All public glossary terms

EU Battery Regulation term for the material that chemically reacts to produce or store electric energy in a battery cell.

Technical · EU Battery Regulation

Emissions calculated from primary data for the production processes and electricity use associated with covered goods.

CBAM emissions accounting · CBAM

A CSDDD environmental-impact trigger tied to the specific prohibitions and obligations listed in the Directive’s Annex.

Environmental · CSDDD

A CSDDD human-rights impact trigger tied to rights and prohibitions listed in the Directive’s Annex and referenced international instruments.

Human Rights · CSDDD

CSDDD’s umbrella trigger for adverse environmental impacts and adverse human rights impacts that due-diligence systems must identify and address.

Due Diligence · CSDDD

A CRMA demand metric for strategic raw materials consumed in processed form by Union-established undertakings.

Materials & sourcing · EU Critical Raw Materials Act

CSDDD’s proportionality standard for measures capable of addressing an adverse impact and calibrated to severity, likelihood, and circumstances.

Due Diligence · CSDDD

A UK Waste Batteries Regulations term for an exporter approved under regulation 59.

Administrative · UK Waste Batteries Regulations

A UK Waste Batteries Regulations term for a battery treatment operator approved under regulation 59.

Administrative · UK Waste Batteries Regulations

The CBAM actor authorised by a competent authority to carry the declaration and certificate-surrender obligation for covered imports.

CBAM actors & obligations · CBAM

An EU-established person or entity with a written mandate to act on behalf of another economic actor for specified regulatory tasks.

Administrative · CSDDD, ESPR, EU Battery Regulation, EUDR

A UK and India battery category for batteries used for automotive starter, lighting or ignition power.

Technical · India Battery Waste Management Rules, UK Waste Batteries Regulations

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.

Administrative · UK Waste Batteries Regulations

A source-specific umbrella term for electrochemical energy-storage devices, with separate EU, UK, India, Brazil, and Ontario source layers.

Technical · 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

A production or logistics grouping used as a shared evidence layer for related item-level battery passports.

Technical · DIN DKE SPEC 99100

The electrochemical unit inside a battery, with separate EU product-architecture and U.S. 45X manufacturing-credit meanings.

Technical · EU Battery Regulation, US 45X Advanced Manufacturing Production Credit

The broad electrochemical composition category of a battery used in passport and product-data contexts.

Technical · DIN DKE SPEC 99100

An Ontario Batteries Regulation term for a site where used consumer batteries are collected for resource recovery.

Administrative · Ontario Batteries Regulation

A UK Waste Batteries Regulations term for an approved battery compliance scheme that can organise producer-responsibility duties for waste batteries.

Administrative · UK Waste Batteries Regulations

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.

Environmental · EU Battery Regulation

An Ontario Batteries Regulation term for a person arranging transport of used consumer batteries destined for processing, reuse, refurbishing, or disposal.

Administrative · Ontario Batteries Regulation

An individual physical battery unit used as the item-level identity anchor for a serialized battery passport.

Technical · DIN DKE SPEC 99100

The EU Battery Regulation term for the electronic system controlling or managing battery safety, performance, service life, data storage, and communication.

Technical · EU Battery Regulation

India Battery Waste Management Rules term for the materials contained in a battery, including metals such as nickel, cobalt, lead, and lithium plus other materials.

Technical · India Battery Waste Management Rules

The EU Battery Regulation grouping term for batteries sharing compliance-relevant technical characteristics and the same model identifier.

Technical · EU Battery Regulation

An intermediate battery assembly between cells and packs, with separate EU product-architecture and U.S. 45X manufacturing-credit meanings.

Technical · EU Battery Regulation, US 45X Advanced Manufacturing Production Credit

A battery assembly term for cells or modules connected or enclosed as a complete unit that the end-user is not meant to split up or open.

Technical · EU Battery Regulation, India Battery Waste Management Rules, UK Batteries Placing on Market Regulations, UK Waste Batteries Regulations

A structured electronic record that links an individual battery to required identity, model, sustainability, compliance, performance, and lifecycle information.

Administrative · EU Battery Regulation, Global Battery Alliance

The service or platform layer that operates battery-passport workflows, including hosting, processing, access management, and delivery infrastructure.

Administrative · ESPR, EU Battery Regulation, Open Battery Passport

An Ontario Batteries Regulation term for a person who processes used consumer batteries for resource recovery.

Administrative · Ontario Batteries Regulation

A UK Waste Batteries Regulations identifier allocated to a producer under regulation 28 or regulation 45.

Administrative · UK Waste Batteries Regulations

An Ontario Batteries Regulation term for a person who prepares or refurbishes used consumer batteries for reuse.

Administrative · Ontario Batteries Regulation

A controlled lifecycle-state field showing where an individual battery item sits in use, second life, repair, waste, or recycling workflows.

Administrative · DIN DKE SPEC 99100

A CRMA governance term for the administrative or supervisory body responsible for supervising executive management, or equivalent functions.

Corporate governance · EU Critical Raw Materials Act

An NSW regulated-battery actor term that can include the person responsible for bringing a regulated battery into the State for supply.

Administrative · NSW PLR Regulation

A CSDDD relationship-scope term covering direct and indirect entities connected to a company’s operations, products, or services.

Due Diligence · CSDDD

The CSDDD linkage between a company and a business partner that helps determine where due-diligence obligations can attach.

Due Diligence · CSDDD

Cross-source ESPR and EU Battery Regulation term for product-system greenhouse-gas emissions and removals expressed as CO2 equivalents.

Environmental · ESPR, EU Battery Regulation

A product-level climate metric that combines greenhouse-gas emissions and removals for a product system in CO2-equivalent terms.

Environmental · ISO 14067:2018

A regulatory term referring to the monetary amount paid in a third country, under a carbon emissions reduction scheme, in the form of a tax.

CBAM certificates & pricing · CBAM

A regulatory term referring to a certificate in electronic format corresponding to one tonne of CO2e of embedded emissions in goods.

CBAM certificates & pricing · CBAM

The EU marking by which the manufacturer indicates conformity with applicable requirements in relevant Union harmonisation legislation.

Administrative · ESPR, EU Battery Regulation

CSDDD’s legally bounded scope for upstream and selected downstream activities covered by corporate due diligence.

Due Diligence · CSDDD

The ESPR ranking tool that groups products into ordered performance bands using the same methodology.

Performance & Design · ESPR

A product intended to be incorporated into another product under ESPR.

Technical · ESPR

A process term for demonstrating whether specified CRMA, ESPR, or battery-product requirements have been fulfilled.

Conformity and evidence · ESPR, EU Battery Regulation, EU Critical Raw Materials Act

A body that performs conformity-assessment activities such as calibration, testing, certification, or inspection.

Administrative · ESPR, EU Battery Regulation

A product, excluding components and intermediate products, primarily intended for consumers under ESPR.

Technical · ESPR

A CRMA list-based category for raw materials considered critical because of economic importance and supply-risk criteria.

Materials & sourcing · EU Critical Raw Materials Act

A CRMA project-scope term for planned or significantly extended facilities active in extraction, processing or recycling of critical raw materials.

Project governance · EU Critical Raw Materials Act

A CRMA classification term for differentiating a critical raw material by processing stage, composition, origin or production method.

Materials & sourcing · EU Critical Raw Materials Act

The ESPR downstream-use actor that purchases, hires, or receives a product for their own use.

Actors & Responsibilities · ESPR

A machine-readable access point, such as a QR code, barcode, RFID tag, or other AIDC medium, used to retrieve product or passport information.

Technical · ESPR, EU Critical Raw Materials Act

A multi-source commercial actor term whose exact role depends on whether the source concerns ESPR product offers, waste transactions, or US clean-vehicle credit workflows.

Administrative · ESPR, EU Waste Framework Directive, US IRA §30D

A CBAM fallback value calculated or drawn from secondary data to represent embedded emissions when actual data is missing or unusable.

CBAM emissions accounting · CBAM

The ESPR term for intentionally damaging or discarding a product as waste, except delivery for preparation for reuse, refurbishment, or remanufacturing.

Circularity & End-of-Life · ESPR

A structured electronic data set that links a product, product model, batch, or item to required compliance, sustainability, and circularity information under the applicable ESPR delegated act.

Administrative · ESPR

An independent third-party authorised by the economic operator to process DPP data and make it available to entitled actors under ESPR.

Administrative · ESPR

CBAM emissions from the production processes of goods, including consumed heating and cooling tied to those processes.

CBAM emissions accounting · CBAM

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

Environmental · DIN DKE SPEC 99100

Dismantling matters because battery evidence systems need to distinguish pack-level or treatment-stage handling from the broader ideas of re-use, recycling

Environmental · DIN DKE SPEC 99100

An ESPR sales-channel term for offering products for sale, hire, or hire purchase online or through other remote sales channels where the customer cannot physically access the product.

Administrative · ESPR

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.

Administrative · ESPR, EU Battery Regulation, UK Waste Batteries Regulations

The ability of a product to maintain its function and performance over time under normal conditions of use.

Performance & Design · ESPR, Green Claims / Empowering Consumers Directive

Digital passport information that changes over time as a product or battery is used, updated, repaired, transferred, or moved through its lifecycle.

Technical · EU Battery Regulation, Open Data Directive

The ESPR concept for integrating environmental sustainability considerations into product characteristics and value-chain processes.

Environmental · ESPR

An ESPR requirement, either a performance requirement or an information requirement, aimed at improving product environmental sustainability.

Environmental · ESPR

An ESPR and EU Battery Regulation umbrella actor category covering market roles such as manufacturer, importer, distributor, dealer, and fulfilment service provider.

Administrative · ESPR, EU Battery Regulation

A CRMA equipment term for a device converting electrical input power into rotational mechanical output power with rated output of at least 0,12 kW.

Operational · EU Critical Raw Materials Act

A traction-battery category for batteries designed to power hybrid or electric vehicles, with source-specific EU and India definitions.

Technical · EU Battery Regulation, India Battery Waste Management Rules

U.S. 45X battery-manufacturing term covering cathode materials, anode materials, anode foils, and other electrochemically active inputs.

Technical · US 45X Advanced Manufacturing Production Credit

The CBAM quantity combining direct production-process emissions and relevant electricity-related indirect emissions for covered goods.

CBAM emissions accounting · CBAM

The release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere from the production of goods in the CBAM production context.

Environmental · CBAM

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.

Circularity & End-of-Life · ESPR

An ESPR scope term for a product that has an impact on energy consumption during use.

Technical · ESPR

A product-level measure of environmental impacts across the life cycle, broader than carbon footprint alone.

Environmental · ESPR

Any beneficial or adverse change to the environment resulting wholly or partly from a product during its life cycle.

Environmental Performance · ESPR

A Brazil battery-waste term for destinations that minimize environmental risks through collection, receipt, reuse, recycling, treatment, or final disposal procedures.

Circularity · Brazil CONAMA Resolution 401/2008

An India battery-waste rule term for managing waste batteries in a way that protects human health and the environment.

Environmental · India Battery Waste Management Rules

The Union greenhouse gas emissions trading system that provides the carbon-market reference context for CBAM.

Administrative · CBAM

The EU ETS allowance reference used by CBAM when pricing certificates against carbon-market values.

Administrative · CBAM

A CRMA activity term for identifying and establishing the properties of mineral occurrences before extraction decisions are made.

Materials & sourcing · EU Critical Raw Materials Act

An India battery-waste rule term for a producer’s responsibility for environmentally sound management of waste batteries.

Administrative · India Battery Waste Management Rules

A CRMA value-chain activity covering removal of ores, minerals and plant products from their original source, including by-products, brine and tree-based sources.

Materials & sourcing · EU Critical Raw Materials Act

A CRMA incorporated-reference term for extractive waste under Directive 2006/21/EC, relevant to critical-raw-material recovery from mining waste streams.

Operational · EU Critical Raw Materials Act

A CRMA incorporated-reference facility term for a waste facility under Directive 2006/21/EC in the extractive-waste context.

Operational · EU Critical Raw Materials Act

A CRMA exploration term for national- or regional-level exploration, excluding targeted exploration.

Materials & sourcing · EU Critical Raw Materials Act

A gas that contributes to climate change by absorbing and emitting infrared radiation, used in product carbon-footprint calculations.

Environmental · ISO 14067:2018

The CBAM-relevant greenhouse gases specified in Annex I for each covered goods category.

Environmental · CBAM

A recognized EU standard referenced through Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012 that can support conformity evidence under the relevant framework.

Administrative · EU Battery Regulation

EU Battery Regulation term for a substance classified as hazardous under Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008.

Environmental · EU Battery Regulation

A source-dependent waste term with India Battery Waste Management Rules and EU Waste Framework Directive layers.

Environmental · EU Waste Framework Directive, India Battery Waste Management Rules

A CRMA end-use equipment term for the part of a heating system that generates a temperature difference using an electric vapour compression cycle.

Operational · EU Critical Raw Materials Act

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.

Administrative · Brazil CONAMA Resolution 401/2008, CBAM, ESPR, EU Battery Regulation

An actor independent of the manufacturer that may participate in repair, maintenance, service, or information-access workflows.

Administrative · ESPR, EU Battery Regulation

A CSDDD assurance concept for external checks of a company’s compliance or parts of its chain of activities.

Due Diligence · CSDDD

CBAM emissions from electricity production where that electricity is consumed during the production processes of covered goods.

CBAM emissions accounting · CBAM

A source-specific battery category for industrial-use batteries and certain non-portable or heavier batteries in EU, UK, and India source texts.

Technical · EU Battery Regulation, India Battery Waste Management Rules, UK Waste Batteries Regulations

A CRMA end-use equipment term for an automatically controlled, reprogrammable manipulator used in industrial automation.

Operational · EU Critical Raw Materials Act

An ESPR obligation for a product to be accompanied by specified information.

Administrative · ESPR

The CBAM facility anchor: a stationary technical unit where a production process is carried out.

Technical · CBAM

A product that still requires further manufacturing or transformation before it is suitable for end-users.

Technical · ESPR

A CRMA supply-chain risk term for undertakings whose reliable functioning is important for critical raw material supply.

Risk & due diligence · EU Critical Raw Materials Act

A CRMA threshold term for companies with more than 500 employees on average and over EUR 150 million in net worldwide turnover.

Corporate scope · EU Critical Raw Materials Act

An Australian federal product-stewardship actor concept for a person specified as liable in relation to a product under the rules.

Administrative · Australia Recycling and Waste Reduction Act

The product stages from raw-material acquisition through production, use phase, and end-of-life treatment.

Environmental · ESPR, ISO 14067:2018

A CRMA component-detail term for the protective layer generally used to protect magnets from corrosion.

Operational · EU Critical Raw Materials Act

An ESPR lifecycle term for actions that keep a product in a condition where it can fulfil its intended purpose.

Technical · ESPR

An official EU product-law trigger for supplying a product on the Union market, used to identify which actor is carrying market-facing obligations.

Market access · ESPR, EU Battery Regulation, EU Critical Raw Materials Act, EUDR

An Ontario Batteries Regulation term for the minimum amount of batteries a producer is required to manage under section 13.

Administrative · Ontario Batteries Regulation

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.

Administrative · ESPR, EU Battery Regulation, India Battery Waste Management Rules

ESPR term for the total amount of raw materials extracted to meet final consumption demands.

Environmental · ESPR

A CRMA geology term for minerals occurring in a mass or deposit of potential economic interest.

Materials & sourcing · EU Critical Raw Materials Act

A CRMA resilience term for policies developed by an economic operator to reduce supply-disruption likelihood or damage to its activity.

Risk & due diligence · EU Critical Raw Materials Act

A CRMA governance term for a formal, meaningful and substantive stakeholder role in certification-scheme decision-making.

Governance · EU Critical Raw Materials Act

A CRMA planning term for a national or compiled set of programmes covering the entire territory and adopted by relevant authorities.

Administrative · EU Critical Raw Materials Act

An EU Battery Regulation category for a battery that is not designed to be electrically recharged.

Technical · EU Battery Regulation

A formally notified conformity assessment body with a specific role under the applicable EU framework.

Administrative · ESPR, EU Battery Regulation

A CRMA contract term for a commitment to buy raw materials from, or financially support production by, a raw material project.

Commercial · EU Critical Raw Materials Act

A CRMA commercial-actor term for an undertaking that has entered into an offtake agreement with a project promoter.

Commercial · EU Critical Raw Materials Act

A Minespider-defined battery-passport approach centered on interoperability, deployment flexibility, and reduced lock-in, not a formal EU legal term.

Administrative · Minespider decision memo, Open Battery Passport

A quantitative or non-quantitative ESPR requirement for a product to achieve a specified performance level.

Technical · ESPR

A CRMA component term for a magnet that retains magnetism after it is removed from an external magnetic field.

Operational · EU Critical Raw Materials Act

A CRMA process term covering the permits, assessments and authorisations needed to build and operate a critical raw material project.

Administrative · EU Critical Raw Materials Act

EU Battery Regulation term for an establishment or undertaking permitted under Directive 2008/98/EC to treat waste batteries.

Administrative · EU Battery Regulation

A market-entry timing term for the first making available of a product, battery, commodity or relevant product in a regulated market.

Market access · ESPR, EU Battery Regulation, EU Critical Raw Materials Act, EUDR, UK Batteries Placing on Market Regulations

A source-specific category term for sealed, hand-carried or low-weight batteries, with different boundaries in EU, UK, India, and Brazil source texts.

Technical · Brazil CONAMA Resolution 401/2008, EU Battery Regulation, India Battery Waste Management Rules, UK Waste Batteries Regulations

An EU Battery Regulation subset of portable batteries designed to be interoperable in common formats such as button cells, AA, AAA, C, D, and 9 Volt batteries.

Technical · EU Battery Regulation

Post-consumer waste matters for battery and product-passport systems because end-of-life evidence depends on whether material comes from use-stage returns,

Environmental · DIN DKE SPEC 99100

A CRMA mapping term for a map indicating areas likely to contain mineral occurrences of a given raw material.

Materials & sourcing · EU Critical Raw Materials Act

A CRMA early-stage assessment term for the potential economic viability of recovering critical raw materials from extractive waste.

Operational · EU Critical Raw Materials Act

Avoidable early product failure or loss of performance caused by a design feature, action, or omission rather than normal wear and tear.

Performance & Design · ESPR

An EU Battery Regulation term that imports the Waste Framework Directive idea of checking, cleaning, or repairing waste products for re-use without other pre-processing.

Environmental · EU Battery Regulation

An EU Battery Regulation pre-processing term for treating waste batteries before recycling, including storage, handling, pack dismantling, and separation of non-battery fractions.

Environmental · EU Battery Regulation

An EU Battery Regulation transition term for operations that prepare a waste battery, or parts of it, for a different purpose or application.

Environmental · EU Battery Regulation

An Ontario Batteries Regulation term for a battery that can be used only once.

Technical · Ontario Batteries Regulation

A CRMA value-chain activity covering transformation of raw materials into pure metals, alloys or other economically usable forms.

Materials & sourcing · EU Critical Raw Materials Act

A source-specific actor term for the entity a regulation treats as responsible for placing, supplying, selling, or managing batteries or products.

Administrative · EU Battery Regulation, Green Claims / Empowering Consumers Directive, India Battery Waste Management Rules, Ontario Batteries Regulation, UK Waste Batteries Regulations

An EU Battery Regulation actor that organizes extended producer responsibility obligations on behalf of several producers.

Administrative · EU Battery Regulation

An Ontario Batteries Regulation term for a person retained by a producer to carry out specified battery producer responsibilities.

Administrative · Ontario Batteries Regulation

The physical goods that ESPR treats as the basic object of ecodesign, information, passport, and market obligations.

Technical · Australia Recycling and Waste Reduction Act, ESPR, ISO 14067:2018

A set of products that are similar in purpose, use, functional properties, and consumer perception under ESPR.

Technical · ESPR

An ESPR market-surveillance term for a product whose non-compliance with an ecodesign requirement could harm the environment or another protected public interest.

Administrative · ESPR

An ESPR escalation term for a product presenting a risk where non-compliance or harm requires rapid market-surveillance intervention.

Administrative · ESPR

Federal Australian criteria for deciding when product stewardship may apply under the Recycling and Waste Reduction Act 2020.

Administrative · Australia Recycling and Waste Reduction Act

An NSW product-stewardship actor used as the administration layer for regulated-battery stewardship arrangements.

Administrative · NSW PLR Regulation

The chemical and physical processes carried out to produce goods in an installation under CBAM.

Technical · CBAM

A person or business that provides professional repair or maintenance services for a product.

Administrative · ESPR

A CRMA actor term for an undertaking or consortium developing a raw material project.

Project governance · EU Critical Raw Materials Act

An ESPR intermediary-service actor whose online interface lets customers conclude distance contracts for covered products with economic operators.

Administrative · ESPR

A market-access timing term for the first use of a product or battery for its intended purpose in the Union.

Administrative · ESPR, EU Battery Regulation

A machine-readable matrix code that links a physical battery or product to required digital information.

Technical · DIN DKE SPEC 99100, EU Battery Regulation

Declared battery capacity in ampere-hours under reference conditions.

Technical · DIN DKE SPEC 99100, EU Battery Regulation

A CRMA material-identity term for substances used as inputs to intermediate or final products, excluding substances mainly used as food, feed, or combustion fuel.

Materials & sourcing · EU Critical Raw Materials Act

A CRMA boundary term for raw-materials value-chain activities up to the point where a raw material becomes an input for manufacturing intermediate or final products.

Materials & sourcing · EU Critical Raw Materials Act

The CRMA chain of exploration, extraction, processing, and recycling activities and processes for raw materials.

Materials & sourcing · EU Critical Raw Materials Act

A circularity term for keeping a product, component, battery, or material in use rather than sending it straight to recycling or disposal.

Environmental · Brazil National Solid Waste Policy, DIN DKE SPEC 99100, EU Critical Raw Materials Act, EU Waste Framework Directive

A source-specific battery category for batteries designed or able to be recharged and used more than once.

Technical · EU Battery Regulation, Ontario Batteries Regulation

Working definition for recycled-material share in batteries, products, and permanent magnets, anchored in EU Battery Regulation, Ontario battery, and CRMA source context.

Environmental · EU Battery Regulation, EU Critical Raw Materials Act, Ontario Batteries Regulation

A downstream actor term for entities that carry out recycling, with EU, India, and Brazil source layers kept separate.

Administrative · Brazil CONAMA Resolution 401/2008, EU Battery Regulation, EU Critical Raw Materials Act, India Battery Waste Management Rules

A material-recovery term for reprocessing waste materials into products, materials, or substances, kept separate from re-use and other end-of-life steps.

Environmental · Brazil National Solid Waste Policy, DIN DKE SPEC 99100, EU Critical Raw Materials Act, EU Waste Framework Directive

An EU Battery Regulation performance metric comparing counted recycling output fractions with the input fraction of waste batteries.

Environmental · EU Battery Regulation

India Battery Waste Management Rules actor term for an entity engaged in refurbishment.

Administrative · India Battery Waste Management Rules

Actions that restore a product or discarded product to its originally intended range of performance and functionality.

Circularity & End-of-Life · ESPR, India Battery Waste Management Rules

A New South Wales battery-stewardship scope term for batteries covered by the NSW regulated-battery scheme.

Technical · NSW PLR Regulation

The probability that a product functions as required for a given duration under given conditions without a function-ending event.

Performance & Design · ESPR

A lifecycle-transition term for making a renewed product or battery from used, waste, or recovered objects under source-specific rules.

Environmental · ESPR, EU Battery Regulation

A CRMA handling term for making targeted components or materials identifiable as a separate output stream or part of one.

Operational · EU Critical Raw Materials Act

An ESPR lifecycle term for actions that return a defective product or waste to a condition where it fulfils its intended purpose.

Technical · ESPR

An EU Battery Regulation second-life outcome term for a non-waste battery, or parts of it, being used for a different purpose or application.

Environmental · EU Battery Regulation

A CRMA term for mineral occurrences that are economically viable to extract in a particular market context.

Materials & sourcing · EU Critical Raw Materials Act

An NSW regulated-battery switching concept that routes responsibility to a PSO when an agreement exists, or to brand owners when it does not.

Administrative · NSW PLR Regulation

A Brazil National Solid Waste Policy term for returning solid waste to the business sector for reuse, production cycles, or environmentally appropriate final destination.

Circularity · Brazil National Solid Waste Policy

An ESPR voluntary agreement or code of conduct that economic operators conclude on their own initiative and are responsible for enforcing.

Governance & Compliance · ESPR

A Brazil National Solid Waste Policy term for discarded materials, objects, goods, contained gases, and certain liquids that require final destination handling.

Waste · Brazil National Solid Waste Policy

An EU Battery Regulation measure of available energy in a battery, expressed as a percentage of rated capacity declared by the manufacturer.

Technical · EU Battery Regulation

An EU Battery Regulation measure of rechargeable-battery condition and ability to deliver specified performance compared with initial condition.

Technical · EU Battery Regulation

Relatively stable passport information set at manufacture, registration, model definition, or certification that normally changes rarely but still requires governance.

Technical · Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/670, DIN DKE SPEC 99100

A CRMA policy-instrument term for a non-binding cooperation commitment between the Union and a third country or overseas country or territory.

Policy instrument · EU Critical Raw Materials Act

A CRMA list-based category for raw materials considered strategically important for green, digital, defence, and aerospace technologies.

Materials & sourcing · EU Critical Raw Materials Act

A CRMA supply-resilience term for raw material stored by a public or private operator for release during a supply disruption.

Risk & due diligence · EU Critical Raw Materials Act

The CRMA technology context for key technologies instrumental to green and digital transitions, defence, and aerospace applications.

Materials & sourcing · EU Critical Raw Materials Act

An ESPR category for substances that are hazardous or can negatively affect reuse, recycling, and product circularity.

Materials & Chemicals · ESPR

A cross-source term for the activities and linkages involved in producing, moving, and supplying a product, with scope depending on the source.

Administrative · ESPR, ISO 14067:2018

A CRMA risk event term for an unexpected significant decrease in raw-material availability or significant price increase beyond normal market volatility.

Risk & due diligence · EU Critical Raw Materials Act

A CRMA assessment concept for raw-material supply risk calculated under Annex II, Section 2.

Risk & due diligence · EU Critical Raw Materials Act

The CBAM compliance-settlement action of offsetting certificates against declared embedded emissions.

Administrative · CBAM

A CRMA exploration term for the detailed investigation of an individual mineral occurrence.

Materials & sourcing · EU Critical Raw Materials Act

A document that prescribes technical requirements to be fulfilled by a product, process, or service under ESPR.

Technical · ESPR

The carbon-dioxide-equivalent unit used to express greenhouse-gas quantities under CBAM.

Environmental · CBAM

The ability to follow and substantiate products, materials, actors, processes, claims, or data points through defined supply-chain or value-chain stages.

Technical · General Food Law Regulation

A CRMA capacity metric for maximum annual production volumes of Union-based extractive operations involving strategic raw materials.

Materials & sourcing · EU Critical Raw Materials Act

EU legislation that harmonises the conditions for marketing products across the Union.

Administrative · EU Battery Regulation

A CRMA capacity metric for maximum annual production volumes of Union-based processing operations for strategic raw materials.

Materials & sourcing · EU Critical Raw Materials Act

A CRMA capacity metric for Union-based recycling operations that produce secondary raw materials from strategic raw-material waste streams.

Circularity · EU Critical Raw Materials Act

A unique ESPR identifier for locations or buildings involved in a product’s value chain.

Administrative · ESPR

A unique string of characters that identifies a battery and enables a web link to its battery passport.

Administrative · EU Battery Regulation

A unique ESPR identifier for an actor involved in a product’s value chain.

Administrative · ESPR

The ESPR product identity string that identifies a product and enables a web link to its digital product passport.

Administrative · ESPR, EU Critical Raw Materials Act

A consumer product that has not been sold and may trigger ESPR attention around inventory, disclosure, and destruction decisions.

Circularity & End-of-Life · ESPR

A post-sale improvement that can enhance the functionality, performance, capacity or aesthetics of a product.

Performance & Design · ESPR

A Brazil CONAMA Resolution 401/2008 term for environmentally appropriate procedures covering used-battery discard, collection, storage, handling, recycling, reuse, treatment, or final disposal.

Compliance · Brazil CONAMA Resolution 401/2008

The full set of activities and processes connected to a product, from raw material sourcing through end-of-life.

Supply Chain & Traceability · ESPR

A cross-jurisdiction waste-battery term for batteries that have moved from product use into waste, end-of-life, recovery, or disposal workflows.

Environmental · EU Battery Regulation, India Battery Waste Management Rules

An umbrella term for the organized collection, transport, treatment, recovery, recycling, disposal, and supervision of waste.

Environmental · Brazil National Solid Waste Policy, DIN DKE SPEC 99100, EU Waste Framework Directive

A federal Australian product-stewardship and waste-export term from the Recycling and Waste Reduction Act 2020.

Environmental · Australia Recycling and Waste Reduction Act

A CRMA end-use equipment term for the part of a wind turbine that converts rotor mechanical energy into electrical energy.

Operational · EU Critical Raw Materials Act