European Business Wallet (EUBW) & Digital Product Passport (DPP)

EUBW is a key part of the EU’s broader effort to strengthen digital identities and reduce administrative burdens for businesses by bringing certificates, permits, and other company-related information together in a digital wallet.

The Digital Product Passport (DPP) is an EU initiative designed to give each product a structured digital dataset containing information such as materials, origin, sustainability, repair options, and recyclability. The purpose is to support traceability, circularity, and transparent documentation of environmental and lifecycle data.

DPP and EUBW are closely connected because EUBW provides the digital infrastructure that allows businesses to issue, verify, and share DPP data securely and in an interoperable way. EUBW ensures that product passport information can be linked to a verified business identity and that data can be exchanged with authorities, partners, and other stakeholders across borders in a consistent and reliable manner.

By combining DPP with EUBW, a coherent digital chain is created from company to product. This makes it easier for businesses to document sustainability and comply with the EU’s upcoming circular economy regulations, as both business data and product data can be managed within a shared digital ecosystem. At the same time, it supports secure and automated data exchange across supply chains.
In that context, the following statement from the EU’s regulatory proposal is central:

“The Digital Product Passport (DPP), central to the EU’s circular economy agenda, depends on trusted access to conformity and sustainability data. The Business Wallets proposal can prove legal identity and any granted access rights, allow conformity declarations to be signed and sealed, and ensure product data is exchanged securely and verifiably across borders.” *

* Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on the establishment of European Business Wallets

Example: How a digital Product Passport can work in practice 

The EU has already introduced digital product passport requirements for certain product categories, including batteries, and the move toward stronger environmental, traceability, and ethical responsibility requirements is expected to extend to other imported goods - coffee being one of the likely areas. With a Digital Product Passport (DPP), every bag of coffee imported into the EU can be accompanied by documented and verified data: from the precise location of the cultivation area and documentation of working conditions to full traceability throughout the supply chain.

If digital traceability requirements are not met, Colombian coffee risks losing competitiveness and, in the worst case, losing access to EU markets should product passports become mandatory in the same way they are for batteries. This places clear pressure on farmers, cooperatives, and exporters to modernize data handling, document sustainability, and increase transparency. It is not only a matter of export eligibility, but also of maintaining global trust and securing the long-term economic future of Colombian coffee.

The Solution

To meet the requirements, a blockchain-based Digital Product Passport can be implemented  to automatically collect and secure data across the entire value chain-from cultivation in Colombia to retail distribution in the EU.

By that the product passport can include, among other things:

• Data from the cultivation site
  
• Sustainability documentation
  
• Information on working conditions and social standards
  
• Post-harvest processes and quality controls
  
• Export and import documentation
  
• Details about retail packaging

All data is recorded on a blockchain ledger, making it tamper-proof and accessible to authorities, buyers, and consumers.

QR Code on the Packaging

Each bag of coffee is assigned a unique QR code that links directly to the product passport. Consumers can scan the code to access a trustworthy, up-to-date account of the coffee’s origin and its documented journey through the entire value chain.