Overview

The Electronics DPP module provides the vocabulary and the JSON-LD context for Digital Product Passports targeting electronic devices under ESPR 2024/1781 and the surrounding regulatory layer — the French Repairability Index, the EU Right to Repair, the EU Energy Labelling Regulation 2017/1369, and the WEEE Directive 2012/19/EU.

Quick links

• Electronics vocabulary browser — the authoritative term list
• openepcis-dpp-ready electronics module — context, ontology, schema, SHACL shapes, examples
• Reference passports: smartphone · laptop · display · server
• Reference EPCIS events: extensions/eu/electronics/epcis/ — commissioning, ownership transfer, component replacement, software update, WEEE disposal

Regulation context

Vocabulary namespace

• Prefix: electronics:
• IRI: https://ref.openepcis.io/extensions/eu/electronics/

Key concepts in the vocabulary

For the full term list with definitions, see the browser.

French Repairability Index

The French Repairability Index uses a 100-point scale, displayed as 0–10 on the product label, calculated across five weighted criteria:

(The exact weighting and threshold table is set by the French Ministry of Ecological Transition and changes per product family — refer to the official methodology for current values.)

In a passport, the index is captured as electronics:RepairabilityIndex with one electronics:RepairCriterion per scored axis. The EU Right to Repair A–E grading lives separately in electronics:EURepairabilityClass.

WEEE categories (Annex III)

WEEE Directive 2012/19/EU Annex III collapses electrical and electronic equipment into six categories — this is the controlled list the OpenEPCIS vocabulary uses:

1. WEEE1_TemperatureExchange — fridges, freezers, heat pumps
2. WEEE2_ScreensMonitors — TVs, monitors, displays > 100 cm²
3. WEEE3_Lamps
4. WEEE4_LargeEquipment — any large appliance > 50 cm
5. WEEE5_SmallEquipment — small appliances ≤ 50 cm
6. WEEE6_SmallIT — small IT and telecom equipment ≤ 50 cm

Energy class

electronics:EnergyEfficiencyClass carries the regulatory energy-label class (EnergyClassA…EnergyClassG). The electronics:eprelRegistrationNumber cross-references the EU Product Registry for Energy Labelling so verifiers can pull the canonical declaration.

Bring the context in

EPCIS captures declare the extension via the GS1-Extensions header:

GS1-Extensions: electronics=https://ref.openepcis.io/extensions/eu/electronics/, dpp=https://ref.openepcis.io/extensions/common/core/

JSON-LD documents reference the published contexts:

{
  "@context": [
    "https://ref.openepcis.io/extensions/eu/electronics/electronics-context.jsonld",
    "https://ref.openepcis.io/extensions/eu/battery/battery-context.jsonld",
    "https://ref.gs1.org/standards/epcis/epcis-context.jsonld"
  ]
}

A device with an embedded battery (smartphone, laptop, e-scooter) imports both the electronics and battery contexts so the battery cell or pack can carry its own typed data on the same passport, or — preferred for multi-component products — link to a separately-resolvable battery DPP. See Multi-component example.

Dependencies on the DPP core

The electronics passport reuses these published core blocks:

• dpp:OperatorInformation — economic operator data
• dpp:RepairabilityInfo — repair scores (cross-cutting; the French index lives in electronics:RepairabilityIndex)
• dpp:FacilityInformation — manufacturing facility data
• dpp:CircularityPerformance — circularity metrics and end-of-life handling
• dpp:AccessRights — data access tier per ESPR Article 9

Resources

• ESPR Regulation 2024/1781
• French Repairability Index methodology
• EU Energy Labelling Regulation 2017/1369
• WEEE Directive 2012/19/EU
• EPREL Database — EU Product Registry for Energy Labelling
• iFixit Repairability standards

Next steps

• Implementation guide
• Complete examples
• Multi-component example
• DPP Resolution Flow