A regulatory term referring to any electrical or electronic equipment, as defined in Article 3(1), point (a), of Directive 2012/19/EU.
Appliance is part of the formal vocabulary used in battery regulation, battery passports, producer obligations, and EV or industrial battery compliance. For this glossary, the key point is understanding how the source defines the term and where that definition sits within broader compliance or data requirements.
Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 concerning batteries and waste batteries
any electrical or electronic equipment, as defined in Article 3(1), point (a), of Directive 2012/19/EU, which is fully or partly powered by a battery or is capable of being so;
Reference: Article 3, point 26
In practice, this term matters when translating official-source language into product, battery, supply-chain, or compliance data models used in battery regulation, battery passports, producer obligations, and EV or industrial battery compliance.
For Minespider, appliance is useful when turning dense legal text into a clearer operational vocabulary that can be linked to traceability, product data, and compliance workflows.