A regulatory term referring to the country or territory where the relevant commodity or the relevant commodity used in the production of.
Country of production is part of the formal vocabulary used in traceability, origin evidence, and deforestation-related due diligence. 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) 2023/1115 on deforestation-free products
the country or territory where the relevant commodity or the relevant commodity used in the production of, or contained in, a relevant product was produced;
Reference: Article 2, point 24
In practice, this term matters when mapping who is responsible for obligations, declarations, market placement, recordkeeping, or due-diligence steps within traceability, origin evidence, and deforestation-related due diligence.
For Minespider, country of production is best treated as a responsibility and workflow term. The important question is which actor, document, or compliance step the source is actually assigning through this definition.