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The legal boundary is source-specific, so the page keeps EU, UK, India, Brazil, and Ontario definitions separate before routing a record to a narrower category.", "sources": [ "Brazil CONAMA Resolution 401/2008", "EU Battery Regulation", "India Battery Waste Management Rules", "Ontario Batteries Regulation", "UK Batteries Placing on Market Regulations", "UK Waste Batteries Regulations" ], "related_terms": [ "battery-cell", "battery-module", "battery-pack", "portable-battery", "industrial-battery", "electric-vehicle-battery", "non-rechargeable-battery", "rechargeable-battery" ] }, { "term": "electric vehicle battery", "slug": "electric-vehicle-battery", "canonical_slug": "electric-vehicle-battery", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/electric-vehicle-battery", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "A source-specific traction-battery category for batteries designed to power hybrid or electric vehicles, with EU thresholds that must be kept distinct from broader power-battery language.", "editorial_definition": "Electric vehicle battery is the traction-battery category for batteries designed to power electric or hybrid road vehicles. In the EU Battery Regulation, the boundary depends on vehicle category and weight thresholds; in India’s Battery Waste Management Rules, the definition is broader and should not be treated as identical.", "sources": [ "EU Battery Regulation", "India Battery Waste Management Rules" ], "related_terms": [ "battery", "battery-pack", "automotive-battery", "industrial-battery", "battery-passport", "new-energy-vehicle-power-battery" ] }, { "term": "QR code", "slug": "qr-code", "canonical_slug": "qr-code", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/qr-code", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "A machine-readable matrix code that links a physical battery or product to required digital information.", "editorial_definition": "A QR code is a machine-readable two-dimensional matrix code used to connect a physical battery, product, packaging, or document to required digital information. It is a visible access mechanism, not the passport record, the unique identifier, or proof that linked data is complete.", "sources": [ "DIN DKE SPEC 99100", "EU Battery Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "data-carrier", "battery-passport", "digital-product-passport", "unique-identifier", "unique-product-identifier", "traceability" ] }, { "term": "unique identifier", "slug": "unique-identifier", "canonical_slug": "unique-identifier", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/unique-identifier", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "The battery-specific identity string that links a physical battery to the correct battery passport record.", "editorial_definition": "A unique identifier is the battery identity value that distinguishes a battery and enables the web link to its battery passport under the EU Battery Regulation.", "sources": [ "EU Battery Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "battery-passport", "data-carrier", "qr-code", "unique-product-identifier", "digital-product-passport", "traceability" ] }, { "term": "battery management system", "slug": "battery-management-system", "canonical_slug": "battery-management-system", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/battery-management-system", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "The EU Battery Regulation term for the electronic system controlling or managing battery safety, performance, service life, data storage, and communication.", "editorial_definition": "Battery management system is the electronic device that controls or manages a battery’s electric and thermal functions to support safety, performance, and service life. It can store and communicate data, but it is not the passport platform, the public passport record, or a complete compliance database.", "sources": [ "EU Battery Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "battery", "battery-pack", "state-of-health", "state-of-charge", "dynamic-data", "battery-passport" ] }, { "term": "recycled content", "slug": "recycled-content", "canonical_slug": "recycled-content", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/recycled-content", "category": "Environmental", "short_description": "Working definition for recycled-material share in batteries, products, and permanent magnets, anchored in EU Battery Regulation, Ontario battery, and CRMA source context.", "editorial_definition": "Recycled content is the share or amount of material in a battery, component, product, or permanent magnet that has been recovered from waste or manufacturing waste and reintroduced into new production, with the exact measurement rule depending on the source.", "sources": [ "EU Battery Regulation", "EU Critical Raw Materials Act", "Ontario Batteries Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "recycling", "post-consumer-waste", "battery-manufacturing-waste", "active-material", "battery-passport" ] }, { "term": "battery cell", "slug": "battery-cell", "canonical_slug": "battery-cell", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/battery-cell", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "A basic electrochemical unit of a battery, distinct from modules, packs, and finished battery systems.", "editorial_definition": "Battery cell is the electrochemical unit that stores and releases energy through chemical reaction. It is the lowest core battery-architecture layer in the cell-module-pack hierarchy and should not be flattened into a module, pack, or finished battery record.", "sources": [ "EU Battery Regulation", "US 45X Advanced Manufacturing Production Credit" ], "related_terms": [ "battery", "battery-module", "battery-pack", "battery-item", "electrode-active-material" ] }, { "term": "battery pack", "slug": "battery-pack", "canonical_slug": "battery-pack", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/battery-pack", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "A complete battery assembly made from cells or modules, usually the practical unit installed, replaced, serviced, or traced in downstream workflows.", "editorial_definition": "Battery pack is the assembled battery unit that groups cells or modules into a usable product-level component. It sits above cell and module granularity, but below or inside the final product, vehicle, appliance, or system that uses it.", "sources": [ "EU Battery Regulation", "India Battery Waste Management Rules", "UK Batteries Placing on Market Regulations", "UK Waste Batteries Regulations" ], "related_terms": [ "battery", "battery-cell", "battery-module", "electric-vehicle-battery", "battery-passport" ] }, { "term": "life cycle", "slug": "life-cycle", "canonical_slug": "life-cycle", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/life-cycle", "category": "Environmental", "short_description": "The product stages from raw-material acquisition through production, use phase, and end-of-life treatment.", "editorial_definition": "Life cycle is the chain of product stages used to understand environmental impacts over time, from raw-material acquisition or generation from natural resources through final disposal. 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It provides a structure for grouping cells before they become part of a pack or larger battery system.", "sources": [ "EU Battery Regulation", "US 45X Advanced Manufacturing Production Credit" ], "related_terms": [ "battery", "battery-cell", "battery-pack", "battery-model", "electrode-active-material" ] } ] }, { "slug": "espr", "name": "ESPR Glossary", "short_name": "ESPR", "source_short_name": "ESPR", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/regulations/espr", "jurisdiction": "European Union", "source_type": "Regulation", "summary": "Definitions from the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation relevant to digital product passports, durability, lifecycle thinking, and market actors.", "source_url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:02024R1781-20240628", "public_term_count": 59, "key_terms": [ { "term": "digital product passport", "slug": "digital-product-passport", "canonical_slug": "digital-product-passport", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/digital-product-passport", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "A regulated product-specific data set that connects a product, model, batch, or item to required compliance, sustainability, circularity, and lifecycle information.", "editorial_definition": "A digital product passport is the governed electronic data set required for a product under ESPR rules, accessed through a data carrier and scoped by the applicable delegated act.", "sources": [ "ESPR" ], "related_terms": [ "battery-passport", "data-carrier", "unique-product-identifier", "ecodesign-requirement", "qr-code", "traceability", "static-data", "dynamic-data", "product", "component", "intermediate-product", "information-requirement", "product-group", "unique-operator-identifier", "unique-facility-identifier", "digital-product-passport-service-provider", "economic-operator", "manufacturer" ] }, { "term": "carbon footprint", "slug": "carbon-footprint", "canonical_slug": "carbon-footprint", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/carbon-footprint", "category": "Environmental", "short_description": "Cross-source ESPR and EU Battery Regulation term for product-system greenhouse-gas emissions and removals expressed as CO2 equivalents.", "editorial_definition": "Carbon footprint is a product-system climate metric: the sum of greenhouse-gas emissions and removals expressed as CO2 equivalents, with source-specific methodology under ESPR and the EU Battery Regulation.", "sources": [ "ESPR", "EU Battery Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "life-cycle", "environmental-footprint", "material-footprint", "battery-passport", "life-cycle-inventory", "activity-data", "system-boundary", "pef-study", "environmental-footprint-impact-assessment" ] }, { "term": "unique product identifier", "slug": "unique-product-identifier", "canonical_slug": "unique-product-identifier", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/unique-product-identifier", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "The ESPR product identity value that links a product, model, batch, or item to the correct digital product passport.", "editorial_definition": "A unique product identifier is the governed product identity value used under ESPR to identify a product and enable the web link to its digital product passport.", "sources": [ "ESPR", "EU Critical Raw Materials Act" ], "related_terms": [ "digital-product-passport", "data-carrier", "unique-identifier", "qr-code", "traceability", "battery-passport", "product", "product-group", "unique-operator-identifier", "unique-facility-identifier" ] }, { "term": "data carrier", "slug": "data-carrier", "canonical_slug": "data-carrier", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/data-carrier", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "A machine-readable access layer connecting a physical product to the digital record or passport information behind it.", "editorial_definition": "A data carrier is the scannable or readable medium that lets a device resolve a physical product, label, package, or document to the right digital product information.", "sources": [ "ESPR", "EU Critical Raw Materials Act" ], "related_terms": [ "digital-product-passport", "battery-passport", "unique-product-identifier", "unique-identifier", "qr-code", "information-requirement", "consumer-product", "unique-operator-identifier", "digital-product-passport-service-provider" ] }, { "term": "life cycle", "slug": "life-cycle", "canonical_slug": "life-cycle", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/life-cycle", "category": "Environmental", "short_description": "The product stages from raw-material acquisition through production, use phase, and end-of-life treatment.", "editorial_definition": "Life cycle is the chain of product stages used to understand environmental impacts over time, from raw-material acquisition or generation from natural resources through final disposal. It is a boundary concept, not a full assessment method by itself.", "sources": [ "ESPR", "EU Battery Regulation", "ISO 14067:2018" ], "related_terms": [ "carbon-footprint", "product", "end-of-life", "repair", "environmental-footprint", "carbon-footprint-of-a-product", "material-footprint", "life-cycle-inventory", "pef-study", "environmental-footprint-impact-assessment" ] }, { "term": "environmental footprint", "slug": "environmental-footprint", "canonical_slug": "environmental-footprint", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/environmental-footprint", "category": "Environmental", "short_description": "A product-level measure of environmental impacts across the life cycle, broader than carbon footprint alone.", "editorial_definition": "Environmental footprint is ESPR’s product-level concept for quantifying environmental impacts across a product’s life cycle. It can cover one or more impact categories and is broader than carbon footprint unless the applicable product rule narrows the requirement.", "sources": [ "ESPR" ], "related_terms": [ "carbon-footprint", "life-cycle-assessment", "material-footprint", "life-cycle", "carbon-footprint-of-a-product", "ecodesign-requirement", "pef-study", "environmental-footprint-impact-assessment" ] }, { "term": "supply chain", "slug": "supply-chain", "canonical_slug": "supply-chain", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/supply-chain", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "A cross-source term for the activities and linkages involved in producing, moving, and supplying a product, with scope depending on the source.", "editorial_definition": "Supply chain is source-dependent. The ESPR definition is upstream-only: all upstream activities and processes of the product value chain up to the point where the product reaches the customer. ISO 14067 is broader because it refers to those involved through both upstream and downstream linkages in providing products to the user.", "sources": [ "ESPR", "ISO 14067:2018" ], "related_terms": [ "value-chain", "traceability", "chain-of-activities", "battery-due-diligence", "battery-passport", "supply-chain-due-diligence", "mineral-supply-chain" ] }, { "term": "durability", "slug": "durability", "canonical_slug": "durability", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/durability", "category": "Performance & Design", "short_description": "The ability of a product to maintain its function and performance over time under normal conditions of use.", "editorial_definition": "Durability is the ability of a product to maintain its function and performance through normal use over time, including resistance to wear, failure, or premature loss of function.", "sources": [ "ESPR", "Green Claims / Empowering Consumers Directive" ], "related_terms": [ "performance-requirement", "repair", "maintenance", "software-update" ] }, { "term": "end-of-life", "slug": "end-of-life", "canonical_slug": "end-of-life", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/end-of-life", "category": "Circularity & End-of-Life", "short_description": "The ESPR life-cycle stage that starts when a product is discarded and ends when its waste material returns to nature or enters another product life cycle.", "editorial_definition": "End-of-life is the life-cycle stage that begins when a product is discarded and ends when the product’s waste material is returned to nature or enters another product’s life cycle.", "sources": [ "ESPR" ], "related_terms": [ "repair", "refurbishment", "remanufacturing", "recycling-efficiency", "battery-status", "end-of-life-vehicle", "treatment", "recycling", "end-of-life-vehicle-waste-disposal-site", "motor-vehicle-hulk", "registered-vehicle-scrapping-facility", "vehicle-scrapping", "temporary-storage-area", "treatment-facility", "end-of-life-motor-vehicle", "end-of-life-vehicle-recycling-certificate", "five-major-assemblies", "automobile-dismantler", "total-loss-salvage-vehicle", "nonrepairable-vehicle", "motor-vehicle-recycler", "motor-vehicle-recycler-register" ] }, { "term": "substance of concern", "slug": "substance-of-concern", "canonical_slug": "substance-of-concern", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/substance-of-concern", "category": "Materials & Chemicals", "short_description": "An ESPR category for substances that are hazardous or can negatively affect reuse, recycling, and product circularity.", "editorial_definition": "Substance of concern is an ESPR category for substances that are hazardous or that can negatively affect reuse, recycling, or other circularity pathways for a product.", "sources": [ "ESPR" ], "related_terms": [ "environmental-impact", "end-of-life", "value-chain" ] }, { "term": "destruction", "slug": "destruction", "canonical_slug": "destruction", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/destruction", "category": "Circularity & End-of-Life", "short_description": "The ESPR term for intentionally damaging or discarding a product as waste, except delivery for preparation for reuse, refurbishment, or remanufacturing.", "editorial_definition": "Destruction means the intentional damaging or discarding of a product as waste, except where the product is discarded solely to be delivered for preparation for reuse, including refurbishment or remanufacturing operations.", "sources": [ "ESPR" ], "related_terms": [ "preparation-for-re-use", "preparation-for-recycling", "consumer-product", "unsold-consumer-product" ] }, { "term": "placing on the market", "slug": "placing-on-the-market", "canonical_slug": "placing-on-the-market", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/placing-on-the-market", "category": "Market access", "short_description": "A market-entry timing term for the first making available of a product, battery, commodity or relevant product in a regulated market.", "editorial_definition": "Placing on the market is the first market-entry event that makes a regulated product, battery, commodity, or raw-material-related product available on the Union market. It sets the timing point for obligations; it is not the same as conformity assessment and does not prove later distribution, customer delivery, or completion of every compliance process.", "sources": [ "ESPR", "EU Battery Regulation", "EU Critical Raw Materials Act", "EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation", "EUDR", "UK Batteries Placing on Market Regulations" ], "related_terms": [ "producer", "distributor", "battery-passport", "digital-product-passport", "battery-due-diligence", "critical-raw-material", "raw-materials-value-chain", "critical-raw-material-project", "project-promoter", "making-available-on-the-market", "conformity-assessment", "economic-operator", "manufacturer", "importer", "digital-product-passport-service-provider", "putting-into-service", "authorised-representative", "ce-marking", "union-harmonisation-legislation", "packaging", "packaging-waste", "recyclability" ] } ] }, { "slug": "eu-waste-framework-directive", "name": "EU Waste Framework Directive Glossary", "short_name": "EU Waste Framework Directive", "source_short_name": "EU Waste Framework Directive", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/regulations/eu-waste-framework-directive", "jurisdiction": "European Union", "source_type": "Directive", "summary": "EU waste-law definitions covering re-use, recycling, recovery, and waste management. 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It is not every agricultural or forest-risk input.", "sources": [ "EUDR" ], "related_terms": [ "operator", "trader", "placing-on-the-market" ] }, { "term": "agricultural plantation", "slug": "agricultural-plantation", "canonical_slug": "agricultural-plantation", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/agricultural-plantation", "category": "Environmental", "short_description": "An EUDR land-use category for tree-based agricultural production systems, including commodity plantations, that is expressly excluded from forest.", "editorial_definition": "Agricultural plantation is the EUDR land-use category for tree stands in agricultural production systems, such as fruit-tree, oil-palm, olive, or agroforestry systems. 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"An Ontario Batteries Regulation term for a site where used consumer batteries are collected for resource recovery.", "editorial_definition": "Battery collection site is the Ontario Batteries Regulation location where used consumer batteries are collected for the purpose of resource recovery under the stewardship system.", "sources": [ "Ontario Batteries Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "producer-responsibility-organization", "battery-hauler", "battery-processor", "battery-refurbisher", "management-requirement", "waste-battery", "recycling" ] }, { "term": "battery hauler", "slug": "battery-hauler", "canonical_slug": "battery-hauler", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/battery-hauler", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "An Ontario Batteries Regulation term for a person arranging transport of used consumer batteries destined for processing, reuse, refurbishing, or disposal.", "editorial_definition": "Battery hauler is the Ontario Batteries 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"short_description": "An Ontario Batteries Regulation term for a person retained by a producer to carry out specified battery producer responsibilities.", "editorial_definition": "Producer responsibility organization is the Ontario Batteries Regulation term for an organization that producers may use to meet collection, management, and reporting responsibilities.", "sources": [ "Ontario Batteries Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "producer", "battery-compliance-scheme", "battery-collection-site", "battery-hauler", "battery-processor", "battery-refurbisher", "management-requirement", "extended-producer-responsibility", "waste-battery" ] }, { "term": "rechargeable battery", "slug": "rechargeable-battery", "canonical_slug": "rechargeable-battery", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/rechargeable-battery", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "A source-specific battery category for batteries designed or able to be recharged and used more than once.", 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It sits above cell and module granularity, but below or inside the final product, vehicle, appliance, or system that uses it.", "sources": [ "EU Battery Regulation", "India Battery Waste Management Rules", "UK Batteries Placing on Market Regulations", "UK Waste Batteries Regulations" ], "related_terms": [ "battery", "battery-cell", "battery-module", "electric-vehicle-battery", "battery-passport" ] }, { "term": "producer", "slug": "producer", "canonical_slug": "producer", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/producer", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "A source-specific actor term for the entity a regulation treats as responsible for placing, supplying, selling, or managing batteries or products.", "editorial_definition": "Producer is a source-specific role-resolution term for the entity a regulation treats as responsible because it first makes available, places, supplies, sells, or otherwise puts a covered product or battery on a market. 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The term should be tied to the source framework and the event that makes waste status apply.", "sources": [ "EU Battery Regulation", "India Battery Waste Management Rules" ], "related_terms": [ "end-of-life-battery", "used-battery", "recycling", "refurbishment", "storage", "waste-management", "post-consumer-waste", "waste-power-battery" ] }, { "term": "treatment", "slug": "treatment", "canonical_slug": "treatment", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/treatment", "category": "Environmental", "short_description": "The waste-stage operation layer covering recovery or disposal operations and preparation before them.", "editorial_definition": "Treatment is the processing stage where waste is prepared for, or sent through, recovery or disposal operations after it has entered a managed waste route.", "sources": [ "EU Battery Regulation", "EU Critical Raw Materials Act", "EU End-of-Life Vehicles Directive", "EU Waste Framework Directive", "India Battery Waste Management Rules", "India Vehicle Scrapping Facility Rules", "Türkiye End-of-Life Vehicles Regulation", "UK End-of-Life Vehicles Regulations" ], "related_terms": [ "recycling", "preparing-for-re-use", "preparation-for-recycling", "waste-management", "end-of-life-vehicle", "end-of-life-vehicle-waste-disposal-site", "motor-vehicle-hulk", "registered-vehicle-scrapping-facility", "vehicle-scrapping", "temporary-storage-area", "treatment-facility", "end-of-life-motor-vehicle", "end-of-life-vehicle-recycling-certificate", "five-major-assemblies", "automobile-dismantler", "total-loss-salvage-vehicle", "nonrepairable-vehicle", "motor-vehicle-recycler", "motor-vehicle-recycler-register" ] }, { "term": "extended producer responsibility", "slug": "extended-producer-responsibility", "canonical_slug": "extended-producer-responsibility", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/extended-producer-responsibility", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "An India battery-waste rule term for a producer’s responsibility for environmentally sound management of waste batteries.", "editorial_definition": "Extended producer responsibility is a source-specific policy approach that extends a producer’s responsibility beyond sale into the product life-cycle, especially take-back, collection, treatment, recycling, reporting, or environmentally sound management after use under the India Battery Waste Management Rules and related regimes.", "sources": [ "India Battery Waste Management Rules" ], "related_terms": [ "producer", "extended-producer-responsibility-registration", "environmentally-sound-management", "waste-battery" ] }, { "term": "portable battery", "slug": "portable-battery", "canonical_slug": "portable-battery", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/portable-battery", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "A source-specific category term for sealed, hand-carried or low-weight batteries, with different boundaries in EU, UK, India, and Brazil source texts.", "editorial_definition": "Portable battery is a source-specific category term for sealed, hand-carried or low-weight batteries, with different boundaries in EU, UK, India, and Brazil and not interchangeable across jurisdictions. It is not assigned only because a battery is small, removable, or sold to consumers.", "sources": [ "Brazil CONAMA Resolution 401/2008", "EU Battery Regulation", "India Battery Waste Management Rules", "UK Waste Batteries Regulations" ], "related_terms": [ "industrial-battery", "automotive-battery", "battery", "rechargeable-battery", "primary-battery" ] }, { "term": "environmentally sound management", "slug": "environmentally-sound-management", "canonical_slug": "environmentally-sound-management", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/environmentally-sound-management", "category": "Environmental", "short_description": "An India battery-waste rule term for managing waste batteries in a way that protects human health and the environment.", "editorial_definition": "Environmentally sound management is the source-specific India Battery Waste Management Rules term for managing waste batteries in a way that protects health and the environment through proper collection, storage, transportation, processing, recycling, or disposal.", "sources": [ "EU Waste Shipment Regulation", "India Battery Waste Management Rules" ], "related_terms": [ "waste-battery", "extended-producer-responsibility", "recycler", "refurbisher", "recycling", "shipment", "illegal-shipment" ] }, { "term": "industrial battery", "slug": "industrial-battery", "canonical_slug": "industrial-battery", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/industrial-battery", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "A source-specific battery category for industrial-use batteries and certain non-portable or heavier batteries in EU, UK, and India source texts.", "editorial_definition": "Industrial battery is an industrial-use battery category in EU, UK, and India rules, generally tied to industrial use or exclusion from portable, LMT, EV, or SLI categories. It is not a portable battery simply because it can be moved or handled.", "sources": [ "EU Battery Regulation", "India Battery Waste Management Rules", "UK Waste Batteries Regulations" ], "related_terms": [ "portable-battery", "automotive-battery", "battery", "electric-vehicle-battery" ] }, { "term": "recycler", "slug": "recycler", "canonical_slug": "recycler", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/recycler", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "A downstream actor term for entities that carry out recycling, with EU, India, and Brazil source layers kept separate.", "editorial_definition": "Recycler is the actor or facility responsible for carrying out recycling operations that convert waste materials or batteries into recovered material outputs under the relevant source regime.", "sources": [ "Brazil CONAMA Resolution 401/2008", "EU Battery Regulation", "EU Critical Raw Materials Act", "India Battery Waste Management Rules" ], "related_terms": [ "recycling", "recycling-efficiency", "permitted-facility", "waste-battery", "waste-management", "approved-battery-treatment-operator", "approved-battery-exporter", "refurbisher", "battery-refurbisher", "preparation-for-recycling" ] }, { "term": "disposal", "slug": "disposal", "canonical_slug": "disposal", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/disposal", "category": "Environmental", "short_description": "The non-recovery waste route, even where reclamation of substances or energy is a secondary consequence.", "editorial_definition": "Disposal is the waste route used when an operation is not recovery, even if some substances or energy are reclaimed along the way.", "sources": [ "EU End-of-Life Vehicles Directive", "EU Waste Framework Directive", "India Battery Waste Management Rules", "Türkiye End-of-Life Vehicles Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "recycling", "material-recovery", "environmentally-adequate-destination", "end-of-life-vehicle", "treatment", "end-of-life-vehicle-waste-disposal-site", "motor-vehicle-hulk", "registered-vehicle-scrapping-facility", "vehicle-scrapping", "temporary-storage-area", "treatment-facility", "automobile-dismantler", "total-loss-salvage-vehicle", "nonrepairable-vehicle", "shipment", "illegal-shipment" ] } ] }, { "slug": "brazil-national-solid-waste-policy", "name": "Brazil National Solid Waste Policy Glossary", "short_name": "Brazil National Solid Waste Policy", "source_short_name": "Brazil National Solid Waste Policy", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/regulations/brazil-national-solid-waste-policy", "jurisdiction": "Brazil", "source_type": "Statute", "summary": "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.", "source_url": "https://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2007-2010/2010/lei/l12305.htm", "public_term_count": 5, "key_terms": [ { "term": "reverse logistics", "slug": "reverse-logistics", "canonical_slug": "reverse-logistics", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/reverse-logistics", "category": "Circularity", "short_description": "A Brazil National Solid Waste Policy term for returning solid waste to the business sector for reuse, production cycles, or environmentally appropriate final destination.", "editorial_definition": "Reverse logistics is the Brazil National Solid Waste Policy term for the economic and social instrument that enables collection and return of solid waste to the business sector for reuse in the same or other production cycles, or for another environmentally appropriate final destination.", "sources": [ "Brazil National Solid Waste Policy" ], "related_terms": [ "used-battery-management-plan", "solid-waste", "environmentally-adequate-destination", "product-life-cycle", "shared-responsibility-for-product-life-cycle", "re-use", "recycling", "waste-management" ] }, { "term": "recycling", "slug": "recycling", "canonical_slug": "recycling", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/recycling", "category": "Environmental", "short_description": "A material-recovery term for reprocessing waste materials into products, materials, or substances, kept separate from re-use and other end-of-life steps.", "editorial_definition": "Recycling is the material-recovery pathway in which waste materials are reprocessed into products, materials, or substances. In battery and circularity workflows, it should be kept separate from re-use, preparation for recycling, repurposing, collection, storage, and disposal.", "sources": [ "Brazil National Solid Waste Policy", "China ELV Recycling Measures", "DIN DKE SPEC 99100", "EU Critical Raw Materials Act", "EU End-of-Life Vehicles Directive", "EU Waste Framework Directive", "India Vehicle Scrapping Facility Rules", "Türkiye End-of-Life Vehicles Regulation", "UK End-of-Life Vehicles Regulations" ], "related_terms": [ "preparation-for-recycling", "recycling-efficiency", "waste-battery", "waste-management", "post-consumer-waste", "re-use", "disassembly", "battery-passport", "end-of-life-vehicle", "treatment", "end-of-life-vehicle-waste-disposal-site", "motor-vehicle-hulk", "registered-vehicle-scrapping-facility", "vehicle-scrapping", "temporary-storage-area", "treatment-facility", "end-of-life-motor-vehicle", "end-of-life-vehicle-recycling-certificate", "five-major-assemblies", "automobile-dismantler", "total-loss-salvage-vehicle", "nonrepairable-vehicle", "motor-vehicle-recycler", "motor-vehicle-recycler-register", "packaging", "packaging-waste", "recyclability", "us-critical-mineral", "canada-qualifying-material" ] }, { "term": "re-use", "slug": "re-use", "canonical_slug": "re-use", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/re-use", "category": "Environmental", "short_description": "A circularity term for keeping a product, component, battery, or material in use rather than sending it straight to recycling or disposal.", "editorial_definition": "Re-use is the pathway where a product, component, battery, or material is used again instead of being sent directly to recycling or disposal. It preserves use value and should be distinguished from preparation for re-use, repurposing, and material recovery.", "sources": [ "Brazil National Solid Waste Policy", "DIN DKE SPEC 99100", "EU Critical Raw Materials Act", "EU End-of-Life Vehicles Directive", "EU Waste Framework Directive", "Türkiye End-of-Life Vehicles Regulation", "UK End-of-Life Vehicles Regulations" ], "related_terms": [ "preparation-for-re-use", "repurposing", "recycling", "battery-status", "state-of-health", "battery-passport", "disassembly", "waste-battery", "end-of-life-vehicle", "treatment", "temporary-storage-area", "treatment-facility", "motor-vehicle-recycler", "motor-vehicle-recycler-register", "packaging", "packaging-waste", "recyclability" ] }, { "term": "waste management", "slug": "waste-management", "canonical_slug": "waste-management", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/waste-management", "category": "Environmental", "short_description": "An umbrella term for the organized collection, transport, treatment, recovery, recycling, disposal, and supervision of waste.", "editorial_definition": "Waste management is the organized handling of waste through collection, transport, sorting, treatment, recovery, recycling, disposal, supervision, and related responsibility steps. It is the umbrella workflow around end-of-life handling, not a synonym for recycling.", "sources": [ "Brazil National Solid Waste Policy", "DIN DKE SPEC 99100", "EU Waste Framework Directive" ], "related_terms": [ "waste-management-operator", "waste-battery", "post-consumer-waste", "preparation-for-recycling", "recycling", "dismantling", "battery-passport", "waste" ] }, { "term": "solid waste", "slug": "solid-waste", "canonical_slug": "solid-waste", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/solid-waste", "category": "Waste", "short_description": "A Brazil National Solid Waste Policy term for discarded materials, objects, goods, contained gases, and certain liquids that require final destination handling.", "editorial_definition": "Solid waste is a Brazil National Solid Waste Policy term for discarded material, substance, object, or good resulting from human activities whose final destination is carried out, proposed, or required under the source’s conditions.", "sources": [ "Brazil National Solid Waste Policy" ], "related_terms": [ "reverse-logistics", "waste-management", "recycling", "re-use", "environmentally-adequate-destination", "waste-battery", "product-life-cycle" ] } ] }, { "slug": "brazil-conama-resolution-401-2008", "name": "Brazil CONAMA Resolution 401/2008 Glossary", "short_name": "Brazil CONAMA Resolution 401/2008", "source_short_name": "Brazil CONAMA Resolution 401/2008", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/regulations/brazil-conama-resolution-401-2008", "jurisdiction": "Brazil", "source_type": "Resolution", "summary": "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.", "source_url": "https://conama.mma.gov.br/?id=570&option=com_sisconama&task=arquivo.download", "public_term_count": 6, "key_terms": [ { "term": "battery", "slug": "battery", "canonical_slug": "battery", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/battery", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "A source-specific umbrella term for electrochemical energy-storage devices whose exact compliance meaning depends on jurisdiction, category, lifecycle status, and use case.", "editorial_definition": "Battery is the top-level object type for devices that deliver electrical energy through direct conversion of chemical energy. The legal boundary is source-specific, so the page keeps EU, UK, India, Brazil, and Ontario definitions separate before routing a record to a narrower category.", "sources": [ "Brazil CONAMA Resolution 401/2008", "EU Battery Regulation", "India Battery Waste Management Rules", "Ontario Batteries Regulation", "UK Batteries Placing on Market Regulations", "UK Waste Batteries Regulations" ], "related_terms": [ "battery-cell", "battery-module", "battery-pack", "portable-battery", "industrial-battery", "electric-vehicle-battery", "non-rechargeable-battery", "rechargeable-battery" ] }, { "term": "portable battery", "slug": "portable-battery", "canonical_slug": "portable-battery", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/portable-battery", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "A source-specific category term for sealed, hand-carried or low-weight batteries, with different boundaries in EU, UK, India, and Brazil source texts.", "editorial_definition": "Portable battery is a source-specific category term for sealed, hand-carried or low-weight batteries, with different boundaries in EU, UK, India, and Brazil and not interchangeable across jurisdictions. It is not assigned only because a battery is small, removable, or sold to consumers.", "sources": [ "Brazil CONAMA Resolution 401/2008", "EU Battery Regulation", "India Battery Waste Management Rules", "UK Waste Batteries Regulations" ], "related_terms": [ "industrial-battery", "automotive-battery", "battery", "rechargeable-battery", "primary-battery" ] }, { "term": "recycler", "slug": "recycler", "canonical_slug": "recycler", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/recycler", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "A downstream actor term for entities that carry out recycling, with EU, India, and Brazil source layers kept separate.", "editorial_definition": "Recycler is the actor or facility responsible for carrying out recycling operations that convert waste materials or batteries into recovered material outputs under the relevant source regime.", "sources": [ "Brazil CONAMA Resolution 401/2008", "EU Battery Regulation", "EU Critical Raw Materials Act", "India Battery Waste Management Rules" ], "related_terms": [ "recycling", "recycling-efficiency", "permitted-facility", "waste-battery", "waste-management", "approved-battery-treatment-operator", "approved-battery-exporter", "refurbisher", "battery-refurbisher", "preparation-for-recycling" ] }, { "term": "importer", "slug": "importer", "canonical_slug": "importer", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/importer", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "An EU-established actor that places a product from a third country on the Union market under ESPR, with related source-specific meanings in battery and trade rules.", "editorial_definition": "Under ESPR, importer means any natural or legal person established in the Union that places a product from a third country on the Union market. The term is not the same as distributor and should not be reduced to physical transport or customs logistics alone.", "sources": [ "Brazil CONAMA Resolution 401/2008", "CBAM", "ESPR", "EU Battery Regulation", "EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "economic-operator", "manufacturer", "distributor", "placing-on-the-market", "product", "supply-chain", "raw-materials-supply-chain", "customs-declarant", "traceability", "packaging", "packaging-waste", "recyclability", "supply-chain-due-diligence", "mineral-supply-chain" ] }, { "term": "used battery management plan", "slug": "used-battery-management-plan", "canonical_slug": "used-battery-management-plan", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/used-battery-management-plan", "category": "Compliance", "short_description": "A Brazil CONAMA Resolution 401/2008 term for environmentally appropriate procedures covering used-battery discard, collection, storage, handling, recycling, reuse, treatment, or final disposal.", "editorial_definition": "Used battery management plan is the Brazil CONAMA Resolution 401/2008 term for a set of environmentally appropriate procedures for discard, segregation, collection, transport, receipt, storage, handling, recycling, reuse, treatment, or final disposal of used batteries.", "sources": [ "Brazil CONAMA Resolution 401/2008" ], "related_terms": [ "reverse-logistics", "environmentally-adequate-destination", "re-use", "recycling", "waste-management", "solid-waste" ] }, { "term": "environmentally adequate destination", "slug": "environmentally-adequate-destination", "canonical_slug": "environmentally-adequate-destination", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/environmentally-adequate-destination", "category": "Circularity", "short_description": "A Brazil battery-waste term for destinations that minimize environmental risks through collection, receipt, reuse, recycling, treatment, or final disposal procedures.", "editorial_definition": "Environmentally adequate destination is a Brazil CONAMA Resolution 401/2008 battery-waste term for a destination that minimizes environmental risks and uses technical procedures for collection, receipt, reuse, recycling, treatment, or final disposal under current environmental law.", "sources": [ "Brazil CONAMA Resolution 401/2008" ], "related_terms": [ "reverse-logistics", "used-battery-management-plan", "solid-waste", "waste-management", "recycling", "re-use", "waste-battery" ] } ] }, { "slug": "canada-passenger-automobile-ghg-regulations", "name": "Canada Passenger Automobile GHG Regulations Glossary", "short_name": "Canada Passenger Automobile GHG Regulations", "source_short_name": "Canada Passenger Automobile GHG Regulations", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/regulations/canada-passenger-automobile-ghg-regulations", "jurisdiction": "Canada", "source_type": "Regulation", "summary": "Canada regulatory definitions relevant to zero-emission vehicles, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, fuel cell vehicles, and adjacent EV terminology.", "source_url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-2010-201/FullText.html", "public_term_count": 0, "key_terms": [] }, { "slug": "empowering-consumers-directive", "name": "Empowering Consumers / Green Claims Glossary", "short_name": "Empowering Consumers Directive", "source_short_name": "Green Claims / Empowering Consumers Directive", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/regulations/empowering-consumers-directive", "jurisdiction": "European Union", "source_type": "Directive", "summary": "Definitions from the Empowering Consumers Directive relevant to environmental claims, durability, certification schemes, and green-transition marketing language.", "source_url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=OJ:L_202400825", "public_term_count": 3, "key_terms": [ { "term": "goods", "slug": "goods", "canonical_slug": "goods", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/goods", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "The items in scope of a legal regime, with meaning shaped by the source rather than ordinary commercial language alone.", "editorial_definition": "Goods are the legally scoped items covered by a source framework; in CBAM, the term refers to goods listed in Annex I, while other sources may use the same everyday word for different product or consumer-law scopes.", "sources": [ "CBAM", "Green Claims / Empowering Consumers Directive" ], "related_terms": [ "product", "consumer-product", "relevant-products", "relevant-commodities" ] }, { "term": "producer", "slug": "producer", "canonical_slug": "producer", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/producer", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "A source-specific actor term for the entity a regulation treats as responsible for placing, supplying, selling, or managing batteries or products.", "editorial_definition": "Producer is a source-specific role-resolution term for the entity a regulation treats as responsible because it first makes available, places, supplies, sells, or otherwise puts a covered product or battery on a market. Across EU, UK, India, and Ontario regimes, the producer is not automatically the manufacturer; the exact test depends on the source and market event.", "sources": [ "EU Battery Regulation", "EU End-of-Life Vehicles Directive", "EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation", "Green Claims / Empowering Consumers Directive", "India Battery Waste Management Rules", "Ontario Batteries Regulation", "Türkiye End-of-Life Vehicles Regulation", "UK End-of-Life Vehicles Regulations", "UK Waste Batteries Regulations" ], "related_terms": [ "manufacturer", "importer", "distributor", "placing-on-the-market", "end-of-life-vehicle", "treatment", "recycling", "temporary-storage-area", "treatment-facility", "packaging", "packaging-waste", "recyclability" ] }, { "term": "durability", "slug": "durability", "canonical_slug": "durability", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/durability", "category": "Performance & Design", "short_description": "The ability of a product to maintain its function and performance over time under normal conditions of use.", "editorial_definition": "Durability is the ability of a product to maintain its function and performance through normal use over time, including resistance to wear, failure, or premature loss of function.", "sources": [ "ESPR", "Green Claims / Empowering Consumers Directive" ], "related_terms": [ "performance-requirement", "repair", "maintenance", "software-update" ] } ] }, { "slug": "union-customs-code", "name": "Union Customs Code Glossary", "short_name": "Union Customs Code", "source_short_name": "Union Customs Code", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/regulations/union-customs-code", "jurisdiction": "European Union", "source_type": "Regulation", "summary": "Supporting glossary source for customs, importer, origin, and importation concepts reused across other EU regulations such as CBAM and EUDR.", "source_url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32013R0952", "public_term_count": 6, "key_terms": [ { "term": "customs authorities", "slug": "customs-authorities", "canonical_slug": "customs-authorities", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/customs-authorities", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "The Member State customs administrations and empowered authorities that apply customs legislation in import workflows.", "editorial_definition": "Customs authorities are the customs administrations of Member States and other authorities empowered under national law to apply certain customs legislation.", "sources": [ "CBAM", "Union Customs Code" ], "related_terms": [ "competent-authority", "authorised-cbam-declarant", "importer" ] }, { "term": "customs declarant", "slug": "customs-declarant", "canonical_slug": "customs-declarant", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/customs-declarant", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "The person formally tied to a customs declaration for release for free circulation in the CBAM import workflow.", "editorial_definition": "Customs declarant is the person lodging a customs declaration in their own name or in whose name such a declaration is lodged. In CBAM context, it should be kept separate from authorised CBAM declarant status.", "sources": [ "CBAM", "Union Customs Code" ], "related_terms": [ "customs-authorities", "competent-authority", "economic-operators-registration-and-identification-number-eori-number" ] }, { "term": "customs territory of the Union", "slug": "customs-territory-of-the-union", "canonical_slug": "customs-territory-of-the-union", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/customs-territory-of-the-union", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "The Union customs-space boundary used to decide where UCC customs rules and CBAM import logic apply.", "editorial_definition": "Customs territory of the Union is the territorial boundary used by EU customs law to decide whether goods enter the Union customs system. For CBAM, it helps locate the import event and release-for-free-circulation boundary.", "sources": [ "CBAM", "Union Customs Code" ], "related_terms": [ "country-of-origin", "country-of-production", "established-in-a-member-state" ] }, { "term": "Economic Operators Registration and Identification number (EORI number)", "slug": "economic-operators-registration-and-identification-number-eori-number", "canonical_slug": "economic-operators-registration-and-identification-number-eori-number", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/economic-operators-registration-and-identification-number-eori-number", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "The customs registration identifier assigned after registration for customs purposes under the UCC framework used by CBAM.", "editorial_definition": "Economic Operators Registration and Identification number (EORI number) is the EU customs identity number used to identify economic operators in customs interactions and declarations.", "sources": [ "CBAM", "Union Customs Code" ], "related_terms": [ "importer", "competent-authority", "importation" ] }, { "term": "importation", "slug": "importation", "canonical_slug": "importation", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/importation", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "The CBAM customs event of release for free circulation, not merely physical shipment into Europe.", "editorial_definition": "Importation means release for free circulation under Article 201 of the Union Customs Code, used by CBAM as the customs-procedure event through which non-Union goods enter the Union market as Union goods.", "sources": [ "CBAM", "Union Customs Code" ], "related_terms": [ "importer", "customs-territory-of-the-union", "economic-operators-registration-and-identification-number-eori-number" ] }, { "term": "country of origin", "slug": "country-of-origin", "canonical_slug": "country-of-origin", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/country-of-origin", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "An EUDR term pointing to the Union Customs Code country-or-territory concept used for origin, distinct from EUDR country of production.", "editorial_definition": "Country of origin is an EUDR customs-linked origin term that points to Article 60 of the Union Customs Code. It is not the same as country of production, which anchors where a relevant commodity or product was produced.", "sources": [ "EUDR", "Union Customs Code" ], "related_terms": [ "customs-declarant", "customs-territory-of-the-union" ] } ] }, { "slug": "australia-nsw-product-lifecycle-responsibility-regulation", "name": "NSW Product Lifecycle Responsibility Regulation 2026 Glossary", "short_name": "NSW PLR Regulation", "source_short_name": "NSW PLR Regulation", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/regulations/australia-nsw-product-lifecycle-responsibility-regulation", "jurisdiction": "Australia / New South Wales", "source_type": "Regulation", "summary": "A subnational battery-stewardship source for New South Wales, covering regulated batteries, scheme actors, collection, recovery, and related product-lifecycle responsibilities.", "source_url": "https://legislation.nsw.gov.au/view/html/inforce/current/sl-2026-0025", "public_term_count": 4, "key_terms": [ { "term": "regulated battery", "slug": "regulated-battery", "canonical_slug": "regulated-battery", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/regulated-battery", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "A New South Wales battery-stewardship scope term for batteries covered by the NSW regulated-battery scheme.", "editorial_definition": "Regulated battery is the New South Wales (NSW) product-stewardship scope term for batteries that fall within that scheme’s covered battery category and trigger local producer or stewardship obligations.", "sources": [ "NSW PLR Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "portable-battery", "button-cell", "e-micromobility-device", "battery-chemistry-type" ] }, { "term": "brand owner", "slug": "brand-owner", "canonical_slug": "brand-owner", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/brand-owner", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "An NSW regulated-battery actor term that can include the person responsible for bringing a regulated battery into the State for supply.", "editorial_definition": "In the NSW Product Lifecycle Responsibility Regulation, brand owner is a regulated-battery actor concept that extends beyond simple product-name ownership. For regulated batteries, NSW includes the person responsible for bringing the regulated battery into the State for supply and clarifies limits for product-name owners and transport-only actors.", "sources": [ "NSW PLR Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "regulated-battery", "responsible-entity", "product-stewardship-organisation" ] }, { "term": "responsible entity", "slug": "responsible-entity", "canonical_slug": "responsible-entity", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/responsible-entity", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "An NSW regulated-battery switching concept that routes responsibility to a PSO when an agreement exists, or to brand owners when it does not.", "editorial_definition": "Responsible entity is an NSW regulated-battery switching concept. For a type of regulated battery, responsibility can sit with each PSO that is party to a stewardship administration agreement, or with each brand owner if no such agreement exists.", "sources": [ "NSW PLR Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "regulated-battery", "product-stewardship-organisation", "brand-owner", "regulated-battery-product-stewardship-scheme" ] }, { "term": "product stewardship organisation", "slug": "product-stewardship-organisation", "canonical_slug": "product-stewardship-organisation", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/product-stewardship-organisation", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "An NSW product-stewardship actor used as the administration layer for regulated-battery stewardship arrangements.", "editorial_definition": "In the NSW regulated-battery context, product stewardship organisation, or PSO, is the administration layer that can sit between brand owners and the regulated-battery stewardship scheme. The regulation defines PSO as a product stewardship organisation and then uses PSOs in the scheme’s agreement, record, collection, recovery, and reporting architecture.", "sources": [ "NSW PLR Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "responsible-entity", "regulated-battery-product-stewardship-scheme", "brand-owner" ] } ] }, { "slug": "australia-recycling-waste-reduction-act", "name": "Australia Recycling and Waste Reduction Act 2020 Glossary", "short_name": "Australia Recycling and Waste Reduction Act", "source_short_name": "Australia Recycling and Waste Reduction Act", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/regulations/australia-recycling-waste-reduction-act", "jurisdiction": "Australia", "source_type": "Statute", "summary": "A federal product-stewardship and waste-export framework source for Australia, covering product stewardship criteria, waste material, arrangements, liable parties, and related recovery concepts.", "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2020A00119/latest/text", "public_term_count": 5, "key_terms": [ { "term": "waste", "slug": "waste", "canonical_slug": "waste", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/waste", "category": "Environmental", "short_description": "The EU waste-law status for a substance or object the holder discards, intends to discard, or is required to discard.", "editorial_definition": "Waste is the point where a substance, object, battery, component, or material enters a discard-based legal workflow rather than remaining ordinary product or inventory data.", "sources": [ "Australia Recycling and Waste Reduction Act", "EU Critical Raw Materials Act", "EU Waste Framework Directive", "ISO 14067:2018" ], "related_terms": [ "recovery", "collection", "hazardous-waste", "waste-battery", "packaging", "packaging-waste", "recyclability", "shipment", "illegal-shipment" ] }, { "term": "product stewardship criteria", "slug": "product-stewardship-criteria", "canonical_slug": "product-stewardship-criteria", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/product-stewardship-criteria", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "Federal Australian criteria for deciding when product stewardship may apply under the Recycling and Waste Reduction Act 2020.", "editorial_definition": "Product stewardship criteria are the Australian federal conditions used to assess whether a product category can fit within the Recycling and Waste Reduction Act 2020 product-stewardship framework.", "sources": [ "Australia Recycling and Waste Reduction Act" ], "related_terms": [ "waste-material", "regulated-waste-material", "regulated-battery", "product-stewardship-organisation" ] }, { "term": "waste material", "slug": "waste-material", "canonical_slug": "waste-material", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/waste-material", "category": "Environmental", "short_description": "A federal Australian product-stewardship and waste-export term from the Recycling and Waste Reduction Act 2020.", "editorial_definition": "Waste material is an Australian federal framework term from the Recycling and Waste Reduction Act 2020 for material handled in product-stewardship and waste-export contexts.", "sources": [ "Australia Recycling and Waste Reduction Act" ], "related_terms": [ "waste", "regulated-waste-material", "product-stewardship-criteria", "regulated-battery" ] }, { "term": "product", "slug": "product", "canonical_slug": "product", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/product", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "The physical goods that ESPR treats as the basic object of ecodesign, information, passport, and market obligations.", "editorial_definition": "Under ESPR, a product means any physical goods that are placed on the market or put into service. The term sets the basic object of compliance before more specific distinctions such as product group, component, intermediate product, and consumer product are applied.", "sources": [ "Australia Recycling and Waste Reduction Act", "ESPR", "ISO 14067:2018" ], "related_terms": [ "product-group", "component", "intermediate-product", "consumer-product", "digital-product-passport", "unique-product-identifier", "data-carrier", "manufacturer", "importer", "economic-operator", "unique-operator-identifier", "unique-facility-identifier" ] }, { "term": "liable party", "slug": "liable-party", "canonical_slug": "liable-party", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/liable-party", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "An Australian federal product-stewardship actor concept for a person specified as liable in relation to a product under the rules.", "editorial_definition": "Liable party is an Australian federal framework term from the Recycling and Waste Reduction Act. The Act provides that rules may specify liable parties for a product and limits the role to persons with a defined connection to the product, such as manufacturing, importing, distributing, using, or disposing of it.", "sources": [ "Australia Recycling and Waste Reduction Act" ], "related_terms": [ "product-stewardship-criteria", "waste-material", "brand-owner", "responsible-entity" ] } ] } ] }