The base material-identity layer in CRMA and product-passport records, before critical, strategic, recycled, or battery-specific classifications are applied.
Raw material is the starting point for material evidence. The practical sequence is to identify the material, connect it to a product or supply-chain role, then add source-bound classifications and evidence such as CRMA status, recycled-content records, origin, supplier documents, or battery-material requirements.
The EU Critical Raw Materials Act uses raw-material terminology as the base layer for more specific CRMA categories and value-chain stages. The term should stay broader than critical or strategic status while still being structured enough to support classification. North America critical-minerals context: U.S. sources use designation/list logic under 30 U.S.C. § 1606 and the Federal Register 2022 list; Canada Income Tax Act section 127.49 uses qualifying material and qualifying mineral activity for a tax-credit context. Keep these source layers separate from EU CRMA critical/strategic raw material and EU conflict-minerals definitions.
Regulation (EU) 2024/1252 establishing a framework for ensuring a secure and sustainable supply of critical raw materials
a substance in processed or unprocessed state used as an input for the manufacturing of intermediate or final products, excluding substances predominantly used as food, feed or combustion fuel
CRMA Article 2 source-specific definition layer.
Reference: Article 2, point 1
Reviewed public draft page. Aligns with CRMA raw-material priority policy: source-bound category boundaries, concrete implementation objects, and evidence-focused commentary.
Implementation records should capture substance or material name, source family, product role, category flags, supplier/facility link, country or origin field where relevant, material form, quantity/unit, evidence source, and links to critical, strategic, recycled, or battery-specific status.
Raw material is the anchor for downstream classifications. If the material identity is not structured first, later CRMA status, supply-risk, recycled-content, and passport claims can be routed to the wrong substance or product layer.