Automated Compliance
Continuous, machine-verifiable checks replace manual audits with measurable trust.
Horizon Europe·COMPLIANCE4DPP·GA 101298718
Automated Compliance for
Digital Product Passports
COMPLIANCE4DPP turns compliance into an operational capability for Digital Product Passports and Gaia-X data spaces — bringing trusted, interoperable infrastructure into Europe's industrial value chains.
Layer 03
Policies-as-Code
Layer 02
DPP Credentials
Layer 01
Gaia-X Federation
Automated
compliance flows
Trusted
by design
Interoperable
across data spaces
Sovereign
European infrastructure
What is COMPLIANCE4DPP
Compliance,
operationalised.
COMPLIANCE4DPP makes compliance an operational capability for trusted industrial data ecosystems — moving Gaia-X principles from architecture into deployed infrastructure.
The Digital Product Passport is our lead use case. The mechanisms behind it — policies-as-code, verifiable credentials, federated trust — are open and reusable for any European data space.
Through our Bring Your Own Rules approach, sectors govern their own compliance frameworks without breaking interoperability.
Why it matters
Industrial data needs trust that scales.
01
A wave of regulation
ESPR, Data Act and DPP obligations move faster than manual processes can handle.
02
Millions of passports
Products will soon require verifiable, machine-readable compliance information at scale.
03
Cross-border data flows
Sovereignty, consent and accountability must travel with the data — across borders and partners.
04
Shared mechanisms
Without reusable compliance building blocks, every data space reinvents the wheel and SMEs are left behind.
Compliance should be an enabler, not a tax. COMPLIANCE4DPP gives industry and SMEs the tools to comply by design — at scale, and with confidence.
What we deliver
Five pillars of operational compliance.
An open stack — from policy to runtime — that puts Gaia-X principles to work in industrial value chains.
Bring Your Own Rules
Sectors and communities define their own compliance rules — and keep them interoperable across data spaces.
DPP Enablement
Production-ready building blocks that operationalise the Digital Product Passport across industrial value chains.
Policies-as-Code
Regulatory and contractual obligations expressed as executable, version-controlled policies.
Pontus-X Integration
Advancing Pontus-X toward production-grade DPP integration for sovereign, federated data exchange.
Reusable across data spaces
Open building blocks designed for adoption beyond DPP — wherever trusted European data exchange is needed.
Gaia-X connection
The implementation layer for trusted European data ecosystems.
Gaia-X sets the principles. COMPLIANCE4DPP delivers the mechanisms — federation services, verifiable credentials, runtime policy enforcement — that industrial actors can deploy today. The project also advances Pontus-X toward production-grade DPP integration.
Federated trust frameworks
Verifiable compliance credentials
Policy enforcement at runtime
Cross-sector interoperability
Impact
Designed for measurable reach.
01
Industry
Shorter time-to-compliance across complex value chains.
02
SMEs
Accessible tooling that turns DPP obligations into market advantage.
03
Europe
Sovereign infrastructure aligned with Gaia-X principles.
04
Data Spaces
Reusable compliance mechanisms that scale across sectors.
Consortium
A European coalition.
Research, industry and ecosystem leaders — including Gaia-X AISBL — working together so principles, technology and adoption advance in step.
IDEKO
News & Updates
From the project.
Follow the journey from principles to practice.
Operational compliance for the Digital Product Passport era — built on Gaia-X, open to every data space.