AcademyDPP Foundations

Module 2: Whether It Applies to You

Overview

Module 1 established what a passport actually is. The question that follows immediately in any real organisation is narrower and more personal: does this apply to us, and if so, to which part of us. Most organisations answer this badly, either concluding they are out of scope because no single team carries the obvious legal duty, or assuming a passport obligation has already arrived because a product category was mentioned in a policy document.

This module prevents both failures. It separates participation in the value chain from legal accountability, gives a disciplined way to read a scope claim, and closes with the practical consequence that trips up most programmes once the paperwork is settled: the data your organisation needs but does not hold.

Estimated completion time: 40 minutes. Four lessons of 8 minutes each, plus a ten question assessment of about 8 minutes.

Learning Objectives

Module learning objectives

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

  1. M2-O1Place your organisation in the product value chain and name the role it occupies.
  2. M2-O2Distinguish the duties of a manufacturer, an importer, a distributor and an authorised representative.
  3. M2-O3Determine the current scope status of a given product group rather than guessing at it.
  4. M2-O4Identify which products are likely to fall into early scope, and say why.
  5. M2-O5Name the data you do not hold and the party in the chain who does.

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

Lesson Sequence

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  4. Lesson 4: The Data You Do Not Hold Not started

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Then take the module assessment.

Canonical Reading

This module teaches from three canonical articles, each 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 articles.

Framework Used

TBF-002, The Digital Product Passport Responsibility Model. Introduced in Lesson 1. Maps the six groups in a product value chain to what each contributes to a passport.

TBF-007, The Product Category Rollout Model. Introduced in Lesson 3. Places a product category on a four stage maturity scale so its scope status can be read from evidence rather than guessed.

Full descriptions in the framework registry.

The Running Case Product

The Aurelia S2 cordless hedge trimmer continues from Module 1: a mid-price consumer power tool with a removable lithium-ion battery pack, a moulded polymer housing and a woven textile shoulder strap, contract manufactured in Vietnam and imported into the EU by the brand owner’s Dutch entity. This module also introduces a short contrast vignette to show that value chain roles look different outside a single vertically aligned brand.

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 3: What a Passport Has to Contain moves from whether a passport applies to you towards what it must actually say once it does.