Manufacturers should create a digital product passport to provide information on the compliance of detergents and end-user surfactants with this Regulation. While this Regulation sets out the minimum content of the digital product passport, starting from the EU declaration of conformity, the inclusion of additional information, such as technical documentation, could be envisaged in the future. In order to facilitate checks on detergents or end-user surfactants by market surveillance authorities and to allow the actors in the supply chain, consumers and other end-users, as well as other relevant stakeholders such as civil society organisations and researchers, to access necessary information such as ingredients, the information on the digital product passport should be provided digitally and in a directly accessible and user-friendly manner through a data carrier. The data carrier should be clearly visible to the end-user before any purchase, including where the detergent or end-user surfactant is made available through an online advertisement. Market surveillance authorities, customs authorities, economic operators, consumers and other end-users should therefore have immediate access through the data carrier to the information relevant to them and based on their respective access rights.
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