What language must a clothing label, and its passport, be in?
Three texts, three answers, and none of them says twenty-four languages. What the label already requires, where the passport rule actually hides, and the extra layer France adds on top.
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The product passport, from the shop side
What the European regulation actually asks of a WooCommerce store, what your product data already covers, and what is worth preparing before the delegated acts land.
Do you need GS1 codes for a Digital Product Passport?
The short answer is no, and the long one is more interesting: the reference to the ISO standards that seemed to require them was replaced in July 2026, and the regulation explicitly provides for identifiers you mint yourself.
Where to host your product passports: the QR is printed for ten years, your subscription is not
A code sewn into a garment has to answer for its whole life. What the regulation allows, what it demands when the company disappears, and the gap it leaves: nothing protects the printed address.
Filling product passports with AI: what it does well, and what it must never invent
Letting AI fill regulatory data raises a question the tools avoid asking: what is a machine allowed to write? Here is the rule, what leaves your store, and when the AI is not worth its cost.
French textile rules: AGEC, environmental cost, and where the EU passport fits
If you sell clothing to French consumers, four French obligations and one European deadline ask for product data. Which ones catch you, at what threshold, and what changes on 1 October 2026.
Create your product passports in WooCommerce in twenty minutes
The whole path, from installing the plugin to the first public page scanned from a phone, on a real clothing catalogue. No developer, no ERP, and no cap on how many passports you publish.
QR codes on clothing labels: what is required, and how to print one that scans
What the law actually asks of the label as an object, the rule online shops forget, and how to print a QR code that still reads after the garment leaves the shop.
Textile passports: the data worth preparing now
The delegated act is not written, but the preparatory study already describes the structure, and most of the data has been required elsewhere for years. Here is which, and at what level.
The Digital Product Passport, seen from WooCommerce
What the EU regulation actually requires, what your product catalogue already holds, and what is worth deciding before the delegated acts arrive.
Digital Product Passport: what is already in force, and what is not
The regulation, the EU registry, the standards and the delegated acts are moving at four different speeds. Here is where each one stands, with its sources and its date.