A
- access rights
Rules determining which battery passport information a viewer may see or use.
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B
- batteries evidence note
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.
- battery batch
A production or logistics grouping used as a shared evidence layer for related item-level battery passports.
- battery chemistry
The electrochemical composition family of a battery used in product, performance, safety, recycling, and passport-data contexts.
- battery item
An individual physical battery unit used as the item-level identity anchor for a serialized battery passport.
- battery labeling requirements
The information, symbols and QR code that covered batteries must carry at the applicable dates.
- battery management system
The EU Battery Regulation term for the electronic system controlling or managing battery safety, performance, service life, data storage, and communication.
- battery pack
A complete battery assembly made from cells or modules, usually the practical unit installed, replaced, serviced, or traced in downstream workflows.
- battery passport
A battery-specific electronic record that connects an individual battery to required identity, compliance, sustainability, performance, and lifecycle evidence.
- battery passport data attributes
The information fields a battery passport carries, with access depending on the data and the viewer.
- battery passport service / battery passport platform
The service or platform layer that operates battery-passport workflows, including hosting, processing, access management, and delivery infrastructure.
- battery status
A controlled lifecycle-state field showing where an individual battery item sits in use, second life, repair, waste, or recycling workflows.
C
- CE marking
The EU marking by which the manufacturer indicates conformity with applicable requirements in relevant Union harmonisation legislation.
- conformity assessment
A process term for demonstrating whether specified CRMA, ESPR, or battery-product requirements have been fulfilled.
- critical raw material
A CRMA policy category for raw materials with high economic importance and supply risk under the EU assessment framework.
D
- data granularity
The model, batch or item level at which product passport information is assigned.
- disassembly
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
- distributor
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.
- dynamic data
Battery or product data that changes over time, such as condition, usage, service, telemetry, or lifecycle-status information.
E
- electric vehicle battery
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.
- Environmental Vehicle Passport
Euro 7's digital record of a covered vehicle's environmental performance at registration.
I
- independent operator
An actor independent of the manufacturer that may participate in repair, maintenance, service, or information-access workflows.
- interoperability
The ability of passport data and systems to work together across actors and services.
L
- life cycle
The product stages from raw-material acquisition through production, use phase, and end-of-life treatment.
- light means of transport battery / LMT battery
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.
M
- manufacturer
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.
- market surveillance authority
A Member State authority designated to carry out market surveillance in its territory.
O
- Omnibus IV
A policy-package label used around EU amendments affecting battery due-diligence timing.
- open battery passport
A Minespider-defined battery-passport approach centered on interoperability, deployment flexibility, and reduced lock-in, not a formal EU legal term.
P
- passport back-up copy
A continuity copy of an applicable digital product passport made available through a service provider.
- person with a legitimate interest
A person who may access specified restricted battery passport data for an eligible purpose.
- placing on the market
A market-entry timing term for the first making available of a product, battery, commodity or relevant product in a regulated market.
- post-consumer waste
Post-consumer waste matters for battery and product-passport systems because end-of-life evidence depends on whether material comes from use-stage returns,
Q
- QR code
A machine-readable matrix code that links a physical battery or product to required digital information.
R
- rated capacity
Declared battery capacity in ampere-hours under reference conditions.
- raw material
The base material-identity layer in CRMA and product-passport records, before critical, strategic, recycled, or battery-specific classifications are applied.
- re-use
A circularity term for keeping a product, component, battery, or material in use rather than sending it straight to recycling or disposal.
- recycling
A material-recovery term for reprocessing waste materials into products, materials, or substances, kept separate from re-use and other end-of-life steps.
S
- second-life battery
A battery kept in use after an applicable re-use, repurposing or remanufacturing process.
- static data
Stable product or battery master data that is expected to remain consistent unless a governed correction, design change, or version update occurs.
- strategic technologies
The CRMA technology context for key technologies instrumental to green and digital transitions, defence, and aerospace applications.
T
- technical documentation
The technical file supporting a battery's conformity assessment.
U
- unique identifier
The battery-specific identity string that links a physical battery to the correct battery passport record.
W
- waste battery
A battery that has become waste under the relevant source framework, triggering collection, treatment, recycling, and producer-responsibility evidence workflows.