A regulatory term referring to actions carried out to prepare, clean, test, service and, where necessary.
Refurbishment is part of the formal vocabulary used in digital product passports, product sustainability information, durability, and ecodesign compliance. For this glossary, the key point is understanding how the source defines the term and where that definition sits within broader compliance or data requirements.
Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 establishing a framework for the setting of ecodesign requirements for sustainable products
actions carried out to prepare, clean, test, service and, where necessary, repair a product or a discarded product in order to restore its performance or functionality within the intended use and range of performance originally conceived at the design stage at the time of the placing of the product on the market;
Reference: Article 2, point 18
In practice, this term matters when companies collect, structure, verify, or communicate sustainability data within digital product passports, product sustainability information, durability, and ecodesign compliance.
For Minespider, refurbishment is not just descriptive language. It is a modeling term that affects how sustainability, emissions, lifecycle, or product information should be captured and compared.