Add unique product-only data at scale to bulk scanning RFID DPPs
As the Brand, you — or your product manufacturer, or a GCN Circular Data Centre — can add UNTP-verifiable data to washable RFID tags in bulk that are then added to each product. 

Upstream data. Using the step-by-step guide the Brand/DPP Issuer creates the DPP, collecting verifiable data from mills, trims suppliers and manufacturers to add alongside conformity credentials including Substances of Concern, and in particular to meet emerging regulatory obligations including the EU's ESPR.  See the list of Regulations and Standards that the GCN App follows in Compliance FAQs.

GCN's RFID DPP unique product identifiers handle item-level circular data at scale. Brands can create partnerships with Downstream providers who efficiently capture circular data with ease using a simple RFID reader and the GCN App.  

Built Ahead of the Rules That Are Still Being Written
The EU's Joint Research Centre is still finalising what future textile ecodesign rules will require — durability, recyclability, recycled content and footprint reporting are all under active study, with a formal rule still to come. GCN's design aims to assist brands in preparation and has built directly from the EU's own proposed methodology so you can start recording or preparing this data now — recycled and organic content by fibre, footprint data as your suppliers start sharing it, and a recyclability indicator scored exactly the way the EU itself is proposing to score it. When the rule lands, you'll be a market leader with a downstream network to share with customers.

EU Brands meet green claims and durability regulations with ease
From September 2026, the Empowering Consumers for the Green Transition Directive requires you to make accurate durability, repair, and environmental information available to consumers before they buy — and to be able to back up any environmental claim you make. GCN's Product ID and QR Code already carries what this requires: repair information access, spare parts availability, warranty duration, and durability details, plus recognised certifications like EU Ecolabel for backing environmental claims. Switch these on for your Product ID and the requirement is met.

GCN's platform also collects data compatible with California's emerging Responsible Textile Recovery Act (SB 707).

The GCN is built to support brands of any size to meet emerging regulations - Get started now by filling in the Upstream Enquiry Form below and visit COMPLIANCE FAQs. For large brands see details below on the EU's Ban on Destroying Unsold Clothing and Footwear. 

PRODUCT ID AND QR CODES
Each RFID product passport creates a separate Product ID swing tag and single-scan QR Code (or link to NFC by request) to communicate with your customers. This separation of tools plus GCN's inability to collect consumer data, lets your customers know that you deliberately keep the product data separate so no personal or purchase data is ever linked to a product. 

Brands can offer third-party Customer Passports for consumers to choose to download to their own devices, and are kept separate from GCN's B2B product-only data platform.

NOTICE FOR LARGE BRANDS. The EU's Ban on Destroying Unsold Clothing and Footwear — What Brands Need to Know

From July 2026, large fashion, accessories, and footwear companies selling into the EU are banned from destroying unsold stock. Throwing away, incinerating, or otherwise discarding new, unsold garments, accessories, and shoes is no longer a routine option — this sits inside the EU's Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), and for large companies it's already in force today.

Alongside the ban, large companies also have to publicly disclose — on their own website — how much unsold stock they discard each year: the number of items, the weight, what category they belonged to, why they were discarded, and what actually happened to them (resold, donated, recycled, remanufactured). This disclosure duty has technically applied since mid-2024, with the first reports due this year, and the reporting format becomes stricter and more standardised from March 2027.

Medium-sized companies get more time — both the ban and the disclosure duty apply to them from 2030. Businesses under 50 employees aren't covered at all.

"Large" and "medium" aren't loose terms here — they follow the EU's standard company-size definitions. A large company has 250 or more employees, or turnover over €50 million and a balance sheet over €43 million. Medium sits below that but above 50 employees. It's worth checking exactly where your business falls, because both the obligations and the dates they start from are different for each size.

GCN already supports this — a brand can log what happens to unsold stock as it occurs (resold, donated, recycled, remanufactured, or, only under a permitted exception, destroyed), watch the year's running totals build automatically, and lock in the official annual disclosure once the filing period closes.