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It is stable, but not maintenance-free.", "sources": [ "Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/670", "DIN DKE SPEC 99100" ], "related_terms": [ "dynamic-data", "battery-passport", "digital-product-passport", "battery-model", "battery-item", "data-carrier", "unique-product-identifier", "unique-identifier", "battery-batch", "battery-status", "traceability" ] }, { "term": "dynamic data", "slug": "dynamic-data", "canonical_slug": "dynamic-data", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/dynamic-data", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "Battery or product data that changes over time, such as condition, usage, service, telemetry, or lifecycle-status information.", "editorial_definition": "Dynamic data is the changing data layer in a battery or product passport: values that may update as the product is used, serviced, repaired, transferred, repurposed, or recycled. 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It is not the same as current charge level and should always be interpreted with its measurement method and context. It is not the same as state of charge.", "sources": [ "EU Battery Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "battery", "battery-management-system", "state-of-charge", "battery-status", "repurposing", "remanufacturing" ] }, { "term": "state of charge", "slug": "state-of-charge", "canonical_slug": "state-of-charge", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/state-of-charge", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "A battery operational-status value expressing currently available energy as a share of rated capacity.", "editorial_definition": "State of charge is the current usable energy level of a battery expressed relative to rated capacity. It is an operational snapshot, not a measure of long-term battery health. It is not the same as state of health.", "sources": [ "EU Battery Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "battery", "battery-management-system", "state-of-health", "battery-status", "dynamic-data" ] }, { "term": "traceability", "slug": "traceability", "canonical_slug": "traceability", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/traceability", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "The ability to follow and substantiate a product, material, actor, process, claim, or data point through defined supply-chain or lifecycle stages.", "editorial_definition": "Traceability is the ability to connect an item, material, process, actor, claim, or data point to the records and evidence that show where it came from, where it moved, how it changed, and who handled it.", "sources": [ "EU Conflict Minerals Regulation", "General Food Law Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "battery-due-diligence", "supply-chain", "battery-passport", "digital-product-passport", "data-carrier", "unique-product-identifier", "unique-identifier", "static-data", "dynamic-data", "component", "intermediate-product", "unique-operator-identifier", "unique-facility-identifier", "importer", "supply-chain-due-diligence", "mineral-supply-chain" ] } ] }, { "slug": "digital-product-passport-implementation", "title": "Digital product passport implementation", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/topics/digital-product-passport-implementation", "description": "A guided path through ESPR and product-passport terms covering product identity, data carriers, economic operators, DPP service providers, access permissions, and product-level sustainability data.", "overview": "Digital product passport implementation combines product identity, access mechanisms, responsible economic operators, product-level data, and delegated-act requirements. This guide helps readers move from the broad DPP concept into the surrounding ESPR vocabulary without treating every database, website, token, or service provider as the passport itself.", "audience_need": "Use this guide when a reader is comparing DPPs with battery passports, trying to identify the implementation vocabulary around product identity, or preparing for ESPR-driven product-data workflows.", "common_confusions": [ "A digital product passport is not the same thing as a data carrier, QR code, product web page, or generic database.", "The unique product identifier identifies the product in the DPP context; it should not be merged with a battery unique identifier unless the source says so.", "A DPP service provider is infrastructure around the passport, not the passport data set itself." ], "source_boundary_note": "Official definitions stay source-specific: ESPR product-passport concepts should stay distinct from EU Battery Regulation battery-passport obligations and from generic platform or database language.", "source_boundary_bullets": [ "Use ESPR as the primary source for horizontal digital product passport vocabulary.", "Use the EU Battery Regulation when the topic is battery-passport-specific.", "Keep economic-operator and product-identity terms tied to their source-specific responsibilities." ], "related_regulation_slugs": [ "espr", "eu-battery-regulation" ], "related_regulations": [ { "slug": "eu-battery-regulation", "name": "EU Battery Regulation Glossary", "short_name": "EU Battery Regulation", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/regulations/eu-battery-regulation" }, { "slug": "espr", "name": "ESPR Glossary", "short_name": "ESPR", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/regulations/espr" } ], "search_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms?q=digital+product+passport", "terms": [ { "term": "digital product passport", "slug": "digital-product-passport", "canonical_slug": "digital-product-passport", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/digital-product-passport", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "A regulated product-specific data set that connects a product, model, batch, or item to required compliance, sustainability, circularity, and lifecycle information.", "editorial_definition": "A digital product passport is the governed electronic data set required for a product under ESPR rules, accessed through a data carrier and scoped by the applicable delegated act.", "sources": [ "ESPR" ], "related_terms": [ "battery-passport", "data-carrier", "unique-product-identifier", "ecodesign-requirement", "qr-code", "traceability", "static-data", "dynamic-data", "product", "component", "intermediate-product", "information-requirement", "product-group", "unique-operator-identifier", "unique-facility-identifier", "digital-product-passport-service-provider", "economic-operator", "manufacturer" ] }, { "term": "unique product identifier", "slug": "unique-product-identifier", "canonical_slug": "unique-product-identifier", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/unique-product-identifier", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "The ESPR product identity value that links a product, model, batch, or item to the correct digital product passport.", "editorial_definition": "A unique product identifier is the governed product identity value used under ESPR to identify a product and enable the web link to its digital product passport.", "sources": [ "ESPR", "EU Critical Raw Materials Act" ], "related_terms": [ "digital-product-passport", "data-carrier", "unique-identifier", "qr-code", "traceability", "battery-passport", "product", "product-group", "unique-operator-identifier", "unique-facility-identifier" ] }, { "term": "data carrier", "slug": "data-carrier", "canonical_slug": "data-carrier", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/data-carrier", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "A machine-readable access layer connecting a physical product to the digital record or passport information behind it.", "editorial_definition": "A data carrier is the scannable or readable medium that lets a device resolve a physical product, label, package, or document to the right digital product information.", "sources": [ "ESPR", "EU Critical Raw Materials Act" ], "related_terms": [ "digital-product-passport", "battery-passport", "unique-product-identifier", "unique-identifier", "qr-code", "information-requirement", "consumer-product", "unique-operator-identifier", "digital-product-passport-service-provider" ] }, { "term": "digital product passport service provider", "slug": "digital-product-passport-service-provider", "canonical_slug": "digital-product-passport-service-provider", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/digital-product-passport-service-provider", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "An independent third-party authorised by the economic operator to process DPP data and make it available to entitled actors under ESPR.", "editorial_definition": "A digital product passport service provider is an independent third-party authorised by the economic operator placing a product on the market or putting it into service to process that product’s passport data. The provider processes the data for that product and makes it available under access-right rules; the role does not own the underlying product obligation.", "sources": [ "ESPR" ], "related_terms": [ "digital-product-passport", "economic-operator", "manufacturer", "placing-on-the-market", "putting-into-service", "data-carrier", "information-requirement", "unique-operator-identifier" ] }, { "term": "economic operator", "slug": "economic-operator", "canonical_slug": "economic-operator", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/economic-operator", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "An ESPR and EU Battery Regulation umbrella actor category covering market roles such as manufacturer, importer, distributor, dealer, and fulfilment service provider.", "editorial_definition": "Under ESPR, economic operator means the manufacturer, authorised representative, importer, distributor, dealer, and fulfilment service provider. The EU Battery Regulation uses a related but battery-specific formulation. It is an umbrella actor category, not a single operational role.", "sources": [ "ESPR", "EU Battery Regulation", "EU End-of-Life Vehicles Directive", "Türkiye End-of-Life Vehicles Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "manufacturer", "importer", "distributor", "placing-on-the-market", "making-available-on-the-market", "digital-product-passport-service-provider", "unique-operator-identifier", "product", "authorised-representative", "putting-into-service", "end-of-life-vehicle", "treatment", "recycling", "temporary-storage-area", "treatment-facility" ] }, { "term": "manufacturer", "slug": "manufacturer", "canonical_slug": "manufacturer", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/manufacturer", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "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.", "editorial_definition": "Manufacturer is the accountable product actor that manufactures a product, has it designed or manufactured, and markets that product under their name or trademark. The role can sit with a brand owner or commissioning entity even when another factory physically produces the item.", "sources": [ "ESPR", "EU Battery Regulation", "EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation", "India Battery Waste Management Rules" ], "related_terms": [ "economic-operator", "importer", "distributor", "placing-on-the-market", "product", "digital-product-passport", "unique-operator-identifier", "conformity-assessment", "putting-into-service", "authorised-representative", "ce-marking", "conformity-assessment-body", "packaging", "packaging-waste", "recyclability" ] }, { "term": "importer", "slug": "importer", "canonical_slug": "importer", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/importer", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "An EU-established actor that places a product from a third country on the Union market under ESPR, with related source-specific meanings in battery and trade rules.", "editorial_definition": "Under ESPR, importer means any natural or legal person established in the Union that places a product from a third country on the Union market. The term is not the same as distributor and should not be reduced to physical transport or customs logistics alone.", "sources": [ "Brazil CONAMA Resolution 401/2008", "CBAM", "ESPR", "EU Battery Regulation", "EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "economic-operator", "manufacturer", "distributor", "placing-on-the-market", "product", "supply-chain", "raw-materials-supply-chain", "customs-declarant", "traceability", "packaging", "packaging-waste", "recyclability", "supply-chain-due-diligence", "mineral-supply-chain" ] }, { "term": "product", "slug": "product", "canonical_slug": "product", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/product", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "The physical goods that ESPR treats as the basic object of ecodesign, information, passport, and market obligations.", "editorial_definition": "Under ESPR, a product means any physical goods that are placed on the market or put into service. The term sets the basic object of compliance before more specific distinctions such as product group, component, intermediate product, and consumer product are applied.", "sources": [ "Australia Recycling and Waste Reduction Act", "ESPR", "ISO 14067:2018" ], "related_terms": [ "product-group", "component", "intermediate-product", "consumer-product", "digital-product-passport", "unique-product-identifier", "data-carrier", "manufacturer", "importer", "economic-operator", "unique-operator-identifier", "unique-facility-identifier" ] }, { "term": "product group", "slug": "product-group", "canonical_slug": "product-group", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/product-group", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "A set of products that are similar in purpose, use, functional properties, and consumer perception under ESPR.", "editorial_definition": "Under ESPR, a product group is a set of products that serve similar purposes, are similar in terms of use, have similar functional properties, and are similar in terms of consumer perception. It is a grouping level for rulemaking, not a single SKU or model.", "sources": [ "ESPR" ], "related_terms": [ "product", "ecodesign-requirement", "performance-requirement", "information-requirement", "digital-product-passport", "unique-product-identifier" ] }, { "term": "ecodesign requirement", "slug": "ecodesign-requirement", "canonical_slug": "ecodesign-requirement", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/ecodesign-requirement", "category": "Environmental", "short_description": "An ESPR requirement, either a performance requirement or an information requirement, aimed at improving product environmental sustainability.", "editorial_definition": "An ecodesign requirement is the ESPR obligation type that turns ecodesign into either a performance requirement or an information requirement. It can require a product to meet a sustainability-related parameter, disclose information, or support both through delegated-act rules. It is not one single evidence field.", "sources": [ "ESPR" ], "related_terms": [ "performance-requirement", "information-requirement", "product-group", "digital-product-passport", "environmental-footprint", "material-footprint", "substance-of-concern" ] }, { "term": "information requirement", "slug": "information-requirement", "canonical_slug": "information-requirement", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/information-requirement", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "An ESPR obligation for a product to be accompanied by specified information.", "editorial_definition": "An information requirement is an obligation for a product to be accompanied by information as specified in Article 7(2). It concerns disclosure and accessibility of required information, not just internal data storage, and asks what information must be available, to whom, through which channel, and at what point in the product lifecycle.", "sources": [ "ESPR" ], "related_terms": [ "ecodesign-requirement", "performance-requirement", "digital-product-passport", "data-carrier", "qr-code", "placing-on-the-market", "making-available-on-the-market", "technical-specification" ] }, { "term": "traceability", "slug": "traceability", "canonical_slug": "traceability", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/traceability", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "The ability to follow and substantiate a product, material, actor, process, claim, or data point through defined supply-chain or lifecycle stages.", "editorial_definition": "Traceability is the ability to connect an item, material, process, actor, claim, or data point to the records and evidence that show where it came from, where it moved, how it changed, and who handled it.", "sources": [ "EU Conflict Minerals Regulation", "General Food Law Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "battery-due-diligence", "supply-chain", "battery-passport", "digital-product-passport", "data-carrier", "unique-product-identifier", "unique-identifier", "static-data", "dynamic-data", "component", "intermediate-product", "unique-operator-identifier", "unique-facility-identifier", "importer", "supply-chain-due-diligence", "mineral-supply-chain" ] } ] }, { "slug": "traceability-evidence-chains", "title": "Traceability evidence chains", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/topics/traceability-evidence-chains", "description": "A guided path through terms that separate traceability, transparency, supply-chain evidence, value-chain stages, due diligence, origin, and lifecycle claims.", "overview": "Traceability is strongest when it is treated as an evidence chain rather than a broad promise of openness. This guide connects traceability to supply-chain and value-chain language, due-diligence relationships, country of origin, placing-on-the-market triggers, adverse-impact vocabulary, and footprint concepts that often need evidence rather than marketing claims.", "audience_need": "Use this guide when a reader needs to understand traceability as evidence-chain substantiation rather than a generic promise of transparency or a blockchain label.", "common_confusions": [ "Traceability is not the same as transparency: tracing evidence and disclosing information are related but different jobs.", "Blockchain can support a traceability workflow, but it is not a substitute for source quality or chain-of-custody evidence.", "Supply chain, value chain, and chain of activities do not always cover the same actors or stages." ], "source_boundary_note": "Official definitions stay source-specific: traceability language from food law, battery regulation, EUDR, CSDDD, and carbon-footprint sources should not be treated as interchangeable.", "source_boundary_bullets": [ "Preserve the difference between traceability, supplier mapping, chain of custody, and transparency.", "Use CSDDD chain-of-activities language only where that legal scope is actually relevant.", "Do not treat country-of-origin, footprint, or due-diligence evidence as automatic traceability proof." ], "related_regulation_slugs": [ "eu-battery-regulation", "eudr", "csddd", "eu-critical-raw-materials-act" ], "related_regulations": [ { "slug": "eu-battery-regulation", "name": "EU Battery Regulation Glossary", "short_name": "EU Battery Regulation", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/regulations/eu-battery-regulation" }, { "slug": "eu-critical-raw-materials-act", "name": "EU Critical Raw Materials Act Glossary", "short_name": "EU Critical Raw Materials Act", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/regulations/eu-critical-raw-materials-act" }, { "slug": "eudr", "name": "EUDR Glossary", "short_name": "EUDR", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/regulations/eudr" }, { "slug": "csddd", "name": "CSDDD Glossary", "short_name": "CSDDD", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/regulations/csddd" } ], "search_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms?q=traceability", "terms": [ { "term": "traceability", "slug": "traceability", "canonical_slug": "traceability", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/traceability", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "The ability to follow and substantiate a product, material, actor, process, claim, or data point through defined supply-chain or lifecycle stages.", "editorial_definition": "Traceability is the ability to connect an item, material, process, actor, claim, or data point to the records and evidence that show where it came from, where it moved, how it changed, and who handled it.", "sources": [ "EU Conflict Minerals Regulation", "General Food Law Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "battery-due-diligence", "supply-chain", "battery-passport", "digital-product-passport", "data-carrier", "unique-product-identifier", "unique-identifier", "static-data", "dynamic-data", "component", "intermediate-product", "unique-operator-identifier", "unique-facility-identifier", "importer", "supply-chain-due-diligence", "mineral-supply-chain" ] }, { "term": "supply chain", "slug": "supply-chain", "canonical_slug": "supply-chain", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/supply-chain", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "A cross-source term for the activities and linkages involved in producing, moving, and supplying a product, with scope depending on the source.", "editorial_definition": "Supply chain is source-dependent. The ESPR definition is upstream-only: all upstream activities and processes of the product value chain up to the point where the product reaches the customer. ISO 14067 is broader because it refers to those involved through both upstream and downstream linkages in providing products to the user.", "sources": [ "ESPR", "ISO 14067:2018" ], "related_terms": [ "value-chain", "traceability", "chain-of-activities", "battery-due-diligence", "battery-passport", "supply-chain-due-diligence", "mineral-supply-chain" ] }, { "term": "value chain", "slug": "value-chain", "canonical_slug": "value-chain", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/value-chain", "category": "Supply Chain & Traceability", "short_description": "The full set of activities and processes connected to a product, from raw material sourcing through end-of-life.", "editorial_definition": "Value chain means all activities and processes that are part of a product’s life cycle, from raw material sourcing and production through distribution, use, and end-of-life.", "sources": [ "ESPR" ], "related_terms": [ "product", "end-of-life", "environmental-impact", "customer", "supply-chain-due-diligence", "mineral-supply-chain" ] }, { "term": "chain of activities", "slug": "chain-of-activities", "canonical_slug": "chain-of-activities", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/chain-of-activities", "category": "Due Diligence", "short_description": "CSDDD’s legally bounded scope for upstream and selected downstream activities covered by corporate due diligence.", "editorial_definition": "Chain of activities is CSDDD’s scope architecture for upstream business-partner activities and selected downstream activities connected to a company’s goods or services.", "sources": [ "CSDDD" ], "related_terms": [ "company", "risk-factors", "appropriate-measures" ] }, { "term": "battery due diligence", "slug": "battery-due-diligence", "canonical_slug": "battery-due-diligence", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/battery-due-diligence", "category": "Environmental", "short_description": "EU Battery Regulation term for the management-system, risk-management, verification, and disclosure obligations tied to battery raw-material and secondary-raw-material supply chains.", "editorial_definition": "Battery due diligence is the EU Battery Regulation obligation set that requires relevant economic operators to identify, prevent, address, verify, and disclose social and environmental risks linked to the sourcing, processing, and trading of raw materials and secondary raw materials needed for battery manufacturing.", "sources": [ "EU Battery Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "traceability", "conflict-affected-and-high-risk-areas", "battery-passport", "supply-chain" ] }, { "term": "country of origin", "slug": "country-of-origin", "canonical_slug": "country-of-origin", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/country-of-origin", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "An EUDR term pointing to the Union Customs Code country-or-territory concept used for origin, distinct from EUDR country of production.", "editorial_definition": "Country of origin is an EUDR customs-linked origin term that points to Article 60 of the Union Customs Code. It is not the same as country of production, which anchors where a relevant commodity or product was produced.", "sources": [ "EUDR", "Union Customs Code" ], "related_terms": [ "customs-declarant", "customs-territory-of-the-union" ] }, { "term": "placing on the market", "slug": "placing-on-the-market", "canonical_slug": "placing-on-the-market", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/placing-on-the-market", "category": "Market access", "short_description": "A market-entry timing term for the first making available of a product, battery, commodity or relevant product in a regulated market.", "editorial_definition": "Placing on the market is the first market-entry event that makes a regulated product, battery, commodity, or raw-material-related product available on the Union market. It sets the timing point for obligations; it is not the same as conformity assessment and does not prove later distribution, customer delivery, or completion of every compliance process.", "sources": [ "ESPR", "EU Battery Regulation", "EU Critical Raw Materials Act", "EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation", "EUDR", "UK Batteries Placing on Market Regulations" ], "related_terms": [ "producer", "distributor", "battery-passport", "digital-product-passport", "battery-due-diligence", "critical-raw-material", "raw-materials-value-chain", "critical-raw-material-project", "project-promoter", "making-available-on-the-market", "conformity-assessment", "economic-operator", "manufacturer", "importer", "digital-product-passport-service-provider", "putting-into-service", "authorised-representative", "ce-marking", "union-harmonisation-legislation", "packaging", "packaging-waste", "recyclability" ] }, { "term": "business partner", "slug": "business-partner", "canonical_slug": "business-partner", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/business-partner", "category": "Due Diligence", "short_description": "A CSDDD relationship-scope term covering direct and indirect entities connected to a company’s operations, products, or services.", "editorial_definition": "Business partner is the CSDDD term for direct and indirect entities connected to a company’s operations, products, or services through business relationships.", "sources": [ "CSDDD" ], "related_terms": [ "company", "appropriate-measures", "risk-factors", "supply-chain-due-diligence", "mineral-supply-chain" ] }, { "term": "business relationship", "slug": "business-relationship", "canonical_slug": "business-relationship", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/business-relationship", "category": "Due Diligence", "short_description": "The CSDDD linkage between a company and a business partner that helps determine where due-diligence obligations can attach.", "editorial_definition": "Business relationship is the legal linkage between the company and a business partner, including direct or indirect commercial relationships connected to operations, products, or services.", "sources": [ "CSDDD" ], "related_terms": [ "appropriate-measures", "independent-third-party-verification" ] }, { "term": "adverse impact", "slug": "adverse-impact", "canonical_slug": "adverse-impact", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/adverse-impact", "category": "Due Diligence", "short_description": "CSDDD’s umbrella trigger for adverse environmental impacts and adverse human rights impacts that due-diligence systems must identify and address.", "editorial_definition": "Adverse impact is the CSDDD umbrella term for adverse environmental impact and adverse human rights impact. It is the classification trigger for due-diligence action, not a general label for every ESG issue.", "sources": [ "CSDDD" ], "related_terms": [ "severe-adverse-impact", "severity-of-an-adverse-impact", "risk-factors", "supply-chain-due-diligence", "mineral-supply-chain" ] }, { "term": "carbon footprint", "slug": "carbon-footprint", "canonical_slug": "carbon-footprint", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/carbon-footprint", "category": "Environmental", "short_description": "Cross-source ESPR and EU Battery Regulation term for product-system greenhouse-gas emissions and removals expressed as CO2 equivalents.", "editorial_definition": "Carbon footprint is a product-system climate metric: the sum of greenhouse-gas emissions and removals expressed as CO2 equivalents, with source-specific methodology under ESPR and the EU Battery Regulation.", "sources": [ "ESPR", "EU Battery Regulation" ], "related_terms": [ "life-cycle", "environmental-footprint", "material-footprint", "battery-passport", "life-cycle-inventory", "activity-data", "system-boundary", "pef-study", "environmental-footprint-impact-assessment" ] }, { "term": "material footprint", "slug": "material-footprint", "canonical_slug": "material-footprint", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/material-footprint", "category": "Environmental", "short_description": "ESPR term for the total amount of raw materials extracted to meet final consumption demands.", "editorial_definition": "Material footprint is an ESPR resource-burden measure for the total amount of raw materials extracted to meet final consumption demands. It is not the same as carbon footprint, environmental footprint, a bill of materials, or a simple list of product inputs.", "sources": [ "ESPR" ], "related_terms": [ "environmental-footprint", "carbon-footprint", "supply-chain", "battery-materials", "active-material", "ecodesign-requirement" ] } ] }, { "slug": "cbam-emissions-and-certificates", "title": "CBAM emissions and certificates", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/topics/cbam-emissions-and-certificates", "description": "A guided path through CBAM terms covering authorised declarants, embedded emissions, direct and indirect emissions, default values, certificates, surrender, and carbon-price recognition.", "overview": "CBAM vocabulary is easy to flatten into generic carbon accounting, but the regulation has its own actor, emissions, certificate, surrender, default-value, and pricing concepts. This guide keeps CBAM reporting and certificate language tied to the source context while still connecting it to production processes and emissions evidence.", "audience_need": "Use this guide when a reader needs to understand CBAM reporting and pricing vocabulary without flattening it into generic carbon-footprint or voluntary-carbon language.", "common_confusions": [ "Embedded emissions under CBAM should not be treated as a generic product carbon footprint.", "CBAM certificates and surrender obligations are not voluntary carbon credits or offsets.", "Actual emissions, default values, direct emissions, and indirect emissions each play different roles in the CBAM method." ], "source_boundary_note": "Official definitions stay source-specific: CBAM importer, declarant, emissions, certificate, and pricing terms should remain tied to CBAM and its implementing context, not generic LCA wording.", "source_boundary_bullets": [ "Keep CBAM emissions terms separate from ISO 14067 product-carbon-footprint vocabulary.", "Use CBAM Implementing Regulation context for reporting-method support without turning it into a second formal definition where that is not appropriate.", "Do not conflate EU ETS allowance price context with voluntary carbon market pricing." ], "related_regulation_slugs": [ "cbam" ], "related_regulations": [ { "slug": "cbam", "name": "CBAM Glossary", "short_name": "CBAM", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/regulations/cbam" } ], "search_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms?q=CBAM", "terms": [ { "term": "authorised CBAM declarant", "slug": "authorised-cbam-declarant", "canonical_slug": "authorised-cbam-declarant", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/authorised-cbam-declarant", "category": "CBAM actors & obligations", "short_description": "The CBAM-authorised actor responsible for lodging CBAM declarations and surrendering certificates, distinct from the customs declarant by default.", "editorial_definition": "Authorised CBAM declarant is the CBAM actor authorised by a national competent authority to carry the declaration and certificate-surrender obligation for covered imports. It is not the customs declarant by default, even when the same company also handles customs declarations. The source role is authorised by a competent authority and must be able to surrender CBAM certificates.", "sources": [ "CBAM" ], "related_terms": [ "embedded-emissions", "cbam-certificate", "carbon-price", "importer" ] }, { "term": "embedded emissions", "slug": "embedded-emissions", "canonical_slug": "embedded-emissions", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/embedded-emissions", "category": "CBAM emissions accounting", "short_description": "The CBAM emissions quantity attached to covered goods, combining direct production-process emissions and relevant electricity-related indirect emissions under CBAM methods.", "editorial_definition": "Embedded emissions are the CBAM quantity of greenhouse-gas emissions attributed to covered goods through the relevant production processes. They are not a product carbon footprint, because CBAM uses a specific production-process and installation-linked method rather than a full lifecycle model. In source language, it includes direct emissions released during the production of goods and indirect emissions from the production of electricity consumed during those processes.", "sources": [ "CBAM" ], "related_terms": [ "authorised-cbam-declarant", "actual-emissions", "default-value", "direct-emissions", "indirect-emissions", "cbam-certificate", "carbon-price", "carbon-footprint" ] }, { "term": "actual emissions", "slug": "actual-emissions", "canonical_slug": "actual-emissions", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/actual-emissions", "category": "CBAM emissions accounting", "short_description": "CBAM embedded-emissions data calculated from primary production-process evidence rather than default proxy values.", "editorial_definition": "Actual emissions are embedded emissions calculated from primary production-process data under CBAM methods. They are not self-reported in the loose sense; the value needs calculation rules, source evidence, and verification context. In practical terms, this means primary data from the production processes, calculated in accordance with the methods set out in Annex IV.", "sources": [ "CBAM" ], "related_terms": [ "embedded-emissions", "default-value", "direct-emissions", "indirect-emissions", "cbam-certificate" ] }, { "term": "direct emissions", "slug": "direct-emissions", "canonical_slug": "direct-emissions", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/direct-emissions", "category": "CBAM emissions accounting", "short_description": "CBAM emissions released by the relevant production processes of covered goods, distinct from facility-wide or corporate emissions totals.", "editorial_definition": "Direct emissions are greenhouse-gas emissions released by the production processes of CBAM-covered goods, including relevant heating and cooling tied to those processes. They are not the full facility footprint, full corporate inventory, or full lifecycle footprint.", "sources": [ "CBAM" ], "related_terms": [ "embedded-emissions", "actual-emissions", "indirect-emissions", "carbon-footprint" ] }, { "term": "indirect emissions", "slug": "indirect-emissions", "canonical_slug": "indirect-emissions", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/indirect-emissions", "category": "CBAM emissions accounting", "short_description": "CBAM electricity-related emissions for electricity consumed during production processes of covered goods.", "editorial_definition": "Indirect emissions are emissions from electricity production when that electricity is consumed during the production processes of CBAM-covered goods. They are not the full Scope 2 footprint of a facility. In source language, this is tied to the production of electricity consumed during the production processes.", "sources": [ "CBAM" ], "related_terms": [ "embedded-emissions", "actual-emissions", "direct-emissions", "carbon-footprint" ] }, { "term": "default value", "slug": "default-value", "canonical_slug": "default-value", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/default-value", "category": "CBAM emissions accounting", "short_description": "A CBAM fallback emissions value used when actual, supplier-specific evidence is unavailable or unusable.", "editorial_definition": "Default value is the CBAM fallback figure used when actual emissions data is unavailable, incomplete, or not usable. It is an evidence gap marker rather than supplier-specific measurement evidence. It may be calculated or drawn from secondary data.", "sources": [ "CBAM" ], "related_terms": [ "actual-emissions", "embedded-emissions", "cbam-certificate", "carbon-price" ] }, { "term": "CBAM certificate", "slug": "cbam-certificate", "canonical_slug": "cbam-certificate", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/cbam-certificate", "category": "CBAM certificates & pricing", "short_description": "The electronic CBAM unit surrendered against embedded-emissions quantities; it is not a verification, product, or supplier certificate.", "editorial_definition": "CBAM certificate is the electronic compliance unit that an authorised CBAM declarant surrenders against declared embedded emissions. It is not a verification certificate, product certificate, or supplier attestation.", "sources": [ "CBAM" ], "related_terms": [ "embedded-emissions", "authorised-cbam-declarant", "carbon-price", "actual-emissions", "default-value" ] }, { "term": "surrender", "slug": "surrender", "canonical_slug": "surrender", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/surrender", "category": "Administrative", "short_description": "The CBAM compliance-settlement action of offsetting certificates against declared embedded emissions.", "editorial_definition": "Under CBAM, surrender means offsetting CBAM certificates against the declared embedded emissions in imported goods, or against embedded emissions that should have been declared. In plain terms, it is the act of giving up CBAM certificates to settle the emissions obligation.", "sources": [ "CBAM" ], "related_terms": [ "tonne-of-co2e", "carbon-price" ] }, { "term": "carbon price", "slug": "carbon-price", "canonical_slug": "carbon-price", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/carbon-price", "category": "CBAM certificates & pricing", "short_description": "The qualifying third-country carbon cost that may be recognised against CBAM exposure when linked to covered emissions from production.", "editorial_definition": "Carbon price is the CBAM concept for a qualifying carbon cost paid outside the EU, such as a tax, levy, fee, or allowance under an emissions trading system. It is not a generic internal carbon price, voluntary shadow price, or marketing estimate.", "sources": [ "CBAM" ], "related_terms": [ "embedded-emissions", "cbam-certificate", "authorised-cbam-declarant", "actual-emissions", "default-value" ] }, { "term": "installation", "slug": "installation", "canonical_slug": "installation", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/installation", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "The CBAM facility anchor: a stationary technical unit where a production process is carried out.", "editorial_definition": "Installation is the CBAM facility boundary: a stationary technical unit where one or more production processes are carried out. It is an installation-level evidence anchor, not a corporate-site or supplier-wide footprint.", "sources": [ "CBAM" ], "related_terms": [ "direct-emissions", "indirect-emissions" ] }, { "term": "production processes", "slug": "production-processes", "canonical_slug": "production-processes", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/production-processes", "category": "Technical", "short_description": "The chemical and physical processes carried out to produce goods in an installation under CBAM.", "editorial_definition": "Production processes are the chemical and physical processes carried out to produce goods in an installation and used to determine embedded emissions under CBAM Annex IV methods.", "sources": [ "CBAM" ], "related_terms": [ "actual-emissions", "default-value" ] }, { "term": "tonne of CO2e", "slug": "tonne-of-co2e", "canonical_slug": "tonne-of-co2e", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/tonne-of-co2e", "category": "Environmental", "short_description": "The carbon-dioxide-equivalent unit used to express greenhouse-gas quantities under CBAM.", "editorial_definition": "Under CBAM, a tonne of CO2e means one metric tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent: one metric tonne of CO2, or an amount of another Annex I greenhouse gas with an equivalent global warming potential.", "sources": [ "CBAM" ], "related_terms": [ "embedded-emissions", "carbon-price", "surrender" ] } ] }, { "slug": "critical-raw-materials", "title": "Critical raw materials", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/topics/critical-raw-materials", "description": "A guided path through EU Critical Raw Materials Act terms for strategic and critical raw materials, supply risk, value chains, extraction, processing, recycling capacity, and project vocabulary.", "overview": "Critical raw materials work spans material identity, supply risk, value-chain stages, extraction and processing, recycling capacity, projects, offtake, and strategic stocks. This guide keeps those concepts tied to the EU Critical Raw Materials Act instead of turning them into generic mining or manufacturing labels.", "audience_need": "Use this guide when a reader is trying to connect raw-material identity, supply risk, operations, capacity, projects, offtake, and supply-chain resilience vocabulary.", "common_confusions": [ "Critical raw material and strategic raw material are related but not identical regulatory categories.", "Extraction, processing, and recycling capacity describe different stages of the raw-materials value chain.", "A critical raw material project is not automatically the same as any mining project or battery supply-chain project." ], "source_boundary_note": "Official definitions stay source-specific: CRMA terms should not be treated as generic mining, generic manufacturing, or battery-passport terms unless the source relationship is explicit.", "source_boundary_bullets": [ "Keep CRMA material categories tied to the Act and its Annex context.", "Do not merge capacity terms with generic production-volume or recycling-performance concepts.", "Use project, permitting, offtake, and strategic-stock terms as CRMA governance and supply-resilience vocabulary, not as generic procurement language." ], "related_regulation_slugs": [ "eu-critical-raw-materials-act" ], "related_regulations": [ { "slug": "eu-critical-raw-materials-act", "name": "EU Critical Raw Materials Act Glossary", "short_name": "EU Critical Raw Materials Act", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/regulations/eu-critical-raw-materials-act" } ], "search_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms?q=critical+raw+materials", "terms": [ { "term": "critical raw material", "slug": "critical-raw-material", "canonical_slug": "critical-raw-material", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/critical-raw-material", "category": "Materials & sourcing", "short_description": "A CRMA policy category for raw materials with high economic importance and supply risk under the EU assessment framework.", "editorial_definition": "Critical raw material is the CRMA category for raw materials identified through EU economic-importance and supply-risk assessment. It is not a generic importance label and should not be inferred from a material being expensive, scarce, battery-relevant, or commercially sensitive.", "sources": [ "EU Critical Raw Materials Act" ], "related_terms": [ "us-critical-mineral", "canada-qualifying-material" ] }, { "term": "strategic raw material", "slug": "strategic-raw-material", "canonical_slug": "strategic-raw-material", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/strategic-raw-material", "category": "Materials & sourcing", "short_description": "A CRMA material category for raw materials with high strategic importance to EU green, digital, defence, and aerospace technologies.", "editorial_definition": "Strategic raw material is the CRMA category for raw materials that the EU treats as strategically important for selected technologies and industrial resilience. It overlaps with critical raw material status, but it is not the same category and should be recorded as a separate classification layer.", "sources": [ "EU Critical Raw Materials Act" ], "related_terms": [ "us-critical-mineral", "canada-qualifying-material" ] }, { "term": "raw material", "slug": "raw-material", "canonical_slug": "raw-material", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/raw-material", "category": "Materials & sourcing", "short_description": "The base material-identity layer in CRMA and product-passport records, before critical, strategic, recycled, or battery-specific classifications are applied.", "editorial_definition": "Raw material is the underlying material input before policy categories such as critical raw material or strategic raw material are attached. It identifies the substance or material role; it does not by itself prove supply risk, strategic importance, recycled content, or due-diligence status. In the CRMA source context, it is an input for the manufacturing of intermediate or final products, excluding substances predominantly used as food, feed or combustion fuel.", "sources": [ "EU Critical Raw Materials Act" ], "related_terms": [ "us-critical-mineral", "canada-qualifying-material" ] }, { "term": "raw materials value chain", "slug": "raw-materials-value-chain", "canonical_slug": "raw-materials-value-chain", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/raw-materials-value-chain", "category": "Materials & sourcing", "short_description": "The CRMA stage map for raw materials, covering exploration, extraction, processing, and recycling rather than the full finished-product value chain.", "editorial_definition": "Raw materials value chain is the CRMA chain of activities around raw materials from exploration, extraction, processing and recycling. It is not the finished-product value chain, because it focuses on material-stage evidence rather than every design, manufacturing, distribution, use, or end-of-life activity.", "sources": [ "EU Critical Raw Materials Act" ], "related_terms": [ "raw-material", "extraction", "processing", "recycling", "supply-chain", "critical-raw-material", "strategic-raw-material", "union-extraction-capacity", "union-processing-capacity", "union-recycling-capacity", "critical-raw-material-project", "project-promoter", "permit-granting-process", "offtake-agreement", "annual-consumption-of-strategic-raw-materials", "critical-raw-material-type", "strategic-partnership", "raw-materials-supply-chain", "offtaker" ] }, { "term": "supply risk", "slug": "supply-risk", "canonical_slug": "supply-risk", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/supply-risk", "category": "Risk & due diligence", "short_description": "The CRMA assessment concept used to evaluate vulnerability of EU raw-material supply, distinct from supplier due-diligence or procurement scoring.", "editorial_definition": "Supply risk is the CRMA assessment concept used to help determine whether a raw material is critical. It is not a company supplier score, a procurement risk note, or a due-diligence finding by itself, although those records may later connect to it.", "sources": [ "EU Critical Raw Materials Act" ], "related_terms": [ "us-critical-mineral", "canada-qualifying-material" ] }, { "term": "strategic technologies", "slug": "strategic-technologies", "canonical_slug": "strategic-technologies", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/strategic-technologies", "category": "Materials & sourcing", "short_description": "The CRMA technology context for key technologies instrumental to green and digital transitions, defence, and aerospace applications.", "editorial_definition": "Under the EU Critical Raw Materials Act, strategic technologies are the key technologies instrumental for the green and digital transitions as well as for defence and aerospace applications.", "sources": [ "EU Critical Raw Materials Act" ], "related_terms": [ "strategic-raw-material", "battery", "electric-vehicle-battery", "critical-raw-material", "battery-materials", "supply-risk", "permanent-magnet", "wind-energy-generator", "industrial-robot", "heat-pump", "electric-motor", "magnet-coating", "removal" ] }, { "term": "extraction", "slug": "extraction", "canonical_slug": "extraction", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/extraction", "category": "Materials & sourcing", "short_description": "The CRMA upstream stage where raw materials are removed from their source, before processing or recycling changes the material form.", "editorial_definition": "Extraction is the upstream CRMA stage for obtaining raw material from its original source, including ores, minerals and plant products. It is not the same as processing or recycling, and it should not be treated as finished-product manufacturing.", "sources": [ "EU Critical Raw Materials Act" ], "related_terms": [ "us-critical-mineral", "canada-qualifying-material" ] }, { "term": "processing", "slug": "processing", "canonical_slug": "processing", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/processing", "category": "Materials & sourcing", "short_description": "The CRMA transformation stage where raw materials are made economically usable, distinct from extraction, recycling, metal working, and finished-good manufacturing.", "editorial_definition": "Processing is the CRMA stage for transforming raw materials into economically usable forms, including beneficiation, separation, smelting and refining, while excluding metal working and further transformation into intermediate and final goods. It is not downstream manufacturing.", "sources": [ "EU Critical Raw Materials Act" ], "related_terms": [ "us-critical-mineral", "canada-qualifying-material" ] }, { "term": "Union recycling capacity", "slug": "union-recycling-capacity", "canonical_slug": "union-recycling-capacity", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/union-recycling-capacity", "category": "Circularity", "short_description": "A CRMA capacity metric for Union-based recycling operations that produce secondary raw materials from strategic raw-material waste streams.", "editorial_definition": "Union recycling capacity is the CRMA measure of the maximum annual volume of strategic raw materials that Union recycling operations can produce from waste streams, used against the Act’s 25% recycling benchmark for annual Union consumption.", "sources": [ "EU Critical Raw Materials Act" ], "related_terms": [ "recycling", "strategic-raw-material", "raw-materials-value-chain", "recycled-content", "union-extraction-capacity", "union-processing-capacity", "supply-risk" ] }, { "term": "critical raw material project", "slug": "critical-raw-material-project", "canonical_slug": "critical-raw-material-project", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/critical-raw-material-project", "category": "Project governance", "short_description": "A CRMA project-scope term for planned or significantly extended facilities active in extraction, processing or recycling of critical raw materials.", "editorial_definition": "Under the EU Critical Raw Materials Act, a critical raw material project is a planned facility, or a planned significant extension or repurposing of an existing facility, active in extracting, processing or recycling critical raw materials.", "sources": [ "EU Critical Raw Materials Act" ], "related_terms": [ "critical-raw-material", "extraction", "processing", "recycling", "raw-materials-value-chain", "supply-risk", "strategic-raw-material", "project-promoter", "permit-granting-process", "offtake-agreement", "offtaker" ] }, { "term": "offtake agreement", "slug": "offtake-agreement", "canonical_slug": "offtake-agreement", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/offtake-agreement", "category": "Commercial", "short_description": "A CRMA contract term for a commitment to buy raw materials from, or financially support production by, a raw material project.", "editorial_definition": "Under the EU Critical Raw Materials Act, an offtake agreement is a contractual agreement between an undertaking and a project promoter that commits the undertaking either to procure a share of raw materials from a specific raw material project over time or to financially support production of that project.", "sources": [ "EU Critical Raw Materials Act" ], "related_terms": [ "project-promoter", "critical-raw-material-project", "strategic-raw-material", "supply-risk", "raw-material", "raw-materials-value-chain", "strategic-partnership", "offtaker", "mitigation-strategies" ] }, { "term": "strategic stock", "slug": "strategic-stock", "canonical_slug": "strategic-stock", "canonical_url": "https://minespider.com/glossary/terms/strategic-stock", "category": "Risk & due diligence", "short_description": "A CRMA supply-resilience term for raw material stored by a public or private operator for release during a supply disruption.", "editorial_definition": "Strategic stock is the CRMA concept for raw materials stored by a public or private operator so they can be released during a supply disruption.", "sources": [ "EU Critical Raw Materials Act" ], "related_terms": [ "strategic-raw-material", "supply-risk", "annual-consumption-of-strategic-raw-materials", "raw-material", "offtake-agreement", "key-market-operators", "supply-disruption", "mitigation-strategies" ] } ] } ] }