A product intended to be incorporated into another product under ESPR.
Component is the ESPR building-block term for a product that is meant to be incorporated into another product rather than marketed as the finished whole. It matters because product passport and sustainability evidence may need to travel from component-level records into the final assembled product without losing source or responsibility boundaries.
ESPR Article 2 defines component by its intended incorporation into another product. That makes component a product-architecture term as well as a regulatory term: it helps explain when information belongs to a part, the finished product, or both.
Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 establishing a framework for the setting of ecodesign requirements for sustainable products
a product intended to be incorporated into another product;
Reference: Article 2, point 2
Implementation records should capture the component identifier, incorporated-product link, source boundary, evidence inheritance, supplier record, aggregation rule, and distinction from the finished product, intermediate product, or product group.
Component is a component-granularity control: the evidence consequence is that passport and sustainability data can travel from incorporated parts into finished-product records without losing source, role, or responsibility boundaries.