A service provider involved in supporting the infrastructure or operation of a digital product passport under the relevant framework.
Digital product passport service provider matters because it recognizes that passport systems may depend on specialist third parties, not just manufacturers or brand owners. It helps clarify where technical service roles sit within the compliance ecosystem.
Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 establishing a framework for the setting of ecodesign requirements for sustainable products
a natural or legal person that is an independent third-party authorised by the economic operator which places the product on the market or puts it into service and that processes the digital product passport data for that product for the purpose of making such data available to economic operators and other relevant actors with a right to access those data under this Regulation or other Union law;
Reference: Article 2, point 32
This term matters when a company uses external providers to host, maintain, or operate product-passport-related services. Teams need to know which functions can be outsourced and how those services fit into the broader evidence chain.
For Minespider, this term is useful because real-world compliance systems are rarely entirely in-house. Good glossary treatment should make the role of service providers legible without confusing them with the actors that remain legally accountable.