Trama / Passport / Permanence

A passport outlives the contract that created it.

The regulation asks that the passport stay available for at least the expected lifetime of the product, and that it stay available even after insolvency, liquidation or the end of trading. That changes what it means to choose who publishes it.

For how long

The regulation does not set a number of years. It sets a floor: at least the expected lifetime of the product. For a garment that floor will be set by the textile delegated act, which has not been adopted yet.

A ten-year figure circulates. Those ten years belong to registration data in the Commission's registry, which is a different dataset with a different holder. Using them as the passport's retention period understates the obligation for any long-lived garment.

What happens if you leave Trama

Passports already published keep being served. Closing an account does not delete them, and no function exists that would let anyone delete them, you or us.

The reason is not commercial. The article is written so the passport survives the company, so a service provider that switched off a departed customer's pages would be defeating an obligation that was never theirs to switch off.

Who pays for the tail

A promise with no end date has a cost, and hiding it inside a larger number does not make it sounder. The publication price contains a component dedicated to permanence, declared as such and identical across plans, because the obligation it funds is identical whoever incurs it.