A regulatory term referring to a product intended to be incorporated into another product.
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. That distinction matters because ecodesign obligations may attach differently depending on whether the law is looking at the part or at the assembled end product.
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
This term matters when companies decide whether a record, declaration, or passport element belongs to the final product or to one of its incorporated parts. It also affects how traceability and sustainability information are inherited, aggregated, or kept separate across product structure levels.
For Minespider, component is a granularity term. It determines how deep product data needs to go before a digital product passport becomes useful rather than just descriptive.