All public glossary terms

A UK Waste Batteries Regulations term for evidence issued by an approved battery treatment operator or approved battery exporter for accepted waste portable battery tonnage.

Administrative · UK Waste Batteries Regulations

A production or logistics grouping used as a shared evidence layer for related item-level battery passports.

Technical · DIN DKE SPEC 99100

The electrochemical composition family of a battery used in product, performance, safety, recycling, and passport-data contexts.

Technical · DIN DKE SPEC 99100

An individual physical battery unit used as the item-level identity anchor for a serialized battery passport.

Technical · DIN DKE SPEC 99100

The EU Battery Regulation term for the electronic system controlling or managing battery safety, performance, service life, data storage, and communication.

Technical · EU Battery Regulation

A complete battery assembly made from cells or modules, usually the practical unit installed, replaced, serviced, or traced in downstream workflows.

Technical · EU Battery Regulation, India Battery Waste Management Rules, UK Batteries Placing on Market Regulations, UK Waste Batteries Regulations

A battery-specific electronic record that connects an individual battery to required identity, compliance, sustainability, performance, and lifecycle evidence.

Administrative · EU Battery Regulation, Global Battery Alliance

The service or platform layer that operates battery-passport workflows, including hosting, processing, access management, and delivery infrastructure.

Administrative · ESPR, EU Battery Regulation, Open Battery Passport

A controlled lifecycle-state field showing where an individual battery item sits in use, second life, repair, waste, or recycling workflows.

Administrative · DIN DKE SPEC 99100

The EU marking by which the manufacturer indicates conformity with applicable requirements in relevant Union harmonisation legislation.

Administrative · ESPR, EU Battery Regulation

A process term for demonstrating whether specified CRMA, ESPR, or battery-product requirements have been fulfilled.

Conformity and evidence · ESPR, EU Battery Regulation, EU Critical Raw Materials Act

A CRMA policy category for raw materials with high economic importance and supply risk under the EU assessment framework.

Materials & sourcing · EU Critical Raw Materials Act

Disassembly matters for battery-passport implementation because end-of-life and service events often need to record what was separated, by whom, for what p

Environmental · DIN DKE SPEC 99100

A downstream market-actor term for a person in the supply chain who makes products or batteries available without being the manufacturer or importer, subject to the source rule.

Administrative · ESPR, EU Battery Regulation, EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation, UK Waste Batteries Regulations

Battery or product data that changes over time, such as condition, usage, service, telemetry, or lifecycle-status information.

Technical · EU Battery Regulation, Open Data Directive

A source-specific traction-battery category for batteries designed to power hybrid or electric vehicles, with EU thresholds that must be kept distinct from broader power-battery language.

Technical · EU Battery Regulation, India Battery Waste Management Rules

An actor independent of the manufacturer that may participate in repair, maintenance, service, or information-access workflows.

Administrative · ESPR, EU Battery Regulation

The product stages from raw-material acquisition through production, use phase, and end-of-life treatment.

Environmental · ESPR, EU Battery Regulation, ISO 14067:2018

A sealed EU Battery Regulation battery category for light means of transport, weighing 25 kg or less and designed to provide electric power for wheeled vehicles powered by an electric motor or motor/battery combination.

Technical · EU Battery Regulation

The actor that manufactures a product, or has it designed or manufactured, and markets it under their name or trademark under the relevant source rule.

Administrative · ESPR, EU Battery Regulation, EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation, India Battery Waste Management Rules

A Minespider-defined battery-passport approach centered on interoperability, deployment flexibility, and reduced lock-in, not a formal EU legal term.

Administrative · Minespider decision memo, Open Battery Passport

A market-entry timing term for the first making available of a product, battery, commodity or relevant product in a regulated market.

Market access · ESPR, EU Battery Regulation, EU Critical Raw Materials Act, EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation, EUDR, UK Batteries Placing on Market Regulations

Post-consumer waste matters for battery and product-passport systems because end-of-life evidence depends on whether material comes from use-stage returns,

Environmental · DIN DKE SPEC 99100

A machine-readable matrix code that links a physical battery or product to required digital information.

Technical · DIN DKE SPEC 99100, EU Battery Regulation

Declared battery capacity in ampere-hours under reference conditions.

Technical · DIN DKE SPEC 99100, EU Battery Regulation

The base material-identity layer in CRMA and product-passport records, before critical, strategic, recycled, or battery-specific classifications are applied.

Materials & sourcing · EU Critical Raw Materials Act

A circularity term for keeping a product, component, battery, or material in use rather than sending it straight to recycling or disposal.

Environmental · Brazil National Solid Waste Policy, DIN DKE SPEC 99100, EU Critical Raw Materials Act, EU End-of-Life Vehicles Directive, EU Waste Framework Directive, Türkiye End-of-Life Vehicles Regulation, UK End-of-Life Vehicles Regulations

A material-recovery term for reprocessing waste materials into products, materials, or substances, kept separate from re-use and other end-of-life steps.

Environmental · Brazil National Solid Waste Policy, China ELV Recycling Measures, DIN DKE SPEC 99100, EU Critical Raw Materials Act, EU End-of-Life Vehicles Directive, EU Waste Framework Directive, India Vehicle Scrapping Facility Rules, Türkiye End-of-Life Vehicles Regulation, UK End-of-Life Vehicles Regulations

Stable product or battery master data that is expected to remain consistent unless a governed correction, design change, or version update occurs.

Technical · Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/670, DIN DKE SPEC 99100

The CRMA technology context for key technologies instrumental to green and digital transitions, defence, and aerospace applications.

Materials & sourcing · EU Critical Raw Materials Act

The battery-specific identity string that links a physical battery to the correct battery passport record.

Administrative · EU Battery Regulation

A battery that has become waste under the relevant source framework, triggering collection, treatment, recycling, and producer-responsibility evidence workflows.

Environmental · EU Battery Regulation, India Battery Waste Management Rules