Minespider’s glossary explains key terms used in battery, product, and supply-chain regulation, combining official-source definitions with plain-English context and links to Minespider articles.
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A practical guide to how digital product passports bring together product identity, data carriers, templates, evidence, traceability, permissions, and lifecycle updates into a controlled product-data system.
These first entries focus on digital product passports, battery passports, traceability, access mechanisms, and identity governance — the concepts readers most often need before going deeper into implementation detail.
A structured electronic record that links an individual battery to required identity, model, sustainability, compliance, performance, and lifecycle information.
A structured electronic data set that links a product, product model, batch, or item to required compliance, sustainability, and circularity information under the applicable ESPR delegated act.
The ability to follow and substantiate products, materials, actors, processes, claims, or data points through defined supply-chain or value-chain stages.
A machine-readable access point, such as a QR code, barcode, RFID tag, or other AIDC medium, used to retrieve product or passport information.
A unique string of characters that identifies a battery and enables a web link to its battery passport.
The ESPR product identity string that identifies a product and enables a web link to its digital product passport.
Start with a legal framework if you want to understand the source context before drilling into individual terms.
Key terms and compliance concepts from the EU Battery Regulation, including battery categories, carbon footprint, lifecycle data, and producer responsibilities.
Definitions from the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation relevant to digital product passports, durability, lifecycle thinking, and market actors.
EU waste-law definitions covering re-use, recycling, recovery, and waste management. These terms help connect battery and product-passport records to end-of-life and circularity workflows.
Definitions and list-based concepts from the EU Critical Raw Materials Act covering strategic and critical raw materials, supply risk, extraction, processing, recycling capacity, strategic stocks, and project governance.
Core terms from CBAM covering emissions accounting, authorised declarants, carbon pricing, and the importer-facing compliance model for covered goods.
Important EUDR definitions covering deforestation, due-diligence concepts, operators, traceability, and market-placement language for in-scope commodities and products.
Definitions from CSDDD covering adverse impacts, business partners, due-diligence terminology, and the governance language behind supply-chain responsibility.
Definitions used in 26 U.S.C. § 30D for the U.S. clean vehicle credit, including concepts around new clean vehicles, dealers, batteries, and qualifying manufacturers.
Battery-manufacturing definitions used in 26 U.S.C. § 45X, including electrode active material, battery cell, and battery module terminology tied to the advanced manufacturing production credit.
Defined terms from China’s interim measures on the recycling and comprehensive utilization of waste power batteries from new energy vehicles.
UK definitions for batteries and accumulators placed on the market, including battery, battery pack, button cell, and placing-on-the-market terminology.
UK waste-battery definitions covering portable, industrial, and automotive batteries, producer responsibility, distribution, approved treatment/export, and evidence notes.
Ontario battery EPR definitions covering producer responsibility organizations, battery collection sites, haulers, processors, refurbishers, and management requirements.
India battery-waste definitions covering waste battery, extended producer responsibility, environmentally sound management, EPR registration, producers, recyclers, refurbishers, and related battery categories.
Brazil solid-waste definitions covering reverse logistics, product life cycle, solid waste, and shared responsibility for product life cycle. Portuguese legal text remains authoritative; English translations are Minespider draft translations for readability.
Brazil battery-specific definitions for batteries, cells, accumulators, used-battery management plans, and environmentally appropriate destination. Portuguese legal text remains authoritative; English translations are Minespider draft translations for readability.
Canada regulatory definitions relevant to zero-emission vehicles, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, fuel cell vehicles, and adjacent EV terminology.
Definitions from the Empowering Consumers Directive relevant to environmental claims, durability, certification schemes, and green-transition marketing language.
Supporting glossary source for customs, importer, origin, and importation concepts reused across other EU regulations such as CBAM and EUDR.
A subnational battery-stewardship source for New South Wales, covering regulated batteries, scheme actors, collection, recovery, and related product-lifecycle responsibilities.
A federal product-stewardship and waste-export framework source for Australia, covering product stewardship criteria, waste material, arrangements, liable parties, and related recovery concepts.
Official definitions stay tied to their underlying legal or standards source and should remain visibly distinct from editorial interpretation.
We add plain-English summaries, practical application notes, and common confusions to make the terms useful for compliance teams and AI agents alike.
Each page connects terms to regulations, blogs, and adjacent concepts so the site reads as a structured knowledge graph.
Direct implementation-oriented context for preparing passport-relevant data.
Read on MinespiderMinespider’s dedicated product-passports landing page, with practical explanation of DPP use cases, data layers, QR-code access, visibility permissions, and supply-chain implementation.
Read on MinespiderDirect discussion of why traceability matters in minerals and supply chains.
Read on MinespiderBattery-sector context for passport data, battery identity, access mechanisms, and the evidence layer behind battery-passport implementation.
Read on MinespiderMinespider helps companies operationalize traceability, compliance, and digital product passport requirements across global supply chains.
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