EU Environmental Footprint Recommendation method term for representative product (model).
Representative product (model) should be read as part of the PEF method stack: goal/scope, inventory modelling, impact assessment, quantified profile, reporting, and category-rule support. It is not a standalone product-compliance claim.
Commission Recommendation (EU) 2021/2279 on the use of Environmental Footprint methods
this may be a real or virtual (non-existing) product. The virtual product should be calculated based on average European market sales-weighted characteristics for all existing technologies/materials covered by the product category or sub-category. Other weighting sets may be used, if justified – for example weighted average based on mass (ton of material) or weighted average based on product units (pieces).
Annex I Product Environmental Footprint Method definitions. Recommendation/method source, not binding product-law vocabulary by itself.
Reference: Annex I, Definitions — Representative product (model)
Implementation records should capture the PEF study identifier, product scope, functional unit or representative-product link where relevant, data sources, impact categories, profile results, report references, and any applicable PEFCR or benchmark context.
For Minespider, EF Recommendation terms help separate carbon-footprint claims from broader product environmental-footprint method evidence. They should route to study, dataset, impact-category, result-profile, benchmark, and report objects.