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Symolem

Fashion Compliance Platform

Product compliance intelligence for fashion.

One digital product identity for every product. Every compliance regulation and all green claims checked and verified.

ESPR, EmpCo green claims, PPWR, packaging EPR, the UK Plastic Packaging Tax and Digital Product Passports — handled as market access and supply-chain resilience, not a reporting exercise.

Our Digital Product Passport code was accepted by the EU registry on the day it opened — 20 July 2026.

Free check: enter your website and see how many of your products carry green claims wording that may not conform to UK law.

No sign-up needed to see your headline counts.

For retailers and marketplaces: screen incoming brand ranges against 50+ regulations before you sign the PO.

For brands: we retrieve the missing supplier data and document the social accounting behind your tiers.

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The category

Product compliance is a decision about a product, not a report about a company.

Sustainability for fashion is product compliance. It means knowing what each garment is made of, where it comes from, and what you can prove.

What product compliance intelligence is

A garment is either legal to sell in a market or it is not. That turns on what it is made of, where it came from, what is printed on the label and the product page, and what you can prove when someone asks. The decision attaches to the SKU, and it is made again for every market the product enters.

What product compliance intelligence is not

It is not ESG reporting, which describes the company. It is not a factory audit, which describes the site. Both feed it. Neither answers whether this dress can be listed in Germany next season.

What compliance intelligence means

The three things that decide it are held together and kept current: the rules in each market, the evidence you hold, and the product record they attach to. The output is a status per product, per market — cleared, action needed or blocked — and the file behind it.

What we do

Product Relationship Management

The easiest way to think of it: Product · Regulations · Markets. For every product you sell, we connect what it is, what the law demands, and where you sell it — so nothing you put in front of a customer is left unproven.

Product

Every SKU, feed, claim and care label

Regulations

ESPR, EmpCo, UFLPA, packaging EPR

Markets

UK, EU, US and everywhere you sell

Pre-PO screening with Symolem-ID

Check hundreds of SKUs against 50+ regulations in seconds, before you sign the PO or clear customs. See blocked lines, unproven claims and missing test certificates before stock is made or shipped.

Evidence retrieval across Tier 1–3

Software portals stall in fashion because spinning mills and dye houses do not log into client dashboards. Our specialists chase and verify lab tests, transaction certificates and fibre origins directly from source factories.

Audit-ready human-rights due diligence

Worker welfare, wage verification and grievance data compiled into auditable evidence packs that satisfy EU CSDDD, German LkSG and US forced-labour enforcement, not generic policy PDFs.

Symolem-ID

One product compliance record. Every obligation. Every retailer.

Symolem-ID is product compliance intelligence software for fashion. It holds the evidence behind each product, checks that record against the markets where it is sold and gives every party in the chain the same verified answer.

Market access, country by country

See whether a product is cleared, blocked or cannot yet be determined in each market — with the missing evidence and its owner named.

  1. Blocked
  2. CAP active
  3. Cleared
The status your buyer sees on every product.

Compliance rules attached to products

ESPR, EmpCo, EPR and packaging obligations are mapped to the products and jurisdictions they affect, then re-checked as the rules change.

Evidence behind every EmpCo green claim

Certificates, test reports, supplier attestations and passport data sit against the product, so a buyer or regulator can follow a claim back to its source.

Symolem-ID platform workspace showing Register, Ask and Learn cards for product compliance
A pair of denim jeans with its inspection record: verified certificates for ISO 14001, SA:8000, organic cotton, recyclable fabric, paper packaging and lifetime repairs, plus a scannable Verification ID.

Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation

Every product inspected against 50+ regulations, not just ESPR

Symolem prepares your product data and audits your evidence against global requirements, starting with the EU ESPR. Fibre composition, certificates, named Tier 1 and Tier 2 sites and every green claim, checked and owned before they go anywhere near a purchase order.

  • 50+regulations checked
  • Secondsper product
  • 1Verification ID

Whichever Digital Product Passport provider you choose, the passport is only as good as the data behind it. The ESPR textile delegated act will set which fields must be carried and who is accountable for each one. We make sure your suppliers will be ready to answer for them. Start with our ESPR Digital Product Passport checklist.

What evidence we check

Select a data group to see the kind of entries we inspect and verify against the evidence.

inspection record · Product identity

  • GTIN 05012345678900 · GS1 Digital Link
  • Model: Wide-leg denim, style DN-402
  • Batch 2026-07-WK29 · EU registry identity verified
  • Economic operator: brand legal entity and EORI

Market access depends on the product, not just the company.

We track the rules so your product and sourcing teams don't have to.

Regime 01

European Union

ESPR brings Digital Product Passports to textiles, with the delegated act indicatively scheduled for 2027 under the ESPR Working Plan 2025–2030 and requirements applying around eighteen months after adoption; EmpCo applies from 27 September 2026.

Regime 02

Great Britain

No ESPR equivalent yet, but the CMA can act directly on misleading environmental claims under the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act.

Regime 03

United States

No federal regime — obligations are set state by state, including California's SB 707 textile EPR, the FTC Green Guides, and Proposition 65 chemical disclosure.

Regime 04

EEA / EFTA

Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein take EU acts through the EEA Joint Committee on a different timetable; Switzerland is EFTA but not EEA.

standards foundation

Built on the UN/CEFACT UN Transparency Protocol.

Symolem builds to the UN Transparency Protocol (UNTP), the open standard for verifiable product and sustainability data.

UNTP

The people behind the record

Fashion compliance is not a badge on a product page. It is proof across Tier 1–3.

A single garment involves fibre origins, spinning mills, wet-processing chemistry, blended yarns, trims and packaging weights, often across four countries. Software alone cannot verify that chain. Our specialists chase the evidence at source, so your product records survive a statutory audit.

Design & Buying

Regulatory scope and data gaps, flagged before you order

Before you sample, we check which styles fall in scope of ESPR, EPR, the UK Plastic Packaging Tax and green-claims rules in each market — and which supplier data you do not yet have.

Sourcing & Production

Regulations data retrieval across Tier 1–3

Fibre origin, transaction certificates, chemical test files and composition chased directly out of your suppliers, so the label matches what is in the product and can survive a check.

Ethics & Governance

Social accounting that stands up to audit

Worker welfare, fair pay and human-rights due diligence documented into an auditable file that answers CSDDD, LkSG and US forced-labour rules — not a policy PDF.

Need the evidence retrieved before it can be verified? Symolem Limited runs that as a scoped engagement, in four steps. How the service works →

Where it goes wrong

Four ESPR questions a buyer, a marketer or an auditor will ask before you are ready.

For retailers and marketplaces

The pre-PO compliance firewall for fashion retailers

Under EU ESPR, EmpCo and the UK DMCC, retailers share liability for the third-party brands they list. Symolem-ID screens a brand's line sheet in seconds and gives buying and legal teams a status per SKU before intake: cleared, blocked or missing evidence, with the gap named.

For fashion brands and manufacturers

Tier 1–3 evidence retrieval and audit-ready social accounting

Stockists and customs are asking for proof you do not have on file. We chase your suppliers for the missing lab tests and transaction certificates, and tie every green claim to its evidence, so wholesale orders are not delayed and claims hold up under EmpCo and the UK DMCC.

For brands already on a traceability platform

We have traceability data. Why isn't it a passport?

Tier maps and audit PDFs are not a Digital Product Passport and do not tell you whether a silk blend clears AGEC, PPWR or the textile delegated act. We take the outputs you already hold, map them to the passport fields and the rules, and audit the record, then hand one Verification ID to whichever DPP provider you choose, with the proof pack.

For sustainability leads and their buyers

An ESPR finding came back red. What now?

A red flag with no remediation path is a stock dropout, a withdrawn claim or a blocked listing. We investigate the supplier data gap, run the social accounting and corrective action plan with the supplier, and upload the verified resolution back into the platform that raised it.

Plain English

The ESPR and EmpCo questions we get asked most

Short answers, no jargon. If yours is not here, ask us directly and we will answer it the same way.

ESPR is the EU rule that sets minimum requirements for how a product is designed and what information must travel with it. It moves the obligation from your company report to each individual product you sell.

It is a structured record attached to a product — usually reached by scanning a code — that holds facts about materials, origin, care, repair and end of life. The point is that a buyer, a customer or an authority can check it without taking your word for it.

If you sell into the EU, yes: the rules follow the product into the market, not your head office. The UK is also introducing its own product and producer-responsibility requirements, so most UK brands end up preparing for both.

Neither, in practice. It is a sourcing and data discipline. The information you need sits with your suppliers and in your product records, so the work belongs with the people who buy and specify product.

The EU DPP Registry went live on 20 July 2026 and EmpCo — the rule on green claims and early obsolescence — has applied since 27 September 2026. Textiles requirements land after that, market by market. The work that takes time is collecting supplier data, so ready dates are set by your supply chain, not the deadline.

Usually not. Certificates prove something about a facility or a batch at a point in time. What is now asked for is product-level data you can produce on demand, in a structured form, and link to the item that was sold.
Model in a flowing white garment walking a minimalist runway

Let's talk about your market access.

Whether you are working out what stopped on 27 September, which suppliers can evidence what they claim, or who carries the obligation on an FOB order — start with your own claims, or 30 minutes with us.