AcademyDPP Foundations

Module 1: What a Digital Product Passport Actually Is

Overview

Most Digital Product Passport programmes go wrong in their first fortnight, and almost always for the same reason: everyone in the room is using the word “passport” to mean something slightly different. One person means a QR code. Another means a landing page. A third means a compliance document. They agree on a plan, and the plan is incoherent before it starts.

This module fixes the vocabulary. It is deliberately the narrowest module in the path: it does not ask whether you are in scope, what data you need or when the deadline lands. It establishes what the object under discussion actually is, so that everything after it has something firm to attach to.

Estimated completion time: 45 minutes. Four lessons of 9, 8, 9 and 9 minutes, plus a ten question assessment of about 10 minutes.

Learning Objectives

Module learning objectives

By the end of this lesson you should be able to:

  1. M1-O1Define a Digital Product Passport in the terms the legislation actually uses.
  2. M1-O2Distinguish a passport from a label, a QR campaign, a product web page and a PDF.
  3. M1-O3Name the four layers of a passport and say which part of an organisation owns each.
  4. M1-O4Explain how a scan resolves from a data carrier to a displayed record.
  5. M1-O5Separate what is already a confirmed obligation from what is still pending detail.

Every objective is tested. Each assessment question is tagged to one of the five.

Lesson Sequence

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Then take the module assessment.

Canonical Reading

This module teaches from one canonical article. The article is the authoritative text and remains free and open to everyone:

The lessons add sequence, framing, examples and practice. They do not restate the regulatory content, and they never introduce a date, article number or citation that is not in the source article.

Framework Used

TBF-001, The Four Layers of a Digital Product Passport. Introduced in Lesson 3 and applied in Lesson 4. The framework separates a passport into regulatory, governance, information and technology layers so a programme can see which layer it has actually built. Full description in the framework registry.

The Running Case Product

Every Foundations module uses one product so the examples accumulate rather than reset.

The Aurelia S2 cordless hedge trimmer. A mid-price consumer power tool with a removable lithium-ion battery pack, a moulded polymer housing, and a woven textile shoulder strap. It is manufactured under contract in Vietnam, imported into the EU by the brand owner’s Dutch entity, and sold through both retail and direct channels. It touches three different regulatory regimes at once, which is exactly why it is useful.

Completion

The module is complete when all four lessons are marked complete and the assessment is passed at the Foundations pass mark of 80 percent. Retakes are unlimited and your best score is kept. Progress is saved on this device.

Next Step

After the assessment, Module 2: Whether It Applies to You takes the question you will be asked immediately after you explain any of this internally: does it actually apply to us. It covers value chain roles, who carries which duty, how to read scope without guessing, and the data you do not hold.