Provenant EU Digital Product Passport

Provenant is the digital product passport product of Protokol B.V., an Amsterdam software company that started in custom software development; the offering formerly sold as Protokol DPP now carries the Provenant name. It helps companies prepare for EU passport requirements.

The platform creates, checks and manages EU DPPs at model, batch and item level. It offers sector templates, tracks suppliers, components and certificates, records life-cycle events in EPCIS 2.0, checks regulatory readiness before publishing, stores LCA data and provides an end-user app. Open APIs and connectors link ERP, PIM and PLM systems, with a built-in Salsify integration. Target users are textile, furniture, steel and construction product companies.

• Multi-level passports: Model, batch and item-level DPPs.
• Sector templates: Prebuilt templates per industry.
• Supplier tracking: Manages suppliers, components and certificates.
• EPCIS 2.0 events: Records life-cycle events in GS1 EPCIS 2.0.
• Compliance check: Validates regulatory readiness before publishing.
• Integrations: Open API, ERP/PIM/PLM connectors and Salsify.

• A Vietnamese wooden furniture exporter piloting batch-level passports for an EU retailer. 2) A garment maker sharing material and certificate data via EPCIS. 3) A construction products supplier preparing steel or materials passports.

• Sector templates reduce setup time for EU passports. 2) Pre-publication compliance checks lower the risk of incomplete passports. 3) Plans scale from pilots to enterprise volumes. 4) ERP, PIM and PLM connectors reuse existing product data.

EU ESPR delegated acts will make passports mandatory sector by sector, starting with priority products such as textiles and steel. Exporters from Asia, including Vietnamese furniture and garment makers, need tools to assemble supplier and material data for EU buyers.

Part of Protokol (Amsterdam, Netherlands). Recognised in Gartner's 2026 Emerging Market Quadrant for DPP; ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification announced. Partners include GS1 Netherlands, Productsup, Salsify, Habitech, QCM and manensin2next; member of the CIRPASS2 community of practice.