Export a lot's passport (UNTP)

The UN Transparency Protocol (UNTP) is an open format of the United Nations (UN/CEFACT) for sharing what a product is, where it comes from and what happened to it. A-REX exports a lot in two UNTP documents:

• UNTP product passport: the lot as a batch of its product, with its identifiers (GTIN and lot code when you recorded them), the farm or site it comes from, the country of production, the harvest and expiry dates, the certificates in force, and a declared carbon footprint when there is one.
• UNTP traceability events: what happened to the lot and to the lots it comes from in your company: registration, deliveries, processing with the quantities that went in and came out, status changes and corrections of its information.

Both follow UNTP 0.7.0 and are checked against its published formats before A-REX releases them.

Export from the lot

1. Open the lot from Lots.
2. In Passport and carbon footprint, select Export.
3. Choose UNTP product passport or UNTP traceability events. EPCIS events (JSON-LD) and EPCIS events (XML) are there too, for partners who use GS1 EPCIS.
4. The document is prepared in the background and opens in Reports. Download it when it reads Ready.

You can also generate UNTP product passport of a lot from the Catalog tab of Reports, or ask the assistant for it.

Who issues a product passport

Under the EU ecodesign regulation (ESPR, Regulation (EU) 2024/1781), the passport of a product placed on the EU market is issued by its manufacturer, for products such as textiles, furniture or tyres. Food, feed, and live plants and animals are outside the ESPR. What you export is upstream data: the manufacturer of a cotton shirt, a table or a tyre can use it in its own passport. It is not a statement that a product complies with the ESPR or with any other rule.

What the passport says, and what it does not

• Certificates are listed with who stands behind each one. The certificate itself stays with the certifier or laboratory that issued it.
• The EUDR due diligence statement is given as its reference and verification number. It is the operator's statement in the EU Information System, not a statement by A-REX.
• Carbon credits set aside for the lot are listed apart, as related documents. They are never subtracted from a footprint.
• Plot locations and the names of people are never in the passport.

Signed, and what comes next

Every export is signed like any report, so whoever receives it can check on the public verification page that it came from A-REX Platform and was not changed. The UNTP documents themselves do not yet carry your company's own digital signature in the UNTP way; that needs a web address of your company to sign from, and is planned.