🇦🇪 UAE’s Digital Product Passport: A New Standard for Global Supply Chains
- Betül Bayram Uzun
- 21 Eki 2025
- 2 dakikada okunur
Güncelleme tarihi: 6 Kas 2025
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has become a regional pioneer by mandating Digital Product Passport (DPP) implementation in the steel sector. This regulation sets a new benchmark for traceability, compliance, and competitiveness — creating a major opportunity for Turkish exporters.
📜 UAE’s DPP Initiative: A Regional First
Sustainable production and supply chain transparency have become global priorities — not just for the European Union but for international trade as a whole. One of the most remarkable developments comes from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which has made Digital Product Passport (DPP) mandatory for steel products.
📄 Cabinet Resolution No. 121 of 2023 introduced a mandatory Digital Product ID system for steel reinforcement bars and billets. This move is a pioneering example of regulatory and technological integration in the region.
🧩 Key Components of the DPP Regulation
Mandatory Digital Identity: Each product batch must include a QR-code-based digital passport with material test results and environmental compliance data.
Compliance Requirements:
ISO 9001 Quality Management System
ISO 14001 Environmental Management System
ECAS (Emirates Conformity Assessment Scheme) certification
Data Retention: Test reports must be stored digitally for at least 10 years.
Mutual Recognition: The system aligns with international certification frameworks, allowing for cross-border recognition.
This structure enables real-time access to technical and environmental performance, ensuring trust, transparency, and sustainability throughout the supply chain.
🌍 Why It’s a Pioneering Move
The UAE is the first country in the Gulf region to introduce a mandatory DPP format.
While the European Union’s DPP strategy is still in pilot phases, the UAE has fully implemented it in the steel sector.
The regulation integrates ISO standards and certification schemes, facilitating international market interoperability.
The system is led by the Ministry of Industry and Advanced Technology (MOIAT) and aims to standardize national product identification infrastructure.
This makes the UAE not just a regulatory follower but a regional standard setter for digital product traceability.
🇹🇷 What This Means for Turkish Exporters
For Turkish companies exporting steel to the UAE, this regulation sets a clear new standard:
Product environmental declarations, origin data, and test results must be integrated into digital product passports.
Transitioning to a QR-code-enabled DPP system will become a key competitive advantage.
Because UAE’s framework aligns with European Union regulatory trends, it can also simplify access to EU markets.
This shift is not just a compliance obligation — it’s a strategic opportunity.
⚙️ How Optimimax Supports DPP Compliance
Optimimax platform empowers manufacturers to digitize their product-level sustainability and compliance data end-to-end.
📊 Calculates Product Carbon Footprint (PCF)
🔗 Generates DPP data schemas and QR-code-based product passports
🔎 Integrates real-time production data to streamline regulatory compliance
With Optimimax, exporters can quickly align with forward-looking sustainability regulations like the UAE’s DPP — while boosting market competitiveness.
✨ Conclusion: DPP Compliance as a Competitive Advantage
The UAE’s Digital Product Passport regulation sets a new global benchmark for digitalized supply chains.For Turkish manufacturers, this transformation represents:
📌 Not a burden, but
🚀 A competitive advantage and gateway to new markets.
👉 Accelerate your DPP compliance journey and strengthen your export position with Optimimax.
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