Implementation Plans

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Please note that this specification is suitable for pre-production pilot implementations.

UNTP is a collection of specifications that work together to enhance traceability and transparency in global supply chains. But each stakeholder type plays a different role and so will implement different subsets of UNTP. This page provides more specific implementation guidance for each stakeholder type. The general steps of confirming business value, selecting components, implementing, testing, and registering apply to all and are not repeated here.

Stakeholders whose primary engagement is to be listed in a UNTP register (member associations defining extensions, identifier scheme operators, conformity scheme owners, software vendors) should follow the per-register registration guides. The other stakeholders — producers, regulators, conformity assessment bodies, consumers — have substantive implementation work that goes beyond registration; that work is described below.

For Producers Manufacturers and Brands

Meet your supply chain due diligence obligations and provide evidence to your customers that allows them to meet their own obligations.

Select your components from the registers

Component	Where to find it
Industry extension that defines the credential types and conformity criteria for your sector	Extensions register — if no extension exists for your sector, lobby your member association to lead one
Software platform that issues UNTP credentials on your behalf	Software register — or engage your ICT department to implement UNTP using the free reference implementation
Conformity scheme(s) that back your sustainability claims	Conformity vocabulary catalogue — references the criteria your CABs will assess against
Identifier scheme(s) for your products, facilities, and organisation	Identifier scheme register — and request a Digital Identity Anchor credential from each register that lists you

Issue and consume credentials

Step	Action	Outcome
1	Push your suppliers to issue UNTP DPP, DFR with linked DCC credentials	Meet your supply chain due-diligence obligations
2	Issue a digital facility record for each facility you own/operate	Your customers can verify sustainability performance of your production facilities
3	Issue a digital product passport for each product (and optionally each export market) that you ship from your facilities	Your customers can verify sustainability performance of your products
4	Choose conformity assessment bodies that can issue digital conformity credentials that attest your conformance with relevant schemes and regulations	Prove your product and facility conformity
5a	Issue digital traceability events to link your manufactured products to the input components or materials used	Your customers can verify your product origin/traceability
5b	Where traceability information is commercially sensitive, request a trusted third party (eg a conformity assessment body or your member association) to assess traceability data and issue an independent guarantee of origin conformity credential	Your customers can trust an independent assessment of origin
6	Link the Identity Anchor credentials issued to you by your national business/trademark/land registers (or by IDR-listed industry registers) to your issuer decentralised identifier	Reduce counterfeiting risk and prove your identity

For Member Associations

Activate your community to participate in transparent and traceable value chains by governing a UNTP industry extension for your members.

The end-to-end methodology — including discovery, alpha, beta, and live phases, the role of pilot implementers, and how to scale across the membership — is described in the Community Activation Program. The technical registration steps for the extension itself are in the extension registration guide.

For Registry Operators

Empower your members with verifiable identity and identifiers as signposts to verifiable data.

Implement the Identity Anchor and Identity Resolver specifications, then list your scheme in the identifier scheme register so verifiers can confirm both that your members are who they claim to be and that your register itself is legitimate. The publishing checklist and continuous-observation rules are in the identifier scheme registration guide.

For Scheme Owners

Make compliance with your scheme digitally verifiable.

Describe your existing schemes and criteria as a digital Conformity Vocabulary Catalog so that issuers of Product Passports and CABs issuing Conformity Credentials can reference your criteria unambiguously. Publish sample DCCs that show CABs what conformant assessments against your scheme look like. The conformity scheme registration guide describes the publishing requirements and the maturity levels (Level 1 → Level 3).

For Regulators

Make compliance with your regulations digitally verifiable.

Step	Action	Outcome
1	Publish your regulations and criteria as a Conformity Vocabulary Catalog and list it in the CVC register	Conformity criteria can be referenced by issuers of regulatory compliance claims in Product Passports and assessments in Conformity Credentials
2	Issue regulatory permits, licenses, and certificates as Digital Conformity Credentials	Exporters can prove their compliance to customers and other authorities
3	Establish a digital verification framework for imports including Product Passports, Conformity Credentials, and Identity Anchors	Automate border compliance and risk assessments with higher identity integrity and reduced piggybacking

For Conformity Assessment Bodies

Make your third party conformity assessments digitally verifiable.

Issue Digital Conformity Credentials using SWI-registered software, referencing schemes and profile versions from the CVC register in attestation.assessmentScheme. Follow the sample DCCs published by the relevant scheme owner. CABs do not have their own register — DCCs are observed continuously via the issuing software's SWI-register entry.

For Software Vendors

Empower your customers to participate in sustainable value chains. The SWI registration guide describes how to publish your vendor DID, embed the issuingSoftware block in every issued credential, and (optionally) stand up a binding-credential service. The implementation surface depends on your customer's role:

Software type	Implementation focus
Verifiable credential / identity platforms	Support Verifiable Credentials Profile and Digital Identity Anchor — provide the libraries other software vendors integrate
Traceability platforms	Follow links to find and verify product passports, facility records, traceability events, and conformity credentials to construct transparency graphs representing the n-tier traceable supply chain
Production Management Systems (PMS) or ERP systems	Issue facility records, product passports, and traceability events describing manufacturing facilities, manufactured products, and upstream materials

For Consumers

Scan data carriers, view digital product passports, make purchase decisions.