A unique ESPR identifier for locations or buildings involved in a product’s value chain.
Unique facility identifier adds site-level precision to product and sustainability data. It helps connect passport, traceability, and evidence records to the locations or buildings involved in a product’s value chain without confusing the facility with the actor that owns or uses it.
ESPR Article 2, point 33 defines unique facility identifier around locations or buildings involved in, or used by actors involved in, a product’s value chain. The source boundary makes it a facility-identity concept rather than a general address field, company identifier, or product identifier.
Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 establishing a framework for the setting of ecodesign requirements for sustainable products
a unique string of characters for the identification of locations or buildings involved in a product’s value chain or used by actors involved in a product’s value chain;
Reference: Article 2, point 33
Implementation records should capture the facility identifier, site or building record, value-chain location, event evidence link, actor using the facility, address/source reference, and distinction from product, operator, or activity records.
Unique facility identifier is a site-identity control: the evidence consequence is that product claims can be linked to real locations while keeping site identity separate from actor identity and proof that a process occurred there.