An ESPR requirement, either a performance requirement or an information requirement, aimed at improving product environmental sustainability.
Readers often expect every ecodesign requirement to become a passport field. The implementation risk is routing all obligations into disclosure workflows even when the rule requires product performance, testing, design changes, or supporting evidence.
ESPR Article 2, point 7 defines an ecodesign requirement as a performance requirement or an information requirement aimed at making a product, including processes throughout its value chain, more environmentally sustainable. This umbrella structure matters because performance proof and information delivery are implemented differently.
Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 establishing a framework for the setting of ecodesign requirements for sustainable products
a performance requirement or an information requirement aimed at making a product, including processes taking place throughout the product’s value chain, more environmentally sustainable;
Reference: Article 2, point 7
Model a requirement identifier, delegated act, product group, requirement type, performance requirement link, information requirement link, affected product parameter, evidence owner, compliance deadline, and verification status. The implementation record should route the requirement to engineering, documentation, passport, or market-access workflows as appropriate.
Ecodesign requirement is an obligation-routing control: each requirement needs to be classified before evidence is collected. That classification keeps product-performance obligations, disclosure obligations, and passport fields from being treated as the same implementation task.