A
- annual consumption of strategic raw materials
A CRMA demand metric for strategic raw materials consumed in processed form by Union-established undertakings.
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B
- board of directors
A CRMA governance term for the administrative or supervisory body responsible for supervising executive management, or equivalent functions.
C
- collection
The EU waste-law gathering step, including preliminary sorting and storage for transport to treatment.
- 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.
- critical raw material project
A CRMA project-scope term for planned or significantly extended facilities active in extraction, processing or recycling of critical raw materials.
- critical raw material type
A CRMA classification term for differentiating a critical raw material by processing stage, composition, origin or production method.
D
- data carrier
A machine-readable access layer connecting a physical product to the digital record or passport information behind it.
E
- electric motor
A CRMA equipment term for a device converting electrical input power into rotational mechanical output power with rated output of at least 0,12 kW.
- exploration
A CRMA activity term for identifying and establishing the properties of mineral occurrences before extraction decisions are made.
- extraction
The CRMA upstream stage where raw materials are removed from their source, before processing or recycling changes the material form.
- extractive waste
A CRMA incorporated-reference term for extractive waste under Directive 2006/21/EC, relevant to critical-raw-material recovery from mining waste streams.
- extractive waste facility
A CRMA incorporated-reference facility term for a waste facility under Directive 2006/21/EC in the extractive-waste context.
G
- general exploration
A CRMA exploration term for national- or regional-level exploration, excluding targeted exploration.
H
- heat pump
A CRMA end-use equipment term for the part of a heating system that generates a temperature difference using an electric vapour compression cycle.
I
- industrial robot
A CRMA end-use equipment term for an automatically controlled, reprogrammable manipulator used in industrial automation.
K
- key market operators
A CRMA supply-chain risk term for undertakings whose reliable functioning is important for critical raw material supply.
L
- large company
A CRMA threshold term for companies with more than 500 employees on average and over EUR 150 million in net worldwide turnover.
M
- magnet coating
A CRMA component-detail term for the protective layer generally used to protect magnets from corrosion.
- making available on the market
An official EU product-law trigger for supplying a product on the Union market, used to identify which actor is carrying market-facing obligations.
- mineral occurrences
A CRMA geology term for minerals occurring in a mass or deposit of potential economic interest.
- mitigation strategies
A CRMA resilience term for policies developed by an economic operator to reduce supply-disruption likelihood or damage to its activity.
- multi-stakeholder governance
A CRMA governance term for a formal, meaningful and substantive stakeholder role in certification-scheme decision-making.
N
- national programme
A CRMA planning term for a national or compiled set of programmes covering the entire territory and adopted by relevant authorities.
O
- offtake agreement
A CRMA contract term for a commitment to buy raw materials from, or financially support production by, a raw material project.
- offtaker
A CRMA commercial-actor term for an undertaking that has entered into an offtake agreement with a project promoter.
P
- permanent magnet
A CRMA component term for magnets that retain magnetism without an external field, relevant to strategic technologies and critical raw-material demand.
- permit-granting process
A CRMA process term covering the permits, assessments and authorisations needed to build and operate a critical raw material project.
- 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.
- predictive map
A CRMA mapping term for a map indicating areas likely to contain mineral occurrences of a given raw material.
- preliminary economic assessment
A CRMA early-stage assessment term for the potential economic viability of recovering critical raw materials from extractive waste.
- processing
The CRMA transformation stage where raw materials are made economically usable, distinct from extraction, recycling, metal working, and finished-good manufacturing.
- project promoter
A CRMA actor term for an undertaking or consortium developing a raw material project.
R
- raw material
The base material-identity layer in CRMA and product-passport records, before critical, strategic, recycled, or battery-specific classifications are applied.
- raw materials supply chain
A CRMA boundary term for raw-materials value-chain activities up to the point where a raw material becomes an input for manufacturing intermediate or final products.
- raw materials value chain
The CRMA stage map for raw materials, covering exploration, extraction, processing, and recycling rather than the full finished-product value chain.
- re-use
A circularity term for keeping a product, component, battery, or material in use rather than sending it straight to recycling or disposal.
- recovery
The EU waste operation where waste serves a useful purpose by replacing other materials or being prepared to do so.
- recycled content
Working definition for recycled-material share in batteries, products, and permanent magnets, anchored in EU Battery Regulation, Ontario battery, and CRMA source context.
- recycler
A downstream actor term for entities that carry out recycling, with EU, India, and Brazil source layers kept separate.
- 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.
- removal
A CRMA handling term for making targeted components or materials identifiable as a separate output stream or part of one.
- reserves
The economically viable subset of mineral occurrences or deposits under the CRMA context, distinct from resources, exploration targets, or speculative supply.
S
- Strategic Partnership
A CRMA policy-instrument term for a non-binding cooperation commitment between the Union and a third country or overseas country or territory.
- strategic raw material
A CRMA material category for raw materials with high strategic importance to EU green, digital, defence, and aerospace technologies.
- strategic stock
A CRMA supply-resilience term for raw material stored by a public or private operator for release during a supply disruption.
- strategic technologies
The CRMA technology context for key technologies instrumental to green and digital transitions, defence, and aerospace applications.
- supply disruption
A CRMA risk event term for an unexpected significant decrease in raw-material availability or significant price increase beyond normal market volatility.
- supply risk
The CRMA assessment concept used to evaluate vulnerability of EU raw-material supply, distinct from supplier due-diligence or procurement scoring.
T
- targeted exploration
A CRMA exploration term for the detailed investigation of an individual mineral occurrence.
- treatment
The waste-stage operation layer covering recovery or disposal operations and preparation before them.
U
- Union extraction capacity
A CRMA capacity metric for maximum annual production volumes of Union-based extractive operations involving strategic raw materials.
- Union processing capacity
A CRMA capacity metric for maximum annual production volumes of Union-based processing operations for strategic raw materials.
- Union recycling capacity
A CRMA capacity metric for Union-based recycling operations that produce secondary raw materials from strategic raw-material waste streams.
- unique product identifier
The ESPR product identity value that links a product, model, batch, or item to the correct digital product passport.
W
- waste
The EU waste-law status for a substance or object the holder discards, intends to discard, or is required to discard.
- wind energy generator
A CRMA end-use equipment term for the part of a wind turbine that converts rotor mechanical energy into electrical energy.