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

CBAM embedded-emissions data calculated from primary production-process evidence rather than default proxy values.

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

An EUDR land-use category for tree-based agricultural production systems, including commodity plantations, that is expressly excluded from forest.

Environmental · EUDR

Use of land for agriculture under EUDR, including agricultural plantations, set-aside agricultural areas, and livestock rearing.

Technical · EUDR

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-authorised actor responsible for lodging CBAM declarations and surrendering certificates, distinct from the customs declarant by default.

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 natural or legal person established in a Member State where a producer places batteries on the market, mandated in writing to fulfil that producer’s EPR obligations there.

Administrative · EU Battery Regulation

A licensed facility authorised to carry out end-of-life vehicle treatment operations.

Waste & Circularity · UK End-of-Life Vehicles Regulations

California Vehicle Code term for a person in the business of buying, selling, or dealing in registered vehicles for dismantling, parts, or used motor-vehicle parts.

Waste & Circularity · California Vehicle Code Dismantler and Salvage Definitions, NSW Motor Vehicle Recycler Guidance

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 whose exact compliance meaning depends on jurisdiction, category, lifecycle status, and use case.

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

A basic electrochemical unit of a battery, distinct from modules, packs, and finished battery systems.

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

The electrochemical composition family of a battery used in product, performance, safety, recycling, and passport-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

Materials or objects rejected during the battery manufacturing process that cannot be re-used as an integral part of the same process and need to be recycled.

Environmental · EU Battery Regulation

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

Technical · India Battery Waste Management Rules

A grouping term for batteries that share compliance-relevant technical characteristics and a model identifier.

Technical · EU Battery Regulation

An intermediate battery assembly made from cells and designed to sit inside a larger pack or battery system.

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

A complete battery assembly made from cells or modules, usually the practical unit installed, replaced, serviced, or traced in downstream workflows.

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

A battery-specific electronic record that connects an individual battery to required identity, compliance, sustainability, performance, and lifecycle evidence.

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

An EU Battery Regulation category for a battery whose energy is stored exclusively in one or more attached external devices.

Technical · EU Battery Regulation

PEF reference point for average environmental performance of the representative product sold in the EU market.

Environmental Footprint Methodology · EU Environmental Footprint Recommendation

An ISO 14067 carbon-source term for carbon derived from biomass.

Environmental · ISO 14067:2018

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

EU Conflict Minerals Regulation term for in-scope minerals or metals obtained from processing an outside-scope primary mineral or metal.

Conflict Minerals & Responsible Sourcing · EU Conflict Minerals Regulation

Canada Income Tax Act section 127.49 list term for materials eligible in the clean technology manufacturing investment tax credit context.

North America Critical Minerals · Canada Income Tax Act

Canada Income Tax Act section 127.49 activity-scope term for extraction, specified processing, recycling, synthetic graphite, spheronization, and coating activities.

North America Critical Minerals · Canada Income Tax Act

The ISO 14067 CO2-based comparison unit used to express different greenhouse gases on a common basis.

Environmental · ISO 14067:2018

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

The qualifying third-country carbon cost that may be recognised against CBAM exposure when linked to covered emissions from production.

CBAM certificates & pricing · CBAM

The electronic CBAM unit surrendered against embedded-emissions quantities; it is not a verification, product, or supplier certificate.

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

A UK ELV compliance certificate linked to producer compliance obligations under the End-of-Life Vehicles Regulations.

Administrative · UK End-of-Life Vehicles Regulations

An India vehicle-scrapping certificate that recognises transfer of vehicle ownership to a registered scrapper for further treatment.

Administrative · India Vehicle Scrapping Facility Rules

A UK ELV certificate term for the document referred to in Part V of the End-of-Life Vehicles Regulations.

Administrative · UK End-of-Life Vehicles Regulations

An India vehicle-scrapping certificate that recognises final disposal of a vehicle.

Administrative · India Vehicle Scrapping Facility Rules

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

Due Diligence · CSDDD

EU Conflict Minerals Regulation record of the sequence of economic operators with custody of minerals and metals through the supply chain.

Conflict Minerals & Responsible Sourcing · EU Conflict Minerals Regulation

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

Performance & Design · ESPR

The EU waste-law gathering step, including preliminary sorting and storage for transport to treatment.

Environmental · EU Critical Raw Materials Act, EU Waste Framework Directive

The Member State authority designated under CBAM Article 11 to administer specified CBAM functions.

Administrative · CBAM, EU Waste Shipment Regulation

Waste Shipment Regulation term for competent authority of destination in cross-border waste movement workflows.

Waste Shipment & Circularity · EU Waste Shipment Regulation

Waste Shipment Regulation term for competent authority of dispatch in cross-border waste movement workflows.

Waste Shipment & Circularity · EU Waste Shipment Regulation

Waste Shipment Regulation term for competent authority of transit in cross-border waste movement workflows.

Waste Shipment & Circularity · EU Waste Shipment Regulation

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

Technical · ESPR

PPWR source-specific term for compostable packaging.

Packaging & Circularity · EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation

A regulatory term referring to conflict-affected and high-risk areas as defined in Article 2, point (f), of Regulation (EU) 2017/821.

Administrative · EU Battery Regulation, EU Conflict Minerals Regulation

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

WSR recipient under the country of destination jurisdiction to whom waste is shipped for recovery or disposal.

Waste Shipment & Circularity · EU Waste Shipment Regulation

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

Technical · ESPR

An EUDR term pointing to the Union Customs Code country-or-territory concept used for origin, distinct from EUDR country of production.

Administrative · EUDR, Union Customs Code

The EUDR country or territory where the relevant commodity was produced.

Administrative · EUDR

A CRMA policy category for raw materials with high economic importance and supply risk under the EU assessment framework.

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

The Member State customs administrations and empowered authorities that apply customs legislation in import workflows.

Administrative · CBAM, Union Customs Code

The person formally tied to a customs declaration for release for free circulation in the CBAM import workflow.

Administrative · CBAM, Union Customs Code

The Union customs-space boundary used to decide where UCC customs rules and CBAM import logic apply.

Administrative · CBAM, Union Customs Code

A machine-readable access layer connecting a physical product to the digital record or passport information behind it.

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 emissions value used when actual, supplier-specific evidence is unavailable or unusable.

CBAM emissions accounting · CBAM

The EUDR land-use conversion concept: forest converted to agricultural use, whether human-induced or not.

Environmental · EUDR

The EUDR pass/fail condition that commodities or products must meet: no post-2020 deforestation, plus forest-degradation checks for wood products.

Environmental · EUDR

PPWR source-specific term for design for recycling.

Packaging & Circularity · EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation

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 regulated product-specific data set that connects a product, model, batch, or item to required compliance, sustainability, circularity, and lifecycle information.

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 released by the relevant production processes of covered goods, distinct from facility-wide or corporate emissions totals.

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

Information required for correct and environmentally sound treatment of end-of-life vehicles.

Technical · EU End-of-Life Vehicles Directive, Türkiye End-of-Life Vehicles Regulation, UK End-of-Life Vehicles Regulations

The non-recovery waste route, even where reclamation of substances or energy is a secondary consequence.

Environmental · EU End-of-Life Vehicles Directive, EU Waste Framework Directive, India Battery Waste Management Rules, Türkiye End-of-Life Vehicles Regulation

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, EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation, UK Waste Batteries Regulations

EU Conflict Minerals Regulation term for the metal supply chain after smelters and refiners through to the final product.

Conflict Minerals & Responsible Sourcing · EU Conflict Minerals Regulation

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

Battery or product data that changes over time, such as condition, usage, service, telemetry, or lifecycle-status information.

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, EU End-of-Life Vehicles Directive, Türkiye End-of-Life Vehicles Regulation

The customs registration identifier assigned after registration for customs purposes under the UCC framework used by CBAM.

Administrative · CBAM, Union Customs Code

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 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.

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 emissions quantity attached to covered goods, combining direct production-process emissions and relevant electricity-related indirect emissions under CBAM methods.

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

China source-specific ELV term for a motor vehicle that should be scrapped under the Road Traffic Safety Law.

Waste & Circularity · China ELV Recycling Measures

A vehicle that has become waste under end-of-life vehicle rules.

Waste & Circularity · China ELV Recycling Measures, EU End-of-Life Vehicles Directive, India Vehicle Scrapping Facility Rules, Ontario End-of-Life Vehicles Regulation, Türkiye End-of-Life Vehicles Regulation, UK End-of-Life Vehicles Regulations

China ELV proof document issued by a recycling enterprise to the motor-vehicle owner when an ELV is recovered.

Administrative · China ELV Recycling Measures

An Ontario ELV site category for waste disposal sites that manage end-of-life vehicles and permitted removed materials.

Waste & Circularity · Ontario End-of-Life Vehicles Regulation

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

EU Environmental Footprint Recommendation method term for environmental footprint (ef) impact assessment.

Environmental Footprint Methodology · EU Environmental Footprint Recommendation

EU Environmental Footprint Recommendation method term for environmental footprint (ef) impact category.

Environmental Footprint Methodology · EU Environmental Footprint Recommendation

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 · EU Waste Shipment Regulation, India Battery Waste Management Rules

The CBAM actor-eligibility condition based on residence, registered office, headquarters, or permanent business establishment in a Member State.

Administrative · CBAM

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

The EU waste-law scheme where producers bear financial or financial and organisational responsibility for the waste stage.

Administrative · EU Waste Framework Directive

The CRMA upstream stage where raw materials are removed from their source, before processing or recycling changes the material form.

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

China ELV term for the engine, steering gear, transmission, front and rear axles, and frame.

Technical · China ELV Recycling Measures

The EUDR land-cover threshold for forest: area, tree height, canopy cover, and land-use exclusions.

Environmental · EUDR

The EUDR forest-quality conversion concept relevant especially to wood products, separate from deforestation.

Environmental · EUDR

An ISO 14067 carbon-source term for carbon contained in fossilized material.

Environmental · ISO 14067:2018

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

Materials & sourcing · EU Critical Raw Materials Act

EU Conflict Minerals Regulation term for smelters and refiners deemed to fulfil the Regulation’s requirements inside or outside the Union.

Conflict Minerals & Responsible Sourcing · EU Conflict Minerals Regulation

An ISO 14067 index for comparing global mean temperature response at a chosen time point.

Environmental · ISO 14067:2018

An ISO 14067 index used to compare greenhouse gases by radiative forcing relative to carbon dioxide.

Environmental · ISO 14067:2018

The items in scope of a legal regime, with meaning shaped by the source rather than ordinary commercial language alone.

Technical · CBAM, Green Claims / Empowering Consumers Directive

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

Environmental · ISO 14067:2018

An ISO 14067 inventory-flow term for the release of a greenhouse gas.

Environmental · ISO 14067:2018

An ISO 14067 factor used to translate activity data into greenhouse-gas emissions.

Environmental · ISO 14067:2018

An ISO 14067 climate-flow term for removal of greenhouse gas from the atmosphere.

Environmental · ISO 14067:2018

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

Environmental · CBAM

EU Conflict Minerals Regulation early-warning risk-awareness mechanism for concerns about extraction, trade, handling, and export of minerals from conflict-affected and high-risk areas.

Conflict Minerals & Responsible Sourcing · EU Conflict Minerals Regulation

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, EU End-of-Life Vehicles Directive, Türkiye End-of-Life Vehicles Regulation, UK End-of-Life Vehicles Regulations

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

PPWR recycling process that preserves technical characteristics so recycled material can substitute primary raw material.

Packaging & Circularity · EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation

WSR status for shipments carried out without required notification, consent, accurate documents, or other listed legal conditions.

Waste Shipment & Circularity · EU Waste Shipment Regulation

The CBAM customs event of release for free circulation, not merely physical shipment into Europe.

Administrative · CBAM, Union Customs Code

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, EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation

EUDR activity carried out for processing, distribution to consumers, or use in the business of an operator or trader.

Administrative · EUDR

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 electricity-related emissions for electricity consumed during 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, EU Battery Regulation, ISO 14067:2018

The ISO 14067 LCA method concept for evaluating inputs, outputs, and potential impacts across a product system life cycle.

Environmental · ISO 14067:2018

The ISO 14067 LCA phase for evaluating potential environmental impacts from inventory results.

Environmental · ISO 14067:2018

The ISO 14067 LCA phase for evaluating inventory and impact findings against the study goal and scope.

Environmental · ISO 14067:2018

The ISO 14067 LCA phase for compiling and quantifying product-system inputs and outputs.

Environmental · ISO 14067:2018

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.

Technical · EU Battery Regulation

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, EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation, 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, EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation, India Battery Waste Management Rules

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

Environmental · ESPR

A recovery category excluding energy recovery and fuel reprocessing, including preparing for re-use, recycling, and backfilling.

Environmental · EU Waste Framework Directive

PPWR source-specific term for material recycling.

Packaging & Circularity · EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation

EU Conflict Minerals Regulation material-scope term for metals containing or consisting of tin, tantalum, tungsten or gold.

Conflict Minerals & Responsible Sourcing · EU Conflict Minerals Regulation

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

Materials & sourcing · EU Critical Raw Materials Act

EU Conflict Minerals Regulation term for the system moving and processing minerals from extraction to final-product incorporation.

Conflict Minerals & Responsible Sourcing · EU Conflict Minerals Regulation

EU Conflict Minerals Regulation material-scope term for listed ores and concentrates containing tin, tantalum or tungsten, and gold.

Conflict Minerals & Responsible Sourcing · EU Conflict Minerals Regulation

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

EU Conflict Minerals Regulation term for a supply-chain policy conforming to OECD Due Diligence Guidance Annex II risk language.

Conflict Minerals & Responsible Sourcing · EU Conflict Minerals Regulation

NSW official guidance term for businesses involving buying or obtaining, demolishing or dismantling motor vehicles or vehicle parts and accessories.

Waste & Circularity · NSW Motor Vehicle Recycler Guidance

NSW motor-vehicle-recycler evidence record for parts and whole vehicles received, sold, disposed of, or removed.

Administrative · NSW Motor Vehicle Recycler Guidance

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

Forest predominantly composed of trees established through natural regeneration, including mixed or uncertain cases where natural regeneration is expected to dominate.

Environmental · EUDR

Relevant products that do not comply with EUDR Article 3 conditions.

Administrative · EUDR

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

Technical · EU Battery Regulation

California Vehicle Code term for a vehicle that meets nonrepairable criteria, receives a nonrepairable vehicle certificate, and cannot be titled or registered.

Waste & Circularity · California Vehicle Code Dismantler and Salvage Definitions

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

Administrative · ESPR, EU Battery Regulation

WSR actor assigned the duty to notify for certain waste shipments originating from a Member State or imported/transiting waste.

Waste Shipment & Circularity · EU Waste Shipment Regulation

EU Conflict Minerals Regulation reference term for the OECD Due Diligence Guidance, including its annexes and supplements.

Conflict Minerals & Responsible Sourcing · EU Conflict Minerals 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 source-specific role term: under EUDR, the market/export actor; under CBAM, the installation-control actor.

Administrative · CBAM, EUDR

Tree, shrub, or bush-covered land above EUDR thresholds that is not classified as forest and is not predominantly agricultural or urban land.

Environmental · EUDR

PPWR definition of packaging as an item used for containment, protection, handling, delivery, or presentation of products.

Packaging & Circularity · EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation

PPWR definition of packaging or packaging material that is waste, excluding production residues.

Packaging & Circularity · EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation

PPWR source-specific term for packaging waste prevention.

Packaging & Circularity · EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation

EU Environmental Footprint Recommendation term for the quantified results of a PEF study.

Environmental Footprint Methodology · EU Environmental Footprint Recommendation

EU Environmental Footprint Recommendation term for the actions needed to calculate PEF results.

Environmental Footprint Methodology · EU Environmental Footprint Recommendation

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

Technical · ESPR

A CRMA component term for magnets that retain magnetism without an external field, relevant to strategic technologies and critical raw-material demand.

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

An EUDR legal-subject term covering natural persons, legal persons, and certain associations with capacity to perform legal acts.

Administrative · CBAM, EUDR

An EUDR actor-location term covering EU residence, registered office, central headquarters, or permanent business establishment.

Administrative · EUDR

Waste Shipment Regulation term for person who arranges the shipment in cross-border waste movement workflows.

Waste Shipment & Circularity · EU Waste Shipment 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, EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation, EUDR, UK Batteries Placing on Market Regulations

A planted forest that is intensively managed with one or two species, even age class, and regular spacing, subject to EUDR exclusions.

Environmental · EUDR

Forest predominantly composed of trees established through planting or deliberate seeding, expected to exceed 50 % of growing stock at maturity.

Environmental · EUDR

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

The EU waste-law recovery operation of checking, cleaning or repairing waste products or components for re-use.

Environmental · EU Waste Framework Directive

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

Technical · Ontario Batteries Regulation

Naturally regenerated native-species forest with no clearly visible human activity and no significant disturbance to ecological processes.

Environmental · EUDR

The CRMA transformation stage where raw materials are made economically usable, distinct from extraction, recycling, metal working, and finished-good manufacturing.

Materials & sourcing · EU Critical Raw Materials Act

The EUDR origin-linking term that ties commodities to plots of land, or cattle to establishments.

Technical · EUDR

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, 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

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

The base material-identity layer in CRMA and product-passport records, before critical, strategic, recycled, or battery-specific classifications are applied.

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 stage map for raw materials, covering exploration, extraction, processing, and recycling rather than the full finished-product value chain.

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 End-of-Life Vehicles Directive, EU Waste Framework Directive, Türkiye End-of-Life Vehicles Regulation, UK End-of-Life Vehicles Regulations

PPWR source-specific term for re-use system.

Packaging & Circularity · EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation

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

The EU waste operation where waste serves a useful purpose by replacing other materials or being prepared to do so.

Environmental · 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

PPWR compatibility concept linking packaging design to separate collection, sorting, recycling at scale, and replacement of primary raw materials.

Packaging & Circularity · EU Packaging and Packaging Waste 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

EU Conflict Minerals Regulation term for reclaimed end-user/post-consumer or scrap processed metals suitable for recycling into 3TG metals.

Conflict Minerals & Responsible Sourcing · EU Conflict Minerals 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, 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

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

Environmental · EU Battery Regulation

PPWR operation where an end-user or final distributor fills a packaging-function container with products bought from the final distributor.

Packaging & Circularity · EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation

PPWR place where a final distributor offers products that end users can buy through refill.

Packaging & Circularity · EU Packaging and Packaging Waste 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

An India vehicle-scrapping establishment registered to carry out dismantling and scrapping operations.

Waste & Circularity · India Vehicle Scrapping Facility Rules

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

Technical · NSW PLR Regulation

The EUDR closed list of commodity categories that start the scope screen: cattle, cocoa, coffee, oil palm, rubber, soya, and wood.

Technical · EUDR

The EUDR Annex I product layer: specified goods that contain, were fed with, or were made using relevant commodities.

Technical · EUDR

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

EU Environmental Footprint Recommendation method term for representative product (model).

Environmental Footprint Methodology · EU Environmental Footprint Recommendation

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

The economically viable subset of mineral occurrences or deposits under the CRMA context, distinct from resources, exploration targets, or speculative supply.

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

EU Conflict Minerals Regulation term for risk management plan.

Conflict Minerals & Responsible Sourcing · EU Conflict Minerals Regulation

PPWR term for checked and sorted materials obtained through recycling processes that can substitute primary raw materials.

Packaging & Circularity · EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation

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

Governance & Compliance · ESPR

EU waste collection where a stream is kept separately by type and nature to facilitate specific treatment.

Environmental · EU Waste Framework Directive

WSR definition of transport of waste destined for recovery or disposal across specified cross-border situations.

Waste Shipment & Circularity · EU Waste Shipment Regulation

PPWR term for packaging that is not reusable packaging.

Packaging & Circularity · EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation

EU Conflict Minerals Regulation term for smelter and refiner.

Conflict Minerals & Responsible Sourcing · EU Conflict Minerals Regulation

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

A battery specifically designed to supply electric power for vehicle starting, lighting, or ignition and that may also support auxiliary or backup vehicle functions.

Technical · EU Battery Regulation

A battery operational-status value expressing currently available energy as a share of rated capacity.

Technical · EU Battery Regulation

A battery-condition metric describing current capability relative to its original or rated condition, usually used for lifecycle, warranty, and second-life decisions.

Technical · EU Battery Regulation

Stable product or battery master data that is expected to remain consistent unless a governed correction, design change, or version update occurs.

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

An industrial battery with internal storage designed for stationary deployment, storing and delivering electric energy to the grid or to end-users.

Technical · EU Battery Regulation

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 material category for raw materials with high strategic importance to EU 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

EU Conflict Minerals Regulation obligations for Union importers to manage, audit, disclose, and address risks linked to conflict-affected and high-risk areas.

Conflict Minerals & Responsible Sourcing · EU Conflict Minerals Regulation

EU Conflict Minerals Regulation term for voluntary due-diligence procedures, tools, mechanisms, and audits overseen by governments, industry associations, or interested organisations.

Conflict Minerals & Responsible Sourcing · EU Conflict Minerals Regulation

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

The CRMA assessment concept used to evaluate vulnerability of EU raw-material supply, distinct from supplier due-diligence or procurement scoring.

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

A Türkiye ELV area where end-of-life vehicles are depolluted, dismantled, and temporarily held before transfer to a treatment facility.

Waste & Circularity · Türkiye End-of-Life Vehicles Regulation

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

Environmental · CBAM

California Vehicle Code term for certain damaged vehicles considered uneconomical to repair, excluding nonrepairable vehicles.

Waste & Circularity · California Vehicle Code Dismantler and Salvage Definitions

The ability to follow and substantiate a product, material, actor, process, claim, or data point through defined supply-chain or lifecycle stages.

Technical · EU Conflict Minerals Regulation, General Food Law Regulation

The EUDR actor that makes relevant products available on the market without being the operator.

Administrative · EUDR

The waste-stage operation layer covering recovery or disposal operations and preparation before them.

Environmental · 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

A Türkiye ELV facility licensed to carry out treatment activities such as cutting, shredding, and preparing ELV waste for recovery or disposal.

Waste & Circularity · Türkiye End-of-Life Vehicles Regulation

Federal Register list of 50 minerals designated as U.S. critical minerals in 2022.

North America Critical Minerals · U.S. 2022 Final List of Critical Minerals

U.S. statutory designation term for minerals, elements, substances, or materials designated as critical by the Secretary of the Interior.

North America Critical Minerals · U.S. Energy Act

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

EU Conflict Minerals Regulation term for union importer.

Conflict Minerals & Responsible Sourcing · EU Conflict Minerals 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

The battery-specific identity string that links a physical battery to the correct battery passport record.

Administrative · EU Battery Regulation

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

Administrative · ESPR

The ESPR product identity value that links a product, model, batch, or item to the correct 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

EU Conflict Minerals Regulation term for the upstream mineral supply chain from extraction sites through smelters and refiners.

Conflict Minerals & Responsible Sourcing · EU Conflict Minerals Regulation

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

India RVSF process from receiving an end-of-life vehicle through depollution, dismantling, material segregation, disposal of non-reusable parts, and issuance of a scrapping certificate.

Waste & Circularity · China ELV Recycling Measures, India Vehicle Scrapping Facility Rules

EU Conflict Minerals Regulation term for a date verifiable from physical date stamps on products or inventory lists.

Conflict Minerals & Responsible Sourcing · EU Conflict Minerals Regulation

A non-profit, commercial, or other economic undertaking or public body voluntarily collecting waste portable batteries or LMT batteries.

Administrative · EU Battery Regulation

The EU waste-law status for a substance or object the holder discards, intends to discard, or is required to discard.

Environmental · Australia Recycling and Waste Reduction Act, EU Critical Raw Materials Act, EU Waste Framework Directive, ISO 14067:2018

A battery that has become waste under the relevant source framework, triggering collection, treatment, recycling, and producer-responsibility evidence workflows.

Environmental · EU Battery Regulation, India Battery Waste Management Rules

The EU waste-law actor that is the waste producer or the person in possession of the waste.

Administrative · EU Waste Framework Directive

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 producer or third party acting on the producer’s behalf that performs separate collection and treatment of waste batteries.

Administrative · EU Battery Regulation

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

Environmental · Australia Recycling and Waste Reduction Act

The EU waste-law actor whose activities produce waste or alter waste through pre-processing, mixing, or other operations.

Administrative · EU Waste Framework Directive

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