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Trust, verified: COMPLIANCE4DPP turns product data compliance into a business opportunity
101298718), which launched on 1 June 2026, is a newly funded EU research and innovation project focused on one of the defining industrial challenges of the coming decade: making automated compliance for Digital Product Passports (DPPs) operational across real-world European value chains. Coordinated by EIT Manufacturing East GmbH, the project brings together a consortium of 19 partners from nine countries, combining expertise in Gaia-X data spaces, industrial data ecosystems, regulatory compliance, open-source tooling, circular manufacturing, and SME engagement. The project leverages Gaia-X architectural frameworks and proven data space practices to ensure transparency, openness, reliability, security, and interoperability in data exchange — embedding automated compliance verification (‘Compliance Definition as Code’) directly into the infrastructure that industrial data ecosystems already rely on. COMPLIANCE4DPP will advance Pontus-X specifically for DPP integration, strengthening its technical architecture, governance model, identity and credential management, smart contracting, and user policies, while adding automated compliance mechanisms that ensure data transactions fully satisfy applicable EU regulatory frameworks — including the GDPR, the AI Act, the Data Governance Act, and the Data Act. That is where COMPLIANCE4DPP comes in.” — Johannes Hunschofsky, Managing Director, EIT Manufacturing East GmbH (Project Coordinator) The project’s approach will be validated through two concrete industrial use cases, providing bestpractice blueprints for DPP-enabled data sharing that other sectors can adopt. Follow COMPLIANCE4DPP on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/compliance4dpp Dominique Garcia Marschall Strategic Projects Manager, EIT Manufacturing East GmbH dominique.garciamarschall@manufacturing.eu COMPLIANCE4DPP has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No.