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It is an evidence document, not a passport, battery passport, or product identifier.", "sources": [ "UK Waste Batteries Regulations" ], "related_terms": [ "approved-battery-treatment-operator", "approved-battery-exporter", "portable-battery", "battery-producer-registration-number", "recycling" ] }, { "term": "battery", "slug": "battery", "canonical_slug": "battery", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/battery", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "A source-specific umbrella term for electrochemical energy-storage devices whose exact compliance meaning depends on jurisdiction, category, lifecycle status, and use case.", "editorial_definition": "Battery is the top-level object type for devices that deliver electrical energy through direct conversion of chemical energy. 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It is the lowest core battery-architecture layer in the cell-module-pack hierarchy and should not be flattened into a module, pack, or finished battery record.", "sources": [ "EU Battery Regulation", "US 45X Advanced Manufacturing Production Credit" ], "related_terms": [ "battery", "battery-module", "battery-pack", "battery-item", "electrode-active-material" ] }, { "term": "battery chemistry", "slug": "battery-chemistry", "canonical_slug": "battery-chemistry", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/battery-chemistry", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "The electrochemical composition family of a battery used in product, performance, safety, recycling, and passport-data contexts.", "editorial_definition": "Battery chemistry describes the broad electrochemical composition of a battery, especially the active-material families used in the cathode, anode, and electrolyte. It is useful product data, but not a complete bill of materials, due-diligence record, or recycled-content claim.", "sources": [ "DIN DKE SPEC 99100" ], "related_terms": [ "battery-passport", "battery-batch", "active-material", "battery-cell", "battery-model", "recycling-efficiency" ] }, { "term": "battery collection site", "slug": "battery-collection-site", "canonical_slug": "battery-collection-site", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/battery-collection-site", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "An Ontario Batteries Regulation term for a site where used consumer batteries are collected for resource recovery.", "editorial_definition": "Battery collection site is the Ontario Batteries Regulation location where used consumer batteries are collected for the purpose of resource recovery under the stewardship system.", "sources": [ "Ontario Batteries Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "producer-responsibility-organization", "battery-hauler", 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It can store and communicate data, but it is not the passport platform, the public passport record, or a complete compliance database.", "sources": [ "EU Battery Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "battery", "battery-pack", "state-of-health", "state-of-charge", "dynamic-data", "battery-passport" ] }, { "term": "battery manufacturing waste", "slug": "battery-manufacturing-waste", "canonical_slug": "battery-manufacturing-waste", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/battery-manufacturing-waste", "category": "Environmental", "short_description": "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.", "editorial_definition": "Battery manufacturing waste is the Battery Regulation term for rejected manufacturing material that leaves the same-process re-use path and must move into recycling. 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It supports India battery-waste and EPR mapping, but it is not the same as a full bill of materials and not a universal materials taxonomy.", "sources": [ "India Battery Waste Management Rules" ], "related_terms": [ "battery", "active-material", "electrode-active-material", "waste-battery", "recycling" ] }, { "term": "battery model", "slug": "battery-model", "canonical_slug": "battery-model", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/battery-model", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "A grouping term for batteries that share compliance-relevant technical characteristics and a model identifier.", "editorial_definition": "Battery model is the grouping layer for batteries with shared technical characteristics and the same model identifier. It supports reuse of model-level evidence, but it does not replace item, batch, pack, or serial-level records.", "sources": [ "EU Battery Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "battery", "battery-item", "battery-batch", "battery-pack", "static-data" ] }, { "term": "battery module", "slug": "battery-module", "canonical_slug": "battery-module", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/battery-module", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "An intermediate battery assembly made from cells and designed to sit inside a larger pack or battery system.", "editorial_definition": "Battery module is an intermediate assembly of cells that is not usually the final battery product on its own. 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It sits above cell and module granularity, but below or inside the final product, vehicle, appliance, or system that uses it.", "sources": [ "EU Battery Regulation", "India Battery Waste Management Rules", "UK Batteries Placing on Market Regulations", "UK Waste Batteries Regulations" ], "related_terms": [ "battery", "battery-cell", "battery-module", "electric-vehicle-battery", "battery-passport" ] }, { "term": "battery passport", "slug": "battery-passport", "canonical_slug": "battery-passport", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/battery-passport", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "A battery-specific electronic record that connects an individual battery to required identity, compliance, sustainability, performance, and lifecycle evidence.", "editorial_definition": "A battery passport is the regulated electronic record for a specific battery, accessed through a data carrier and anchored by a unique battery identifier, that makes required battery 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It is not the same as country of production, which anchors where a relevant commodity or product was produced.", "sources": [ "EUDR", "Union Customs Code" ], "related_terms": [ "customs-declarant", "customs-territory-of-the-union" ] }, { "term": "country of production", "slug": "country-of-production", "canonical_slug": "country-of-production", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/country-of-production", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "The EUDR country or territory where the relevant commodity was produced.", "editorial_definition": "Country of production is the EUDR country or territory where the relevant commodity was produced, including where the commodity used in relevant products originated. 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It is not a generic importance label and should not be inferred from a material being expensive, scarce, battery-relevant, or commercially sensitive.", "sources": [ "EU Critical Raw Materials Act" ], "related_terms": [ "us-critical-mineral", "canada-qualifying-material" ] }, { "term": "critical raw material project", "slug": "critical-raw-material-project", "canonical_slug": "critical-raw-material-project", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/critical-raw-material-project", "category": "Project governance", "short_description": "A CRMA project-scope term for planned or significantly extended facilities active in extraction, processing or recycling of critical raw materials.", "editorial_definition": "Under the EU Critical Raw Materials Act, a critical raw material project is a planned facility, or a planned significant extension or repurposing of an existing facility, active in extracting, processing or recycling critical raw materials.", "sources": [ "EU Critical Raw Materials Act" ], "related_terms": [ "critical-raw-material", "extraction", "processing", "recycling", "raw-materials-value-chain", "supply-risk", "strategic-raw-material", "project-promoter", "permit-granting-process", "offtake-agreement", "offtaker" ] }, { "term": "critical raw material type", "slug": "critical-raw-material-type", "canonical_slug": "critical-raw-material-type", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/critical-raw-material-type", "category": "Materials & sourcing", "short_description": "A CRMA classification term for differentiating a critical raw material by processing stage, composition, origin or production method.", "editorial_definition": "Under the EU Critical Raw Materials Act, critical raw material type means a critical raw material placed on the market that is differentiated by its stage of processing, chemical composition, geographical origin or production methods used.", "sources": [ "EU Critical Raw Materials Act" ], "related_terms": [ "critical-raw-material", "raw-material", "raw-materials-value-chain", "strategic-raw-material", "recycled-content", "supply-risk" ] }, { "term": "customer", "slug": "customer", "canonical_slug": "customer", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/customer", "category": "Actors & Responsibilities", "short_description": "The ESPR downstream-use actor that purchases, hires, or receives a product for their own use.", "editorial_definition": "Customer means the natural or legal person that purchases, hires or receives a product for their own use, whether or not they are acting outside their trade, business, craft or profession.", "sources": [ "ESPR" ], "related_terms": [ "product", "making-available-on-the-market", "placing-on-the-market" ] }, { "term": "customs authorities", "slug": "customs-authorities", "canonical_slug": "customs-authorities", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/customs-authorities", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "The Member State customs administrations and empowered authorities that apply customs legislation in import workflows.", "editorial_definition": "Customs authorities are the customs administrations of Member States and other authorities empowered under national law to apply certain customs legislation.", "sources": [ "CBAM", "Union Customs Code" ], "related_terms": [ "competent-authority", "authorised-cbam-declarant", "importer" ] }, { "term": "customs declarant", "slug": "customs-declarant", "canonical_slug": "customs-declarant", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/customs-declarant", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "The person formally tied to a customs declaration for release for free circulation in the CBAM import workflow.", "editorial_definition": "Customs declarant is the person lodging a customs declaration in their own name or in whose name such a declaration is lodged. In CBAM context, it should be kept separate from authorised CBAM declarant status.", "sources": [ "CBAM", "Union Customs Code" ], "related_terms": [ "customs-authorities", "competent-authority", "economic-operators-registration-and-identification-number-eori-number" ] }, { "term": "customs territory of the Union", "slug": "customs-territory-of-the-union", "canonical_slug": "customs-territory-of-the-union", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/customs-territory-of-the-union", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "The Union customs-space boundary used to decide where UCC customs rules and CBAM import logic apply.", "editorial_definition": "Customs territory of the Union is the territorial boundary used by EU customs law to decide whether goods enter the Union customs system. For CBAM, it helps locate the import event and release-for-free-circulation boundary.", "sources": [ "CBAM", "Union Customs Code" ], "related_terms": [ "country-of-origin", "country-of-production", "established-in-a-member-state" ] }, { "term": "data carrier", "slug": "data-carrier", "canonical_slug": "data-carrier", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/data-carrier", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "A machine-readable access layer connecting a physical product to the digital record or passport information behind it.", "editorial_definition": "A data carrier is the scannable or readable medium that lets a device resolve a physical product, label, package, or document to the right digital product information.", "sources": [ "ESPR", "EU Critical Raw Materials Act" ], "related_terms": [ "digital-product-passport", "battery-passport", "unique-product-identifier", "unique-identifier", "qr-code", "information-requirement", "consumer-product", "unique-operator-identifier", "digital-product-passport-service-provider" ] }, { "term": "dealer", "slug": "dealer", "canonical_slug": "dealer", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/dealer", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "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.", "editorial_definition": "Dealer is a multi-source commercial actor term, but its meaning shifts by source. Under ESPR it includes a distributor or any other natural or legal person offering or displaying products to end users; in waste law it can mean an undertaking buying and selling waste as principal; in US IRA clean-vehicle credit rules it is tied to licensed vehicle-sale workflows.", "sources": [ "ESPR", "EU Waste Framework Directive", "US IRA §30D" ], "related_terms": [ "distributor", "importer", "distance-selling", "making-available-on-the-market", "placing-on-the-market", "provider-of-an-online-marketplace", "economic-operator", "product", "shipment", "illegal-shipment" ] }, { "term": "default value", "slug": "default-value", "canonical_slug": "default-value", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/default-value", "category": "CBAM emissions accounting", "short_description": "A CBAM fallback emissions value used when actual, supplier-specific evidence is unavailable or unusable.", "editorial_definition": "Default value is the CBAM fallback figure used when actual emissions data is unavailable, incomplete, or not usable. It is an evidence gap marker rather than supplier-specific measurement evidence. It may be calculated or drawn from secondary data.", "sources": [ "CBAM" ], "related_terms": [ "actual-emissions", "embedded-emissions", "cbam-certificate", "carbon-price" ] }, { "term": "deforestation", "slug": "deforestation", "canonical_slug": "deforestation", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/deforestation", "category": "Environmental", "short_description": "The EUDR land-use conversion concept: forest converted to agricultural use, whether human-induced or not.", "editorial_definition": "Deforestation is the EUDR concept for conversion of forest to agricultural use, whether human-induced or not. It is a land-use boundary term, separate from forest degradation and broader biodiversity or sustainability claims.", "sources": [ "EUDR" ], "related_terms": [ "relevant-commodities", "country-of-production" ] }, { "term": "deforestation-free", "slug": "deforestation-free", "canonical_slug": "deforestation-free", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/deforestation-free", "category": "Environmental", "short_description": "The EUDR pass/fail condition that commodities or products must meet: no post-2020 deforestation, plus forest-degradation checks for wood products.", "editorial_definition": "Deforestation-free is the EUDR condition that relevant commodities and products must satisfy to enter or leave the EU market. It is not a loose environmental marketing claim; it depends on production land not being subject to deforestation after 31 December 2020 and, for wood products, applicable forest-degradation conditions. In source terms, relevant commodities or products must be produced on land not subject to deforestation after 31 December 2020, with a forest-degradation condition for wood products.", "sources": [ "EUDR" ], "related_terms": [ "relevant-commodities", "country-of-production", "forest" ] }, { "term": "design for recycling", "slug": "design-for-recycling", "canonical_slug": "design-for-recycling", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/design-for-recycling", "category": "Packaging & Circularity", "short_description": "PPWR source-specific term for design for recycling.", "editorial_definition": "Design for recycling is a source-specific PPWR term for packaging and packaging-waste workflows under Regulation (EU) 2025/40.", "sources": [ "EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "packaging", "packaging-waste", "recyclability" ] }, { "term": "destruction", "slug": "destruction", "canonical_slug": "destruction", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/destruction", "category": "Circularity & End-of-Life", "short_description": "The ESPR term for intentionally damaging or discarding a product as waste, except delivery for preparation for reuse, refurbishment, or remanufacturing.", "editorial_definition": "Destruction means the intentional damaging or discarding of a product as waste, except where the product is discarded solely to be delivered for preparation for reuse, including refurbishment or remanufacturing operations.", "sources": [ "ESPR" ], "related_terms": [ "preparation-for-re-use", "preparation-for-recycling", "consumer-product", "unsold-consumer-product" ] }, { "term": "digital product passport", "slug": "digital-product-passport", "canonical_slug": "digital-product-passport", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/digital-product-passport", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "A regulated product-specific data set that connects a product, model, batch, or item to required compliance, sustainability, circularity, and lifecycle information.", "editorial_definition": "A digital product passport is the governed electronic data set required for a product under ESPR rules, accessed through a data carrier and scoped by the applicable delegated act.", "sources": [ "ESPR" ], "related_terms": [ "battery-passport", "data-carrier", "unique-product-identifier", "ecodesign-requirement", "qr-code", "traceability", "static-data", "dynamic-data", "product", "component", "intermediate-product", "information-requirement", "product-group", "unique-operator-identifier", "unique-facility-identifier", "digital-product-passport-service-provider", "economic-operator", "manufacturer" ] }, { "term": "digital product passport service provider", "slug": "digital-product-passport-service-provider", "canonical_slug": "digital-product-passport-service-provider", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/digital-product-passport-service-provider", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "An independent third-party authorised by the economic operator to process DPP data and make it available to entitled actors under ESPR.", "editorial_definition": "A digital product passport service provider is an independent third-party authorised by the economic operator placing a product on the market or putting it into service to process that product’s passport data. The provider processes the data for that product and makes it available under access-right rules; the role does not own the underlying product obligation.", "sources": [ "ESPR" ], "related_terms": [ "digital-product-passport", "economic-operator", "manufacturer", "placing-on-the-market", "putting-into-service", "data-carrier", "information-requirement", "unique-operator-identifier" ] }, { "term": "direct emissions", "slug": "direct-emissions", "canonical_slug": "direct-emissions", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/direct-emissions", "category": "CBAM emissions accounting", "short_description": "CBAM emissions released by the relevant production processes of covered goods, distinct from facility-wide or corporate emissions totals.", "editorial_definition": "Direct emissions are greenhouse-gas emissions released by the production processes of CBAM-covered goods, including relevant heating and cooling tied to those processes. They are not the full facility footprint, full corporate inventory, or full lifecycle footprint.", "sources": [ "CBAM" ], "related_terms": [ "embedded-emissions", "actual-emissions", "indirect-emissions", "carbon-footprint" ] }, { "term": "disassembly", "slug": "disassembly", "canonical_slug": "disassembly", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/disassembly", "category": "Environmental", "short_description": "Disassembly matters for battery-passport implementation because end-of-life and service events often need to record what was separated, by whom, for what p", "editorial_definition": "Disassembly is the controlled separation of a battery, product, pack, or component into parts so lifecycle, repair, re-use, or treatment decisions can be made without treating the object as an undifferentiated waste stream.", "sources": [ "DIN DKE SPEC 99100" ], "related_terms": [ "dismantling", "battery-passport", "battery-item", "battery-status", "preparation-for-re-use", "preparation-for-recycling", "repurposing", "recycling" ] }, { "term": "dismantling", "slug": "dismantling", "canonical_slug": "dismantling", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/dismantling", "category": "Environmental", "short_description": "Dismantling matters because battery evidence systems need to distinguish pack-level or treatment-stage handling from the broader ideas of re-use, recycling", "editorial_definition": "Dismantling is the removal or taking apart of a battery pack, product, or waste-battery structure as part of treatment, repair, preparation for recycling, or other end-of-life handling.", "sources": [ "DIN DKE SPEC 99100" ], "related_terms": [ "disassembly", "preparation-for-recycling", "waste-battery", "waste-management", "waste-management-operator", "recycling", "battery-pack", "battery-passport" ] }, { "term": "dismantling information", "slug": "dismantling-information", "canonical_slug": "dismantling-information", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/dismantling-information", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "Information required for correct and environmentally sound treatment of end-of-life vehicles.", "editorial_definition": "Dismantling information is the ELV term for information required to support correct and environmentally sound treatment of end-of-life vehicles.", "sources": [ "EU End-of-Life Vehicles Directive", "Türkiye End-of-Life Vehicles Regulation", "UK End-of-Life Vehicles Regulations" ], "related_terms": [ "end-of-life-vehicle", "authorised-treatment-facility", "treatment", "hazardous-substance", "end-of-life-vehicle-waste-disposal-site", "motor-vehicle-hulk", "registered-vehicle-scrapping-facility", "vehicle-scrapping", "temporary-storage-area", "treatment-facility", "end-of-life-motor-vehicle", "end-of-life-vehicle-recycling-certificate", "five-major-assemblies", "automobile-dismantler", "total-loss-salvage-vehicle", "nonrepairable-vehicle", "motor-vehicle-recycler", "motor-vehicle-recycler-register" ] }, { "term": "disposal", "slug": "disposal", "canonical_slug": "disposal", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/disposal", "category": "Environmental", "short_description": "The non-recovery waste route, even where reclamation of substances or energy is a secondary consequence.", "editorial_definition": "Disposal is the waste route used when an operation is not recovery, even if some substances or energy are reclaimed along the way.", "sources": [ "EU End-of-Life Vehicles Directive", "EU Waste Framework Directive", "India Battery Waste Management Rules", "Türkiye End-of-Life Vehicles Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "recycling", "material-recovery", "environmentally-adequate-destination", "end-of-life-vehicle", "treatment", "end-of-life-vehicle-waste-disposal-site", "motor-vehicle-hulk", "registered-vehicle-scrapping-facility", "vehicle-scrapping", "temporary-storage-area", "treatment-facility", "automobile-dismantler", "total-loss-salvage-vehicle", "nonrepairable-vehicle", "shipment", "illegal-shipment" ] }, { "term": "distance selling", "slug": "distance-selling", "canonical_slug": "distance-selling", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/distance-selling", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "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.", "editorial_definition": "Distance selling is an offer for sale, hire or hire purchase made online or through another remote sales channel where the potential customer cannot physically access the product. It is not a separate product category; it is a sales-channel context that changes when and where required product information must be visible.", "sources": [ "ESPR" ], "related_terms": [ "provider-of-an-online-marketplace", "dealer", "making-available-on-the-market", "placing-on-the-market", "product", "economic-operator", "digital-product-passport" ] }, { "term": "distributor", "slug": "distributor", "canonical_slug": "distributor", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/distributor", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "A downstream market-actor term for a person in the supply chain who makes products or batteries available without being the manufacturer or importer, subject to the source rule.", "editorial_definition": "Distributor is a downstream market-actor term for a supply-chain actor, other than the manufacturer or importer, that makes a product or battery available on the market. It is not the same as producer, manufacturer, importer, hauler, or a generic logistics provider.", "sources": [ "ESPR", "EU Battery Regulation", "EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation", "UK Waste Batteries Regulations" ], "related_terms": [ "producer", "importer", "dealer", "economic-operator", "manufacturer", "packaging", "packaging-waste", "recyclability" ] }, { "term": "downstream", "slug": "conflict-minerals-downstream", "canonical_slug": "conflict-minerals-downstream", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/conflict-minerals-downstream", "category": "Conflict Minerals & Responsible Sourcing", "short_description": "EU Conflict Minerals Regulation term for the metal supply chain after smelters and refiners through to the final product.", "editorial_definition": "Downstream, in the EU Conflict Minerals Regulation source layer, is the metal supply chain from the stage following the smelters and refiners to the final product.", "sources": [ "EU Conflict Minerals Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "mineral-supply-chain", "smelter-and-refiner", "conflict-minerals-upstream" ] }, { "term": "durability", "slug": "durability", "canonical_slug": "durability", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/durability", "category": "Performance & Design", "short_description": "The ability of a product to maintain its function and performance over time under normal conditions of use.", "editorial_definition": "Durability is the ability of a product to maintain its function and performance through normal use over time, including resistance to wear, failure, or premature loss of function.", "sources": [ "ESPR", "Green Claims / Empowering Consumers Directive" ], "related_terms": [ "performance-requirement", "repair", "maintenance", "software-update" ] }, { "term": "dynamic data", "slug": "dynamic-data", "canonical_slug": "dynamic-data", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/dynamic-data", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "Battery or product data that changes over time, such as condition, usage, service, telemetry, or lifecycle-status information.", "editorial_definition": "Dynamic data is the changing data layer in a battery or product passport: values that may update as the product is used, serviced, repaired, transferred, repurposed, or recycled. It is distinct from stable master data and needs governance around timing, source, and access.", "sources": [ "EU Battery Regulation", "Open Data Directive" ], "related_terms": [ "battery-passport", "traceability", "digital-product-passport", "static-data", "data-carrier", "unique-identifier", "battery-item", "battery-batch", "battery-status" ] }, { "term": "ecodesign", "slug": "ecodesign", "canonical_slug": "ecodesign", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/ecodesign", "category": "Environmental", "short_description": "The ESPR concept for integrating environmental sustainability considerations into product characteristics and value-chain processes.", "editorial_definition": "Ecodesign is the design discipline in ESPR that integrates environmental sustainability considerations into product characteristics and the processes taking place throughout the product’s value chain. It connects design choices, sourcing, use, repair, and end-of-life implications before they become individual requirements or passport fields. It is broader than an ecodesign requirement, which is a specific obligation route.", "sources": [ "ESPR" ], "related_terms": [ "ecodesign-requirement", "performance-requirement", "information-requirement", "product", "product-group", "digital-product-passport", "consumer-product" ] }, { "term": "ecodesign requirement", "slug": "ecodesign-requirement", "canonical_slug": "ecodesign-requirement", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/ecodesign-requirement", "category": "Environmental", "short_description": "An ESPR requirement, either a performance requirement or an information requirement, aimed at improving product environmental sustainability.", "editorial_definition": "An ecodesign requirement is the ESPR obligation type that turns ecodesign into either a performance requirement or an information requirement. It can require a product to meet a sustainability-related parameter, disclose information, or support both through delegated-act rules. It is not one single evidence field.", "sources": [ "ESPR" ], "related_terms": [ "performance-requirement", "information-requirement", "product-group", "digital-product-passport", "environmental-footprint", "material-footprint", "substance-of-concern" ] }, { "term": "economic operator", "slug": "economic-operator", "canonical_slug": "economic-operator", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/economic-operator", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "An ESPR and EU Battery Regulation umbrella actor category covering market roles such as manufacturer, importer, distributor, dealer, and fulfilment service provider.", "editorial_definition": "Under ESPR, economic operator means the manufacturer, authorised representative, importer, distributor, dealer, and fulfilment service provider. 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in CBAM, the term refers to goods listed in Annex I, while other sources may use the same everyday word for different product or consumer-law scopes.", "sources": [ "CBAM", "Green Claims / Empowering Consumers Directive" ], "related_terms": [ "product", "consumer-product", "relevant-products", "relevant-commodities" ] }, { "term": "greenhouse gas", "slug": "greenhouse-gas", "canonical_slug": "greenhouse-gas", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/greenhouse-gas", "category": "Environmental", "short_description": "A gas that contributes to climate change by absorbing and emitting infrared radiation, used in product carbon-footprint calculations.", "editorial_definition": "Greenhouse gas is the substance-level climate concept behind product-carbon calculations: gases that absorb and emit infrared radiation and can be converted into CO2-equivalent climate-impact results.", "sources": [ "ISO 14067:2018" ], "related_terms": [ "carbon-footprint", "carbon-footprint-of-a-product", "life-cycle" ] }, { "term": "greenhouse gas emission", "slug": "greenhouse-gas-emission", "canonical_slug": "greenhouse-gas-emission", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/greenhouse-gas-emission", "category": "Environmental", "short_description": "An ISO 14067 inventory-flow term for the release of a greenhouse gas.", "editorial_definition": "Greenhouse gas emission is the ISO 14067 term for a GHG emission: the release of a greenhouse gas into the atmosphere within the study context.", "sources": [ "ISO 14067:2018" ], "related_terms": [ "greenhouse-gas", "greenhouse-gas-emission-factor", "carbon-dioxide-equivalent" ] }, { "term": "greenhouse gas emission factor", "slug": "greenhouse-gas-emission-factor", "canonical_slug": "greenhouse-gas-emission-factor", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/greenhouse-gas-emission-factor", "category": "Environmental", "short_description": "An ISO 14067 factor used to translate activity data into greenhouse-gas emissions.", "editorial_definition": "Greenhouse gas emission factor is the ISO 14067 term for a GHG emission factor used in product carbon-footprint calculation.", "sources": [ "ISO 14067:2018" ], "related_terms": [ "greenhouse-gas-emission", "secondary-data", "primary-data" ] }, { "term": "greenhouse gas removal", "slug": "greenhouse-gas-removal", "canonical_slug": "greenhouse-gas-removal", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/greenhouse-gas-removal", "category": "Environmental", "short_description": "An ISO 14067 climate-flow term for removal of greenhouse gas from the atmosphere.", "editorial_definition": "Greenhouse gas removal is the ISO 14067 term for GHG removal: removal of greenhouse gas from the atmosphere.", "sources": [ "ISO 14067:2018" ], "related_terms": [ "greenhouse-gas-emission", "carbon-offsetting", "environmental-claim" ] }, { "term": "greenhouse gases", "slug": "greenhouse-gases", "canonical_slug": "greenhouse-gases", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/greenhouse-gases", "category": "Environmental", "short_description": "The CBAM-relevant greenhouse gases specified in Annex I for each covered goods category.", "editorial_definition": "Under CBAM, greenhouse gases means the greenhouse gases listed in Annex I in relation to each of the goods listed in that Annex. The definition is goods-specific: the relevant gases depend on the CBAM product category being assessed.", "sources": [ "CBAM" ], "related_terms": [ "direct-emissions", "indirect-emissions" ] }, { "term": "grievance mechanism", "slug": "grievance-mechanism", "canonical_slug": "grievance-mechanism", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/grievance-mechanism", "category": "Conflict Minerals & Responsible Sourcing", "short_description": "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.", "editorial_definition": "A grievance mechanism is an early-warning risk-awareness mechanism that allows interested parties, including whistle-blowers, to voice concerns about extraction, trade, handling, and export circumstances for minerals from conflict-affected and high-risk areas.", "sources": [ "EU Conflict Minerals Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "risk-management-plan", "conflict-affected-and-high-risk-areas", "supply-chain-due-diligence" ] }, { "term": "harmonised standard", "slug": "harmonised-standard", "canonical_slug": "harmonised-standard", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/harmonised-standard", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "A recognized EU standard referenced through Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012 that can support conformity evidence under the relevant framework.", "editorial_definition": "A harmonised standard is a standard as defined in Article 2, point (1)(c), of Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012. It can provide a recognized technical route for demonstrating conformity, but it is not the legal requirement itself and should not be treated as a complete market-access conclusion.", "sources": [ "EU Battery Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "technical-specification", "conformity-assessment", "ce-marking", "union-harmonisation-legislation", "notified-body" ] }, { "term": "hazardous substance", "slug": "hazardous-substance", "canonical_slug": "hazardous-substance", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/hazardous-substance", "category": "Environmental", "short_description": "EU Battery Regulation term for a substance classified as hazardous under Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008.", "editorial_definition": "Hazardous substance is the EU Battery Regulation term for a substance classified as hazardous under Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008, the EU CLP classification framework. It is not a battery-specific chemistry list.", "sources": [ "EU Battery Regulation", "EU End-of-Life Vehicles Directive", "Türkiye End-of-Life Vehicles Regulation", "UK End-of-Life Vehicles Regulations" ], "related_terms": [ "hazardous-waste", "battery-materials", "battery-chemistry", "waste-battery", "end-of-life-vehicle", "treatment", "recycling", "temporary-storage-area", "treatment-facility" ] }, { "term": "hazardous waste", "slug": "hazardous-waste", "canonical_slug": "hazardous-waste", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/hazardous-waste", "category": "Environmental", "short_description": "A source-dependent waste term with India Battery Waste Management Rules and EU Waste Framework Directive layers.", "editorial_definition": "Hazardous waste is source-dependent. The India Battery Waste Management Rules point to hazardous waste as defined under the Hazardous and Other Wastes (Management and Transboundary Movement) Rules, 2016, while the EU Waste Framework Directive defines hazardous waste as waste displaying one or more hazardous properties listed in Annex III.", "sources": [ "EU Waste Framework Directive", "India Battery Waste Management Rules" ], "related_terms": [ "hazardous-substance", "waste-battery", "waste-management", "recycling", "shipment", "illegal-shipment" ] }, { "term": "heat pump", "slug": "heat-pump", "canonical_slug": "heat-pump", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/heat-pump", "category": "Operational", "short_description": "A CRMA end-use equipment term for the part of a heating system that generates a temperature difference using an electric vapour compression cycle.", "editorial_definition": "Under the EU Critical Raw Materials Act, heat pump means the part of a heating system that generates a temperature difference allowing heat supply to the space or process to be heated, using an electric vapour compression cycle.", "sources": [ "EU Critical Raw Materials Act" ], "related_terms": [ "strategic-technologies", "electric-motor", "critical-raw-material", "strategic-raw-material", "permanent-magnet" ] }, { "term": "high-quality recycling", "slug": "high-quality-recycling", "canonical_slug": "high-quality-recycling", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/high-quality-recycling", "category": "Packaging & Circularity", "short_description": "PPWR recycling process that preserves technical characteristics so recycled material can substitute primary raw material.", "editorial_definition": "High-quality recycling is the PPWR recycling process that produces recycled materials of equivalent quality to the original materials, based on preserved technical characteristics, for use as substitutes for primary raw materials in packaging or other applications where material quality is retained.", "sources": [ "EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "material-recycling", "recyclability", "secondary-raw-materials" ] }, { "term": "illegal shipment", "slug": "illegal-shipment", "canonical_slug": "illegal-shipment", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/illegal-shipment", "category": "Waste Shipment & Circularity", "short_description": "WSR status for shipments carried out without required notification, consent, accurate documents, or other listed legal conditions.", "editorial_definition": "Illegal shipment is the WSR status for a shipment carried out without required notification, without competent-authority consent, with consent obtained by falsification or misrepresentation, in a way not materially specified in documents, or under other listed non-compliant conditions.", "sources": [ "EU Waste Shipment Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "shipment", "waste", "recovery", "disposal" ] }, { "term": "importation", "slug": "importation", "canonical_slug": "importation", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/importation", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "The CBAM customs event of release for free circulation, not merely physical shipment into Europe.", "editorial_definition": "Importation means release for free circulation under Article 201 of the Union Customs Code, used by CBAM as the customs-procedure event through which non-Union goods enter the Union market as Union goods.", "sources": [ "CBAM", "Union Customs Code" ], "related_terms": [ "importer", "customs-territory-of-the-union", "economic-operators-registration-and-identification-number-eori-number" ] }, { "term": "importer", "slug": "importer", "canonical_slug": "importer", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/importer", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "An EU-established actor that places a product from a third country on the Union market under ESPR, with related source-specific meanings in battery and trade rules.", "editorial_definition": "Under ESPR, importer means any natural or legal person established in the Union that places a product from a third country on the Union market. The term is not the same as distributor and should not be reduced to physical transport or customs logistics alone.", "sources": [ "Brazil CONAMA Resolution 401/2008", "CBAM", "ESPR", "EU Battery Regulation", "EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "economic-operator", "manufacturer", "distributor", "placing-on-the-market", "product", "supply-chain", "raw-materials-supply-chain", "customs-declarant", "traceability", "packaging", "packaging-waste", "recyclability", "supply-chain-due-diligence", "mineral-supply-chain" ] }, { "term": "in the course of a commercial activity", "slug": "in-the-course-of-a-commercial-activity", "canonical_slug": "in-the-course-of-a-commercial-activity", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/in-the-course-of-a-commercial-activity", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "EUDR activity carried out for processing, distribution to consumers, or use in the business of an operator or trader.", "editorial_definition": "In the course of a commercial activity is the EUDR trigger that covers processing, distribution to commercial or non-commercial consumers, and use in the operator’s or trader’s own business.", "sources": [ "EUDR" ], "related_terms": [ "non-compliant-products", "country-of-production" ] }, { "term": "independent operator", "slug": "independent-operator", "canonical_slug": "independent-operator", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/independent-operator", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "An actor independent of the manufacturer that may participate in repair, maintenance, service, or information-access workflows.", "editorial_definition": "Independent operator is a regulatory actor term for a natural or legal person independent of the manufacturer and involved in specified product-related activities. In DPP and ESPR contexts, it is useful for repair, maintenance or service ecosystem access, but it does not make every downstream actor responsible for the passport.", "sources": [ "ESPR", "EU Battery Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "manufacturer", "repair", "maintenance", "professional-repairer", "information-requirement", "economic-operator", "digital-product-passport" ] }, { "term": "independent third-party verification", "slug": "independent-third-party-verification", "canonical_slug": "independent-third-party-verification", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/independent-third-party-verification", "category": "Due Diligence", "short_description": "A CSDDD assurance concept for external checks of a company’s compliance or parts of its chain of activities.", "editorial_definition": "Independent third-party verification is the CSDDD assurance concept for checking a company’s compliance, or the compliance of parts of its chain of activities, through an external verifier. It can support evidence but is not a substitute for the company's own due diligence.", "sources": [ "CSDDD" ], "related_terms": [ "business-relationship", "appropriate-measures", "risk-factors" ] }, { "term": "indirect emissions", "slug": "indirect-emissions", "canonical_slug": "indirect-emissions", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/indirect-emissions", "category": "CBAM emissions accounting", "short_description": "CBAM electricity-related emissions for electricity consumed during production processes of covered goods.", "editorial_definition": "Indirect emissions are emissions from electricity production when that electricity is consumed during the production processes of CBAM-covered goods. They are not the full Scope 2 footprint of a facility. 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It is not a portable battery simply because it can be moved or handled.", "sources": [ "EU Battery Regulation", "India Battery Waste Management Rules", "UK Waste Batteries Regulations" ], "related_terms": [ "portable-battery", "automotive-battery", "battery", "electric-vehicle-battery" ] }, { "term": "industrial robot", "slug": "industrial-robot", "canonical_slug": "industrial-robot", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/industrial-robot", "category": "Operational", "short_description": "A CRMA end-use equipment term for an automatically controlled, reprogrammable manipulator used in industrial automation.", "editorial_definition": "Under the EU Critical Raw Materials Act, industrial robot means an automatically controlled, reprogrammable, multipurpose manipulator, programmable in three or more axes, fixed or mobile, for use in industrial automation applications.", "sources": [ "EU Critical Raw Materials Act" ], "related_terms": [ "strategic-technologies", "permanent-magnet", "electric-motor", "critical-raw-material", "strategic-raw-material" ] }, { "term": "information requirement", "slug": "information-requirement", "canonical_slug": "information-requirement", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/information-requirement", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "An ESPR obligation for a product to be accompanied by specified information.", "editorial_definition": "An information requirement is an obligation for a product to be accompanied by information as specified in Article 7(2). It concerns disclosure and accessibility of required information, not just internal data storage, and asks what information must be available, to whom, through which channel, and at what point in the product lifecycle.", "sources": [ "ESPR" ], "related_terms": [ "ecodesign-requirement", "performance-requirement", "digital-product-passport", "data-carrier", "qr-code", "placing-on-the-market", "making-available-on-the-market", "technical-specification" ] }, { "term": "installation", "slug": "installation", "canonical_slug": "installation", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/installation", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "The CBAM facility anchor: a stationary technical unit where a production process is carried out.", "editorial_definition": "Installation is the CBAM facility boundary: a stationary technical unit where one or more production processes are carried out. 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It is already a product, but not yet the finished market-facing good.", "sources": [ "ESPR" ], "related_terms": [ "product", "component", "consumer-product", "supply-chain", "raw-materials-supply-chain", "traceability", "digital-product-passport" ] }, { "term": "key market operators", "slug": "key-market-operators", "canonical_slug": "key-market-operators", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/key-market-operators", "category": "Risk & due diligence", "short_description": "A CRMA supply-chain risk term for undertakings whose reliable functioning is important for critical raw material supply.", "editorial_definition": "Under the EU Critical Raw Materials Act, key market operators are undertakings in the Union’s critical raw materials supply chain and downstream undertakings consuming critical raw materials whose reliable functioning is important for the supply of critical raw materials.", "sources": [ "EU Critical Raw Materials Act" ], "related_terms": [ "critical-raw-material", "raw-materials-supply-chain", "supply-risk", "mitigation-strategies", "strategic-stock", "annual-consumption-of-strategic-raw-materials", "offtaker", "supply-disruption" ] }, { "term": "large company", "slug": "large-company", "canonical_slug": "large-company", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/large-company", "category": "Corporate scope", "short_description": "A CRMA threshold term for companies with more than 500 employees on average and over EUR 150 million in net worldwide turnover.", "editorial_definition": "Under the EU Critical Raw Materials Act, a large company is a company with more than 500 employees on average and a net worldwide turnover of more than EUR 150 million in the most recent financial year for which annual financial statements have been prepared.", "sources": [ "EU Critical Raw Materials Act" ], "related_terms": [ "board-of-directors", "supply-risk", "critical-raw-material", "raw-materials-value-chain" ] }, { "term": "liable party", "slug": "liable-party", "canonical_slug": "liable-party", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/liable-party", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "An Australian federal product-stewardship actor concept for a person specified as liable in relation to a product under the rules.", "editorial_definition": "Liable party is an Australian federal framework term from the Recycling and Waste Reduction Act. The Act provides that rules may specify liable parties for a product and limits the role to persons with a defined connection to the product, such as manufacturing, importing, distributing, using, or disposing of it.", "sources": [ "Australia Recycling and Waste Reduction Act" ], "related_terms": [ "product-stewardship-criteria", "waste-material", "brand-owner", "responsible-entity" ] }, { "term": "life cycle", "slug": "life-cycle", "canonical_slug": "life-cycle", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/life-cycle", "category": "Environmental", "short_description": "The product stages from raw-material acquisition through production, use phase, and end-of-life treatment.", "editorial_definition": "Life cycle is the chain of product stages used to understand environmental impacts over time, from raw-material acquisition or generation from natural resources through final disposal. It is a boundary concept, not a full assessment method by itself.", "sources": [ "ESPR", "EU Battery Regulation", "ISO 14067:2018" ], "related_terms": [ "carbon-footprint", "product", "end-of-life", "repair", "environmental-footprint", "carbon-footprint-of-a-product", "material-footprint", "life-cycle-inventory", "pef-study", "environmental-footprint-impact-assessment" ] }, { "term": "life cycle assessment", "slug": "life-cycle-assessment", "canonical_slug": "life-cycle-assessment", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/life-cycle-assessment", "category": "Environmental", "short_description": "The ISO 14067 LCA method concept for evaluating inputs, outputs, and potential impacts across a product system life cycle.", "editorial_definition": "Life cycle assessment is the ISO 14067 term for compiling and evaluating the inputs, outputs, and potential environmental impacts of a product system throughout its life cycle.", "sources": [ "ISO 14067:2018" ], "related_terms": [ "life-cycle-inventory-analysis", "life-cycle-impact-assessment", "life-cycle-interpretation", "life-cycle-inventory", "life-cycle-inventory-dataset", "system-boundary", "pef-study", "environmental-footprint-impact-assessment" ] }, { "term": "life cycle impact assessment", "slug": "life-cycle-impact-assessment", "canonical_slug": "life-cycle-impact-assessment", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/life-cycle-impact-assessment", "category": "Environmental", "short_description": "The ISO 14067 LCA phase for evaluating potential environmental impacts from inventory results.", "editorial_definition": "Life cycle impact assessment is the ISO 14067 phase of life cycle assessment aimed at understanding and evaluating the magnitude and significance of potential environmental impacts for a product system.", "sources": [ "ISO 14067:2018" ], "related_terms": [ "life-cycle-assessment", "life-cycle-inventory-analysis", "impact-category" ] }, { "term": "life cycle interpretation", "slug": "life-cycle-interpretation", "canonical_slug": "life-cycle-interpretation", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/life-cycle-interpretation", "category": "Environmental", "short_description": "The ISO 14067 LCA phase for evaluating inventory and impact findings against the study goal and scope.", "editorial_definition": "Life cycle interpretation is the ISO 14067 phase of life cycle assessment in which inventory-analysis or impact-assessment findings, or both, are evaluated in relation to the defined goal and scope.", "sources": [ "ISO 14067:2018" ], "related_terms": [ "life-cycle-assessment", "sensitivity-analysis", "uncertainty" ] }, { "term": "life cycle inventory analysis", "slug": "life-cycle-inventory-analysis", "canonical_slug": "life-cycle-inventory-analysis", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/life-cycle-inventory-analysis", "category": "Environmental", "short_description": "The ISO 14067 LCA phase for compiling and quantifying product-system inputs and outputs.", "editorial_definition": "Life cycle inventory analysis is the ISO 14067 phase of life cycle assessment that compiles and quantifies inputs and outputs for a product throughout its life cycle.", "sources": [ "ISO 14067:2018" ], "related_terms": [ "life-cycle-assessment", "unit-process", "elementary-flow" ] }, { "term": "light means of transport battery / LMT battery", "slug": "light-means-of-transport-battery-lmt-battery", "canonical_slug": "light-means-of-transport-battery-lmt-battery", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/light-means-of-transport-battery-lmt-battery", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "A sealed EU Battery Regulation battery category for light means of transport, weighing 25 kg or less and designed to provide electric power for wheeled vehicles powered by an electric motor or motor/battery combination.", "editorial_definition": "Light means of transport battery / LMT battery is the EU Battery Regulation category for sealed batteries that power wheeled vehicles that can be powered by an electric motor or by motor and human power together. It is a mobility-category boundary, not a generic small-battery label.", "sources": [ "EU Battery Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "battery-passport", "battery-status", "state-of-health" ] }, { "term": "magnet coating", "slug": "magnet-coating", "canonical_slug": "magnet-coating", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/magnet-coating", "category": "Operational", "short_description": "A CRMA component-detail term for the protective layer generally used to protect magnets from corrosion.", "editorial_definition": "Under the EU Critical Raw Materials Act, magnet coating means a layer of material generally used to protect magnets from corrosion.", "sources": [ "EU Critical Raw Materials Act" ], "related_terms": [ "permanent-magnet", "strategic-technologies", "removal", "critical-raw-material", "recycling" ] }, { "term": "maintenance", "slug": "maintenance", "canonical_slug": "maintenance", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/maintenance", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "An ESPR lifecycle term for actions that keep a product in a condition where it can fulfil its intended purpose.", "editorial_definition": "Maintenance is an ESPR lifecycle term for one or more actions carried out to keep a product in a condition where it is able to fulfil its intended purpose. 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Its practical importance is responsibility: the actor making the product available may be the one whose role triggers specific regulatory obligations.", "sources": [ "ESPR", "EU Battery Regulation", "EU Critical Raw Materials Act", "EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation", "EUDR" ], "related_terms": [ "placing-on-the-market", "producer", "distributor", "conformity-assessment", "economic-operator", "manufacturer", "importer", "putting-into-service", "authorised-representative", "packaging", "packaging-waste", "recyclability" ] }, { "term": "management requirement", "slug": "management-requirement", "canonical_slug": "management-requirement", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/management-requirement", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "An Ontario Batteries Regulation term for the minimum amount of batteries a producer is required to manage under section 13.", "editorial_definition": "Management requirement is the Ontario Batteries Regulation obligation, including the minimum amount of batteries determined under section 13, governing how batteries must be collected, transported, processed, refurbished, recycled, or otherwise managed.", "sources": [ "Ontario Batteries Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "producer", "producer-responsibility-organization", "battery-collection-site", "battery-hauler", "battery-processor", "battery-refurbisher", "average-weight-of-supply", "large-producer" ] }, { "term": "manufacturer", "slug": "manufacturer", "canonical_slug": "manufacturer", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/manufacturer", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "The actor that manufactures a product, or has it designed or manufactured, and markets it under their name or trademark under the relevant source rule.", "editorial_definition": "Manufacturer is the accountable product actor that manufactures a product, has it designed or manufactured, and markets that product under their name or trademark. 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It is not a formal EU legal term, and open does not mean every data field is public; it describes an operating model for making passport infrastructure usable across systems, actors, and customer environments.", "sources": [ "Minespider decision memo", "Open Battery Passport" ], "related_terms": [ "battery-passport", "battery-passport-service-platform", "digital-product-passport", "data-carrier", "unique-identifier", "digital-product-passport-service-provider" ] }, { "term": "operator", "slug": "operator", "canonical_slug": "operator", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/operator", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "A source-specific role term: under EUDR, the market/export actor; under CBAM, the installation-control actor.", "editorial_definition": "Operator is a role term whose meaning depends on the source regime. In EUDR, it is the market/export actor placing relevant products on the market or exporting them in the course of commercial activity; in CBAM, it is tied to operating or controlling an installation in a third country.", "sources": [ "CBAM", "EUDR" ], "related_terms": [ "making-available-on-the-market", "importer", "installation" ] }, { "term": "other wooded land", "slug": "other-wooded-land", "canonical_slug": "other-wooded-land", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/other-wooded-land", "category": "Environmental", "short_description": "Tree, shrub, or bush-covered land above EUDR thresholds that is not classified as forest and is not predominantly agricultural or urban land.", "editorial_definition": "Other wooded land is an EUDR land-cover category for land not classified as forest, spanning more than 0.5 hectares with specified tree or shrub cover thresholds, excluding predominantly agricultural or urban land.", "sources": [ "EUDR" ], "related_terms": [ "deforestation-free", "country-of-production" ] }, { "term": "packaging", "slug": "packaging", "canonical_slug": "packaging", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/packaging", "category": "Packaging & Circularity", "short_description": "PPWR definition of packaging as an item used for containment, protection, handling, delivery, or presentation of products.", "editorial_definition": "Packaging is the PPWR term for an item, regardless of material, intended by an economic operator for containment, protection, handling, delivery, or presentation of products to another economic operator or end user, with packaging format differentiated by function, material, and design.", "sources": [ "EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "packaging-waste", "recyclability" ] }, { "term": "packaging waste", "slug": "packaging-waste", "canonical_slug": "packaging-waste", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/packaging-waste", "category": "Packaging & Circularity", "short_description": "PPWR definition of packaging or packaging material that is waste, excluding production residues.", "editorial_definition": "Packaging waste is PPWR packaging or packaging material that is waste, with the exception of production residues.", "sources": [ "EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "packaging", "recyclability" ] }, { "term": "packaging waste prevention", "slug": "packaging-waste-prevention", "canonical_slug": "packaging-waste-prevention", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/packaging-waste-prevention", "category": "Packaging & Circularity", "short_description": "PPWR source-specific term for packaging waste prevention.", "editorial_definition": "Packaging waste prevention is a source-specific PPWR term for packaging and packaging-waste workflows under Regulation (EU) 2025/40.", "sources": [ "EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "packaging", "packaging-waste", "recyclability" ] }, { "term": "pef profile", "slug": "pef-profile", "canonical_slug": "pef-profile", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/pef-profile", "category": "Environmental Footprint Methodology", "short_description": "EU Environmental Footprint Recommendation term for the quantified results of a PEF study.", "editorial_definition": "A PEF profile is the quantified result set of a PEF study, including quantified impacts across impact categories and any additional environmental information considered necessary to report.", "sources": [ "EU Environmental Footprint Recommendation" ], "related_terms": [ "environmental-footprint", "life-cycle-assessment", "pef-study" ] }, { "term": "pef study", "slug": "pef-study", "canonical_slug": "pef-study", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/pef-study", "category": "Environmental Footprint Methodology", "short_description": "EU Environmental Footprint Recommendation term for the actions needed to calculate PEF results.", "editorial_definition": "A PEF study is the Environmental Footprint Recommendation term for all actions needed to calculate Product Environmental Footprint results, including modelling, data collection, and analysis of results.", "sources": [ "EU Environmental Footprint Recommendation" ], "related_terms": [ "environmental-footprint", "life-cycle-assessment" ] }, { "term": "performance requirement", "slug": "performance-requirement", "canonical_slug": "performance-requirement", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/performance-requirement", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "A quantitative or non-quantitative ESPR requirement for a product to achieve a specified performance level.", "editorial_definition": "A performance requirement is an ESPR requirement for a product to achieve a defined performance level against a product parameter referred to in Annex I. 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It identifies magnets that retains its magnetism without an external magnetic field and can link product design to contained critical or strategic materials.", "sources": [ "EU Critical Raw Materials Act" ], "related_terms": [ "strategic-technologies", "critical-raw-material", "strategic-raw-material", "magnet-coating", "removal", "wind-energy-generator", "electric-motor", "recycling" ] }, { "term": "permit-granting process", "slug": "permit-granting-process", "canonical_slug": "permit-granting-process", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/permit-granting-process", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "A CRMA process term covering the permits, assessments and authorisations needed to build and operate a critical raw material project.", "editorial_definition": "Under the EU Critical Raw Materials Act, permit-granting process means the process covering all relevant permits to build and operate a critical raw material project, including building, chemical and grid-connection permits plus required environmental assessments and authorisations.", "sources": [ "EU Critical Raw Materials Act" ], "related_terms": [ "critical-raw-material-project", "project-promoter", "extraction", "processing", "recycling", "raw-materials-value-chain", "critical-raw-material" ] }, { "term": "permitted facility", "slug": "permitted-facility", "canonical_slug": "permitted-facility", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/permitted-facility", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "EU Battery Regulation term for an establishment or undertaking permitted under Directive 2008/98/EC to treat waste batteries.", "editorial_definition": "Permitted facility is the EU Battery Regulation facility-status term for an establishment or undertaking permitted under Directive 2008/98/EC to carry out treatment of waste batteries. 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It sets the timing point for obligations; it is not the same as conformity assessment and does not prove later distribution, customer delivery, or completion of every compliance process.", "sources": [ "ESPR", "EU Battery Regulation", "EU Critical Raw Materials Act", "EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation", "EUDR", "UK Batteries Placing on Market Regulations" ], "related_terms": [ "producer", "distributor", "battery-passport", "digital-product-passport", "battery-due-diligence", "critical-raw-material", "raw-materials-value-chain", "critical-raw-material-project", "project-promoter", "making-available-on-the-market", "conformity-assessment", "economic-operator", "manufacturer", "importer", "digital-product-passport-service-provider", "putting-into-service", "authorised-representative", "ce-marking", "union-harmonisation-legislation", "packaging", "packaging-waste", "recyclability" ] }, { "term": "plantation forest", "slug": "plantation-forest", "canonical_slug": "plantation-forest", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/plantation-forest", "category": "Environmental", "short_description": "A planted forest that is intensively managed with one or two species, even age class, and regular spacing, subject to EUDR exclusions.", "editorial_definition": "Plantation forest is a planted forest category under EUDR, usually composed of one or two species, even age class, regular spacing, and limited structural diversity. 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It is not downstream manufacturing.", "sources": [ "EU Critical Raw Materials Act" ], "related_terms": [ "us-critical-mineral", "canada-qualifying-material" ] }, { "term": "produced", "slug": "produced", "canonical_slug": "produced", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/produced", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "The EUDR origin-linking term that ties commodities to plots of land, or cattle to establishments.", "editorial_definition": "Produced ties relevant commodities to the plots of land where they were grown, harvested, obtained, or raised, and to establishments for cattle. 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Across EU, UK, India, and Ontario regimes, the producer is not automatically the manufacturer; the exact test depends on the source and market event.", "sources": [ "EU Battery Regulation", "EU End-of-Life Vehicles Directive", "EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation", "Green Claims / Empowering Consumers Directive", "India Battery Waste Management Rules", "Ontario Batteries Regulation", "Türkiye End-of-Life Vehicles Regulation", "UK End-of-Life Vehicles Regulations", "UK Waste Batteries Regulations" ], "related_terms": [ "manufacturer", "importer", "distributor", "placing-on-the-market", "end-of-life-vehicle", "treatment", "recycling", "temporary-storage-area", "treatment-facility", "packaging", "packaging-waste", "recyclability" ] }, { "term": "producer responsibility organisation", "slug": "producer-responsibility-organisation", "canonical_slug": "producer-responsibility-organisation", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/producer-responsibility-organisation", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "An EU Battery Regulation actor that organizes extended producer responsibility obligations on behalf of several producers.", "editorial_definition": "Producer responsibility organisation is the EU Battery Regulation term for a legal entity that can fulfil extended producer responsibility obligations on behalf of producers.", "sources": [ "EU Battery Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "producer", "extended-producer-responsibility", "producer-responsibility-organization", "product-stewardship-organisation" ] }, { "term": "producer responsibility organization", "slug": "producer-responsibility-organization", "canonical_slug": "producer-responsibility-organization", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/producer-responsibility-organization", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "An Ontario Batteries Regulation term for a person retained by a producer to carry out specified battery producer responsibilities.", "editorial_definition": "Producer responsibility organization is the Ontario Batteries Regulation term for an organization that producers may use to meet collection, management, and reporting responsibilities.", "sources": [ "Ontario Batteries Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "producer", "battery-compliance-scheme", "battery-collection-site", "battery-hauler", "battery-processor", "battery-refurbisher", "management-requirement", "extended-producer-responsibility", "waste-battery" ] }, { "term": "product", "slug": "product", "canonical_slug": "product", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/product", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "The physical goods that ESPR treats as the basic object of ecodesign, information, passport, and market obligations.", "editorial_definition": "Under ESPR, a product means any physical goods that are placed on the market or put into service. The term sets the basic object of compliance before more specific distinctions such as product group, component, intermediate product, and consumer product are applied.", "sources": [ "Australia Recycling and Waste Reduction Act", "ESPR", "ISO 14067:2018" ], "related_terms": [ "product-group", "component", "intermediate-product", "consumer-product", "digital-product-passport", "unique-product-identifier", "data-carrier", "manufacturer", "importer", "economic-operator", "unique-operator-identifier", "unique-facility-identifier" ] }, { "term": "product group", "slug": "product-group", "canonical_slug": "product-group", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/product-group", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "A set of products that are similar in purpose, use, functional properties, and consumer perception under ESPR.", "editorial_definition": "Under ESPR, a product group is a set of products that serve similar purposes, are similar in terms of use, have similar functional properties, and are similar in terms of consumer perception. It is a grouping level for rulemaking, not a single SKU or model.", "sources": [ "ESPR" ], "related_terms": [ "product", "ecodesign-requirement", "performance-requirement", "information-requirement", "digital-product-passport", "unique-product-identifier" ] }, { "term": "product presenting a risk", "slug": "product-presenting-a-risk", "canonical_slug": "product-presenting-a-risk", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/product-presenting-a-risk", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "An ESPR market-surveillance term for a product whose non-compliance with an ecodesign requirement could harm the environment or another protected public interest.", "editorial_definition": "Product presenting a risk is an ESPR escalation term for a product whose non-compliance with an ESPR ecodesign requirement could adversely affect the environment or another protected public interest. It is a risk trigger, not a synonym for any defect, warranty problem, or commercial risk. It is not every defective product. It does not automatically mean serious risk.", "sources": [ "ESPR" ], "related_terms": [ "product-presenting-a-serious-risk", "ecodesign-requirement", "product", "conformity-assessment", "ce-marking", "technical-specification", "harmonised-standard", "union-harmonisation-legislation" ] }, { "term": "product presenting a serious risk", "slug": "product-presenting-a-serious-risk", "canonical_slug": "product-presenting-a-serious-risk", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/product-presenting-a-serious-risk", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "An ESPR escalation term for a product presenting a risk where non-compliance or harm requires rapid market-surveillance intervention.", "editorial_definition": "Product presenting a serious risk is the ESPR escalation category for a product presenting a risk where the degree of non-compliance or associated harm requires rapid intervention by market surveillance authorities. It is narrower and more urgent than ordinary non-compliance or the baseline risk category.", "sources": [ "ESPR" ], "related_terms": [ "product-presenting-a-risk", "ecodesign-requirement", "product", "conformity-assessment", "ce-marking", "technical-specification", "harmonised-standard", "union-harmonisation-legislation" ] }, { "term": "product stewardship criteria", "slug": "product-stewardship-criteria", "canonical_slug": "product-stewardship-criteria", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/product-stewardship-criteria", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "Federal Australian criteria for deciding when product stewardship may apply under the Recycling and Waste Reduction Act 2020.", "editorial_definition": "Product stewardship criteria are the Australian federal conditions used to assess whether a product category can fit within the Recycling and Waste Reduction Act 2020 product-stewardship framework.", "sources": [ "Australia Recycling and Waste Reduction Act" ], "related_terms": [ "waste-material", "regulated-waste-material", "regulated-battery", "product-stewardship-organisation" ] }, { "term": "product stewardship organisation", "slug": "product-stewardship-organisation", "canonical_slug": "product-stewardship-organisation", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/product-stewardship-organisation", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "An NSW product-stewardship actor used as the administration layer for regulated-battery stewardship arrangements.", "editorial_definition": "In the NSW regulated-battery context, product stewardship organisation, or PSO, is the administration layer that can sit between brand owners and the regulated-battery stewardship scheme. The regulation defines PSO as a product stewardship organisation and then uses PSOs in the scheme’s agreement, record, collection, recovery, and reporting architecture.", "sources": [ "NSW PLR Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "responsible-entity", "regulated-battery-product-stewardship-scheme", "brand-owner" ] }, { "term": "production processes", "slug": "production-processes", "canonical_slug": "production-processes", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/production-processes", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "The chemical and physical processes carried out to produce goods in an installation under CBAM.", "editorial_definition": "Production processes are the chemical and physical processes carried out to produce goods in an installation and used to determine embedded emissions under CBAM Annex IV methods.", "sources": [ "CBAM" ], "related_terms": [ "actual-emissions", "default-value" ] }, { "term": "professional repairer", "slug": "professional-repairer", "canonical_slug": "professional-repairer", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/professional-repairer", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "A person or business that provides professional repair or maintenance services for a product.", "editorial_definition": "Professional repairer is an ESPR actor term for a natural or legal person that provides professional repair or maintenance services for a product. It supports right-to-repair and access to product information, but it is not automatically the manufacturer or the economic operator responsible for placing the product on the market.", "sources": [ "ESPR" ], "related_terms": [ "repair", "maintenance", "independent-operator", "manufacturer", "information-requirement", "digital-product-passport" ] }, { "term": "project promoter", "slug": "project-promoter", "canonical_slug": "project-promoter", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/project-promoter", "category": "Project governance", "short_description": "A CRMA actor term for an undertaking or consortium developing a raw material project.", "editorial_definition": "Under the EU Critical Raw Materials Act, a project promoter is an undertaking or consortium of undertakings developing a raw material project.", "sources": [ "EU Critical Raw Materials Act" ], "related_terms": [ "critical-raw-material-project", "raw-materials-value-chain", "critical-raw-material", "permit-granting-process", "offtake-agreement", "extraction", "processing", "recycling", "offtaker" ] }, { "term": "provider of an online marketplace", "slug": "provider-of-an-online-marketplace", "canonical_slug": "provider-of-an-online-marketplace", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/provider-of-an-online-marketplace", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "An ESPR intermediary-service actor whose online interface lets customers conclude distance contracts for covered products with economic operators.", "editorial_definition": "Provider of an online marketplace is the ESPR term for an intermediary-service provider whose online interface lets customers conclude distance contracts with economic operators for covered products. It is a sales-channel actor, not automatically the manufacturer, importer, distributor, economic operator, or DPP service provider responsible for the product evidence itself.", "sources": [ "ESPR" ], "related_terms": [ "distance-selling", "economic-operator", "making-available-on-the-market", "placing-on-the-market", "digital-product-passport", "digital-product-passport-service-provider", "manufacturer", "importer", "distributor" ] }, { "term": "putting into service", "slug": "putting-into-service", "canonical_slug": "putting-into-service", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/putting-into-service", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "A market-access timing term for the first use of a product or battery for its intended purpose in the Union.", "editorial_definition": "Putting into service is the first use of a product or battery for its intended purpose in the Union under the relevant source rule. It is a market-access timing trigger tied to operational deployment, not the same event as placing on the market or making a product available for supply.", "sources": [ "ESPR", "EU Battery Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "placing-on-the-market", "making-available-on-the-market", "product", "conformity-assessment", "manufacturer", "ce-marking" ] }, { "term": "QR code", "slug": "qr-code", "canonical_slug": "qr-code", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/qr-code", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "A machine-readable matrix code that links a physical battery or product to required digital information.", "editorial_definition": "A QR code is a machine-readable two-dimensional matrix code used to connect a physical battery, product, packaging, or document to required digital information. It is a visible access mechanism, not the passport record, the unique identifier, or proof that linked data is complete.", "sources": [ "DIN DKE SPEC 99100", "EU Battery Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "data-carrier", "battery-passport", "digital-product-passport", "unique-identifier", "unique-product-identifier", "traceability" ] }, { "term": "rated capacity", "slug": "rated-capacity", "canonical_slug": "rated-capacity", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/rated-capacity", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "Declared battery capacity in ampere-hours under reference conditions.", "editorial_definition": "Rated capacity is the declared ampere-hour capacity that can be withdrawn from a fully charged battery under reference conditions. It is a declared technical attribute, not a live state-of-charge or degradation measurement.", "sources": [ "DIN DKE SPEC 99100", "EU Battery Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "battery-passport", "battery-item", "state-of-charge", "state-of-health", "battery-cell", "battery-module" ] }, { "term": "raw material", "slug": "raw-material", "canonical_slug": "raw-material", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/raw-material", "category": "Materials & sourcing", "short_description": "The base material-identity layer in CRMA and product-passport records, before critical, strategic, recycled, or battery-specific classifications are applied.", "editorial_definition": "Raw material is the underlying material input before policy categories such as critical raw material or strategic raw material are attached. It identifies the substance or material role; it does not by itself prove supply risk, strategic importance, recycled content, or due-diligence status. In the CRMA source context, it is an input for the manufacturing of intermediate or final products, excluding substances predominantly used as food, feed or combustion fuel.", "sources": [ "EU Critical Raw Materials Act" ], "related_terms": [ "us-critical-mineral", "canada-qualifying-material" ] }, { "term": "raw materials supply chain", "slug": "raw-materials-supply-chain", "canonical_slug": "raw-materials-supply-chain", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/raw-materials-supply-chain", "category": "Materials & sourcing", "short_description": "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.", "editorial_definition": "Raw materials supply chain is the CRMA term for raw-materials value-chain activities up to the point where a raw material becomes an input for the manufacturing of intermediate or final products.", "sources": [ "EU Critical Raw Materials Act" ], "related_terms": [ "raw-materials-value-chain", "supply-chain", "supply-risk", "critical-raw-material" ] }, { "term": "raw materials value chain", "slug": "raw-materials-value-chain", "canonical_slug": "raw-materials-value-chain", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/raw-materials-value-chain", "category": "Materials & sourcing", "short_description": "The CRMA stage map for raw materials, covering exploration, extraction, processing, and recycling rather than the full finished-product value chain.", "editorial_definition": "Raw materials value chain is the CRMA chain of activities around raw materials from exploration, extraction, processing and recycling. It is not the finished-product value chain, because it focuses on material-stage evidence rather than every design, manufacturing, distribution, use, or end-of-life activity.", "sources": [ "EU Critical Raw Materials Act" ], "related_terms": [ "raw-material", "extraction", "processing", "recycling", "supply-chain", "critical-raw-material", "strategic-raw-material", "union-extraction-capacity", "union-processing-capacity", "union-recycling-capacity", "critical-raw-material-project", "project-promoter", "permit-granting-process", "offtake-agreement", "annual-consumption-of-strategic-raw-materials", "critical-raw-material-type", "strategic-partnership", "raw-materials-supply-chain", "offtaker" ] }, { "term": "re-use", "slug": "re-use", "canonical_slug": "re-use", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/re-use", "category": "Environmental", "short_description": "A circularity term for keeping a product, component, battery, or material in use rather than sending it straight to recycling or disposal.", "editorial_definition": "Re-use is the pathway where a product, component, battery, or material is used again instead of being sent directly to recycling or disposal. It preserves use value and should be distinguished from preparation for re-use, repurposing, and material recovery.", "sources": [ "Brazil National Solid Waste Policy", "DIN DKE SPEC 99100", "EU Critical Raw Materials Act", "EU End-of-Life Vehicles Directive", "EU Waste Framework Directive", "Türkiye End-of-Life Vehicles Regulation", "UK End-of-Life Vehicles Regulations" ], "related_terms": [ "preparation-for-re-use", "repurposing", "recycling", "battery-status", "state-of-health", "battery-passport", "disassembly", "waste-battery", "end-of-life-vehicle", "treatment", "temporary-storage-area", "treatment-facility", "motor-vehicle-recycler", "motor-vehicle-recycler-register", "packaging", "packaging-waste", "recyclability" ] }, { "term": "re-use system", "slug": "re-use-system", "canonical_slug": "re-use-system", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/re-use-system", "category": "Packaging & Circularity", "short_description": "PPWR source-specific term for re-use system.", "editorial_definition": "Re-use system is a source-specific PPWR term for packaging and packaging-waste workflows under Regulation (EU) 2025/40.", "sources": [ "EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "packaging", "packaging-waste", "recyclability" ] }, { "term": "rechargeable battery", "slug": "rechargeable-battery", "canonical_slug": "rechargeable-battery", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/rechargeable-battery", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "A source-specific battery category for batteries designed or able to be recharged and used more than once.", "editorial_definition": "Rechargeable battery is a source-specific regulatory term that refers to a battery that is designed to be electrically recharged.", "sources": [ "EU Battery Regulation", "Ontario Batteries Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "primary-battery", "battery", "state-of-health", "battery-status", "portable-battery" ] }, { "term": "recovery", "slug": "recovery", "canonical_slug": "recovery", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/recovery", "category": "Environmental", "short_description": "The EU waste operation where waste serves a useful purpose by replacing other materials or being prepared to do so.", "editorial_definition": "Recovery is a waste operation where the main result is that waste serves a useful purpose by replacing other materials, or is prepared to do so.", "sources": [ "EU Critical Raw Materials Act", "EU End-of-Life Vehicles Directive", "EU Waste Framework Directive", "Türkiye End-of-Life Vehicles Regulation", "UK End-of-Life Vehicles Regulations" ], "related_terms": [ "preparing-for-re-use", "recycling-efficiency", "waste-management", "end-of-life-vehicle", "treatment", "recycling", "end-of-life-vehicle-waste-disposal-site", "motor-vehicle-hulk", "registered-vehicle-scrapping-facility", "vehicle-scrapping", "temporary-storage-area", "treatment-facility", "automobile-dismantler", "total-loss-salvage-vehicle", "nonrepairable-vehicle", "shipment", "illegal-shipment" ] }, { "term": "recyclability", "slug": "recyclability", "canonical_slug": "recyclability", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/recyclability", "category": "Packaging & Circularity", "short_description": "PPWR compatibility concept linking packaging design to separate collection, sorting, recycling at scale, and replacement of primary raw materials.", "editorial_definition": "Recyclability is the PPWR compatibility of packaging with waste management and processing by design, based on separate collection, sorting in separate streams, recycling at scale, and the use of recycled materials to replace primary raw materials.", "sources": [ "EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "packaging", "packaging-waste" ] }, { "term": "recycled content", "slug": "recycled-content", "canonical_slug": "recycled-content", "canonical_url": 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& Responsible Sourcing", "short_description": "EU Conflict Minerals Regulation term for reclaimed end-user/post-consumer or scrap processed metals suitable for recycling into 3TG metals.", "editorial_definition": "Recycled metals are reclaimed end-user or post-consumer products, or scrap processed metals created during manufacturing, that contain refined or processed metals appropriate for recycling into tin, tantalum, tungsten, or gold; partially processed, unprocessed, or ore by-product minerals are excluded.", "sources": [ "EU Conflict Minerals Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "supply-chain-due-diligence", "mineral-supply-chain", "traceability", "us-critical-mineral", "canada-qualifying-material" ] }, { "term": "recycler", "slug": "recycler", "canonical_slug": "recycler", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/recycler", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "A downstream actor term for entities that carry out recycling, with EU, India, and Brazil 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steps.", "editorial_definition": "Recycling is the material-recovery pathway in which waste materials are reprocessed into products, materials, or substances. 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They start the scope analysis but do not by themselves prove that a product is in scope, compliant, legal, or deforestation-free. It is not every agricultural or forest-risk input.", "sources": [ "EUDR" ], "related_terms": [ "operator", "trader", "placing-on-the-market" ] }, { "term": "relevant products", "slug": "relevant-products", "canonical_slug": "relevant-products", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/relevant-products", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "The EUDR Annex I product layer: specified goods that contain, were fed with, or were made using relevant commodities.", "editorial_definition": "Relevant products are the Annex I goods in EUDR scope because they contain, were fed with, or were made using relevant commodities. The term is not identical to relevant commodities and should not be expanded beyond the listed product scope.", "sources": [ "EUDR" ], "related_terms": [ "produced", "country-of-production", "deforestation-free" ] }, { "term": "reliability", "slug": "reliability", "canonical_slug": "reliability", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/reliability", "category": "Performance & Design", "short_description": "The probability that a product functions as required for a given duration under given conditions without a function-ending event.", "editorial_definition": "Reliability means the probability that a product functions as required under given conditions for a given duration without a primary or secondary function-ending event.", "sources": [ "ESPR" ], "related_terms": [ "service-life", "premature-obsolescence", "class-of-performance" ] }, { "term": "remanufacturing", "slug": "remanufacturing", "canonical_slug": "remanufacturing", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/remanufacturing", "category": "Environmental", "short_description": "A lifecycle-transition term for making a renewed product or battery from used, waste, or recovered objects under source-specific rules.", "editorial_definition": "Remanufacturing describes operations that renew a used product or battery for market use, but ESPR and the EU Battery Regulation use different legal thresholds. The source definitions are related, not interchangeable.", "sources": [ "ESPR", "EU Battery Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "battery-cell", "battery-module", "state-of-health", "battery-status", "repurposing", "preparation-for-repurposing", "re-use", "recycling", "waste-battery", "battery-passport" ] }, { "term": "removal", "slug": "removal", "canonical_slug": "removal", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/removal", "category": "Operational", "short_description": "A CRMA handling term for making targeted components or materials identifiable as a separate output stream or part of one.", "editorial_definition": "Under the EU Critical Raw Materials Act, removal means manual, mechanical, chemical, thermal or metallurgic handling with the result that targeted components or materials are identifiable as a separate output stream or part of an output stream.", "sources": [ "EU Critical Raw Materials Act" ], "related_terms": [ "permanent-magnet", "magnet-coating", "recycling", "recovery", "waste-management", "extractive-waste", "raw-materials-value-chain" ] }, { "term": "repair", "slug": "repair", "canonical_slug": "repair", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/repair", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "An ESPR lifecycle term for actions that return a defective product or waste to a condition where it fulfils its intended purpose.", "editorial_definition": "Repair is an ESPR lifecycle term for one or more actions carried out to return a defective product or waste to a condition where it fulfils its intended purpose. It is not routine upkeep; repair follows a defect or failure and creates a lifecycle event that may matter for product records.", "sources": [ "ESPR" ], "related_terms": [ "maintenance", "professional-repairer", "independent-operator", "battery-status", "remanufacturing", "refurbishment", "traceability" ] }, { "term": "representative product (model)", "slug": "representative-product", "canonical_slug": "representative-product", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/representative-product", "category": "Environmental Footprint Methodology", "short_description": "EU Environmental Footprint Recommendation method term for representative product (model).", "editorial_definition": "Representative product (model) is a source-specific method term from Commission Recommendation (EU) 2021/2279 for Product Environmental Footprint studies and related environmental-footprint reporting.", "sources": [ "EU Environmental Footprint Recommendation" ], "related_terms": [ "environmental-footprint", "life-cycle-assessment", "pef-study" ] }, { "term": "repurposing", "slug": "repurposing", "canonical_slug": "repurposing", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/repurposing", "category": "Environmental", "short_description": "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.", "editorial_definition": "Repurposing is the EU Battery Regulation second-life operation that enables a non-waste battery, battery pack, module, or cell to be used for a different purpose or application than originally designed.", "sources": [ "EU Battery Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "preparation-for-repurposing", "re-use", "battery-status", "state-of-health", "state-of-charge", "remanufacturing", "preparation-for-re-use", "waste-battery", "battery-passport" ] }, { "term": "reserves", "slug": "reserves", "canonical_slug": "reserves", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/reserves", "category": "Materials & sourcing", "short_description": "The economically viable subset of mineral occurrences or deposits under the CRMA context, distinct from resources, exploration targets, or speculative supply.", "editorial_definition": "Reserves are the part of a mineral occurrence that is economically viable to extract in a particular market context. not every mineral occurrence, resource estimate, exploration target, or future supply scenario is a reserve.", "sources": [ "EU Critical Raw Materials Act" ], "related_terms": [ "mineral-occurrences", "exploration", "critical-raw-material", "strategic-raw-material", "supply-risk", "raw-materials-value-chain" ] }, { "term": "responsible entity", "slug": "responsible-entity", "canonical_slug": "responsible-entity", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/responsible-entity", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "An NSW regulated-battery switching concept that routes responsibility to a PSO when an agreement exists, or to brand owners when it does not.", "editorial_definition": "Responsible entity is an NSW regulated-battery switching concept. 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"https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/single-use-packaging", "category": "Packaging & Circularity", "short_description": "PPWR term for packaging that is not reusable packaging.", "editorial_definition": "Single-use packaging is the PPWR category for packaging that is not reusable packaging.", "sources": [ "EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "packaging", "re-use-system", "packaging-waste" ] }, { "term": "smelter and refiner", "slug": "smelter-and-refiner", "canonical_slug": "smelter-and-refiner", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/smelter-and-refiner", "category": "Conflict Minerals & Responsible Sourcing", "short_description": "EU Conflict Minerals Regulation term for smelter and refiner.", "editorial_definition": "smelter and refiner is a source-specific term under Regulation (EU) 2017/821 for tin, tantalum, tungsten, their ores, and gold supply-chain due diligence.", "sources": [ "EU Conflict Minerals Regulation" ], 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operational-status value expressing currently available energy as a share of rated capacity.", "editorial_definition": "State of charge is the current usable energy level of a battery expressed relative to rated capacity. 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It is not the same as state of charge.", "sources": [ "EU Battery Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "battery", "battery-management-system", "state-of-charge", "battery-status", "repurposing", "remanufacturing" ] }, { "term": "static data", "slug": "static-data", "canonical_slug": "static-data", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/static-data", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "Stable product or battery master data that is expected to remain consistent unless a governed correction, design change, or version update occurs.", "editorial_definition": "Static data is the relatively stable master-data layer for a product or battery, such as identifiers, model information, manufacturer details, category, and declared specifications. 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