Towards the Digital Product Passport: the potential contribution to standardization from TRICK project

The inputs to standardization presented in this document derive from the main results of the TRICK project and are related to several topics addressed during its activities.
Traceability and Digital Product Passport (DPP), sustainability and environmental impacts, circularity, market surveillance and anticounterfeiting are the areas on which the project gives a clear and, in some cases, tangible contribution. Thanks to its standardized approach and to the experimentation on its industrial pilots, the project produced some valuable outputs for enhancing standardization and standards adoption in real life of industry.
In some cases, the need for standardization initiatives arose widely, such as in the case of circularity assessment or in anticounterfeiting and anomaly detection. Furthermore, criticalities in the existing methodologies were put in evidence thanks to the pilot’s application, as in the PEF studies execution.
TRICK’s standardized approach to data collection along the supply chain and its data model, based on a significant extension of the CEN CWA 16667 eBIZ specification and on methodologies from EPCIS and UNECE, could represent an important instrument to support companies that will have to comply with the incoming regulations (EPR, ESPR and DPP).
The results and ready-to-use resources coming from the activities on traceability and sustainability data collection will be subject of the new CEN Workshop Agreement based on TRICK results, that is launched on December 2024.