Participants want a neutral steward and clear commercial value before sharing data.
• Data spaces, which keep data with its owner, look more viable to participants than centralized databases.
• The industry has a narrow window to shape a common framework before DPPs arrive as fragmented, jurisdiction-specific mandates.

What's Inside the Report

• Why Mobility Needs DPPs: How the EU Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation and a growing secondary market are turning DPPs into an operating requirement, not only a future compliance concern.
• Defining a DPP for Mobile Devices: What the passport records, and how it differs from a Trust Certificate, the buyer-facing proof built from passport data.
• Lessons from Automotive: How a standard vehicle identifier grew a market around it, and what a DPP must add beyond identity.
• The GSMA Homologation Pilot: How regulators can confirm, step by step, that a device's IMEI belongs to the claimed OEM when enforcing market-entry rules, without exposing OEM production data.
• A Rulebook for Device Data: What a shared device data space must define, including who governs it, who may query what and how participants are verified.
• Impact on Secondary Markets: How DPPs and Trust Certificates can support resale, warranty, financing and ESG reporting.