The Digital Product Passport (DPP) is designed to provide stakeholders in the circular economy with access to the information they need for repairs, recycling, and other circular strategies. This can enable these strategies to be designed much more efficiently or even make them feasible in the first place. However, many micro-, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in the circular economy are still sceptical about the specific benefits that DPPs can offer them.
This position paper therefore addresses the question of which policy measures can support MSMEs in the circular economy to use DPPs not only to comply with legal requirements, but also to actively promote the circular economy and resource conservation. Our analysis identifies seven core action areas where policy support is needed to enable MSMEs in the circular economy to deploy DPPs as a tool for circular value creation and resource conservation.
