A regulatory term referring to a set of products that serve similar purposes and are similar in terms of use, or have similar functional properties.
Product group is the ESPR clustering concept for products that are similar enough in purpose, use, functional properties, and consumer perception to be regulated together. It is the term that lets ecodesign rules scale across families of products rather than being written one SKU at a time.
Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 establishing a framework for the setting of ecodesign requirements for sustainable products
a set of products that serve similar purposes and are similar in terms of use, or have similar functional properties, and are similar in terms of consumer perception;
Reference: Article 2, point 5
This term matters when the Commission or a company needs to know whether one delegated-act framework or performance methodology should apply across a family of similar products. It also affects how companies scope compliance programs, product-taxonomy design, and evidence reuse across related offerings.
For Minespider, product group is a scope-setting term. It helps determine when one information architecture can cover many related products without flattening meaningful technical differences.