In 2024, a total of 4.6 billion low-value parcels entered the EU from outside — nearly double the number from the year before. National customs and market surveillance authorities in the EU, and indeed worldwide, simply cannot keep up with verifying whether imported products are safe. This is a global phenomenon, and the only solution is to enhance and automate compliance checks for products crossing borders.

The opportunity to do exactly this lies in the Digital Product Passport (DPP). DPPs can give market surveillance authorities, customs agencies, and e-commerce platforms structured, machine-readable product data — enabling automated compliance checks at scale, without physically opening every parcel.

Eco Wise is already actively implementing compliance enhancement and automation, embedding it directly into our Digital Product Passport technologies and systems. The key is secure, differentiated access. We achieve this through verifiable credentials that control who can read and write data within our DPPs:

• Any product data point or document in an Eco Wise DPP can be set as private and restricted, visible only to authorised parties.
• An encrypted credential is issued to a trusted third party that requires access to restricted compliance data. We do not use logins and passwords, which are inherently insecure.
• The third party — such as a market surveillance authority — presents their credential via a mobile device, and we verify its authenticity before granting access to the restricted information.
• The third party can then securely read restricted information and, where appropriate, write information back into the Eco Wise DPP.

This capability is critical given the growing need to ensure compliance information is accurate in cross-border shipments, and to enable product information to be more easily validated by third parties — particularly for products shipped directly to consumers via e-commerce.

Would you like to see this in action?  Reach out to us and experience differentiated access for your supply chain, product lifecycle, or compliance management.

As an active pilot and expert member of the Cirpass-2 project , we are also contributing to the development of an EU-wide system for enhanced and automated compliance checks. We have actively contributed to a new white paper on the use of DPPs for cross-border e-commerce.

Read the full white paper co-authored by Eco Wise here: https://lnkd.in/enh9hV4M