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Digital Product Passport readiness checklist
DPP readiness means having evidence that your organisation can deliver and maintain the applicable passport—not simply owning software. Use this checklist to identify gaps, assign owners and decide what must be resolved before rollout.
Use the checklist with evidence
Mark an item only when you can point to a document, record or test. Unchecked items are a work queue, not a compliance verdict. For each gap, record owner, dependency, action and target date. “Not applicable” needs a reason based on your product scope.
Ticks are session-only and are not sent to a server. The CSV includes all 18 areas, evidence prompts and blank action columns.
0 of 18 evidence checks marked
Prioritise the gaps that block progress
| Priority | Typical gap | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Critical | Scope unresolved, required data absent, access leakage or identity errors | Resolve before claiming readiness or releasing affected records. |
| Dependency | Supplier evidence or integration prevents validation | Assign owner and unblock the upstream source. |
| Operating risk | Recovery, updates or contractual exit remain untested | Complete operating tests before scale. |
| Improvement | Usability or nonessential automation can be improved | Track after the minimum safe operating baseline. |
A high count of checked boxes cannot compensate for an unresolved critical obligation. Review the dependencies between items before setting a rollout date.
Run a readiness workshop
Bring compliance, product, data, supplier management, IT, security, operations and procurement together. Use one representative product family. Ask each owner to show evidence and record disagreements instead of resolving them by majority vote. Close the session with the five most important actions and their dependencies.
Repeat after the pilot using actual results. Scope conclusions and supplier evidence can change; a checklist completed once is not a permanent readiness certificate.
Example action record
| Gap | Evidence needed | Owner | Next step |
|---|---|---|---|
| Supplier composition not verified | Current declaration tied to the correct component | Supplier manager | Request source evidence and have materials owner review it. |
| Restricted access untested | Negative and positive role tests | Security lead | Test the pilot API and public view. |
| Provider exit uncertain | Documented portable export and recovery test | IT + procurement | Agree transition duties and run a sample migration. |
These are examples, not claims about your organisation. The downloadable CSV provides space to create your own records.
The future assessment companion
DPPChecklist.com is intended to provide a separate interactive assessment and personalised gap recommendations. It is not activated here. This guide supplies the detailed explanations that future assessment results can point to; it does not duplicate that planned service.
For now, work through this evidence checklist and choose the guide that addresses your largest gap. If technology evaluation is the next dependency, use the software-selection guide.