A CRMA boundary term for raw-materials value-chain activities up to the point where a raw material becomes an input for manufacturing intermediate or final products.
Raw materials supply chain is the CRMA boundary for upstream raw-material activities before the material becomes an input for manufacturing intermediate or final products. It is connected to the raw materials value chain, but it is not the same as the full product value chain, downstream product manufacturing, customer delivery, or product-passport lifecycle scope.
This page is anchored in CRMA Article 2, point 25. The term stops at the point where a raw material is used as an input for manufacturing intermediate or final products, so it should be read as a CRMA raw-materials boundary rather than a generic end-to-end product value-chain definition.
Regulation (EU) 2024/1252 establishing a framework for ensuring a secure and sustainable supply of critical raw materials
all activities and processes of the raw materials value chain up to the point where a raw material is used as an input for the manufacturing of intermediate or final products
CRMA Article 2 source-specific definition layer.
Reference: Article 2, point 25
Public draft page. EU Critical Raw Materials Act direct definition; keep source-specific and avoid treating it as a generic global supply-chain concept.
Use this term when mapping where CRMA supply-risk, disruption, mitigation, or resilience evidence sits in relation to extraction, processing, recycling, storage, transport, and other raw-material activities. The boundary helps teams avoid mixing raw-material supply-chain evidence with later product-level manufacturing, sales, use-phase, or end-customer records.
Supply-chain language can become too broad unless the regulatory boundary is kept visible. Minespider can use raw materials supply chain as the evidence boundary for material availability and resilience questions, while keeping it connected to product passports and battery records only where a specific material input has to be traced into a product.