An EU-established person or entity with a written mandate to act on behalf of another economic actor for specified regulatory tasks.
The phrase can sound like a broad EU proxy, but it is only as wide as the mandate and source law. The implementation risk is that teams record a representative name while failing to record which obligations, products, territories, or authority contacts the mandate actually covers.
ESPR, the EU Battery Regulation, EUDR, and CSDDD all depend on a written mandate, but the principal actor and task scope differ: manufacturer obligations, battery obligations, operator or trader tasks, and CSDDD compliance functions are not interchangeable.
Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 establishing a framework for the setting of ecodesign requirements for sustainable products
any natural or legal person established in the Union that has received a written mandate from the manufacturer to act on the manufacturer’s behalf in relation to specified tasks with regard to the manufacturer’s obligations under this Regulation;
Reference: Article 2, point 43
Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 concerning batteries and waste batteries
any natural or legal person established in the Union who has received a written mandate from a manufacturer to act on its behalf in relation to specified tasks with regard to the manufacturer’s obligations under Chapters IV and VI;
Reference: Article 3, point 63
Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 on deforestation-free products
any natural or legal person established in the Union who, in accordance with Article 6, has received a written mandate from an operator or from a trader to act on its behalf in relation to specified tasks with regard to the operator’s or the trader’s obligations under this Regulation;
Reference: Article 2, point 22
Directive (EU) 2024/1760 on corporate sustainability due diligence
a natural or legal person resident or established in the Union that has a mandate from a company within the meaning of point (a)(ii) to act on its behalf in relation to compliance with that company’s obligations pursuant to this Directive;
Reference: Article 3, point k
The definitions from different sources are related but not legally interchangeable — check which source applies to your specific regulatory obligation before relying on a definition.
An authorised representative is an EU-established actor with a written mandate who acts on behalf of another obligated actor for specified tasks. The role has source-specific scope: it creates a task-specific representation channel, does not erase the underlying actor, and does not transfer every obligation by default.
Store a mandate record with representative identifier, principal actor, source law, product or commodity scope, task scope, start and end dates, authority contact, document file, and escalation path. Systems should keep delegated tasks separate from duties that remain with the principal actor.
Authorised representative is a mandate-boundary control: the data model must show who can act, for whom, under which source, and for which task. That prevents a representative contact from being mistaken for the underlying manufacturer, operator, trader, or company.