A regulatory term referring to a performance requirement or an information requirement aimed at making a product.
Ecodesign requirement is the umbrella obligation type in ESPR: either a performance requirement or an information requirement aimed at improving a product's environmental sustainability. The term matters because it bundles very different compliance mechanisms under one legal category.
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
This term matters when teams need to understand whether a delegated act is asking them to improve the product itself, disclose information about it, or both. That distinction affects which internal teams own the work and what evidence needs to be produced.
For Minespider, ecodesign requirement is the packaging term for actionable ESPR obligations. It is the point where high-level sustainability policy gets broken down into concrete performance and disclosure tasks.