Article 22 — Technical design and operation of the digital product passport

The technical design and operation of the digital product passport shall comply with all of the following requirements: (a) the digital product passport is fully interoperable with other digital product passports required by other Union law in relation to the technical, semantic and organisational aspects of end-to-end communication and data transfer; (b) all data included in the digital product passport is based on open standards, developed with an interoperable format, and is, as appropriate, machine readable, structured, searchable and transferable through an open interoperable data exchange network without vendor lock-in; (c) consumers or other end-users, economic operators, competent national authorities, customs authorities, the Commission and other relevant actors have access, on the basis of their respective access rights in accordance with Union law, to the digital product passport free of charge; (d) consumers and other end-users are not required to register or provide a password to access the digital product passport; (e) the digital product passport is stored by the economic operator responsible for its creation or by digital product passport service providers; (f) where a new digital product passport is created for a detergent or an end-user surfactant that already has one or more digital product passports, the new digital product passport is linked to those original digital product passports; (g) where the digital product passport is stored pursuant to point (e) of this Article or otherwise processed by digital product passport service providers pursuant to Article 21(12), point (c), those digital product passport service providers do not sell, reuse or process such data, in whole or in part, beyond what is necessary for the provision of the relevant storing or processing services, unless specifically agreed with the economic operator placing the detergent or end-user surfactant on the market; (h) economic operators do not track, analyse or use any usage information other than as absolutely necessary for the purposes of providing the information on the digital product passport online; in particular, personal data related to the consumer or other end-user of the detergent or end-user surfactant is not stored in the digital product passport without its explicit consent given in compliance with Article 6 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council; (i) data authentication, reliability and integrity are ensured; (j) digital product passports are designed and operated so that a high level of security and privacy is ensured and fraud is avoided.