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ISO/IEC forms JTC 5 for international Digital Product Passport standards
ISO/IEC JTC 5 Digital Product PassportInternational Organization for Standardization (ISO) / International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)Global
Announced
Apr 1, 2026
Description
A new international joint technical committee, ISO/IEC JTC 5 Digital Product Passport, was formed in Spring 2026. The committee's objective is to develop standards and deliverables for worldwide interoperable DPP implementations, addressing sectoral, systemic, regional, and use case-specific requirements. This initiative aims to prevent fragmentation from different national, regional, or sector-specific DPPs that are not aligned, supporting global interoperability of digital product passport frameworks.
Key Findings
ISO/IEC forms JTC 5 for international Digital Product Passport standards
technical committee, ISO/IEC JTC 5 Digital Product Passport, was formed in Spring 2026. This responds to the ongoing broad technological evolution, which transforms the Digital Product Passport (DPP) topic into a global opportunity and challenge. To prevent having different, national, regional and/or sector-specific DPPs that are not aligned, the objective JTC 5 is to develop standards/deliverables for worldwide int