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.
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.
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.
Official definitions stay source-specific. Use the links below as a discovery path, then cite the individual term page when referencing a definition, boundary note, or Minespider explanation.
These entries are ordinary crawlable links to public glossary pages, grouped as a practical internal path through the topic.
A regulated product-specific data set that connects a product, model, batch, or item to required compliance, sustainability, circularity, and lifecycle information.
Read term pageThe ESPR product identity value that links a product, model, batch, or item to the correct digital product passport.
Read term pageA machine-readable access layer connecting a physical product to the digital record or passport information behind it.
Read term pageAn independent third-party authorised by the economic operator to process DPP data and make it available to entitled actors under ESPR.
Read term pageAn ESPR and EU Battery Regulation umbrella actor category covering market roles such as manufacturer, importer, distributor, dealer, and fulfilment service provider.
Read term pageThe actor that manufactures a product, or has it designed or manufactured, and markets it under their name or trademark under the relevant source rule.
Read term pageAn 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.
Read term pageThe physical goods that ESPR treats as the basic object of ecodesign, information, passport, and market obligations.
Read term pageA set of products that are similar in purpose, use, functional properties, and consumer perception under ESPR.
Read term pageAn ESPR requirement, either a performance requirement or an information requirement, aimed at improving product environmental sustainability.
Read term pageAn ESPR obligation for a product to be accompanied by specified information.
Read term pageThe ability to follow and substantiate a product, material, actor, process, claim, or data point through defined supply-chain or lifecycle stages.
Read term pageUse these source pages when the question is about the regulation or legal instrument behind the terms.
Definitions from the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation relevant to digital product passports, durability, lifecycle thinking, and market actors.
Key terms and compliance concepts from the EU Battery Regulation, including battery categories, carbon footprint, lifecycle data, and producer responsibilities.
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.