{ "version": 1, "query": "battery passport", "count": 46, "results": [ { "term": "battery passport", "slug": "battery-passport", "canonical_slug": "battery-passport", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/battery-passport", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "A battery-specific electronic record that connects an individual battery to required identity, compliance, sustainability, performance, and lifecycle evidence.", "editorial_definition": "A battery passport is the regulated electronic record for a specific battery, accessed through a data carrier and anchored by a unique battery identifier, that makes required battery information available over the battery lifecycle.", "sources": [ "EU Battery Regulation", "Global Battery Alliance" ], "related_terms": [ "digital-product-passport", "traceability", "dynamic-data", "open-battery-passport", "unique-identifier", "battery-item", "battery-batch", "static-data" ] }, { "term": "battery passport service / battery passport platform", "slug": "battery-passport-service-platform", "canonical_slug": "battery-passport-service-platform", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/battery-passport-service-platform", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "The service or platform layer that operates battery-passport workflows, including hosting, processing, access management, and delivery infrastructure.", "editorial_definition": "Battery passport service / battery passport platform is a Minespider-defined concept family for the infrastructure that operates battery-passport workflows, including hosting, processing, access management, APIs, user interfaces, and delivery operations.", "sources": [ "ESPR", "EU Battery Regulation", "Open Battery Passport" ], "related_terms": [ "battery-passport", "open-battery-passport", "digital-product-passport-service-provider", "digital-product-passport", "data-carrier", "economic-operator", "manufacturer" ] }, { "term": "open battery passport", "slug": "open-battery-passport", "canonical_slug": "open-battery-passport", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/open-battery-passport", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "A Minespider-defined battery-passport approach centered on interoperability, deployment flexibility, and reduced lock-in, not a formal EU legal term.", "editorial_definition": "Open Battery Passport is a Minespider-defined battery-passport approach centered on interoperability, deployment flexibility, and reduced lock-in. It is not a formal EU legal term, and open does not mean every data field is public; it describes an operating model for making passport infrastructure usable across systems, actors, and customer environments.", "sources": [ "Minespider decision memo", "Open Battery Passport" ], "related_terms": [ "battery-passport", "battery-passport-service-platform", "digital-product-passport", "data-carrier", "unique-identifier", "digital-product-passport-service-provider" ] }, { "term": "battery batch", "slug": "battery-batch", "canonical_slug": "battery-batch", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/battery-batch", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "A production or logistics grouping used as a shared evidence layer for related item-level battery passports.", "editorial_definition": "A battery batch is a production, logistics, or quality-control grouping of batteries used to organize shared evidence for battery-passport implementation while remaining distinct from an individual battery item or product model.", "sources": [ "DIN DKE SPEC 99100" ], "related_terms": [ "battery-passport", "battery-item", "battery-model", "battery-chemistry", "traceability", "unique-identifier", "static-data", "dynamic-data", "carbon-footprint-of-a-product", "battery-status" ] }, { "term": "battery item", "slug": "battery-item", "canonical_slug": "battery-item", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/battery-item", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "An individual physical battery unit used as the item-level identity anchor for a serialized battery passport.", "editorial_definition": "A battery item is an individual physical battery unit considered at item level for battery-passport implementation, distinct from a battery model, production batch, data carrier, or software platform.", "sources": [ "DIN DKE SPEC 99100" ], "related_terms": [ "battery-passport", "unique-identifier", "data-carrier", "battery-model", "battery-batch", "dynamic-data", "static-data", "battery-status", "state-of-health", "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": "batteries evidence note", "slug": "batteries-evidence-note", "canonical_slug": "batteries-evidence-note", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/batteries-evidence-note", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "A UK Waste Batteries Regulations term for evidence issued by an approved battery treatment operator or approved battery exporter for accepted waste portable battery tonnage.", "editorial_definition": "Batteries evidence note is a UK Waste Batteries Regulations document for accepted waste portable battery tonnage issued by an approved battery treatment operator or approved battery exporter. It is an evidence document, not a passport, battery passport, or product identifier.", "sources": [ "UK Waste Batteries Regulations" ], "related_terms": [ "approved-battery-treatment-operator", "approved-battery-exporter", "portable-battery", "battery-producer-registration-number", "recycling" ] }, { "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": "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 chemistry", "slug": "battery-chemistry", "canonical_slug": "battery-chemistry", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/battery-chemistry", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "The electrochemical composition family of a battery used in product, performance, safety, recycling, and passport-data contexts.", "editorial_definition": "Battery chemistry describes the broad electrochemical composition of a battery, especially the active-material families used in the cathode, anode, and electrolyte. It is useful product data, but not a complete bill of materials, due-diligence record, or recycled-content claim.", "sources": [ "DIN DKE SPEC 99100" ], "related_terms": [ "battery-passport", "battery-batch", "active-material", "battery-cell", "battery-model", "recycling-efficiency" ] }, { "term": "battery due diligence", "slug": "battery-due-diligence", "canonical_slug": "battery-due-diligence", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/battery-due-diligence", "category": "Environmental", "short_description": "EU Battery Regulation term for the management-system, risk-management, verification, and disclosure obligations tied to battery raw-material and secondary-raw-material supply chains.", "editorial_definition": "Battery due diligence is the EU Battery Regulation obligation set that requires relevant economic operators to identify, prevent, address, verify, and disclose social and environmental risks linked to the sourcing, processing, and trading of raw materials and secondary raw materials needed for battery manufacturing.", "sources": [ "EU Battery Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "traceability", "conflict-affected-and-high-risk-areas", "battery-passport", "supply-chain" ] }, { "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": "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": "battery status", "slug": "battery-status", "canonical_slug": "battery-status", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/battery-status", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "A controlled lifecycle-state field showing where an individual battery item sits in use, second life, repair, waste, or recycling workflows.", "editorial_definition": "Battery status is a controlled lifecycle-state field for an individual battery item, indicating its operational, legal, or circular condition such as in use, repaired, repurposed, remanufactured, waste, or prepared for recycling.", "sources": [ "DIN DKE SPEC 99100" ], "related_terms": [ "battery-passport", "battery-item", "dynamic-data", "state-of-health", "state-of-charge", "remanufacturing", "repurposing", "waste-battery", "preparation-for-recycling", "preparation-for-re-use", "preparation-for-repurposing", "traceability", "unique-identifier", "static-data", "battery-batch" ] }, { "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": "CE marking", "slug": "ce-marking", "canonical_slug": "ce-marking", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/ce-marking", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "The EU marking by which the manufacturer indicates conformity with applicable requirements in relevant Union harmonisation legislation.", "editorial_definition": "CE marking is the visible marking by which the manufacturer indicates conformity with applicable requirements in Union harmonisation legislation that provides for the mark. It is a visible endpoint of a larger compliance record and not a standalone proof that every underlying obligation is complete.", "sources": [ "ESPR", "EU Battery Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "conformity-assessment", "manufacturer", "placing-on-the-market", "union-harmonisation-legislation", "harmonised-standard", "notified-body", "technical-specification" ] }, { "term": "conformity assessment", "slug": "conformity-assessment", "canonical_slug": "conformity-assessment", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/conformity-assessment", "category": "Conformity and evidence", "short_description": "A process term for demonstrating whether specified CRMA, ESPR, or battery-product requirements have been fulfilled.", "editorial_definition": "Conformity assessment is the process used to demonstrate whether specified legal requirements have been fulfilled. It connects requirements, evidence, assessment activities, and a conclusion; it is not the same as market access, placing a product on the market, or publishing passport data.", "sources": [ "ESPR", "EU Battery Regulation", "EU Critical Raw Materials Act" ], "related_terms": [ "placing-on-the-market", "making-available-on-the-market", "battery-passport", "digital-product-passport", "critical-raw-material", "putting-into-service", "authorised-representative", "conformity-assessment-body", "notified-body", "ce-marking", "technical-specification", "harmonised-standard", "union-harmonisation-legislation" ] }, { "term": "critical raw material", "slug": "critical-raw-material", "canonical_slug": "critical-raw-material", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/critical-raw-material", "category": "Materials & sourcing", "short_description": "A CRMA policy category for raw materials with high economic importance and supply risk under the EU assessment framework.", "editorial_definition": "Critical raw material is the CRMA category for raw materials identified through EU economic-importance and supply-risk assessment. It is not a generic importance label and should not be inferred from a material being expensive, scarce, battery-relevant, or commercially sensitive.", "sources": [ "EU Critical Raw Materials Act" ], "related_terms": [ "us-critical-mineral", "canada-qualifying-material" ] }, { "term": "disassembly", "slug": "disassembly", "canonical_slug": "disassembly", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/disassembly", "category": "Environmental", "short_description": "Disassembly matters for battery-passport implementation because end-of-life and service events often need to record what was separated, by whom, for what p", "editorial_definition": "Disassembly is the controlled separation of a battery, product, pack, or component into parts so lifecycle, repair, re-use, or treatment decisions can be made without treating the object as an undifferentiated waste stream.", "sources": [ "DIN DKE SPEC 99100" ], "related_terms": [ "dismantling", "battery-passport", "battery-item", "battery-status", "preparation-for-re-use", "preparation-for-recycling", "repurposing", "recycling" ] }, { "term": "dismantling", "slug": "dismantling", "canonical_slug": "dismantling", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/dismantling", "category": "Environmental", "short_description": "Dismantling matters because battery evidence systems need to distinguish pack-level or treatment-stage handling from the broader ideas of re-use, recycling", "editorial_definition": "Dismantling is the removal or taking apart of a battery pack, product, or waste-battery structure as part of treatment, repair, preparation for recycling, or other end-of-life handling.", "sources": [ "DIN DKE SPEC 99100" ], "related_terms": [ "disassembly", "preparation-for-recycling", "waste-battery", "waste-management", "waste-management-operator", "recycling", "battery-pack", "battery-passport" ] }, { "term": "distributor", "slug": "distributor", "canonical_slug": "distributor", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/distributor", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "A downstream market-actor term for a person in the supply chain who makes products or batteries available without being the manufacturer or importer, subject to the source rule.", "editorial_definition": "Distributor is a downstream market-actor term for a supply-chain actor, other than the manufacturer or importer, that makes a product or battery available on the market. It is not the same as producer, manufacturer, importer, hauler, or a generic logistics provider.", "sources": [ "ESPR", "EU Battery Regulation", "EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation", "UK Waste Batteries Regulations" ], "related_terms": [ "producer", "importer", "dealer", "economic-operator", "manufacturer", "packaging", "packaging-waste", "recyclability" ] }, { "term": "dynamic data", "slug": "dynamic-data", "canonical_slug": "dynamic-data", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/dynamic-data", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "Battery or product data that changes over time, such as condition, usage, service, telemetry, or lifecycle-status information.", "editorial_definition": "Dynamic data is the changing data layer in a battery or product passport: values that may update as the product is used, serviced, repaired, transferred, repurposed, or recycled. It is distinct from stable master data and needs governance around timing, source, and access.", "sources": [ "EU Battery Regulation", "Open Data Directive" ], "related_terms": [ "battery-passport", "traceability", "digital-product-passport", "static-data", "data-carrier", "unique-identifier", "battery-item", "battery-batch", "battery-status" ] }, { "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": "hazardous substance", "slug": "hazardous-substance", "canonical_slug": "hazardous-substance", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/hazardous-substance", "category": "Environmental", "short_description": "EU Battery Regulation term for a substance classified as hazardous under Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008.", "editorial_definition": "Hazardous substance is the EU Battery Regulation term for a substance classified as hazardous under Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008, the EU CLP classification framework. It is not a battery-specific chemistry list.", "sources": [ "EU Battery Regulation", "EU End-of-Life Vehicles Directive", "Türkiye End-of-Life Vehicles Regulation", "UK End-of-Life Vehicles Regulations" ], "related_terms": [ "hazardous-waste", "battery-materials", "battery-chemistry", "waste-battery", "end-of-life-vehicle", "treatment", "recycling", "temporary-storage-area", "treatment-facility" ] }, { "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": "independent operator", "slug": "independent-operator", "canonical_slug": "independent-operator", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/independent-operator", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "An actor independent of the manufacturer that may participate in repair, maintenance, service, or information-access workflows.", "editorial_definition": "Independent operator is a regulatory actor term for a natural or legal person independent of the manufacturer and involved in specified product-related activities. In DPP and ESPR contexts, it is useful for repair, maintenance or service ecosystem access, but it does not make every downstream actor responsible for the passport.", "sources": [ "ESPR", "EU Battery Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "manufacturer", "repair", "maintenance", "professional-repairer", "information-requirement", "economic-operator", "digital-product-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. 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": "light means of transport battery / LMT battery", "slug": "light-means-of-transport-battery-lmt-battery", "canonical_slug": "light-means-of-transport-battery-lmt-battery", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/light-means-of-transport-battery-lmt-battery", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "A sealed EU Battery Regulation battery category for light means of transport, weighing 25 kg or less and designed to provide electric power for wheeled vehicles powered by an electric motor or motor/battery combination.", "editorial_definition": "Light means of transport battery / LMT battery is the EU Battery Regulation category for sealed batteries that power wheeled vehicles that can be powered by an electric motor or by motor and human power together. It is a mobility-category boundary, not a generic small-battery label.", "sources": [ "EU Battery Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "battery-passport", "battery-status", "state-of-health" ] }, { "term": "making available on the market", "slug": "making-available-on-the-market", "canonical_slug": "making-available-on-the-market", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/making-available-on-the-market", "category": "Market access", "short_description": "An official EU product-law trigger for supplying a product on the Union market, used to identify which actor is carrying market-facing obligations.", "editorial_definition": "Making available on the market is officially defined in several EU regulations, including the CRMA Article 2, point 59, as any supply of a product for distribution, consumption or use on the Union market in the course of a commercial activity, whether paid or free of charge. Its practical importance is responsibility: the actor making the product available may be the one whose role triggers specific regulatory obligations.", "sources": [ "ESPR", "EU Battery Regulation", "EU Critical Raw Materials Act", "EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation", "EUDR" ], "related_terms": [ "placing-on-the-market", "producer", "distributor", "conformity-assessment", "economic-operator", "manufacturer", "importer", "putting-into-service", "authorised-representative", "packaging", "packaging-waste", "recyclability" ] }, { "term": "manufacturer", "slug": "manufacturer", "canonical_slug": "manufacturer", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/manufacturer", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "The actor that manufactures a product, or has it designed or manufactured, and markets it under their name or trademark under the relevant source rule.", "editorial_definition": "Manufacturer is the accountable product actor that manufactures a product, has it designed or manufactured, and markets that product under their name or trademark. The role can sit with a brand owner or commissioning entity even when another factory physically produces the item.", "sources": [ "ESPR", "EU Battery Regulation", "EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation", "India Battery Waste Management Rules" ], "related_terms": [ "economic-operator", "importer", "distributor", "placing-on-the-market", "product", "digital-product-passport", "unique-operator-identifier", "conformity-assessment", "putting-into-service", "authorised-representative", "ce-marking", "conformity-assessment-body", "packaging", "packaging-waste", "recyclability" ] }, { "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" ] }, { "term": "post-consumer waste", "slug": "post-consumer-waste", "canonical_slug": "post-consumer-waste", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/post-consumer-waste", "category": "Environmental", "short_description": "Post-consumer waste matters for battery and product-passport systems because end-of-life evidence depends on whether material comes from use-stage returns,", "editorial_definition": "Post-consumer waste is material or a product that has reached the waste stage after use by a final user, customer, or downstream actor, rather than waste generated during manufacturing.", "sources": [ "DIN DKE SPEC 99100" ], "related_terms": [ "waste-battery", "battery-manufacturing-waste", "waste", "waste-management", "recycling", "battery-passport", "traceability", "recycled-content" ] }, { "term": "primary battery", "slug": "primary-battery", "canonical_slug": "primary-battery", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/primary-battery", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "An Ontario Batteries Regulation term for a battery that can be used only once.", "editorial_definition": "Primary battery is a source-specific Ontario battery EPR term from O. Reg. 30/20 for a battery that can be used only once. It helps allocate collection, management, reporting, and recovery responsibilities for small batteries in the Ontario source family.", "sources": [ "Ontario Batteries Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "rechargeable-battery", "battery", "management-requirement", "battery-collection-site" ] }, { "term": "putting into service", "slug": "putting-into-service", "canonical_slug": "putting-into-service", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/putting-into-service", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "A market-access timing term for the first use of a product or battery for its intended purpose in the Union.", "editorial_definition": "Putting into service is the first use of a product or battery for its intended purpose in the Union under the relevant source rule. It is a market-access timing trigger tied to operational deployment, not the same event as placing on the market or making a product available for supply.", "sources": [ "ESPR", "EU Battery Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "placing-on-the-market", "making-available-on-the-market", "product", "conformity-assessment", "manufacturer", "ce-marking" ] }, { "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": "rated capacity", "slug": "rated-capacity", "canonical_slug": "rated-capacity", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/rated-capacity", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "Declared battery capacity in ampere-hours under reference conditions.", "editorial_definition": "Rated capacity is the declared ampere-hour capacity that can be withdrawn from a fully charged battery under reference conditions. It is a declared technical attribute, not a live state-of-charge or degradation measurement.", "sources": [ "DIN DKE SPEC 99100", "EU Battery Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "battery-passport", "battery-item", "state-of-charge", "state-of-health", "battery-cell", "battery-module" ] }, { "term": "raw material", "slug": "raw-material", "canonical_slug": "raw-material", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/raw-material", "category": "Materials & sourcing", "short_description": "The base material-identity layer in CRMA and product-passport records, before critical, strategic, recycled, or battery-specific classifications are applied.", "editorial_definition": "Raw material is the underlying material input before policy categories such as critical raw material or strategic raw material are attached. It identifies the substance or material role; it does not by itself prove supply risk, strategic importance, recycled content, or due-diligence status. In the CRMA source context, it is an input for the manufacturing of intermediate or final products, excluding substances predominantly used as food, feed or combustion fuel.", "sources": [ "EU Critical Raw Materials Act" ], "related_terms": [ "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": "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": "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": "state of charge", "slug": "state-of-charge", "canonical_slug": "state-of-charge", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/state-of-charge", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "A battery operational-status value expressing currently available energy as a share of rated capacity.", "editorial_definition": "State of charge is the current usable energy level of a battery expressed relative to rated capacity. It is an operational snapshot, not a measure of long-term battery health. It is not the same as state of health.", "sources": [ "EU Battery Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "battery", "battery-management-system", "state-of-health", "battery-status", "dynamic-data" ] }, { "term": "state of health", "slug": "state-of-health", "canonical_slug": "state-of-health", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/state-of-health", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "A battery-condition metric describing current capability relative to its original or rated condition, usually used for lifecycle, warranty, and second-life decisions.", "editorial_definition": "State of health is a battery condition measure that compares current performance capability with a defined baseline. It is not the same as current charge level and should always be interpreted with its measurement method and context. It is not the same as state of charge.", "sources": [ "EU Battery Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "battery", "battery-management-system", "state-of-charge", "battery-status", "repurposing", "remanufacturing" ] }, { "term": "static data", "slug": "static-data", "canonical_slug": "static-data", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/static-data", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "Stable product or battery master data that is expected to remain consistent unless a governed correction, design change, or version update occurs.", "editorial_definition": "Static data is the relatively stable master-data layer for a product or battery, such as identifiers, model information, manufacturer details, category, and declared specifications. It is stable, but not maintenance-free.", "sources": [ "Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/670", "DIN DKE SPEC 99100" ], "related_terms": [ "dynamic-data", "battery-passport", "digital-product-passport", "battery-model", "battery-item", "data-carrier", "unique-product-identifier", "unique-identifier", "battery-batch", "battery-status", "traceability" ] }, { "term": "strategic raw material", "slug": "strategic-raw-material", "canonical_slug": "strategic-raw-material", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/strategic-raw-material", "category": "Materials & sourcing", "short_description": "A CRMA material category for raw materials with high strategic importance to EU green, digital, defence, and aerospace technologies.", "editorial_definition": "Strategic raw material is the CRMA category for raw materials that the EU treats as strategically important for selected technologies and industrial resilience. It overlaps with critical raw material status, but it is not the same category and should be recorded as a separate classification layer.", "sources": [ "EU Critical Raw Materials Act" ], "related_terms": [ "us-critical-mineral", "canada-qualifying-material" ] }, { "term": "strategic technologies", "slug": "strategic-technologies", "canonical_slug": "strategic-technologies", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/strategic-technologies", "category": "Materials & sourcing", "short_description": "The CRMA technology context for key technologies instrumental to green and digital transitions, defence, and aerospace applications.", "editorial_definition": "Under the EU Critical Raw Materials Act, strategic technologies are the key technologies instrumental for the green and digital transitions as well as for defence and aerospace applications.", "sources": [ "EU Critical Raw Materials Act" ], "related_terms": [ "strategic-raw-material", "battery", "electric-vehicle-battery", "critical-raw-material", "battery-materials", "supply-risk", "permanent-magnet", "wind-energy-generator", "industrial-robot", "heat-pump", "electric-motor", "magnet-coating", "removal" ] }, { "term": "waste battery", "slug": "waste-battery", "canonical_slug": "waste-battery", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/waste-battery", "category": "Environmental", "short_description": "A battery that has become waste under the relevant source framework, triggering collection, treatment, recycling, and producer-responsibility evidence workflows.", "editorial_definition": "Waste battery is the lifecycle-status category for a battery that has moved out of ordinary product use and into waste management. 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" ] } ] }