DPP Taxonomy
Ecodesign and Circular Economy
Overview of ecodesign principles, circularity, and procurement for sustainable products. It covers environmental analyses, waste management hierarchies, energy use, recycled content, and EU green procurement requirements, aligning product design with circular economy goals across the internal market
Circular Product Lifecycle
A high-level category covering ecodesign considerations, reuse, remanufacturing, and end-of-life strategies to close the product loop. It encompasses the waste hierarchy, prevention of waste, and the lifecycle of used and second-hand goods and batteries within a circular economy.
End-of-Life Management
This category aggregates concepts related to end-of-life handling and waste management, including decontamination, recovery, and preparation for reuse. It also covers non-waste determinations, battery-related EoL processes, end-of-life data availability, decision tools, and aggregation of partial cy
Decontamination and Recovery
Processes to remove contaminants from products at end of life and recover usable materials. It emphasizes safety, environmental protection, and resource conservation in waste management.
Destruction of Surplus Goods
Policies allowing member states to ban or regulate the destruction of surplus or unsold products to curb waste. The category captures legal approaches that restrict destruction and encourage alternative handling such as donation, reuse, or redistribution.
Preparation for Re-use
This category captures the lifecycle stage of preparing used batteries for reuse. Activities include inspection, cleaning, testing, and sorting to ensure quality before entering second-life applications.
Non-Waste Determination
Defines regulatory criteria for when a material ceases to be waste after meeting prescribed conditions. Applies to batteries and similar materials where waste classification is lifted upon compliance.
Batteries and Battery Packs
Batteries and battery packs are portable energy storage devices built from electrochemical cells. This category includes individual cells and assembled packs used in electronics, vehicles, and energy storage systems.
End of Life
End of Life (EoL) denotes the final phase in the lifecycle of a product or system when it is no longer supported, manufactured, or recommended for use. It encompasses decommissioning, data sanitization, disposal, and planning for migration to replacements, with attention to regulatory and sustainabi
End-of-Life Data Availability
Ensures reliable end-of-life product composition data is available to optimize sorting across recycling and service providers. This category identifies barriers to data availability and mitigation approaches to improve access and accuracy.
CISUTAC Decision Tool
A CISUTAC tool for visualizing vocabulary terms and data points related to post-consumer textile waste. It supports decision-making by organizing terminology and data visualizations for stakeholders.
Partial Cycles Aggregation
Describes the aggregation of partial cycles, detailing how partial cycle fragments are combined to form complete cycles. This category covers approaches for grouping, reconciling, and representing partial cycles within cycle analysis and related processes.
Battery Lifecycle Pathways
Defines circular options for batteries, including remanufacturing, refurbishment, upgrading, and repurposing, as well as downstream life cycle choices. It encompasses preparation for reuse and the value chains designed to keep batteries in circulation.
Remanufacturing and Upgrading
Groups processes related to refurbishment, remanufacturing, and upgrading of used products. It emphasizes reuse and enhancement to extend product lifecycles.
Refurbishment and Remanufacturing
This category covers processes and practices for refurbishing and remanufacturing products to extend their life, recover value, and reduce waste. It encompasses standards, methods, and business models that support circular economy objectives.
Upgrading Remanufacturing
This category covers strategies and processes for upgrading products within remanufacturing and refurbishment workflows to enable reuse and extended service life. It includes design-for-upgrade considerations, compatibility checks, and refurbishing/remanufacturing methods to restore or improve perfo
Circular and Reuse Value Chains
This category encompasses strategies for keeping textiles in circulation through circular value chains and reuse-oriented pathways. It includes subcategories such as Circular Textile Value Chains and Reuse Value Chain.
Circular Textile Value Chains
A value chain approach that designs products and processes to maximize reuse, repair, refurbishing, and recycling, thereby extending textile lifetimes. It prioritizes closed-loop loops, take-back systems, and modular design to keep materials in circulation and minimize waste.
Reuse Value Chain
Defines the sequence of activities in reusing products after sorting, including collection, testing, refurbishing, and redistribution. It maps the value chain steps that extend product life and reduce waste through reuse.
Preparing for Reuse
This category covers the processes and operations involved in making items ready for reuse. It includes the general concept of preparing for reuse and specific treatment operations that enable reuse.
This category covers practices and attributes that render data and resources ready for reuse. It includes data cleaning, standard formats, clear licensing, and rich metadata to facilitate discoverability and interoperability.
This category covers treatment operations that prepare items for reuse, including cleaning, disinfection, repair, and refurbishment. It also encompasses disassembly, inspection, and quality checks to ensure safety and functionality before reintroduction into use.
Battery Remanufacturing
Remanufacturing refers to refurbishing used batteries into like-new or extended-life units. It is a potential lifecycle path that involves disassembly, refurbishment or replacement of components, and reassembly to restore performance, safety, and reliability while reducing waste. This category highl
Battery Repurposing Prep
Guidance and processes that facilitate preparing a battery for repurposing, emphasizing safety, inspection, and readiness for reuse. Provides the framework for evaluating suitability and organizing preparation steps for secondary applications.
Downstream Life Cycle Options
This category captures the lifecycle options of a chemical or material as determined by downstream processes and final applications. It enables comparison of alternative downstream scenarios within the product's life cycle.
Remanufactured and Used Goods
This category covers remanufactured and used products, including the second-hand sector and related regulatory provisions. It also references SSbD scenarios and the handling of used batteries within harmonised specifications.
Remanufactured Products and SSbD Scenarios
This category groups concepts related to remanufactured products and the definition of SSbD (Safe and Sustainable by Design) scenarios. It addresses how remanufactured items are treated in ecodesign contexts and the concrete conditions used to scope SSbD analyses.
Remanufactured Products
Products that have been remanufactured and may be considered new for ecodesign purposes. These items are restored to functional condition and can be treated as new within product design and lifecycle evaluations.
SSbD Scenario Definition
Represents the concrete, real-world set of conditions that define a Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) scenario for scoping analyses. These conditions shape how SSbD assessments are framed and interpreted.
Used Products and Batteries
Group of items consisting of used products covered by harmonised technical specifications and the category of waste SLI batteries. It serves as an umbrella for end-of-life, second-hand items under a common framework.
Used Product
Represents a used product governed by a harmonised technical specification outlining provisions for used products.
Waste SLI Batteries
This category encompasses waste batteries used for starting, lighting, and ignition (SLI) in vehicles. It groups end-of-life lead-acid batteries designated as SLI waste and addresses related disposal and regulatory considerations.
Used and Refurbished Goods
Used products that may be refurbished or repaired and circulated within the domestic market. This category covers the lifecycle extension of items through resale after maintenance to ensure functionality.
Second-hand Sector
The second-hand sector covers the trade and circulation of used products within the internal market. It includes retailers, marketplaces, and other channels that handle pre-owned goods.
Used Products Regulation
This category concerns the regulation invoked when used products are treated under the Regulation as if they were new. It clarifies how the Regulation applies to used goods under the same requirements as new products.
Battery Take-Back and Collection
Category covering mechanisms for end-of-life battery management, including deposit-refund schemes, take-back and collection systems, and collection points. It also addresses separation of collected batteries and waste-matching processes to optimize recycling.
Battery Take-Back & Separation
This category covers systems for separate collection of waste batteries, including take-back points and processes to maximize battery recovery. It focuses on establishing accessible take-back locations and effective separation to improve recycling outcomes.
Battery Take-Back Points
This category covers the separate collection and take-back points for waste batteries. It describes the locations and systems established to collect used batteries for recycling and safe disposal.
Battery Waste Separation
This category covers strategies and practices aimed at maximizing the separate collection of waste batteries to improve recycling rates and prevent environmental harm. It focuses on logistics, incentives, and regulatory requirements that encourage the separation of used batteries from general waste.
Deposit-Refund Schemes
Policy options for Member States to implement mandatory deposit-refund schemes for products. These systems encourage returns and improve recycling and material recovery under extended producer responsibility.
Battery Take-Back Systems
Describes systems for taking back and collecting spent batteries (including SLI, industrial, and EV batteries) at end-of-life. Covers collection networks, reverse logistics, and collaboration with manufacturers and recyclers to ensure safe, compliant recycling and proper disposal.
Battery collection points
Locations where end-users can return spent batteries for proper recycling or disposal. They support safe handling and regulatory compliance by consolidating batteries at convenient drop-off points.
Waste Matching
This category covers the process of identifying and connecting waste streams with suitable reuse or recovery opportunities. It enables industrial symbiosis by pairing waste producers with downstream users that can utilize those wastes as inputs, reducing disposal and preserving resources.
Waste Generation and Hierarchy
This category groups core waste concepts such as generation, recyclability and hazard status, and the waste hierarchy that guides management. It also covers prevention and information for streams like textiles and batteries within the EU context. It is organized into four subcategories: Waste Genera
Waste Generation & Textile Waste
This category captures the amounts of waste generated and their recyclability or hazard status, with emphasis on textiles. It comprises two subcategories: Waste Generation Metrics and Post-consumer Textile Waste, addressing measurement methods and downstream processing of post-consumer textiles.
Waste Generation Metrics
Captures quantitative measures of waste produced, including total amounts and their recyclability or hazard status. Supports modeling workflows by classifying waste streams based on volume and properties.
Post-consumer Textile Waste
Post-consumer textile waste refers to textiles that have been used by consumers and are now collected for downstream processing. This category covers sorting, recycling, reuse, and disposal pathways that transform discarded fabrics and garments into new materials.
Waste Hierarchy and Status
This category consolidates concepts related to waste management priorities (the Waste Hierarchy) and the current state of waste streams (Waste Status). It serves as an umbrella for the two subcategories, organizing them under a common framework for waste governance.
Waste Hierarchy
The waste hierarchy is a framework that ranks waste management options from most to least preferred. It informs policy, planning, and operations by prioritizing prevention and reduction, followed by reuse, recycling, energy recovery, and disposal as a last resort.
Waste Status
Represents the status designation of waste items in the ontology, linked to the StatusWaste concept. It defines the state or condition of waste within classifications and workflows.
Waste Prevention in the EU
This category covers strategies and policies aimed at preventing waste generation across the European Union. It emphasizes upstream interventions to reduce waste at the source and minimize generation, rather than managing waste after it is created.
Waste Batteries Information
This category covers information on the prevention and management of waste batteries as outlined in Article 74(1). It guides stakeholders on preventing waste and ensuring proper handling, collection, and treatment of waste batteries.
End-User Waste Prevention and Collection
This category addresses how end-users contribute to waste prevention and to the separate collection of textiles and batteries. It includes collection targets (Article 59(3)) and the data attributes related to end-user roles, as described in Table 9.
Textile Collection Targets
Covers the regulatory targets for collecting used textiles as defined in Article 59(3), first subparagraph, points (a)-(c). Also encompasses the process of gathering and transporting textile waste to sorting facilities.
Article 59(3) Targets
Covers the collection targets defined in Article 59(3), first subparagraph, points (a)–(c). It groups the related collection obligations under these points for regulatory reference and compliance.
Textile Waste Collection
The process of gathering used textiles and transporting them to a sorting facility. It encompasses collection logistics, routes, intake points, and initial handling prior to sorting.
End-User Waste Prevention Roles
This category captures how end-users contribute to waste prevention and participate in collection, including data attributes describing their responsibilities. It links to subcategories detailing specific end-user roles in prevention and in overall waste management.
End-User Role in Waste Prevention
Defines the role of end users in contributing to waste prevention and the information to be provided to support their participation. It highlights guidance, best practices, and resources to help consumers take action to reduce waste in daily life.
End-User Roles in Waste Management
This category documents data attributes describing how end-users participate in waste prevention and collection activities. It defines the roles, responsibilities, and actions of end-users within waste management programs and how these attributes are captured in datasets. Use this category to standa
End-User Battery Collection
Describes how individual consumers participate in the separate collection of waste batteries. It highlights the role, responsibilities, and best practices that encourage proper disposal and recycling.
Battery End-of-Life and Waste
This category covers expected waste generation from batteries, end-of-life treatment options (downcycling, incineration, landfill), and the battery status lifecycle from original to repurposed, reused, remanufactured, or waste, in ecodesign contexts.
Defines the end-of-life lifecycle and waste streams of batteries, especially electric vehicle batteries. Covers disposal, recycling, second-life reuse, environmental impact, and regulatory considerations, with subcategories for battery end-of-life processes and EV battery waste.
Battery End-of-Life
Represents the end-of-life phase of batteries. It encompasses disposal, recycling, repurposing, and decommissioning considerations for safe waste handling and resource recovery.
EV Battery Waste
Represents waste from electric vehicle batteries. This category covers end-of-life management, disposal, and recycling considerations for spent EV cells and modules.
Expected Waste Generation
Represents the predicted quantity of waste a product is expected to generate over its life cycle, informing ecodesign decisions. It guides material selection, production methods, and end-of-life planning to minimize environmental impact and optimize recycling or reuse opportunities.
End-of-Life Processes
Covers end-of-life value chain stages, including downcycling, incineration, and landfill. Defines disposal, treatment, and recovery pathways after product use.
Battery Status Lifecycle
Defines the current state of a battery across its lifecycle, including original, repurposed, re-used, remanufactured, or waste statuses. Indicates any access restrictions associated with battery status information.
Battery Material Lifecycle
Describes the lifecycle and management of battery materials from production to recycling, including waste treatment, markets for recycled materials, and closed-loop reuse. It differentiates post-consumer materials from pre-consumer materials within the battery supply chain.
Battery Waste Treatment
Covers treatment of waste batteries under regulatory obligations. Defines compliant processes for handling, recycling, recovery, and safe disposal of end-of-life batteries within the obligations framework.
Battery Recycling Markets
This category covers the market dynamics and trade surrounding battery recycling, including buyers, sellers, pricing, and logistics for recycled battery materials.
Closed Loop System
Closed-loop systems are control mechanisms that regulate output by feeding back a portion of the output to compare with a reference. They continuously adjust inputs to minimize error, enabling stability and accuracy in devices such as thermostats, motor controllers, and autopilots.
Post-consumer Materials
Post-consumer materials are materials recovered from consumer waste and recycled into new products. This category covers inputs sourced from end-user waste streams, supporting closed-loop recycling and reducing landfill burden.
Pre-consumer Material
Materials diverted from the manufacturing waste stream during production, before consumer use, as defined by DIN EN ISO 14021:2021-10. These pre-consumer materials are typically recycled or reused within manufacturing processes to reduce waste.
Used Products and Reuse
This category covers textiles that are already used and the pathways to extend their life through reuse, repair, repurposing, and refurbishment. It encompasses pre-owned items, repurpose concepts, repair-and-reuse channels, and refurbished goods as viable outputs within textile standardisation.
Used Products in Scope
This category covers products that have been previously used and clarifies whether they fall within the scope of a standardisation request. It clarifies inclusion or exclusion for conformity assessment, labeling, and regulatory review.
Reuse and Repair
Describes the major channel for post-consumer textile waste focused on reuse and repair. This pathway extends product life by enabling textiles to be reused or repaired before recycling or disposal.
Repurpose Concept
Repurpose refers to transforming an existing item or resource for a new use rather than discarding it. This category encompasses methods, contexts, and considerations involved in repurposing materials, spaces, or assets.
Refurbished Goods
Items in this category are labeled as refurbished, meaning they have been restored, tested, and brought to a like-new condition. They are typically sold at a discount from new items and may include a limited warranty.
Waste Disposal and Incineration
This category aggregates waste disposal pathways and related activities, including disposal operations, waste collection and sorting, incineration, and manufacturing waste. It supports mapping and regulation of end-of-life waste handling within the manufacturing and broader waste management lifecycl
Disposal Operations
Defines the procedures and workflows involved in disposing of materials, waste streams, or assets. It covers collection, treatment, transfer, and final disposal methods, along with safety and regulatory considerations.
Waste Collection and Sorting
This category covers the processes involved in collecting waste from sources and sorting it to separate recyclables, organics, and residual waste. It includes curbside pickup, transfer and sorting facilities, contamination control, and the logistics that move materials through the waste-management v
Waste Incineration
Represents a waste disposal pathway in which waste is burned at high temperatures to reduce volume. Incineration can generate energy in waste-to-energy facilities but also produces ash and emissions.
Manufacturing Waste
Represents waste generated during the manufacturing and fabrication of batteries, as defined in the EU Battery Regulation. This category helps distinguish production-phase waste from end-of-life battery waste for regulatory compliance and waste-management planning.
Battery Reuse and Waste Prevention
Focuses on extending battery life through reuse, repair, and repurpose strategies, including re-use of batteries after initial deployment. It also covers waste prevention across the battery lifecycle to minimize material waste and environmental impact.
Reuse, Repair, Repurpose
This category captures the value-chain characteristic of extending product life through reuse, repair, and repurposing. It encompasses activities like refurbishing, remanufacturing, upcycling, and facilitating second-life markets. The aim is to minimize waste, conserve resources, and keep products i
Battery Reuse
Reuse refers to the process of using a battery again after its initial life, extending its utility before recycling or disposal. This category covers second-life applications and repurposing strategies for batteries after first use.
Waste Prevention
Strategies and actions to reduce waste generation across the battery lifecycle, including design for minimal waste, manufacturing process improvements, and packaging choices. This category emphasizes upstream prevention rather than downstream recycling or disposal.
Mine Closure and Rehabilitation
Covers planning and execution of post-operational activities to shut down mining operations and restore ecological and social conditions. Includes mine closure plans and rehabilitation initiatives aimed at environmental remediation, land use planning, and long-term stewardship.
Mine Closure Plans
Documents and strategies that describe how a mine is safely shut down after operations end. These plans cover environmental remediation, land rehabilitation, post-closure land use, monitoring, and regulatory compliance to ensure long-term safety and environmental protection.
Mine Rehabilitation
Rehabilitation activities after mining operations aim to restore land and ecological function. This category covers soil stabilization, revegetation, water management, pollution control, and long-term monitoring to ensure environmental recovery.
Deinstallation Dates & ISO 8601
Contains metadata on the latest deinstallation date and location, and a reference to the ISO 8601 date representation.
Date and place of deinstallation
Captures the date and location of the most recent deinstallation of a product previously installed in a construction project. This helps maintain an accurate installation history and supports asset tracking and lifecycle planning.
DIN ISO 8601-1 Standard
Covers the DIN ISO 8601-1:2020-12 standard for date and time representations. Defines formats and validation rules to ensure interoperable timestamp data across systems. Supports consistent temporal data exchange within German and international contexts.
Textile Recycling
This category encompasses techniques and workflows for recycling textiles, including various methods and the processes used to reclaim textile materials. It provides context for data points related to textile recycling by outlining how textiles are sorted, treated, and reprocessed.
Textile Recycling Methods
This category covers the different methods used to recycle textiles, including mechanical and chemical processes and other approaches for recovering fibers and materials from textile waste. It highlights practical techniques and their outcomes for sustainable textile recycling.
Textile Recycling Process
Represents the process by which sorted textiles are recycled into reusable materials. It provides context for data points related to recycling outcomes, process steps, and material flows in textile circularity.
Energy Use and Efficiency
This category aggregates concepts related to energy consumption and efficiency across product lifecycles, including in-use energy performance, energy metrics, and performance bounds. It also encompasses domains such as battery capacity, energy throughput, lighting and water/resource use, and policy
Battery Capacity and Efficiency
This category aggregates metrics for battery capacity fade and round-trip efficiency as batteries age through use. It covers remaining capacity, capacity fade, and round-trip energy efficiency (including aging behavior), plus degradation indicators and update triggers related to market placement.
Battery Capacity and Fade
This category covers the concepts of remaining battery capacity and capacity fade over time and use. It groups topics that describe how much energy a battery can store at a given moment and how that capacity diminishes with cycling and aging, with subcategories for Remaining Capacity and Battery Cap
Remaining Capacity
Represents the amount of capacity that remains available after current usage. This metric helps determine whether additional resources can be allocated without exceeding limits.
Battery Capacity Fade
This category defines capacity fade as the decrease in the amount of charge a battery can hold over time and usage. It arises from aging and cycling and affects remaining range and battery life, with factors like temperature, depth of discharge, and charging practices shaping the rate.
Remaining Round-Trip Efficiency
This category represents the remaining round-trip efficiency of a system, capturing how much of the ideal energy conversion performance remains after losses during charging and discharging. It is useful for evaluating degradation, end-of-life performance, and maintenance planning.
Round-Trip Energy Efficiency
Represents the round-trip energy efficiency as a function of the aging parameter x. This metric characterizes how energy losses or gains accumulate in a complete energy cycle as the system ages, enabling comparison across aging scenarios.
Round-Trip Efficiency Degradation
Captures the triggers that refresh the degradation (fade) of energy round-trip efficiency in storage systems. It focuses on updates made at market deployment and when key conditions change.
Energy and Water Metrics
Consolidates metrics and indicators for energy consumption and water use reduction across production. It includes energy indicators (e.g., kWh/kg or MJ/kg) and related data items, including per-kilogram measurements and lifecycle considerations.
Water Use Reduction & Lifecycle
This category covers strategies to minimize drinking and service water use, and to evaluate energy and water consumption across production stages. It integrates water-use reduction with lifecycle perspectives on energy and water efficiency to inform sustainable design and operation.
Water Use Minimisation
Strategies to reduce the consumption of drinking and service water. This category covers measures and practices aimed at conserving water across facilities and operations, minimizing waste while maintaining essential functions.
Lifecycle Energy and Water Use
This category captures energy and water consumption metrics across the production lifecycle and its various phases.
Energy Consumption Indicator
This category defines indicators that quantify energy use per unit mass, typically expressed in kWh/kg or MJ/kg. It provides anchor metrics for assessing energy efficiency across processes and products.
Energy Consumption Data
This category contains data items that record energy consumption. These metrics quantify how much energy is used over time and support monitoring, reporting, and efficiency analysis.
Energy per Kilogram
Represents the energy consumed per kilogram of product. A key sustainability metric for evaluating energy efficiency and environmental impact across products and processes.
Battery Performance and Efficiency
This category groups SSbD concepts around battery energy efficiency and baseline performance, including minimum energy performance requirements, performance bounds, and minimum voltage thresholds. It sets design baselines for safe operation, durability, and energy-efficient battery solutions.
Minimum energy performance requirements
This category encompasses the minimum energy performance requirements cited in paragraph 3. It groups the regulatory thresholds and criteria that define the lowest acceptable level of energy efficiency for buildings, equipment, or processes.
Performance Bounds
Defines the minimum and maximum performance levels and how they bound overall performance relative to a product parameter. This category captures performance constraints and upper/lower limits.
Battery performance minima
Defines the minimum electrochemical performance and durability values that rechargeable industrial batteries must meet, as established by a delegated act (first subparagraph of Part A Annex IV). These regulatory thresholds are used to assess battery quality and lifecycle expectations.
Energy Efficiency Design
This category captures the SSbD approach to embedding energy efficiency into design. It guides decisions that minimize energy use across a product’s lifecycle, from materials and manufacturing to operation and end-of-life.
Minimum Battery Voltage
Defines the lowest voltage at which a battery can operate safely. It sets the lower bound for charging and discharging limits and informs protection mechanisms to prevent damage.
In-Use Energy Metrics
Group of concepts that describe energy use and performance during operation. It includes in-use data, energy in-use, battery energy capacity, and energy consumption measurements.
In-use Data
Data collected about a product's energy use and performance during operation. It serves as a parameter reference for assessing and comparing product performance.
In-Use Energy
This category captures the energy consumed during operation to assess performance under real-use conditions. It groups parameters that quantify energy use while a product or system is in use, as referenced in the recital. It supports evaluation of efficiency and performance during use.
Battery Energy Capacity
Represents the total amount of energy a battery can deliver over a specified period under reference conditions. This captures the battery's capacity (often expressed in watt-hours or ampere-hours) and informs expected runtime and performance.
Energy Consumption
Represents the measurement of energy consumed as a sustainability data attribute. This attribute enables tracking of energy usage and supports efficiency analyses.
NZEB Targets and Indicators
Group of concepts related to EU energy performance targets and measurement. It includes Nearly Zero Energy Building targets, energy efficiency indicators, and threshold terms such as SOCE, with lighting products considered in the context of energy performance.
Lighting Products
This category encompasses products designed to provide illumination, including lamps, lighting fixtures, and related equipment. It covers both consumer and commercial lighting items referenced in the recital.
EU NZEB Target
Target for nearly zero-energy and zero-emission buildings within the European Union. It sets policy goals and timelines to advance building performance across member states.
Energy Efficiency Indicator
Defines energy efficiency as a distinct indicator metric, expressed as a percentage. This indicator enables comparison of efficiency across systems, devices, or processes.
SOCE Threshold Term
Contains the acronym SOCE, a state-of-charge related term used in defining a threshold. This term's meaning and usage are documented in the context of threshold definitions for battery systems.
Energy Use and Battery Metrics
This category aggregates concepts related to energy use and energy efficiency in ecodesign, including energy bill data. It also covers battery energy and energy throughput as key performance metrics.
This category covers how products use energy and how to improve energy efficiency as part of ecodesign. It guides design choices that reduce energy consumption and optimize performance.
Energy Bill Data
Represents the data element for an energy-related bill within a broader bill-of-something data model. It defines energy-specific billing attributes such as consumption, charges, and billing period.
Battery Energy
This category captures the energy stored in a battery, quantified under defined reference conditions. It defines how battery energy is measured and compared within energy systems.
Battery Energy Throughput
Represents the cumulative amount of energy that has flowed through a battery over its lifetime up to a given time. It captures the total energy throughput accumulated, useful for assessing lifecycle utilization and long-term performance.
Energy Efficiency & Certification
Cluster covering methods and tools for measuring energy efficiency, managing sustainability data, and tracking energy certification status, including the State of Certified Energy (SOCE). It supports sustainability reporting and governance around certified energy performance.
Energy Efficiency
Energy efficiency measures how effectively a product uses energy, representing its performance relative to energy input. It is used to compare products and guide decisions toward lower energy consumption.
Sustainability Management Platform
A platform designed to collect, manage, and report sustainability data. It centralizes metrics, supports governance, and enables transparent reporting to stakeholders.
Energy Certification Status
Represents the current status of energy that has been certified under an energy standards program. It indicates the certification lifecycle and compliance of energy products or processes with defined criteria.
State of Certified Energy
State of Certified Energy (SOCE) is the metric that represents the usable onboard battery energy, as measured or certified. It indicates the energy capacity available for operation and is used to assess and compare battery performance.
Use-Phase Energy and Resources
Encompasses energy consumption in the use phase, overall energy and resource use across lifecycle stages, and the declared use defined by the manufacturer. It links Use-Phase Energy Limits, Energy and Resource Use, and Declared Use to a unified view of how products consume energy and resources durin
Use-Phase Energy Limits
Specifies and enforces limits on how much energy a product may use during its operational use phase. It defines maximum energy consumption requirements to improve efficiency when the product is in use.
Energy and Resource Use
Covers the use and consumption of energy, water, and other resources across life cycle stages of products and processes. Focuses on efficiency, conservation, and responsible resource stewardship to minimize environmental impact.
Declared Use
Represents the use that the manufacturer declares as the intended application, including the conditions of use described in the technical documentation. It defines the approved purpose and operating parameters for a product or device.
Describes round-trip energy efficiency across a battery's life, including initial performance, mid-life (50% cycle-life) efficiency, and how efficiency degrades over cycles. Also encompasses the data attributes used to quantify and monitor this efficiency.
Initial and Half-Life Efficiency
Captures the initial round-trip energy efficiency and the energy efficiency at 50% of cycle-life. This metric helps evaluate early device performance and degradation trajectory over its lifecycle.
Round-Trip Energy Degradation
Captures the decline in round-trip energy efficiency over time or cycles. Expressed as a percentage drop in overall efficiency, it reflects aging and loss mechanisms in energy storage systems during charging and discharging.
Round-Trip Energy Efficiency Data
This category contains attributes that describe the measured energy efficiency of round-trip energy processes. It focuses on data describing how much energy is retained or lost during charging and discharging cycles, including efficiency metrics and related performance indicators.
Energy Metrics and Billing
This category covers energy throughput concepts, PDF documents of energy and water bills used for assessments (such as PEF), and standard energy units like kilowatt-hours (kWh).
Energy Throughput
This category represents the rate at which energy passes through a system or process, i.e., energy throughput. It quantifies the amount of energy transferred per unit time and serves as a key metric for assessing performance, efficiency, and capacity in energy systems. It relates to concepts such as
Energy and Water Bill PDFs
PDF copies of energy and water bills used as supporting documentation for PEF assessments. These PDFs provide verifiable records of utility usage to support performance evaluations.
Energy Units
Energy units used to quantify energy, with kilowatt-hour (kWh) as a common example. A kilowatt-hour equals the energy of one kilowatt of power sustained for one hour (1 kWh = 3.6 MJ). This category covers units used to measure electrical energy consumption and related quantities.
RTE Metrics & Formulas
Covers round-trip energy efficiency (RTE) at the beginning of life and the formula used to model its fade over time. It groups the core metric RTEBOL and the RTE fade formula as foundational references for lifecycle energy performance.
RTE at Beginning of Life
Represents the round-trip energy efficiency of a product or system at the start of its life cycle. It reflects energy performance from manufacturing through initial operation.
RTE Fade Formula
Defines the mathematical expression used to quantify the degradation of energy round-trip efficiency (RTE) over cycles or time. This category supports understanding how RTE fades with repeated use in energy storage and retrieval processes.
Recycled Content and Circularity
Defines concepts, indicators, and data practices for measuring recycled content and material circularity, including design for recycling, packaging minimisation, and disclosure requirements. It promotes standardized data collection and transparent documentation to support sustainability assessments
Recycled Material Shares
This category covers the shares of recycled content for key battery materials—cobalt, lithium, nickel, and lead—from pre-consumer and post-consumer sources, including related market shares and target requirements. It aggregates concepts related to recycled content shares, lithium and nickel-specific
Recycled Content and Targets
Covers the share of pre-consumer and post-consumer recycled content in cobalt, lithium, nickel, and lead. Also includes the mandatory recycled-content targets for battery materials as listed in Annex C, Table C.1.
Recycled Content in Critical Metals
Represents the share of pre-consumer and post-consumer recycled content used in cobalt, lithium, nickel, and lead. This category highlights material circularity for these critical metals.
Mandatory recycled content targets
Defines regulatory requirements for the minimum recycled content in battery materials, as specified in Annex C, Table C.1. Specifies the mandated percentages of recycled material to be included in various battery materials across the supply chain.
Recycled Content and Lithium Shares
Represents the proportion of recycled material content for products, including lithium-specific recycled share and overall recycled content shares across metals. It tracks the fraction recovered from waste (e.g., cobalt, lithium, nickel, and lead) that is to be included in reporting.
Recycled Lithium Share
Represents the proportion of lithium supplied from recycled sources. This category captures data on the recycling rate of lithium and the circularity of the lithium supply chain.
Recycled content shares
Specifies the percentage shares of recovered materials (cobalt, lithium, nickel, and lead) to be included from waste streams. This category covers how recycled content is quantified, reported, and used for sustainability compliance and transparency.
Cobalt Market Share
This category centers on the concept 'cobalt share', i.e., the market share or ownership stake of cobalt within supply chains. It covers how cobalt is distributed among producers, suppliers, and regions in the market.
Pre-consumer Nickel Share
This category represents the share of nickel recycled from pre-consumer sources (manufacturing scrap). It indicates how much nickel input is diverted from waste before consumer use, reflecting recycling efficiency in the supply chain.
PESCO-UP Data & Disclosure
This category collects PESCO-UP data requirements and related supply chain due diligence information. It includes mandatory and suggested data, recommended datapoints (Table 16), and guidance on future datapoints, organized into subcategories such as Supply Chain Disclosure, PESCO-UP Data Requiremen
Supply Chain Disclosure
Focuses on the disclosure of supply chain due diligence information. Defines the mandatory and recommended information that must be made available and the channels through which it should be disclosed.
Supply Chain Due Diligence
This category bundles the information requirements related to supply chain due diligence as shown in Table 5, highlighting mandatory disclosures and recommended information to be disclosed. It supports transparency and governance across the supply chain.
Due Diligence Information Disclosure
This category focuses on mandatory and recommended supply chain due diligence information that must be made available through specified channels. It clarifies what data should be disclosed and how it should be shared to promote transparency and regulatory compliance.
PESCO-UP Data Requirements
This category encodes the minimum data elements required for PESCO-UP units. It reflects the core fields specified in Unit16 and is tied to the caption for Figure 18.
Future Data Points
This category captures planned data to collect for future improvements. It notes that adding roughly five additional data points can support refinement of analyses and models down the line.
Table 16 Datapoints
Contains the 17 datapoints recommended for scaling reuse, repair, and recycling as outlined in Table 16.
Textile Circularity and Data
Consolidates circularity-focused practices in textiles, including packaging minimisation, standardised circular data collection for traceability, and thermomechanical recycling. It emphasises circular textile supply chains and the data attributes that describe circularity.
Circular Data Collection for Textiles
Describes standardized, circular data collection methods aimed at improving traceability and transparency in textile supply chains. It also encompasses the development and management of circular textile supply chains.
Standardized Circular Data Collection
Defines standardized methods for collecting data in a circular, closed-loop process to improve traceability, transparency, and sustainability across data lifecycles.
Circular Textile Supply Chains
This category covers the closed-loop flows and coordination across the textile value chain to enable recycling, reuse, and responsible end-of-life management. It encompasses strategies, actors, and processes that reduce waste and conserve resources.
Packaging Minimisation
A complementary requirement to minimise packaging. It highlights approaches to reduce material use, improve packaging efficiency, and cut waste throughout the product lifecycle.
Thermomechanical Recycling
Thermomechanical recycling is a recycling method that uses heat and mechanical processing to soften and grind polymer waste, enabling reprocessing into new pellets or products. This approach aims to recover value from thermoplastic materials while maintaining useful material properties for downstrea
Circularity Data Attributes
This category catalogs the data attributes used to describe circularity information. Table 7 defines these attributes within circularity-related metadata.
Sustainability Indicator Framework
Represents the framework for sustainability indicators, including recycled content information as described in Article 8(1), the set of proposed categories, aspects, methods, and indicators (Table 15), and the data structure used to store indicator data. It also covers capacity-based normalisation t
Recycled Content Information
This category captures information about the recycled content contained in the documentation referenced by Article 8(1). It addresses how the recycled material content is disclosed and recorded within that documentation for compliance and transparency.
Proposed Categories and Methods
Contains the proposed set of categories, aspects, methods, and indicators described for Table 15. This collection provides a reference framework for classification and evaluation.
Indicator Data Structure
Represents the data schema used to store and manage information about a sustainability indicator. It encapsulates the values, measurements, and related metadata defining a specific indicator used in sustainability assessments.
Capacity-based Normalisation
This category covers normalisation by battery capacity to improve comparability across different battery sizes. By factoring capacity into values, it enables fair comparisons of performance or characteristics across devices.
Material Efficiency and Circularity
This category aggregates SSbD material-efficiency concepts—covering design for recycling, minimum recycled content, and material circularity—to ground sustainable material use. It provides a foundation for evaluating how materials are used, recovered, and circulated across design and lifecycle conte
Design for Recycling
Guidelines and practices that facilitate product recycling and end-of-life material recovery. Emphasizes design choices that enable disassembly, material separation, and compatibility with recycling streams, as well as related considerations like labeling and supply-chain implications.
Minimum Recycled Content
This category covers rules that require a minimum percentage of recycled material in products or packaging. It describes thresholds, how compliance is measured, and related reporting considerations.
SSbD Material Efficiency
Defines the concept of maximizing material use efficiency within Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) frameworks. It encompasses strategies to minimize material inputs, promote reuse and recyclability, and extend product life to reduce waste and environmental impact.
Material Circularity
This category covers the assessment of how materials are used, recovered, recycled, and repurposed to close material loops. It highlights circularity as a core aspect of sustainability assessments.
Recycled Content and Fibre
This category groups documentation, data points, and fibre related to recycled content, including non-virgin recycled fibre. It supports reporting and traceability of recycled material content in textiles and related materials.
Recycled Content Documentation
Documentation detailing the share of recycled content for cobalt, lithium, and nickel. It records the percentage of material recovered from recycling in the supply chain.
Recycled Fibre
A material produced by converting textile waste through recycling into usable fibre for new textiles. It serves as a sustainable input in textile manufacturing and supports circular economy goals.
Recycled Content Data
This category captures data points that quantify the recycled content in materials or products. It records granular metrics describing the amount or proportion of recycled material used in a given item or process.
Non-Virgin Recycled Fibre
Represents non-virgin fibre derived from recycled sources, used as an alternative to virgin fibres. This category includes fibre materials sourced from recycled post-consumer or post-industrial streams.
Recycled Content and Traceability
This category covers data and governance related to recycled content in materials, including the distinction between recycled and virgin fibres and the data attributes that describe recycled and renewable content. It also encompasses material traceability, documenting the history of all traceable as
Recycled Content
This category covers materials and products that incorporate recycled content, including recycled fibre and non-virgin fibre. It emphasizes reducing virgin resource use by leveraging post-consumer and post-industrial recycled materials.
Material Traceability
Maintains the history and lineage of all traceable assets involved in production, from raw materials and components to the final product. This enables end-to-end provenance, quality assurance, and regulatory compliance by enabling traceability across the supply chain.
Recycled Content Attributes
Data attributes describing the amount and quality of recycled and renewable content in materials or products. This category covers metadata such as recycled-content percentage, renewable-content share, source of recyclables, and related sustainability indicators to support reporting and life cycle a
This category encompasses concepts about recycled materials content, overall material circularity, and the proportion of recycled cobalt from pre-consumer and post-consumer sources. It groups data topics that measure material reuse, lifecycle efficiency, and cobalt recycling shares.
Recycled Materials Content
Describes the use and content of recycled materials, including the proportion of recycled material in products and the processes involved in material recovery. This category highlights how recycled content supports sustainability and circular economy objectives.
Captures the principles and practices that enable materials to be reused, recycled, and kept in circulation. Emphasizes lifecycle thinking and closed-loop approaches within data models and related topics.
Recycled Cobalt Share
Captures the proportion of cobalt sourced from recycled materials, including both pre-consumer and post-consumer streams. This category supports transparency and circularity assessments by indicating the recycled-content share in cobalt used.
Recycling Metrics and Reuse
Aggregates metrics on recycling performance, material recovery values, recycled-content levels, and reuse status for battery materials. It provides data such as recycled-content percentages and reuse status to support assessments of circularity and recovery efficiency in the supply chain.
Represents the percentage of recycled material in secondary materials. This category quantifies how much recycled content is used, enabling assessment of material sustainability and circularity.
Battery Recycling Metrics
Measures recycling efficiencies and material recovery for collected batteries, using yields and recovery values to assess program performance.
Status Reused
Covers status values that are reused across multiple items or records, representing a common state applied in different contexts. It denotes reuse of a status label rather than unique states per item.
Recycled Content and Textile Data
A category grouping indicators and data points related to recycled content in textiles. It encompasses the Recycled Content Indicator and the Data Points for Textile Waste to support measurement and improvement of post-consumer textile waste management.
Recycled Content Indicator
Represents a standalone indicator that signals the presence or proportion of recycled material in a product or component. Used to communicate recycled content in design and procurement workflows.
Data Points for Textile Waste
Contains up to 22 data points with potential to improve and accelerate post-consumer textile waste transformation. These points can guide better decision-making across recycling, processing, and supply chains.
PESCO-UP Recycling Data
This category groups the PESCO-UP data model for textile-to-textile recycling. It also includes BattReg non-effectiveness cases where due diligence obligations do not apply, highlighting data modeling and compliance exceptions.
PESCO-UP Textile Data Model
Dedicated data model within the PESCO-UP framework to improve efficiency of textile-to-textile recycling. It enables interoperable data exchange and process optimization across recycling stages.
BattReg non-effectiveness cases
This category covers situations where the Battery Regulation's due diligence obligations are not effective in reuse or repurposing scenarios. It outlines when obligations may fall outside standard compliance and suggests considerations for mitigating risk.
Carbon Footprint and Emissions
This category groups concepts related to product carbon footprint, lifecycle emissions, and related environmental obligations and reporting. It includes life cycle inventory data, carbon footprint declarations, and methodologies such as PEF for sustainability assessment.
Environmental Obligations & PEF
Focuses on regulatory environmental requirements for economic operators, including the Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) methodology, policy claims, and mandatory carbon footprint declarations and labels. It also covers how traceability systems support these obligations.
New environmental obligations
This category covers newly introduced environmental obligations applicable to economic operators. It outlines the scope of the obligations and the key compliance requirements that businesses must meet under updated environmental regulations.
Product Environmental Footprint
Category for the Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) methodology, a standardized approach to assessing the environmental performance of products. It outlines how PEF measures life cycle environmental impacts and supports credible, comparable sustainability assessments.
Policy Claims
A policy claim is a statement that companies intend to support with the traceability system. It represents the policy-oriented assertion behind using traceability data to justify or communicate commitments.
Carbon Footprint Declaration
This category covers regulatory requirements that obligate economic operators to prepare and submit carbon footprint declarations for specified batteries. It outlines the scope, metrics, and reporting obligations.
Carbon Footprint Label
A label indicating the carbon footprint and declaring the carbon footprint performance class for bats. It helps communicate environmental impact and facilitates comparison across bat-related products or activities bearing the label.
Carbon Footprint Concepts
This category collects concepts related to measuring and presenting the carbon footprint of products. It includes product-level footprints, carbon footprint information, battery-specific footprints, and the units used to express CO2e (per kWh and in tonnes).
Product Carbon Footprint
Captures the total greenhouse gas emissions associated with a product throughout its lifecycle. This category supports assessment and comparison of environmental impact across products.
Carbon Footprint Information
Represents information about the carbon footprint as defined in Article 7(1) and (2). It covers the measurement, reporting, and disclosure of greenhouse gas emissions associated with activities under those provisions.
Absolute Battery Carbon Footprint
Represents the total, non-normalized carbon emissions of a battery, expressed as an absolute value. It serves as a single metric that is not tied to usage rates, capacity, or per-unit measurements.
CO2e per kWh Unit
Represents the unit of measurement used for battery carbon footprint data attributes, specifically kilograms of CO2 equivalent per kilowatt-hour. It labels data fields that express emissions intensity per energy delivered or stored.
Tonnes CO2e footprint
Represents the absolute greenhouse gas emissions expressed in tonnes of CO2-equivalents. This unit is used to report the total carbon footprint irrespective of emission source, enabling cross-comparison of overall impact.
Lifecycle Assessment Data
Data used in life cycle assessment (LCA), including life cycle inventory (LCI) data and sustainability metrics. It also covers battery-related carbon footprint measurements, including per-functional-unit footprints.
Life Cycle Inventory
Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) data captures inputs, outputs, and emissions across a product's life cycle to support Life Cycle Assessment. It provides the quantitative basis for modeling environmental exchanges and calculating potential environmental impacts.
Sustainability Data
This category contains data on environmental performance indicators, resource use, emissions, and lifecycle impacts for materials and manufacturing processes. It is used to assess and compare sustainability performance across designs and supply chains.
Battery Carbon Footprint
This category captures the greenhouse gas emissions associated with batteries across their life cycle—manufacture, use, and end-of-life. It supports life-cycle assessment and comparison of different battery technologies.
Battery Carbon Footprint per FU
Represents the carbon footprint of a battery expressed per functional unit. This metric enables comparison of environmental impact across battery designs on a consistent functional basis.
Direct Emissions Context
This category consolidates references on direct facility emissions, climate impact information, and related timing notes for carbon footprint disclosures, including public studies and application notes. It clarifies the boundary between general direct-emissions data and associated disclosure referen
Climate Impact Information
Contains performance data on climate change effects and related human toxicity, aligned with Annex II references. This category gathers environmental impact information used in assessments and reporting.
Facility Direct Emissions Bill
Represents a formal statement of a facility's direct (Scope 1) emissions. This category clearly delineates facility-level direct emissions from broader or non-facility emissions data, supporting boundary setting and accurate reporting.
Public Carbon Footprint Studies
A category for publicly accessible studies on carbon footprints, hosted as web links. It aggregates external reports and research that quantify or analyze carbon emissions.
Application Timing
This category documents guidance on when the carbon footprint declaration applies, clarifying the timing and scope described in NOTE 3. It helps users determine applicability based on specific conditions outlined for the declaration.
Aggregates data elements related to the carbon footprint of batteries, including the carbon footprint declaration per model and plant, the unit kg CO2e, and battery passport attributes tied to emissions.
A carbon footprint declaration prepared for each battery model at a specific manufacturing plant, detailing emissions data and related lifecycle information used for environmental reporting and compliance.
Kilogram CO2e
Kilogram CO2e is a unit of measurement for greenhouse gas emissions, expressed as kilograms of CO2-equivalent. It enables comparison of different gases by their global warming potential.
Battery Carbon Footprint Attributes
This category covers battery passport data attributes that quantify the carbon footprint of a battery. It includes lifecycle emissions metrics such as production, transportation, and end-of-life impacts tracked in passport data.
This category groups concepts related to the carbon footprint declaration of batteries, the broader environmental impacts of battery production and use, and emissions from raw material acquisition per kWh. It links data attributes with lifecycle impact considerations.
Carbon Footprint Batteries
This category groups rechargeable industrial batteries over 2 kWh, including lithium-metal (LMT) and electric-vehicle batteries, that are subject to carbon footprint declarations. It covers products that require environmental impact disclosure or life-cycle assessment under applicable regulations.
Environmental Impacts
Contains environmental considerations embedded in data model topics, including sustainability, resource use, and ecological impact. It guides data model design and analysis to account for environmental implications and reduce ecological footprints.
Raw Material Acquisition Emissions
Represents the greenhouse gas contribution from acquiring raw materials, expressed as kilograms of CO2e per kilowatt-hour. This data attribute captures the carbon intensity of material sourcing in the life-cycle assessment.
Carbon Footprint Reporting
Encompasses regulatory formats for carbon footprint declarations, billing of direct emissions, and performance classifications for product carbon footprints (such as battery models). It groups the standards, data attributes, and evaluation schemes used to report and compare carbon emissions across p
Carbon Footprint Declaration Format
An implementing act that establishes the required format for the carbon footprint declaration. It defines the structure, fields, units, and submission requirements that entities must follow when reporting their carbon footprint.
Direct Emissions Billing
Represents billing data for direct greenhouse gas emissions within lifecycle accounting. It isolates direct-emissions billed from other emission types.
Carbon Footprint Performance Class
Defines the category used to classify a battery model based on its carbon footprint performance. This labeling enables standardized comparison of environmental impact across battery designs.
Product Emissions
Aggregates product-related emissions from both lifecycle stages and direct production. Includes emissions released to air, water, or soil during lifecycle and the direct emissions bill generated in manufacturing.
Lifecycle Emissions
Represents emissions released to air, water, or soil across all stages of a product's or system's lifecycle.
Bill of Direct Emissions
This category captures the direct greenhouse gas emissions generated in manufacturing the product. It excludes wastewater emissions and ties the emissions data to production quantities.
This category collects information on the carbon footprint of batteries, covering lifecycle emissions from production, transport, use, and end-of-life. It includes measurement methods, benchmarks, and strategies to reduce emissions.
Environmental Sustainability
An umbrella category for methods, indicators, and tools used to evaluate and report environmental sustainability across products and processes. It covers carbon footprint assessment, life cycle impact, environmental protection, sustainability labelling, and software solutions, drawing on UNEP guidel
Textile Sustainability Labelling
Defines environmental sustainability labelling requirements for textiles, aligned with the 2030 Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals. It integrates sustainability indicators and recyclability considerations to guide labeling practices.
2030 Agenda and SDGs
This category groups the core framework and goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It highlights the global development framework guiding sustainable policy and action.
2030 Agenda
Overview of the United Nations' 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, outlining the global priorities and the Sustainable Development Goals framework. This category captures the overarching framework guiding development, poverty reduction, climate action, and inclusive growth toward 2030.
Sustainable Development Goals
This category catalogs the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a universal framework guiding policy and action toward sustainable development. It encompasses economic, social, and environmental targets aimed at ending poverty, protecting the planet, and promoting inclusive prosperi
Textile Sustainability and Recycling
Defines environmental sustainability labeling requirements for textiles and the share of textiles designated for recycling. This category covers eco-label standards and the portion intended for recycling.
Sustainability Labelling Requirements
Policies and standards for establishing environmental sustainability labelling requirements for specific product families. It covers criteria for labelling, verification, and compliance processes.
Recyclable Textile Share
Represents the portion of textiles that are intended for recycling. This metric distinguishes recyclable materials from those not recycled, supporting assessment of circularity in textile systems.
Sustainability Indicators
This category organizes indicators used to measure sustainability performance. It covers metrics and data for environmental, social, and economic dimensions, supporting assessment and reporting of progress toward sustainable outcomes.
This category defines and organizes concepts related to the carbon footprint of batteries, including maximum thresholds and related requirements. It also covers life cycle assessment methods (LCA) for carbon footprint and the sustainability assessments referenced by indicators.
Battery Carbon Thresholds
Defines the upper limits for the carbon footprint of batteries across manufacturing, use, and end-of-life. This category aids environmental impact assessment and design optimization by enforcing predefined emissions caps.
Carbon Footprint LCA
This category covers life cycle assessment methods used to evaluate a product's carbon footprint. It focuses on methodologies for estimating greenhouse gas emissions across the product's life cycle.
Carbon Footprint Requirements
Guidelines and criteria for calculating and meeting carbon footprint obligations. Includes measurement methodologies, reporting standards, and regulatory or internal compliance requirements.
Sustainability Assessment
Defines a type of assessment used to evaluate sustainability performance within indicators declarations. This category groups methods and criteria used to assess environmental, social, and economic aspects.
Construction Environmental Impacts
This category covers environmental effects associated with construction activities, including analytical methods to define performance requirements. It also includes outdoor emissions during construction and the degradation of ecosystems and soils.
Environmental Analysis
An analytical process that assesses environmental factors to define system performance requirements. It translates environmental conditions into measurable performance criteria.
Outdoor Construction Emissions
This category covers emissions released to the outdoor environment during construction activities, evaluated across the construction life cycle. It encompasses air pollutants, dust, fumes, and other fugitive emissions associated with construction works.
Ecosystem and Soil Degradation
Describes the destruction and degradation of natural ecosystems and soils as a central environmental impact. Includes biodiversity loss, soil erosion, and declines in soil fertility driven by land-use change, pollution, and other damaging processes.
Sustainability Performance & Reporting
This category covers declared performance and sustainability characteristics, data collection across pilots’ supply chains to support sustainability topics, and the creation of transparency and sustainability reports for traceable assets.
Declared Performance Characteristics
Category for concepts describing performance and sustainability attributes declared for products or services. It covers claims about how products perform and their environmental or social characteristics used in evaluation and communication.
Sustainability Data Collection
Processes for gathering data along pilot supply chains to support sustainability topics. This category enables monitoring, reporting, and improvement of environmental and social performance across supplier networks.
Transparency and Sustainability Report
A category for reports that disclose transparency and sustainability metrics for events linked to a traceable asset. These reports enable accountability by aggregating performance data and related indicators.
EF Impact Indicators
This category links Environmental Footprint (EF) impact categories with the sustainability indicators group, grounding metrics for evaluating the environmental performance of products. It also references the concept of the most eco-friendly products as a practical outcome of EF categorization.
Most Eco-Friendly Products
This category highlights products that are among the most environmentally friendly, emphasizing top performers in sustainability. It features items with low environmental impact, sustainable materials, and responsible production practices.
Environmental Footprint Categories
This category catalogs the Environmental Footprint (EF) impact categories used to classify environmental effects in product life cycles. It supports consistent assessment and comparison of environmental burdens across processes and stages within EF methodology.
Sustainability Indicators Group
Represents a group of sustainability indicators collected from a single study or activity. It organizes related indicators into a cohesive set for analysis and reporting.
Sustainability Calculation Software
Software used to calculate environmental sustainability performance. This category covers tools that compute sustainability metrics and life-cycle indicators, often aligned with UNEP S-LCA guidelines and used in sustainability reporting.
Sustainability calculation software
Software used to compute environmental sustainability performance. It provides tools for measuring environmental impact, efficiency, and resource use across systems.
UNEP S-LCA Guidelines
Official UNEP guidelines for conducting Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA) of products. They outline the scope, indicators, and methodologies used to assess social impacts across a product's life cycle.
Sustainability Reports
Public documents that disclose an organization's sustainability performance, goals, and initiatives. These reports communicate progress on environmental, social, and governance metrics to stakeholders.
HIGG Index and Sustainability
This category links the HIGG Index with sustainability concepts for products and processes, emphasizing environmental and social performance across lifecycles and supply chains. It encompasses standards, measurement, and reporting of product- and process-level sustainability impacts.
HIGG Index
The HIGG Index category represents the Higg Index, a widely used sustainability measurement framework for apparel and textile supply chains. It provides standardized indicators and datasets for assessing environmental and social performance in product lifecycles.
Sustainability of Products and Processes
Explores sustainability across the life cycle of products and their associated processes. Emphasizes environmental stewardship and social responsibility in design, manufacturing, and end-to-end operations.
Environmental Protection and Sustainability
A parent category that covers protecting the environment (including climate) and describing sustainability characteristics as specific claims. It groups subcategories for Environmental Protection and Sustainability Characteristics.
Environmental Protection
This category covers actions and policies aimed at safeguarding the environment and addressing climate change. It includes conservation, pollution prevention, and broader sustainability measures.
Sustainability Characteristic
Represents a textual description of a single sustainability characteristic (i.e., a claim) about an entity, product, or process. This category is used to annotate statements that articulate one specific sustainability attribute rather than a composite assessment. It captures the descriptive text tha
Environmental Footprint & Circularity
This taxonomy category groups concepts related to Environmental Footprint 3.1 impact categories and the circularity assessment. It includes two subcategories: EF 3.1 Impact Categories and Circularity Assessment, each detailing the respective concepts used in sustainability data practices.
EF 3.1 Impact Categories
This category contains the annex that describes Environmental Footprint 3.1 impact categories, outlining the classification framework used for assessing environmental impacts under EF 3.1. It provides guidance on identifying, grouping, and interpreting impact categories within the methodology.
Circularity Assessment
The Circularity Assessment category captures processes and criteria for evaluating the degree to which products, materials, or systems close material loops and support circularity. It is referenced within TRICK sustainability data gathering, guiding how data is collected to measure circularity perfo
Environmental Sustainability Assessment
A process for evaluating the environmental impacts and sustainability performance of activities, products, or policies. It analyzes metrics such as carbon footprint, resource use, and ecosystem effects to inform sustainable decision-making.
Lifecycle and CRM Metrics
Group of concepts encompassing product life cycle assessment (LCA), lifecycle data, and environmental metrics within CRM contexts. It covers reference flows, life cycle inventories, recovery pathways (including energy recovery), end-of-use considerations, and related regulations and data quality to
CRM Life Cycle Metrics
This category collects CRM-focused lifecycle data and environmental indicators. It encompasses material footprint, Annex VI Part A information, CRM lifecycle inventories, the chemical lifecycle, and health impacts per PM2.5 emission.
Material Footprint
Captures the total material inputs required to create a product, representing its material footprint from raw materials extraction to manufacturing and assembly. It provides a measure of resource consumption and environmental impact associated with material use.
Annex VI Part A Information
This category encompasses the data and details mandated by Part A of Annex VI. It defines the scope of information that must be provided under that section and serves as a reference for compliance and reporting.
CRM Life Cycle Inventories
Life cycle inventories used to flag Critical Raw Materials (CRMs) within product systems. This category collects data and methods for identifying CRM-related characteristics during LCA.
Chemical Lifecycle
This category covers all stages in the lifespan of a chemical, from production and manufacturing through storage, usage, transformation, and ultimate disposal. It encompasses processes, safety considerations, regulatory aspects, and environmental impacts across the lifecycle.
Health Impact per PM2.5 Emission
Measures disease incidence linked to each kilogram of PM2.5 emitted, translating emissions into population-level health risk. This category enables comparison of health impacts across different PM2.5 sources and emission scenarios.
Lifecycle Data and LCA
Consolidates governance of lifecycle data used in LCA, including regulatory rules for identifiers and digital credentials, data quality practices, and LCA methodologies (PEF). It also covers the collection of static data for products, processes and facilities.
Lifecycle Regulations for Identifiers
This category covers the rules governing the lifecycle of identifiers, data carriers, and digital credentials under Regulation (EU) 2024/1781, including creation, issuance, maintenance, revocation, and retirement. It focuses on secure, interoperable lifecycle management and regulatory compliance.
LCA Data Quality
Represents data quality approaches adapted for Life Cycle Assessment contexts. It focuses on how data quality concepts are integrated into LCA to improve assessment reliability and interpretation.
LCA Methodologies (PEF)
This category catalogs Life Cycle Assessment methodologies used for Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) within the TRICK objectives. It identifies the approaches referenced to assess environmental performance across products and systems.
Product, Processes and Facilities Data
This category covers the static data collection activity for product, processes and facilities, as described in Table 7.
Sustainability and Facility Data
This category groups data used to assess sustainability performance at facilities, including Sustainability Data, General Facility Data, Lifecycle Stage Contributions, and Static Data. It enables integrated analysis of environmental impact across facility operations and product lifecycles.
Data related to sustainability that is collected and organized. This category covers measurements, metrics, and datasets used to assess and report sustainability performance.
General Facility Data
General data associated with facilities and organizations. This category serves as a catch-all for broad metadata and non-specific attributes describing facilities and organizations within the system.
Lifecycle Stage Contributions
This category captures how different lifecycle stages of a battery—such as raw materials, manufacturing, use, and end-of-life—contribute to the overall carbon footprint. It enables comparison and prioritization of reductions by stage to support LCA-informed decisions.
Static Data
Data that remains unchanged unless explicitly stated as dynamic. It represents fixed values and defaults that do not vary at runtime, serving as constants or reference configurations.
Product Lifecycle and Data Steps
Consolidates concepts related to the product life cycle, data collection steps, and battery lifecycle information. It also covers end-of-life considerations, second-life preparation, and data-gathering methods.
Product Life Cycle
This category encompasses the full lifecycle of a product—from raw material sourcing to end-of-life disposal. It emphasizes the interdependent stages and potential sustainability improvements across the product's life.
Data Collection Steps
A catalog of the specific steps followed to collect data, enumerating the sequence and actions used during data gathering. This node captures the procedural components that shape data quality and replicability.
Battery Lifecycle Information
Information addressing the collection, repurposing for second life, and end-of-life treatment of batteries. It encompasses guidelines and data on collection processes, preparation for reuse, and recycling or disposal.
Lifecycle Emissions and PEF
It groups lifecycle carbon accounting, PEF calculation/verification, and LCA scoring criteria for chemicals. It connects battery lifecycle emissions with PEF methodology and chemical LCA assessment.
Battery Lifecycle Emissions
Covers the total carbon emissions across a battery’s life cycle—from production to end of life—with emphasis on avoided emissions relative to reference technologies. The category supports comparing alternatives and identifying strategies to reduce lifecycle carbon footprint.
Product Environmental Footprint Method
Defines the calculation and verification procedures for Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) assessments in accordance with the PEF framework. This category covers data requirements, calculation steps, rule application, and verification practices to ensure consistent, transparent product footprints
LCA Criteria for Chemicals
Describes the criteria and scoring rules used to evaluate the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) results for a chemical under assessment. It aligns the LCA findings with a predefined scoring table to benchmark environmental performance. This category supports consistent interpretation and comparison of res
Life Cycle and Reference Flow
Integrates the product’s life cycle stages with reference flow concepts used to quantify outputs required to fulfill the functional unit. Ensures comprehensive impact assessment across the product’s entire life cycle.
Encompasses all stages of a product's life cycle—from raw materials to end-of-life—as evaluated in impact assessments. It covers the environmental, social, and economic effects encountered across the cradle-to-grave lifecycle.
Reference Flow
Reference flow is the measure of outputs from processes required to fulfil the function expressed by the functional unit in a life cycle assessment (LCA). It defines the scale of the functional unit and anchors comparisons across products and processes.
End of Use Concepts
This category covers concepts associated with the termination of product use. It includes the end-of-use lifecycle stage and the end-of-use phase (an exit point in the TRICK framework).
End of Use
Represents the lifecycle stage when a product, material, or asset has reached the end of its useful life. This stage guides decisions on disposal, recycling, decommissioning, and potential repurposing or return to supplier.
End of Use Phase
Represents the endpoint of the product's use phase within the TRICK framework. This category covers disposal, decommissioning, and transitions to subsequent lifecycle stages.
Lifecycle References & LCA
Category capturing Annex II references for life cycle stages and the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology. It links Annex II lifecycle references with LCA concepts to support lifecycle-based sustainability evaluation.
Annex II Lifecycle References
Contains references to life cycle stages and related elements described in Annex II. This category groups Annex II references used to identify lifecycle stages across related concepts.
Life Cycle Assessment
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a systematic methodology for evaluating the environmental impacts of a product or service across its entire life cycle. This category captures the LCA concept as a sustainability assessment tool used to quantify environmental performance.
Recovery and Mass Balance
This category groups concepts related to recovery approaches, including energy recovery, and the Mass Balance method used in traceability models. It provides vocabulary for accounting recycled content and energy recovery within product lifecycles.
Other Recovery Including Energy
Represents recovery options that are not strictly recycling, including energy recovery from waste streams. This category encompasses processes that recover energy or other non-material value from waste, rather than reclaiming materials.
Mass Balance
Mass-balance accounting is used to model traceability by tracking material inflows and outflows across processes. This ensures balance and enables traceability across the supply chain.
Sustainable Public Procurement
Consolidates sustainability-oriented requirements, ecolabels, and energy-related criteria used in public procurement. It encompasses green procurement criteria, sustainability requirements for construction products, energy mix modelling, and related advertising materials and monetary valuation data.
Energy Mix and Renewables
This category groups concepts that cover modelling the energy mix, incorporating renewable content, energy-related construction products, and procurement instruments like Power Purchase Agreements. It frames how energy decisions intersect with construction projects and measures the share of renewabl
Energy Mix Modelling
Modeling the composition and evolution of an energy system's generation mix to inform planning and policy. It encompasses scenario analysis, optimization, and assessment of costs, reliability, and environmental impacts across technologies and fuels.
Energy-related Construction Products
Products used in construction that relate to energy performance and energy systems. This category includes materials and components designed to improve building energy efficiency, such as insulation, glazing, HVAC equipment, and energy-generation or energy-management systems.
Power Purchase Agreements
This category covers Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) and their role in energy mix modelling. It discusses how PPAs influence procurement strategies, project finance, revenue certainty, and emissions outcomes within energy systems.
Renewable Content Share
This category collects indicators that quantify the proportion of renewable content in inputs, materials, or energy used. It helps assess sustainability by showing how much of what is consumed is derived from renewable sources.
Sustainability Requirements for Construction Products
Defines mandatory minimum environmental sustainability requirements for construction products in line with Regulation (EU) 2024/1781. It also covers establishing a Construction Product Sustainability Baseline and guidance on EU Ecolabel-based compliance.
Sustainability Requirements
Defines sustainability-related requirements to be established, with priority given to Regulation (EU) 2024/1781. This category guides how sustainability criteria should be set and monitored within applicable domains.
Construction Product Sustainability Baseline
Defines the mandatory minimum environmental sustainability criteria that construction products must meet. Establishes a baseline for responsible product performance and compliance.
EU Ecolabel Compliance
Guides the use of the EU Ecolabel to demonstrate compliance with minimum environmental sustainability requirements. It describes how products or services earn and display the ecolabel to verify conformity with established environmental standards.
Green Public Procurement Criteria
This category consolidates the mandatory environmental criteria and minimum requirements used in EU public procurement, including EU Green Public Procurement criteria, minimum contract requirements, and mandatory green procurement provisions. It guides the environmental performance expectations for
EU Green Public Procurement Criteria
This category covers the European Union's criteria for green public procurement as specified in Annex II. It defines environmental performance standards and thresholds used to guide procurement decisions, enabling authorities to select environmentally preferable goods, services, and works.
Minimum Requirements for Public Contracts
Defines the essential criteria that must be met when awarding public procurement contracts for products covered by the ecode. Outlines prerequisites and standards used to assess bids and ensure compliant purchases.
Mandatory Green Public Procurement
This category covers the compulsory criteria for green public procurement that authorities must apply when purchasing goods, services, and works. It defines the mandatory sustainability requirements that govern procurement processes.
Advertising Materials
Collects visual promotional content used for product model promotions and for outdoor advertising campaigns. This category covers model-focused visual ads and general outdoor advertising channels.
Model Visual Advertisements
Visual advertisements or promotional materials created for a specific model, often referencing the model’s labeling or information. This category includes posters, banners, digital creatives, and other promo visuals that promote the model.
Outdoor Advertising
Outdoor advertising is a traditional information channel that uses visible placements such as billboards, transit ads, and signage in public spaces. It aims to reach broad audiences with high-frequency exposure.
Sustainability Criteria and Ecolabel
This category encompasses the Regulation’s environmental sustainability objectives and the EU Ecolabel criteria established under Article 16(2). It provides a high-level grouping of the regulatory aims and the criteria used to assess ecolabel compliance.
Environmental Sustainability Objectives
This category collects the environmental sustainability objectives pursued by the Regulation. It summarizes the goals the Regulation aims to achieve to reduce environmental impact and promote sustainable practices.
EU Ecolabel Criteria
This category covers the EU Ecolabel criteria established pursuant to Article 16(2) of the relevant Regulation, which define the requirements products must meet to be certified.
Monetary Valuation and Price Data
Captures monetary valuation coefficients and price data points used to quantify economic aspects of reuse and repair activities. It includes the monetary valuation coefficients (e.g., Table 30 from Gama Caldas et al., 2024) and price data points representing pricing information relevant to reuse and
Monetary Valuation Coefficients
Contains the set of monetary valuation coefficients proposed in Gama Caldas et al. (2024). This category groups tables and parameters used to monetize environmental and socio-economic values in economic assessments.
Price Data Point
Represents a data point capturing price information relevant to reuse and repair stages. This data supports cost evaluation and lifecycle decision-making for product reuse, refurbishment, or replacement.
Material Recovery and Circularity
Consolidates concepts related to recovering materials, recycling, and circularity across end-of-life and battery contexts. Covers data on recycling efficiency, standards and metrics, secondary raw materials, and regulatory frameworks shaping responsible material loops, including emerging technologie
Circularity Metrics and Standards
This category covers concepts for measuring circularity and evaluating data related to reuse, repair, and recycling. It includes Circularity Impact, Circularity Assessment, CISUTAC 22 Data Points, and references such as Reverse Resources that underpin the data model.
Circularity Impact
This category captures how substances influence material circularity, including effects on reuse, recycling processes, and the properties of recycled materials. It also supports assessment of risks and opportunities to preserve material value across lifecycle.
Evaluations of product or system circularity using the Materials Circularity Indicator (MCI). This category captures methods and outputs that quantify how well a design supports circular economy principles.
CISUTAC 22 Data Points
CISUTAC 22 data points for reuse, repair and recycling. This category provides a structured set of lifecycle data to support circularity assessments and decision-making across products.
Reverse Resources
Represents reverse references where resources point back to the standards used by the data model. This enables traceability from derived resources to their originating standards.
End-of-Life Recycling
Consolidates end-of-life recycling concepts, including information on treatment and recovery processes, open-loop recycling, and coverage of recycled content.
End-of-Life Recycling Information
This category provides information on treatment, recycling and recovery processes at the end of a product’s life. It helps designers, manufacturers, and waste managers understand how products should be processed to maximize recycling, recovery, and safe disposal.
Open Loop
Open loop refers to a control or process that operates without feedback. Actions are pre-set and do not adjust based on outcomes or deviations.
Recycling Coverage
Addresses how recycling processes are accounted for as recycled content in sustainability reporting. It describes how recycling activities are allocated and recognized as recycled content in reporting and product lifecycle assessments.
Battery Circularity Data
Aggregates data on recycling efficiency and material recovery from waste batteries, and maps emerging technologies and innovative chemistries that influence circularity. It also includes open-loop regranulation processes and related data-quality considerations.
Battery Recycling Data
This category collects data on the efficiency of recycling waste batteries and the recovery of materials from them. It captures performance metrics and material yields used to assess waste battery recycling performance.
Emerging Technologies & Chemistries
Emerging technologies and innovative chemistries at early development stages often lack mature data, necessitating proxy data. Expert judgment is frequently required to support SSbD data quality assessments.
Open-Loop Regranulation
Open-Loop Regranulation describes reprocessing scrap material into new material without forming a closed recycling loop. It highlights process architectures and material quality implications when recycled plastics are not returned to the original product stream.
Material Recovery and Reuse
This category covers the recovery of materials as a core aspect of ecodesign. It includes reclaiming materials, reuse in battery manufacturing, and the use of secondary raw materials produced by recycling, aiming to maximize material circularity and reduce waste across products’ lifecycles.
Material Recovery
This category covers design considerations that enable the recovery of materials at end-of-life, supporting recycling, reuse, and material circularity within ecodesign. It emphasizes designing for disassembly, material compatibility, and recoverability to maximize resource value and reduce waste.
Material Reuse in Battery Manufacturing
This category concerns reusing materials within the battery manufacturing process, including strategies to recycle or recover process inputs. The concept note indicates that material reutilisation is excluded from the methodology's scope.
Secondary Raw Materials
Materials produced from recycling that can be reused as inputs in manufacturing. They help reduce reliance on virgin resources and support circular economy goals.
Waste Management Regulations and Recycling
This category covers regulatory rules and targets for managing all waste batteries and the post-use fibre recycling pathway. It links statutory frameworks governing battery waste with textile recycling processes occurring after use, offering a consolidated view of end-of-life waste handling and mate
Waste Battery Regulations
Contains the rules and targets governing the management of all waste batteries, including collection, treatment, recycling, and safe disposal. It defines the regulatory framework aimed at minimizing environmental impact and ensuring safe handling across the lifecycle of waste batteries.
Post-use Fibre Recycling
Transforms textile waste from the use phase into recycled fibre, as part of the waste supply process. This step closes the loop in the textile lifecycle by recovering materials for reuse.
Lifecycle Assessment Standards
Organizes core LCA concepts, standards, and related sorting and collection processes used in environmental assessment. It references key standards (EN 15804, ISO 14021) and recalculation triggers for BOM or energy-mix changes, plus health-oriented LCA metrics that define system boundaries and functi
LCA Sorting Health Metrics
Consolidates core LCA concepts (boundaries and units) with the first sorting stage, LMT health parameter, and the initial degradation baseline. It supports evaluating lifecycle performance and degradation trajectories from the beginning of life.
LCA Boundaries and Units
Defines the scope of a Life Cycle Assessment by selecting system boundaries and the functional unit. This category emphasizes how boundary definitions and chosen functional units influence LCA results and comparability.
First Sorting Stage
The initial sorting stage in waste management, determining the downstream processing path for a disposed product. It segments items by material or category to guide recycling, recovery, or disposal streams.
LMT Health Parameter
This category collects instances where LMT is referenced within the state or configuration of a health parameter set. It identifies LMT as a health-related metric in parameter-state discussions.
Initial Degradation Baseline
This category captures the point at which capacity fade begins, representing 0% degradation at the start of life. It provides the baseline for aging and degradation modeling.
Standards and References
This category consolidates key European and international standards used in environmental product declarations. It covers EN 15804, post-consumer materials guidance, and temperature-reference clauses (6.7.7.5–6.7.7.8).
EN 15804 Standard
European standard EN 15804 outlines the rules for Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) for construction products, including required content and structure to enable comparability. It provides the framework for life cycle assessment, data quality, and system boundaries used in product declaratio
Post-Consumer Materials Standard
DIN EN ISO 14021 defines post-consumer materials and related environmental labeling terminology. This category encompasses the standard's scope and how post-consumer materials are described in sustainability communications.
Temperature References
This category collects references to temperature information cited in subclauses 6.7.7.5 through 6.7.7.8. It helps locate all temperature-related references within that section range.
Characterisation & Recalculation
This category covers EN 15804 characterisation factors and the rules for recalculating carbon footprints when a BOM or energy mix changes. It defines the inputs and triggers that govern updates to lifecycle assessments.
Characterisation factors
Characterisation factors define how emissions and resource flows are converted into environmental impact indicators per EN 15804. They enable consistent life cycle assessment results and product comparisons in EPDs by applying impact category- and region-specific factors. This category collects the
Carbon Recalculation Triggers
Defines events that prompt recalculating the carbon footprint when inputs change. It covers changes to the bill of materials (BOM) and shifts in the energy mix to keep footprint calculations up to date.
Collection and Sorting
Groups concepts on schemes for collecting waste batteries and sorting fibres as part of recycling preparation, representing pre-processing steps in waste management. It includes Battery Waste Collection and Fibre Sorting as child categories.
Battery Waste Collection
This category covers schemes for collecting waste batteries. It includes organized collection programs, guidelines, and infrastructure that enable safe, compliant disposal and recycling across public and private sectors.
Fibre Sorting
Sorting of fibres as part of recycling preparation. This step separates recyclable fibre streams by material type to improve downstream processing and material recovery.
Environmental Substances and Microplastics
This category groups assessments of environmental characteristics and microplastic release across lifecycle stages, along with data on lead recovery from batteries and reporting of substances of concern. It comprises two subcategories: Microplastic Release and Environmental Characteristics, and Lead
Microplastic Release and Environmental Characteristics
Covers microplastic and nanoplastic release across life cycle stages and the environmental characteristics to be assessed in evaluations. It groups the Microplastic Release and Environmental Essential Characteristics concepts to guide assessment of release pathways and key environmental attributes.
Microplastic Release
This category covers the release of microplastics and nanoplastics at various stages of product and material life cycles. It encompasses sources, mechanisms, and environmental pathways through which particles are shed into ecosystems.
Environmental Essential Characteristics
Key environmental characteristics to be assessed as part of the ETA. They represent critical attributes used to evaluate environmental impact, performance, and compliance within the assessment framework.
Lead Recovery and Substances
Captures data on the percentage of lead recovered from battery waste (Lead Recovery Rate) and maintains reports on Substances of Concern. This category links metrics of lead recovery with documentation of hazardous substances that may affect health or the environment.
Lead Recovery Rate
Represents the percentage of lead in batteries that is recovered from waste during recycling. This metric measures recovery efficiency and informs material reuse and waste management performance.
Substances of Concern Report
This category gathers reports on substances of concern and their potential adverse effects on human health and the environment. It encompasses risk summaries, regulatory notes, and related findings about hazardous substances.
Environmental Footprint Metrics
A category for measuring and comparing the environmental impact of products, focusing on carbon footprint and related life cycle footprints. It consolidates concepts such as product carbon footprint, environmental footprint, and life cycle footprint into a unified taxonomy node for sustainability as
Represents the greenhouse gas emissions associated with a product throughout its life cycle. This parameter is used to quantify the product's environmental impact for sustainability analysis and reporting.
Environmental Footprint
This category covers the product's environmental impacts related to greenhouse gas emissions, with emphasis on its carbon footprint. It reflects the overall environmental footprint of the product across its lifecycle.
Life Cycle Footprint
This category captures the environmental footprint quantified through life cycle assessment for each delegated act, summarizing emissions and resource use across the product or service life cycle.
Represents the environmental footprint as a product parameter related attribute, capturing the ecological impact associated with a product. It reflects lifecycle impacts such as emissions, energy use, and resource depletion to support sustainability assessment.
Social LCA Concepts
This category covers core elements of Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA), including reference scale assessments for social risk and opportunity, SLCA services, and S-LCA indicators used across product lifecycles. It groups the key concepts that define how social aspects are evaluated within lifecy
Reference Scale Assessment
A scale-based method for evaluating social risk and opportunity. It maps risk and opportunity factors to predefined reference scales to enable consistent scoring across projects or initiatives.
Social Lifecycle Assessment Service
This category covers services that perform Social Lifecycle Assessments (SLCA) to evaluate social impacts across product and process life cycles. It includes stakeholder engagement, data collection, indicator development, and reporting on labor conditions, community well-being, and other social perf
Social LCA Indicators
This category encompasses indicators used in Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA) to measure social and socio-economic impacts across a product's life cycle. It supports consistent evaluation and transparent reporting of social performance.
Digital Product Passport Ecosystem
A top-level view of the standardized data framework, regulatory governance, and interoperable systems that enable digital product passports. It covers information requirements, open standards, EU Single Window for customs, and accessible product information across the supply chain.
Supply Chain Traceability
Covers tracking of substances of concern, product traceability across the value chain, data carriers linking declarations, and the infrastructure for a decentralised battery passport and chain-of-custody systems. It defines models, maps, and information flows needed for interoperable, end-to-end tra
Traceability Data & Supply
Encompasses records that capture traceability identifiers and related data, the activities for supplying components or products, and indices used to represent supply chain information. It groups core traceability artifacts—Traceable Product Records, supply activities for components and products, and
Traceable Product Record
This category encompasses records that capture traceability identifiers and related data for a product, batch, or logistics unit. It supports provenance, lot control, and end-to-end tracking through supply chains.
Supply of Components and Products
This category covers the activity of providing components or finished products to customers or downstream stages. It focuses on the act of delivering goods within a supply chain.
Component Supply
This category captures the activity of supplying a component or product as described in Table 11. It delineates the provisioning process within the supply chain context.
Supply Chain Indices
A category of index-like data attributes used to measure and monitor supply chain performance. It aggregates longlist indicators into comparable metrics for benchmarking, resilience, and efficiency.
Battery Passport Infrastructure
This category collects the core infrastructure components that enable a battery passport: the data carrier (permalink) and the information and communication system, together with the decentralized data system. It also includes the global gate network that tracks goods across the supply chain.
Declaration Link Carrier
Represents the data carrier that connects a product to its declaration, including a permalink or URL. This carrier provides the resolvable identifier that links the product to its declaration record.
Information and Communication System
Represents the information and communication system established under Article 71(1). This category covers the regulatory framework governing information exchange as specified by that provision.
Decentralised Data System
A category for decentralised data architectures that underpin the battery passport, enabling secure, transparent, and tamper-evident data sharing across the supply chain.
Global Gate Network
A distributed system of gates deployed worldwide to monitor and track goods as they move through the supply chain. Each gate records location data at checkpoints, enabling real-time visibility, provenance, and security of shipments.
Traceability and Logistics Advice
Group of enriched advisory documents and transfers that support traceability and movement of goods across the supply chain. Includes Traceability Receiving Advice, Dispatching Advice for feedstock and fibre, Traceability Despatch Advice, and Intercompany Transfers.
Traceability Receiving Advice
An enriched document used at goods receipt to capture traceability data, augmenting the standard receiving advice with additional identifiers and lineage information. It enables end-to-end traceability by recording batch/lot numbers, supplier, production date, and cross-references to upstream shipme
Dispatching Feedstock and Fibre
Provides guidance on how to dispatch feedstock and recycled fibre among supply chain actors, covering allocation, timing, and responsibilities. It outlines best practices for coordinating material flow and optimizing logistics.
Traceability Despatch Advice
An enriched despatch advice that carries traceability data to track goods across multiple parties. It augments standard despatch documentation with identifiers, timestamps, and provenance to improve visibility and compliance throughout the supply chain.
Intercompany Transfers
Represents the transfer of goods between different companies within the supply chain. It captures cross-boundary shipments and handoffs, modeling intercompany logistics and inventory movement across business boundaries.
Transaction and Traceability
This category covers transaction information, end-to-end traceability of asset flows, and events that establish or modify relationships between objects. It describes how transaction data is captured, how assets move with traceable provenance, and how events associate or disassociate objects to maint
Transaction Information
Contains data about users' transactions, including dates, amounts, parties involved, and statuses. This category groups information detailing individual transactions associated with an account.
Traceability and Transparency
Addresses interoperable, scalable traceability and transparency across supply chains to enable responsible production. It emphasizes end-to-end visibility, standardized data sharing, and trustworthy reporting among partners.
Asset Flow Traceability
Defines and monitors how assets move through a system, capturing provenance, custody changes, and transfer events to ensure traceability.
Object Relationship Events
Represents events that create or dissolve associations between one or more physical or digital objects. These events document changes in object relationships during transactions.
Product Traceability Across Supply Chain
This category covers end-to-end product traceability across the entire supply chain and the related reporting structures used to capture and communicate traceability data, including battery passport information flows under Battery Regulation. It groups concepts around traceability data structures an
Tracks a product journey from raw materials to the end consumer, delivering end-to-end visibility and provenance across the entire supply chain. This enables authenticity, quality control, and regulatory compliance by linking data from suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers.
Traceability Report
Contains the Traceability Report, the primary data structure proposed by the TRICK project for recording data provenance and lineage. It supports auditing, reproducibility, and understanding data flows within the project.
Battery Passport Information Flow
Represents the diagram showing how battery passport data flows within the Battery Regulation, outlining sources, destinations, and exchange steps. The figure captures the data exchange sequence relevant to the regulatory framework.
Substance Tracking and Traceability
This category covers the tracking of substances of concern within products and the traceability systems used to manage data flows and ownership. It also includes segregation approaches employed in traceability models to support reliable data lineage.
Substance Tracking
Specifies requirements for traceability and tracking of substances of concern in products and across supply chains. It covers documentation, monitoring, and reporting of substance presence and movement to support regulatory compliance and responsible product stewardship.
Traceability System
A governance framework where data ownership is a pillar for controlling data flows and sources. It emphasizes data provenance and accountability by tracking lineage and sources within the data ecosystem.
Traceability Segregation
This category captures segregation approaches used within traceability models to isolate components, data, or processes. It describes how separation supports boundary enforcement, risk mitigation, and compliance in traceability systems.
Product Standards and Traceability
This category encompasses harmonised standards organized by product family, plus product traceability and traceable assets (TRICK) that support claims in the value chain. It connects product families to traceable products and the material batches in the supply chain.
Harmonised Standards by Product Family
Groups product families or product categories for which harmonised standards are drafted. This category identifies the product segments targeted by standardisation efforts to ensure consistency and interoperability across markets.
Product Traceability
A category for products that are tracked throughout the value chain using a unique identifier assigned to the product and its related units. This enables provenance, traceability of movements, and linkage of associated data across suppliers, manufacturers, and distributors.
Traceable Assets
This category covers assets whose traceability backs identified claims, including batches of fibers, raw materials, and yarns. It emphasizes provenance and verification data for sourcing, production, and quality assurance.
This category groups concepts and components involved in tracing products and assets across the supply chain. It includes chain-of-custody systems, traceable assets, and models used to govern and describe traceability flows (e.g., mass balance, segregation).
Chain of Custody System
A chain-of-custody or traceability system that records and verifies the movement of goods in the supply chain, identifying upstream actors. This enables provenance, compliance, and risk management by tracking origin, custody transfers, and custody events.
Traceable Asset
Represents an asset that can be tracked throughout the supply chain. Such assets are uniquely identified to enable end-to-end visibility, provenance, and authenticity checks.
Traceability Model
Defines methodologies for tracking the movement of traceable assets through supply chains. Applies models such as mass balance and segregation to ensure auditable and transparent asset flows.
Traceability & EPCIS 2.015
This category covers regulatory traceability obligations for traders, the associated regulatory traceability requirements (as outlined in Table 45), and the EPCIS 2.015 standard established in 2022. It links how regulatory duties are implemented within the EPCIS framework.
Traceability of Traders' Obligations
Addresses regulatory methods for tracing traders' obligations under the referenced Regulation. Includes processes for monitoring compliance, data flows, and verifiability to ensure obligations can be tracked and enforced.
Regulatory Traceability Requirements
This category covers traceability requirements as described in Table 45, including elements that regulators may evaluate and the role of stakeholder involvement. It highlights how regulatory processes and participation intersect with traceability.
EPCIS 2.015
Covers the EPCIS 2.015 specification, officially approved in 2022. Defines the latest release in the EPCIS standard for capturing, sharing, and querying supply chain event data.
Traceability Across Value Chain
This category covers requirements and practices for tracing materials, processes, and responsibilities across the full value chain. It includes developing a supply chain traceability map to identify actors and relationships involved in chain-wide visibility.
Value Chain Traceability
Captures requirements for tracing products and materials across the entire value chain, enabling visibility from source to customer. It emphasizes chain-of-custody documentation, data provenance, and auditable traceability across suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers.
Supply Chain Traceability Map
A diagram that maps the actors and relationships in a supply chain to enable traceability. It outlines suppliers, manufacturers, logistics providers, distributors, and retailers and shows the flow of products and information.
Information Availability and Access
This category groups how regulatory information, official publications, and standardisation outputs are made publicly accessible to economic operators. It encompasses the channels, timelines, and access rights for information, including registries and digital platforms.
Post-Market Accessibility and Disclosure
Defines the period during which a product and its system remain accessible after market introduction, including post-market accessibility windows. It also covers information channels and options for disclosure levels.
Post-market Accessibility
Defines the established period during which a product remains accessible after the last product of its type has been released. This category governs how long users can access related services or information after market availability ends.
Post-Market Accessibility Window
This category defines the period during which the system remains accessible after the final product of its type is introduced to the market. It commonly corresponds to a 25-year window of continued access and support.
Information Channels
This category covers the various means by which information is shared, spanning traditional media and modern digital channels. It includes classical channels such as print and broadcast, as well as innovative platforms like social media, blogs, podcasts, and messaging apps used to disseminate inform
Disclosure Level Options
A catalog of the available disclosure levels for information, detailing how much and to whom information is revealed. This category supports selecting appropriate visibility and privacy settings across contexts.
Open Access and Free Information
This category groups concepts related to freely accessible digital tools and the modalities for making information available to economic operators. It encompasses free-access websites or applications as information channels.
Open Access Tools
This category covers digital tools that must be freely accessible to economic operators. It codifies open access to tools, removing barriers and supporting efficient participation in economic activities.
Information Availability Modality
Defines the manner in which information is made available to users, focusing on delivery mode, access channel, and timing. It encompasses variations such as real-time vs delayed access, online vs offline delivery, and the format in which information is provided.
Free Access Websites
This category covers websites that are freely accessible to any user, acting as channels for information dissemination. They provide information without paywalls or login barriers.
Free Access Information
This category covers information that is openly available on websites or applications at no cost. It highlights content that users can access without subscription or payment.
Registries and Access
Contains concepts about registries, access rights, and notable registry systems referenced in policy. It covers general register management and specific registries such as the Open Apparel Registry and the Producers Register Article 55.
Registry Access Rights
Defines who may access the registry and what permissions they have. Specifies access rights granted to authorized authorities for registry data and operations.
Producers Register Article 55
This category represents a formal registry of producers referenced in Article 55. It is used to identify and monitor entities subject to regulatory obligations, enabling compliance checks, reporting, and oversight within the regulation.
National Compliance Register
A national register established and managed by the competent authority in each Member State to monitor fulfilment of obligations. It enables centralized tracking and oversight of compliance within the state.
Open Apparel Registry
Open Apparel Registry is a standardized reference registry used as a common source for identifying apparel facilities in data model standards. It enables consistent facility mapping and interoperability across apparel data systems.
EU Standardisation Information
This category groups European standardisation information and references, including Official Journal references, European standardisation deliverables, and procedures for public information. It highlights how harmonised standards are published and how information is publicly shared within the EU sta
Official Journal References
References to harmonised standards as published in the Official Journal of the European Union. This category connects regulatory standards to official EU publications.
European standardisation deliverables
Covers the outputs produced by European standardisation organisations, such as European Standards (ENs), technical specifications, and related deliverables. These documents enable harmonisation and conformity across Europe.
Public Information Availability
This category covers information about procedures and monitoring that the Commission must publicly provide. It emphasizes transparency and accessible disclosure of relevant processes.
Public Information Access
This category covers concepts related to making information publicly available, including geographic information in reports and public access to battery data attributes. It also identifies the general public as an access group.
Geographical information in reports
Captures general geographic context for products covered in the reports. Includes location-related attributes such as region and country that are relevant to the products described.
Public Battery Data Access
This category covers the public availability of battery data attributes. It emphasizes transparency and open access to information about battery characteristics for the general public.
General Public
Represents the general public as a broad access group. This category identifies resources or permissions that are open to everyone, not restricted to specific organizations or individuals.
This category covers the public provision, disclosure, and accessibility of information under the article. It groups concepts related to making information available to the general public and ensuring open access.
Public Information Provision
Represents the public information that must be provided under this Article. It defines the types of information to be made accessible to the public and the disclosure obligations attached to the Article.
Public Disclosure
Represents a disclosure level where information is publicly accessible to anyone. It designates content that is open and not restricted by privacy controls. Used to classify data, documents, or settings that are intended for public viewing.
Public Access
Resources and services designed to be accessible to the general public without requiring special authorization. This category covers openly available information and infrastructure, with safeguards for safety, privacy, and legal compliance.
Digital Information Channels
This category groups online channels used to disseminate information about economic operators and related services. It includes operator-owned websites, social media campaigns, and Member State portals that provide information and support.
Operator Website
Official website maintained by the economic operator, serving as a primary channel for digitally providing information.
Social Media Campaigns
A digital information channel using social media platforms to disseminate messages and engage audiences. This category covers the planning, execution, and evaluation of campaigns across social networks.
Member State Portals
Official websites, platforms, and portals established by member states to provide information and support to economic actors and citizens. They centralize regulatory guidance, services, and resources offered by government institutions.
Digital Information Channels & Website
Covers innovative digital information channels and the CISUTAC website, which hosts the post-consumer textile waste management solution. This category groups electronic access points and online platforms used to share resources, updates, and services related to post-consumer textile waste management
This category covers innovative methods of information delivery, emphasizing digital and web-based channels that provide electronic access to information.
CISUTAC Website
Official CISUTAC website hosting the solution for post-consumer textile waste management. It serves as the access point for resources, tools, and information related to the CISUTAC solution.
Declaration Resources
A hub for access to online declaration platforms and related information PDFs. It points to where declarations can be published and to general guides and best-practice materials.
Online Declaration Websites
Online platforms where declarations can be published. They function as public venues for official statements and disclosures, making declarations accessible to the public.
General Information PDFs
A category for external PDF documents that provide general information and best practices. These PDFs offer guidance and practical recommendations as reference materials.
Regulatory Data Governance
This category groups requirements for regulatory data management around digital product passports, including data sources, reporting timelines, documentation, storage and backups, data quality, and obligations for administrative cooperation and disclosure. It covers how data is collected, updated, s
Information and Administrative Cooperation
This category aggregates requirements for information sharing, administrative cooperation, and compliance under Articles 38(1) and 48-52, including obligations related to authorized representatives, six-month reporting by producers or producer responsibility organisations and waste operators, and se
This category consolidates information sharing and administrative cooperation as described in Chapter IX. It covers procedures for data exchange, cross-agency coordination, and mutual administrative support across jurisdictions.
Authorised Representative Obligations
This category covers the obligations set out in Article 38(1) and Articles 48–52, including the duty to prepare and maintain technical documentation. It also clarifies which duties must not be included in the authorised representative's mandate.
Six-Month Reporting
This category covers regulatory reporting obligations due within six months under paragraph 7. It applies to producers, appointed producer responsibility organisations, waste management operators, and other obligated entities.
Data retention period
Specifies the duration for which data should be retained. The exact retention period is not specified in this category and is expected to be regulated by sectorial delegated acts, implying sector-specific variation.
Data Sources and RMIS
Catalogs data sources used for assessment, including databases, literature reviews, and internal data collections. It notes potential data sources and references such as the Raw Materials Information System (RMIS), and outlines the initial data collection activities.
Data sources for assessment
This category covers data sources used in assessments when direct data are not available. It identifies databases and literature reviews as core inputs, together with remaining data assessment methods.
Potential Data Sources
A collection of candidate data sources to consider for data collection and integration. This category enumerates possible sources referenced for data provisioning and evaluation.
Data collection
This category captures the initial step of obtaining data from internal systems. It involves collecting raw data from databases, applications, and logs to form the foundation for downstream analysis and processing.
Raw Materials Information System
RMIS refers to a system for storing and managing data about raw materials used in manufacturing. It covers attributes such as supplier, composition, properties, provenance, and regulatory compliance, enabling better procurement, sustainability, and product design decisions.
Assessment and Verification Data
This category aggregates the data and technical details required to implement assessment and verification systems for textile recycling. It covers battery data collection, recycled fibre information, and data points for textile sorting and recycling.
A&V System Implementation
Technical details necessary for implementing assessment and verification systems, including integration interfaces, data flows, and deployment considerations. This category captures the concrete specifications and requirements needed to operationalize A&V processes.
Battery Data Collection
This category covers the process of collecting data on both batteries and waste batteries as mandated by Article 75. It encompasses data elements, collection methods, and reporting practices used for regulatory compliance and monitoring.
Recycled Fibre Information
Data about the recycled fibre that is transmitted to the Yarn Producer. This category captures information describing the recycled fibre's characteristics and provenance used to inform yarn production decisions.
Textile Sorting Data Points
This category catalogs the data points used to sort textile waste for recycling. It covers metrics and indicators that inform decisions about fiber content, color, material type, contamination, and recyclability in sorting workflows.
Data Storage and Backup
Organizes concepts related to the storage and backup of digital product passport data, including the backup service provider and the shared data resource used to register information. It also covers the rules and actions that govern how data storage is performed.
Backup Service Provider
Represents the reference to the service provider that hosts the backup copy of a digital product passport. This category identifies who is responsible for storing and preserving the backup data used for recovery or provenance verification.
Shared Data Resource
Shared Data Resource refers to a data store that is accessible to multiple parties to register and query transactions. Examples include distributed databases, cloud databases, and blockchains, which provide a common, verifiable record of activity.
Data storage actions
This category describes how data storage actions are defined and managed within the data model for the transparency framework, detailing the rules, events, and governance around storing data.
Disclosure Parameters
Governs regulatory disclosure aspects, including the timing of the first full financial year disclosure, the deadline for delivering requested documentation, and the permitted level of disclosure. It consolidates timing, delivery, and access controls for disclosed information.
First Full Financial Year Disclosure
Represents disclosures covering the first full financial year during which the Regulation is in force. It defines the timing of initial reporting under the regulation to ensure consistent early-year disclosures.
Documentation Delivery Deadline
Defines the maximum time allowed to present documentation after a formal request by an authority. The category captures fixed response deadlines (such as a 10-day limit) and is used to enforce timely submission of documents.
Disclosure Level
Defines the allowed extent to which the associated information may be disclosed. It is used to govern the openness or restriction of data disclosure.
Data Update Arrangements
Defines structured procedures for updating data, including detailed plans for modifying data and for updating digital product passport information. It encompasses both general data update processes and digital product passport updates.
Detailed Data Updates
Captures the detailed arrangements for introducing or updating data, including procedures, sequencing, validation, and responsibilities. Defines how data updates are planned, coordinated, and governed.
Digital Product Passport Updates
Defines the detailed arrangements for updating the information in a product's digital passport. It outlines the processes, roles, and data integrity considerations involved in modifying an existing product's digital passport data.
Timeframe Windows
This category groups duration-based conventions, including a three-month period and a 30-day response time. It captures the time-based limits and expectations used to guide compliance and workflows.
Three Month Period
Represents a duration of three months used to denote a quarterly period within the document. This category collects mentions of a three-month timeframe as described in the source material.
30-Day Response Time
Defines a 30-day window for providing a response. This category captures the expected time frame for replies in policies, SLAs, or customer support guidelines. It helps standardize expectations across processes and communications.
Power Data Timelines
This category captures timing requirements for power data, including data availability deadlines after each reporting year and the update intervals for remaining power capability data. It groups temporal metadata to support timely publication and regular refresh cycles.
Data Availability Deadline
This category captures the timing requirement for public data release. It specifies an 18-month deadline after the end of the reporting year for data to be made publicly available.
Power Data Update Interval
Specifies how often remaining power capability data is refreshed. This property defines the cadence for updating battery/power metrics.
Data Quality and Ownership
This category combines data quality attributes (reliability, temporal correlation, geographical correlation) with data ownership context for items in the TRICK platform. It supports governance, metadata management, and data accountability by clarifying how data is characterized and who owns it.
Data Quality Attributes
This category groups data quality attributes used to assess data usefulness, including reliability, temporal correlation, and geographic correlation. It provides a naming scheme for metrics that describe data trustworthiness across time and space.
Data Ownership
Represents data items within the TRICK platform that have defined ownership. Captures ownership responsibilities, custodianship, and related access rights for data assets.
Digital Product Passport Access
This category specifies who may access the digital product passport, how access is provided (free of charge, electronic access, online platforms, QR codes), and under what conditions (pre-market access, accessibility for disabled users). It covers stakeholders along the value chain, data availabilit
Access and Stakeholders
Specifies who can access the digital product passport (actor groups), describes the customer base, and summarizes the core traceability entities and their relationships. It also covers access to data attributes as described by regulatory wording.
Access by Actors
Describes how designated actor groups can freely and easily access the digital product passport. It covers access policies, eligibility, and delegated or role-based permissions to ensure free-of-charge and straightforward retrieval.
Customer Base
Represents the group of customers referenced in Unit 1. This category consolidates customer-related concepts used throughout that unit and serves as a focus for customer-oriented analyses and activities.
Traceability Entities and Relationships
This category highlights the most relevant traceability entities and the relationships between them as depicted in Figure 6. It emphasizes the core components and how they connect to enable end-to-end traceability.
Access to Data Attributes
This category captures how access to individual data attributes is governed by regulatory language, outlining who may access attribute-level data and under what conditions.
Production Process Transparency
This category covers how production processes are characterized (mass/serial vs non-series) and how information about the process is made accessible to value-chain actors. It groups concepts related to process information, production type, and access along the value chain.
Value Chain Access
Focuses on making product information accessible and understandable for all value-chain actors. This supports transparency, traceability, and more informed decisions across the chain.
Mass and Serial Production
Describes whether a production process is designed for mass/serial output, indicating high-volume, standardized manufacturing versus other modes. This category informs planning, layout, tooling, and scheduling decisions based on production scale and seriality.
Non-Series Process
A process that is not part of serial or series production. This category covers bespoke or custom operations that do not belong to mass-produced workflows.
Production Process Information
This category captures information about how goods are produced. It supports transparency by detailing the production steps, methods, and process controls involved in manufacturing.
Actors and Platforms
This category groups the actors entitled to access data in the digital product passport and the platforms that enable that access, including online platform providers, distributors/importers/fulfilment services, and marketplace hubs.
Actors with Access
Defines which actors are permitted to access data in the digital product passport and specifies the scope of their access. It maps actors to the data they may view or modify, supporting access control and data governance.
Online Platform Provider
An online platform provider is an intermediary that operates platforms enabling consumers to enter into distance contracts with producers. These platforms facilitate contract formation and interactions between buyers and sellers in e-commerce.
Distributors, Importers & Fulfilment
This category covers entities that manage distribution, importation, and order fulfilment services. It includes distributors, importers, and third-party fulfilment providers that move goods from manufacturers to markets and customers.
Marketplace Hub
A centralized marketplace hub where distributors, importers, and fulfillment service providers cluster, enabling streamlined procurement and logistics. This category captures the strategic location that facilitates supply-chain interactions.
Pre-Market Battery Access
Defines conditions for pre-market access to battery digital product passports, including pre-contract accessibility. It also covers batteries placed in service without prior market placement and requires market release only after conformity.
Pre-Contract Accessibility
This category governs how the digital product passport should be made accessible to customers before they enter into a contract. It specifies the formats, channels, and level of detail required to ensure transparency and informed decision-making prior to agreement.
In-Service Batteries
Batteries that are placed into service without first being marketed. This category covers batteries that begin operation without prior market introduction.
Market Release Contingent on Conformity
Distributors must not make the battery available on the market until conformity is achieved. Market entry is contingent on successful conformity assessment.
Information Access and Requests
This category captures methods for making information available and easily accessible, including structured data request mechanisms and access to battery passport information. It defines the processes and pathways that enable timely and reliable information retrieval.
Information Availability Methods
This category catalogs techniques and processes that ensure required information is made available and easily accessible. It covers strategies for dissemination, indexing, searchability, and delivery to users and systems.
Data Request Mechanism
Defines the mechanisms for handling requests for data, including how requests are initiated, routed, validated, and fulfilled. This category encompasses the processes and interfaces that support data access and delivery.
Battery Passport Access
This category covers the ability to access information contained in a battery passport. It encompasses the permissions and channels through which battery data can be retrieved.
Accessibility for All
This category groups policies and measures that ensure universal access to services and information, emphasizing free accessibility where feasible and inclusive design for people with disabilities. It promotes removing barriers and enabling participation by all users, operators, and authorities.
Free Accessibility
This category covers making services, information, and systems accessible at no cost to all economic operators, clients, users, and authorities. It aims to remove financial barriers to access and ensure universal usability.
Accessibility for People with Disabilities
Addresses how products, services, and environments can be designed and used by people with disabilities, including those with limited mobility or orientation. Emphasizes removing barriers and supporting inclusive, usability-focused practices for diverse abilities.
Electronic Accessibility and EU Directive
This category covers the intersection of electronic accessibility via data carriers and EU regulatory requirements. It links practical considerations for making electronic information accessible with Directive 2019/882, which harmonizes accessibility rules for products and services across the EU.
Electronic Access via Data Carrier
Specifies that information or services must be accessible electronically via the displayed data carrier, in accordance with Article 18. This captures the regulatory requirement for digital accessibility delivered through a data carrier.
European Accessibility Directive
EU Directive 2019/882 establishing accessibility requirements for certain products and services. It harmonizes accessibility criteria across the EU to benefit people with disabilities.
Electronic Access and Documents
This category covers digital access to websites via QR codes and structured administrative electronic documents such as eCMR and electronic invoices. It includes two subcategories: QR Code Website Access and Electronic Documents.
QR Code Website Access
Covers methods for accessing websites using QR codes. It describes electronic access to web pages by scanning a QR code, enabling quick navigation from physical or offline media to online resources.
Electronic documents
This category groups administrative, structured electronic documents used in logistics and commerce, such as eCMR and electronic invoices. These digital documents enable standardized data capture, compliance, and automated workflows across organizations.
Electronic Data Interchange Standards
This category defines the standards, formats, and interfaces for electronic reporting and data exchange, including EDI approaches, electronic submission formats, and interoperable interfaces. It also covers digital data integrity tools and accessibility features such as QR-code access, unamendable f
Machine-Readable Battery Passport
Groups concepts for encoding battery passport data into machine-readable formats, including NFC traceability tags and text representations of symbols and carbon labels. This enables automated processing and interoperability across supply chains.
NFC Traceability Tags
NFC tags used as a physical traceability feature to tag and verify items. This category covers the use of Near Field Communication labels to enable item-level tracking and provenance verification via quick scans.
Machine-Readable Symbol Text
This category focuses on translating symbolic representations into text to improve machine readability of battery passports. It enables automated data extraction, validation, and interoperability across systems.
Machine-readable Carbon Label
Represents the machine-readable encoding of the carbon footprint label used in battery passports, enabling automated parsing and data exchange. Focuses on the structured digital representation rather than human-readable text.
Machine Readable Translation
Converts symbol-based information into machine-readable text for automated processing. It encompasses methods that map symbols to text, enabling software to interpret and process symbolic data.
Electronic Submission Formats
Covers how information is submitted to national authorities in electronic or mixed formats. Includes electronic forms, unamendable formats, and the hybrid electronic/paper options, along with alternatives to electronic submissions.
Electronic Form Alternatives
This category covers accepted alternative electronic representations used to group essential characteristics when the standard tool is unavailable. It defines when such non-standard electronic forms may be used to preserve meaning and interoperability.
Immutable electronic formats
Formats that cannot be amended after creation, preserving the original content and preventing edits. They are used to guarantee the integrity and authenticity of records.
This category defines the requirement that information and documentation submitted to national authorities be provided in electronic formats. It covers acceptable formats and any constraints or standards that submissions must meet.
Electronic and Paper Formats
Defines formats for information or documentation, emphasizing electronic delivery with an optional paper version. It covers scenarios where information is available digitally, with print as a fallback or companion format.
Standardisation & Interfaces
Covers the exchange of standardisation information, the AIDA data exchange interface, and battery passport data attributes for identifiers and general battery properties. It addresses how standardisation activities, interfaces, and battery data attributes enable interoperable data sharing across sys
Standardisation Exchange
This category covers the exchange of information about standardisation activities. It encompasses channels, methods, and formats used to share updates, guidance, and best practices related to standardisation across organizations and sectors.
AIDA Data Interface
Represents the AIDA data-exchange interface used by the Italian Custom system. It defines how external systems can exchange data with AIDA and integrate with the platform.
Battery Passport Identifiers and Properties
This category provides an overview of battery passport data attributes related to identifiers and general battery properties. It describes how unique identifiers and core properties are captured to enable traceability and lifecycle management.
EDI Approaches and Standards
This category groups electronic data interchange (EDI) concepts, including general EDI approaches and specific standards such as GS1 EANCOM and UBL. It highlights how standardized formats enable efficient, interoperable business transactions.
EDI Approach
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is a standard method for exchanging routine business documents between organizations. This category covers the traditional, classical transactions conducted electronically to enable efficient and accurate data transfer.
GS1 EANCOM in EDI
GS1 EANCOM is the GS1-specific implementation of the UN/EDIFACT EDI standard. It defines message structures for exchanging supply chain documents and is widely used in EDI workflows to ensure interoperable data exchange.
UBL in EDI
This category captures the Universal Business Language (UBL) standard as it relates to electronic data interchange practices. It highlights how UBL provides a standardized XML-based format for business documents exchanged in EDI workflows.
Digital Notifications & Data Integrity
Groups technologies for electronic notification tools, QR code-based access to declarations, and blockchain-based data notarization. Together, they form a digital verification ecosystem focused on transparency, traceability, and data integrity in declarations.
Electronic Notification Tools
Tools for sending and receiving official electronic notifications. This category covers software developed and managed by the Commission for Electronic Notifications to facilitate digital communication with the public and stakeholders.
QR Code Declaration
This category captures the mechanism by which the carbon footprint declaration is made accessible to users via a QR code, ensuring the declaration travels with the battery. The QR code provides retrievable access to sustainability information as long as the product is in circulation.
Blockchain Data Notarization
This category captures technological features enabling blockchain-based data notarization within data ecosystem integration, as listed under the TRICK platform. It highlights mechanisms for proving data integrity and provenance across connected systems and ensuring tamper resistance.
Declaration Compliance and Ingestion
This category covers IT applications for verifying declaration conformity and APIs designed for bulk data ingestion into a data ecosystem. It includes subcategories such as Declaration Compliance Software and Bulk Data Ingestion API.
Declaration Compliance Software
This category includes IT applications that automatically verify whether declarations conform to relevant rules and standards. They perform automated conformity checks, validation, and generate audit-ready reports.
Bulk Data Ingestion API
API interface for automatically ingesting large volumes of product and event data into a data ecosystem. It enables programmatic data feeds at scale, supporting real-time or batch ingestion, and integrates with the TRICK platform.
Electronic reporting and ticketing
Covers the requirements for electronic reporting systems and formats, enabling standardized data submission. It also covers a ticketing system to manage data requests and trigger service activation. Together, these ensure secure, timely data reporting and access workflows.
Electronic reporting systems and formats
Defines the establishment of electronic systems and formats for reporting data to competent authorities. It encompasses the standards, interoperability, and procedures required for digital data submission.
Data Request Ticketing
This category covers ticketing systems used to manage data requests and activate services. It encompasses workflows for submitting, routing, and fulfilling requests.
EU Single Window Interoperability
This category consolidates concepts around the EU Single Window Environment for Customs and the interoperable data exchange infrastructure that links customs authorities, registries, and data carriers. It encompasses regulatory foundations (Regulation 2022/2399), interconnection and certificate exch
Supply Chain Information and Events
Groups concepts related to information technology, event models, and traceability in supply chains. It includes battery information systems, fabric receiving events, UN/CEFACT event models, and general supply chain events, forming the foundation for traceability and data exchange.
Battery Information Systems
This category covers information technology used to collect, transmit, and report data related to batteries. It encompasses telemetry, data logging, communication protocols, and dashboards that monitor battery performance and status.
Fabric Receiving
This category covers object-level events involving the receipt of fabric. It encompasses intake, inspection, and recording of fabric deliveries as they enter inventory or a processing facility.
UNCEFACT Event Models
UN/CEFACT event models describe standardized representations of business events used in trade facilitation and electronic data exchange. This category collects concepts related to event-driven processes and interoperable information flows in cross-border commerce.
Supply Chain Event
An event in the supply chain that is captured by a traceability system. It denotes a recorded occurrence such as production, transport, or handling at a specific step that is tracked for traceability.
EU Single Window for Customs
Defines the European Union's Single Window Environment for Customs, the digital platform enabling cross-border customs data exchange and registry access. The framework is established by Regulation (EU) 2022/2399 and includes related exchange systems such as the EU CSW-CERTEX.
EU Customs Single Window
This category covers the EU Single Window Environment for Customs, a shared digital platform that enables traders to submit customs declarations and related information through a single entry point. It aims to streamline cross-border trade, improve compliance, and reduce administrative burdens acros
EU Single Window Registry Access
This category captures the EU Single Window Environment for Customs as the interface used by customs authorities to access the central registry. It denotes the mechanism that enables standardized data submission and retrieval across border procedures.
Regulation (EU) 2022/2399 establishing the EU Single Window Environment for Customs is the primary concept in this category. It provides the legislative framework for a unified digital portal and standardized data exchange to streamline customs procedures across the EU.
EU Customs Certificate Exchange
Represents the EU's single-window framework for exchanging customs certificates (CERTEX). Enables interoperable, electronic sharing of certification data among border agencies, traders, and authorities to streamline cross-border trade within the EU.
Interconnection and Mapping
This category addresses the timelines for operational interconnection and the synchronization of consumer traceability data across platforms. It also covers mapping between EPCIS and UNECE event models to enable interoperable data exchange.
Interconnection Timeline
Defines the schedule and milestones for when an interconnection becomes operational. Outlines critical dates, dependencies, and readiness criteria to achieve operational status.
Consumer Data Synchronization
Processes and apps that synchronize traceability and sustainability data across multiple platforms used by consumers. Includes data mapping, reconciliation, and timely update propagation to maintain consistent, transparent information.
EPCIS and UNECE Mapping
This category documents the mapping between EPCIS and UNECE event models. It facilitates alignment and interoperability of data representations across these standards.
Data Interoperability and Connectivity
This category covers cross-carrier data connectivity, data reuse with semantic interoperability across organizations, and interoperability with external platforms. It emphasizes seamless data exchange and platform compatibility across ecosystem boundaries.
Data Carrier Connectivity
Represents the ability to establish and maintain connections to one or more data carriers. This category covers the interfaces and configurations that enable data transfer and access to various carriers.
Data Reuse and Interoperability
Guidelines and practices that enable organizations to share and reuse data by ensuring semantic compatibility, common metadata, and interoperable data exchange. The category covers governance, standards, and technical approaches to achieve cross-organizational data reuse.
Platform Interoperability
Describes how the TRICK platform interoperates with external platforms and systems. Includes considerations for integration, data exchange, and compatibility with external interfaces and standards.
Interconnection & Systematic Exchange
This category covers how registries interconnect with the EU CSW-CERTEX to enable automated information exchange. It also encompasses systematic information exchange arrangements defined by administrative agreements that specify the types of information to be exchanged.
Registry-CSW Interconnection
This category covers the interconnection between the registry and EU CSW-CERTEX to enable automated information exchange. It supports interoperable data flow across systems to streamline registry operations.
Systematic Information Exchange
A formal, ongoing information exchange governed by an administrative arrangement that specifies the types of information to be shared. It covers structured data exchanges between organizations or systems under defined rules and protocols.
Open Standards and Interoperability
Group focused on open data standards for passport data and the interoperable networks that enable cross-system data exchange. It promotes open, well-defined standards that support seamless, secure interoperability among DP passport systems.
Open Data Standards
This category specifies the open standards that passport data must conform to, enabling interoperability and reuse. By basing passport data on openly published data standards, systems can interoperate more easily and be accessible across platforms.
Open Interoperable Data Exchange
A network architecture that enables open, interoperable exchange of DP passport data across systems and borders. It emphasizes standardization and openness to facilitate seamless data sharing while preserving security and privacy.
Digital Product Passports
An overarching category for digital product passports (DPPs), including battery passports, the data platforms that manage traceability and sustainability data, and the interoperable formats and access mechanisms (such as QR codes) used across supply chains. It covers related concepts like new vs ori
Battery Passport Concepts
Contains core concepts of the battery passport, its interoperable information format, QR codes, and data mapping to align data across systems. These elements enable consistent data exchange and traceability across supply and value chains.
Battery Passport
A Battery Passport is a data-driven record that travels with batteries through supply and value chains. It captures provenance, materials, manufacturing details, performance, and sustainability attributes across the battery lifecycle.
Battery Passport Interoperable Format
Defines interoperable data formats for exchanging battery passport information across systems. Establishes standards for encoding, schema, and identifiers to enable seamless data sharing among manufacturers, recyclers, regulators, and service providers.
Battery QR Codes
QR codes act as machine-readable links that provide access to battery information and the product passport. Scanning a code reveals specifications, provenance, regulatory data, and lifecycle details associated with the battery.
Data Mapping
Defines how data elements are mapped from source systems to the target data model. This includes field-level mappings, data type conversions, and normalization to ensure consistent schema fit.
Product Data Platforms
Represents digital copies of product identifiers and the platforms that collect, store, and manage traceability and sustainability data. It includes the DPP data platform and generic traceability and sustainability platforms used across multiple services.
Digital Copy of Product Identifier
Represents a digital copy of the data carrier or the unique product identifier. This copy is provided to dealers and marketplaces for reference, verification, or listing.
DPP Data Platform
A system for collecting, storing, and managing traceability and sustainability data required for Digital Product Passports (DPP). It enables end-to-end data integration across suppliers, manufacturing, and lifecycle events to support transparency and regulatory compliance.
Traceability and Sustainability Platform
A platform capable of collecting, storing, and managing traceability and sustainability data across multiple services. It enables cross-source data integration, ensures data quality, and provides visibility into supply chain performance.
DPP Product Passports
This category groups the references and concepts related to product passports within the DPP framework. It includes product type references in DPPs, digital product passports, and battery product passports accessible via QR codes.
DPP Product Type Reference
Covers references to product type within a Digital Product Passport (DPP). It captures how the product type is identified or linked in the DPP.
This category covers digital product passports, with emphasis on their role in battery passports to enable traceability and lifecycle data sharing. It highlights how digital records support material provenance, sustainability reporting, and regulatory compliance across a product's lifespan.
Battery Product Passport
Represents the digital or physical passport for a battery, retrievable via a QR code. The passport consolidates essential product data, compliance details, and traceability throughout the battery lifecycle.
Passport Concepts
This category groups concepts related to battery-related documentation, including digital passports and the original battery passport. It serves as a top-level grouping for passport records used in battery traceability and verification.
Digital Passports
This category encompasses digital passports, electronic representations of travel documents used for identity verification. It covers e-passport systems, digital identity credentials, and related electronic travel identity solutions.
Original Battery Passport
Represents the existing battery passport that exists prior to issuing or creating a new passport. It serves as the baseline or source reference for any updates or duplicates.
Battery Passport and DPP Granularity
This category covers the lifecycle metadata for batteries requiring a new passport for reuse or remanufacturing, and defines how granular the Digital Product Passport should be by product category. It comprises two subtopics: New Battery Passport and DPP Granularity per Category.
New Battery Passport
Represents the creation of a new battery passport for a battery undergoing reuse, repurposing, or remanufacturing. The passport records essential identifiers and lifecycle data to support traceability, safety, and regulatory compliance through the battery's second-life journey.
DPP Granularity per Category
Defines the level of detail used in the Digital Product Passport for each product category. This standardizes data scope and supports governance, interoperability, and targeted information disclosure across product lines.
Digital Product Passport SSbD Skeleton
This category combines the Digital Product Passport System and the SSbD System Skeleton as core concepts. It outlines the architectural and structural elements required to implement a digital passport and an SSbD assessment framework for materials, chemicals, and processes.
Digital Product Passport System
Defines the operational framework and readiness of the digital product passport system to be fully functional and achieve its objectives. It covers the necessary infrastructure, interoperability, and governance considerations for deployment.
SSbD System Skeleton
Describes the core structure of a Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) assessment, detailing the system under evaluation, including chemicals/materials and processes. This skeleton provides the context for evaluating safety, sustainability, and lifecycle implications.
Digital Product Passport
Digital Product Passport (DPP) refers to the digital representation of a product’s data in the supply chain, enabling traceability, provenance, and compliance across stakeholders. It supports interoperable data standards that facilitate monitoring of origin, materials, and lifecycle for regulators a
DPP Standardization (CEN/CLC/JTC 24)
This category covers standardization activities for the Digital Product Passport within CEN, CLC, and JTC 24, including development of technical specifications, data schemas, and interoperability requirements. It aligns DPP data models and conformity processes with regulatory and sustainability goal
Product Passport Data and Reporting
Covers information requirements, data reporting formats, and data-flow governance for product passports in textiles. Includes manufacturer obligations, compliance documentation, wind jacket recycling data points, and model- and batch-level data flows, with flowcharts guiding scoping and reporting to
Manufacturing Data and Batches
This category covers the information manufacturers must provide, the concept of a production batch, and the granularity levels used for Digital Product Passports (DPPs). It connects manufacturing data requirements with how DPPs organize information by model, batch, or item.
Manufacturers Information Requirements
This category defines the information manufacturers must provide, including product specifications, safety and compliance data, test results, and labeling statements. It supports regulatory, safety, and interoperability workflows by specifying required information elements.
Production Batch
A production batch represents a set of items produced in a single run, where transformation steps are performed without altering machine settings. This category supports tracing, quality control, and coordinated processing of units as a batch.
DPP Granularity Levels
Defines the available granularity levels for the DPP, specifying whether analysis and processing operate at the model, a product batch, or an individual item. This helps determine the scope of data and decisions within the DPP workflow.
Information Requirements
This category covers the information obligations associated with ecodesign and product parameters, including requirements to provide parameter-related information and information accompanying products. It groups ecodesign information requirements, product information requirements, and general produc
Ecodesign Information Requirements
This category identifies the information needs integral to ecodesign practice, including material composition data, environmental impact metrics, lifecycle assessment results, and regulatory/disclosure requirements. It supports decision-making by outlining what data should be collected and reported
Product Information Requirements
Represents the obligation to provide information related to selected product parameters. It specifies what information must be disclosed to inform decisions, compliance, or quality assurance.
Product Information
This category covers information that should accompany a product and be accessible to customers. It includes manuals, user guides, safety data, warranties, specifications, and other documentation provided with or referenced by the product.
Model-Level DPP Data Flow
Captures how data is defined and managed at the model level for Digital Product Passport (DPP) declarations, focusing on data related to the model, its components, and suppliers. It also describes the flow of primary and sustainability data from the supply chain to fulfil model-level DPP requirement
Model and Supplier Data
This category centers on data related to the model, its components, and their suppliers. It represents the majority of required information for understanding the model’s construction and supply chain relationships.
Model-Level DPP Fulfilment
Defines the flow of data from the supply chain to fulfil DPP declarations at the model level. It emphasises traceability, data provenance, and the compliance processes required to attach accurate DPP declarations to product models.
DPP Sustainability Data Flow
Defines the flow of updated primary sustainability data from the supply chain and secondary sources to support Digital Product Passport (DPP) declarations. It describes how data moves through the system to keep declarations accurate across different modes.
Compliance Information and Data
Collects information required to identify non-compliant batteries (origin, non-conformance, risk, measures, operator rationale) and documentation of actions taken to comply with Articles 49 and 50. It also includes data point requirements for wind jacket recycling.
Non-compliance Information
Specifies the data elements needed to identify a non-compliant battery, including origin, nature of non-compliance, risk assessment, proposed measures, and operator arguments.
Compliance Steps Documentation
This category contains data and information about actions taken to comply with Articles 49 and 50. It documents the steps, procedures, and supporting evidence used to demonstrate regulatory compliance.
Wind Jacket Recycling Data
Defines the data point requirements used to evaluate wind jacket recyclability. It specifies the measurements and attributes needed to document materials composition, end-of-life processing, and recycling viability.
Textiles Data Reporting and Collection
Defines the formats for reporting textile-related data to the Commission and the scope of data collection under CEN Workshop Agreement guidelines. The category consolidates standardized reporting formats with the boundaries of textile data collection.
Data Reporting Format
Specifies the required format and conventions for data and information to be reported to the Commission. Establishes the structure, fields, units, and submission standards used in reporting.
Textiles Data Collection Scope
Defines the scope and guidelines from the CEN Workshop Agreement (CWA) for collecting data on textiles and textile products. It identifies which data should be gathered and how it should be used, aligning textile data collection practices with relevant standards.
Flowcharts and Data Flows
This category groups visual representations that connect scoping analysis with definition and documents the related data flows. It includes a flowchart illustrating the relationship (Figure 9) and the data flows described in section A.3.6.2.
Flowchart: Scoping vs Definition
A flowchart that visualizes how scoping analysis relates to the definition. It helps trace how scoping decisions influence the resulting definition.
Data Flows
Represents data flows as described in section A.3.6.2. It encompasses how data moves between components, systems, and storage within a data architecture, including routing and basic transformations.
Digital Product Passport Systems
Defines the information systems, tools, platforms and infrastructure that support the creation, submission, management and exchange of digital product passport data. Encompasses electronic submissions, digital information infrastructure, APIs, traceability tools, and platform characteristics used ac
Electronic Submissions and Documents
Describes the electronic means by which declarations are submitted, including the electronic submission system. It also covers updated eBIZ documents that support traceability and transparency.
Electronic declaration submission
Specifies the methods by which declarations can be provided electronically, including online forms, portals, and other digital channels.
Electronic submission system
An electronic data-processing system used to submit a registration application. It denotes the mechanism by which registration materials are filed electronically.
Updated eBIZ Documents
This category collects revised eBIZ documents designed to enhance traceability and transparency in business processes. It showcases examples of the updated documents and explains their role in governance and stakeholder visibility.
Digital Information Infrastructure
Encompasses the information and communication systems and digital infrastructure that enable data exchange and management within the TRICK framework and the battery passport regulatory context. Covers systems referenced in Article 34 and the TRICK data infrastructure that supports cross-actor data f
Represents the information and communication system referenced in Article 34 of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020. It enables EU authorities to exchange data on product compliance and market surveillance to support coordinated enforcement.
TRICK Data Infrastructure
This category captures the infrastructure of the TRICK framework that enables data exchange between actors. It defines the channels, interfaces, and orchestration supporting data flows across components within TRICK.
Digital Infrastructure
The Digital Infrastructure category denotes the digital backbone that supports data management in the battery passport ecosystem. It encompasses the platforms, networks, and IT resources that collect, store, share, and secure data across the battery lifecycle and supply chain. This foundation enable
Digital Tools & APIs
Focuses on the requirements for using digital tools, the suite of performance and compliance tools, and bulk data retrieval via APIs. It provides guidance on how digital tooling supports product performance calculations and regulatory compliance.
Digital Tools Requirements
This category defines the requirements for using digital tools, including access controls, security and privacy considerations, licensing, and compliance standards. It guides selection, configuration, and ongoing governance of digital tools within an organization.
Performance and Compliance Tools
Digital tools that calculate and assess product performance and regulatory compliance. They enable measurement of performance metrics and conformance checks to support product development and quality assurance.
Bulk Data API
An API designed for large-scale, automated data retrieval and querying by software systems. It represents a technological feature enabling scalable, programmatic access to vast data resources for retrieval and consultation.
Information and Traceability Tools
Overview of tools for information management and verification within EPR, including DPP-related requirements and registers. It also covers traceability system elements (TRICK) and the comparison between DPP requirements and CWA data structures.
Information Management and Verification Tools
Tools for managing and verifying information within EPR, including systems like Digital Product Passports (DPP) and producer registers. This category covers software, workflows, and data standards that organize, verify, and share product and producer information to support compliance and transparenc
Traceability System Elements
This category catalogs the essential components required to establish a traceability system according to the TRICK framework. It covers foundational elements and configurations necessary for initial deployment and ongoing operation.
DPP vs CWA Data Structures
This category examines how DPP requirements align with the CWA data structures described in Unit17, as referenced by the caption for Table 46. It highlights the mapping between regulatory requirements and the implemented data structures, noting potential alignments or gaps.
Category grouping for actors and tools that enable digital product passports, including independent third-party authorised service providers and interoperability tools. It highlights standardized data formats and vocabularies that facilitate information exchange within DPP ecosystems, such as the CI
Digital Product Passport Provider
This category encompasses independent third-party providers of digital product passport services, authorized by the economic operator to manage and verify passport data. They act as neutral facilitators for the creation, verification, and integrity of digital product passports.
CISUTAC Tool
A tool that emphasizes standardized data formats and vocabularies to facilitate information exchange across systems. It promotes interoperability by adopting common data models and controlled vocabularies.
Tooling and Platform Characteristics
Identifies the technical and organizational characteristics of tools and platforms that support product workflows, including IT systems, procedures, and lifecycle data handling. This category covers tool characteristics and product lifecycle platforms.
Tool Characteristics
Defines the technical and organizational attributes required to support tools (such as IT systems and procedures). It covers capabilities, interoperability, governance, security, and maintenance considerations to ensure effective tool use.
Product Lifecycle Platform
An eService platform used to manage data across the product lifecycle. It supports data capture, storage, integration, and analysis of product-related information from development through end-of-life.
Battery Regulatory Standards
This category captures the regulatory and standards context for batteries, including EU Annex IX, harmonised zones, market surveillance, and conformity requirements. It also covers international standards and instruments, OECD due diligence and responsible sourcing, SSbD system definitions, traceabi
Scope and Boundaries
Defines the regulatory scope and the boundaries of the traceability system. It groups Harmonised Zone, Traceability System Boundary, and Area of Application to clarify where rules apply and how traceability is bounded from fibre input to end-use.
Harmonised Zone
An area defined by the Regulation where products must meet harmonised specifications. This zone enables consistent conformity assessment and market access across jurisdictions.
Traceability System Boundary
Defines the scope and limits of the traceability system, from fibres receiving to end-to-end circular retail platforms. Establishes the boundaries, interfaces, and data responsibilities across the supply chain involved in traceability.
Area of Application
Represents the domain or context in which a concept, method, or product is intended to be used. It captures the applicable industries, use-cases, or functional scopes to clarify applicability.
International Standards and Instruments
A category collecting core international standards and data references, including the List of International Instruments, UNECE Product Data Recommendations, and the CEN/CLC/JTC 24 standardization body. These items guide interoperability and data modeling across regions.
List of International Instruments
Represents the catalog of international legal instruments (treaties, conventions, protocols). This category functions as a registry of instruments that establish rights, obligations, or procedural rules in international law.
UNECE Product Data Recommendations
This category encompasses UNECE recommendations governing product data. It groups guidelines and best practices for structuring, validating, and exchanging product information according to UNECE standards.
CEN CLC JTC 24
Represents the standardization body CEN/CLC/JTC 24. This category covers the organizational entity responsible for developing and coordinating European standards under the CEN, CLC, and JTC 24 framework.
Regulatory Battery Categories
Groups batteries by regulatory status and scope under the Battery Regulation: batteries in conformity with the regulation, rechargeable industrial batteries above 2 kWh, and those within the battery passport scope.
Conforming Batteries
This category includes batteries that conform to the regulation's requirements. It identifies products that meet the specified standards and are deemed compliant.
Industrial Batteries Over 2 kWh
Rechargeable industrial batteries with energy capacity greater than 2 kWh, as indicated on labeling. This category covers high-capacity batteries used in industrial applications.
Battery Passport Scope
Defines which batteries fall under the battery passport scope, including industrial batteries greater than 2 kWh, large-format (LMT) and EV batteries, and battery energy storage systems (BESS).
OECD Due Diligence & Sourcing
Category grouping OECD guidance on responsible mineral supply chain due diligence and related sourcing information. It includes the OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas and the accompanying Responsible Sourcing Information.
OECD Due Diligence Guidance
OECD guidance for responsible sourcing of minerals from conflict-affected and high-risk areas. It outlines the principles, steps, and expectations for due diligence to ensure responsible supply chains in mineral markets.
Responsible Sourcing Information
Information on responsible sourcing as referenced in the battery due diligence policy report, highlighting standards and supplier expectations.
Annex IX SSbD System
This category covers the system set out in Annex IX and the SSbD system under study, defining the scope and essential characteristics used in SSbD assessment.
Annex IX System
This category covers the system set out in Annex IX that is used to define essential characteristics and competence. It links the annex to regulatory requirements and assessment criteria.
SSbD System Under Study
Represents the specific Safe, Sustainable by Design (SSbD) system being analyzed, including its chemicals, materials, processes and products. It defines the scope and boundaries of the SSbD assessment for this node.
Union Market Surveillance
This category consolidates EU market surveillance and safeguard procedures, along with the UN GTR No 22 procedure for determining remaining usable battery energy.
Covers procedures for monitoring and enforcing compliance across the Union's internal market. It encompasses safeguard procedures to address non-compliant products or practices and to trigger rapid corrective actions.
UN GTR No 22 Procedure
Defines the method for determining remaining usable energy in a battery according to UN GTR No. 22. This category captures the standardized procedure used to estimate available battery energy under predefined test conditions.
DPP Traceability and Data Carriers
Category focusing on how data carriers (QR codes and other physical channels) convey supply chain and product traceability information within the Digital Product Passport (DPP). It covers data linked to product identifiers, traceability requirements, and how carriers enable traceability across texti
DPP Traceability
Captures how product traceability is implemented and documented within the Digital Product Passport (DPP). It covers both general traceability information and explicit traceability requirements, and frames traceability as a tool to support compliance at the product batch level.
DPP Product Traceability
This category covers traceability information for products that may be included in the Digital Product Passport (DPP). It encompasses data and mechanisms to capture origin, lifecycle events, and provenance for verification across the product's lifecycle.
Explicit Traceability in DPP
Assesses whether the DPP requires traceability as an explicit obligation. Distinguishes explicit traceability requirements from implicit or assumed practices within the DPP framework.
Traceability for Compliance
Defines how traceability acts as a tool to ensure regulatory and quality compliance at the product batch level, enabling end-to-end tracking from materials to finished goods. This supports audits, quality controls, and batch-level decision making.
DPP and Textile Traceability
Consolidates the role of traceability data in enabling the Digital Product Passport (DPP) and improving supply chain transparency for textiles. Covers both general traceability data and textile-specific provenance across the textile value chain.
Traceability Data for DPP
This category examines how traceability and sustainability data support the design and requirements of the Digital Product Passport (DPP). It outlines what data are needed, how they should be captured, and how this information informs the DPP's structure and downstream needs.
Traceability Data
Traceability data comprises records that trace the provenance and movement of products through the supply chain. It supports visibility, traceability, and compliance by linking inputs to outputs across suppliers, manufacturers, and distributors.
Textile Traceability
Describes methods and practices for tracing the origin, processing steps, and movement of textiles through the supply chain, enabling visibility and accountability. It covers provenance from fiber to finished product and supports sustainability and compliance.
Supply Chain Information and Traceability
This category aggregates essential supply chain metadata, including general supply chain information, product traceability data, and descriptions of actors and their roles in the chain. It supports understanding how the supply chain is structured and how products are tracked across participants.
Supply Chain Information
This category contains information about the supply chain as described in the text. It includes details on the movement of goods, suppliers, and logistics processes.
Product Traceability Data
The complete collection of data that enables tracking a product through its lifecycle—from origin to consumer. This category encompasses all records required to establish provenance and traceability across the supply chain.
Supply Chain Actors and Roles
This category documents the actual supply chain by identifying the actors involved and their roles. It describes how goods and information flow among suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and logistics providers, clarifying responsibilities and interactions.
Data Carriers and DPP
This category covers data carriers such as QR codes and other barcode symbols, as well as the Digital Product Passport (DPP). It serves as an umbrella for QR-based data carriers, general data carrier types, and DPP-related information.
QR Code Data Carrier
Represents QR code implementations as data carriers within the taxonomy. It treats QR codes as a concrete data-carrier format for encoding and transferring information via scan-based workflows.
Data Carriers
This category encompasses physical media used to carry data for automatic identification. It covers linear barcodes, 2D barcodes, and other data capture media.
This category focuses on Digital Product Passport (DPP) statements, requiring that information be gathered across the entire supply chain. It emphasizes cross-supply-chain data collection, provenance, and transparency to support lifecycle insight and regulatory compliance.
Physical Information Channels
This category groups the physical means through which information is provided to consumers. It covers tangible information delivery methods as well as data carriers that carry unique identifiers used to reference information.
Physical Information Delivery
Represents the use of physical media to convey information to consumers, including packaging, labels, manuals, and signage. It distinguishes tangible information channels from digital or online methods.
Data carriers
Represents entities that function as carriers for data and are associated with unique identifiers. This enables precise tracking, referencing, and retrieval of data across systems.
Traceability Data Models
This category covers data models and documentation used to support traceability across organizations, including open data models, event-based approaches, and upstream models. It also encompasses interoperable reporting, regulatory compliance documentation, and eBIZ framework/specifications that enab
Open Data Model Interoperability
This category groups concepts related to open data modeling and the interoperability requirements of DPP data collection. It includes the DPP Data Model Interoperability concept and the eBIZ framework that guides the standards used by the data model.
Open Data Model
This category covers concepts related to open data models—data models that are openly accessible and shareable under open standards. It emphasizes interoperability, reuse, and collaborative development enabled by openness in data modeling.
DPP Data Model Interoperability
Data structures and schemas used to capture DPP data for regulatory compliance and reporting. It also covers standards and metadata to enable seamless data exchange and interoperability across systems.
eBIZ Framework
This category denotes the eBIZ framework as a standard reference used by the data model. It highlights the framework's role in guiding standards and interoperability across components.
Interoperable Traceability
This category covers mechanisms for sharing traceability data across organizations and systems, including interoperable reporting and the generation of traceability reports from data models and history. It also encompasses logistic documentation used as evidence of traceability events.
Interoperable Traceability Reporting
A reporting mechanism enabling the secure and standardized exchange of traceability data between organizations and systems. It supports cross-organizational provenance visibility by using common formats and protocols for data transfer.
Traceability Reports
Reports that document data lineage and provenance, generated from data modelling and history documentation. They enable tracing data origins and transformations across datasets and systems.
Logistic Documentation
Documentation used as evidence for traceability events in logistics. These documents support verification of the movement, handling, and timing of goods across the supply chain.
Documentation and Compliance
This category encompasses documents drawn up by manufacturers to demonstrate fulfilment of regulatory obligations under Articles 49, 50 and 52, including verification of compliance. It includes both Manufacturer Documentation and Compliance Documentation as subcategories.
Manufacturer Documentation
Documents created by manufacturers, including product specifications, data sheets, manuals, and warranty information. This category covers materials authored by the manufacturer rather than third-party sources.
Compliance Documentation
Documents demonstrating fulfillment of obligations under Articles 49, 50 and 52, including verification processes and supporting evidence.
Event-Based and Upstream Data Models
A category that encompasses two related data modeling approaches: an event-based open data model from the CEN CWA process and the CEN CWA eBIZ Upstream model used for inter-company collaboration in upstream data collection.
Event-Based Open Data Model
Represents a data-architecture concept where information is captured as events and event streams rather than static records. The model is open and standardized within the CEN CWA process, facilitating interoperable data exchange.
Upstream Collaboration Model
The CEN CWA eBIZ Upstream model is a standardized framework for coordinating inter-company data collection in upstream activities. It provides a basis for data sharing and collaborative workflows among partner organizations.
eBIZ Specification
This category centers on the eBIZ specification as the foundational basis for data exchange rules. It describes how the eBIZ standard governs data structure and semantics to enable interoperable, rule-based exchanges between trading partners.
eBIZ specifications
eBIZ specifications (CEN CWA eBIZ) are standards used to support standardization within the TRICK project, enabling consistent requirements across participating actors. They provide the framework for interoperability and alignment with European CEN/CWA guidance.
EV Battery Data & Traceability
Overview of the data framework for electric vehicle batteries, including data carriers (QR codes and URLs), battery passport links, and the TraceabilityReport data structure. It also covers information requirements, product family references, and how this data enables traceability across EV batterie
EVs, Batteries & Products
Groups concepts related to electric vehicle products, including product families and categories, EVs, and EV batteries, into a single category. It highlights the relationships among vehicle types, their energy storage components, and the product classifications they belong to, facilitating consisten
Product Families and Categories
Represents grouping of items into product families or categories. This category captures when a product is referred to by its family or category across multiple clauses, supporting product-level taxonomy and aggregation.
Electric Vehicle Batteries
Represents the batteries used to power electric vehicles as addressed in labeling rules. This category focuses on the energy storage systems and their implications for labeling and compliance.
Electric Vehicles
Vehicles powered by onboard electricity stored in rechargeable batteries. This category covers battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and other road vehicles that rely primarily on electric propulsion rather than internal combustion engines.
Category for data attributes related to batteries used in electric vehicles, including types and performance characteristics. It encompasses capacity, lifecycle, and other performance aspects.
Data Carriers and URLs
Group of concepts about digital identifiers and links used to access battery data. Includes permalinks, QR codes, and URLs that connect to the Battery Passport or related websites.
Permalinks and Data Carriers
This category covers permalinks and related data carriers used to convey or preserve information within systems. It emphasizes stable links and artifacts that transport data across contexts when information is shared or referenced.
Battery QR Code Websites
Websites accessed by scanning QR codes printed on batteries. This category captures online resources linked through those codes, such as product information, manuals, and support portals.
QR Code to Battery Passport
Represents the link from a QR code to the battery passport. This category covers the mechanism by which scanning a QR code directs users to the battery passport data.
Uniform Resource Locator
A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is the address used to locate a resource on the World Wide Web. It specifies the resource's location and access scheme, enabling clients to fetch the resource.
EV Battery Information and Traceability
Consolidates information requirements for EV battery performance and durability, and the data structures used to enable traceability. This category covers the TraceabilityReport data structure and the BMS-based battery passport requirements, aligning lifecycle information from specification to passp
EV Battery Information Requirements
Defines the data and indicators needed to evaluate the performance and durability of electric vehicle batteries. It outlines which information should be captured (e.g., capacity, cycle life, degradation trends, temperature effects, and charging profiles) to support design, testing, and lifecycle ass
The core data structure used to capture and exchange traceability information in the TRICK project. It defines the standardized data flow enabling end-to-end traceability across processes and systems.
BMS-based Battery Passport
This category covers battery passport documentation for electric vehicle batteries that relies on a Battery Management System (BMS) to provide required information, including state of charge estimation (SOCE). It specifies data provenance and accessibility through the BMS for lifecycle tracking.
A high-level category that consolidates the Digital Product Passport concept, including embedded digital content, access recipients, and governing mechanisms. It also encompasses traceability topologies, data-point governance, and due diligence considerations across textile supply chains.
Traceability Topologies
This category covers architectural variants of traceability, including mono-platform and multi-platform topologies, and dedicated traceability platforms. It explains how different topology choices impact deployment and interoperability.
Multi-Platform Traceability
This category focuses on traceability topology with an emphasis on multi‑platform implementations. It describes how data lineage and provenance are maintained across diverse systems to enable cross‑platform visibility and integrity.
Mono platform topology
A topology that operates on a single platform, with no cross-platform integration. It emphasizes a unified stack and simplified management in homogeneous environments.
Traceability Platform
A traceability platform is a software system that enables end-to-end tracking and provenance of goods across the supply chain. It typically provides data capture, auditing, and integration capabilities to ensure visibility, authenticity, and regulatory compliance.
DPP Data Governance
Defines who may enter or update information in the Textile Digital Product Passport system. Also covers guidelines for collecting textile supply chain data to support the DPP.
Data Entry Permissions
Specifies who may introduce new information or update existing data within the construction digital product passport system. This category governs the authorization and scope of data input and edits by designated actors.
Textile DPP Data Guidelines
Guidelines for data collection in textile supply chains to support the Digital Product Passport. This node outlines data capture practices, required metadata, and interoperability considerations to enable traceability and compliance across the supply chain.
Transit Data Points
Defines the potential datapoints count relevant to transit analysis and the caption for Table 6. It also organizes related subtopics, including Key Transit Data Points and Table 6 Caption, to support data-driven transit insights.
Key Transit Data Points
Identifies the estimated number of data points that can meaningfully improve transit performance. Up to 17 specific data points are highlighted as highly impactful for accelerating transit improvements.
Table 6 Caption
This category catalogs the caption for Table 6 in the document. It provides metadata describing the table's label and its explanatory context.
Group focusing on governance, transparency, and documentation in supply chains. It covers textile supply consensus and battery passport data points used for due diligence obligations.
Textile Supply Consensus
Captures needs and approaches for building agreement among diverse actors in the textile supply chain, as reflected in its representations. It highlights processes, roles, and decision-making mechanisms that enable collaborative governance across the value chain.
Battery Passport Data Points
This category catalogs the data points included in battery passport documentation used during due diligence obligations. It enables transparency and traceability of battery materials, origin, lifecycle information, and compliance with safety and ESG standards.
Digital Product Passport Recipient
A recipient is an entity that gains access to the digital product passport. This category covers the stakeholder authorized to view or use the passport data, including individuals, organizations, or systems granted access.
Embedded Digital Content
This category covers digital content that is an integral part of a physical product, inseparable from the item and necessary for its function or use. Examples include preinstalled firmware, onboard software, and digital manuals or experiences embedded directly into the product.
Traceability Data Interfaces
Covers data models and interface definitions that enable traceability and sustainability data exchange across supply chains. Highlights the TRICK project’s data model, data interfaces between roles and actors, and data availability considerations that support transparent transmission of traceability
TRICK Data Interfaces
This category groups concepts that define interfaces for data exchange across roles and actors within the TRICK project, enabling traceability data collection in pilots’ supply chains.
TRICK Data Exchange Interface
Represents the interface definition enabling data exchange between roles within the TRICK project. It specifies the messages and data structures used for inter-role communication and defines the interaction points and protocols that ensure interoperable data sharing.
Role Interfaces
Defines the interfaces between the roles identified in the TRICK pilots' supply chain. It documents how entities coordinate, communicate, and exchange information to enable smooth operation across the chain.
Actor Interfaces
Defines the interfaces linking different actors involved in the process to collect traceability data. These interfaces enable coordination and data exchange essential for gathering comprehensive traceability information.
Data Availability and Traceability
This category covers data governance elements for reporting data availability statements and the data model used to capture and transmit traceability and sustainability information across the supply chain.
Data availability statement
A category capturing the inclusion of statements about how, where, and under what conditions data from a study can be accessed. It supports transparency, reproducibility, and responsible data sharing within research outputs.
Traceability and Sustainability Data Model
A data model designed to capture and transmit comprehensive traceability and sustainability information across the supply chain. It enables standardized data exchange to support transparency, compliance, and lifecycle analysis.
TRICK Data Model
Describes the TRICK project's data model, which extends the eBIZ foundation with additional features for business data representation and relationships.
Ecodesign Conformity Assessment
This top-level category covers the methods, procedures, and evidence used to verify that products meet ecodesign requirements. It includes calculation, testing, conformity assessment modules, documentation, and market surveillance, as well as the roles of member states in ensuring cross-border compl
EU Product Conformity
Group of concepts governing EU product conformity assessment, certification, and enforcement. It covers roles of notified bodies, cross-border conformity requests, authorities’ verification, corrective actions, recalls, and market restrictions, along with data rights and certificate provisions.
Cross-Border Conformity and Data
This category covers cross-border conformity assessment requests, data rights exemptions, and verification by authorities. It emphasizes data integrity and reliability as key factors shaping compliance verification across jurisdictions.
Cross-Border Conformity Verification
This category covers procedures for requesting conformity assessments from notified bodies located in other Member States. It also defines the requirements that enable competent authorities to verify product compliance.
Cross-border Conformity Assessment Request
A formal request to a notified body established in another EU member state to carry out a conformity assessment. This category captures cross-border conformity assessment requests within the Single Market.
Authority Verification Requirements
Outlines the requirements that enable competent national authorities to verify product conformity. It covers evidence, testing, documentation, and traceability needed for regulatory assessment. This category supports standardized, transparent verification processes across jurisdictions.
Data Rights Exemptions
This category covers exemptions to data modification rights under access-control rules, and integrity-based exemptions for products whose core function is data collection. It groups concepts that govern when modification permissions or data integrity justifications apply in data handling.
Data Modification Rights
Specifies who is allowed to introduce, modify, or update data, under restrictions set by access control. It encompasses write permissions and governance of data modification.
Data integrity exemption
This category covers exemptions based on data integrity considerations for products whose primary function is to collect and supply data. It identifies regulatory allowances granted to such products, where maintaining data accuracy and reliability is essential and can justify relaxing certain requir
Poor Data Quality
Barriers due to data that is unreliable or difficult to verify. This category covers issues with data provenance, accuracy, and verifiability that undermine trust and usability.
Regulatory Non-Compliance and Corrective Actions
This category groups failures to meet regulatory requirements and the actions taken to remedy them. It includes regulatory non-compliance, product withdrawals/recalls, and corrective measures to restore conformity.
Regulatory Non-Compliance
This category captures instances where requirements in a regulation or its delegated acts are not met. It includes failures to fulfill specified provisions, standards, or deadlines, potentially triggering regulatory actions and penalties.
Product Withdrawals and Recalls
This category covers actions to remove products from the market due to safety concerns, regulatory requirements, or quality defects. It encompasses initiating withdrawals or recalls, coordinating with manufacturers, regulators, and distributors, and tracking outcomes and communications.
Corrective Actions
This category captures the actions required to address regulatory non-conformities, including containment, remediation, and product recalls. It encompasses measures to bring operations back into compliance and prevent future violations.
Product Corrective Actions
This category defines the procedures for corrective actions when a product fails conformity and may require withdrawal or recall. It covers triggers, execution, communication, and documentation to protect consumers and maintain compliance. Distributors use these guidelines to bring products back int
Notified Bodies and Accreditation
This category groups concepts related to Notified Bodies, their activities, AVS interactions, and the national accreditation body responsible for issuing certificates. It encompasses notification processes and the role of the national body in accreditation governance.
Notified Bodies Activities
This category covers the activities performed by notified bodies, including conformity assessment tasks and related consultancy services. It includes assessment, testing, inspection, and certification work, as well as advisory support that facilitates regulatory compliance.
AVS and Notified Body
This category centers on the reference to AVS and Notified Bodies in Paragraph 2, outlining their roles in regulatory oversight and conformity assessment. It clarifies how AVS and Notified Bodies operate within certification and compliance processes described in the document.
Notified Bodies Notification
This category covers informing designated Notified Bodies through a national information system or email distribution service. It defines the communication workflow and recipients for regulatory updates.
National Accreditation Body
National-level authority responsible for assessing and granting accreditation certificates to organizations, ensuring conformity with applicable standards and maintaining the integrity of the accreditation process. It issues accreditation certificates and oversees compliance across sectors.
EU Product Certification Framework
This category covers EU conformity assessment artifacts and governance: certificates issued under Union product legislation, authorities designated under Article 25(1) of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020, accreditation certificates, and the Article 27 subcontracting rules for notified bodies. It groups the
EU Product Certificates
Certificates issued in accordance with European Union product legislation. They verify conformity with EU standards and regulatory requirements for products.
Article 25(1) Authorities
Authorities designated under Article 25(1) of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 that can access information for enforcement and market surveillance purposes.
Accreditation Certificate
A formal document issued by an accreditation body attesting that a conformity assessment body meets the required standards. This category encompasses certificates used to verify the competence and compliance of conformity assessment bodies.
Article 27 Subcontracting
Article 27 governs the use of subsidiaries and subcontracting by notified bodies in conformity assessment. It outlines how outsourcing work should be managed to preserve competence, independence, and the integrity of conformity assessments.
Product Compliance Documentation
Summarizes the conformity assessment and reporting activities used to verify that products meet applicable requirements, including product conformity assessments, verification reports, battery audit reports, and quality check reports.
Product Conformity Assessment
This category encompasses procedures for evaluating and verifying that a product complies with applicable requirements and standards. It includes conformity assessment activities such as testing, inspection, and certification to ensure regulatory and customer requirements are met.
Verification Report
This category captures the verification report mentioned in Article 52(1). It defines the formal document used to confirm compliance or accuracy and outlines the procedures for its preparation and submission under that provision.
Battery Audit Reports
This category covers audit reports generated after evaluating an operator's battery due diligence policies. They summarize findings, identify compliance gaps, and provide recommendations for remediation.
Quality Check Report
A report that accompanies data, summarizing the results of quality checks and validation. It records any data quality issues and recommended actions.
Audit and Verification Reports
This category collects audit and verification documents related to due diligence compliance. It includes notified body audit reports, summaries of third-party verifications, and third-party verification reports of supply chain due diligence policies.
Notified Body Audit Reports
Audit reports issued by the notified body related to due diligence compliance. These reports document assessment activities, findings, non-conformities, and corrective actions associated with product conformity assessments.
Third-Party Verification Summary
Concise reports produced by external verifiers that summarize the results of a verification process. These summaries are referenced in obligations reports to attest compliance or performance.
Supply Chain Verification Report
External verification reports from third-party assessors evaluate the effectiveness and compliance of an organization's supply chain due diligence policies. They provide independent validation of policy implementation and risk controls across the supply chain.
Market Access Controls & Enforcement
Regulatory actions that restrict or prohibit placing products on the market. This category covers market surveillance authorities and enforcement measures under BattReg Article 83, including corrective actions and recalls when non-compliance is detected.
Market Access Restrictions
Policies and actions that restrict or prohibit making products available in a market. This category covers regulatory measures that block market entry or continued availability of products, such as bans or prohibitions.
Market Surveillance Authorities
Regulatory bodies empowered to set a reasonable period for corrective measures and to oversee market actions, ensuring timely compliance in financial markets.
BattReg Art 83 Enforcement
This category covers enforcement actions authorized by BattReg Article 83 to address non-compliance by operators. It includes measures such as recalls, market prohibitions, operator bans, and other corrective actions to ensure compliance and protect public safety.
Certificate Provisions and Actions
This category covers provisions related to accreditation certificates issued for notification (Article 55(2)). It also includes actions that may be taken on conformity assessment certificates, such as refusal, restriction, suspension, or withdrawal.
Accreditation Certificates for Notification
Provisions relating to accreditation certificates used in notification processes are covered here, as described in Article 55(2). This category outlines the requirements for issuance, validity, and management of such certificates within regulatory notification workflows.
Certificate actions
Actions taken on a conformity assessment certificate, including refusals, restrictions, suspensions, and withdrawals. This category covers administrative outcomes that affect the validity or status of a certificate.
Conformity Assessment Framework
Top-level category consolidating concepts related to conformity assessment under regulatory frameworks. It encompasses modules, procedures, annexes, and articles that govern conformity assessment practices, including production-process quality assurance and unit verification modules, as well as rela
Conformity Assessment Modules
This category groups the conformity assessment modules used under Regulation 768/2008/EC, including Internal Production Control and Unit Verification (Module G). It also covers the modules listed in Decision No 768/2008/EC and the tiered data approach that guides evidence for conformity.
Internal Production Control Module
A module included in the regulation for conformity assessment that handles internal production controls. It specifies the procedures and checks used to verify that production processes meet required standards during conformity assessment.
These are the modules defined in EU Decision 768/2008/EC for conformity assessment of products. They describe the different assessment routes a product may follow to demonstrate compliance with EU requirements.
Unit Verification Conformity
Describes the conformity assessment procedure based on verifying a single unit. It establishes that the unit meets specified requirements, providing conformance evidence for that unit.
Tiered data approach
Represents a strategy that progressively increases data volume and quality over time to support analysis, modeling, and validation. It emphasizes staged data generation and collection across progressively higher tiers.
Articles, Annexes and Procedures
Consolidates core legal references: Article 41, Annex II procedure, Annex V model structure, and Chapter XIII on delegated powers and committee procedure. Highlights essential articles, annexes, and procedural chapters that frame governance and performance requirements.
Article 41
This category represents the legal provision known as Article 41. It groups items that pertain to this specific article.
Annex V Model Structure
This category captures the model structure described in Annex V. It defines the framework, components, and relationships specified by Annex V for organizing the model.
Annex II Procedure
This category covers the formal process described in Annex II for defining the performance requirements of a product or system. It outlines the steps and criteria used to establish measurable targets within regulatory or standards frameworks.
Delegated Powers and Committee Procedure
Covers how legislatures delegate authority and the procedures committees use to scrutinize and enact delegated powers. It explains governance, oversight, and procedural steps in drafting and applying delegated powers within legislative processes.
Conformity Assessment References
This category groups elements cited in conformity assessment within regulatory notifications, including conformity assessment modules, PCO authority procedures, and DIN DKE specifications. It highlights the framework components that define how conformity is assessed and validated.
Represents modules of conformity assessment cited in regulatory notifications. It identifies the specific assessment components and procedures used to verify compliance.
PCO Authority Procedures
Category for PCO services and the associated authority procedures. It documents requirements where PCO-related processes are required to satisfy regulatory or procedural prerequisites.
DKE Specification
Specifications developed under the DKE procedural framework, aligned with DIN standardization processes. This category collects documents that define requirements and technical criteria according to formal DKE procedures.
Part B and Annex IV
Groups Part B concepts that explain measurements for parameters listed in Part A, including Part B of Annex IV and citations of non-conformity articles (Articles 6–10 and 12–14). It contains three subcategories: Part B Measurements, Part B of Annex IV, and Non-conformity Article Citations.
Part B Measurements
Part B explains how measurements for the parameters listed in Part A are obtained and interpreted. It provides the methodological notes and definitions that clarify the measurement process for Part B.
Part B of Annex IV
Represents the Part B section of Annex IV within the regulatory framework. This category groups provisions specific to Part B, distinguishing it from other parts of Annex IV or other annexes.
Non-conformity Article Citations
This category lists articles 6-10 and 12-14 that are cited as non-conformity reasons. It captures which specific articles are invoked to justify non-compliance findings, providing a link between non-conformities and applicable requirements.
Conformity Assessment Components
This category groups the core components of conformity assessment procedures, including the elements required by the applicable procedure and those specified in Annex IV Part B. It also encompasses robust conformity assessment practices essential for reliable outcomes.
Conformity Assessment Elements
This category covers the elements specified within a conformity assessment procedure. It identifies the component parts that comprise the official process used to determine conformity with applicable requirements.
Annex IV Part B Elements
This category captures the elements mandated in Part B of Annex IV that must be included. It identifies the specific items required for compliance under that annex.
Robust Conformity Assessment
This category covers methods and procedures designed to ensure conformity assessments remain reliable under varying conditions and uncertainties. It emphasizes resilience, risk-based planning, and rigorous validation to uphold standard compliance.
Screening Assessment Methodology
This category consolidates screening-level assessment methodologies for chemicals or materials. It also references the PAS procedure as a design context for DIN DKE SPEC development, linking general approaches with a procedure-based basis.
Outlines methodologies for rapid screening assessments of chemicals or materials. It references potential approaches described in Table 13 to guide initial hazard screening, exposure considerations, and risk prioritization.
PAS procedure
Represents the PAS procedure, cited as the basis for developing the DIN DKE SPEC. This category anchors standards development by linking the DIN DKE specification to the PAS workflow.
Quality Assurance and Due Diligence
This category groups modules related to conformity assessment of the production process and the management systems required to meet due diligence obligations. It includes Production Process Quality Assurance and Due Diligence Management System, linking quality control with regulatory compliance.
Production Process Quality Assurance
Represents the D1 module that governs quality assurance of the production process as a conformity assessment procedure. It outlines procedures and criteria to ensure production processes meet specified quality standards.
Due Diligence Management System
Represents the management system required to satisfy due diligence obligations under BattReg Article 49. It provides the governance, processes, and documentation framework needed to demonstrate regulatory compliance.
Annex VI Procedure & Manuals
This category groups concepts related to the Annex VI procedure for requesting European Technical Assessments (ETAs) and to spare-parts manuals. It describes the process for ETAs under Annex VI and the documentation that provides spare parts information.
Annex VI Procedure
This category covers the Annex VI procedure for requesting European technical assessments (ETAs) and for adopting a European assessment decision (EAD). It describes the procedural steps, required documentation, and the regulatory framework governing ETA processes at the European level.
Spare Parts Manuals
Identifies the designated manuals where spare parts information must be provided. The two prior manuals are the source for spare-parts data and related documentation.
Third-Party Assessment & Certification
Group of concepts around external conformity evaluation performed by independent bodies, including third-party tasks, verifications, and the issuance of certificates or validation reports. It also encompasses guarantees of origin in energy mix modelling and data-quality methods such as expert judgme
Conformity Assessment and PCO
Defines the bodies authorised to perform third-party conformity assessment tasks, including performance assessment and verification of environmental sustainability calculations under the regulation. The scope also covers related PCO procedures and PCO services referenced in TRICK objectives.
Conformity Assessment Body
An organization authorized to perform third-party tasks in the assessment and verification process. It conducts independent testing, inspection, or auditing to verify conformity to applicable standards and requirements.
Conformity Assessment Bodies
Entities authorized to perform independent third-party tasks under the Regulation. They conduct performance assessment, conformity assessment, and verification of environmental sustainability calculations.
PCO Procedures
Procedures established by the PCO and cited in TRICK objectives. This category collects formal authority procedures used to govern processes and ensure alignment with TRICK objectives.
PCO Service
This category encompasses services provided by a Professional Conference Organizer (PCO), referenced within the TRICK objectives. It includes planning, coordination, and logistical support for conferences and related events.
Third-Party Assessments
This category groups assessments and verifications performed by external bodies for conformity and compliance. It covers third-party conformity assessments, third-party verification by notified bodies, and evaluations of organizations and facilities as part of compliance and due-diligence processes.
Third-Party Conformity Assessments
Covers conformity assessment tasks carried out by external third-party bodies as provided for by delegated acts adopted pursuant to Article 4. It outlines the roles of these assessors, the scope of assessments, and the regulatory evidence generated to demonstrate compliance.
Third-Party Verification
Verification carried out by a notified body as part of the due diligence process, providing independent assessment of conformity. This external evaluation ensures objective verification by an external authority.
Organizational Assessment
Focuses on evaluating the effectiveness, structure, and performance of organizations. Includes methods, criteria, and practices for assessing organizational health, governance, and operations.
Facility Assessment
This category encompasses assessments of facilities to evaluate condition, safety, and regulatory compliance. It supports maintenance planning and decision-making by identifying needs and risks.
Third-Party Involvement
This category captures how external third parties interact with data and processes, including data access on behalf of end-users and the use of Pedigree Matrix concepts for data quality in LCA. It also encompasses subcontracting firms as organizational entities involved in activities, highlighting e
Third-Party Data Access
Categories describe intermediaries who access information on behalf of end-users. These actors retrieve or query data under user authorization to support services or information requests, raising privacy and security considerations that organizations must manage.
Pedigree Matrix in LCA
The Pedigree Matrix is a data quality framework used in life cycle assessment to characterize the quality of input data. It assesses attributes such as reliability, completeness, and temporal/geographical representativeness to support more informed interpretation of LCA results.
Subcontracting Firms
External firms or internal units that perform contracted activities for another company, such as cutting or sewing. These entities provide specialized production steps within a supply chain, differentiating them from primary manufacturers and general contractors.
Certification and Verification
This category covers references to certificates and validation reports issued by notified bodies and TABs. It also includes validation of manufacturers' environmental sustainability calculations and summaries of third-party verifications under Article 51.
Certification References
Captures references to official certificates or validation reports issued by notified bodies and TABs. These references support conformity verification and traceability of products, systems, or components.
Sustainability Calculations Validation
This category covers the verification of environmental sustainability calculations undertaken by manufacturers. It ensures the accuracy and credibility of metrics used in sustainability assessments, including emissions, energy use, and resource efficiency.
Article 51 Verifications Summary
This category contains summaries of third-party verifications carried out under Article 51, including the name of the notified body. It provides a concise overview of verification outcomes and the responsible notified body.
Conformity Certificates
This category centers on documents that certify product conformity and support traceability. It includes official Certificates of Conformity from AVS assessments and related certifications used as evidence of compliance and traceability.
Certificate of Conformity
Certificates issued after AVS product assessments, attesting that a product complies with AVS requirements. This documentation confirms conformity to applicable safety and regulatory criteria.
An official document indicating that a product or system complies with applicable standards and regulations. It provides evidence of conformity for regulatory approval, trade, and market access.
Certifications as Evidence
This category covers certifications that serve as evidence for traceability events, supporting provenance, quality assurance, and audits along the supply chain. These certifications act as verifiable records that verify origin, processing, and compliance.
Third-Party Verification and Expert Judgment
Combines external validation by third-party verifications with formal expert judgment to assess data quality. It covers verifications conducted by notified bodies under applicable regulations and the expert assessments used to inform data quality decisions.
This category concerns third-party verification of an entity's due diligence chains, conducted through a notified body in accordance with applicable Article provisions. It captures external validation of compliance by an independent authority rather than internal assessment.
Expert Judgment
Expert assessment used to evaluate data quality within data governance and quality assurance processes. It captures qualitative insights from domain specialists to supplement automated metrics.
Origin Guarantees & Certifications
This category covers data attributes for verifying energy origin, including Guarantees of Origin and third-party certifications from recognised schemes. It supports transparent reporting and modelling of energy mix by ensuring credible, independent assurances of energy provenance.
Guarantees of Origin
Guarantees of origin (GoOs) are certificates that verify the production origin of energy. In energy mix modelling, GoOs are referenced to quantify and attribute the share of each energy source in a dataset, supporting traceability, comparability, and policy compliance.
Third-Party Certifications
This category captures assurances provided by independent bodies that a product, process, or organization conforms to a recognized scheme. It covers certifications and attestations issued by accredited schemes, offering external validation of claimed standards. Use this to compare compliance across
Independent Third Party
Entities that act as independent third parties in processes, assessments, or negotiations. They are not affiliated with primary stakeholders and provide impartial evaluation, verification, or mediation.
Conformity Evidence and Documentation
Collects the documentation, data, and evidence used to verify conformity with the Regulation. It includes test methods and assessment approaches, test reports and results, documentary evidence, data sources (primary, secondary, proxy), and traceability records required for inspections and regulatory
Compliance Documentation & Evidence
Represents the regulatory documents and evidence required for verification, recognition, and monitoring under this Regulation and Union law. It encompasses compliance documentation, documentary evidence, destination authority certification, and digitally signed documents.
Documents and information required to demonstrate conformity with this Regulation or other EU law. This category includes declarations, certificates, reports, and records that must be produced or maintained to satisfy regulatory requirements.
Documentary Evidence
Documents and records that substantiate verification, recognition, and ongoing monitoring of compliance. This category specifies the documentary evidence necessary to prove conformity and support routine audits and assessments.
Destination Authority Certification
Official documentary evidence approved by the destination's competent authority, proving that the treatment occurred under conditions equivalent to those required by the regulation. This documentation is used to demonstrate regulatory compliance for cross-border processing.
Digitally Signed Documents
Documents issued with a digital signature to verify authorship and integrity. They provide authenticity, non-repudiation, and tamper-evidence for electronic records.
Conformity Assessment Methods
Group of concepts describing methods used to verify conformity, including approved test methods and the assessment method's suitability within harmonised standards. It also covers the test methods and the reference conditions required for measuring rated capacity and power capability.
Conformity Assessment Test Method
Describes the specific test methods employed to evaluate whether a product, process, or service meets specified standards during conformity assessment. Includes standardized, validated, or accepted procedures used to demonstrate compliance.
Inappropriate Assessment Method
This category groups assessment methods prescribed by harmonised standards or implementing acts that are not appropriate for the intended context. It identifies cases where the mandated method is unsuitable for the assessment purpose and may require alternative approaches.
Test Method and Reference Conditions
Defines the test method and reference conditions for measuring rated capacity. Establishes standardized procedures to ensure consistent and comparable measurement results.
Reference Conditions
Defines the standard environmental and test conditions used to measure power capability. Ensures consistency and comparability of results across tests by prescribing reference conditions.
Data Source Types
This category groups data that are not directly measured or collected, including secondary data from external sources, proxy data used when direct data are unavailable, and data reported as measured. These data source types influence data provenance and enable informed interpretation of data quality
Secondary Data
Data not collected directly for the project, sourced from external databases or other third-party sources. It is used when primary data are unavailable or impractical to obtain, and its provenance and quality should be documented.
Proxy Data
Proxy data are measurements used as substitutes when direct data are unavailable. They enable estimation and analysis by approximating the target variable, though they may introduce bias and uncertainty.
Reported as Measured
Attributes tagged as measured are observed values obtained from measurement processes. This category marks data attributes that should be treated as true measurements in downstream processing and analysis.
Test Reports and Results
This category groups battery-related test documentation and the results those tests produce. It includes general test reports and the findings used to demonstrate regulatory or standards compliance.
Test Report Results
Represents the outcomes documented in test reports, including results, measurements, and conclusions from testing activities. It encompasses pass/fail statuses and observed findings captured in formal documentation.
Battery Test Reports
Documents containing the results and analyses from battery performance testing. This category includes reports on capacity, cycle life, safety, and reliability across various battery chemistries.
Compliance Test Results
This category captures the outcomes documented in tests that demonstrate conformity to standards or requirements. It provides validated evidence that products, processes, or systems meet specified criteria.
Battery Test and Prep
This category collects results and documentation related to battery performance testing, examination and preparation operations including packing and shipment, and ohmic resistance data. It organizes three subtopics: Performance Test Results, Battery Preparation Operations, and Ohmic Resistance Info
Performance Test Results
Contains test results used to evaluate the performance of systems or components. This category includes benchmarks and metrics such as latency, throughput, reliability, and resource utilization referenced to assess performance.
Battery preparation operations
Processes involved in examining, testing, packing, and shipping batteries as part of preparation operations. Includes quality checks, performance assessments, and logistics handling to ready batteries for distribution.
Ohmic Resistance Information
Notes and requirements for reporting ohmic resistance data. Indicates that ohmic resistance information should be provided separately whenever possible, per battery regulation announcements.
Traceability Data and Evidence
This category covers the primary data used for traceability, the evidence files or footprints, and the original signed documents required for customs inspections. It groups materials that establish auditable provenance and archival traceability.
Primary Traceability Data
Represents the primary data used as evidence to support traceability events. This data serves as the canonical source for establishing lineage and auditing the traceability chain.
Evidence and Traceability
Contains real files or footprints that serve as evidence and record traceability for archival activities. These artifacts establish provenance, authenticity, and accountability across the preservation lifecycle.
Original and Signed Documents
This category encompasses documents that must be presented in original form and with signatures for customs inspections. It ensures authenticity and proper verification of paperwork during border controls.
Conformity Assessment Landscape
A high-level grouping of concepts governing how conformity assessment is planned, authorized, performed, and certified within regulatory systems. It covers procedures, authorities, bodies, independence, access to information, and certification processes across notifying and competent bodies, includi
Conformity Assessment Procedures
Group describing the procedures, modules, and activities used in conformity assessment, including how delegated acts influence the process. It aggregates descriptions of conformity assessment procedures and related activities to support product verification and compliance.
Describes the procedures used to determine conformity with applicable standards. Includes the steps and roles of personnel involved in evaluating products or services, and how tasks relate to the assessment process.
Conformity Assessment Procedure
This category covers the conformity assessment procedures for products subject to delegated acts, detailing the steps for testing, evaluation, and certification to demonstrate compliance with applicable regulations. It focuses on assessments carried out under delegated authority to ensure product sa
Conformity Assessment Activities
Describes the activities involved in conformity assessment. It references the conformity assessment modules that define the assessment process.
Notifying Authorities and Bodies
This category encompasses all entities that can notify or access the information system, including national notifying authorities, the European Commission, and non-governmental bodies. It consolidates Commission-related and other organizational actors involved in assessment, notification, or monitor
Notifying Authorities
Identifies the authorities designated to be notified and who have access to the information system. It defines which authorities are permitted access and may receive notifications during incidents or routine operations.
European Commission
The European Commission is the European Union's executive arm, responsible for proposing legislation, implementing decisions, and managing EU policies. In procedural contexts, it is the primary EU body referenced. This category collects references to the Commission as the procedural authority.
Non-governmental body
Represents the private, non-governmental entity named in paragraph 3 that is designated to conduct assessment, notification, or monitoring activities. This category groups organizations outside the government that perform oversight or reporting tasks as specified in the regulation.
Conformity Assessment Access
Covers conformity assessment activities carried out under notification and cross-border contexts, with access granted to regulatory bodies including notified bodies, market surveillance authorities, and the Commission. It groups related subtopics: Notified Conformity Assessments, Regulatory Audience
Notified Conformity Assessments
Conformity assessment activities conducted under notification requirements and involving cross-border operations. This category groups assessments performed to meet regulatory obligations and enable cross-border activities.
Regulatory Audience Access
Defines the audience that may access the information, specifying key regulatory actors. The audience includes Notified Bodies, Market Surveillance Authorities, and the Commission.
Regulatory Access Group
Defines the access group comprising notified bodies, market surveillance authorities, and the Commission.
Independence in Conformity Assessment
Covers the requirements and concepts for keeping conformity assessment bodies independent from the organisations or products they assess, safeguarding impartial judgment. Includes restrictions and guidelines to prevent conflicts of interest that could compromise independence.
Independent Conformity Assessment Bodies
Defines conformity assessment bodies that operate independently of the organisation or product they assess, ensuring objective evaluations. Emphasizes impartiality through governance and conflict-of-interest controls.
Independence Conflict Restrictions
Defines the language used to restrict activities that may compromise independence of judgment. This category captures policy wording that prohibits or limits actions to prevent conflicts of interest.
Conformity Assessment & Certification
This category groups the processes and documents used to verify product compliance with standards. It covers the conformity assessment process and the certificates issued to confirm conformity.
Certificates issued to verify that a product, process, or system complies with defined standards and regulatory requirements. They document the outcome of a conformity assessment and are used to demonstrate compliance to authorities, customers, and markets.
Conformity assessment
This category covers the process used to determine whether products conform to applicable standards and regulatory requirements, including the methods and tests used to verify conformity. It includes assessment procedures, testing, inspection, and certification activities.
Notified and Certification Bodies
This category covers the organizations that perform conformity assessment activities, including Notified Bodies designated for regulatory verifications and Certification Bodies that issue conformity certificates. It groups entities involved in validating compliance with standards and regulatory requ
Notified Bodies
Notified Bodies are organizations designated by EU Member States to carry out conformity assessments under Article 51 verifications. This category captures their roles, responsibilities, and processes in evaluating product compliance before market release.
Certification Body
An organization authorized to verify that products, processes, or management systems meet specified standards. It conducts audits, issues certificates, and may oversee accreditation activities for other certification bodies.
National Information Platforms
This category covers how Member States act as information-platform providers for operators and the designation of a notifying authority responsible for establishing and carrying out the required regulatory procedures.
Member States as Information Platforms
Member States act as actors that may establish information platforms for operators. These platforms provide centralized information resources and infrastructure to support operator activities and regulatory compliance.
Notifying Authority
The Notifying Authority is the official body designated by Member States to establish and carry out the required notification procedures within the policy framework.
Certificate and Certification Bodies
This category groups terms related to certificates issued to facilities and the organizations that certify them. It includes Facility Certificates and Certification Bodies as subcategories.
Facility Certificates
This category groups certificates issued to facilities. They serve as official attestations of compliance, authorization, or verification of facility-related requirements.
This category covers terms referring to organizations authorized to issue certifications and perform accreditation. It describes bodies that assess conformity to standards and oversee certification programs.
Conformity Documentation and Certification
This category collects documents and declarations used to demonstrate a product's compliance with regulatory requirements, including EU Declarations of Conformity, Declarations of Performance, CE marking, and related certificates. It also encompasses certification metadata and provisions related to
Declarations for Compliance
A category covering official documents that declare product performance, conformity, and overall regulatory compliance. It includes declarations of performance, declarations of conformity, and combined performance/conformity declarations.
Declaration of Performance
The Declaration of Performance (DoP) is an official document that declares a product's performance characteristics for regulatory compliance. It ties declared performance to standards and essential requirements, serving as a key artifact in conformity assessment for products such as construction mat
Declaration of performance and conformity
This category covers the Declaration of Performance (DoP) and conformity statements required by Article 15 of the regulation. It includes the information specified in Article 15(6) and serves as the official attestation of a product’s essential characteristics before market entry.
Declaration of Conformity
This category covers the Declaration of Conformity, the regulatory document referenced in Article 18. It is accessible via a QR code. It certifies that a product complies with applicable standards and regulatory requirements.
EU Declaration of Conformity
This category covers EU-level declarations of conformity used to demonstrate that products comply with EU regulations and harmonisation legislation. It includes the EU Declaration of Conformity and its identifier, grouping the core declaration concept with its EU-specific variants.
This category covers statements asserting that an object complies with the applicable EU regulation, including any delegated acts under Article 4 and applicable Union harmonisation legislation.
The EU Declaration of Conformity is the formal document issued by a manufacturer to declare that a product complies with applicable EU directives and essential requirements. It provides evidence of conformity used to market the product within the European Union.
EU Declaration of Conformity ID
Represents the unique identifier assigned to the EU Declaration of Conformity, the document that attests a product's conformity with applicable EU directives. This ID enables reference, verification, and traceability of conformity assessments.
IP & Certification Metadata
This category aggregates metadata on protection of trade secrets and intellectual property rights, certificate attributes, and the battery's EU declaration of conformity identifier. It supports governance and verification workflows for access control and conformity data.
Trade Secrets & IP Protection
This category covers mechanisms and policies for safeguarding confidential information, including trade secrets and intellectual property rights, particularly with regard to access to information. It includes access controls, confidentiality obligations, and legal protections against unauthorized di
Certificate Attributes
This category defines the attributes of a certificate, capturing metadata and properties that describe the certificate in the system. It groups the characteristics associated with a certificate for consistent representation and querying.
Battery DoC Identifier
Captures the unique identification number of the EU Declaration of Conformity (DoC) for a battery. This attribute enables traceability and verification of regulatory compliance for the product.
This category groups official documents and prerequisites used to prove regulatory compliance in sustainability data collection. It covers certification requirements and declarations of conformity, including the EU Declaration of Conformity.
Certification Requirements
This category covers the prerequisite criteria and standards that sustainability data collection must satisfy to achieve external certification. It includes metrics, reporting standards, and verification criteria used by certifying bodies.
This category represents the EU Declaration of Conformity, the document that declares compliance with applicable EU requirements and assigns responsibility to the manufacturer or authorized representative. It is a key artifact for CE marking, indicating that the product meets the relevant directives
This category covers documents and data attributes related to conformity declarations and the scope of conformity certificates. It includes declarations issued under the sole responsibility of the manufacturer and the concept of certificate scope, with two child categories: Manufacturer's Declaratio
Manufacturer's Declaration of Conformity
Represents statements that a declaration of conformity is issued by the manufacturer, who bears sole responsibility for compliance with applicable directives and standards.
Certificate scope
This category represents the scope attribute of certificates. It describes the intended usage and applicability boundaries of a certificate as a data attribute.
Conformity and CE Marking
Represents key facets of regulatory conformity: the presumption of conformity for notified bodies and the CE marking that indicates compliance with essential requirements. This category groups concepts that signal that a product or system meets applicable standards through formal assessment and mark
Presumption of Conformity
Represents the regulatory assumption that conformity is established for notified bodies that meet defined criteria. It explains the basis, scope, and role of these bodies in establishing and maintaining the presumption of conformity in assessment processes.
CE Marking
CE marking indicates that a product complies with applicable EU requirements and may be sold in the European market. It is affixed to products to demonstrate conformity with health, safety, and environmental standards defined by relevant directives and regulations. Manufacturers are responsible for
A required document that manufacturers supply to declare a product's performance characteristics and conformity with applicable standards and regulations. It supports traceability and regulatory compliance.
This category covers the EU declaration of conformity for each battery model. It identifies the specific battery model and confirms compliance with applicable EU directives. The declaration should be kept with the product documentation.
Certificates and Credentials
A category for formal documents and digital attestations that certify achievements, qualifications, or entitlements. It includes various types of certificates used for verification, authentication, and proof of competency.
Proof of Conformity
This category captures the proof of conformity referenced in battery passport labeling. It represents evidence that a battery complies with applicable safety, performance, and regulatory standards.
Ecodesign Assessment Methods
Consolidates methods and resources used to verify ecodesign compliance, including calculation requirements, test/measurement methods, and the assessment procedures and equipment needed for performance verification. It also addresses audit reports and verification methodologies, the roles of economic
Testing and Production Methods
This category groups test, measurement, and calculation methods alongside prescribed TestPlans and the lists of manufacturing steps used to produce a product. It supports planning, executing, and documenting testing and production workflows within manufacturing operations.
Testing and Measurement Methods
This category covers methods used for testing, measuring, and calculating properties or outcomes. It organizes the procedures and approaches researchers use to obtain quantitative or qualitative results in analysis and experiments.
Sample Test Plan
Represents a predefined testing protocol used for sampling operations. It defines the steps and criteria for conducting tests on samples according to a prescribed plan.
Process Step List
Represents the ordered collection of manufacturing operations required to fabricate a product. It defines the sequence and scope of steps in the production process.
Manufacturing Process Steps
Represents the sequence of manufacturing operations required to produce a product. Each item reflects an activity performed in the facility to transform inputs into finished goods.
Article 48 Operators and Audits
This category groups concepts tied to Article 48 of the regulation, distinguishing the economic operator referred to in Article 48(1) from the audit reports referred to in Article 48(2). It provides a structured space for organizing related concepts and audit documentation, with three child categori
Economic Operator (Art 48(1))
Represents the economic operator as defined by Article 48(1) of the applicable regulation. This category identifies entities that qualify as economic operators for procurement purposes under that article.
Audit Reports Article 48(2)
This category includes the audit reports referred to in Article 48(2) of the regulation. It documents the set of documents cited by that article and supports compliance and oversight processes.
Miscellaneous
Mixed concepts.
Ecodesign Verification & Cessation
This category collects test, measurement and calculation methods used to verify ecodesign conformity, including other reliable and reproducible methods beyond harmonised standards. It also covers the detailed technical and verification requirements needed to determine cessation of waste status.
Ecodesign Verification Methods
Methods for verifying that products meet ecodesign requirements through testing, measurement, and calculation. This category covers conformity assessment procedures and calculation-based compliance checks used in design and evaluation.
Alternative validated methods
These methods are reliable, accurate, and reproducible alternatives to harmonised standards. They may be used when harmonised standards are unavailable or not applicable.
Cessation of Waste Status
This category collects the detailed technical and verification requirements to cease waste status. It outlines the criteria, documentation, testing, and validation steps required to reclassify waste as non-waste.
Calculation Methods in Ecodesign
Consolidates key calculation concepts used in ecodesign assessments, including general calculation requirements, the methodology for calculating and verifying material percentage shares, and the Rincrease(x) formula for aging-related resistance changes. This category serves as a parent for three foc
Calculation Requirements
Specifies the applicable calculation requirements used in ecodesign assessment. It covers methodologies, inputs, and standards for evaluating environmental performance.
Percentage Share Methodology
Outlines methods for calculating and verifying the percentage shares of metals such as cobalt, lithium, nickel, and lead in materials. Covers data collection, calculation rules, and validation procedures to ensure accurate reporting and quality control across mining, refining, and battery supply cha
Internal Resistance Increase
This category contains formulas describing how internal resistance increases as a function of an aging parameter x. It defines the Rincrease(x) relationship used to model aging effects on resistance.
Means and Equipment
Category of the means and equipment used for performance assessment and operational tasks. It includes both assessment tools and general equipment, and it covers battery passport requirements for internal resistance information.
Assessment Tools and Equipment
This category covers the instruments, devices, and other implements used to conduct performance assessments and evaluations.
Tools and Equipment
This category covers the tools, machinery, and facilities required to perform tasks and operations. It encompasses tangible assets used to carry out work activities, including equipment, tools, and supporting infrastructure.
Internal Resistance in Battery Passport
This category specifies that battery passports must include internal resistance information. It standardizes how resistance is reported to support performance evaluation, aging tracking, and safety assessments.
Assessment and LCA Methods
This category groups approaches used to assess products and processes, including LCA-based methodologies referenced in PEF and harmonised specifications. It contains two subcategories: Assessment Methods and PEF LCA Methodologies, which organize specific techniques for evaluation.
Assessment Methods
This category groups assessment methods described in harmonised technical specifications, where such methods exist. When available, these methods define how compliance or performance should be evaluated.
PEF LCA Methodologies
This category captures the Life Cycle Assessment methods referenced within the Product Environmental Footprint framework. It encompasses the approaches approved or cited for assessing environmental impacts in PEF studies, guiding data requirements and impact interpretation.
Battery Conformity Testing
This category groups conformity assessment modules, test methods, data requirements, and AVS procedures used to confirm battery-related products meet regulatory requirements. It includes reference conditions, C-rate concepts, and standardized testing (e.g., M/579) to produce test reports and demonst
C-rate and Charge/Discharge Rates
Defines how discharge and charge rates are expressed using C-rate terminology, including charging-specific rates and cycle-life contexts. It links applied rates to the rated capacity and supports evaluation of battery performance.
Discharge and Charge Rates
This category captures the external application of energy storage rates during discharging and charging. It differentiates how discharge and charge rates are imposed and managed in tests or operation, informing models of battery behavior and system performance.
Battery C-rate
C-rate is the charge/discharge rate of a battery relative to its rated capacity. It is usually expressed as a multiple of capacity (such as 1C or 0.5C) and informs performance, charging time, and safety considerations.
Charging C-rate
Defines the C-rate concept used to express charging speed for batteries. It covers how C-rate is defined and interpreted, with general examples and its impact on charging time and battery health, and notes that exact numeric values may be provided in separate documentation.
Cycle-Life C-rate
C-rate is the measurement parameter describing the applied charge and discharge rate used in cycle-life tests. This parameter influences rate-dependent aging and degradation results in batteries.
Battery Model Testing Standards
Defines standardized references for evaluating battery models, including reference conditions and test methods aligned with M/579. This category links Battery model reference, Reference Conditions, and Test Methods Standardization to promote consistency across model evaluations.
Battery model reference
Specifies the battery model to which capacity fade information applies. This category ensures that capacity fade data is referenced to the correct model for accurate analysis and simulation.
This category encompasses the reference conditions used to determine values. It defines the baseline conditions—such as temperature, pressure, and humidity—under which measurements are taken to enable consistent interpretation and comparison of results.
Test Methods Standardization
Contains test methods and reference conditions that are under the standardization process M/579. It highlights formalized methods and reference settings to ensure consistency and comparability across laboratories.
Conformity Assessment
This category groups the elements used to demonstrate product conformity under the regulation, including choosing the assessment module, providing information to demonstrate conformity, and compiling test reports proving compliance.
Conformity Assessment Module
Represents the conformity assessment module to be used in the process. It also captures factors to consider if an alternative module is chosen.
Conformity Information Provision
This category covers the tasks involved in providing information and documentation to demonstrate product conformity when requested. It includes assembling regulatory evidence and compliance documents.
Conformity Test Reports
Documents presenting test results that demonstrate compliance with the requirements of this Regulation. These reports provide evidence that a product or process meets regulatory standards and can support conformity assessment and verification.
Assessment Requirements and Data
This category covers the regulatory requirements specified in paragraphs 2 to 12 of article 52 for conformity assessment bodies, as well as the minimum data requirements defined by the data model. It links the framework for conformity assessment with the essential data prerequisites used across modu
Covers the requirements for conformity assessment bodies as defined in Article 52, paragraphs 2 through 12. It outlines the criteria and obligations these bodies must meet to operate under the regulation.
Minimum Data Requirements
Defines the essential data elements and attributes mandated by the data model. It establishes the baseline information required for interoperability and validation.
AVS and Conformity Assessments
This category covers the Assessment and Verification System (AVS) as set out in Annex IX and the use of proportionate conformity assessments to tailor compliance to risk and context.
AVS Annex IX
This category encompasses the Assessment and Verification System (AVS) as defined in Annex IX. It captures regulatory references to the AVS and its role within the framework.
Proportionate Conformity Assessments
Conformity assessments carried out in a proportionate manner, scaling effort to risk, size, and impact. This approach optimizes resources while maintaining appropriate assurance.
Test Methods & Standards
This category covers methods for testing, measurement, and calculation as described in Article 39, along with the standards and methodologies used to perform evaluations. It links Article 39 procedures with formal test measurement standards.
Article 39 Methods
This category encompasses the test, measurement, and calculation methods defined in Article 39. It groups concepts related to the methodologies used for quantitative assessment under that article.
Test Measurement Standards
Defines the standards and methods used for testing, measurement, and calculations. This category ensures consistency, accuracy, and traceability of results across applications.
Test Methods and Reference Conditions
This category specifies the test methods and reference conditions used to assess battery remaining capacity, covering both non-cycle applications and measurement-focused procedures. It highlights how factors like C-rate and temperature influence capacity measurements. The two child subcategories det
Outlines the test methods and reference conditions used for evaluation. It specifies that non-cycle applications and battery systems should be treated separately in testing and referencing.
This category specifies standardized test methods and the reference environmental conditions used for measuring remaining capacity, including C-rate and temperature. It guides how measurements should be conducted to ensure comparability across tests and datasets.
Ecodesign Conformity & Surveillance
This category consolidates methods and procedures for assessing and verifying ecodesign requirements, including conformity assessment, testing, and ongoing monitoring. It also encompasses market surveillance, safeguarding procedures, and related audit principles to ensure products remain compliant a
Battery Testing and Assembly
This category groups processes and roles involved in battery testing and assembly before market release. It includes pre-market audit testing, on-site assembly and testing for certain battery types, and independent professionals who may remove or replace batteries under specified exceptions.
Pre-Market Audit Testing
Audit testing of samples collected before a product is placed on the market. This category ensures regulatory compliance and quality verification prior to market release.
On-Site Assembly and Testing
Batteries in this category must be assembled and tested at the installation site due to size, safety, or handling constraints. These requirements preclude on-site shipping of fully assembled units and necessitate site-specific preparation before deployment.
Independent Battery Technician
An independent professional who may remove or replace batteries under specific derogations. This category covers individuals authorized to perform battery servicing outside standard licensing, subject to conditions.
Market Surveillance and Customs
This category groups concepts related to monitoring market compliance and the authorities that oversee it. It also covers the data and documentation requirements tied to customs inspections.
Market Surveillance
Market surveillance is the ongoing monitoring of market activities and participants to ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations. It aims to detect non-compliance and enable enforcement actions to maintain market integrity and protect consumers.
Market Surveillance Authority
A government or designated agency that assesses whether products comply with applicable safety and regulatory requirements. When risks are identified, it can require corrective actions, impose enforcement measures, or mandate recalls to protect public safety.
Customs Inspection Requirements
This category captures the data and documentation requirements associated with customs inspections. It covers forms, declarations, permits, manifest details, and supporting papers needed to comply with inspection procedures.
Compliance, Surveillance & Traceability
This category encompasses regulatory compliance concerns, market surveillance and safeguard procedures, and the traceability framework used to collect sustainability data across supply chains.
Non-compliant Products
This category comprises products that fail to meet applicable regulations and safety standards. It covers items subjected to enforcement actions, recalls, or corrective measures due to non-compliance.
Market Surveillance and Safeguards
Defines the procedures for monitoring markets and applying safeguards as described in Chapter VIII. It covers surveillance activities, enforcement actions, and risk mitigation to ensure product safety and market integrity.
Sustainability Traceability
Defines the core process for capturing traceability and sustainability data across the supply chain. This enables transparency, regulatory compliance, and performance monitoring of sustainability initiatives.
Ecodesign Assessment & Compliance
This category groups methods for assessing ecodesign requirements and the overall assessment and verification framework described in standardisation requests. It also covers the compliance obligations for manufacturers and importers under Articles 22/24.
Ecodesign assessment methods
This category documents the methods used to assess and determine ecodesign requirements. It focuses on evaluation techniques for setting appropriate ecodesign criteria.
Article 22/24 Compliance
This category covers the compliance requirements imposed on manufacturers and importers under Article 22(5)/(7) and Article 24(6). It outlines responsibilities, required documentation, reporting duties, and ongoing conformity obligations.
Assessment and Verification System
A framework for evaluating product performance and confirming conformity with standardisation requests. It defines methods for testing, validation, and verification to demonstrate compliance.
Final Conformity and Monitoring
This category encompasses the final stage of conformity evaluation and the ongoing post-approval monitoring of conformity. It includes the final conformity assessment and the systematic monitoring activities that verify continued compliance after approval.
Final Conformity Assessment
This category encompasses the final evaluation of a product, process, or system against applicable standards and regulatory requirements. It documents evidence, criteria, and the decision outcome, signaling readiness for release, certification, or deployment.
Post-Approval Conformity Monitoring
This category encompasses the ongoing monitoring of conformity after an approval decision. It involves continual verification, data collection, and evaluation to ensure sustained compliance, with triggers for corrective actions when deviations are detected.
Conformity Assessment and Claims
This category covers the planning phase of the Generic Traceability Process related to conformity assessment. It includes deciding which conformity assessment activities to notify and selecting the claims and verification methods to support, with links to notifications and the scope of claims and ve
Conformity Assessment Notifications
This category covers conformity assessment activities that must be notified to regulatory authorities. It specifies which activities require notification and the details to include in the notification.
Claims and Verification Scope
Defines which product claims will be supported and the verification methods to be used. This is the first step in the Generic Traceability Process.
OECD & BPA Audit Principles
This category combines OECD audit principles with the BPA methodology for sustainability and circularity in supply chains, aligned to the UNECE approach. It emphasizes independence, competence, and accountability in audits while applying BPA methods to assess circularity across supply networks.
OECD Audit Principles
This category captures the OECD's core principles for audits, emphasizing independence, competence, and accountability. These principles support integrity, objectivity, and high-quality auditing across public and private sector engagements.
BPA for Circular Supply Chains
Describes the BPA methodology for promoting sustainability and circularity in supply chains. It notes how this BPA approach is referenced within UNECE's framework for sustainable supply-chain governance.
Conformity Assessments and EU Documents
Contains concepts and documents related to conformity assessments and European assessment documents, including related annexes, indicators, PEF/LCAs, and information availability. It covers study documents and cross-references used to demonstrate compliance with regulatory requirements.
Assessment and PEF Study Documents
This category gathers documents that report the results of environmental studies, including lifecycle assessment (LCA) studies and Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) studies. It encompasses both the study reports and the underlying data or datasets produced during analysis.
Assessment Study Documents
Final documents produced from assessment studies (such as LCA studies), which may pertain to a component or a product. They summarize the methodology, results, and interpretation of the assessment to support decision making and environmental evaluation.
PEF Study Document
A document representing a PEF study, encompassing the data set produced by an analysis tool and the resulting study report. It can serve as both the raw dataset and the published analysis report.
European Assessment Document
The European Assessment Document (EAD) is a European technical assessment document (ETA) used as the basis for product-type and category decisions within European regulatory and conformity assessment processes. This node groups synonyms and related documentation that support the classification and a
Represents the European assessment document used as the basis for determining product types and categories. It serves as the regulatory reference guiding classification decisions across products.
A European Assessment Document (ETA) is a European technical assessment used to demonstrate the conformity of construction products when harmonized standards are not applicable. It provides a formal framework for evaluating performance aspects and issuing conformity judgments under EU rules.
Annex III Parameters and References
This category gathers Annex III electrochemical performance and durability parameters and the cross references that include the source information for those requirements. It links the parameter specifications to their regulatory sources and groups related electrochemical parameters with their refere
Annex III Electrochemical Parameters
Represents Annex III, the regulatory annex that enumerates electrochemical performance and durability parameters referenced by the regulation. This category groups the metrics and criteria used for compliance and assessment of electrochemical devices.
Performance and Durability References
This category captures cross-references that include the source information for performance and durability requirements. It supports traceability by linking requirements to their originating documents or sources.
Category covering conformity assessments and European assessment documents used to demonstrate compliance with regulatory standards in the European market. It links assessment processes with the specific European documents that reference or define conformity criteria across sectors.
Conformity Assessments
Conformity assessments evaluate whether products, services, or management systems comply with applicable standards and regulatory requirements. This category encompasses testing, inspection, certification, and auditing activities used to verify conformity before market entry or during ongoing operat
European Assessment Documents
Documents used in Europe that are referenced to determine conformity with regulatory criteria. These assessment documents support verification that products, processes, or systems meet European standards.
Indicators and Calculations
Represents the reporting of sustainability indicators, including the declaration of indicator results and the list of calculated indicators from the assessment. It describes how results and references are presented to stakeholders to inform decision making.
Indicators Declaration
This category covers the declaration of sustainability indicators used in assessments, presenting the indicators along with the references or standards that underpin them. It ensures transparent reporting of which indicators were used and how they are referenced.
Calculated Indicators
A collection of indicators that have been computed as part of the sustainability assessment. Each item represents a metric derived from data analysis used to evaluate sustainability performance.
Sustainability Documentation
This category groups documents produced during sustainability assessments, including indicators declarations and assessment studies. It provides a place to store and reference outcomes from sustainability reporting and metric development.
Sustainability Indicators Declaration
A document that presents the results of sustainability indicators assessment. It serves as a formal declaration of measured indicators and their assessment outcomes.
Assessment Study Document
A document used in the data gathering phase for an assessment study. It captures objectives, methods, and results of the assessment to evaluate a system or process. It serves as evidence for data-driven decision making.
Information Availability
Covers the process of making information available under Article 76 and the four attributes used to describe disclosures. It groups the subtopics Information Disclosure and Four Attributes, outlining how information should be disclosed and described.
Information Disclosure
Covers the process of making information available in accordance with Article 76, emphasizing transparency, accessibility, and timely disclosure. It frames obligations and best practices for releasing information to stakeholders.
Four Attributes
This category centers on the four attributes introduced, which relate to multiple information sets within the Transpa framework. It organizes how these attributes conceptually connect to different pieces of information.
Performance Thresholds and Traceability
Group of concepts dealing with declaring product performance, establishing reporting thresholds, and ensuring traceability and data gathering for regulatory compliance. It covers methods and criteria for assessment, threshold values (e.g., 0.1% w/w for SVHC, 1% w/w for reporting), and annexes and gu
Performance Information
This category consolidates performance-related requirements, the class of performance, and declared performance values as presented on product labels and documentation. It captures how performance is defined, classified, and communicated to users.
Performance Requirements
Specifies performance-related requirements for product parameters, defining the expected levels or thresholds that a product must meet. These criteria support testing, validation, and acceptance of product performance.
Class of Performance
Defines the performance class as a discrete tier communicated on product labels. It captures the level of performance that the label conveys, enabling comparison across products.
Declared Performance Values
Captures the product's performance as officially declared, whether expressed as calculated values, rating levels, classes, or descriptive statements. It covers performance metrics provided by the manufacturer rather than external measurements.
Reporting Thresholds
A category of regulatory thresholds used to determine when substances must be reported. It includes article-based thresholds (Article 5(5)), mass concentration limits (e.g., 1% w/w), and SVHC reporting limits (0.1% w/w).
Article 5(5) Thresholds
Threshold levels established under Article 5(5) are regulatory cutoffs that national laws and regulations must respect when implementing the framework. This category encompasses the mandated threshold values specified by Article 5(5).
Mass Concentration Threshold
Defines a regulatory threshold for reporting materials based on mass concentration (1% w/w). This category identifies substances that meet or exceed the 1% w/w criterion and supports consistent reporting decisions.
SVHC Reporting Threshold
Defines the regulatory threshold for reporting Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC) under REACH. The threshold is 0.1% weight by weight (w/w), determining when a substance requires reporting.
Assessment and Traceability
This category brings together standards-based assessment methods and criteria, guidelines for traceability and sustainability data collection, and the TRICK Technical Pilot. It provides a unified framework for evaluation, data gathering, and documentation within the TRICK program.
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Defines the methods and criteria specified in standards or common specifications for assessing and declaring conformity. It covers evaluation procedures and decision rules used to determine compliance and characteristics.
Traceability Data Guidelines
Guidelines and best practices for collecting data used to support traceability and sustainability assessments. It defines data types, collection methods, data quality criteria, and documentation requirements to enable reliable traceability across supply chains.
TRICK Technical Pilot
Represents a pilot labeled 'TRICK Technical pilot' as shown in Figure A.2. This category captures the designation of a technical-pilot role within the TRICK framework for labeling and reference.
Annexes and Thresholds
This category collects regulatory annex references that define data attributes and CRM reporting thresholds. It maps Annex A, Table A.1 and Annex VI Part A(10) to the corresponding guidance, organized under Data Attributes Annex and CRM Reporting Thresholds.
Data Attributes Annex
This annex provides a detailed overview of all data attributes referenced in the document. It expands on attribute definitions and characteristics to support precise understanding.
CRM Reporting Thresholds
Represents the regulatory sub-clause Annex VI Part A(10) defining the reporting threshold for CRMs. It establishes criteria triggering reporting obligations for CRM-related activities and holdings.
Definition Criteria
Definition Criteria comprises the values or metrics used as the basis for a decision, such as reference standards or class performance. It identifies the evaluative criteria that determine outcomes and judgments in decision-making. This category groups the criteria that guide how decisions are made.
Verification and Certification
This category encompasses verification processes, assessments, and third-party reports that establish product conformity. It also covers certification schemes (e.g., SA8000, GRS), electronic signatures, on-board detection, and the management and reassessment of certifications when changes affect con
SA8000 Certification & Management
Contains concepts related to SA8000 certification as a goal of data collection and the systems that support certification management within the traceability framework. It covers certification requirements and the processes/tools used to manage and maintain compliance.
SA8000 Certification
Focuses on data collected to support SA8000 certification, guiding evidence and metrics used to demonstrate compliance with worker rights and workplace standards. This category covers information used to verify social accountability during certification processes.
Certification Management Support
Provides support for overseeing certification processes within a traceability system. Enables tracking, renewal, verification, and workflow management of certifications.
Third-Party Verifications and Reports
This category groups verifications performed by external entities and the corresponding verification reports. It covers both the act of third-party verifications and the associated Third-Party Verification Reports (e.g., those issued under Article 51(2)).
Third-Party Verification Reports
Documents prepared by independent verification bodies to confirm information or compliance, issued under Article 51(2). This category collects third-party verification reports used for regulatory or audit purposes.
Third-Party Verifications
Verifications conducted by an independent entity outside the operator. These assessments provide objective validation, helping ensure compliance, safety, and quality without internal bias.
Grouping for processes around confirming product conformity, including reassessment triggered by changes. It also covers the general assessments and verifications that validate ongoing compliance.
Reassessment Process
This category defines the procedures for reassessment when product changes may affect conformity. It specifies when reassessment must be initiated, who is responsible, what documentation is needed, and how the final decision is documented.
Assessments and Verifications
This category encompasses tasks referred to as 'assessments and verifications' that evaluate accuracy, quality, and compliance. It includes activities such as audits, validations, checks, and reviews to confirm that standards and requirements are met.
Electronic Signatures and On-board Detection
This middle-level category groups concepts related to electronic signatures and on-board machine detection, highlighting how digital signatures authenticate documents and how on-device evidence supports transformation verification. It serves as a bridge between regulatory electronic signing and devi
Electronic Signatures
Covers signatures used to validate electronic documents under regulatory frameworks. It focuses on legally recognized digital signatures and their compliance requirements.
On-board Machine Detection
Represents evidence generated by machine detection performed within the device itself. It focuses on device-level detection signals and their role as transformation evidence in data processing.
Verification Processes
Techniques and workflows for confirming the truth, accuracy, and validity of information, claims, or systems. This category covers the methods and criteria used to perform verification and establish reliability.
Verification Criteria
Defines the criteria used to verify compliance with certifications and standards (e.g., SA8000, GRS). These criteria guide audits, attestations, and certification decisions.
GRS Certification
This category covers verification and certification under the Global Recycle Standard (GRS), documenting recycled content and compliance with environmental and social criteria. It includes third-party certification processes and labeling that attest to product sustainability.
Regulatory Information and Compliance
Top-level category capturing regulatory obligations, information flows, and compliance activities across battery-related governance. It encompasses product information requirements, cooperation with authorities, and the roles of manufacturers and economic operators, forming the umbrella for subcateg
Regulatory Information & Engagement
This category groups governance and information obligations in battery regulation, including product information disclosures, availability of performance declarations, advisory procedures, and due-diligence reporting. It also covers stakeholder engagement, supplier data disclosure, grievance mechani
Procedural Guidance and Decisions
This category covers procedural guidance and decision-support mechanisms used in regulatory actions. It includes advisory procedures, corrective action planning, grievance mechanisms, decision rules amid uncertainty, and guidance on accepting or refusing requests.
Advisory Procedure
An advisory procedure is the regulatory process by which implementing acts are adopted, typically following input from an advisory body. This mechanism is referenced in Article 90(2) and involves advisory input rather than a full legislative vote.
Draft Corrective Action Plan
A preliminary plan submitted by the producer or a Producer Responsibility Organization outlining corrective actions needed to achieve collection targets and remedy performance gaps. This category captures planning artifacts used in compliance and environmental stewardship processes.
Grievance Mechanisms
This category covers processes for reporting, assessing, and resolving stakeholder concerns. It includes an early-warning risk-awareness component and a remediation mechanism to address and close issues.
Decision Rules and Uncertainty
This category covers the decision rules used and how uncertainty is addressed in the later evaluation stage. It examines how probabilistic inputs influence outcomes and the implications for decision paths.
Request Decision Guidance
Provides guidance on evaluating incoming requests and deciding whether to accept or refuse them. It highlights criteria and recommended actions for handling such requests.
Product Information Disclosure
Group of requirements governing what product information must be offered and who may access digital product passport data. It also covers downstream access to third-party reports and disclosure to commercial partners.
Product Offer Information
This category covers information that must be disclosed with a product under market regulations. It includes mandatory disclosures to consumers, such as labeling, usage instructions, safety notices, warranties, and other information required at the point of sale.
Clients and Stakeholders
This category covers people or organizations designated as clients or stakeholders who may access digital product passport information. It identifies the audience authorized to view product passport data, such as buyers, suppliers, auditors, and other involved parties.
Downstream Operators Access to Reports
This category covers the ability of downstream supply-chain operators to access third-party verification reports via supplier portals. Access enables transparency and informed decision-making across the chain.
Disclosures to Partners
Defines the policy for disclosing information to any commercial partner. This category provides an option to share data broadly with all eligible business partners under governance controls.
Prioritisation, Planning and Consultation
Covers processes for prioritising activities, planning actions, and consulting with international partners and stakeholders to shape risk mitigation strategies. It includes open dialogues among suppliers, subcontractors and B2B customers to support transparent information sharing and collaborative d
This category covers the processes of identifying priorities, coordinating planning activities, and engaging stakeholders through consultation. It provides a framework for orderly decision-making and resource allocation to support strategic actions.
Open dialogue with international partners
Engagement with international partners to incorporate their views when developing technical specifications. Promotes transparency and inclusive input in standard-setting processes.
Stakeholder Consultation
This category captures the process of engaging suppliers and stakeholders before defining a risk mitigation strategy. It emphasizes gathering input to inform measurable risk objectives and aligning expectations across participants. It supports transparent, collaborative decision-making in risk manag
Supplier-Customer Dialogues
Dialogues enabling selective data disclosure between suppliers, subcontractors, and B2B customers. This category covers conversations and exchange mechanisms that govern what information is disclosed, to whom, and under what conditions in business-to-business relationships.
DOP Availability and Due Diligence
This category covers the availability of the Declaration of Performance under Article 16(2), information obligations under Regulation (EU) 2024/3110, and the battery due diligence duties on economic operators. It also highlights that economic operators must be informed of implementing acts.
Declaration of Performance Availability
This category captures the availability and accessibility of the Declaration of Performance (DoP) and related conformity information under Article 16(2). It describes regulatory expectations for ensuring the DoP is readily available to authorities and other stakeholders.
Information Obligations
This category encompasses obligations to provide information as required by Regulation (EU) 2024/3110. It covers who must disclose information, what information must be disclosed, and the timing and manner of disclosure to relevant authorities.
Relevant Economic Operators
Identifies the economic operators in the battery market who must be informed of implementing acts. These stakeholders are the recipients of official regulatory communications.
Battery Due Diligence
Represents regulatory obligations that require economic operators to perform due diligence on batteries within their supply chains, ensuring compliance with applicable battery-related rules.
Supplier Data Disclosure Activation
This category covers data related to suppliers that are disclosed and the activation phase that governs when this data becomes accessible. It links the supplier activation process with disclosure timing to support governance, transparency, and controlled access to supplier information.
Disclosed Suppliers Data
Represents the dataset containing information on suppliers that have been disclosed and become accessible after the activation phase. This data supports transparency, auditability, and supplier verification once activation is complete.
Supplier Activation Phase
The phase in the supplier lifecycle during which activation occurs, determining when supplier data is disclosed to internal systems and stakeholders. It governs access rights and initial data exposure during onboarding.
Stakeholder Engagement and Identification
Addresses how to engage supply chain stakeholders in identifying obligations and recording interactions. It groups resources such as the Stakeholder Engagement Checklist and references to identification-related obligations within the supply chain (e.g., Table 44).
Stakeholder Engagement Checklist
Defines the standardized checklist and recording process for stakeholder engagement, guiding how and what to document during stakeholder interactions (as noted in Table 23). This category supports consistent, auditable engagement practices and traceability of decisions and inputs from stakeholders.
Supply Chain Identification Obligations
Describes the duties and roles of supply chain stakeholders in the identification process, including requirements for tagging, data sharing, and traceability. It defines how stakeholders are involved in identifying components and products to ensure proper identification across the chain.
Battery Supply Chain Due Diligence
Covers the regulatory obligations and governance practices surrounding battery supply chain due diligence. It includes due care obligations, intended users, information management under battery due diligence policies, governance standards in supplier countries, and the distribution of obligations ac
Textile Supply Chain Governance
This category gathers governance standards in supplier countries and identifies vulnerabilities in textile supply chains, alongside governance mechanisms for tracing and managing textile value chains. It links supplier-country governance, risk, and traceability practices to improve resilience and tr
Governance standards in supplier countries
This category covers governance frameworks and regulatory standards in countries supplying battery materials, including laws, enforcement, and ethical expectations for mining, trade, and labor practices. It helps assess supplier-country risk and support responsible sourcing.
Supply Chain Vulnerabilities
This category covers vulnerabilities in the supply chain that can threaten competitiveness. It highlights risks such as supplier disruptions and single-sourcing, with a focus on resilience, mitigation, and contingency planning.
Textile Value Chains
This category covers the concept of textile value chains. Two example chains are described in accompanying figures, illustrating stages from fiber to finished product and the flows of materials, information, and value.
Supply chain governance
Defines the framework and rules for governing traceability activities across the supply chain. It covers policies, roles, and decision rights about where and how to collect operational data to ensure traceability, accountability, and data quality.
User Roles and Access
Defines who the product is intended for, how multiple manufacturing party roles are modeled, and how access groups regulate information permissions within the Battery Passport.
Intended Users
Specifies the intended audience for the product, including primary and secondary user groups, roles, and personas. This category informs design decisions, requirements, and accessibility considerations based on who will use the product.
Multi-Actor Roles in Manufacturing
Defines a data model to manage multiple actors (manufacturing parties) and their roles across manufacturing processes. It enables representation of actor plurality and supports dynamic assignment and evolution of roles.
Access Groups
Identifies the user groups authorized to access Battery Passport information. Describes the permissions (view, edit, manage) granted to each group to support secure access control and governance within the Battery Passport system.
Due Diligence Obligations
This category collects obligations requiring due care and battery-related due diligence, together with related PDF documentation of the due-diligence reports. It frames these compliance requirements and their accompanying information resources as a single conceptual area.
Due Care Obligation
Defines the obligation for economic operators to exercise due care to comply with regulatory requirements. It emphasizes prudent conduct, risk mitigation, and ongoing adherence to applicable laws.
Battery Due Diligence Obligations
This category captures the battery due diligence obligations mandated by the regulation. It encompasses compliance processes, verification steps, and documentation requirements tied to battery governance.
Due Diligence PDF Information
Represents the information elements describing a due diligence report stored as a PDF. It captures document-level metadata and content-related attributes associated with the PDF version of the report.
This category covers obligations to perform battery due diligence and the information gathered under a battery due diligence policy. It also encompasses how such information is maintained to manage social and environmental risks in battery supply chains.
Battery due diligence records
Information gathered and maintained under the operator's battery due diligence policy. This category includes records and data collected to comply with battery-related due diligence requirements.
Battery due diligence obligations
This category covers legal and voluntary obligations to conduct due diligence across battery supply chains. It aims to identify, prevent, and address actual and potential social and environmental risks from sourcing, production, and end-of-life handling.
Obligations Distribution and SCM
This category groups topics on distributing obligations across supply chain roles and on supply chain management within the TRICK platform. It captures how duties are allocated and coordinated to support governance and operational efficiency.
Distribution of Obligations
This category codifies a clear, proportionate allocation of duties among economic actors, aligned with each party's role. It promotes balanced accountability and efficient collaboration in economic relationships.
Supply Chain Management
Concept covering the planning, coordination, and optimization of the flow of goods, information, and finances across the supply chain. It includes procurement, production planning, inventory control, logistics, and supplier collaboration within the TRICK platform.
Business Services Portfolio
A portfolio of six key business services and the data needs required to support DPP (data-driven planning). This category groups these services to facilitate unified data requirements and cross-industry applicability.
Business Services Data Needs
A collection of six related business services that require data inputs to support DPP processes.
A curated collection of six core business services presented as a unified offering to meet diverse industry needs. It defines a portfolio approach that groups these services to address varying requirements across sectors.
OECD Guidance & Guidelines
This category aggregates OECD resources on responsible business conduct, including due diligence in mineral supply chains and guidelines for multinational enterprises. It comprises the OECD Five-Step Framework for Due Diligence in Minerals and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises.
OECD Five-Step Framework
Represents the OECD’s five-step framework from the Due Diligence Guidance for Minerals. It guides companies to establish policy commitments, identify and assess risks, design and implement risk management measures, carry out independent audits, and report on due diligence throughout mineral supply c
OECD Guidelines for MNEs
Guidelines for responsible business conduct by multinational enterprises. This category covers the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises (MNEs), which promote ethical, transparent, and sustainable practices across borders.
Regulatory Actors and Obligations
This category groups concepts related to regulatory obligations and the roles of economic operators across the supply chain. It covers manufacturers, traders, importers, assessment personnel, and contact information, and clarifies how responsibilities are allocated in the distribution chain.
Regulatory Obligations & Operators
This category groups concepts related to the regulatory duties of manufacturers, the identification and contact details of economic operators, and obligations under Article 61. It covers who counts as a regulated manufacturer and the information needed for compliance.
Regulatory Obligations for Manufacturers
This category catalogues the obligations that manufacturers have under the Regulation. It includes duties related to compliance, documentation, reporting, conformity assessment, and ongoing accountability.
Economic Operator Details
This category captures the official identity of the economic operator responsible for tasks. It includes the operator's name, contact details, and a unique operator identifier.
Regulated Manufacturers
Entities designated as manufacturers for the purposes of this Regulation under Article 34. This category groups manufacturers within the regulatory scope and specifies their role under the regulation.
Obligations under Article 61
This category covers the obligations referred to in paragraph 1 of Article 61. It collects the legal duties specified by that provision and situates them within the broader framework of the treaty's obligations.
Supply Chain Actors and Contacts
This category identifies the main actors across the supply chain and the textile value chains. It also includes EU economic operator contact information for manufacturers not established in the union.
EU Economic Operator Contact Info
This category captures the contact details of Economic Operators established in the European Union when the manufacturer is not established in the EU. It supports regulatory communications by ensuring the appropriate EU-based operator can be contacted.
Supply Chain Actors
This category identifies the main players in the supply chain and describes their typical roles. It covers how producers, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and logistics providers interact to move goods from origin to end customers.
Textile value chain actors
Identifies the principal participants in the textile value chain, including raw material suppliers, manufacturers, brands, distributors, retailers, and policymakers. Understanding these actors helps map responsibilities, power dynamics, and collaboration opportunities to improve sustainability and e
Operators and Trade Names
Groups the main actor types in the textile supply chain who request recycled fibre, including Economic Operators, Brand/Yarn Producers, and their registered trade names. This category captures both the entities and their branding identities as related concepts.
Economic Operator
Represents the economic operator referenced in Unit 1. It identifies the entity responsible for carrying out economic activities within that unit.
Brand or Yarn Producer
An actor in the textile supply chain that initiates requests for recycled fibre. They specify recycled content requirements to suppliers and mills to drive demand and influence sourcing decisions.
Operator Trade Name
This category captures the official trade name or registered trademark used by an operator. It identifies the operator's legal business name and branding.
Groups concepts about the actors involved in wool conformity assessment and the broader supply and distribution chain. It covers assessment personnel, the roles of economic operators, and the wool importer as key supply-chain actors.
Assessment Personnel
Individuals who execute conformity assessment tasks. This category includes personnel who perform testing, inspection, evaluation, and certification duties according to established procedures.
Supply Chain Roles
Outlines the roles and responsibilities of each economic operator in the supply and distribution chain. It clarifies how participants interact to move goods from origin to consumer.
Wool Importer
Represents an actor in the wool supply chain that imports wool into a market. This category identifies organizations responsible for sourcing wool from producers or other markets to feed the textile value chain, enabling trade and regulatory compliance annotations.
Economic Operators in Battery Regulation
This category covers the key economic actors defined in EU battery regulation, including Economic Operators and EU Battery Traders. It encompasses those obligated under Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, especially in the context of distance contracts with consumers in EU Member States.
An economic operator is the actor obligated by regulation. It typically refers to a business or organization that must comply with regulatory requirements and duties such as reporting and ensuring compliance.
EU Battery Trader
A trader defined by Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 who acts as a producer and offers batteries to consumers under distance contracts in a Member State. This category covers producers that sell batteries directly to consumers through online or other distance-selling channels within the EU.
Operator and Supplier
Groups concepts related to the operator (the actor performing the action) and the supplier (the party providing goods or services) in collaborative or procurement contexts. It includes subcategories for the Operator Concept and for Supplier Details, capturing the roles and relevant information about
Operator Concept
This category captures the concept of an operator, typically a person who operates equipment or systems. It may encompass roles, responsibilities, and contexts in which an operator is involved.
Supplier details
Represents the supplier, the party that provides the goods or services linked to the current collaboration. It identifies the supplier and clarifies their role as the source of the supplied items.
Battery Stakeholders and Policies
This category groups actors across the battery lifecycle—economic operators, importers/distributors, waste-management actors, and marketplace participants—along with the due-diligence and reporting obligations they must meet. It also covers actor typologies and downstream manufacturers to describe r
Economic Operators and Policies
This category groups the roles of economic operators who place batteries on the market and their battery due diligence policies. It highlights the responsibilities to take corrective actions and implement due diligence frameworks to ensure compliance across the battery supply chain.
This category describes the role of the operator responsible for placing batteries on the market and their obligation to take corrective actions when issues or non-compliance are identified. It outlines accountability and action requirements in response to regulatory concerns.
Battery Due Diligence Policies
Policies established by economic operators to fulfill due diligence obligations in battery supply chains. This category covers governance, risk assessment, and mitigation measures throughout the battery lifecycle.
Marketplace Stakeholders
Aggregates key economic actors in online marketplaces, including operators of marketplaces, general economic operators active in the territory, and recycler actors. This category supports organization of roles and notifications to national information systems or email channels.
Online Marketplace Operators
Entities that act as economic operators within online marketplaces (e.g., sellers, vendors, service providers). This category collects references to participants and their roles in digital marketplace ecosystems.
Economic Operators
Entities engaged in economic activity within the territory that are subjects of notification. They should be informed via the national information system or by email.
Recycler Actors
Defines the Recycler Actor role within the data model. Recyclers are entities that reclaim or repurpose discarded resources or data as part of the system's lifecycle.
Actor typologies
This category groups actor typologies involved in the lifecycle of 3D datasets, including regulatory liaison offices and manufacturers. It provides a framework to classify the roles and responsibilities of different actors across the lifecycle.
Single liaison offices
Single liaison offices are designated under Article 10(3) of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020. They serve as centralized points of contact for cross-border regulatory cooperation, enabling access to information and streamlined coordination among authorities.
3D Dataset Manufacturer
Describes the entity responsible for creating or owning a 3D dataset. Includes producers, studios, or companies that generate 3D models or scans used as data assets.
Lifecycle Actors
Defines the categories of actors that participate at different phases of a life cycle. Provides a common framework for naming and comparing roles such as stakeholders, users, implementers, operators, and regulators across phases.
Waste Management Stakeholders and Reporting
This category groups concepts related to stakeholders in waste management and the reporting of battery waste treatment by waste management operators. It highlights key actor roles (such as waste managers) and their governance and data-sharing responsibilities across the value chain.
Battery Waste Treatment Reporting
Represents the reported quantities of waste batteries received by waste management operators for treatment. It encompasses tracking and aggregation of intake volumes as part of compliance and waste management reporting.
Waste Managers
Represents the 'waste managers' as an actor role within the data model. This category defines stakeholders responsible for organizing, overseeing, and coordinating waste management activities and their interactions with other actors and processes.
Waste Management Stakeholders
Identifies the waste manager as a key stakeholder across the value chain, reflecting their central role in planning, governance, and operations of waste systems. This category emphasizes collaboration among producers, regulators, service providers, and communities.
Supply Chain Participants
Defines the actors subject to Article 38 obligations within the supply chain. Includes general supply chain participants and downstream manufacturers who use the chemical/material.
Supply chain actors
Entities involved in the supply chain that are obligated to comply with the requirements set forth in Article 38. This category covers all actors responsible for meeting the stated duties within the regulatory framework.
Downstream Manufacturers
Represents downstream manufacturers as actors who utilize the chemical/material in their production processes. This category captures how the material is incorporated into finished goods and propagated through the supply chain.
Battery Importers and Distributors
This category covers importers and distributors that place batteries on the market or put them into service. It identifies them as key market actors subject to regulatory requirements governing battery placement and market circulation.
Regulatory Compliance and Reporting
This category covers obligations to cooperate with authorities, mandatory reporting and data collection, risk management across the supply chain, and periodic assessments of data quality and reporting practices.
Covers obligations for cooperating with national authorities, reporting on batteries and waste batteries, and conducting social/ethical assessments, including an annual due diligence report. It aligns governance, transparency, and accountability requirements across multiple compliance processes.
Cooperation with authorities
This category codifies the obligation to cooperate with national authorities when handling non-compliance measures. It specifies expectations for information sharing, assistance, and timely response to enforcement actions.
Battery Reporting Obligations
This category covers the legal duty to report information about batteries and waste batteries. It specifies data disclosure on production, collection, and recycling, supporting transparency and compliance across the battery lifecycle.
Social and Ethical Assessment
This category covers topics related to evaluating social and ethical aspects within data models. It encompasses approaches, criteria, and considerations used to assess impact, fairness, privacy, transparency, and accountability in data systems.
Annual Due Diligence Report
Represents the mandatory annual report detailing how due diligence obligations were fulfilled during the preceding financial year. This document is typically used for regulatory compliance, governance transparency, and audit readiness.
Tracking Requirements Timing
Defines the time-related aspects of implementing tracking requirements, including differentiated deadlines by product group. It also covers the three-month objection window and the initial reporting period after the act takes effect.
Differentiated Deadlines
Defines different deadlines for applying tracking requirements based on product group. This category groups regulatory timelines by product category to help ensure timely and compliant implementation.
Three-Month Objection Period
Represents a time period allotted to raise objections, specifically a three-month window. This category groups references to that fixed duration within documents that state objection deadlines.
First Reporting Period
This category captures the initial reporting interval that begins after the implementing act format is established. It defines the time frame for the first set of required data submissions and establishes a baseline for subsequent reporting periods.
Supply Chain Risk Management
Encompasses governance of identifying, assessing, and addressing risks across the supply chain. Covers obligations to manage risks and the development of risk management plans to address significant adverse impacts.
Risk Management Obligations
This category covers obligations to identify, assess, and address risks throughout the supply chain. It encompasses risk assessment, mitigation planning, and ongoing monitoring to ensure resilience.
Supply Chain Risk Identification
This category encompasses methods to identify and assess risks of adverse impacts within a company's supply chain. It focuses on recognizing potential risk categories, sources, and initial evaluation to prioritize mitigation.
Risk Management Plan
A plan detailing steps to comply with Article 50 and address findings of significant adverse impacts. It outlines risk mitigation actions, responsibilities, and monitoring to ensure regulatory alignment.
Disruptive Factors and Negative Events
Groups factors and attributes describing disruptive influences on items and records of negative events. It aligns with the concepts of Disruptor and Negative Events and is organized into subcategories for Disruptive Factors, Negative Event Attributes, and Negative Event Data Attributes (Table 16 — D
Disruptive Factors
This category captures data attributes that identify disruptive factors affecting a textile item. It covers factors that can compromise performance or quality, such as wear, damage, environmental exposure, or other disturbances.
Negative Event Attributes
This category collects data attributes that describe adverse events affecting a battery in the battery passport context. It covers incidents such as faults, failures, safety recalls, degradation incidents, and other negative outcomes, along with attributes like event type, date, severity, cause, and
Negative Event Data Attributes
This category gathers data attributes that describe negative events (as referenced by Table 16). It organizes property-level information about adverse incidents to support analysis and reporting.
Annual Data Reporting and Assessment
This category covers annual reporting of non-personal in-use data to the Commission and the Commission's assessment of data quality and methodology. It groups processes for submitting non-personal data and evaluating data collection practices.
Annual Non-Personal Data Reporting
This category encompasses the requirement to report non-personal in-use data to the Commission on an annual basis. It focuses on data that does not identify individuals and is submitted to fulfill regulatory oversight obligations.
Commission Data Assessment
A formal evaluation conducted by a commission focused on the quality and methodology of data collection. This category encompasses reports that audit data collection processes, assess data quality, and review methodological rigor.
SSbD Battery Supply Chains
This category aggregates concepts around standards, governance, and data management for batteries across their life cycle, with emphasis on Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD). It spans mining practices (including artisanal and small-scale mining), upstream supplier data collection, international
Regulatory and Cross-Industry Standards
This category captures regulation-driven horizontal work and cross-industry standardization efforts. It covers Circular Textile Data initiatives (ECOSYSTEX TG5), cross-industry development of explanatory texts, and global collaborations such as the Global Battery Alliance to harmonize data practices
Horizontal Work in Regulation
Cross-cutting activities developed during the implementation of regulations that span multiple sectors. This category accounts for horizontal tasks and processes that support regulatory deployment rather than sector-specific initiatives.
Circular Textile Data
Concept group focusing on data related to circular textiles under the ECOSYSTEX TG5 working group. It covers data standards, lifecycle information, and material-flow tracking to support circularity in the textile industry.
Cross-Industry Standards
Industry-wide agreements on explanatory texts are captured here, enabling harmonized wording and shared explanations across sectors. This category promotes consistency in how concepts are described across industries.
Global Battery Alliance
The Global Battery Alliance (GBA) is an international coalition of public and private actors working to accelerate sustainable development and governance of the global battery value chain. It promotes responsible sourcing, recycling, supply-chain transparency, and policy alignment to support a clean
Industrial Batteries and Mining
This category groups batteries designed for industrial uses, including stationary energy storage, and their applications within the mining sector. It encompasses the broader class of industrial batteries and related use cases.
Industrial Batteries
Batteries designed for industrial applications, built to withstand harsh environments and high-demand usage. This category covers industrial-grade chemistries and form factors used in manufacturing, logistics, and heavy equipment.
Mining Sector
The mining sector encompasses activities involved in extracting minerals from the earth, including exploration, extraction, processing, and related supply chains. It spans metals, coal, and industrial minerals, along with the regulatory, environmental, and economic considerations that shape the indu
A category of batteries designed for industrial use, including stationary energy storage systems. It covers various chemistries and configurations optimized for industrial applications such as manufacturing, grid storage, and equipment support.
Aggregates and Supplier Data
This category groups the aggregate product family with the supplier network and the upstream data collection processes that gather supplier information. It encompasses aggregate products, the broader supplier ecosystem (including subsidiaries and subcontractors), and collaborative workflows for coll
Aggregate Products
Aggregates is a product family category that groups granular construction materials used as fillers and base materials in building and infrastructure projects. This category covers materials like sand, gravel, and crushed stone that are commonly used in concrete mixes, road base, and other applicati
Supplier Network
Represents suppliers and their subsidiaries and subcontractors as the sourcing network for goods and services. Highlights the broader vendor ecosystem involved in procurement.
Supplier Data Collection
This category captures collaborative data-gathering activities with suppliers in upstream processes. It emphasizes coordinating data collection and ensuring data quality for upstream data integration.
SSbD Information Governance
Defines governance and provenance of SSbD data, including who may input or update information, the origin of battery materials, and engagement with lifecycle stakeholders to assemble a complete information set.
Authorised Representatives
Defines actors who are authorised to introduce or update information in a digital product. Establishes their permissions and responsibilities to ensure data integrity, traceability, and governance.
Origin of Battery Materials
Provides data on where battery materials originate, including geographic provenance and supplier origins. This supports traceability and responsible sourcing across the battery supply chain.
Lifecycle Stakeholder Engagement
Engagement with actors across the product life cycle to obtain a complete set of information on Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD). This category emphasizes broad, continuous collaboration to ensure data completeness and transparency in SSbD decision-making.
Artisanal Mining and Due Diligence
A taxonomy category that groups artisanal and small-scale mining operations with internationally recognized due diligence instruments. It supports organizing governance, risk assessment, and responsible sourcing practices applicable to ASM contexts.
Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining
This category covers mining activities conducted by artisanal and small-scale operators, typically informal and labor-intensive. It highlights the social, environmental, and economic dimensions, including governance, safety, and regulatory considerations affecting ASM operations.
International Due Diligence Instruments
Globally recognised tools and frameworks used to conduct due diligence across borders. This category covers internationally accepted instruments that help assess risk, compliance, and integrity in cross-border activities.
End-User and Downstream Stakeholders
Top-level category covering end-users, consumers, and downstream buyers in the textile value chain, including their information needs and obligations. It emphasizes accessible language, safety and usage guidance, awareness campaigns, and traceability data for EU-market stakeholders.
End-User Engagement and Information
Focuses on end-user engagement and information delivery related to battery waste collection, including awareness campaigns and plain-language safety materials. It also addresses data ownership and the roles of customers and consumers in engagement efforts.
Battery End-User
An individual who uses a battery and has obligations related to proper disposal and participation in waste battery collection. This category covers the role of consumers in battery recycling programs and responsible waste handling.
Awareness Campaigns
This category encompasses campaigns led by producers or producer responsibility organisations to raise awareness about stewardship obligations, recycling, and environmental impacts. The goal is to inform stakeholders and promote compliant, sustainable practices.
Plain Language Safety Information
Safety instructions and information are provided in languages that end-users can easily understand. This category emphasizes clear, plain-language communication and accessible translations to improve comprehension and safe usage.
Customer Data Owner
Represents the Customer as the actor who owns and acts as the data repository for related information. This category captures the role of the customer as the primary custodian and authority over data assets.
Consumer Engagement
Represents the functional characteristic of consumer engagement, describing how users interact with a product or service to participate and derive value. It highlights engagement patterns, behaviors, and responsiveness that influence adoption and loyalty.
Consumer Traceability Roles
Focuses on consumer involvement in product traceability, including how consumers use traceability data, the apps they rely on, and information about end-user roles in data contribution. It groups concepts related to the consumer use phase, consumer traceability applications, and end-user role inform
Consumer Use Phase
Represents the end-user use phase in the value chain, capturing how consumers interact with products and the impacts of usage. It includes usage patterns, performance during use, and resulting resource or energy implications.
Consumer Traceability App
A consumer-facing application designed to present product traceability data to end users. It enables viewing provenance, authenticity, and origin information to support informed purchasing decisions.
End-User Role Information
Contains information about the roles and responsibilities of end-users in participating in separate waste collection. It explains how residents should separate recyclables, organics, and residual waste to support source separation programs.
Plain Language and EU Targeting
This category defines requirements for presenting information in plain language that end users can understand and for targeting offers to customers in the European Union. It ensures end-user accessibility of information across the EU.
Plain Language
Information must be written in clear, simple language that end users in the relevant Member State can easily understand. This category emphasizes readability, avoiding jargon, and ensuring accessibility of public communications.
EU Customer Targeting
This category includes offers that are targeted specifically at customers within the European Union. It defines a geographic scope restricting offers to EU residents or EU-based customers.
End Users
Represents the primary audience for information — the end users who must have access to the information. This category identifies recipients to whom data or content must be made available.
Downstream Stakeholders
Entities at the downstream end of the supply chain who must be provided with information about substances. It covers immediate downstream purchasers and downstream users (including distributors) who handle substances in industrial or professional contexts.
Immediate Downstream Purchasers
Direct buyers downstream in the supply chain to whom information must be made available. This category defines the downstream purchasers who are recipients of required disclosures.
Downstream Users
A category for natural or legal persons who use a chemical substance in industrial or professional activities, including distributors. This label covers downstream users across the supply chain who handle chemicals in commercial contexts.
Textile Consumers
Represents individuals who purchase and use textile products and who act as key stakeholders in the textile value chain. Their preferences and consumption patterns influence product design, quality, pricing, and sustainability outcomes.
Operator Information and Data Ownership
This category consolidates operator-related information used in sustainability reporting, including contact details, addresses, and organizational identity, plus data ownership and responsibility. It supports verification by stakeholders and clarity around who owns and manages data across the supply
Data Ownership and Verification
Consolidates data ownership and responsibility throughout the data gathering process, including how information is collected from stakeholders and verified. It also covers subcontracting arrangements and governance of data handling.
Stakeholder Information Verification
This category covers processes that verify undertakings by checking activities and collecting information from stakeholders. It encompasses inquiry, data gathering, and corroboration from involved parties to ensure accuracy and compliance.
Data Ownership and Subcontracting
Covers data ownership and responsibility mechanisms, including how subcontracting arrangements allocate data duties and liabilities. Addresses governance, accountability, and risk management in data-sharing and outsourcing contexts.
Data Ownership and Responsibility
Defines who owns data and who is responsible for its collection, stewardship, and integrity during the data gathering process. It covers roles, accountability, and governance practices to ensure proper handling and traceability.
Operator and Facility Addresses
Contains the postal addresses used for the operator and the manufacturing facility. This category groups the operator postal address and the manufacturing place address as primary contact points and production locations.
Operator Postal Address
Represents the operator's postal address, serving as the primary point of contact for official correspondence. This category encapsulates the single mailing address used for communicating with the operator.
Manufacturing Facility Address
Represents the postal address of a manufacturing facility. This category stores location details used for logistics, correspondence, and regulatory purposes, including street, city, state, postal code, and country as applicable.
Sustainability Stakeholders
Groupings of entities involved in sustainability reporting, including industry associations and organizations cited in disclosures. They represent stakeholder actors that influence, participate in, and govern sustainability practice.
Industry Associations
Represents the actor group of organized industry bodies involved as stakeholders in initiatives. This category encompasses trade associations, sector coalitions, and other industry groups that participate in activities and decision-making.
Sustainability Organization
This category represents organizational entities referenced in sustainability reporting. It captures how organizations such as companies, NGOs, or government bodies are described and engaged as subjects or stakeholders in sustainability disclosures.
Manufacturer Information and Legal Entities
Contains data about manufacturers, including identifiers such as a unique operator ID (Article 27(7) information), and the concept of legal entities. This category encompasses two subcategories: Manufacturer Information and Legal Entities.
Manufacturer Information
This category covers information pertaining to the manufacturer, including identifiers such as a unique operator ID and other regulatory details (e.g., Article 27(7) information).
Legal Entities
Bodies recognized by law as separate legal persons from the government. They may own property, enter contracts, and sue or be sued in their own right.
Operator Contact Information
Groups the operator's contact channels, specifically email and web addresses. This category consolidates the two concrete contact address concepts under a single umbrella for reaching the operator.
Operator Email Address
Represents the email address of the operator, if available. It can be used as a direct contact method for operator-level communication and notifications.
Operator Web Address
Represents the web address (URL) of the operator when available. This enables linking to the operator’s official online presence for reference or contact.
Operator Details
This category consolidates operator identity and contact information, including the operator's official name, any registered trade name, and address and communication channels such as postal, web, and email.
Operator Information
Represents the operator's identity and contact information, including legal name, registered trade name, postal address, website, and email. This category centralizes essential details used to identify and contact the operator.
Operator Name
Represents the name of the operator associated with an action or process. This string-valued attribute identifies who performed an operation within the system.
Battery Traceability & Safety
Covers end-to-end traceability of batteries across the full lifecycle—from fibre import to end-of-use and recycling—paired with safety considerations during transport and handling. Includes system access and event reporting, receiver identity and quantity, transport protection evidence, exposure sce
System Access and Remote Events
This category covers access to systems and the events associated with that access, the remote (distance) contracts for selling batteries to end users, and object-level events such as yarn sending. It maps to the three child categories: System and Event Access, Remote Battery Sales, and Yarn Sending
System and Event Access
Defines who may access the designated systems and the events related to them, as referenced in the first subparagraph. This category covers access rights, authentication, and authorization procedures.
Remote Battery Sales
Covers contracts formed remotely to supply batteries to end-users. Focuses on sales conducted through distance channels by distributors.
Yarn Sending Event
Represents an object event where yarn is sent from one actor to another. This category models the act of dispatching yarn as a transfer within logistics or supply chain contexts.
Fibre-to-Recycle Traceability
Establishes end-to-end traceability of batteries across the supply chain from fibre importer to end-of-use and recyclers. It records the recipient operator identity, the quantity and models supplied, and identifies the Despatch Advice Sender.
Recipient Identity and Models
This category records the identity of the recipient operator who received a battery, along with the quantity delivered and the specific battery models. It supports traceability and accountability in battery supply chains.
Fibre-to-Recycle Lifecycle
Defines the life-cycle scope from fibre importers through end-of-use and recycling, outlining all entry and exit points across the textile supply chain. This category supports understanding system boundaries for lifecycle assessment and circularity planning.
Despatch Advice Sender
Represents the entity that issues the Traceability Despatch Advice. This role identifies the sender responsible for initiating traceability communication about despatched goods.
Safety During Transport
Addresses safety during transport and related lifecycle activities, including installation, deinstallation, maintenance, deconstruction and demolition. Also records evidence of protection against damage during transport, such as packaging and stacking practices.
Lifecycle Safety
This category encompasses safety considerations across the asset lifecycle, from transport through installation, maintenance, deinstallation, deconstruction and demolition. It emphasizes risk reduction, compliance with safety standards, and protective measures for workers at every stage.
Transport Protection Evidence
This category captures evidence that goods are safeguarded during transit, including packaging, cushioning, and stacking. It covers indicators and documentation that protection measures were applied to prevent damage.
Object Events and Battery Updates
Groups high-level system events related to object messaging and battery status changes, including the top object dispatch and updates triggered by changes in battery status.
Top Object Dispatch
This category captures object events in which the top object is released or sent during an operation. It groups events related to the dispatch or transfer of the top object.
Battery Status Change Updates
This category captures updates triggered by changes in battery status, especially when a device enters a new market placement. It represents notifications of battery state changes that affect market-related actions.
Battery Supply Chain
Describes the end-to-end sequence of activities for batteries—from production through distribution to final use—emphasizing traceability and provenance. It covers sourcing, logistics, and governance across the supply chain to support transparency, safety, and regulatory compliance.
This category covers the sequence of activities involved in procuring, manufacturing, transporting, warehousing, and delivering batteries from suppliers to end users. It encompasses upstream and downstream logistics, inventory management, and the distribution networks that move batteries through the
Describes the sequence of stages a battery passes from production to end-use, with a focus on traceability. Emphasizes tracking materials, components, and processes to ensure transparency across the supply chain.
Exposure Scenario
A defined set of conditions, including operational conditions and risk management measures, describing how exposure to a hazard may occur. This category captures the planning and controls used to assess and communicate exposure pathways.
Economic Operators and Roles
Defines who qualifies as an economic operator involved in placing batteries on the market or into service, including authorized operators across the Union. It also covers related roles such as signatories, issuers, data owners, and downstream actors like textile collectors and yarn producers, plus t
Concepts in this category identify the entities responsible for data within the supply chain traceability system, covering both Data Owners (plural) and Data Owner (singular). It clarifies who is accountable for data, the ownership relationship, and responsibilities related to data quality and gover
Data Owners
This category identifies the individuals or entities responsible for data within a supply chain traceability system. It defines data ownership, accountability, and stewardship, guiding governance, quality, and access controls.
Data Owner
A Data Owner is the actor responsible for their data, accountable for governance, privacy, accuracy, and access controls. This role defines data stewardship, decision rights, and responsibilities over data assets. It encompasses accountability for data quality and compliance with policy.
Signatory and Issuer Roles
Defines the actors and their roles in sustainability data declarations: the authorized signatory who signs on behalf of the issuer, and the issuer responsible for issuing indicator data. This categorization supports accountability and traceability of sustainability information.
Authorized Signatory
The authorized signatory is the person empowered to sign a declaration on behalf of the issuer, indicating who holds official signing authority. This role identifies who binds the issuer by signature.
Indicator Data Issuers
Represents the role of entities authorized to issue sustainability indicator data. It defines who can publish, certify, or release indicator datasets, establishing responsibility and provenance for data used in sustainability reporting.
Regional Economic Operators
Defines economic operators operating across the European Union, including sector-specific producers such as yarn manufacturers. This node provides a regional variant of economic actors within the EU market and textiles supply chain.
EU Economic Operators
Covers economic operators operating across the European Union, emphasizing cross-border trade and regional market access. This node serves as the broader regional variant of the economic-op concept, expanding scope to include EU-wide considerations.
Yarn Manufacturer
A yarn manufacturer refers to a company or function that converts raw materials into yarns. These producers primarily supply the textile sectors, including fabric and knitwear industries.
Economic Operators and Textile Collectors
Groups two key actor types in environmental compliance: economic operators who place batteries on the market or put them into service, and textile collectors involved in the separate collection of textiles.
Entities that place batteries on the market or put them into service, including manufacturers, importers, and distributors. This category covers the stakeholders responsible for regulatory compliance and proper handling of batteries throughout their market lifecycle.
Textile Collectors
Actors involved in the separate collection of textiles for recycling or reuse; this category covers individuals and organizations that gather textiles from households, businesses, and collection points as part of a dedicated textile waste stream.
Authorized Operator Information
Defines who may act on behalf of the economic operator and collects operator-specific information essential for the battery passport. It comprises two subcategories: Authorized Operator and Operator Information.
Authorized Operator
An Authorized Operator is an individual or entity empowered to act on behalf of the economic operator, within defined scope and permissions. This category captures the representational role and its governance in transactions and compliance.
Details about the operator responsible for the battery passport, including identity, contact information, and responsibilities. This category supports accountability and communication for operational queries.
Battery Market Entry
Defines the concepts and processes involved in placing batteries on the Union market, including first-time market availability, distributors, and making batteries available for distribution. It also encompasses consultation with Member States and stakeholders, and organizes related topics into child
Consultation Processes
This category groups formal processes for soliciting input on proposed national measures from Member States and relevant economic operators, and for engaging key stakeholders such as suppliers, government authorities, civil society, and affected third parties. It covers two related practices: consul
Consultation on National Measures
This category encompasses the formal process of engaging with Member States and relevant economic operators to discuss proposed national regulatory measures. It involves stakeholder consultation, feedback collection, and considerations for alignment with broader policy objectives and EU rules.
Records the stakeholders consulted in the process, including suppliers, government authorities, civil society, and affected third parties. Captures who contributed input and oversight in decision-making.
Distributors and Involved Actors
Groups entities that distribute products and the actors involved in consultancy patterns. As a parent node, it encompasses specific roles such as Product Distributor and Consultancy Actors, clarifying distribution and consultancy involvement in the supply chain.
Product Distributor
A natural or legal person in the supply chain who makes a product available on the market. Distributors serve as intermediaries between manufacturers and retailers, handling logistics and market access. They purchase goods from producers and sell them to retailers or end users.
Consultancy Actors
Identifies the participants in a consultancy engagement (clients, consultants, sponsors, and end-users) and outlines their roles, responsibilities, and interrelations throughout the process. This classification helps model governance, communication, and decision-making among stakeholders in consulta
This category aggregates the first-time market introductions of various battery types, including portable, LMT, SLI/industrial, and EV batteries. It highlights the initial availability across these segments.
First-Time Battery Availability
This category tracks the initial market introduction of portable and LMT batteries, capturing the quantities made available for the first time. It supports analysis of how new battery technologies enter commercial markets.
Initial Battery Availability
This category tracks the first-time market availability of different battery types, including SLI automotive batteries, industrial batteries, and electric-vehicle batteries. It captures when these batteries become available to the market and the scale of their initial introduction.
Placing on the Market
This category covers the initial introduction of a product to the Union market, i.e., the first moment it is placed on the market or made available for sale or use in a commercial context. It captures the regulatory concepts associated with bringing a product to the Union market.
This category encompasses the first act of making a product available on the Union market. It marks the initial introduction of a product for sale within the Union, signaling regulatory compliance and market eligibility.
This category covers the act of making a product available for distribution or use in the Union market within the course of a commercial activity. It encompasses any supply of a product introduced into the market for distribution or use in the EU.
Battery Characteristics and Market Entry
This category covers two regulatory concepts for batteries: replacement for essential characteristics described in Paragraph 1, and the quantity of batteries first placed on the market in a Member State. It groups these points under the broader theme of battery definitions and market entry. The two
Point A Paragraph 1
This category centers on Point A from Paragraph 1, focusing on a replacement for essential characteristics. It documents how substitutes may alter the core traits described in that paragraph.
First Market Introduction of Batteries
This category captures the amount of batteries that are first placed on the market in a Member State. It records the initial market introduction quantity, useful for regulatory reporting and compliance under battery directives.
Battery Regulation & Exemptions
This category aggregates regulatory provisions related to batteries, including ecodesign exemptions, non-cycle applications, and due diligence requirements. It also covers supply chain due diligence, policy guidelines, and regulatory review obligations.
Ecodesign Exemptions
Contains exemptions from ecodesign requirements, including product-parameter exemptions and power-supply continuity exemptions. It serves as an umbrella category for exemptions under the ecodesign framework, with two subcategories detailing the specific exemption types.
Represents product parameters for which the European Commission states that no ecodesign requirements apply. It documents exemptions from ecodesign for specific parameters, clarifying when a parameter is not subject to the rules. Useful for identifying exempted product attributes in ecodesign regula
Power Supply Continuity Exemption
Exemption from removability and replacement obligations when maintaining uninterrupted power supply is essential. This category applies to infrastructure and equipment where uptime is critical, allowing operators to bypass standard replacement requirements to ensure continuous service.
Non-Cycle Applications
Covers non-cycle applications and the exception governing the application of related data attributes, as described in section 6.7.6.3. It includes both the standard non-cycle usage and the rule-based exception that affects applicability.
Non-cycle Applications
This category captures uses and implementations that operate outside cyclic, repeatable processes as described in section 6.7.6.3. It groups non-cycle use cases referenced by this node, clarifying when materials or systems are applied without cycling.
Non-Cycle Applications Exception
Defines the regulatory exception for data attributes related to non-cycle applications, as specified in clause 6.7.6.3. This category covers when cycle-based requirements do not apply and ensures correct handling of the exemption.
Due Diligence in Battery Regulation
This category brings together guidelines for applying due diligence requirements and the related due diligence policy under Battery Regulation, including the incorporation of internationally recognized standards. It provides a structured overview of how to implement and comply with due diligence obl
Due Diligence Guidelines
Guidelines for applying the due diligence requirements in practice, outlining steps, responsibilities, and criteria for compliant implementation. This category supports consistent interpretation and operationalization of due diligence across contexts.
Due Diligence Policy
Policy requirements mandating due diligence in battery supply chains under Battery Regulation, including incorporation of internationally recognised standards lists. This ensures alignment with globally recognised standards for responsible sourcing and compliance.
Regulatory Review & Due Diligence
This category groups concepts and documents related to regulatory oversight obligations and public due diligence materials. It includes the Commission's obligation to review regulations and prepare impact reports, and public due diligence documents that accompany regulatory processes.
Regulatory Review Obligation
An obligation requiring the European Commission to review a regulation and prepare a report on its impact. This category covers assessment, monitoring, and reporting duties to inform policy adjustments.
Public Due Diligence Document
Documents produced during the due diligence process that are publicly accessible. This category covers public disclosures, reports, and filings used to inform analyses in corporate transactions and compliance.
This category covers governance and practices for assessing and managing risks in the battery supply chain, including the policy framework and ongoing due diligence activities. It encompasses both the Supply Chain Due Diligence Policy and the broader due diligence process in line with Article 49.
Supply Chain Due Diligence Policy
This category covers policies that outline steps for conducting supply chain due diligence to comply with Article 49. It includes governance, risk assessment, supplier engagement, remediation, and reporting requirements.
Guidelines and processes to assess, monitor, and mitigate risks across the battery supply chain. Includes supplier assessments, transparency requirements, and compliance with environmental, social, and governance standards.
Battery Regulation Obligations
Consolidates EU Battery Regulation concepts, including Articles 59 and 77, and the obligations on manufacturers across the supply chain. It also covers data collection and governance (eBIZ, producer-managed data) and contract considerations for battery sale/transfer, with cross-industry examples lik
Battery Regulation Articles 59/77
This category groups EU Battery Regulation concepts related to Article 59 (Replacement of the type-testing and type-calculation article) and Article 77, including BattReg Article 77(1) as it pertains to battery passports. It clarifies how these provisions interact and establish the framework for bat
Article 59 Replacement
This category identifies the replacement of Article 59, the provision governing type-testing and type-calculation. It groups concepts related to updating, substituting, or removing this article within the legal framework.
Battery Regulation Article 77
This category covers Article 77 of the EU Battery Regulation, outlining the specific provisions and their implications for compliance. It focuses on the enforcement, obligations, and penalties associated with this article for manufacturers, importers, and authorities.
Battery Passport Article 77(1)
Focuses on BattReg Article 77(1) as it pertains to battery passports. This category groups references to the article that define or require battery passport information.
Manufacturer Obligations & Data Collection
This category covers obligations on manufacturers, including use of 3D datasets, materials, and sharing critical information across the supply chain. It also encompasses producer-led data collection, where the production entity identifies and coordinates data gathering from each supplier and stakeho
Manufacturer Obligations
This category captures the duties incumbent on manufacturers, including the use and management of 3D datasets and materials information. It also covers safety, regulatory compliance, traceability, and information-sharing obligations across the supply chain.
Producer-led Data Collection
This category covers approaches where the producer takes the lead in collecting supply chain data by identifying and engaging every actor in the network. It emphasizes producer-driven coordination to harvest information across the chain.
Battery Sale and eBIZ
This category groups concepts around contract-based battery sales or transfers and the eBIZ framework that governs commercial exchanges. It encompasses two child categories: Battery Sale Contract and eBIZ Framework, outlining the documents and processes used in battery transactions.
Battery Sale Contract
A contract governing the sale or transfer of ownership of a battery. It typically outlines terms such as price, delivery, transfer of title, risk, and warranties related to the battery's condition.
Represents the eBIZ concept, a framework that covers the processes and documents used in commercial exchanges. It describes the scope of electronic business activities and the artifacts involved in trade and commerce.
Textile Supply Chain Contracts
This category connects the textile supply chain with the commercial contract identifiers that govern transactions, such as invoice numbers. It highlights how contract-level data interfaces with supply chain processes to support traceability and accountability.
Textile Supply Chain
This category covers the textile supply chain, emphasizing fragmentation, opacity, and complexity across stages, geographies, and actors. It highlights the visibility challenges from fiber to finished product.
Commercial Contract ID
Identifiers used to reference the underlying commercial contract (e.g., invoice numbers). This category captures unique IDs that link invoices, orders, or filings to a specific contract.
Article 38 Obligations
Covers Article 38, detailing the obligations of manufacturers within the regulatory framework. It clarifies the roles and responsibilities of importers and distributors in relation to manufacturers and supports compliance and enforcement processes.
Operator Identity and EORI
This category covers the identification and registration of economic operators involved in placing batteries on the market, including importers, market operators, and organizations with EORI identifiers. It groups concepts related to unique operator IDs and EORI codes and maps to subcategories such
Importers and Market Operators
This category encompasses the actors responsible for placing products on the market and managing importer-specific information. It covers battery importers, importers of fibres, and the importer's contact details, highlighting the regulatory role of economic operators in ensuring compliance and trac
Market-Placing Economic Operator
This category designates the economic operator responsible for placing a product on the market. It captures duties related to market access, conformity, labeling, and traceability to ensure compliance with safety and regulatory requirements.
Importer Contact Info
Represents the contact details of importers, including official name, trade name or mark, place of business, and electronic means of communication.
Battery Importers
Represents importers as actors who place batteries on the market and bear responsibility for compliance with the Regulation. This category highlights their role in ensuring battery products meet regulatory requirements before sale.
Importer of fibres
This category represents the actor responsible for bringing fibre materials into the supply chain. It identifies the fibre importer in the traceability path and captures their role, responsibilities, and relevant documentation for origin and compliance.
EORI Identified Operator
Represents Economic Operators registered with an EORI number, specifically IT01606600029. It links the operator to the identified organization and its EORI code.
Economic operators that perform preparation for reuse, repurposing, and remanufacturing of used products and place them on the market. They enable circular economy by extending product life through refurbishing and reuse.
EORI Identified Organization IT01606600029
This category represents the organization identified by its EORI number IT01606600029 in the TRICK system. It enables retrieval and cross-linking of organization data by EORI code.
EORI Codes
Category for Economic Operators Registration and Identification (EORI) numbers used in EU customs and trade. It currently includes the Italian EORI code IT01606600029 as an example of such identifiers.
Operator Identifiers
Identifiers used to uniquely identify economic operators in Annex III contexts. It encompasses the Unique Operator Identifier and EORI registration (Economic Operator Registration and Identification).
Unique Operator Identifier
Defines the single, unambiguous identifier used to uniquely identify an operator within the Annex III context. This ensures consistent operator recognition across datasets and regulatory workflows.
EORI Registration
EORI stands for Economic Operator Registration and Identification. It is the unique number assigned to economic operators for EU customs procedures and related trade communications.
Organization EORI Identifier
Represents the unique EORI (Economic Operator Registration and Identification) number assigned to an organization for customs and trade within the EU. The example shown is IT01606600029 from Italy.
Manufacturer Information and Identifiers
This category aggregates core data about manufacturers (and where applicable, their authorised representatives), including names, addresses, contact details, administrative and company information, and unique identifiers. It supports regulatory disclosure, labeling, and traceability by ensuring accu
This category aggregates all manufacturer-related data, including the name, administrative details, and operator identifiers. It provides a unified structure for disclosure and labeling, with dedicated subcategories for specific data fields such as Manufacturer Name, Administrative Information, and
Manufacturer Name
Represents the field that stores the official name of the manufacturer within the manufacturer information. This field is used to identify the producer consistently across records and systems.
Manufacturer Administrative Information
Represents administrative details for the manufacturer. This includes official identifiers, contact information, and organizational metadata used for governance, compliance, and communication.
Information identifying the manufacturer that must be disclosed on product labels and packaging. It covers the required manufacturer details per labeling regulations.
Operator Identity Information
This category groups attributes related to identifying operators and conveying operator-specific information. It includes identifiers and metadata used for referencing, authentication, and tracking within systems.
Manufacturer Contact Information
Collection of essential contact details for manufacturers used in offers, including name, address, and electronic contact. Enables direct communication and verification with manufacturers.
Manufacturer Contact Details
Contains the official contact information for manufacturers, including name, postal address, and electronic contact details. This enables reliable communication for inquiries, orders, and data exchange across the supply chain.
Manufacturer Contact Info
Specifies the required contact details for the manufacturer to be included in an offer, including name and address. Ensures clear identification and communication with the manufacturer.
Manufacturer and Company Information
Collects essential identifiers for the product manufacturer, including the name and address (and authorized representative when applicable) and core company information. This category groups two subcategories: Manufacturer Details and Company Information.
Manufacturer Details
This category captures the formal name and postal address of the manufacturer and, where applicable, the manufacturer’s authorised representative. It supports traceability and regulatory compliance by clearly identifying the responsible entity.
Company Information
This category contains information about the company and its facilities. It covers locations, infrastructure, and general corporate details.
Manufacturer Identifier and Information
This category collects the data needed to identify the battery manufacturer, including unique identifiers and basic organizational details. It supports provenance, traceability, and validation within the battery passport.
Supply Chain Data & Compliance
This category consolidates data exchange, due diligence, and cost disclosure across the garment and battery supply chains, including invoicing events for garments and battery reuse. It also covers life-cycle costing and control banding risk assessment to support compliance.
Data Exchange & Due Diligence
This category covers the exchange of data about economic operators and the use of internationally recognised due diligence instruments (Annex X, point 4). It enables interoperable sharing of operator information and alignment with global due diligence standards.
Economic Operator Data Exchange
This category covers the exchange of data pertaining to economic operators, focusing on how information about these entities is shared and communicated between parties and systems.
Internationally Recognised Due Diligence Instruments
This category covers internationally recognised due diligence instruments listed in Annex X, point 4. Standards should align with these instruments to support consistent global risk assessment and compliance.
Garment Supply Chain & Invoicing
This category covers economic operators participating in the garment supply and distribution network and the transaction events tied to garment invoicing. It groups both supply chain operators and garment invoice transactions to support tracing of commerce flows.
Supply Chain Operators
Actors that intervene in the supply and distribution chain, including manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and logistics providers. They participate in moving goods from production to end users across the supply network.
Garment Invoice Transaction
Represents a transaction event where a garment is invoiced. This category captures the linkage between the garment item and its associated sales invoice within an invoicing or commerce workflow.
Battery Reuse Invoice
Invoices documenting the continued use or repurposing of batteries after preparation for reuse. This category captures the financial records validating battery reuse activities and related costs.
Point of Sale Cost Disclosure
This category covers disclosures of producer costs shown to consumers at the point of sale. It promotes pricing transparency by revealing underlying cost components to shoppers.
Control Banding Risk Matrix
A standalone Control Banding Risk Matrix clarifies how hazards map to recommended controls when data are limited. This category serves as a decision-support tool in risk assessment, helping prioritize control measures based on hazard and exposure information.
Life Cycle Costs
This category covers the total costs incurred over a product or system's life span—from acquisition through operation and maintenance to end-of-life disposal—encompassing externalities and societal costs. It supports comprehensive life-cycle costing and informed decision making in design and policy.
Technical Documentation & References
Groups the technical documentation and referenced documents mandated by recital 46 and Article 22(3), including required sections and validation information. It also captures the process for recycled fibre requests between Brand/Yarn Producers and Recyclers.
Technical Documentation
This category covers the technical documentation referred to in Article 22(3) and its specific sections. It groups both the overall documentation and the individual sections within it.
Article 22(3) Documentation
Technical documentation mandated by Article 22(3), including the required sections. This category captures the regulatory documents and their specified content.
Technical Documentation Section
Represents a specific section within the technical documentation designated in Article 22(3). This category is used to tag content that references that exact portion of the documentation for compliance or cross-reference purposes.
Technical References
A category that groups documents that validate environmental information and serve as separate technical reference materials. It distinguishes Environmental Technical Documentation from general Technical Reference Documents as distinct information resources within the technical documentation framewo
Environmental Technical Documentation
Represents the technical documentation cited in recital 46 that must include information validating environmental aspects or environmental claims. It organizes materials that support compliance with environmental requirements referenced by the recital.
Technical Reference Documents
A category that isolates technical reference documents as a distinct information resource. It aggregates authoritative specifications, standards, manuals, and data sheets used by engineers and developers to verify requirements and ensure interoperability.
Recycled Fibre Request
Represents a transaction in which a Brand or Yarn Producer requests recycled fibre from a Recycler. The category documents provenance-driven demand for recycled materials within the supply chain.
Ecodesign Regulatory Landscape
Overview of the EU ecodesign regulatory framework and its key components. This category aggregates the core rules, harmonised standards, transitional methods, exemptions, and sector-specific and SME considerations governing ecodesign requirements. It serves as the high-level umbrella for subcategori
Regulatory Framework for Ecodesign
Defines the regulatory context for ecodesign under Regulation 2024/1781, including sectoral design considerations, administrative burden rules, and the roles of market surveillance authorities. This category groups concepts related to compliance, CE marking timing, and cooperation with competent nat
Ecodesign Regulation & Compliance
This category captures the ecodesign regulatory framework established by Regulation 2024/1781 and the related compliance factors that affect operators. It includes considerations of organizational size, potential administrative burdens, dealer obligations, requirements for additional information, an
Ecodesign Regulation 2024/1781
EU Regulation 2024/1781 establishes a framework of ecodesign requirements for products and introduces a Digital Product Passport to support lifecycle data and sustainability. It affects product design, manufacturing, labeling, and information disclosure across the EU market.
Organizational Size
Represents the scale of an undertaking, encoding organizational size as a distinct regulatory factor. This category isolates size as a separate dimension for policy and compliance considerations.
Disproportionate Administrative Burden
This category covers criteria and safeguards to avoid imposing disproportionate administrative burdens on economic operators, especially SMEs. It emphasizes simplifying regulatory processes and reducing the time and cost of compliance.
Obligated Dealers
This category identifies dealers (economic operators) to whom regulatory obligations apply. It distinguishes the subset of dealers bound by duties within the design context.
Additional Information Request
This category encompasses scenarios in which competent authorities may request supplementary information to ensure reliability under paragraph 9. The requests seek any necessary data or documentation to support assessment and compliance decisions.
Top Management Level
Represents the highest tier of organizational leadership defined by Article 49(1)(c). This category is used to tag roles and decisions at the apex of governance and strategic oversight within the organization.
Regulatory Oversight & Authorization
This category groups the regulatory functions and data guiding conformity assessment under EPR. It covers the competent national authority, the data required to validate sustainability calculations, oversight of EPR obligations, and the authorisation of producers and producer responsibility organisa
Competent national authority
A national-level body empowered to request information and evidence to demonstrate conformity with regulatory or standard requirements. It supervises conformity assessment procedures and can enforce compliance when necessary.
Calculation Validation Data
Information required to validate environmental sustainability calculations. It documents the data, methods, and criteria used to verify that calculation results support sustainability claims.
Oversight of EPR Obligations
This category covers the monitoring and enforcement of Extended Producer Responsibility obligations under Article 57. It focuses on ensuring producers meet EPR requirements through compliance monitoring, reporting, and enforcement actions.
Authorisation of Producers
Describes the process for authorising producers and producer responsibility organisations under Article 58, as part of the regulatory framework for extended producer responsibility.
Third-Party Waste Management
Covers arrangements where public authorities or other entities manage waste on behalf of others. Governance instruments include written authorisation and compliance with Directive 2008/98/EC (Waste Management Directive). Includes contracted waste management arrangements and other authorisation mecha
Contracted Waste Management
This category covers waste management activities performed by public authorities or contracted third parties on their behalf. It accounts for outsourcing arrangements where external entities handle waste services for authorities, in alignment with Article 66.
Waste Management Directive
This category covers the EU Waste Framework Directive (2008/98/EC) and its role in authorisation and permitting processes. It captures references to the directive when evaluating waste-related authorisations and regulatory compliance.
Written Authorisation
This category represents a governance instrument requiring formal written permission to authorize actions or decisions. It provides a traceable and auditable form of consent to ensure accountability and compliance. It applies to processes and transactions that depend on written authorisation rather
Economic Operator Management and Plan
This category groups concepts related to the governance and planning framework for an economic operator, covering both its Management System and its Management Plan as described in Article 49. It encompasses organizational processes, oversight, and planning activities that support operator complianc
Economic Operator Management System
Represents the formal management system of an economic operator as described in Article 49. It encompasses governance structures, procedures, and control mechanisms to ensure compliance and effective risk management in procurement and contract management.
Management Plan
This category captures the concept of a management plan, a formal document outlining objectives, tasks, timelines, and resources for achieving project goals. It also describes governance, monitoring, and adjustment processes to keep the project on track.
Business Sector
Classification of the sector in which an undertaking operates. This category captures the industry context and market domain supporting strategy and reporting.
Organizational Structure
This category captures the arrangement of roles, responsibilities, and reporting lines that shape the undertaking's hierarchy. In design contexts, it treats organizational structure as a distinct concept to inform governance, coordination, and communication.
Medium-Sized Enterprises Applicability
Defines the applicability date for policies, rules, or requirements that pertain to medium-sized enterprises. This category isolates applicability details to support timing decisions and context-specific enforcement within the enterprise-size domain.
Reduce Administrative Burden
This category concentrates on policies and design practices aimed at reducing the administrative burden on economic operators. It emphasizes simplifying procedures, minimizing reporting requirements, and streamlining compliance to improve business efficiency and competitiveness.
Administrative Burden Criteria
This category collects criteria designed to avoid disproportionate administrative burden in data collection and reporting requirements. It uses data criterion c as a concrete example of guidance that minimizes effort while achieving regulatory objectives.
Market Surveillance Criteria
Defines data-driven criteria used to guide market surveillance and customs controls (Data criterion b). This category specifies the conditions under which surveillance actions are targeted and enforced.
Market Surveillance Powers
This category captures the powers granted to market surveillance authorities by the regulation, including enforcement actions, inspections, information requests, and the imposition of penalties. It delineates how authorities monitor compliance and enforce the rules.
National Market Surveillance Authorities
Specifies the national market surveillance authorities that must have access to kept documents. This category defines the authorities to which regulatory records should be available for verification and oversight.
Cooperation with National Authority
Importers must actively cooperate with the competent national authority when implementing corrective actions. This category emphasizes regulatory coordination and compliance with national authorities during enforcement processes.
Article 52 Non-Compliance
Captures failures to meet the requirements and obligations set out in Article 52. It encompasses instances of non-compliance and the resulting regulatory implications and potential enforcement actions.
CE Marking Timing
Defines the timing requirement for affixing the CE marking, specifying that the mark must be applied before a product is placed on the market or put into service. This category covers when conformity markings must be displayed to ensure regulatory compliance prior to market introduction.
Market Introduction
This category covers the action of bringing a product to market and making it available for use. It marks the transition from development to commercial availability.
Place of Sale
Identifies the retail location where a product is sold to consumers. This category is used to label and analyze various sales channels, such as brick-and-mortar stores, online shops, markets, and other points of sale.
Dealers and Distributors
Dealers are any natural or legal persons that offer products for sale, hire, or hire purchase. This category includes individuals and organizations acting as sellers, distributors, or intermediaries in commercial exchanges.
Economic operators are entities responsible for complying with the prohibition on destroying unsold products. This category covers actors such as manufacturers, distributors, and retailers who must implement and monitor adherence to this rule.
This category identifies the actors who operate or supply online marketplaces. It distinguishes dealers who trade on platforms from providers who run or enable the marketplaces themselves.
Online Marketplace Provider
An entity that offers a digital platform enabling buyers and sellers to discover offerings and conclude transactions. It functions as an intermediary service via an online interface to facilitate deals between customers and merchants.
Data Service Providers
A category for service providers that create, authenticate, and store data. This label covers entities responsible for managing data throughout its lifecycle, from creation to secure storage and access control.
Issuing Agency
An issuing agency refers to an organization responsible for creating, authenticating, processing, and storing data artifacts. It governs the lifecycle and trust of credentials or identifiers issued within a system.
Watermarks as Data Carriers
This category covers watermarks as a class of data carriers embedded in media to convey information. It highlights design considerations for watermarking, including robustness, imperceptibility, capacity, and resistance to tampering. It helps reason about trade-offs between watermark strength, media
Authority Contact Point
A designated contact point among competent authorities for communicating with the European Commission. This category identifies the official liaison channel used to coordinate messaging with the Commission.
Public Information Campaigns
Campaigns designed to inform the public about recycling programs, collection points, and related procedures. They aim to raise awareness and participation in recycling.
EU Harmonised Standards
Overview of harmonised standards, common specifications, and technical specifications used to ensure conformity with EU product requirements. It also encompasses presumption of conformity, harmonised calculation methods, and related reference documents, including fall-back specifications and charger
Commission Specifications and References
This category aggregates documents related to Commission-adopted fallback technical specifications, reference scales for assessing skill shortages risk, and normative references that establish requirements. It provides a consolidated view of the regulatory and technical materials guiding standards a
Commission Fallback Specs
Common specifications adopted by the European Commission as a fallback option for technical specifications.
Skill Shortages Risk Scale
Defines the reference scale used to assess the risk of skill shortages at the company level. Includes examples that illustrate how indicators map to risk levels, supporting consistent evaluation across organizations.
Normative References
This category collects the normative references listed in Clause 2. These external documents establish the mandatory requirements for the standard and must be consulted to ensure compliance.
Technical and Harmonised Standards
Consolidates the standardization layer that defines technical requirements and harmonised criteria for products. It covers general technical specifications, voluntary harmonised standards for product requirements, and harmonised technical specifications used in conformity assessment.
Technical Specifications
Formal documents that define the specifications and standards needed to ensure effective implementation of essential requirements. They prescribe measurable criteria, interfaces, performance, and constraints to guide design, testing, and compliance.
Voluntary Harmonised Standards
This category covers voluntary harmonised standards for product requirements. They align product specifications across jurisdictions and support conformity assessment, without being legally binding unless adopted by regulation.
Harmonised Technical Specifications
Represents the applicable harmonised technical specifications and European assessment documents. These standards guide conformity assessment under EU regulations.
Harmonised Standards and Methods
Category for harmonisation of calculation methods, harmonised standards, and charger-related assessments. It covers uniform application of calculation methods, standards that confer conformity, and evaluation of harmonised charger requirements.
Harmonised Calculation Methods
Addresses the standardization and consistent application of calculation methods across processes. Promotes uniform practices to ensure comparability, reliability, and regulatory alignment.
Harmonised Standards
Harmonised standards confer the presumption of conformity for product requirements. They serve as a streamlined path for demonstrating regulatory compliance in many jurisdictions.
Harmonised Charger Assessment
This category covers the evaluation of harmonised charging standards for a common charger. It compares regulatory criteria, safety requirements, and interoperability to ensure devices and infrastructure align across markets.
Battery Standards and Rules
This category groups battery-related regulatory elements, including common specifications cited in Article 8(1) and harmonised rules. It serves as a hub for standardized requirements and harmonisation guidance across battery regulations.
Common specifications
This category groups common specifications referenced in Article 8(1) or parts thereof. It identifies standardized requirements that recur across related provisions.
Harmonised Battery Rules
This category collects harmonised rules applicable to batteries, reflecting standardized requirements across global standards and regulatory frameworks. It helps link battery-related compliance expectations to a common regulatory baseline.
Harmonised Standards and Reference Scales
This category encompasses harmonised standards or common specifications cited as minimum requirements. It also covers reference scale assessments, including ISO 14075, 2024, which guide measurement and comparison across contexts.
Harmonised Minimum Standards
Harmonised standards or common specifications that are referenced as minimum requirements. They provide a baseline to ensure consistent compliance and interoperability across processes and products.
This category documents the ISO 14075:2024 standard cited for reference scale assessment in environmental performance evaluations. It identifies the reference-scale framework used in analyses and ensures consistency across assessments.
Harmonised Standards and Traceability Data
This category encompasses harmonised standards or common specifications cited in Articles 41 and 42, and standardized data collection practices designed to improve traceability and transparency across supply chains. It groups two subcategories: Harmonised Standards and Standardized Data for Traceabi
Represents the harmonised standards or common specifications cited in Articles 41 and 42 of the regulation. These standards facilitate consistent conformity assessment and interoperability across member states.
Standardized Data for Traceability
Provides standardized, circular data collection methods to improve traceability and transparency across processes. It also promotes sustainability by ensuring data are captured consistently and reused where appropriate.
Harmonised EU Standards
This category covers harmonised standards or parts thereof whose references have been published in the Official Journal of the European Union. Such standards are used to demonstrate conformity with EU requirements.
Harmonised Standards and Specifications
This category covers harmonised standards and common specifications referenced in Regulation 202 to ensure consistency across regulatory requirements. It supports alignment and interoperability among related standards.
EU Harmonised Standards are documents drafted by European standardisation organisations at the European Commission's request to provide common technical specifications. They enable uniform compliance with EU legislation across member states and support faster market access and conformity assessment.
Green Standards & Roadmaps
This category groups harmonised standards, sectoral roadmaps, and data-model guidance that enable green public procurement and environmental performance assessment in textiles. It covers regulatory relationships, carbon-footprint harmonisation, SME impact criteria, and standardized vocabularies used
Sectoral Roadmaps and Criteria
Consolidates sector-specific roadmaps under Regulation (EU) 2021/1119 with the central impact assessment framework and SME impact considerations. Explains how EU policy objectives translate into core assessment criteria for evaluating sectoral initiatives.
Sectoral Roadmaps
This category aggregates the sectoral roadmaps referenced in Regulation (EU) 2021/1119. It encompasses sector-specific plans outlining actions, milestones, and cross-policy coordination at the EU level.
SME Impact Criterion
This category covers the impact criterion related to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It describes how projects affect SMEs and what SME needs must be considered.
Core Criteria for Impact Assessment
This category defines the central framework of impact assessment, outlining the essential criteria that must be considered. It ensures a consistent, criterion-driven approach to evaluating effects.
EU Policy Objectives
This category captures the articulated aims that guide European Union policymaking. It encompasses strategic objectives across areas such as economic growth, social inclusion, environmental sustainability, and market integration, used to frame policy development and evaluation.
Standards and Harmonisation
This category covers European performance assessment standards, the harmonisation of carbon footprint calculation rules, and GS1 data standards referenced in the data model. It groups standards used in implementing acts and interoperability for measurement and reporting.
European Standards for Performance Assessment
European standards referenced or used in implementing acts for assessing performance. They provide consistent criteria and measurement methods used to evaluate outcomes across EU contexts.
Harmonisation of Carbon Footprint Rules
This category addresses the harmonisation of technical rules for carbon-footprint calculation across methodologies. It aims to reduce discrepancies and enable comparability by standardising inputs, boundaries, and calculation practices.
GS1 Standards
Represents GS1 standards referenced by the data model. It groups GS1 standards that cover product identification, barcoding, and related data exchange used within the model.
Green Public Procurement
This category covers the regulatory basis and procedural guidelines for green public procurement (GPP), including regulations that require sustainable purchasing and chapters on procedures for amending restrictions on substances. It also highlights procurement requirements specifically for batteries
Regulation to Green Procurement
This category captures the relationship where regulatory requirements mandate green public procurement. It links laws and policies to procurement decisions to promote sustainability in public procurement practices.
This category covers policies and practices for environmentally responsible purchasing. It also includes the procedures to amend restrictions on substances within procurement frameworks.
Green Public Procurement Batteries
Defines requirements and criteria for green public procurement when purchasing batteries or products containing batteries. It guides buyers to ensure environmental performance, lifecycle considerations, and compliance with sustainability standards.
Standards and Data Models
This category covers standards referenced by the data model, including circularity standards like circular.fashion's circularity.ID and EON. It also highlights adoption of standardized data models as a mitigation for data traceability barriers.
Circularity Standards
This category groups standards referenced by the data model for circularity in fashion, including the circularity.ID identifier. It captures the standardized references used to describe circularity properties and compliance within the dataset.
Referenced Standards
Represents standards that are cited by the data model. EON is an example of a standard included in the set of referenced standards to ensure interoperability with external specifications.
Standardized Data Models
This category covers the adoption of standardized data models as a mitigation action to overcome data traceability barriers. It promotes consistent data structures to improve interoperability, lineage tracking, and governance.
Transitional Methods & Guidelines
Encompasses transitional methods and harmonised standards used in textile data models, together with Textile Exchange guidelines referenced by data standards. It serves as a parent category for two subcategories: Transitional Methods and Standards, and Textile Exchange Guidelines.
Transitional Methods and Standards
This category covers transitional methods and harmonised standards, including partial elements of these standards to be used. It describes the interim or harmonised approaches applicable during transitions.
Textile Exchange Guidelines
Contains Textile Exchange guidelines referenced by the data model standards list.
Textile Vocabulary and Nomenclature
This category aggregates standards related to textile environmental vocabulary and standardized nomenclature for reporting materials. It includes ISO 5157 and public nomenclature standards used in textile environmental assessment.
Textile Environmental Vocabulary
This category covers ISO 5157, the textile environmental aspects vocabulary standard. It defines terms and concepts related to environmental considerations in textiles, as developed by ISO/TC 38/WG 3560.
Nomenclature Standards
Public standards or agreed naming conventions used for reporting materials. This category covers standardized terms, codes, and conventions to ensure consistency and comparability across datasets and publications.
EU Regulatory and Legal Context
This category aggregates European Union instruments, directives, and regulations shaping product regulation, market access, and operator obligations across construction and related sectors. It encompasses notification procedures, responsibilities of competent authorities and economic operators, and
EU Regulatory Instruments
This category groups core EU legal instruments that shape environmental policy, including the Packaging Waste Directive, the Industrial Emissions Directive, and the EU Taxonomy Regulation. It highlights how packaging waste, emissions control, and sustainability criteria are regulated at the EU level
Packaging Waste Directive
Directive 94/62/EC on packaging and packaging waste establishes the EU framework for packaging design, production and end-of-life management to minimize environmental impact and maximize recyclability. It guides producers, regulators, and waste managers in implementing sustainable packaging, labelin
Industrial Emissions Directive
Represents Directive 2010/75/EU, the European Union's Industrial Emissions Directive. It governs the prevention and control of emissions from industrial installations, with Annex II detailing monitoring and compliance requirements.
EU Taxonomy Regulation
Regulation (EU) 2020/852 establishes the EU Taxonomy framework for classifying environmentally sustainable economic activities. It outlines criteria and procedures that underpin sustainable finance disclosures and investment decisions across the EU.
Notification Authorities and Bodies
Covers the governance of notification procedures among Member States, including competent national authorities with access to digital product passport information. Defines the roles of notifying authorities and notified bodies (as per Chapter VI) in informing the Commission and other Member States.
Notification Process
Defines the procedure for Member States to inform the European Commission and other Member States about the bodies authorized to act or participate. This category covers formal notifications within EU governance structures.
Competent National Authorities
An actor category for governmental bodies endowed with authority to access digital product passport information. They serve as the primary regulators overseeing DP data access and governance.
Notifying Authorities and Notified Bodies
Describes the roles and procedures of notifying authorities and the designated notified bodies under regulatory regimes. Covers notification processes, scope of authority, and oversight of conformity assessment activities.
EU Internal Market Regulations
This category groups European Union regulations and related concepts governing the internal market and its potential emergency mode. It includes Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012, Regulation (EU) 2024/2747, and the concept of Internal Market Emergency Mode.
EU Regulation 1025/2012
This category covers Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012, the EU standardisation regulation. It governs European standardisation activities and designates the standardisation bodies (CEN, CENELEC, and ETSI) along with their governance rules.
Internal Market Emergency Mode
This category describes the state where the internal market enters emergency mode due to disruptions. It captures how such a mode affects market operations and policy measures during the affected period.
EU Regulation 2024/2747
Regulation (EU) 2024/2747 governs the EU's internal market emergency mode. This category collects references to the regulation as it relates to emergency measures impacting internal market operations and cross-border activities.
Human Rights and Economic Operators
This category collects core standards on the rights and responsibilities of economic actors within a global human-rights framework. It includes the ILO's Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work and the International Bill of Human Rights, outlining universal rights and the obligations that accompan
Economic Operators: Rights and Obligations
This category outlines the duties and entitlements of economic operators under the regulatory framework. It covers compliance obligations, market conduct, and protections of operators' rights within the legal system.
ILO Fundamental Rights
Covers the ILO's eight Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work as defined in the ILO Declaration. It highlights core rights such as freedom of association, collective bargaining, elimination of forced labor, abolition of child labor, and non-discrimination.
International Bill of Human Rights
Core international instruments defining and protecting human rights, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the two binding covenants that codify civil, political, economic, and social rights (ICCPR and ICESCR).
EU Construction Product Compliance
Describes construction products that meet binding European Union requirements. It centers on EU conformity rules and the binding Union requirements, linking to related subcategories such as EU construction compliance and binding Union requirements.
EU Construction Compliance
This category includes construction products that meet binding European Union requirements. It covers conformity with EU regulations and harmonized standards, including CE marking where applicable.
Binding Union Requirements
Represents the prerequisites and conditions needed to establish a binding union between entities. It specifies the criteria that must be satisfied for the union to be binding within the ontology.
Legal & Regulatory Standards
This category groups concepts that define the legal credibility of data collected in use scenarios and key regulatory standards such as the Euro 7 regulation. It covers the legal framework for data and vehicle regulations governing type-approval, systems, components, and emissions, guiding complianc
Legal Framework for Data
Defines the formal legal rules and standards governing data collection, storage, and use across different use scenarios, and sets the level of legal credibility for the data. It guides compliance and accountability in data-driven decisions.
Euro 7 Regulation
Category for the Euro 7 regulation, the new EU framework governing type-approval of motor vehicles, engines, and their systems and components. It outlines the scope and requirements for conformity assessment under the regulation.
SME Regulatory Provisions
This category gathers SME-focused regulatory provisions, including exemptions, phased prohibitions, conformity timelines, and software update rules. It also encompasses socio-economic sustainability assessments, EcoReport tools, and related data structures for Bill of Components.
Bill of Components Data Structures
This category consolidates attributes and data-structure definitions related to the Bill of Components. It includes dedicated nodes such as Bill of Something Attributes, Bill of Component, Bill of Components Table, and the Bill of Components data structure, as well as platform data structures reused
Bill of Something Attributes
Represents the attributes associated with a Bill of Something (a placeholder for any legislative bill). This node provides a reusable metadata category for describing generic bills, supporting consistent labeling and classification.
Bill of Component
Defines the data model for a Bill of Component as a standalone data source. It captures the attributes that describe a component's bill, as outlined in Table 25.
Bill of Components Table
Describes Table 24 that defines the billOfComponents data structure. This category captures the tabular representation used to model components and their relationships within a bill of materials.
Bill of Components
Represents the data structure used to model a bill of components, capturing individual components and their relationships. This dedicated node provides a formal representation for the bill of components data structure within design contexts.
Platform Data Structures
This category covers data structures that are defined for reuse across the platform, ensuring consistency and interoperability across components. It captures standard, predefined shapes used by multiple services.
Conformity Timelines
This category groups the time-based constraints governing conformity assessment and related actions, including cross-border response times, annual recalculation triggers, and short objection windows. It clarifies the deadlines within which actions must be taken or objections raised.
Cross-Border Conformity Response Time
Defines the standard turnaround time for replying to cross-border conformity assessment requests. The example timeframe is 15 days, used to measure responsiveness and service levels across jurisdictions.
Annual Recalculation Trigger
Captures rules requiring recalculations to be initiated when software updates occur, within a one-year window. This time-based policy ensures updates prompt timely re-evaluation of related calculations.
Two-Week Objection Window
Defines the two-week period allotted to object to accreditation-based notifications. Establishes the standard objection window for such notices. Useful for compliance processes that involve accreditation communications.
Two Month Objection Period
Defines the two-month window within which objections to provisional measures must be raised. This category encapsulates the procedural deadline and related requirements for timely challenges to provisional orders.
Socio-Economic Assessment Tools
Aggregates methods and resources for evaluating socio-economic sustainability within the Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) framework. It also encompasses the EcoReport tool, a simplified reporting aid that facilitates Eco-design assessments.
Socio-Economic Sustainability Assessment
Evaluates social and economic dimensions within Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) to complement safety and environmental considerations. It assesses impacts on stakeholders, economic viability, and long-term sustainability of products and processes.
EcoReport Tool
A simplified software tool named EcoReport used to support eco-design assessment. It facilitates environmental performance evaluation and data-driven sustainability decisions in product design.
This category captures regulatory provisions affecting micro, small, and medium enterprises related to destruction prohibitions, including exemptions for micro and small enterprises and phased rollout for medium-sized enterprises.
Micro and Small Enterprises
This category captures regulatory considerations specific to micro and small enterprises (SMEs). It highlights compliance requirements, exemptions, and policy implications that uniquely affect SMEs to guide regulatory design and assessment.
SME Destruction Exemption
This category captures regulatory exemptions that allow micro and small enterprises to be exempt from a destruction prohibition under applicable laws. It identifies policy carve-outs granting relief to SMEs in specific contexts.
Prohibition Phase for Medium-Sized Enterprises
This category represents the phase-in period during which destruction is prohibited for medium-sized enterprises under the regulation. It identifies a specific stage within the overall destruction prohibition framework.
EU Regulatory Frameworks
Group of EU regulations governing ecodesign, construction products, and battery-related compliance. It aggregates core Regulation references (e.g., 2024/3110, 2024/1781, 2023/1542) and their relationships for governance, updates, and product stewardship.
Regulatory Compliance & Updates
A category for regulatory requirements such as Regulation 2024/3110 and Regulation 2023/1542, together with the governance practice of mandatory software updates. It defines how software products must remain compliant through ongoing updates and maintenance.
Regulation 2024/3110 Compliance
This category covers Regulation 2024/3110 and the compliance obligations it imposes on products. It highlights required documentation, conformity assessments, and reporting criteria to ensure regulatory adherence during product design and release.
Mandatory Software Updates
This category captures governance and maintenance requirements that mandate timely software updates across systems. It emphasizes reducing security risk and maintaining reliability through enforced update policies and monitoring.
Regulation 2023/1542
This category pertains to Regulation 2023/1542 that is currently under discussion. It groups materials and discussions related to the regulation's provisions and potential impact.
Battery Regulation References
This category gathers terms and references related to battery regulation, including the EU Battery Regulation and the BattReg shorthand. It serves as a hub for regulatory terminology used in battery requirements.
Battery Regulation
Contains the regulatory rules and standards governing batteries as referenced by the requirements. This includes safety, labeling, performance, and disposal regulations applicable to battery technologies.
EU Battery Regulation
Regulatory framework governing recycled content requirements for batteries in the European Union. This category covers policies and standards that mandate minimum recycled materials in new batteries and related compliance.
This category covers regulatory aspects related to batteries, represented by the BattReg concept. It references Annex XIII (1a) and Annex VI, Part A (2), capturing the relevant regulatory requirements and compliance considerations.
Regulation for Portable Batteries
Governs the core rules applying to portable batteries and any supplemental provisions. This category captures how the regulation relates to portable batteries and clarifies the scope, safety, labeling, and compliance considerations.
Portable Battery Regulations
This category captures the regulatory relationships that specify rules apply to portable batteries. It encodes how regulations are linked to portable battery requirements.
Supplemental Regulation
Represents a regulation that supplements an existing regulatory framework. It captures provisions introduced to augment, clarify, or extend the scope of an existing regulation.
Regulation 2024/1781
Category grouping for Regulation 2024/1781 and its EU designation. It covers references to the regulation as 'This Regulation' and as 'EU Regulation 2024/1781', providing a consistent hub for related child topics.
This category focuses on Regulation 2024/1781 (This Regulation), identified as the primary legal framework referenced in the recital. It designates the main regulatory instrument governing the subject under discussion.
EU Regulation 2024/1781
This category centers on Regulation (EU) 2024/1781, the final ESPR regulation. It collects and contextualizes materials related to the ESPR framework within the European Union.
EU Ecodesign and Battery Regulations
This category aggregates EU-wide regulatory frameworks for ecodesign and battery management. It covers Regulation 2024/1726 establishing the ecodesign requirements framework and Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 on battery passport data, with subtopics for the EU Ecodesign Regulation 2024 and the EU Battery
EU Ecodesign Regulation 2024
Covers Regulation (EU) 2024/1726, which establishes a framework for setting ecodesign requirements for products sold in the EU. It outlines the scope, processes, and governance for defining energy and environmental performance standards.
Represents the regulatory framework governing the data attributes used in the EU battery passport. It encompasses data standards, reporting obligations, and interoperability requirements for batteries sold in the European Union under Regulation (EU) 2023/1542.
EU Construction Products Regulation
Regulation (EU) 2024/3110 establishes harmonised rules for placing construction products on the EU market, including conformity assessment and declarations of performance. It promotes consistent safety, performance, and information across member states.
EU Product Standards Regulation
This category consolidates European Union standards, conformity frameworks, and eco-design regulations shaping batteries and textile waste streams. It covers harmonised standards, CE marking, ESPR, ECodesign requirements, and potential battery-chemistry reporting standards, as well as relevant desig
Performance & Conformity Standards
Collects standards governing how product performance is assessed (harmonised) and the conformity standards cited in CE marking. It groups the two related domains—performance harmonised standards and CE conformity standards—under a single category to support compliance assessment.
Performance Harmonised Standards
Harmonised technical standards that specify methods and criteria for assessing a product's performance. These standards enable consistent testing, conformity assessment, and market access.
CE Conformity Standards
Standards referenced to demonstrate conformity for CE marking. Includes harmonized EU standards that show compliance with essential health, safety, and environmental requirements, guiding conformity assessments for products sold in the EU. May also include other referenced standards used in the CE p
Standards and Battery Chemistry
Content on harmonised standards whose criteria are demonstrated by the conformity assessment body, alongside potential standards suitable for battery chemistry reporting. The category is divided into Conformity to Harmonised Standards and Battery Chemistry Standards.
Conformity to Harmonised Standards
Represents harmonised standards whose conformity with their criteria is demonstrated by a conformity assessment body. The category highlights the role of assessment bodies in validating that these standards meet their specified criteria.
Battery Chemistry Standards
Identifies potential standards and frameworks that could be used to report battery chemistry data. Helps harmonize reporting practices and improve interoperability across datasets and products.
Eco-Design Regulation
This category covers European Union eco-design laws and regulations governing the design of sustainable products, including frameworks that influence the battery regulation framework. It groups related topics such as EU Eco-Design Law and Ecodesign Regulation for Sustainable Products as subcategorie
EU Eco-Design Law
This category covers European Union laws and regulations governing eco-design for sustainable products, including directives and compliance frameworks. It addresses how product life-cycle environmental performance is regulated and enforced across member states.
Ecodesign Regulation for Sustainable Products
This category covers the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) and its role as a cross-cutting standard shaping eco-design requirements for batteries and other products. It highlights how ESPR influences the broader battery regulation framework.
Textile Sorting and Ecodesign
Covers textile sorting processes for discarded materials, including who sorts by fibre content and color (human or automated systems), and the ecodesign requirements and stakeholder involvement described in Table 43. It links sorting practices with ecodesign governance and supply chain participation
Textile Sorting
This category covers the process and roles involved in sorting discarded textiles by fiber composition and color. It includes both human sorters and automated systems that classify textiles to optimize recycling, reuse, and material streams.
Ecodesign Requirements and Stakeholders
Addresses ecodesign requirements and the involvement of supply chain stakeholders as described in Table 43. It outlines the criteria, roles, and collaboration needed to implement ecodesign across the product life cycle.
EU Product Regulation
This category groups EU rules that govern product ecodesign and conformity labeling. It covers the ESPR ecodesign regulation and the CE mark on labels as proof of conformity.
ESPR Ecodesign Regulation
Represents the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) as a regulatory framework governing design requirements for products to reduce environmental impact throughout their lifecycle. It encompasses rules, compliance criteria, and policy intent to incentivize sustainable design practices
CE Mark on Label
This category captures evidence of conformity shown by a CE mark on a product label. It indicates compliance with applicable EU safety, health, and environmental requirements.
Battery Design and Assembly Standards
Standards governing the design and assembly techniques for batteries, aimed at facilitating maintenance, repair, and repurposing.
Traceability and Standards
This category gathers concepts related to ecodesign scope and traceability, standardisation bodies, and key regulatory references that govern traceability practices. It groups normative sources and process models used to establish traceability systems, including OECD and EU official documents and UN
Ecodesign Scope and Traceability
Consolidates the ecodesign scope, the scoping exercise documented in SSbD, and the setup of the traceability system (Step 3). It links the defined ecodesign requirements to the traceability activities described in the documentation.
Ecodesign Scope
Defines the scope and boundaries of ecodesign requirements, clarifying what is covered and who is responsible. It specifies applicable lifecycle stages and contexts for compliance.
Scoping Exercise
Represents the scoping exercise described in SSbD documentation, outlining the objectives and boundaries of the SSbD effort. It defines what is in scope and what is outside, guiding subsequent analysis and documentation.
Traceability System Setup
Guidance for configuring and deploying a traceability system within processes. This step outlines the tasks to install, configure, and integrate the system to capture product and process data for end-to-end traceability.
Traceability Standards
Consolidates key concepts about traceability processes and regulatory guidance. It groups the generic traceability process and UN GTR No 22 as core elements of traceability standards and governance.
Generic Traceability Process
Category for process models that define generic traceability across products and lifecycle stages. It outlines common steps, roles, and data flows used to track and verify provenance in diverse contexts.
UN GTR 22
Global Technical Regulation No. 22 under the United Nations WP.29 framework. This category groups references and documents related to this specific GTR.
Standardisation Bodies
Entities that develop and coordinate standards for traceability and technical specifications. It includes national standardisation bodies as well as European standardisation organisations.
Identifies standardisation bodies as actors involved in developing traceability and technical specifications.
European Standardisation Organisation
A category for bodies responsible for developing and coordinating European standards, including organisations such as the European Committee for Standardization. These organisations enable interoperability and trade across Europe by creating common technical specifications.
OECD and EU Official Journal
This category groups topics related to the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) and the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU). It serves as a hub linking intergovernmental organization materials with EU publication resources, with subcategories for OECD Organization
OECD Organization
OECD stands for the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, an intergovernmental organization that promotes policies to improve economic and social well-being worldwide. This category covers topics related to the OECD, its member states, governance, and key initiatives.
EU Official Journal
Represents the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU), the primary source for EU law and official acts. It covers publications of regulations, directives, decisions, and notices issued by EU institutions.
UNECE in Supply Chain Events
This category identifies UNECE as a referenced standard body in models that implement the supply chain Event concept. It reflects the influence of UNECE guidelines on event data modeling, interoperability, and cross-border logistics.
EPR Registries & Monitoring
This category consolidates the registries, national systems, and monitoring activities that support Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) compliance for batteries. It covers registered producers, the information held in registers, and the oversight processes used by market surveillance authorities.
EPR for Batteries
This category covers the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) framework as it applies to batteries, including financing for collection, treatment, and recycling. It also addresses the policy principle of EPR and the roles of EPR systems and stakeholders in battery lifecycle management.
EPR Battery Financing
Costs associated with financing the collection, treatment, and recycling of batteries under Extended Producer Responsibility. This category captures the economic burden of funding end-of-life battery management.
Extended Producer Responsibility
This category centers on Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), a policy principle that places accountability for a product's end-of-life on the original manufacturer. It underpins rules that require producers to finance and manage take-back, recycling, and disposal programs, and to design products
EPR Systems Stakeholders
Represents Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) systems as stakeholders within the data model. It outlines their roles in product lifecycle governance, regulatory compliance, and interactions with other actors.
EPR Monitoring and Surveillance
Covers the entities and systems responsible for monitoring EPR compliance and supporting market surveillance authorities in enforcement. It encompasses EPR compliance monitors and the mechanisms that bolster market surveillance activities.
EPR Compliance Monitors
Entities responsible for monitoring and enforcing Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) requirements. This category includes regulatory agencies, auditors, inspectors, and third-party evaluators that verify producer compliance and support enforcement actions as needed.
Market Surveillance Support
This category describes features of the battery passport that aid market surveillance authorities in carrying out their oversight tasks. It emphasizes providing accurate, timely, and auditable information to support compliance checks, enforcement actions, and product traceability.
Registered Producer Entities
This category covers two related records: manufacturers' registered places of business and the national register of producers. These records monitor compliance with producer requirements and authorize operation.
Registered Place of Business
This category covers the official registered address of a manufacturer—the legal place of business used for registrations, permits, and correspondence. It clarifies the legal address from the operational site and is essential for regulatory compliance, taxation, and liability.
Register of Producers
An official registry maintained by Member States that lists producers subject to regulatory requirements. It supports monitoring and enforcement of compliance, enabling verification of duties under producer-responsibility schemes.
Register Information
Data recorded in the official EPR register that supports monitoring and enforcement activities. This category includes information elements essential for traceability, compliance verification, and enforcement actions related to extended producer responsibility.
Information in the Register
Data recorded in official registers used to monitor and enforce Extended Producer Responsibility obligations.
National System Registration
Registration within the national system as required by Article 71(5) for operators. This category covers the procedures, eligibility, and submission mechanics for operator registration under the national framework.
Online Battery Marketplaces
Category covering online sale of batteries and the platforms that enable distance selling, including online marketplaces and platform ecosystems (REFIT/TRICK). It also encompasses information requirements for batteries placed on the market.
Online Sales and Battery Information
This category covers products offered for sale online or by distance selling and the information requirements for batteries placed on the market, including sustainability obligations. It groups concepts related to online commerce channels and battery market information.
Online and Distance Selling
Covers products offered for sale online or through distance selling channels. It includes goods marketed via remote sales methods and treated as available to customers.
On-Market Battery Information
Information about batteries placed on the market and the sustainability requirements they must meet. Includes regulatory compliance and lifecycle obligations.
Distance Selling
Defines the practice of selling products or services at a distance, encompassing both general distance selling and online distance selling. It groups related concepts and clarifies how sales occur without in-person interactions, including online channels.
Online Distance Selling
Sales conducted over the internet where the buyer and seller are in different locations. This category covers e-commerce platforms, online storefronts, and other forms of distance selling enabled by digital channels.
Represents the practice of offering products for sale, hire, or hire purchase through remote channels such as online platforms, mail-order, or telephone sales. It encompasses consumer interactions, terms, and protections involved in transactions conducted at a distance.
REFIT and TRICK Platforms
This category covers two EU platform concepts: the REFIT platform established by Commission Decision C(2015) 3261 and the TRICK platform referenced in interfaces. It groups platform initiatives and their interfaces within EU governance and interoperability contexts.
REFIT Platform
The REFIT Platform is the European Union platform established by Commission Decision C(2015) 3261 to coordinate stakeholder engagement on improving EU legislation. It supports the Regulatory Fitness and Performance (REFIT) program by collecting proposals to simplify laws, reduce regulatory burden, a
TRICK Platform Interfaces
This category groups references to the TRICK platform as an interface resource. It captures how TRICK is described or used to interface with other components or systems, highlighting its role in integration and interaction within broader architectures.
Online Marketplaces and Platforms
This category covers providers that operate online marketplaces and platforms for batteries, enabling listings, distance selling, and online purchases. It includes both general marketplace providers and battery-specific platforms that facilitate remote transactions.
Online Marketplace Providers
Entities that operate and host online marketplaces, enabling interactions between buyers and sellers. This category covers platform owners, operators, and the ecosystem delivering listing, search, payments, and governance services for marketplaces.
Online Battery Platforms
Providers that offer batteries through online platforms and facilitate distance contracts. This category includes e-commerce sites and marketplaces where customers purchase battery products remotely.
Exemptions and Derogations
This category collects exemptions and derogations related to ecodesign regulations and the digital product passport. It covers exemptions under Article 14, water-exposed appliance derogations, medical devices derogations, delegated act exemptions, and digital passport exemptions across related subca
Digital Passport Exemptions
Groups concepts related to exemptions from the digital product passport obligation and the applicability of Article 14 to the information web portal. It clarifies who is exempt and how Article 14 applies to the portal used for passport information.
Digital Product Passport Exemption
This category covers products that are exempt from the obligation to provide a digital product passport under Article 14. It encompasses regulatory carve-outs and specific conditions that remove the requirement.
Article 14 Web Portal Applicability
This category captures the clause that defines the applicability of Article 14 to the web portal that provides information about the digital product. It clarifies the scope of Article 14's online information requirements for the portal.
Exemptions may be granted to ecodesign requirements under specific conditions. This category defines the circumstances under which exemptions are allowed, the authorization process, and any criteria or limits that apply to manufacturers seeking relief.
Derogation for Water-Exposed Appliances
This category covers derogations (exemptions) for appliances designed to be exposed to water. Such wet-environment appliances may have components that are removable or replaceable only by independent service providers.
Derogation B Medical Devices
This category documents Derogation B exemptions for professional medical imaging and radiotherapy devices, as well as in vitro diagnostic medical devices. It outlines the scope and regulatory contexts in which these devices may be used under specific allowances.
Delegated Act Exemptions
Covers exemptions granted through delegated acts within regulatory frameworks. It identifies exemptions created when a 'where possible' approach is delegated to another authority, illustrating how delegated legislation shapes compliance rules.
Power Capability and Fade
Defines the core power capability of a system, including its original wattage rating and limits. It also covers power at 80% and 20% state of charge and the fade formula relating remaining power to the original rating.
Power rating and limits
Captures the original power capability in watts and its operating limits, including any relevant temperature range. It documents maximum continuous and transient power bounds associated with the component.
Power at 80/20 SOC
Specifies the battery's available electrical power at two states of charge: 80% and 20%. This category enables comparison of performance across SOC levels and informs design and operation decisions.
Power Fade Formula
Defines the mathematical expression for power fade as the ratio of remaining power to original capacity. Covers the variables and relationships used to model how power diminishes over time or usage. Applicable to contexts such as battery life, signal strength budgeting, and power management.
Harmonised Standards & Specs
Groups harmonised technical specifications, the harmonised standards list, and harmonised standards cited in Article 15. This category supports conformity assessment and regulatory alignment by providing the referenced standards framework.
These are the harmonised technical specifications cited in Article 5, representing standardized technical requirements. They establish uniform criteria to ensure consistency and interoperability across implementations. This category groups the official specifications and references underpinning comp
Harmonised Standards List
A catalog of harmonised standards referenced in Article 15, applicable in full or in part. This category collects the standards recognised for regulatory compliance and their partial applications.
Art 15 Harmonised Standards
This category encompasses harmonised standards that are referenced as potential causes of non-conformity under Article 15. It captures how adoption or reference to these standards affects conformity assessments and the identification of non-conformities. The focus is on the role of harmonised standa
Substances in Products
This category covers the presence, identification, and management of chemical substances in consumer products. It encompasses regulatory requirements, concentration thresholds, reporting, and risk reduction to protect health and the environment.
Materials Data & Documentation
Top-level category for material information—covering composition, feedstock, and material attributes across products and processes. It also encompasses technical documentation for conformity and performance, battery material data, and bills of materials, organizing related sustainability and fibre d
Composition & Feedstock
This category groups methods for analyzing the composition of waste streams and material feeds, including municipal and battery waste surveys, and foundational concepts related to monomer building blocks and feedstock requests. It covers compositional analysis techniques and the workflows used to pr
Battery Waste Composition
Describes methods for conducting a compositional survey to quantify the share of portable batteries and LMT batteries within collected waste. This category covers the processes used to measure the proportion of different battery types in waste streams.
Waste Composition Surveys
Surveys that quantify the material makeup of mixed municipal solid waste collected from communities. They identify proportions of organics, plastics, paper, metals, glass, and other materials to inform waste management and recycling strategies. These analyses support planning, policy development, an
Monomer Building Block
A monomer is a molecule that can covalently bond with other monomer units to form polymers during polymerization. It serves as the fundamental building block in polymer chemistry, enabling diverse macromolecules.
Feedstock Request Process
Defines the workflow for submitting, routing, and processing feedstock-related requests within data models and systems.
Textile Materials and Fibres
Covers materials used in textile production, such as polymers and active electrochemical materials, along with fibre production and textile fibre references. It connects material science concepts to textile manufacturing and fibres.
Active Electrochemical Material
An active electrochemical material is a substance that undergoes chemical reactions to generate electrical energy in electrochemical cells. It participates in redox processes during energy storage and release, as seen in battery electrode materials.
Polymer Substances
Polymers are macromolecular substances made from repeating monomer units. This category encompasses materials formed by polymerization, including both natural and synthetic polymers, with diverse structures and properties.
Fibre Production
An operation dedicated to manufacturing fibres, whether natural or synthetic. It encompasses the processes, equipment, and workflows used to convert raw materials into usable fibre for textiles, composites, and other industrial applications.
Textile Fibre Reference
A reference node for textile fibres, consolidating definitions and classifications of fibres used in fabrics. This category acts as a terminological anchor for natural and synthetic fibres within the textile domain.
Material Composition
A high-level category for information about the composition of different materials used in products, including batteries, chemical constituents from raw materials, and textile fibres. It groups data on constituent materials and their sourcing or hazardous components across domains.
Battery Material Composition
Describes the chemical makeup of batteries, including raw materials and the hazardous chemicals involved. This category addresses material sources, composition data, and safety considerations.
Chemicals from Raw Materials
This category groups chemical compounds derived from specified raw materials used in the manufacturing process. It links the compounds to their base materials (A–D) to reflect input-based classification.
Fibre Composition
Details the fibre composition of the textile. It identifies the types of fibres used in the fabric and their relative proportions. This information informs performance, care, and sourcing considerations.
Materials Used and Attributes
This category captures the core data about materials used in the battery model, including the materials themselves, their TRC product attributes, and the total mass. It is organized into subcategories for non-harmonised materials, TRC product attributes, and material mass.
Non-Harmonised Materials
This category captures cases where the materials actually used differ from those specified by harmonised standards. It distinguishes actual usage from mandated materials and highlights non-identical materials in practice.
TRC Product Attributes
Represents the attributes that describe a TRCProduct. These properties define product characteristics used for description, filtering, and comparison within the TRC domain.
Material Mass
Represents the total mass of materials used in the battery model. This quantitative attribute accounts for all constituent materials and is used to derive energy density, packing efficiency, and other performance metrics in simulations.
Battery Material Data
This category consolidates data attributes related to battery materials and their composition, including supply quantities, material types, and production processes. It covers information on what is supplied, how data are structured, and the specific material characteristics used in battery passport
Supply Information
Details about what a supplier provides, including quantities, material types or chemical composition, and the production process used.
Data Composition
Represents the composition of the first-level data attributes for products or organizations. This category captures how basic data elements are combined at the top level to form a cohesive dataset.
Battery Materials Attributes
This category contains data attributes in the battery passport that pertain to the materials used in a battery and its composition.
Materials and Sustainability
This category groups the materials used in the product, including the 3D printing materials and the Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability. It serves as a hub for material provenance, process inputs, and sustainability policies guiding chemical management.
Main Materials Used
Identifies the main materials used in a product's construction or formulation. This category supports material sourcing, sustainability assessment, and precise product specification.
3D Printing Materials
Materials used as feedstock in the 3D printing process. They include plastics, resins, metals, ceramics, and composites, selected based on printer technology, mechanical properties, and end-use requirements.
Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability
Category encompassing policies and initiatives aimed at advancing safe, sustainable management of chemical substances across their lifecycle. It includes regulatory strategies, risk reduction, safer-by-design principles, and transparent reporting to support environmental protection and human health.
Technical Documentation and Fibre Data
This category aggregates technical documentation used to demonstrate product conformity, support performance assessments, and capture fibre composition data for recycling. It connects conformity, performance, and material data to enable compliance workflows and lifecycle assessments.
Conformity Documentation
Technical documentation that proves a product meets its specified requirements. This category includes test reports, certificates, declarations, and other evidence of conformity used for regulatory, standards, or contractual purposes.
Performance Documentation
Technical documentation that demonstrates the correct application of a system or component for performance assessment. It provides evidence that the performance criteria are met.
Fibre Composition Data Point
Represents a single data record detailing the complete fibre composition of a material for recycling analysis. It captures the full breakdown of constituent fibres to inform recycling decisions and processing requirements.
Contains the elements specified in Annex VIII and the detailed battery composition information, including which materials are involved and their content. It also specifies material content requirements in relation to renewable content proportion.
Annex VIII Elements
Elements defined within the modules described in Annex VIII of the regulatory framework. This category groups items explicitly listed in those Annex VIII modules and applicable to the subject domain.
Battery Composition Details
In-depth information on the chemical and material makeup of batteries, detailing core components such as active materials, electrolytes, binders, and separators. It explains the role of each component and how composition affects performance and safety.
Material Content Specifications
Defines which materials are involved and the exact content composition, with emphasis on renewable-content proportion requirements.
Materials & BOMs
This category covers the materials used in battery manufacturing and the Bill of Materials (BOM) that specifies the required materials and their quantities. It also distinguishes virgin raw materials used at the start of production, supporting sourcing and cost planning.
Bill of Materials
A catalog of all components and quantities required to manufacture the battery. It defines material inputs, units, and quantities to guide procurement and production planning.
Virgin Raw Materials
Virgin raw materials are new, unused inputs used at the start of production. This category distinguishes fresh inputs sourced directly from natural or synthetic origins from recycled or reclaimed materials, often implying higher purity or quality.
Product Safety & Information
Groups EU safety requirements, health information, risk assessments, and regulatory references across consumer products (including toys, construction, batteries), emphasizing non-quantitative requirements and safety during normal use. It supports compliance, risk management, and clear end-user safet
Health and Safety Information
This category consolidates essential health, safety, and rights information for end users, including EU chemical safety assessments and general product safety data. It also covers product quantity information relevant to sustainability reporting.
Health, Safety and Rights Information
Essential health, safety, and rights information for end users.
EU Chemical Safety Assessments
Contains chemical safety assessments conducted by relevant EU bodies for substances. These are official evaluations used to inform risk management and compliance under EU chemical safety regulations.
Product information and safety
This category covers general product information, usage instructions, and safety information referenced by annex provisions. It provides guidance on safe use and essential safety notices to inform users.
Product Quantities
This category covers the different quantities to which sustainability data for products can refer, including examples like functional units and other quantity identifiers used to quantify product performance or characteristics.
SSbD Health and Hazards
This category aggregates SSbD considerations for protecting human health and safety, reducing manufacturing hazards, and avoiding detrimental design choices that hinder reuse, repair, or refurbishment. It includes guidance on selecting safe extinguishing agents and mitigating risks to people, proper
Detrimental Solutions Avoidance
This category covers the deliberate avoidance of technical solutions that hinder reuse, upgrading, repair, maintenance, or refurbishment. It promotes selecting durable, interoperable, upgradable, and repair-friendly technologies to extend product lifecycles and reduce waste.
Risk to Health and Safety
Describes whether any condition or action poses a risk to human health, the safety of persons, property, or the environment. It also covers situations where no such risk is present.
Hazard Reduction in Manufacturing
Strategies to minimize the use of hazardous chemicals and materials in manufacturing processes, improving safety and environmental performance.
Extinguishing Agent Category
This category groups extinguishing agents into functional classes used in fire suppression. It enables classification and interoperability by organizing agents such as water, foam, dry chemical, and CO2 into named categories.
Toy Safety Regulation
This category aggregates regulatory standards and safety practices for toys, centering on the Toy Safety Directive (Directive 2009/48/EC). It also covers concepts related to product serious risk, quality control and safety instructions, and general safety measures.
Toy Safety Directive
EU Directive 2009/48/EC sets safety requirements for toys sold in the European Union. It regulates chemical content and labeling to protect children, and serves as a reference point for chemical safety considerations in toy-related contexts.
Product Serious Risk
Category capturing evidence that a marketed product, due to its physical condition, is likely to cause serious injury or harm. It represents high-severity safety risks identified for products placed on the market.
Quality Control and Safety
This category encompasses the quality control checks and safety instructions that must be followed during examinations, testing, packing, and shipping. These guidelines ensure safe handling and reliable results.
Safety Measures
Safety measures encompass policies, protocols, and practices designed to prevent harm and reduce risk. This category includes procedures, controls, and safeguards that organizations implement to protect staff, customers, and operations.
Product Safety
This category groups concepts related to ensuring product safety, including harmonised safety requirements, practical safety measures, and post-accident safety assessments. It emphasizes evaluating and improving safety performance, particularly for batteries after incidents.
Product Safety Requirements
This category covers safety requirements for products as defined by harmonised technical specifications. These standards ensure products meet uniform safety criteria across markets.
A category for actions, protocols, and controls designed to enhance safety and prevent harm in processes and environments. It covers practices that mitigate risk and protect people and assets.
Post-accident Battery Safety Assessment
This category specifies the process for assessing battery safety after an accident. It covers hazard identification, risk evaluation, containment, and recommendations to prevent further harm.
Construction Safety
Encompasses safety aspects of construction, including safety of construction products (and works), safety assessment processes, and process safety schemes.
Safety of Construction Products
Addresses safety characteristics and regulatory requirements of materials and products used in construction, as well as safety considerations during construction works. It covers hazard identification, compliance with standards, and risk mitigation.
Safety Assessment
Contains concepts related to evaluating safety and risk. It focuses on hazard identification, risk assessment, and safety compliance. This category supports systematic safety evaluation across domains.
Process Safety Scheme
A category for frameworks and schemes that govern process safety management, focusing on preventing major process incidents through risk assessment, governance, and control measures in high-hazard industries. It covers standards and practices that enable regulatory compliance and continuous safety i
Non-Quantitative Requirements
This category covers requirements defined without numeric metrics, including general qualitative obligations. It also encompasses non-quantitative product parameter requirements aimed at influencing performance related to product parameters, and serves as the parent for the subcategories Qualitative
Qualitative Requirements
Qualitative requirements are obligations described in non-numeric terms rather than numeric metrics, emphasizing descriptive criteria and judgments. This category covers standards and expectations that rely on qualitative assessment instead of measurable thresholds.
Non-Quantitative Parameter Requirements
This category covers qualitative requirements described without numeric thresholds, aimed at improving performance relative to product parameters. They guide design, evaluation, and optimization by shaping desirable behaviors and outcomes without precise measurements.
Battery Storage System Safety
Safety category addressing safety considerations for stationary battery energy storage systems. It covers CPR-related safety aspects and safe operation during normal use, and serves as the parent for CPR Safety Aspects and Operational Safety subcategories.
CPR Safety Aspects
Safety aspects for which the Construction Products Regulation (CPR) may apply to products in a complementary manner. This category highlights the intersections between CPR-driven safety requirements and other product safety regimes.
Operational Safety
Covers safety considerations for stationary battery energy storage systems during normal operation and use, including risk mitigation, safe operating procedures, incident prevention, and compliance with applicable standards.
Health Protection and Risk Management
This top-level category groups health-related risk assessment, protection measures, and the provision of health information across the product lifecycle. It encompasses health criteria, exposure thresholds (e.g., DNEL), and state-of-health concepts used to guide risk management and protect people an
Health and Safety Considerations
This category groups health and safety factors related to derogations, hygiene protection, and exposure limits. It covers justification for concessions based on health concerns, lifecycle hygiene protections, and the concept of DNEL (Derived No-Effect Level). DNEL defines exposure thresholds below w
Health and Safety Justifications
This category captures health and safety concerns used as reasons to justify derogations from standard requirements. It includes risk assessments and protective measures cited to permit exceptions in policy or practice.
Hygiene and Health Protection
Measures and practices that prevent adverse hygiene and health impacts across the product or system life cycle. Includes safeguards, sanitation, and health risk mitigation from design through end-of-life.
Derived No-Effect Level
DNEL stands for Derived No-Effect Level. It denotes the exposure level below which humans are not expected to experience adverse effects, used in risk assessment to protect human health.
Product Risk and Lifecycle
This category gathers approaches to analysing risks across the product lifecycle, including risks associated with product use. It also covers how manufacturing lifecycle stages contribute to overall risk, linking product risk analysis with lifecycle attribution in production.
Product Risk Analysis
This section outlines the process for analyzing risks arising from product use. It covers hazard identification, exposure assessment, and prioritization of mitigation actions.
Manufacturing Lifecycle Contribution
Represents the contribution of the main product's production/manufacturing lifecycle stage to overall outcomes such as cost, environmental footprint, or value. This attribute identifies how this lifecycle phase shapes product performance and sustainability.
State of Health and Protection
This category covers concepts related to evaluating the state of health as a criterion for distinguishing shipment types, and the Health Protection service that delivers health safeguards in logistics. It links health status criteria with services that protect health during transport.
State of Health
This category captures criteria related to the health state used to differentiate shipment types. It focuses on health indicators referenced to distinguish shipments, informing their classification or prioritization.
Health Protection Service
A category for services that safeguard population health by preventing disease and mitigating health risks. It covers activities that monitor threats, respond to public health emergencies, and enforce protective measures.
Health Protection
This category covers health protection as a dimension of sustainability assessments, focusing on safeguarding human health within environmental and social performance. It includes concepts and topics that address health protection in data models and assessment topics.
Health protection within sustainability assessments covers measures to safeguard human health, including disease prevention and risk mitigation. It also evaluates protective strategies for workers and communities and assesses health-related outcomes as part of overall sustainability performance.
Health Protection Topics
This category covers health protection topics included in the data model. It groups the single concept health protection to support analysis and interoperability around health safeguards and protective measures.
Health State and Protection
This category encompasses concepts that describe the health status and protection assessment for energy systems. It includes Health Protection Assessment and State of Health, forming the health-state parameter set used for LMT and stationary BESS.
Health Protection Assessment
A category for evaluating measures that protect health. It covers risk assessment, effectiveness of protective controls, and compliance with health protection guidelines.
Composite health status for energy storage assets, derived from a combination of parameters from LMT and stationary BESS. This SoH attribute supports monitoring, diagnostics, and maintenance planning by reflecting degradation, remaining life, and overall asset condition.
Risk and Health Information
Covers how risk contact information is managed and how health information is provided to end users and third parties. It unites two related information-sharing activities under a single category.
Risk Contact Information
Contains contact details for risk-related inquiries, reporting, or escalation. Provides pathways to reach responsible teams or individuals when addressing risk matters.
Health information provision
This category covers the dissemination and provision of health information to end users and third parties. It addresses how information is communicated, through which channels, and the accessibility and accuracy required to support informed health decisions.
Substance Impacts on Environment
Describes how substances affect the environment, human health, safety, and people. It covers exposure, toxicity, and risk considerations.
This category represents the concept of State of Health (SoH), indicating the current health or integrity of a system or component. It encompasses indicators and assessments that reflect degradation, remaining useful life, and overall health status.
This category captures the presence and classification of chemical substances in products, including plasticisers, battery materials, and various raw materials. It ties together terminology, composition, and safety considerations across material sourcing, manufacturing stages, and product-level repo
Substance Presence in Products
Represents the concept of detecting and recording the presence of chemical substances within products to support chemical safety assessment. It highlights the presence of substances such as nickel and lead in consumer items.
This category covers the occurrence of chemical substances within consumer products, focusing on safety implications and regulatory considerations. It encompasses identification, assessment, and communication of substances present in products to ensure chemical safety.
Nickel Share
Represents the concept of nickel share, referring to the portion or allocation of nickel in a market, production, or resource context. This node serves as a placeholder for data and analyses that quantify nickel's relative presence.
Lead Sharing
Lead sharing describes the practice of distributing or exchanging potential customer leads across teams, partners, or channels to improve conversion rates. It involves data governance, lead scoring, privacy compliance, and clear attribution to ensure quality and accountability.
Plasticiser Concepts
This category groups concepts related to Chemical A as a plasticiser, including the plasticiser function and related chemical recycling. It links a specific chemical to its plasticising role and to recycling processes within a chemical-safety context.
Chemical A
Represents the chemical labeled 'Chemical A' within the scoping analysis table. This node catalogs the substance for reference, retrieval, and cross-linking in the analysis workflow.
Plasticiser Function
This category defines the function of a plasticiser (Chemical A) in modifying polymer properties, with emphasis on safety considerations in design and regulation. It anchors the concept within chemical-safety contexts to guide risk-aware material design.
Chemical Recycling
Chemical recycling describes processes that convert waste polymers and materials back into usable chemical feedstocks or monomers through chemical reactions. It complements mechanical recycling by enabling depolymerization, pyrolysis, gasification, and other methods to recover higher-value materials
Battery Chemistry and Nomenclature
This category groups core concepts related to battery chemistry and naming conventions. It covers how differing chemistries are characterized, the use of IUPAC/CAS identifiers, and standard naming for cathodes, anodes, and electrolytes. It is subdivided into Battery Chemistry, IUPAC/CAS Nomenclature
Battery Chemistry
Represents the general chemical composition of batteries that differentiates battery types, defined by the active materials used in the electrodes.
IUPAC/CAS Nomenclature
This category covers naming conventions that rely on IUPAC systematic names and CAS registry numbers to uniquely identify chemical substances. It encompasses standardized nomenclature referencing IUPAC and CAS identifiers used in chemical databases and literature.
Battery Electrode Naming
This category covers the naming conventions for cathodes, anodes, and electrolytes in battery chemistries. It clarifies how these components are designated across different technologies to support clear communication and documentation.
Tier 4 Materials and Batch
Bundles Tier 4 raw material extraction with the initial batch used to seed production of final goods. It describes early-stage inputs and the initial stock that drive downstream transformations, as tracked on the TRICK platform.
Tier 4 Raw Material Extraction
Covers the Tier 4 stage in the value chain, focusing on the extraction of raw materials. It identifies key characteristics of upstream sourcing as listed on the TRICK platform, including environmental and social considerations associated with extraction activities.
Initial Batch
Represents the initial batch of input goods that contributes to the creation of final transformed products, serving as the starting point for production. It denotes the raw materials or starting items before processing.
Raw Materials and Battery Compounds
This category covers the extraction of raw materials used in batteries and the chemical compounds derived from them (e.g., cobalt, graphite, lithium, nickel). It links the sourcing stage in the value chain with the materials that constitute battery chemistry.
Raw Material Extraction
This category captures the upstream acquisition of natural resources used as inputs in production. It encompasses activities such as mining, quarrying, harvesting, and other extraction methods, along with related environmental and social considerations in the value chain.
Battery Material Compounds
This category covers chemical compounds whose composition is based on cobalt, natural graphite, lithium, or nickel as listed in BattReg Annex X. It includes derivatives such as salts, oxides, sulfates, and intercalation compounds used in battery technologies, enabling regulatory and supply-chain cla
Pure Substances
Materials with a single chemical composition, such as pure elements or pure compounds with a fixed formula. This category excludes mixtures, which contain two or more compositions.
Battery Chemical Safety
This category covers chemical substances in batteries, their hazards, and regulatory controls (such as REACH and Annex XVII). It also addresses material composition, disclosure practices, and related concepts like the battery passport and bill of chemicals.
REACH Governance and Restrictions
This category groups key REACH governance elements: the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), Annex XVII restrictions, and the REACH Evaluation Joint Action Plan. It highlights how oversight, restrictions, and action planning shape substance regulation under REACH.
European Chemicals Agency
The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) is the EU regulatory body established by Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 to manage chemical safety. It oversees REACH implementation, chemical registrations, hazard assessments, and public information on chemical risks.
REACH Annex XVII Restrictions
This category covers the restrictions listed in Annex XVII of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 (REACH). It includes prohibitions and limitations on the manufacture, placement on the market, and use of certain substances and processes, guiding compliance and enforcement.
REACH Joint Action Plan
A category for documents detailing coordinated evaluation activities under the REACH Regulation. It outlines objectives, scope, timelines, and responsibilities for joint actions among regulatory authorities.
Battery Materials and Hazards
This category encompasses the material composition of batteries, including chemistry and the hazardous substances present. It also covers the environmental and health impacts of these substances and the locations of hazardous materials within batteries for safe treatment and disposal.
This category covers the chemical makeup of batteries, including active materials, electrolytes, casings, and other components, as well as the hazardous substances they may contain. It supports safety, regulatory compliance, and disposal considerations by detailing material composition and potential
Hazardous Substances Impact
Describes the environmental and human health impacts of hazardous substances contained in batteries, including exposure pathways and ecological risks. Supports risk assessment, regulation, and guidance on safe handling, disposal, and remediation.
Hazardous Substance Location
Specifies the locations of all hazardous substances inside a battery to guide safe treatment and handling. This category supports planning containment, extraction, and disposal procedures.
Product Safety & Cadmium
This category encompasses inherent product safety risks addressed by harmonised specifications across the product life cycle. It also highlights cadmium restrictions in batteries, integrating safety considerations across the lifecycle.
Inherent Product Safety Risks
Identifies inherent product safety risks addressed by harmonised specifications across the product life cycle. It covers standards, guidelines, and requirements applied throughout design, manufacture, use, and end-of-life to ensure safety.
Cadmium in Batteries
Cadmium is a chemical substance restricted in batteries due to toxicity and environmental concerns. This category collects policies, regulations, and classifications that limit or ban cadmium use in battery manufacturing.
Lead in Batteries
This category captures lead-related concepts in batteries, including the chemical symbol Pb and regulatory restrictions on hazardous substances such as mercury, cadmium, and lead.
Lead Symbol Pb
Represents the chemical symbol Pb used to indicate lead content in a battery.
Restricted Substances in Batteries
Batteries that meet restrictions on mercury, cadmium, and lead. This category groups products manufactured or marketed under regulations limiting these hazardous substances.
Battery Chemical Information
Covers chemical data related to batteries, including the chemical bill of materials used in production and information on the impacts of substances within the battery passport.
Chemical Bill of Materials
Documents chemicals used in manufacturing processes, serving as a chemical bill of materials. It captures the chemicals involved in production, supporting traceability, procurement, and compliance.
Substance Impact Information
Information on the environmental, health, and safety impacts of substances present in batteries, as recorded in the battery passport. This category collects data about how chemicals in batteries may affect people and ecosystems.
Bill of Chemicals
A taxonomy category for documenting chemical bills, invoices, and related procurement metadata. It enables targeted management of chemical purchases and billing workflows.
Hazardous Substances Disclosure
Information on hazardous substances in batteries that must be disclosed. It covers chemical composition, regulatory reporting, and safety disclosures to support compliance and environmental responsibility.
Health Safety Environment
This taxonomy category groups requirements and concepts related to protecting human health and the environment. It covers risk reduction, safe-use instructions, protective measures (PPE), and hazards such as PM emissions and ionising radiation, including lithium battery safety and installation/maint
Health Risk and Safety
An overarching category for health-related risk management, integrating risk reduction for human health and the environment, health and safety of persons, and assessment of carcinogenicity. It describes performance requirements aimed at reducing health risks and indicators of cancer-related health i
Health and Environmental Risk Reduction
This category covers the practice of setting performance requirements that aim to reduce significant risks to human health and the environment. It emphasizes risk-based design and proactive mitigation strategies.
Health and Safety of Persons
This category covers measures and considerations that protect the health and safety of individuals. It includes risk prevention, safety procedures, and compliance across workplaces, public spaces, and care settings.
Human Carcinogenicity
Represents indicators of substances' potential to cause cancer in humans. This category captures human cancer-related health impacts from chemical exposures.
PM Impact Limits
Represents regulatory considerations around particulate matter, combining health-impact indicators with limits on environmental impact categories. It connects measurement of PM health effects to the statutory or policy limits governing PM emissions.
Impact Category Limit
Represents a cap or maximum allowable value for a single environmental impact category. This node constrains performance or quantity within that specific domain rather than across all impacts.
Particulate Matter Health Impacts
This category collects indicators that quantify health effects associated with particulate matter (PM) exposures, drawing on PM emissions and precursor data. It supports air quality assessment and public health risk analysis by linking PM levels to health outcomes.
Safe Use and PPE
Guidance on using the product safely, combining practical operating instructions with protective measures for users. It covers safe-use steps and required protective equipment to minimize risk.
Safe Use Instructions
This category covers guidance on the safe operation and handling of the product. It includes warnings, precautions, and recommended practices to minimize risk and ensure user safety.
User Protective Measures
This category covers safety actions the user must take to protect themselves, including the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) where appropriate.
Lithium Battery Health and Safety
This category combines safety guidance for handling waste lithium batteries with general health and safety practices within the social fairness framework. It links lithium-specific handling instructions with broader safety considerations to protect workers, the public, and the environment.
Lithium Battery Safety
Safety instructions for handling and disposing of waste batteries, including lithium-containing batteries. Covers precautions, storage, transport, and hazard mitigation.
Health and Safety
This category encompasses health and safety considerations within the social fairness pillar, emphasizing risk prevention, safe environments, and equitable access to protective measures. It highlights policies, practices, and design choices that protect people in workplaces and communities.
Health Effects of Ionising Radiation
This category covers the human health impacts of ionising radiation and the indicators used to assess risk from exposure. It links ionising radiation concepts with health outcomes and risk assessment in environmental contexts.
Ionising Radiation and Human Health
Represents the environmental essential characteristic of ionising radiation and its effects on human health. This category groups data and assessments related to exposure risks and health outcomes from ionising radiation.
Ionising Radiation
This category focuses on ionising radiation and its health-related impacts. It covers exposure sources, risk factors, and indicators used to assess radiation-related health effects.
Installation, Maintenance and Safety
Contains information on installation and maintenance contact details, as well as instructions on use, deconstruction and demolition. It also includes safety instructions for batteries, including removal and replacement.
Installation and Maintenance Contacts
Provides contact details for installation, maintenance, use, deconstruction, and demolition, guiding users to the appropriate personnel or services. It directs users to the responsible parties for service and decommissioning.
Battery Safety Instructions
Guidelines and safety information for the proper use, removal, and replacement of batteries. Includes handling precautions and risk mitigation.
Chemical Safety and Substances
Provides a high-level view of chemical safety in products, covering substance identification, hazard classification, and regulatory guidance. It connects detailed composition (including battery components), chemical descriptors, and guidance like SCIP to manage risks posed by hazardous substances. F
Battery Cell Composition
This category covers the materials and composition of battery cells, including cathode, anode, and electrolyte. It also notes risks from unbalanced substance composition and accommodates multiple chemical compositions and provisional placeholder concepts in the design context.
Unbalanced Substance Composition Risk
This category captures the risk that an uneven distribution of substances within a product leads to flawed safety-relevant performance. It addresses formulation imbalances that can affect product safety, reliability, and regulatory compliance.
Battery cell composition
Describes the detailed composition of an electrochemical cell, including the materials used for the cathode, anode, and electrolyte. It also notes how material choices influence performance and safety.
Provisional Placeholder Concepts
This category hosts provisional placeholder concepts used when a final concept for the selected chemical A application is not yet defined. It supports establishing an interim concept (t) to anchor the design context and guide early exploration.
Multiple Chemical Compositions
A category for substances that do not have a single chemical composition but comprise more than one constituent. This includes mixtures, alloys, and composite materials where distinct chemical components coexist.
Chemical Descriptors
A category of chemical property descriptors, covering lipophilicity measurements and dye-specific descriptor fields. It groups these descriptor types under a common conceptual umbrella for chemical data modeling.
Lipophilicity Measurement
Represents the tendency of a compound to partition into lipids relative to water, reflecting its affinity for lipophilic environments. This property influences absorption, distribution, and permeation in biological systems.
Dyes Descriptor
Represents descriptor information for dyes used in a bill of chemicals. This category defines a dye descriptor node to capture dye-related properties for chemical materials, enabling consistent characterization and data exchange.
SCIP Guidance and Substances
This category houses SCIP guidance on concentration ranges and the SCIP framework for Substances of Concern In Products. It links two focused subcategories: Concentration Guidance and Substances in Products.
SCIP Concentration Guidance
Guidance on determining and reporting concentration ranges for SCIP submissions. This category captures best practices and requirements for how concentration ranges should be defined and documented within the SCIP framework.
SCIP Substances in Products
SCIP stands for Substances of Concern In Products, a regulatory database used to track substances of very high concern in products. This category captures terms related to SCIP and the framework for identifying, listing, and managing SVHCs in consumer and industrial goods.
Chemical Safety and Identification
This category groups core aspects of chemical safety within product sustainability, including risk management and regulatory compliance. It also covers substance identification, the process of identifying chemicals present in products or used in manufacturing, to support safer design and decision ma
Chemical Safety
Chemical safety is recognized as a core element of product sustainability. This category covers the safe selection, handling, substitution, and lifecycle management of chemicals to minimize risk to people and the environment. It supports compliance with safety standards and fosters responsible desig
Substance Identification
Describes methods for detecting and identifying chemical substances in products and their manufacturing inputs. Includes analytical techniques and documentation to support safety and traceability.
Hazardous Substances
Substances classified as hazardous under the EU CLP Regulation. This category informs risk communication, labeling, and safe handling by applying CLP hazard classes and associated precautionary measures.
Critical Raw Materials Governance
Group topics covering Critical Raw Materials (CRM) used in batteries, including due diligence for conflict minerals, restrictions on substances, hazard assessment, and governance frameworks (e.g., UNEP). It also encompasses material-specific issues such as natural graphite, cobalt and nickel, and th
CRM and Conflict Minerals
This category covers Critical Raw Materials (CRM) identification across the product life cycle, cobalt used as a battery material, and due diligence obligations for minerals and metals originating from conflict-affected areas. It groups topics including conflict minerals due diligence, cobalt batter
Conflict Minerals Due Diligence
Guidance on due diligence obligations for minerals and metals sourced from conflict-affected areas. Supports responsible sourcing, risk assessment, and compliance with regulatory requirements in supply chains.
Cobalt Battery Material
This category covers cobalt when used as a material in batteries. It highlights its role, properties, and impact on battery performance and energy storage.
CRM Life-Cycle Identification
Describes the process of identifying Critical Raw Materials (CRMs) across the product life cycle, from design to end-of-life. It emphasizes the strategic role of CRMs in sustainability, supply security, and responsible sourcing.
Restrictions, Substances, and Hazard Assessment
This category collects regulatory concepts related to limiting substances in batteries, including examples of appropriate restrictive measures by Member States. It also covers restrictions on substances referenced in Annex I and the tiered hazard assessment approach used to evaluate risk.
Appropriate Restrictive Measures
This category contains examples of restrictions deemed appropriate as measures by Member States. It highlights how such restrictions function as policy responses and governance tools.
Restrictions on Substances
This category covers prohibitions on substances used in batteries. Batteries must not contain any substances that are restricted by Annex I of the regulation, ensuring compliance with chemical safety requirements.
Tiered Hazard Assessment
This category describes a progressive, tiered approach to hazard evaluation. It guides selecting the appropriate assessment depth based on context and risk, enabling efficient and effective hazard identification and mitigation planning.
Natural Graphite
Natural graphite used as a material in batteries. This category covers graphite sourced from natural deposits that is employed as an electrode material in energy storage technologies.
UNEP Mineral Resource Governance
This node catalogs references to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Resolution 4/19 on Mineral Resource Governance. It encapsulates governance principles and commitments for the management of mineral resources as articulated in the resolution.
Cobalt and Nickel Mining Issues
This category covers social and environmental challenges linked to cobalt and nickel mining and refining. It includes labor practices, community health and displacement, environmental degradation, pollution, and supply chain responsibility.
Recovered Battery Metals Share
Represents the percentage proportion of cobalt, lithium or nickel in active battery materials that is recovered from waste streams (manufacturing scrap or post-consumer). This metric assesses material recovery efficiency and informs circular economy performance in battery supply chains.
Battery Chemical Hazards
This category groups concepts related to chemical substances, heavy metals, and hazard identification in batteries. It covers cadmium and mercury content, cobalt materials, regulatory thresholds (CadmiumContentThreshold), chemical symbols (Cd), and considerations for leakage, leaching, exposure, and
Battery Metals & Hazards
This category integrates heavy metals in batteries, hazard and exposure assessment considerations, and cobalt material references. It serves as a parent for subtopics such as Heavy Metals in Batteries, Hazard & Exposure Considerations, and Cobalt Material.
Heavy Metals in Batteries
This category encompasses rules and guidelines for acceptable levels of heavy metals in battery materials and products. It includes measurement, compliance, and reporting requirements to ensure environmental and safety standards are met.
Hazard & Exposure Considerations
Key aspects to address when identifying hazards and evaluating exposure. This category guides systematic thinking about factors influencing hazard characterization and exposure assessment.
Cobalt Material
Cobalt is listed as a material in BattReg Annex X. This category groups cobalt under the regulatory material listings associated with Annex X.
Chemical Leakage and Heavy Metals
Covers chemical hazards from leaking or leaching, with emphasis on mercury and regulatory cadmium thresholds for batteries. It brings together general leakage risks and specific substance-related labeling rules.
Chemical Leakage Risks
Covers risks from chemicals that leak or leach into the environment, including soil and water contamination and potential exposure. It focuses on detection, assessment, and mitigation to protect environmental and human health.
Mercury (Chemical Substance)
Mercury in this category refers to the chemical substance Mercury, the element Hg. It is a dense, liquid metal at room temperature with notable toxicity and various industrial and scientific applications.
Cadmium Content Threshold
This category covers regulatory thresholds for cadmium and lead content in batteries. It specifies that batteries containing cadmium above 0.002% or lead above 0.004% must be marked with the designated hazard label, guiding labeling and compliance requirements.
Chemical Item and Symbol
Represents chemical-field items and their symbolic representations. Contains two child concepts: Chemical Item and Cadmium Symbol (Cd).
Chemical Item
Represents an individual chemical entry captured as a field in a bill of chemicals. It models the chemicalItem reference at the item level.
Cadmium Symbol
Represents the chemical symbol for cadmium (Cd). Used in chemical formulas and periodic tables to denote this element.
Substances under Article 2(27)(d)
Substances defined under Article 2(27)(d) are grouped within this category. The specific substances to include will be determined for each product group.
Cadmium Symbol Cd
Represents the chemical symbol Cd used to denote cadmium content in a battery. This category supports labeling and reporting of cadmium presence in battery materials and safety disclosures.
EU Chemical Regulations
Covers the European Union's regulatory framework for chemicals, including safety information, material composition, and labeling requirements. It encompasses core regulations such as REACH, CLP, and related provisions (e.g., Regulation 1935/2004 and Article 48(2)), organized into subtopics like Mate
Category for attributes that describe what a material is made of. It encompasses fibre composition and chemical content as core aspects of a material’s makeup.
This category describes the makeup of fibres within a material, specifying the types of fibres used and their relative proportions. It codifies fibre composition as a core attribute in material definitions.
Chemical Content
Describes the chemical composition of a material, substance, or sample. Includes data on constituent substances, their concentrations, and relevant chemical properties used in analysis and characterization.
REACH Information Provisions
This category covers the information requirements mandated by Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 (REACH). It also links to Article 48(2) as the governance reference for the provision and handling of REACH information.
REACH Information Requirements
Contains information to be provided under Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 (REACH). It applies where applicable to ensure REACH disclosure and compliance.
Article 48(2) Reference
Represents governance and regulatory references tied to Article 48(2). This category groups the regulatory context and related cross-references, including the Article-48-2-2 concept as a governance reference.
CLP Regulation and H&P
This category groups the CLP Regulation (EC No 1272/2008) and its associated Hazard (H) and Precautionary (P) statements. It supports understanding of classification, labeling, and safety communication requirements under CLP.
H and P Statements
Hazard (H) and precautionary (P) statements specified under the CLP Regulation. These standard phrases communicate hazards and required precautions on product labels and safety data sheets.
CLP Regulation
The EU CLP Regulation (EC No 1272/2008) governs the classification, labeling, and packaging of chemicals. It harmonizes hazard communication across member states in line with the Global Harmonized System (GHS).
This category covers European Union regulations governing chemicals and materials, including safety requirements and exposure controls. It includes key regulations such as Regulation (EC) No 1935/2004 for materials intended to contact food and REACH (EC 1907/2006) for chemical substance registration
EU Regulation 1935/2004
Category covering Regulation (EC) 1935/2004, a European Union rule governing materials and articles that come into contact with food. It addresses chemical safety, migration limits, and compliance requirements for substances used in packaging and contact surfaces.
REACH Regulation
The REACH Regulation (EC 1907/2006) governs registration, evaluation, authorization, and restriction of chemicals in the EU, with emphasis on Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC). It sets roles and duties for industry and authorities to ensure chemical safety and inform downstream users.
Voltage Information and Safety
This category focuses on voltage-related safety and information for batteries. It includes minimum and maximum voltage data and the public accessibility of voltage information, as captured in the battery passport.
Low Voltage Safety
Category describing electrical contexts that operate at low voltages and the safety considerations tied to them. It highlights hazards, protective measures, and regulatory implications that distinguish low-voltage environments from higher-voltage categories.
Minimum Voltage Information
Specifies the requirement to include minimum voltage data in a battery passport. This should cover the lowest operating voltage and, where relevant, the associated temperature ranges.
Public Voltage Information
This category ensures that information about maximum voltage is accessible to the public. It promotes transparency, safety, and informed decisions by making critical electrical data publicly available.
Maximum Voltage
This category defines the upper voltage limit for safe battery operation. It is used to constrain charging voltages and ensure cell safety and longevity.
EU Digital Services Enforcement
This category covers the regulatory framework for the EU Digital Services Market, including Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 and enforcement rules. It also includes mechanisms for infringement notifications and the treatment of illegal shipments under related EU legislation.
Infringement and Illegal Shipments
This category groups concepts for infringement notification and illegal shipments, including shipments deemed illegal under Regulation 1013/2006. It covers processes to inform authorities about suspected violations and to identify shipments that do not meet regulatory requirements.
Infringement Notification
This category represents the process by which an operator notifies authorities about additional or suspected infringements detected. It describes escalating enforcement communications to regulatory bodies and sharing relevant information to support action. It may involve documenting evidence and coo
Illegal Shipment
Represents shipments classified as illegal under Regulation 1013/2006 due to lack of supporting evidence. This status is used to denote enforcement actions where insufficient proof prevents a shipment from meeting regulatory requirements.
EU Digital Services Regulation
Covers Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 establishing the EU Digital Services Regulation and the enforcement rules that accompany it. It serves as a parent category for the two subcategories: EU Digital Services Regulation and EU Enforcement Rules.
Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, commonly known as the Digital Services Act (DSA), creates a harmonized framework for digital services and online platforms in the EU. It updates the e-Commerce Directive 2000/31/EC, outlining transparency, content moderation, and risk management duties, with special provis
EU Enforcement Rules
This category covers the enforcement rules defined by Regulation (EU) 2022/2065. It outlines how enforcement is implemented, including the responsible authorities, procedures, and compliance measures mandated by the regulation.
Concentration Thresholds and Limits
Category for concentration-based regulatory concepts about substances, including Annex I f limits, tracking thresholds, general substance concentrations, and PNEC. It helps organize risk assessment and compliance around concentration thresholds and limits.
Concentration Limits (Annex I f)
This category captures regulatory concentration thresholds for substances as specified in Annex I, point (f). It supports compliance, risk assessment, and labeling by making the specified limits explicit.
Concentration Thresholds for Tracking
This category captures the concentration thresholds that trigger tracking requirements for substances in products and components. It defines the specific concentration levels that initiate monitoring and compliance actions.
Substance Concentrations
This category covers the concentration levels of substances of concern, including maximum concentrations and the ranges observed or allowed. It supports risk assessment and regulatory decision‑making by specifying how much of these substances may be present.
Predicted No-Effect Concentration
Predicted No-Effect Concentration (PNEC) is an ecotoxicology metric representing the environmental concentration below which adverse effects are not expected. It informs risk assessments and regulatory decisions by defining safe concentration thresholds to protect ecological receptors.
Material and Product Quantities
This category gathers quantities of materials embedded in products and the related product-level quantities used for sustainability data. It also includes input feedstock used in recycling processes, linking feedstock to material composition and product sustainability metrics.
Material Quantities
Represents the amounts of each material incorporated into a product, typically expressed as mass, volume, or percentage. This category supports disclosure and regulatory labeling by detailing the material content of the product.
Product Quantity
Defines the quantities of products to which sustainability data can be related. This category covers the units and amounts used to quantify products (e.g., units, weight, volume, batch size) so environmental metrics can be consistently attributed and compared across products.
Recycling Feedstock
Materials used as input by recycling processes to produce recycled fibre. This category encompasses base materials that are collected and processed to become reclaimed fibres.
Product Identity and Unique Identifiers
Defines the core concepts for identifying products and the unique identifiers used across facilities, data carriers, and registration systems. It covers product identification elements, persistent identifiers, issuing agencies, and the standards governing their use, with links to subcategories on fa
Product Identifiers and Data
Covers unique and internal product identifiers, data carriers, and the formats used to identify products across the lifecycle. Includes life cycle rules for identifiers, digital credentials, and the digital product passport registry, plus standards such as ISO/IEC 15459 and common identifiers like Q
Model, Method and Batch IDs
Identifiers used in production reporting: model identification numbers (as registered in the product database), production method IDs, and batch identifiers (e.g., Batch TR400). This category ensures these IDs are consistently included in reports to link models, methods, and batches.
Model Identification Number
This category specifies the inclusion of the model's official identification number in reports. The number should be the model's registration reference in the product database to ensure accurate identification and traceability.
Production Method ID
This category stores the identifier that specifies which production method was used. It enables precise reference and differentiation of production methods in records and workflows.
Batch TR400
Represents the batch instance TR400, identified by IT01606600029$TR400. Used for traceability and batch-specific operations within the process.
Lifecycle Rules and RFID Identifiers
Governs the lifecycle of identifiers, data carriers, digital credentials, and the digital product passport registry, alongside RFID identifiers used at gates to track goods in a network.
Digital Lifecycle Rules
Defines the rules governing the lifecycle of identifiers, data carriers, digital credentials, and the digital product passport registry, including creation, issuance, update, revocation, renewal, and retirement. It supports policy, processes, and compliance across these digital artifacts.
RFID Identifiers at Gates
RFID identifiers are electronic tags used to identify and track goods as they pass through gate sensors in a logistics network. This category covers the identifiers themselves and their role in gate-based tracking of goods.
QR Code and UID Standards
This category aggregates the standards governing QR code usage and unique identifier (UID) compliance, notably ISO/IEC 15459 parts 1–6 (2014–2015) and related Article W90 documentation.
Covers ISO/IEC 15459 family standards for QR codes and unique identifiers, guiding compliant labeling and item identification. Supports interoperability and traceability across supply chains.
Article W90
Represents a single article resource labeled W90 (ArticleW90) within the taxonomy. The category captures the article identified by IT01606600029$W90 as a discrete knowledge item.
Product and Object Codes
A category for codes used to identify products and objects within the TRICK identification schema. It includes the Product Internal Code and the Object Type Code, representing internal identifiers for products and their object types. These codes support consistent classification and lookup across th
Product Internal Code
A unique internal identifier used to recognize a product within the TRICK identification schema. It serves as a stable reference across catalogs and systems.
Object Type Code
Represents codes used to identify the object's type. This category standardizes classification by object kind across the data model.
Product IDs and Data
Groups identifiers for products, places, batches, and serial numbers and the data attributes associated with these identifiers, as defined by the TRICK management system. This category is realized through two child subcategories: Product, Place, Batch, Serial IDs and Product Data Attributes.
Product, Place, Batch, Serial IDs
Defines the identifiers used to uniquely tag product, place, batch, and serial entities within the TRICK management system. By standardizing these identifiers, it supports data integrity and traceability across processes.
Product Data Attributes
This category covers the data attributes used to identify products and describe essential product metadata. It focuses on identifiers and related fields that enable cataloging, matching, and interoperability across systems.
Unique Identifiers
Represents identifiers used for uniquely identifying entities in digital environments and the data carriers that convey these identifiers. This category encompasses various forms of unique identifiers (e.g., UUIDs, serial numbers, barcodes) and the systems that rely on them.
Other Product Identifiers
This category represents supplementary product identifiers used to recognize products in addition to the primary ID. It covers alternate codes or IDs that help identification across systems, vendors, or marketplaces.
Unique Identifier Formats
Defines the structure and rules for formatting the unique identifiers used in the Digital Product Passport standardization effort, including syntax, length, and allowable characters. This supports interoperability and traceability across products.
Facilities and Production Locations
This category collects concepts related to physical facilities and production sites across supply chains, including factories, places of business, and geographic plant locations. It also covers facility-related data such as company-specific measurements and material-incoming information relevant to
Supply Chain Facilities
This category covers physical facilities linked to the supply chain and related reporting obligations. It includes facilities accessible to manufacturers (Access Facilities), the actual facilities of supply chain actors, and facilities referenced for sustainability reporting (Sustainability Faciliti
Access Facilities
Facilities referenced in the obligation to provide access to manufacturers. This category collects the infrastructure and physical resources invoked to enable access.
Actual Supply Chain Facilities
Represents the concrete facilities (factories, warehouses, distribution centers) owned or operated by supply chain actors. These facilities are accessible to manufacturers for production, sourcing, or logistics activities.
Sustainability Facilities
Represents physical facilities (buildings, sites) referenced in sustainability reporting. These facilities serve as assets and data points for tracking environmental and social metrics.
Manufacturers and Apparel Producers
Categories covering the organizational actors involved in producing apparel. It distinguishes manufacturers as actors who can introduce or update information in the digital product passport, and apparel producers who organize manufacturing and sourcing to deliver finished products.
Manufacturers as Actors
Identifies manufacturers as authorized actors who can create or update information within the digital product passport, defining their role and permissions in data governance. This category clarifies governance rights and responsibilities for data contribution by manufacturers.
Apparel Producer
An organization or company function that coordinates garment manufacturing and material sourcing to produce finished apparel. It covers entities that manage production, supply chains, and assembly of garments.
Production and Facilities
Groups concepts related to manufacturing operations and their physical plants. It includes garment production as a main operation and manufacturing plants as the facilities where production occurs, highlighting the link between processes and production sites.
Garment Production
Represents the main manufacturing operation in apparel manufacturing, encompassing processes that convert fabric into finished garments, including cutting, sewing, finishing, and inspection. It serves as a core node for tracking production workflows within garment factories.
Manufacturing Plant
Represents the facility where batteries are produced. This category identifies the manufacturing site as defined by the battery production labeling rule.
Business and Production Locations
Groups the spatial concepts related to where a business is registered and where transformation or production takes place. It distinguishes between the place of business (registered address within the Member State) and the production site (physical location of manufacturing or processing).
Place of business
Defines the physical location or registered address of a business within the applicable Member State, used in registration and information contexts. It identifies where the business operates or is legally registered in that state.
Production Site
A physical location where transformation or production activities occur. This category covers facilities such as factories, plants, and processing centers that host transformative processes.
Plant Location Data
Covers geographic information about battery manufacturing facilities, including the plant's address, city, and other location coordinates. It groups facility location data for operational and contextual use.
Battery Plant Location
Captures the geographic location of battery manufacturing plants, including coordinates and regional context. This data supports mapping, logistics, and site-level analysis of battery production facilities.
Facility Location
Data describing the physical place of a facility, including its address and geographic location. It covers elements such as street address, city, postal code, and country to anchor operations to a specific site.
Company Data and Incoming Material
This category encapsulates two related concepts: site-specific company data and the material incoming interface. It describes the primary data measured or collected by the company and the information exchanged at the point of material intake.
Company-specific Data
Data unique to a particular company or site, collected or measured directly. This category covers primary, internally gathered measurements used for analytics and decision-making.
Incoming Material Interface
Represents the interface for materials entering the system and the data exchanged. It documents the information fields included in incoming material messages.
Product and Battery Identification
This category aggregates data used to uniquely identify products and batteries, including IDs, origin, and batch information within passport-like traceability contexts. It also associates regulatory articles and risk data with the identification process to support compliant handling and transport.
Passport Data Context
This category consolidates passport-level metadata that defines the model context and the item identifiers referenced by the passport data. It also includes the date information associated with BatteryItem.
Model Level
This category defines the passport level as the model-level perspective, distinguishing it from batch-level and item-level scopes. It clarifies that analysis or processing operates at the model level within data workflows.
Passport Item Identifier
Represents the identifier of an item as referenced in passport data. This category captures the linkage between an item and its identifying reference within passport records.
Battery Item Dates
Category for battery items that have date information linked to them. It groups batteries whose records include dates such as manufacture, expiry, or maintenance dates.
Product and Battery IDs
Defines identification elements used to uniquely reference products and batteries, including product type, batch or serial numbers, and battery-specific identifiers. This node groups concepts and subcategories focused on assigning and tracking unique IDs for inventory, traceability, and quality cont
Product Identification
Identification elements used to uniquely identify products, including type, batch, and serial numbers. This category supports cataloging, traceability, and quality control across the product lifecycle.
Battery Identifiers
This category covers the battery identifier, a unique string used to identify individual batteries. It supports tracking, inventory management, and cross-system identification.
Articles and Regulation
A category for concepts that define objects by their form and function, including regulatory references such as Battery Regulation Article 14. It serves as a parent for subcategories on how form relates to function and on specific regulatory articles.
Form and Function
Objects whose purpose is defined by their distinctive form, surface, or design. This category emphasizes how shape and design drive a function that goes beyond basic utility.
Battery Regulation Article 14
Contains information related to Article 14 of the Battery Regulation (BattReg). It highlights the scope, obligations, and compliance considerations associated with this provision.
Origin and Risk Data
This category groups information about where a product originates and the data required to identify batteries that present risk. It links product provenance with risk-identification data to support safe handling and compliance.
Product Origin
This category captures the origin of a product, including its country or region of manufacture and sourcing provenance. It supports traceability, labeling, and compliance by recording where the product originated.
Battery Risk Data
Defines the data elements required to identify batteries that present risk, including origin and other identifying attributes. This supports traceability and risk assessment across the supply chain.
Batch Tracking
This category groups batch-related concepts used for traceability in despatch operations, including Batch Lists and Battery Batch definitions. It covers how batches are identified, grouped by model, and referenced in traceability despatch advice.
Traceability Batch Lists
Includes batch list data elements that appear in the Traceability Despatch Advice to track batch identifiers and quantities in despatch messages. This category supports traceability by documenting batch-level information associated with shipments.
Battery Batch
Battery batch is a consistently manufactured group of batteries of the same model, identifiable by its batch identity. This category captures organizing batteries by production run for traceability, quality control, and inventory management.
This category covers the codes and numbers used to uniquely identify goods destined for transport. It includes barcodes, SKU, GTIN/UPC, serial numbers, and other identifiers used in shipment planning, tracking, and cross-border handling.
Battery Manufacturer Data & Registration
Groups concepts around producer registration, manufacturing information (facilities and manufacturers), and related data models used for validation and mapping in battery supply chain governance. It covers registration numbers, facility lists, feedstock usage, and the holistic data model underpinnin
Battery Manufacturer Data
This category covers regulatory definitions of manufacturers, general battery and manufacturer information for the battery passport, and plant-level footprint data by manufacturing site.
Regulatory Manufacturer Definition
Defines who is considered a manufacturer for the purposes of this Regulation within the given context. The definition clarifies the scope of responsibility and regulatory obligations for entities labeled as manufacturers.
General Battery and Manufacturer Information
This section captures essential general information about the battery and its manufacturer to be included in the battery passport. It may include details such as battery type, model, manufacturer name, production date, and basic identifiers.
Battery Footprint by Plant
This category captures the absolute carbon footprint associated with a specific battery model, broken down by manufacturing plant. It supports plant-level lifecycle assessment and comparisons across production sites.
Producer Registration and Manufacturing Information
Covers the registration process for producers to provide information required for monitoring obligations, including producer registration numbers and information about manufacturing facilities and manufacturers.
Producer Registration
Describes the process by which producers register to provide information required for monitoring obligations. It outlines the scope, required data, and timing to ensure regulatory compliance.
Producer Registration Numbers
Registration numbers assigned to producers in the official registry. They uniquely identify a producer for regulatory, compliance, and verification purposes.
Manufacturing Information
This category catalogs data about manufacturing facilities and the manufacturers that operate or supply them. It covers facility locations, capabilities, and production partners involved in the manufacturing process.
Facilities and Manufacturing
Covers information about facilities involved in data collection and the manufacturing context. It includes details about facilities and their manufacturers.
Facilities List
An itemized list of facilities involved in data collection (e.g., laboratories, clinics, or field stations). This category supports provenance and contextual understanding by identifying where data were gathered.
Details about where and by whom the product was manufactured, including production facilities and manufacturers.
Components and Feedstock Integration
Describes how used components are incorporated and how feedstock is used within the SSbD4 framework. It covers methods and considerations for reusing materials while maintaining safety and compliance under SSbD4.
Incorporation of Used Components
Describes the process of integrating already-used components into a larger system. Emphasizes compatibility, reusability, and alignment with design requirements.
Feedstock Use in SSbD4
Represents the practice of using feedstock within the SSbD4 stage. It covers how feedstock is selected and applied to support safe and sustainable design outcomes.
Data Modeling Concepts
Overview of foundational data models and holistic approaches used in data validation and reuse. It covers general data models and their role in mapping, along with holistic data models designed to be reusable across contexts.
Data Model for Validation
Defines the data model that underpins data validation and mapping processes. This category explains how the model supports validation rules and data transformations between schemas.
Holistic Data Model
A data model designed to be holistic and reusable across multiple domains and purposes. It emphasizes integrated representations, consistency, and adaptability to evolving requirements to enable interoperability and long-term reuse.
Date and Temporal Metadata
Defines temporal attributes and date-related metadata used to track manufacturing, commissioning, and lifecycle timing of items and batteries. It covers date formats and codes, manufacturing and production dates, aging parameters, and alignment with future targets and update frequencies.
Temporal and Lifecycle Parameters
Encompasses the timing aspects of data relevance, the alignment of update cadence with performance metrics, and aging parameters such as storage duration and cycle counts. These temporal and lifecycle factors influence data representativeness and the observed behavior of energy-efficiency measuremen
Temporal Correlation
Evaluates how data relate over time and whether samples are representative of temporal dynamics. This category captures temporal relationships that influence time-based analyses and the reliability of time-series inferences.
Update Frequency Alignment
This category covers aligning the update cadence for remaining round-trip energy efficiency metrics with the broader update schedule. It aims to ensure synchronized timelines and consistent interpretation across related energy performance indicators.
Aging Parameter
Metric for quantifying aging-related changes in a subject, such as storage time or cycle count. It captures how usage and time contribute to degradation and helps estimate remaining life and reliability.
Date Code Formats
A category covering representations and standards for date codes used in manufacturing. It includes ISO-compliant date codes, date format examples, and common manufacturing date formats, organized under subcategories such as Date Code Format Examples, ISO Date Code, and Manufacturing Date Formats.
Date Code Format Examples
Contains example formats for date codes used in identifiers and records. It illustrates patterns such as year-month-day order, two- or four-digit years, and common separators to help implement consistent date coding schemes.
ISO Date Code
This category covers codes used to represent date values and require alignment with ISO date standards. It governs how date information is encoded, stored, and exchanged to ensure consistency and interoperability across systems.
Manufacturing Date Formats
This category captures date representations used to record manufacturing dates, including common year-month formats such as YYYY-MM and YYYYMM. It supports consistent parsing, validation, and interoperability across manufacturing and inventory systems.
Manufacturing and Commissioning Dates
Captures the essential dates associated with a battery's production and first use. It includes the manufacturing date, the commissioning/putting into service date, and the reference year used in documentation.
Manufacture and Commissioning Date
Records the battery's date of manufacture and, where applicable, the date it was put into service. This provides lifecycle traceability by capturing production and commissioning dates.
Reference Year
A category representing a specific year used as the reference or baseline in data analyses. It serves as the temporal anchor for comparisons and time-based calculations.
Manufacturing Date
This category captures the manufacturing date metadata (month and year) for a product. It is recorded on the passport and label and is linked to the battery model.
Production Date and Targets
This category groups temporal metadata for textile items, including production year and month-year granularity. It also references the 2031 recycled content targets for sustainability planning.
Production Year
Represents the year in which a textile item was produced. This data attribute enables dating, provenance tracking, and temporal filtering in catalogs and inventories.
Month and Year Granularity
Specifies the temporal precision used for manufacturing dates, capturing month and year without day-level detail. Enables aggregation, filtering, and comparison at a coarser, month-year time scale.
2031 Recycled Content Targets
Represents the year associated with the 2031 recycled content targets. Used to tag data, policies, or obligations tied to the target year 2031.
Product Concepts and Constructions
Groups product definitions, textile product types/constructions, and battery-related attributes (models and maximum voltage), plus spare-parts sources and part numbers. It serves as an integrated hub for product concepts, construction terminology, and sourcing metadata across textile and battery dom
Textile Product Types and Constructions
This taxonomy category groups AVS-defined textile product classifications. It includes product types determined by manufacturers, batches and goods such as yarns and greige or finished fabrics (and single items), and fabric construction methods (woven, knitted, non-woven). It has three subcategories
AVS Product Type
Represents the product type attribute defined by the manufacturer within the AVS framework. This category captures the product classification used in AVS to identify the item type.
Textile Batches and Goods
Category for textile items at various production stages—yarn batches, greige fabric, finished fabric, and individual items. It groups both bulk and single-item textile goods under one umbrella.
Fabric Construction Types
This category covers the main textile construction methods: woven, knitted, and non-woven. It differentiates fabrics by how they are manufactured.
Spare Parts Sources
This category collects information about spare parts sources, including suppliers, their contact details, and part numbers for components referenced in the battery passport. It supports traceability and procurement by documenting who provides parts and how to contact them.
Spare Part Suppliers
This category lists suppliers referenced for spare parts in the battery passport. It includes manufacturers, authorized distributors, and other vendors providing replacement components. The information supports sourcing, verification, and traceability of parts.
Spare parts source contacts
Contains postal, email, and web addresses for sources of spare parts. It provides the contact details needed to reach spare parts suppliers.
Part Numbers for Components
This category covers the part numbers assigned to components, used to identify, order, and track individual parts. It supports mapping components to their unique identifiers for procurement, inventory, and compatibility checks.
Product Concepts
Defines what counts as a product and distinguishes textile products from other types. It captures generic product definitions and textile-specific product criteria, providing foundational concepts for classification.
Product Definition
This category covers the definition of a product, clarifying its key characteristics and scope, and distinguishing it from related concepts such as services or solutions.
Textile Products
This category comprises products made predominantly from textile fibres, yarns, and fabrics. They are intended for end use as textiles or fabric-based goods, including items like apparel, home textiles, and other fabric-made consumer products.
Product Construction
Describes terms related to how products are constructed, aligned with the CISUTAC/ISO 5157 mapping. Helps standardize terminology for product construction across datasets.
Battery Model
Represents the battery model that hazard information applies to. This category links hazard data to specific battery model representations to enable risk assessment and regulatory compliance.
Maximum Voltage by Model
Defines the requirement that maximum voltage data must be associated with a specific battery model. This ensures voltage limits are interpreted within the context of each model rather than as a generic value.
Battery Standards and Identifiers
This category consolidates the standards, systems, and identifiers used to establish and verify battery products, including AVS, identifier management, and organization descriptors. It also covers the standardization frameworks, standardization requests, and model-related information tied to battery
Battery Standards & Identifiers
This category covers standards for battery performance calculations and unique identification requirements. It includes ISO 12405-4:2018 for capacity fade calculations and ISO/IEC 15459 series (including ISO/IEC 15459-1:2014) for unique identifiers and manufacturer identification.
Capacity Fade Calculation
Standards for calculating battery capacity fade, including ISO 12405-4:2018. This category identifies methodologies and requirements used to estimate the loss of battery capacity over time under defined conditions.
ISO/IEC 15459 Compliance
Represents compliance with the ISO/IEC 15459 family of standards for unique manufacturer identifiers. This category covers verification and interoperability requirements for identifying manufacturers in global supply chains.
ISO/IEC 15459-1
This category covers ISO/IEC 15459-1:2014, the standard for unique identification in automatic identification and data capture (AIDC) techniques. It specifies methods for assigning globally unique identifiers to items to support unambiguous identification across information systems.
AVS Systems and Identifiers
Group covering Assessment and Verification Systems (AVS) used to determine product type and apply product categorization, together with identifiers management for tracking products, locations, batches, and serials. It supports ensuring correct product classification and unique identification across
AVS Systems
Assessment and verification systems (AVS) used to determine product type and assign corresponding product categories. This category encompasses the tools and logic that classify products and enforce consistent categorization.
Identifiers Management
This category covers systems that manage unique identifiers for products, locations, batches, and serial numbers. It includes creation, assignment, validation, and lifecycle management to ensure traceability and data integrity across the supply chain.
Organisation Metadata and Identifiers
This category groups information used to describe organizations (OrganisationDescriptor) and the unique identifiers for actors in the value chain (OperatorIdentifier). It supports consistent organization characterization and traceable identification of operators throughout production processes.
Organisation Descriptor
This category covers the information used to describe an organisation via the organisationDescriptor element. It defines the descriptive attributes and identifiers used to characterize organizational entities in metadata.
Operator Identifier
A unique string of characters used to identify operators involved in the production value chain. This enables consistent reference and traceability across supply-chain systems.
Battery Model12 M579 Standardization
This category consolidates information about battery model12 and the CEN/CENELEC standardization process M/579, including references to standardization request M/579. It groups the battery model with the related standardization activities under the M/579 initiative.
Battery model12
This category covers information related to battery model12, aligned with standardization request M/579. It includes specifications, performance characteristics, safety considerations, and interoperability aspects specific to this model.
CEN/CENELEC M/579 Standardization
This category covers the CEN/CENELEC standardization process related to standardization request M/579. It describes the procedural framework, key stages (initiation, drafting, review, and approval), and governance within the European standardization ecosystem.
Standardization Requests
Contains initiatives and requests to harmonize access to battery passport data and related digital product passport standards. It includes the Battery Passport Access Standardization and the M/579 Standardisation framework as key concepts.
Battery Passport Access Standardization
This category contains standardization requests aimed at harmonizing access to the battery passport across systems. It highlights proposals seeking interoperability and consistent access controls and data formats.
M/579 Standardisation
Represents the standardisation request M/579 framework, governing standardisation activities for batteries and digital product passports. The category captures EU-driven standards intended to enable interoperability, safety, and lifecycle transparency across products.
Product Identification and Media
This category covers how products are uniquely identified and described across the value chain. It includes issuing authorities, operator and partner identifiers, product media and descriptions, and batch/component identification data to support traceability.
Issuing Authority & Items
This category describes the organisation authorized to issue unique identifiers and data carriers (the issuing authority). It also groups item-level metadata and links to subcategories for parts and spare contacts as well as battery-level data.
Issuing Authority
A formal organization empowered to issue official unique identifiers and related data carriers. It defines issuance policies, verifies identity components, and manages the lifecycle of identifiers and credentials.
Part Numbers and Spare Contacts
Catalogs part numbers for components and provides contact details for sources of replacement spares. This enables precise part identification and efficient supplier outreach.
Battery Item Level
Represents the level at which data attributes for a battery item are defined. This category distinguishes item-level data specifications from attributes defined at higher or lower levels in the model.
Operator and Partner Identifiers
This category covers identifiers assigned to operators other than the manufacturer, as well as unique IDs for value-chain partners used in traceability. It also includes GTIN-related compliance within manufacturer identification standards, enabling cross-organization data integration and traceabilit
Non-Manufacturer Operator IDs
Covers unique identifiers assigned to operators that are not the manufacturer's identifiers. Used to differentiate operator-specific identities across devices or systems.
Value-chain Partner ID
A category for the unique identifiers assigned to value-chain partners (such as GLN or REX) used to enable traceability across the supply chain. These identifiers standardize partner identification so provenance and tracking can be consistently recorded and queried.
GTIN Compliance
This category covers compliance with the Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) standard as part of manufacturer identifier schemes. It includes validation, registration, and verification of GTINs to ensure products are identifiable within global trade and barcode systems.
Product Media and Description
A category that bundles product imagery with textual data. It includes Product Pictures and Product Description, the media and descriptions used to present and identify products.
Product Pictures
Visual depictions of the product used in catalogs and online listings. This category covers photos that showcase the product's appearance, features, and variations to help customers evaluate it.
Product Description
Details that identify and characterize a product, including unique identifiers, category, uses, dimensions, and durability information.
Product and Batch Identification
Self-explanatory and robust methods for uniquely identifying products and their production batches. These approaches aim for minimal changes to existing processes while enabling reliable traceability, inventory control, and quality management.
Represents the enumerated list of components used to create a product. This category captures the components that make up an item and is used for procurement, assembly, and traceability.
Unique Identifiers and Facilities
This category covers the standards and concepts used to uniquely identify products and facilities, including unique registration identifiers, persistent product identifiers, and facility descriptors. It groups related identifier terms and reference standards under a common framework for regulatory c
Facility Identifiers and Descriptor
This category groups concepts related to uniquely identifying facilities and the descriptive element used to capture facility information. It includes both the unique facility identifiers and the facility descriptor defined for facilities (as in Annex III).
Unique Facility Identifiers
A category for identifiers that uniquely distinguish individual facilities across systems. It encompasses standardized IDs used to reference facilities unambiguously in datasets and data exchanges.
Unique Facility Identifier
A standardized identifier assigned to each facility, referenced in Annex III, first paragraph, point (i). This category captures the concept of uniquely identifying facilities for regulatory reporting and data interoperability.
Facility Descriptor
This category represents a data element that captures information about a specific facility. It functions as a facility descriptor within the data model, providing metadata about a particular facility.
Unique Registration Identifier
This category concerns the unique registration identifier for products as referenced in Article 13(5). It covers identifiers communicated to economic operators in connection with uploaded unique identifiers, supporting product traceability and regulatory compliance.
Represents the unique registration identifier assigned to a product as referenced in Article 13(5). This identifier enables precise product tracking and regulatory cross-referencing.
The unique registration identifier is the definitive ID assigned to and communicated to the economic operator for the uploaded unique identifiers. It links the operator to the corresponding uploaded records and serves as a reference across processes.
Persistent Product Identifier
A stable, unique identifier that remains linked to a product over time. It is carried in a data carrier to enable consistent cross-system identification.
Unique Identifier Standards
This category aggregates standards governing unique identifiers, including facility identifiers, as specified in Annex III. It supports consistent syntax, formatting, and validation to enable interoperability across systems.
Unique Product Identifier
The standardized code or number that uniquely identifies a product within the referenced standards. It enables unambiguous identification, interoperability, and traceability across systems and datasets.
Battery Traceability Data
Defines identifiers, serialization, and data granularity for tracking batteries, their batches, and logistics units. It also covers dynamic State of Charge information and persistent identifiers linked via QR codes.
State of Charge Granularity
Defines how state of charge (SoC) data can be represented at multiple granularity levels and kept up-to-date. It addresses both data granularity management and the dynamic nature of SoC information.
Data Granularity Levels
Describes how information can be managed at varying levels of detail, from coarse to fine granularity. It informs data modeling, storage, and analysis by enabling appropriate detail for diverse use cases.
Dynamic State of Charge
This category captures state-of-charge information that is continuously updated in real time. It emphasizes dynamic, live SoC data rather than static readings.
Unique Traceability Identifier
This category covers identifiers that uniquely identify a traceable product, its batch, or a logistics unit. Such identifiers enable end-to-end traceability by unambiguously linking items across orders, shipments, and inventories.
Data Granularity
Defines the level of detail and aggregation of sustainability data. The chosen granularity should align with assessment goals to support accurate analysis and meaningful decision-making.
Battery Identifier
Represents the unique value used to identify a specific battery within records, inventories, and diagnostic workflows.
Battery Serialisation
This category defines the practice of serialising each battery with a unique serial number to enable precise identification, tracking, and lifecycle management. It underpins traceability and accountability in inventory, maintenance, and end-of-life processes.
Persistent Battery Identifier
A stable, globally unique identifier assigned to a battery. The QR code links to this identifier to retrieve battery metadata or lifecycle information.
Declaration & Object Traceability
This category collects concepts related to declaring a product, its unique identification, and the traceable objects involved in events. It covers declaration details, product identification and traceability, and the event-oriented object being acted upon.
Declaration Details
Contains key elements of the product declaration: the object of the declaration (a product description sufficient for unambiguous identification and traceability, potentially including an image) and the authorized signatory who signs on behalf of the manufacturer. This node serves as the parent for
Describes the product with enough detail to ensure unambiguous identification and traceability. May include an image to aid recognition where necessary.
Identifies the person who is authorized to sign documents on behalf of the manufacturer, including their name and official function. This designation establishes who can legally bind the manufacturer in agreements and communications.
Product Identification & Traceability
This category covers the mechanisms for uniquely identifying products and for representing traceable assets, such as individual product instances or batches. It includes the concepts of Product Identifiers and Traceable Asset.
Product Identifiers
This category covers identifiers used to uniquely identify products, such as serial numbers, SKUs, UPCs, and other catalog numbers. It groups concepts that specify a product's unique identity across systems and catalogs.
The tracedObject element denotes the traceable asset, such as a product instance or a batch. This category models and tracks the asset as it moves through production and supply chain, enabling provenance and traceability.
Event Object
Represents the entity that an event acts upon. The object can be a product, a logistic unit, a batch, or any entity that experiences the event.
Component Data Attributes
Consolidates data attributes that describe and identify product components. Includes the Bill of Components, Product Component Attributes, and component part numbers, supporting BOM management and component cataloging.
A data attribute that records the bill of components associated with a product or assembly. This category defines the formal listing of components used or required, akin to a Bill of Materials but focused on individual components.
Product Component Attributes
Represents the attributes or properties associated with a product component. This category captures characteristics that describe a component's features, specifications, and metadata used to characterize product components within a product model.
Component part numbers
Represents the part numbers assigned to components. Modeled as a longlist data attribute, it captures multiple identifiers for a single component to support cataloging, procurement, and assembly reference.
Ecodesign Regulation Framework
This category defines the regulatory framework for ecodesign, including how product parameters, delegated acts, and energy-use criteria shape requirements for product groups and families. It ties together design context, performance requirements, and reporting formats used by authorities. Useful for
Ecodesign Requirements
This category anchors ecodesign concepts, collecting energy-use attributes, performance criteria, and product-group classifications used to shape delegated environmental rules. It spans multiple product families—from sanitary and space heating appliances to fire protection and building materials—def
Product Environmental Criteria
This category consolidates environmental and performance criteria that products must satisfy, including ecodesign requirements, sustainability thresholds, and recyclers’ specifications. It also covers contextual data elements (e.g., water bill data) and scenarios (unforeseen situations) across defin
Defines the criteria and standards that products must satisfy under ecodesign regulations. This category covers regulatory requirements, energy efficiency, materials restrictions, and lifecycle considerations that drive sustainable product design.
Defines performance requirements that are product-specific or applicable across multiple products, established through structured analysis. These requirements specify metrics, thresholds, and evaluation criteria used to guide design, testing, and verification.
Environmental Sustainability Criteria
Represents the selection criteria that establish mandatory minimum environmental sustainability requirements within delegated acts. It defines the form and scope of these sustainability standards used for regulatory assessment.
Sanitary Appliances
Sanitary Appliances is a product family category that includes fixtures and devices designed for sanitation and hygiene in bathrooms and kitchens. It groups items used to manage water, waste, and hygiene within wet areas, supporting sanitary workflows and maintenance.
Fixed Fire Fighting Equipment
Permanently installed firefighting devices and components that form part of a facility's fixed fire protection system. This category covers non-portable equipment used to fight fires, including fixed extinguishing systems and related hardware.
Fire Retardant Products
This category covers products designed to resist or slow the spread of fire. It includes coatings, barriers, additives, and materials formulated to enhance fire resistance across construction, textiles, and industrial applications. These products help meet fire safety standards and performance requi
Unforeseen Situations
Represents conditions or events the system did not anticipate and must respond to. It defines requirements for handling unexpected inputs, failures, or rare events to maintain resilience.
Water Bill Data
Represents the data element for water usage billed in a utility bill model. It organizes information about consumed water charges within the broader bill-of-something data schema.
Recyclers’ specifications
This category captures the requirements recyclers impose on materials to be recycled. It includes criteria such as contaminant limits, acceptable material streams, labeling, and processing constraints.
Ecodesign Energy and Modularity
Consolidates ecodesign attributes focused on energy use and efficiency across diverse product families. Modularity is identified as a key environmental design principle spanning space heating appliances, sealants, cables, and fire protection products.
Energy Use in Ecodesign
Defines energy use as a distinct ecodesign attribute, guiding decisions to optimize energy efficiency across the product life cycle. It codifies how energy consumption characteristics are evaluated and specified in design practice.
Space Heating Appliances
A category of devices that generate and distribute heat to occupy indoor spaces. It includes space heaters, boilers, radiators, and central heating systems powered by electricity, gas, oil, or heat pumps, used in homes and commercial buildings.
Fire Protection Products
A category for products designed to prevent the spread of fire and smoke, including fire stopping materials, fire seals, and protective systems. These items are used as part of passive fire protection to compartmentalize space and preserve structural integrity during a fire.
Sealants for Joints
Sealants for joints cover products used to seal gaps in building envelopes and assemblies, delivering weatherproofing, water resistance, and the ability to accommodate joint movement. The category encompasses common sealant chemistries suited for joints in construction and infrastructure application
Power, Control and Communication Cables
Covers cables used for power delivery, control signaling, and data communication in electrical and automation systems. Includes diverse cable types designed for industrial, commercial, and building applications.
Building-Integrated PV Panels
This category covers photovoltaic panels integrated into the building envelope (BIPV). In the design context, this product category is excluded from sustainability priority considerations, indicating it is not a central driver for sustainability scoring in this taxonomy.
Product Modularity
Explores how product modularity supports environmental requirements in design. It highlights modular strategies that enable sustainability, easier recycling, and lifecycle optimization through reuse and repair.
Ecodesign Product Families
A higher-level grouping of ecodesign requirements by product families and product groups. It includes categories such as Attached Ladders, Structural Timber Products, Internal Partition Kits, Circulation Fixtures and Road Equipment, and Non-Contact Pipes, Tanks & Ancillaries.
Ecodesign Product Groups
Defines the product groupings targeted by ecodesign regulations. Identifies which categories of products (such as household appliances) are subject to energy and environmental requirements.
Attached Ladders
Attached Ladders are ladders designed to mount or clamp onto structures to provide quick, secure access. This category defines a distinct product family where ladders are designed for attachment rather than standalone use.
Structural Timber Products
Timber-based structural elements used in building construction, including beams, joists, columns, and related ancillaries. This category covers structural timber products and components that form and support building structures.
Internal Partition Kits
Internal partition kits provide modular components to segment the interior space of enclosures, cabinets, or racks. They enable customized layouts for mounting equipment, cables, and power alongside secure panels and brackets. This category covers products designed to create organized, adaptable int
Circulation Fixtures and Road Equipment
Represents the Circulation fixtures and road equipment product family. It covers fixtures and components used in roadway circulation and traffic infrastructure, supporting safe and efficient movement.
Non-Contact Pipes, Tanks & Ancillaries
Category includes pipes, tanks and ancillaries not in contact with water intended for human consumption. These components are used in non-potable or non-contact applications where drinking-water contact is avoided.
Wood-Based Panels
Engineered wood panels manufactured from wood fibers or particles bonded with resin, used as core materials in furniture, cabinetry, and construction. This category covers common panel products and elements such as particleboard, MDF, plywood, and OSB.
Post-Tensioning Kits
A product family of assemblies and components for post-tensioning in reinforced concrete. These kits enable installation of post-tensioned elements by applying and maintaining tension in tendons after casting.
Reinforcing and Prestressing Steel
This category covers reinforcing and prestressing steel used in concrete construction. It also includes related ancillaries and components.
Precast Concrete Products
Category for precast concrete product families, including normal-weight, lightweight, and autoclaved aerated concrete (AAC) variants. These products are manufactured off-site and used in construction as structural and architectural elements.
Data Carrier and Quality
Covers the presentation and layout of data carriers and the associated performance declarations, along with the quality assessment framework used in PEF studies. It groups concepts related to data quality scales, data carrier declarations, and Step 2 socio-economic methods for product function analy
Data Quality Scales
A semi-quantitative five-point rating system used to evaluate data quality attributes. This category includes scale types and end-point labels such as Excellent and Poor, with child concepts like Five-Point Scale, Excellent Quality, and Poor Quality.
Five-Point Scale
An ordinal 1–5 semi-quantitative rating scale used to assess data quality attributes. It provides a simple, interpretable measure for comparing attributes without requiring precise quantitative scores.
Excellent Quality
Represents the top rating on a 1-5 quality scale, indicating outstanding performance or merit in a design context.
Poor Quality
Represents the lowest end of a 1-5 quality scale, labeling items with the poorest level of quality. This category distinguishes performance or condition at the bottom of the scale from higher levels.
Data Carrier and Declarations
This category groups considerations for presenting data on carriers (layout and positioning) and for distributing copies of performance and conformity declarations, including electronic formats. It focuses on design-related aspects of data presentation and documentation.
Data Carrier Layout
Defines how a data carrier is presented and positioned within a design. It covers the arrangement, alignment, and spatial relationships to ensure clear, balanced, and accessible presentation.
Copies of Declarations
Covers copies of declarations of performance and conformity, including electronic versions. These copies serve as reference and verification documents or archival records.
Product Function in PEF Study
This category covers identifying product functions relevant to PEF studies. It uses an example like a coat to illustrate how function is defined and applied in Pulsed Electric Field research. It divides into subcategories such as Product Functional PEF Study and Coat as Product Function.
Product Functional PEF Study
This category defines the product-level functional properties identified for pulsed electric field (PEF) studies. It establishes the boundary and scope for experiments assessing how product functionality responds to PEF processing, guiding design and interpretation.
Coat as Product Function
This category captures the coat as a product concept analyzed for PEF studies, focusing on its functional attributes and how it serves as a design object. It situates the coat within the design taxonomy as a distinct product function.
Step 2: Methods & Socio-Economic
This category covers the second step common to both the socio-economic assessment and the Generic Traceability Process, focusing on selecting and applying implementation methods or systems. It links the socio-economic evaluation phase with the practical methods needed to support traceability.
Socio-Economic Step 2
This category captures Step 2 in the three complementary steps of the socio-economic assessment. It focuses on the activities, data needs, and deliverables associated with this middle phase within the design context.
Implementation Methods
This category specifies the methods and systems selected for implementing traceability in the Generic Traceability Process. It defines the technologies, tools, and approaches to be used in the implementation phase.
Product Parameter Governance
Top-level category covering product parameter definitions, delegated acts and formats, Annex I references, PEF services, garment coding, and related data attributes. It frames how product parameters are defined, regulated, reported, and extended to new products and business models.
Product Parameters and PEF
This category groups core product parameter definitions and related PEF/SoH concepts used to guide product improvement and battery health assessment. It includes ProductParameters, PEF Service, and StateOfHealthCombinationParameter, with subcategories for Product Parameter Set, PEF Service, and Comp
Product Parameter Set
A defined collection of parameters used as the basis for improving product aspects, as specified in the annex. These parameters guide evaluation and prioritization of product improvements.
PEF Service
This category covers services that execute Product Environmental Footprint assessments for products, including data collection, calculation, modeling, and reporting. It encompasses consultancy, software-enabled services, and outsourced execution.
Composite SoH Parameters
Represents a parameter that fuses multiple state-of-health indicators into a single metric for battery energy storage systems, including LMT and stationary configurations. It supports unified assessment of overall battery health.
Delegated Acts and Formats
Covers delegated acts adopted pursuant to Article 4 and the reporting formats and details for non-personal in-use data as referenced in paragraph 4.
Delegated reporting format
Specifies how to report non-personal in-use data under a delegated act, including the required fields, structure, and data formats referenced in paragraph 4. Provides templates and guidance to ensure consistent and accurate reporting.
Article 4 Delegated Acts
This category gathers delegated acts adopted under Article 4. It encompasses legal instruments that delegate implementing powers to authorities or bodies within the framework governed by that article.
Annex I and Delegated Parameters
This category groups product parameters that are either listed in Annex I or regulated by delegated acts adopted pursuant to Article 4. It organizes regulatory parameters defined in both the Annex I framework and delegated act instruments.
Annex I Product Parameters
Product parameters referenced in Annex I of the regulation. These parameters specify key product values used for compliance assessments.
Product parameters in delegated acts
Contains product parameters that are regulated by EU delegated acts adopted under Article 4. These parameters are defined in the delegated acts and govern product specifications and compliance.
Product and Business Model Innovation
Captures the emergence of new products and novel business models. It addresses how the system should recognize, analyze, and respond to offering innovations and their strategic implications.
Garment Code
Defines the dedicated concept for coding garment products, enabling standardized identifiers (garmentCode) across catalogs, inventories, and systems. This category supports consistent product codification and data exchange.
Represents the proportion of content that is renewable. Used as a longlist data attribute to categorize items by their renewable content share.
Product Groups and Families
Consolidates definitions and classifications for product groups, families, and related concepts across domains such as construction products, wastewater engineering, textiles, and batteries. It covers core concepts like product group, product family, product category, and scoping elements, organized
Product Families and Materials
This category bundles concepts related to product classification across waste water engineering, generic product categories, and mono-material textiles. It helps align product families, their subcategories, and textile material types within a single taxonomy node.
Waste Water Engineering Products
This category collects product families used in wastewater engineering. It encompasses items and solutions for treating, transferring, and managing wastewater in urban and industrial settings.
Product Category
A product category is a subset of a product family's types that share a common characteristic, forming a distinct group within the catalog. It provides a structured way to organize offerings and supports targeted browsing and comparison.
Mono Material Textile
A textile comprised of a single material with no blends or laminates, as defined by CISUTAC/ISO-5157. This category facilitates straightforward recycling, material traceability, and simplified end-of-life processing.
Product Group Definition and Scoping
This category defines the product group(s) covered, including the associated commodity codes and scope. It also covers the main elements of the scoping analysis as referenced in Table 21.
Product Group Definition
Defines the product group(s) covered by the scope and lists the associated commodity codes. It clarifies the boundaries of the grouping and the criteria used to define the product set.
Scoping Analysis Elements
Core components of a scoping analysis as listed in Table 21. It aggregates the main elements used to define scope, objectives, constraints, and evaluation criteria.
A high-level category for fundamental product concepts. It includes construction products (physical items marketed for use, including 3D-printed items) and battery usage scope (how batteries are applied across different applications).
Construction products
This category covers physical items intended for use in construction, including 3D-printed products and market-ready construction kits.
Battery Usage Scope
Defines the scope of a battery's application by its use-case, independent of its design. Focuses on how batteries are used rather than their form factor.
Product Family
This category represents the grouping of products into families that share core characteristics or lineage. It supports organizing products by common features for cataloging, comparison, and product management.
Product families
This category collects product types that belong to families listed in Annex VII, organizing items by their parent family. It enables grouping of products according to specified family classifications.
Ecodesign Scope and Pilots
This category defines the scope and context for ecodesign requirements. It encompasses product groups, vehicle categories M/N/O, portable batteries, and descriptions and production aspects, as well as sector pilot initiatives such as fashion.
Product Nature and Sector Pilot
Defines the scope of ecodesign decisions by examining the nature and purpose of products and the qualities to be considered by the Commission. This category includes the Fashion Sector Pilot to test these criteria in a real-world context.
Product nature and purpose
Describes the nature and intended use of the products concerned, outlining the qualities the Commission considers when setting ecodesign requirements.
Fashion Sector Pilot
A category for pilot projects focused on the fashion sector. It aggregates initiatives within the fashion industry to explore sector-specific solutions and approaches.
Portable Batteries
A parent category for sealed energy-storage devices that power electronics on the go. It encompasses portable batteries intended for general-use and standard portable variants, with two subcategories: General-use Portable Battery and Portable Battery.
General-use Portable Battery
A category for portable batteries designed for general, broad-use purposes, regardless of whether they are rechargeable. It includes both rechargeable and disposable portable power sources.
Portable Battery
A portable battery is a sealed, mobile energy storage device designed for easy transport, typically weighing 5 kg or less. It is not intended for stationary or fixed installations.
Vehicle Type Approval MNO
This category concerns vehicles that are regulated by harmonised type-approval systems and fall into the M, N, or O categories. It encompasses the type-approval process itself as well as the classification of vehicles into MNO groups.
Vehicle Type Approval
Vehicles are subject to product-specific regulatory requirements and harmonised type-approval systems. This category covers the standards and certification processes used to ensure compliance with safety, emissions, and interoperability across jurisdictions.
Vehicle Categories MNO
Groups vehicles that fall into the M, N, and O classifications. This node aggregates vehicles classified under these three categories to support cross-category organization and retrieval.
Product Description and Production
Describes the product or product category and its intended use, and covers the material production stage within the value chain. This node links product definition to the materials production process.
Product Description and Use
Captures the description of the product or product category and its intended use. This helps define scope, applications, and relevance for customers and stakeholders.
Material Production
This category covers the processes involved in generating materials used as inputs in the value chain. It includes extraction, synthesis, refinement, and manufacturing steps that transform raw resources into usable materials.
Ecodesign Product Group
Represents a clearly defined set of products that are subject to prescribed ecodesign requirements. This category clusters items sharing common ecodesign standards and compliance criteria at the group level.
Household and Mobility Products
This category defines the ecodesign scope across household appliances, transport components, and batteries, aligning product types with harmonised categories. It covers washing machines, tyres, e-bikes/e-scooters, and related means of transport and battery labeling within a single taxonomy node. Sub
Tyres and Transport
This category groups concepts related to tyres and transport modes, bridging vehicle components and means of conveyance. It includes automotive tyres, light means of transport, and general means of transport, highlighting their relationships.
Automotive Tyres
Tyres are a tangible component of vehicles within the physical goods domain. This category covers tyres as a physical product, emphasizing their role as replaceable automotive parts.
Means of Transport
A category for the various methods used to move people and goods. It can capture propulsion types and travel routes to describe each mode (road, rail, air, water, etc.).
Light Means of Transport
Light Means of Transport covers lightweight personal mobility devices powered by humans or small electric motors. It includes bicycles, scooters, skateboards, and other compact, low-weight conveyances. The category emphasizes eco-friendly, urban travel options suitable for short trips.
Washing Machines Ecodesign
This category covers the household washing machines product group and the product-category mapping used to apply and harmonize ecodesign requirements and documentation. It serves as the design-context container for classification and compliance workflows.
Household washing machines
This category covers domestic washing machines as a product group subject to ecodesign requirements. It provides the context for applying policy and guiding design considerations related to energy efficiency, materials, and lifecycle impacts.
Product Category Mapping
Defines the product category assigned based on the product type and harmonised documentation. This enables consistent classification across products and supports harmonised documentation processes.
Electric Bikes and Batteries
This category covers electric bikes and e-scooters alongside the battery separate-collection symbol labeling requirement. It organizes related topics into the child categories Electric Bikes and Scooters and Battery Separate-Collection Symbol.
Electric Bikes and Scooters
Covers electric bicycles and electric scooters within scope. It encompasses two-wheeled micromobility devices powered by electric motors used for personal transport.
Battery Separate-Collection Symbol
All batteries must bear the symbol for separate collection on their label. This category encompasses labeling requirements that indicate batteries should be collected separately from general waste, typically starting from a specified date.
Physical Goods and Product Traceability
Defines core concepts for physical goods and products, including product type and product construction, and maps traceability points from batteries to finished products. This category frames regulatory data attributes and traceability workflows across the product lifecycle.
Physical Goods and Products
This category encompasses core concepts related to tangible goods and products, including their definitions, cataloging, and regulatory relevance. It serves as a parent for the Physical Goods, Product Catalog, and Regulated Physical Goods subcategories.
Physical Goods
Covers tangible items that are manufactured, marketed, and placed into service. It encompasses all physical products made available to consumers and businesses, distinct from services and digital goods.
Product Catalog
Represents an item available for sale within the catalog. This category groups individual products that define the goods offered to customers.
Regulated Physical Goods
This category covers tangible products that fall under the Regulation's scope. It identifies physical goods to which the Regulation applies, distinguishing them from services and other non-physical items. It includes items manufactured, imported, or sold under regulatory requirements.
Product Type and Construction
This taxonomy category groups data attributes that describe a product's type and its construction. It serves as a boundary for organizing product characteristics, with two subcategories: Product Type and Product Construction.
Product Type
Represents the data attribute used to classify items by their product type. It serves as a metadata field for distinguishing product kinds within catalog data.
Category focused on the process of constructing a product, including components, materials, and assembly. It emphasizes establishing a dedicated boundary around the product system to clarify scope and interfaces.
Battery and Finished Product Traceability
This category covers two related concepts in traceability: batteries for which a conformity assessment body claims competence, and finished products as exit points in the traceability system. It links battery conformity competence with finished-product traceability within the broader framework.
Battery Conformity Competence
This category covers batteries for which the conformity assessment body asserts competence to perform conformity assessments. It captures the declared scope of the body's expertise in battery-related certifications.
Finished product
Represents the final output produced by manufacturing and tracked as the exit point in the traceability system. It denotes the item that has completed production and is ready for distribution.
Product Regulation & Battery Categories
Covers EU product regulation and product-specific requirements for devices, including non-rechargeable batteries, and the conformance criteria products must meet. It also addresses potential battery category reclassification across regulatory schemes.
Product Requirements and Conformance
This category covers product-specific requirements and the applicable criteria that products must satisfy. It groups the rules for what a product must conform to, with subcategories detailing vehicle-specific product requirements and general conformance requirements.
Vehicle Product Requirements
This category captures requirements tailored to individual vehicle products. It defines product-specific criteria that apply to automotive items, beyond generic vehicle standards.
Conformance Requirements
This category encompasses the mandatory criteria and standards a product must meet to be considered compliant. It captures the applicable regulatory, industry, and internal standards that define what the product must conform to.
This category covers Union-wide products—those made available on the market throughout the EU. It also encompasses the EU product legislation that governs these products.
Union-wide Products
This category covers products that an economic operator has placed on the market throughout the European Union, i.e., made available across the entire Union. It pertains to cross-border availability within the EU single market rather than sales confined to a single member state.
Union Product Legislation
Lays out laws and regulations governing products within the European Union, including conformity assessment, safety requirements, CE marking, and product liability. It covers the harmonized framework that EU member states apply to ensure product compliance.
Non-Rechargeable Battery Parameters
This category covers concepts related to non-rechargeable (primary) batteries, including the definition of non-rechargeable batteries and the parameters used to describe their performance. It groups two subcategories: Primary Battery Parameters and Non-rechargeable Batteries.
Primary Battery Parameters
This category collects key specifications used to characterize non-rechargeable (primary) batteries, including nominal voltage, capacity, energy density, shelf life, temperature range, and discharge behavior. These parameters aid in selecting suitable batteries and predicting performance across appl
Non-rechargeable Batteries
Non-rechargeable batteries are designed for a single use and cannot be recharged. They encompass primary battery types that provide energy until depletion and are discarded after use.
Battery category reclassification
Describes cases where a battery may be categorized under a different battery class due to operations or changing usage context. It captures reclassification events as batteries move between categories based on performance, handling, or regulatory criteria.
EPCIS Standards and Models
This category collects concepts related to EPCIS-based traceability data exchange, including GS1 EPCIS standards and ISO/IEC 19987:2024, and their battery-related modeling. It links event data exchange models with battery model information to support traceability across manufacturing contexts.
This category covers information about the battery model referenced in labeling rules, including general model details and plant-specific variations. It serves as the parent for two subcategories: Battery Model Information and Plant-specific Battery Model.
Battery Model Information
This category stores informational details about a battery model. It includes specifications, identifiers, and descriptive metadata used for understanding and referencing the model.
Plant-specific Battery Model
Represents the battery model associated with a specific manufacturing plant as referenced in labeling rules. This category links the plant identity to the corresponding battery model for compliance and traceability.
ISO/IEC 19987: EPCIS & Models
This category covers ISO/IEC 19987:2024 as it relates to EPCIS and traceability models, consolidating guidance for event-centric data capture and interoperability. It connects EPCIS implementations with the standard's traceability models to enable consistent data exchange across supply chains.
ISO/IEC 19987: EPCIS
ISO/IEC 19987:2024 specifies the Electronic Product Code Information Services (EPCIS) standard, including its information model, event data, and query capabilities. It defines how organizations capture, share, and analyze supply chain event data using EPCIS.
Traceability Models Standard
This category catalogs standards governing traceability models, focusing on ISO/IEC 19987:2024. It describes formal models and frameworks used to capture, validate, and exchange traceability information across products and processes.
GS1 EPCIS Standard
EPCIS (Electronic Product Code Information Services) is the GS1 standard for capturing, sharing, and querying supply chain event data to improve visibility across partners. This category groups concepts related to the EPCIS framework as defined by GS1 for event data exchange.
EPCIS Event Model
EPCIS is an event-based information model used to capture and exchange traceability data across the supply chain. It defines events that describe what happened, when, where, and by whom, enabling interoperable visibility of product movement and transformations.
National Regulatory Actions
Top-level category for government actions affecting construction products at the national level, including recalls, withdrawals, prohibitions or restrictions on the national market, national performance requirements, and other measures issued in response to identified risks. It encompasses subcatego
National Performance and Regulations
Covers national-scale rules and performance criteria for construction products inside the harmonised zone. It encompasses national performance requirements and national construction product regulations.
National Performance Requirements
Defines national-level performance standards that apply to product parameters. It captures attempts by authorities to set benchmarks for how products should perform, under delegated regulatory arrangements.
National construction product regulations
Contains national laws, regulations, and administrative measures related to construction products within the harmonised zone. These measures govern market access, product safety and performance requirements, conformity assessment, and labeling at the national level.
Product Recall and Withdrawal
This category groups actions to remove products from the market, including recalls and withdrawals by manufacturers or regulators. It covers both voluntary recalls and regulatory withdrawals to protect consumer safety.
Product Recall
This category covers the process of recalling a product from the market. It includes identification, notification, containment, and disposition of recalled items due to safety, quality, or regulatory concerns.
Product Withdrawal
Describes the process of removing a product from the national market, including recalls, voluntary withdrawals by manufacturers, and regulatory mandates.
National Market Restriction
Policies or rules that prohibit or limit making a product available in a country's market. This category covers bans on sale, distribution, or marketing within the national territory.
National Measures
Policies and actions implemented by national authorities in response to risks identified in product assessments. This category covers regulatory decisions, guidance, and enforcement measures at the national level.
Product Requirements and Eco-Design
Defines the requirements for products within a family and the eco-design parameters that describe their sustainability characteristics. It groups product requirements with eco-design information such as durability and energy and water consumption.
Product Requirements
Defines the requirements established for products within a product family or category. This category guides product design, quality, testing, and validation by specifying the criteria that all products must meet.
Eco Design Parameters
This category groups product parameters that pertain to eco-design, including durability and resource-use metrics such as energy and water consumption. It captures environmental performance attributes used to assess a product's sustainability.
Product parameters that include eco-design information, capturing environmental attributes and life-cycle considerations for sustainable product development.
Product Labeling and Compliance
This top-level category groups concepts related to labeling requirements for products and packaging, including content and layout design, display rules, delegated acts, and conformity markings. It also covers non-compliance signaling, references to other Union law, and the CE marking framework where
Delegated and Implementing Acts
This category groups EU regulatory instruments that authorize the Commission to adopt delegated and implementing acts, specify data requirements for registries, and enable electronic label generation. It covers related powers and distinctions by article (e.g., Article 4, Article 72).
Implementing Acts
This category encompasses implementing acts, detailing disclosure requirements, data reporting formats for the Commission, and urgency-based adoption provisions.
Implementing Acts for Disclosure
Covers implementing acts that govern disclosure requirements, detailing how regulations are enacted to mandate disclosures. It explains the scope, mechanisms, and procedural aspects of these acts.
Data Reporting Formats
Captures implementing acts that specify the required format for data and information reported to the Commission. These acts define technical reporting standards and data structures to ensure consistent submissions.
Urgent Implementing Act
Represents implementing acts adopted on urgent, imperative grounds. These acts have immediate applicability, taking effect without delay to address pressing circumstances.
Delegated Acts under Article 4
Groups EU delegated acts, including those adopted under Article 4 to amend standards or specify additional data to be stored in the registry. It covers the general concept of delegated acts, the Article 4 subset, and the Delegated Act (DA).
Delegated Acts
Acts adopted by the European Commission to amend standards under Article 4. These delegated acts authorize the Commission to adjust technical standards without new primary legislation.
Covers delegated acts adopted under Article 4 that specify additional data to be stored in the registry. These acts outline data requirements and registry metadata to support governance and transparency.
Delegated Act (DA)
Delegated Act (DA) category captures the EU instrument under which the legislature authorizes the Commission to adopt non-essential elements of legislation. It groups terms and metadata related to this regulatory tool, including its scope, conditions, and procedural elements.
Registry Implementing Acts
This category groups Implementing Acts (IA) that govern the registry, including acts issued by the Commission on registry matters. It encompasses both general Implementing Act instruments and Commission-specific rules affecting registry operations.
Commission Implementing Act on Registry
This category covers implementing acts adopted by the Commission that relate to the registry. It describes how the Commission puts relevant EU regulations into effect, including procedural and technical requirements for registry operations.
Implementing Act
This category covers implementing acts (IA) that operationalize primary legislation by specifying how provisions are applied. It identifies the procedural rules, criteria, and practical steps used to put laws into effect.
Electronic Label Generation
This category covers electronic methods for producing product labels, including delegated acts that authorize alternative smart labels beyond QR codes. It encapsulates the processes and standards for automated label creation and management under delegated smart labeling schemes.
Category for technologies and processes that create labels electronically. It covers automated label generation used to meet regulatory labeling requirements under delegated acts.
Delegated Smart Labels
This category covers mechanisms and policies that enable delegation of authority to create or manage smart labels that serve as alternatives to QR codes. It encompasses governance, responsibilities, and processes for implementing non-QR smart labeling in labeling systems.
Delegated and Implementing Powers
Encompasses two related concepts: the delegation of authority to adopt acts to a competent body, and the implementing powers used to carry out and enforce those acts. It clarifies how legislative authority is distributed between the delegating body and implementing agencies.
Delegated Power to Adopt Acts
Represents the transfer of authority to adopt legislative acts to an empowered body, such as the Commission. This category covers delegated rulemaking powers and the governance rules that enable such delegation.
Implementing Powers
This category covers the practical exercise of authority to carry out actions and policies. It focuses on how decisions are implemented, who is responsible, and the processes that translate policy into action.
Delegated & Implementing Acts
Captures the delegated acts under Article 72 and the framework for delegated and implementing acts as scheduled in Figure 2 of the Battery Regulation. It notes how the Commission may adopt delegated acts to supplement Article 72 and establishes the surrounding implementing-act context.
Article 72 Delegated Acts
Under Article 72, the Commission may adopt delegated acts to supplement the article and set detailed requirements. These acts provide a mechanism to specify rules and adapt provisions without full legislative amendments.
This category covers the delegated and implementing acts scheduled under the Battery Regulation, as illustrated by Figure 2. It identifies the instruments and timelines for adoption and implementation within the regulatory framework.
Battery Labeling and Regulation
Groups concepts about labeling and marking requirements for batteries, including CE and radio equipment directives, battery labels, pictograms, and carbon footprint information. It also covers labeling exemptions and the regulatory wording used to derive labeling guidance.
EV Battery Labeling and Regulation
This category covers EV battery labeling requirements and the associated regulatory wording, including the carbon footprint information presented on labels. It groups concepts related to labels, the language of battery regulation, and the carbon footprint label itself.
EV Battery Labeling
Defines requirements for labeling electric vehicle batteries with a conspicuous, legible, and indelible carbon footprint label.
Battery Regulation Wording
Represents the exact wording of the Battery Regulation used to derive access. It catalogues the regulatory text that informs access decisions based on battery-related conditions.
A category for labels that display the carbon footprint performance class of a product or entity. It focuses on the label itself as the carrier of the performance information rather than the underlying methodology or data.
CE Marking and Battery Labelling
This category covers verifying CE marking at the documentary level and the labelling requirements for batteries. It combines conformity verification with labeling requirements to ensure regulatory compliance throughout product documentation.
CE Marking Verification
This category covers the documentary-level verification of CE marking and labelling. It ensures compliance by inspecting CE declarations, conformity marks, and labelling information in the documentation.
Battery Labelling
Guidelines and requirements for battery labels, including the information that must appear, safety warnings, and compliance with regulatory standards. It covers labeling for safe handling, transportation, and end-of-life disposal.
EU Battery and Radio Directives
Group of European Union directives governing batteries and radio equipment, including the Batteries Directive (2006/66/EC) and the Radio Equipment Directive (2014/53/EU). It covers harmonised requirements, environmental obligations, and compliance for manufacturers and suppliers.
Batteries Directive 2006/66/EC
EU Directive 2006/66/EC regulates batteries and accumulators and waste batteries and accumulators, including requirements for labeling, collection, treatment, and recycling to minimize environmental impact. It establishes producer responsibility for end-of-life batteries and sets harmonized rules fo
EU Radio Equipment Directive
This category covers Directive 2014/53/EU, the European Union regulation harmonizing member state laws on radio equipment. It establishes essential requirements for safety, electromagnetic compatibility, and spectrum use, and governs conformity assessment and CE marking for market access.
Battery labeling and hazards
This category covers labeling practices for batteries, including standard hazard labels and information on hazardous substances. It also accounts for labeling exceptions required when packaging constraints prevent full labels.
Battery labeling exceptions
This category covers exceptions to standard labeling requirements where information cannot be displayed due to small battery size or packaging constraints. It captures scenarios where labeling guidance is adjusted or waived to accommodate space limitations or design considerations.
Battery Hazard Label
Label affixed to batteries that conveys information about hazardous substances and related safety warnings. This category encompasses the labeling used to inform users about chemical hazards and compliance requirements.
Battery Labeling and Pictograms
Encompasses labeling information for batteries as required by Article 13 and the pictograms that indicate battery-related risks. This category groups two subcategories: Battery Labeling and Battery Risk Pictograms.
Battery Labeling
This category covers labeling information that must appear on batteries as required by Article 13. It encompasses the content, format, and presentation of labels to ensure safety, traceability, and regulatory compliance.
Battery Risk Pictograms
This category includes pictograms and safety marks that signal specific battery hazards. They communicate risks such as fire, leakage, and improper handling to guide safe use, transport, and disposal.
Battery Data and Reporting
This category encompasses data disclosure, end-user data presentation, dashboards, and lifecycle benchmarks for batteries. It covers product labels, aggregated datasets, aggregation events, and transparency/sustainability reporting to support informed stakeholders and regulators.
Aggregated Datasets and Aggregation Events
Defines concepts and event structures for data aggregation, including datasets published as aggregated results and the events that record aggregation and disaggregation. It includes Aggregated Datasets, AggregationEvent, and TRCAggregationEvent as formal model elements.
Aggregated Datasets
Datasets produced by aggregating underlying data and published by the Commission when appropriate. These consolidated resources provide a higher-level view to support analysis, reporting, and transparency.
Aggregation Event
Represents an event that captures the aggregation of data from multiple sources into a summarized form. It is one of the core event model elements used to model data consolidation in event-driven contexts.
Aggregation/Disaggregation Event
An event describing the process by which one or more components are combined into a single component, or a single component is split into multiple components. This category covers both merging and separating transitions within a system.
Battery Lifecycle Benchmarks
This category covers EV battery lifetime estimates expressed in cycles and the reference tests used to validate them. It also includes benchmarks for state of health and expected lifetime, such as UNECE data benchmarks.
Cycle Life and Reference Tests
Represents the expected battery lifetime expressed in cycles and the reference test used to establish that lifetime. Useful for comparing endurance across battery technologies and validating product specifications.
EV Battery Health Benchmarks
This category covers UNECE benchmarks for accessing data related to electric vehicle battery health. It focuses on evaluating the state of health and the expected lifetime of EV batteries using standardized data practices and metrics.
Product Labels and Dashboard
This category groups concepts that treat product labels as information channels and illustrate dashboards used for scoping analysis. It connects labeling data with visual analytics to support decision-making.
Product Labels
Product labels serve as a primary information channel, communicating essential details about a product to consumers. This category covers labeling content, regulatory disclosures, usage instructions, safety notices, and branding information conveyed through packaging.
Scoping Analysis Dashboard
Represents a dashboard example used to support scoping analysis. It demonstrates how visual elements can convey scope, boundaries, and key metrics to aid understanding and decision-making.
Transparency and Sustainability Reporting
Category for documenting production, facilities, and sustainability data in structured reports. It standardizes disclosures and metrics, including SOCE expressed as a percentage of the certified usable battery energy.
A structured document used to collect and report information about production facilities and sustainability performance. It supports transparency and accountability across operations.
SOCE as Percentage
This category specifies that SOCE is expressed as a percentage of the certified usable battery energy. It standardizes reporting by tying state-of-charge to a defined energy basis.
End-User Data Display
This category covers presenting data to the end user. It includes dashboards, visualizations, and user interfaces that render related data in a clear and actionable way.
Battery Labeling and Symbols
Defines labeling requirements for batteries, including layout, content, and the meaning of labels and symbols. It also covers related passport data attributes, the TRICK dictionary, and CE pictograms.
Battery Label Semantics
This category covers the meanings behind battery labels and symbols, referencing the TRICK dictionary and CE marking pictograms. It explains how labeling communicates safety, regulatory compliance, and usage information to users.
Battery Label Meanings
Defines the interpreted meaning of the markings, icons, and symbols found on batteries. Covers polarity indicators, voltage and capacity marks, safety instructions, disposal/recycling symbols, and regulatory compliance icons to guide safe handling and usage.
TRICK Dictionary
This category catalogs the TRICK dictionary, the set of defined terms and references used by the TRICK data model. It serves as the source of data structure definitions and lookup references within TRICK simulations.
CE marking pictogram
The CE marking pictogram is the visual symbol that indicates a product complies with European Union safety, health, and environmental directives. It is affixed to products sold in the European Economic Area and signifies conformity with applicable EU standards.
Label Layout and Labelling
Defines standards for product label presentation to ensure visibility and legibility, including label layout, and specifies labeling requirements related to conformity and performance declarations.
Label Layout
Defines the layout rules for product labels as required by delegated acts, ensuring visibility and legibility.
Product Labelling Requirements
This category covers the mandatory labeling requirements for products as part of conformity and performance declarations. It specifies the information that must appear on labels, how it should be presented, and the conditions for ensuring traceability and compliance.
Battery Label Content
Specifies the mandatory information that must appear on battery labels under delegated acts, incorporating general information from Annex VI Part A. This category groups the required label content and the related labeling guidance for batteries.
Label Content Requirements
Defines the information that must be included on a regulatory label under delegated acts. This category isolates the content requirements from other labeling aspects, specifying what the label must convey.
Battery labeling information
This category covers general information about batteries that must be included on product labels under Annex VI Part A. It focuses on labeling requirements rather than technical battery specifications.
Battery Passport Labels
Labels used to annotate and categorize attributes within battery passport data. This category covers labeling conventions and identifiers that tag data attributes to support traceability and interoperability.
Battery Labels and Symbols
Defines the meaning of all symbols and labels found on batteries and in battery passports. Provides guidance for interpreting safety marks, warnings, recycling icons, and other labeling conventions to support safe handling and regulatory compliance.
Publications and Documentation
Aggregates materials and communications used to support ecodesign and battery regulation, including studies and analyses, regulatory annexes (Annex IV and Annex VI), posters, dashboards, and public summaries. Organized into subcategories for Ecodesign Publications, Battery Regulation Annexes, Safety
Ecodesign Publications
This category covers the dissemination of ecodesign assessment results, including commissioned studies and analyses. It also encompasses posters as information channels and public summaries of findings.
Ecodesign Studies Publication
Covers the commissioning and publication of studies and analyses used in ecodesign practice. It ensures dissemination of evidence informing ecodesign decisions.
Posters as Information Channel
Posters serve as a classical medium for disseminating information. This category encompasses their use to inform, persuade, or advertise in public spaces and organizational contexts.
Public Assessment Summary
A Public Assessment Summary provides a concise, publicly shareable overview of an assessment study. It distills the study's purpose, scope, high-level methods, main findings, and practical implications for stakeholders.
Battery Regulation Annexes
Overview of regulatory annexes governing battery performance, labeling, and information disclosure. Includes Annex IV on electrochemical performance for LMT batteries, Annex VI labeling requirements, and Figure 3 related to battery passport information.
Annex IV LMT Batteries
This category covers Annex IV provisions on electrochemical performance and durability for lithium metal batteries (LMT) used in industrial applications. It highlights criteria for cycle life, safety, and long-term reliability in industrial battery systems.
Annex VI: Battery Labelling
This category covers Annex VI of Regulation 2023/1542, which specifies the labelling, marking and information requirements for batteries. It codifies how batteries must be identified and what information must accompany them.
Battery Passport Figure
Represents the visual depiction in Figure 3, illustrating battery passport information organized by battery categories and access groups.
Safety Dashboard
A category for dashboards that present safety-related metrics and results. It encompasses visualizations used to support safety assessments by aggregating key indicators and enabling quick interpretation.
Documentation Summary
Provides a concise summary of milestones, iterations, and conclusions documented in the project materials. This category helps readers quickly grasp the evolution and key decisions across the documentation.
Packaging Labeling and Language
This category covers labeling requirements for packaging and consumer information, including language and translation obligations, display rules, and packaging symbols. It includes printed packaging labels, point-of-sale labeling, and the languages required by Member States.
Declaration Language Requirements
This category covers linguistic obligations related to product declarations across Member States, including translation obligations to provide declarations in additional languages and the required languages for product information and safety instructions mandated by each Member State.
Translation for Additional Member States
Catalogs the obligation to translate the declaration for use in additional EU Member States, ensuring the document is understood by authorities there. It applies to economic operators who must provide multilingual submissions to meet cross-border regulatory requirements.
Product Information Language
Specifies the required language for product documentation, including general product information, usage instructions, and safety notices. It covers localization and consistency across manuals, labeling, packaging, and online content to ensure clear communication to users.
This category identifies the languages in which a declaration must be available, according to each member state's requirements. It covers the official or mandated languages for accessibility and legal compliance across jurisdictions.
Packaging Labeling and Symbols
This category covers labeling requirements for product packaging and guidelines for using symbols when space constraints apply. It groups labeling obligations with the alternative packaging symbol option.
Packaging Labeling Requirements
This category covers the guidelines and rules for what must appear on product packaging, including mandatory information and regulatory compliance. It also encompasses standard formats and practices to ensure consistency and traceability.
Alternative Packaging Symbol
Describes rules for using an alternative symbol when the standard separate-collection symbol would be too small to display clearly. Applies to packaging labels where symbol legibility is constrained by size.
Point-of-Sale Labeling
Covers consumer-facing labels and their display at the point of purchase. It includes physical labels that communicate essential information and the requirement that labels are clearly displayed in line with applicable regulations.
Point-of-sale labels
Physical labels displayed on products at the point of sale that provide essential information to shoppers. They convey critical details such as price, ingredients, nutrition, and safety notices.
Label Display
Covers requirements that product labels be clearly displayed and legible in accordance with applicable laws and standards. It ensures labeling information remains visible and accurate to help consumers make informed choices.
Printed Packaging Label
A label that is printed directly on product packaging, used for branding, product information, and regulatory disclosures.
Compliance Signals and Enforcement
This category collects signals and indicators of regulatory compliance, including warnings and status indicators. It also encompasses evidence of product non-compliance and enforcement actions related to non-compliant batteries, such as provisional measures.
Compliance Signals and Warnings
This category bundles visual signs of non-compliance, indicator status codes, and warnings related to potential damage risk. It captures how regulatory or quality statuses are signaled and communicated across products.
Non-Compliance Sign
Category for visible warning signs that clearly indicate products do not comply with delegated acts and are not for sale until compliance is achieved. It encompasses labels used to communicate regulatory holds on non-conforming items.
Indicator Status Code
Defines the codes that represent the current state of an indicator (for example issued, expired, or pending). These codes enable consistent interpretation of indicator lifecycles across systems and data exchanges.
Damage Risk Warnings
Category for warnings issued when there is a risk of damaging parts. These alerts help users avoid actions that could harm components by highlighting potential hazards and required precautions.
Product Non-Compliance
This category covers evidence that a product placed on the market does not meet the Regulation's requirements. It also includes batteries that fail to comply with the Regulation.
Represents evidence that a marketed product does not comply with the Regulation. Includes non-conformity findings, safety or performance violations, and regulatory actions related to non-compliant products.
Non-compliant Battery
Batteries that do not meet the requirements laid down in the Regulation. This category groups batteries that fail regulatory standards, including safety, performance, labeling, or testing obligations.
Non-compliant Batteries & Provisional Measures
This category covers regulatory actions related to batteries that do not meet applicable standards. It encompasses enforcement measures such as prohibitions, restrictions, recalls, and provisional orders to address non-compliant batteries.
Non-compliant Batteries
Batteries that do not meet applicable regulations and standards are identified in the context of market surveillance and enforcement. This category covers regulatory violations, safety or environmental breaches, and related corrective actions.
Provisional Battery Measures
Temporary regulatory actions to prohibit, restrict, withdraw, or recall batteries that do not meet safety or performance standards. These provisional measures enable rapid intervention to protect consumers and the environment while non-compliant products are addressed.
Battery Symbol Standards
This category defines the symbols used for the separate collection of batteries, including labeling requirements and signaling for heavy metal content. It also specifies chemical symbol size and symbol area coverage rules for general and cylindrical batteries, along with related labeling guidelines.
Battery Collection Symbols
Symbols that indicate how batteries should be collected, recycled, or labeled for hazardous contents. This category includes the Battery Recycling Symbol and the Separate Collection Symbol used to mark heavy metal content and waste-sorting requirements.
Battery Recycling Symbol
A symbol indicating that batteries should be collected separately from general waste for recycling. It is used on packaging and products to guide proper disposal and compliance with waste-management regulations.
Separate Collection Symbol
Represents labeling marks used to indicate that a material requires separate collection due to heavy metal content. This category covers symbols designed to guide proper handling and disposal of such materials. It focuses on the symbolic labeling aspect rather than physical containers.
Chemical Symbol Size and Coverage
Defines rules for the physical sizing and area coverage of chemical symbols used to indicate heavy metal content on labels. Includes a minimum coverage rule (at least 3% of the largest side) and a maximum symbol size of 5x5 cm.
Chemical Symbol Size
Defines the required area for displaying chemical symbols that indicate heavy metal content on labels and safety signage. Establishes legibility and regulatory compliance by ensuring symbol area meets defined minimum and maximum dimensions.
Symbol Area Coverage
Defines the minimum visual footprint for a symbol relative to the reference area’s largest side. In the general case, the symbol must occupy at least 3% of the largest side, and its bounding box should not exceed 5 cm by 5 cm.
This category covers standards for the minimum area occupied by symbols used to indicate battery collection or disposal on labels. It includes both general symbol area coverage and cylindrical-cell specific coverage, organizing related subcategories.
Specifies the minimum area occupied by the separate collection symbol on non-cylindrical batteries. This category covers general marking requirements for pictogram size and visibility on such devices.
Cylindrical Cell Symbol Coverage
Defines the area occupied by the symbol for cylindrical battery cells in diagrams. It supports consistent symbol sizing and layout in schematics and illustrations.
Battery Separate-Collection Labeling
Specifies that battery labels must include the separate collection symbol to indicate proper waste disposal. This category covers regulatory labeling requirements to help ensure batteries are managed and recycled separately from regular waste.
Conformity Markings & Packaging
This category consolidates CE marking and related conformity indicators, including risk-related markings and other symbols. It also covers packaging applications such as QR codes, ensuring traceability and documentation of conformity to support interoperability and transparency.
CE Marking and Conformity
Encompasses references to CE marking within Union law and the related traceability and transparency mechanisms. It also covers symbols, labels, and documentation of conformity that communicate compliance.
CE Mark References
Contains references in Union law that specify or authorize the affixing of the CE mark on products. It covers cross-references to other Union directives or regulations that govern how the CE marking is applied.
This category captures concepts for achieving interoperable and scalable traceability and transparency across systems. It emphasizes mechanisms to track provenance, data lineage, and process visibility to enable trust, interoperability, and compliance.
Conformity Symbols
Includes symbols, labels, and documentation used to indicate compliance with standards. This category covers marks, certificates, and declarations that communicate conformity to regulators, manufacturers, and consumers.
QR Code Packaging and Applications
This category covers packaging solutions suitable for affixing QR codes. It also captures known packaging applications of Chemical A and includes two subcategories: QR Code Packaging and Packaging and Applications.
QR Code Packaging
Packaging designed to bear QR codes for product identification, traceability, and consumer engagement. It covers surfaces and materials that support durable, scannable codes, as well as labeling methods and adhesive considerations.
Packaging and Applications
This category collects known packaging uses and other applications of Chemical A, focusing on how it is utilized in packaging and related contexts.
Special-Risk Markings
Markings that indicate a special hazard or permitted use, which may accompany CE markings. These markings convey restrictions or warnings about risk, handling, or use of the product.
EU Labeling Regulations
This category covers EU labeling requirements, display standards, and regulatory procedures, including delegated and implementing acts and related directives. It also includes symbols and materials labeling (e.g., CISUTAC Mono Material and the separate collection symbol) as part of the regulatory fr
Label Display & Symbols
Regulatory guidance on how product labels should be displayed for recycling, including delegated acts on label presentation and the Separate Collection Symbol (Figure 4). This category encompasses two subtopics: Label Display Regulations and the Separate Collection Symbol.
Label Display Regulations
This category covers delegated acts that specify the most effective methods for displaying labels. It describes regulatory guidance on label presentation to ensure readability, consistency, and consumer clarity.
Represents the Separate collection symbol shown in Figure 4 of BattReg Annex VI Part B. It indicates that products should be collected separately for recycling or proper waste separation.
EU Directives and Notifications
Contains EU directives that establish regulatory procedures and product-safety requirements. It includes Directive 2015/1535 on notification and authorisation of regulatory measures and Directive 2014/35/EU (Low Voltage Directive) for electrical equipment safety.
EU Notification Procedures
Covers Directive (EU) 2015/1535 and its framework for notifying and obtaining authorisations for regulatory measures within the EU. It outlines the procedural steps for proposing rules and securing required approvals.
Low Voltage Directive
Directive 2014/35/EU, known as the Low Voltage Directive (LVD), sets essential safety requirements for electrical equipment designed for use with mains voltage. It requires conformity assessment and CE marking, aligning national laws with harmonized standards to ensure safe products move freely with
Labels and Mono Material
Aggregates labeling provisions tied to Article 16 and the CISUTAC Mono Material label. It covers labeling related to implementing acts and the mono-material designation.
Labels in Implementing Acts
This category documents provisions in Article 16 related to labeling requirements. It covers labels governed by delegated acts and implementing acts, outlining responsibilities and procedural rules.
Mono Material
Represents materials that consist of a single material with no layered or composite components. This CISUTAC category distinguishes monomaterials from multi-material constructs, aiding recycling, material traceability, and sustainability assessments.
Labeling and Product Information
This Level 1 category consolidates concepts related to product labels, labeling guidelines, and the assembly, finishing, and presentation of product information. It encompasses Article 16 label information, label contents, and general guidance on product information, along with related printing and
Assembly and Finishing
Covers instructions for assembling and connecting components, including installation steps and drawings. Also includes finishing activities such as printing.
Assembly and Connection
Provides guidance for assembling, installing, and connecting components. Includes drawings, diagrams, and attachment methods.
Printing as Finishing
Printing as a finishing operation within production or craft workflows. It uses printing as a finalizing step to enhance product appearance, durability, or information presentation. This concept shows how printing processes function as finishing activities in manufacturing.
Product Information and Labels
This category consolidates guidelines for general product information, including usage instructions and safety information, and the information presented on battery labels (Table 1). It serves as a central reference for how product information should be documented and how labeling requirements are c
Product Information Guidelines
This category covers guidelines for compiling general product information, including use instructions and safety information. It encompasses the technical details required to draft product literature, manuals, and labeling.
Battery Label Information
This category captures the information presented on battery labels, as described in Table 1. It covers the data items and descriptors that appear on the label to communicate battery specifications and safety information.
Article 16 Label Information
Covers the availability and disclosure of information on a label referenced in Article 16. It concerns what details are provided and how accessible that label information is to stakeholders.
Label Information
This category covers the header that conveys label-related information. It explains how X marks relate to the battery label.
Product Lifecycle & Compliance
This top-level category aggregates ecodesign concepts related to maintenance, refurbishment, upgradability, and repairability, together with the documentation, data requirements, and conformity procedures that support a product’s lifecycle. It also encompasses battery-specific frameworks and documen
Battery Passport Framework
This top-level category covers the documentation, data capture, and information-exchange infrastructure for battery passports. It encompasses event model components (ObjectEvent, TransformationEvent, AggregationEvent, TransactionEvent), the types of documents and data exchanged, and the data attribu
Event Model and Exchange
Consolidates key event model types (ObjectEvent, TransformationEvent, AggregationEvent, TransactionEvent), the principal information groups exchanged, and cross-cutting document considerations. It aligns EPCIS and UNCEFACT concepts to define how event data is modeled, what information is shared, and
Event model types
This category covers the core event model types used in EPCIS and UNCEFACT standards. Examples include ObjectEvent, TransformationEvent, AggregationEvent, and TransactionEvent.
Information Exchange Groups
Defines the main groups of information that should be exchanged between parties. This category standardizes which data payloads or documents are included in information exchanges.
Document Cross-cutting Aspects
This category collects transversal aspects that apply across multiple document types, such as metadata, governance, privacy, accessibility, and lifecycle management. These are shared concerns that cut across individual document types.
Documentation and Data Capture
This category groups the documentation and information that must be retained for authorities, the data entered into the platform, and the iterative data collection process used for third-party submissions.
Documentation and Records
This category covers documents and information identified in this Chapter that must be retained for authorities. It defines mandatory recordkeeping and the materials to be preserved.
Platform Data Entry
Data entered into the platform refers to information provided by users through interfaces such as forms or manual input. This raw input is captured, stored, and used for transactions, processing, and analysis within the system.
Iterative Data Collection
A process that encompasses repeated data gathering steps to prepare and submit information to a third party. It covers planning, collection, validation, and refinement across cycles to meet submission requirements.
Battery Provisions and Information
Groups battery-related regulatory content, including the paragraph 4 inclusion clause as a cross-reference and the information that must be provided for batteries in vehicles and appliances. It also notes related object events, such as the top preparation activity.
Battery Inclusion Clause
This category represents a cross-reference clause (Paragraph 4) that mandates including information about batteries in vehicles or appliances, in accordance with Paragraph 1(a).
Battery Information Requirements
Contains the information that must be disclosed for batteries incorporated in vehicles and appliances as described in the referenced paragraphs. The category covers the scope and types of battery information required to be included, enabling consumers and regulators to assess safety, performance, an
Top Preparation Event
This category captures an object-level event focused on preparing the top surface of an object. It covers activities that ready the top surface for subsequent processing, such as cleaning, leveling, masking, or surface treatment.
Battery Passport Data Overview
This category covers the structural components of battery passport information, including the list of tables and the documents and data exchanged between parties. It also references the data attributes summarized in Table 3 for symbols, labels, and conformity documentation.
List of Tables
Represents a catalog or index of all tables referenced or included in a document or dataset. This category serves as a navigational reference to locate and cross-reference tabular data.
Document and Information Exchanges
Catalogs the kinds of documents or information exchanged between parties, including formats and data types. This helps characterize information flows and support interoperability in business processes.
Battery Passport Attributes
Overview of data attributes in the battery passport, focusing on symbols, labels, and documentation of conformity as presented in Table 3. This category supports consistent labeling and attribute description across symbols.
Upgradability and Spare Parts
Aggregates ecodesign criteria for upgradable products, emphasizing repairability, spare parts availability, and battery reuse. It covers access to spare parts, minimum availability periods, independent repairability, and related waste-treatment considerations.
Spare Parts Access & Availability
Covers how easily spare parts can be obtained and how long they remain available, including a defined 10-year availability window. It addresses procurement ease, supply continuity, and service lifecycle considerations.
Spare parts access
This category covers the ability to obtain spare parts for maintenance and repairs. It includes procurement channels, inventory considerations, and supply-chain processes aimed at minimizing downtime.
Spare Parts Availability Period
Defines the intended duration during which spare parts remain available for purchase and support. This category includes explicit availability periods (for example, 10 years) tied to products or components. It supports procurement planning and service lifecycle management.
Battery Reuse and Repairability
This category covers two linked aspects of end-of-life battery management: waste treatment reporting for preparation for reuse/repurposing, and product repairability as captured by repairability codes. It encompasses the related child topics Battery Waste Reuse Prep and Product Repairability.
Battery Waste Reuse Prep
This category records the quantities of waste batteries that began preparation for reuse or repurposing, as part of waste treatment reporting. It captures initial steps toward re-use and repurposing of battery waste.
Product Repairability
Represents the ability and ease with which a product can be repaired after failure. This category captures factors such as disassemblability, availability of spare parts and service information, and the impact on product longevity.
Spare Parts and Waste Holders
This category covers spare parts availability obligations to ensure product conformity and ongoing market circulation. It also defines the duties and responsibilities of waste holders in waste management and regulatory compliance.
Spare parts availability
Covers regulatory and contractual obligations to ensure spare parts are available to maintain product conformity and support market circulation. This includes post-market service life considerations, supplier commitments, and timely access to components.
Waste holders
Objects designed to hold waste, such as containers and receptacles used to collect and store waste materials. The category includes items intended to manage waste in domestic, commercial, and industrial settings.
Repairability and Serviceability
This category covers how easily products can be repaired and whether independent professionals can remove and replace components such as batteries. It emphasizes design for maintenance, access to spare parts, and opportunities for third-party repair to extend product life and support a circular econ
This category captures how easily a product can be repaired. It includes aspects like component accessibility and the availability of replacement parts.
Professional Battery Replaceability
Batteries should be removable and replaceable by independent professionals, enabling third-party maintenance, upgrades, or end-of-life replacement. This category emphasizes serviceability by external technicians rather than vendor-only repair.
This category collects ecodesign considerations focused on making products upgradable and ensuring spare parts are available for a minimum period (five years). It encompasses design choices for modularity and upgrade paths, as well as parts provisioning policies to support product lifecycles and sus
Product Upgradability
Represents the design aspect of enabling upgrades to extend product life. Emphasizes modularity, compatibility, and maintainability to support gradual improvements and reduce waste.
Spare Parts Availability
Defines the minimum timespan for which spare parts must remain obtainable after product release. Establishes a serviceability window to support maintenance and lifecycle planning (e.g., five years).
Battery Disassembly & Documentation
Category covering procedures and materials for dismantling battery packs, including removal, fasteners, and the associated manuals and exploded diagrams. It emphasizes machine-readable documentation and repairability considerations in disassembly.
Dismantling and Fasteners
This category covers dismantling processes for light vehicles and related appliances, plus the fastening and sealing elements involved in battery disassembly. It includes subcategories such as Dismantling of Light Vehicles and Battery Disassembly Fasteners to organize related techniques and componen
Dismantling of Light Vehicles
This category covers dismantling processes for light means of transport, including vehicles and appliances, focusing on removing integrated components. It supports recycling, reuse, and proper disposal.
Battery Disassembly Fasteners
This category covers joining, fastening, and sealing elements used during battery disassembly. It includes components such as screws, clamps, gaskets, and bonding materials employed to connect or seal battery modules during disassembly.
Battery Pack Dismantling and Removal
A category aggregating guidance on dismantling and removing battery packs, including procedural manuals and safety considerations. It serves as a parent for subcategories focused on dismantling techniques and removal manuals.
Battery Pack Dismantling
Contains manuals describing how to remove and disassemble a battery pack. It collects documentation detailing the dismantling process.
Battery Pack Removal Manuals
This category gathers manuals that explain how to safely remove and disassemble a battery pack, including required tools and safety precautions. It serves technicians and maintenance personnel who perform removal, servicing, or decommissioning tasks.
Disassembly and Documentation
This category covers code-level disassembly concepts and the policy that manuals should be machine-readable whenever possible. It groups related subcategories for Code Disassembly and Machine-Readable Manuals, aligning disassembly practices with machine-readable documentation.
Code Disassembly
This category covers the process of converting compiled code into assembly language for analysis, debugging, and reverse engineering. It emphasizes techniques and references used to interpret binaries at the instruction level and understand program structure.
Machine-Readable Manuals
Promotes creating manuals and removal/disassembly instructions in machine-readable formats whenever possible, to enable automated processing and data reuse. This category focuses on ensuring that instructional content can be parsed, indexed, and integrated with tools and systems.
Battery Diagram Documentation
Contains descriptions and explanations that aid understanding of battery diagrams and schemes, including guidance on the operation of the battery. Also includes exploded diagrams showing the location and arrangement of cells within the battery system or pack.
Battery Diagram Explanations
Contains the descriptive material that explains drawings and schematics referenced in point (b). Also describes how the battery operates, providing the necessary context for understanding the diagrams.
Exploded Battery Diagrams
Exploded diagrams of the battery system/pack show the location and relationship of individual cells and subassemblies. These views aid assembly, maintenance, and troubleshooting by clarifying how components fit together.
Repairability and Disassembly
This category covers rules and practices that affect a product’s repairability and its disassembly, including prohibitions on technical solutions detrimental to repair and the techniques used to take devices apart.
Repairability Prohibitions
Regulations prohibiting technical solutions that reduce a product’s repairability. This category covers bans and restrictions designed to keep products repairable by enabling access to components, standard fasteners, and non-proprietary parts whenever feasible.
Disassembly Techniques
This category catalogs methods and procedures for safely and effectively taking devices or assemblies apart. It highlights step-by-step teardown processes, appropriate tools, and considerations for reuse, repair, and analysis.
Maintenance and Refurbishment
Encompasses the maintenance, repair, diagnostics, and related information that support keeping products functional and safe over their lifecycle. It includes on-board diagnostic data, repair histories, maintenance procedures, safety guidance, and documentation for usage, maintenance, and refurbishme
Operation, Maintenance, and Diagnostics
Consolidates guidance on safe vehicle operation and maintenance, including user-performed maintenance tasks and onboard diagnostic information. This category covers safety procedures, routine maintenance operations, and diagnostic data used to monitor and ensure vehicle health.
Operation and Maintenance Safety
Guidelines and best practices for safely carrying out operation and maintenance tasks, including protective measures, risk assessment, and the use of personal protective equipment to prevent injuries.
Maintenance Operations
Describes the adjustments and maintenance tasks performed by users. It also covers routine checks and preventive maintenance to keep systems functioning reliably.
On Board Diagnostic Information
Details the data produced by a vehicle's onboard diagnostic system, including diagnostic trouble codes and real-time sensor readings. This category covers information used to diagnose, monitor, and troubleshoot vehicle health and performance.
Repair and Refurbishment
Covers ecodesign considerations for maintaining and refurbishing products, including repair processes and the recording of repair histories. Aligns maintenance, product repair, and repair history to inform durable, sustainable design.
This category covers maintenance and refurbishment as a design consideration in ecodesign. It emphasizes strategies to extend product life, enable repair and upgrade, and reduce environmental impact through lifecycle-focused design.
Product Repair
The process of fixing a faulty product or replacing its defective components to restore functionality and return the item to service.
Repair History
This category captures repair history information for an asset, including dates, parts replaced, service providers, and outcomes. It supports traceability and maintenance planning by documenting past repair events and their results.
Maintenance and Repair
This category covers upkeep practices for products and vehicles, including general maintenance actions and vehicle repair information. It groups two subcategories: Product Maintenance and Vehicle Repair and Maintenance.
Product Maintenance
Maintenance refers to actions performed to preserve a product's functional condition so it continues to operate as specified. These activities help prevent failures and extend the product's usable life.
Vehicle Repair and Maintenance
Information and guidance on diagnosing, repairing, and maintaining vehicles. Covers maintenance schedules, repair procedures, and best practices for vehicle upkeep.
Maintenance and Documentation
This category combines repair and maintenance guidance with official product usage and upkeep documentation. It helps users locate hands-on maintenance information and reference materials in one place.
Repair and Maintenance
Repairs and ongoing maintenance, including parts availability and maintenance instructions. It covers guidance on upkeep, sourcing of replacement parts, and procedural steps for maintaining equipment.
Product Documentation
Documentation about how to use and maintain the product, including user guides, manuals, troubleshooting, and maintenance procedures.
Documentation and Parts
Covers all documentation and information assets related to consumables, spare parts, usage, maintenance, and safety. Includes traceability documentation, information requirements for consumers and operators, and access to contact details for parts sources.
Consumables and Spare Parts
This category encompasses consumables and maintenance items, the communications channels for informing national authorities and operators about spare parts, and the principles of fair pricing for spare parts. It also includes the contact details for spare parts sources.
Consumables and Maintenance
Describes the quantities and characteristics of consumables required for proper use and ongoing maintenance. This category guides procurement, stocking levels, and specification of items such as lubricants, filters, cleaners, and other disposables essential to operation.
Email Distribution Service
An email-based communication channel used by Member States to inform national authorities and operators about important notices and alerts. This category encompasses the flow of information and the stakeholders involved in email-based notifications.
Spare Parts Pricing Fairness
This category covers pricing practices for spare parts to ensure fairness and non-discrimination. It emphasizes reasonable, transparent prices and rejects discriminatory or exploitative pricing.
Spare Parts Source Contacts
This category covers the collection and display of contact details for spare parts sources, including postal address, email, and website. It enables users to reach suppliers efficiently.
Usage, Maintenance and Information
This category provides practical guidance on usage and maintenance, together with the information requirements for consumers and other operators. It covers the two subtopics: Usage and Maintenance, and Information Requirements for Stakeholders.
Usage and Maintenance
Documentation describing how to operate the product and keep it in good working condition, including setup, daily usage, maintenance procedures, and troubleshooting tips.
Information Requirements for Stakeholders
Specifies the information needs of consumers and other interested operators. It covers IT support provided by the DPP to ensure access to essential information.
Manuals and Instructions
A category for product manuals and instruction documents, including safety information. It groups user manuals and instruction manuals together as essential usage and safety guidance, often linked via PDFs.
User Manuals and Safety
Official user manuals, instructions, warnings, and safety information for products. It groups guidance that helps users operate products safely and correctly.
Instruction Manuals
Category for manuals that convey safety measures and operating procedures, often provided as PDFs via URLs. These digital documents guide safe use and compliance.
Traceability Documentation
Documents that provide evidence for traceability information. This category collects supporting records, attachments, and certificates that substantiate provenance and audit trails used to verify traceability.
Product Documentation Suite
A category aggregating documents that accompany products across the supply chain, including DoP/TD, battery documentation, transport and packing lists, and traceability papers. It also covers delivery and reception records to demonstrate conformity and proper handling.
Documentation and DoP/TD
Manages supply-chain documentation and compliance records, including supply information documents. Covers the ongoing maintenance of the Declaration of Performance (DoP) and Technical Documentation (TD).
Supply Information Documents
Documents containing information about the supplies of supply chain actors. These documents include data on sources, quantities, and delivery schedules or material availability.
Maintain DoP and TD
This category covers the retention of the Declaration of Performance (DoP) and the Technical Documentation (TD) required for product conformity. It specifies the obligation to keep these documents available for regulatory review and conformity verification.
Battery and Transport Documentation
This category groups documents that accompany the battery and the transport paperwork used for traceability and dispatch. It includes Battery Documentation and Transport Documentation as subcategories.
Battery Documentation
Documents that accompany batteries, such as manuals, safety sheets, and certificates, which may carry QR codes for traceability and information access. This category covers the paperwork that travels with the battery to support safety, verification, and reference.
Transport Documentation
Documents that accompany goods in transit and are linked to the Traceability Despatch Advice. These records capture transport details and serve as proof of shipment and traceability.
Battery Documentation and Packing
This category covers the documents accompanying batteries when placed on the market or put into service, and the packing lists used in the Traceability Despatch Advice for the actual package unit. It groups Battery Documentation and Despatch Packing List to support traceability and regulatory compli
Documentation accompanying the battery when it is placed on the market or put into service. This category covers the official materials supplied with the battery, including safety instructions, labeling, and conformity information.
Despatch Packing List
Packing list document included in the Traceability Despatch Advice (actualPackageUnit). It itemizes contents per package to support shipment traceability and verification of dispatched goods.
Delivery and Traceability Documentation
Documentation covering the delivery and receipt of discarded products and the traceability of transport activities. Includes Despatch Advice and related lists or attachments.
Delivery and Receipt Documentation
This category covers information and records that verify the delivery and reception of discarded products. It includes proofs of delivery, handover receipts, and related documentation used to confirm transfer and custody of waste.
Represents the document used to convey dispatch details for traceability in transport operations. It may include item lists and attachments to support tracking and auditing of shipments.
Accompanying Documents
Documents packaged with the product, such as manuals and safety declarations, where the CE marking may be affixed if it cannot be attached to the product itself.
CE Conformity Procedures
Collection of procedures and information flows governing CE marking of batteries under implementing acts. It covers dual conformity paths, examination procedures, information requirements and administrative steps, and considerations for batteries produced in series.
Dual CE Procedures
Covers scenarios in which CE conformity involves a two-step administrative process and/or two separate conformity assessment procedures. It explains the potential sequences, responsibilities, and interactions between steps in dual CE pathways.
First Step in CE Process
Represents the initial stage of a two-step CE procedure. It documents the actions or submissions required before the second step toward CE conformity.
Dual Conformity Assessment
Describes situations in which economic operators may be subject to two separate conformity assessment procedures. It covers the overlap or sequencing of approvals required by different regulatory schemes or markets.
Examination Procedures
Category for procedures used to examine and adopt implementing acts, including the specific reference in Article 73(3). It covers general examination procedures as well as those tied to Article 73(3).
Examination Procedure
Examination procedure refers to the formal checks and assessments cited in the process of adopting an implementing act. This category covers the procedural steps and criteria used to verify relevance and compliance during the adoption.
Examination Procedure Art. 73(3)
An examination procedure defined in Article 73(3) governing the review of implementing acts. This category captures the formal steps and criteria used to assess these acts before adoption.
Information Requirements and Administrative Steps
This category covers two regulatory concepts: Additional Information Requirements (e.g., information required under Articles 36 and 37) and Administrative Steps (such as orders or invoices). It focuses on the documentation and procedural aspects of regulatory processes.
Additional Information Requirements
This category covers mandatory additional information requirements specified in Articles 36 and 37. It defines what supplementary information must be provided beyond standard disclosures.
Administrative Step
Represents a discrete administrative action within a workflow, such as issuing an order or generating an invoice. This category covers administrative steps that are supported by formal documentation (evidence) like orders or invoices.
Series Production Batteries
This category covers batteries manufactured in series and the conformity procedures used to ensure quality in mass production. It links the series production method with the required compliance checks for batteries.
Series Production Conformity
Guidelines and procedures to verify that batteries manufactured in high-volume series production meet quality and regulatory conformity standards. Includes testing protocols, documentation, and traceability to ensure consistency across batches.
Batteries in Series
Batteries connected end-to-end so their voltages add up while keeping the same current capacity. This series configuration enables higher overall voltage but requires matched cells and proper balancing to ensure safety and reliable performance.
Documentation & Data Compliance
Group of documentation and data requirements under Union law, including DPP data collection, PDF deliverables, and PDF-based due diligence reports. It also covers Excel-based workflows and PDF link resources for collection points.
Documentation & Data under Union Law
Consolidates documentation obligations under applicable Union law and the data collection information required to meet regulatory rules. It encompasses both 'Other Union Law Documentation' and 'Regulatory Data Collection' as subcategories.
Other Union Law Documentation
Documentation required by Union law other than core product conformity. This category covers records and certificates mandated by additional EU regulations applicable to the product.
Regulatory Data Collection
This category covers the information needed to collect DPP data in compliance with regulatory requirements. It ensures that data collection processes meet legal obligations and supports auditability.
Imaging and PDF Deliverable
Represents Deliverable D2.1, outlining the requirements for imaging and data technologies and the PDF file format. It groups two subtopics: D2.1 Imaging Requirements and PDF File Format.
D2.1 Imaging Requirements
This category covers Deliverable D2.1: Requirements for Imaging and Data Technologies. It defines the specifications and criteria for imaging capabilities and data technologies required by the project, guiding related work and evaluations.
PDF File Format
Represents the PDF (Portable Document Format) data type. This category covers standard file formats used for fixed-layout documents.
Data Delivery Formats
Defines how data and collection-point information are delivered: either embedded in an Excel workbook or provided as a PDF link. The two child categories detail the Excel integration and the PDF link requirement to support accessible data sharing.
Excel Workbook Integration
This category covers the embedding of the CISUTAC tool within an Excel workbook, enabling open-access use directly from spreadsheets. It explains how the tool operates inside Excel and the benefits for accessibility and collaboration.
PDF Link Requirement
This category specifies that the location of collection points and related information must be provided as a link to a PDF. It ensures consistent access to relevant details via a single document.
Due Diligence PDFs
PDFs are the standard deliverable format for due diligence reports. This category covers PDF documents created or used to present due diligence findings, including structure and appendices.
Documentation and Evidence
Category covers the creation, storage, and accessibility of documents that prove compliance and provenance for batteries. It includes user manuals, conformity assessment records, proofs of fulfilment, data-source provenance and batch linkage, and references or links to external documents and PDFs, o
Documentation and Provenance
This category covers information availability in user manuals and documentation, and records that demonstrate fulfilment of obligations. It also encompasses identifying data sources and linking them to product batches to support traceability.
Documentation Availability
Assesses whether essential information is provided in the user manual or official documentation. It focuses on the presence and accessibility of guidance for users within manuals or similar documents.
Fulfilment Documentation
Records kept by operators to demonstrate fulfilment of obligations, including related reports. This category covers evidence of compliance and the accompanying documentation used to verify that obligations have been met.
Source Provenance and Batch Linkage
This category addresses identifying data sources and linking data to product batches to enable traceability, auditability, and effective mitigation planning.
Document References and PDF Links
A category that groups external reference documents and the Battery Passport PDF link hosted on the company website. It covers generic external documents used as references and the specific PDF resource for the battery passport.
External Reference Documents
Represents external documents used as references, encompassing common office file formats like PDF, DOCX, and XLS. These are external resources linked or cited within the system as reference materials rather than primary data objects.
Battery Passport PDF Link
A link to the PDF version of the battery passport hosted on the company website. It provides official, web-accessible documentation for the battery passport.
Battery conformity records
Contains records and communications related to the conformity assessment procedures for batteries. This includes testing results, evaluation reports, certificates, and related correspondence with regulators or conformity assessment bodies.
Document Reference
Covers the identification of a document and a specific item within it to which a message refers. This enables precise citation of the source and the exact referenced component.
Sustainability and Compliance
Top-level category for ecodesign methods, measurement standards, and environmental data used to verify product sustainability and regulatory compliance. It covers testing, remote data collection, climate and usage contexts, environmental indicators, and the maturity of SSbD across geographic context
A high-level category grouping tests, methods, and indicators used to assess environmental, safety, lifecycle, and economic aspects of chemical and material design. It includes carbon footprint methodologies, lifecycle considerations, and indicators of material efficiency and process performance.
Test and Measurement Specifications
This category covers the specifications for tests, measurements, and calculations used to demonstrate or verify compliance. It describes the procedures, methods, and criteria required for evaluation.
Measuring Methods
Techniques and procedures that yield reliable, accurate, and reproducible measurements for testing and verifying compliance. This category covers standardized measurement protocols used to validate conformance and quality.
Carbon Footprint Methodology
This category covers delegated regulations that establish the methodology used to calculate carbon footprints and verify results. It includes the formal rules for accounting and reporting carbon emissions.
Maturity of SSbD
This category captures the maturity level of Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) aspects within an innovation. It describes how SSbD readiness is defined, assessed, and progressed through development, guiding integration of safety and sustainability considerations.
Economic and Financial Security
This category encompasses the stability and resilience of economic and financial systems, including market stability, risk management, and access to capital. It supports secure livelihoods, sustainable growth, and protection against financial shocks.
Heat of Vaporisation Indicator
Represents the heat of vaporisation (latent heat) per unit mass, expressed in MJ/kg. This is a dedicated indicator concept used to quantify the energy required for phase change in thermodynamic analyses and energy systems.
Boiling Temperature Indicator
A category for indicators that denote or measure a substance's boiling point, typically expressed in °C. It covers measurement methods, sensors, and signals used to monitor boiling temperature for process control, safety, and quality assessment.
Reaction Yield Indicator
Defines the Reaction Yield Indicator concept as the measured proportion of theoretical product obtained in a chemical reaction. It standardizes yield data to assess process efficiency and guide optimization within the taxonomy.
Material Intensity Indicator
Represents a discrete indicator used to quantify material intensity. It measures the material input per unit of output, supporting resource-efficiency assessment and environmental impact benchmarking.
Atom Economy Indicator
This category collects indicators that quantify atom economy—the efficiency of incorporating reactant atoms into desired products. These indicators are used to assess and optimize chemical reactions, aiming to minimize waste and maximize atom utilization in sustainable chemistry.
Ozone Depletion Impacts
This category collects indicators that quantify the environmental impacts of ozone depletion. It highlights measures of UV exposure changes, ecological effects, and broader ecosystem health linked to ozone layer thinning.
Lifecycle Consideration Level
Represents the degree to which life cycle thinking is incorporated in evaluating a chemical or material. It ranges from minimal consideration to full cradle-to-grave assessment.
Near-Infrared Technology
Near-Infrared (NIR) technology uses near-infrared light to infer material composition. While fast and non-destructive, its accuracy can be limited by spectral overlap, calibration requirements, and sensitivity to surface and moisture conditions.
Analogous Internal Resistance
Defines how to compute internal resistance increase by applying an analogy to battery-pack level calculations. Provides guidance on defining and applying the equivalent formulas to internal resistance growth.
Ecodesign Metrics and Innovation
This category gathers ecodesign measurement methods, innovation framing, and key environmental metrics used in design assessments. It links measurement units such as mol N eq, kg 235U eq, and CTUh with insulation concepts and relevant standards, including the International Bill of Human Rights.
Ecodesign Measurement Methods
This category consolidates quantitative approaches used to assess ecodesign attributes. It includes state-of-the-art ecodesign measurement methods and the CTUh unit (Comparative Toxic Unit for humans) as a metric. A miscellaneous subcategory exists for additional related concepts.
State-of-the-art ecodesign methods
An overview of leading methodologies and tools used to quantify ecodesign attributes. It emphasizes cutting-edge approaches for assessing lifecycle impacts, material sustainability, energy efficiency, and circularity in product design.
Comparative Toxic Unit
CTUh stands for Comparative Toxic Unit for humans, a unit of measurement used in toxicology to express toxic potency relative to a reference human exposure. It enables standardized risk assessment and facilitates cross-species extrapolation by comparing effects to a human baseline.
Innovation Goals, Framing, Standards
This category collects the goals, types, and design nature of innovations, and how intended innovations are framed within scoping analyses. It also links these considerations to internationally recognized standards, such as the International Bill of Human Rights.
Innovation Goals, Types, and Design
This category covers the aims driving innovation, the various forms or types of innovation (product, process, organizational, etc.), and the nature of redesign or (re)design activities. It frames how organizations define objectives, classify innovations, and approach design changes during developmen
Intended Innovation Framing
Describes the innovations the project intends to pursue as defined in the scoping analysis. It captures the framing, objectives, and scope of intended innovations within the design context.
This category covers the core international human rights instruments collectively known as the International Bill of Human Rights, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the binding covenants ICCPR and ICESCR. These instruments are internationally recognised standards for fundamenta
Terrestrial Eutrophication Metrics
Anchors terrestrial eutrophication as a design concept and groups the key indicator and its measurement unit. It includes the Terrestrial Eutrophication Indicator and the Moles of Nitrogen Equivalents (mol N eq) used to quantify nutrient enrichment in land ecosystems.
Terrestrial Eutrophication Indicator
A category for indicators of terrestrial eutrophication, i.e., nutrient over-enrichment in soils. It highlights measurements like elevated soil nitrogen and phosphorus, organic matter accumulation, and related shifts in soil chemistry and plant communities.
Moles of nitrogen equivalents
Represents the mole-based unit used to quantify nitrogen equivalents for terrestrial eutrophication. The unit mol N eq expresses nitrogen-related nutrient loading, enabling comparison of inputs across processes and land ecosystems.
U-235 Activity Units
Category for measurements expressed as uranium-235 equivalents, typically using kilobequerels (kBq) as the reference activity. It standardizes radiological quantities by relating them to U-235 activity for comparison and safety assessments.
Energy Insulation Concepts
Concepts relating to insulation with a focus on energy efficiency and energy performance. This category links insulation design and materials to energy outcomes, emphasizing strategies that minimize heat transfer and reduce energy use.
Environmental Data and Conditions
This category groups data about environmental conditions and in-use metrics that influence energy planning and lifecycle assessments. It includes outdoor climate, dynamic temperature information, usage data, and exposure-related data to inform performance and environmental analyses.
Outdoor Climate and Temperature Data
This category covers outdoor climatic conditions and temperature-related data used in energy planning and battery passport context. It includes both fixed climate considerations and dynamic temperature information for assessing performance and safety.
Outdoor Climatic Conditions
This category captures outdoor climatic conditions as a factor in energy planning. It supports assessment of how ambient weather and climate affect energy demand, generation, and system performance.
Operating Temperature Data
This category covers periodically recorded temperature information for batteries, documenting the thermal conditions experienced during operation. The data supports safety, performance assessment, and lifecycle monitoring of the battery.
Dynamic Temperature Data
Temperature information that changes over time, such as live sensor readings or time-series measurements. This category emphasizes temporal variability and supports up-to-date monitoring and analysis.
In-Use Data and Conditions
This category covers non-personal data generated during device use, including usage metrics and environmental/temperature attributes. It also accounts for remote collection of in-use data and the data attributes describing operating conditions.
Remote non-personal data collection
Collects data about in-use systems from a remote location without gathering personal information. This category covers techniques for gathering non-identifying telemetry and usage metrics to support monitoring, analytics, and diagnostics while preserving user privacy.
Usage Data and Conditions
This category covers information produced during use, including performance metrics and operating conditions. It includes data like charge/discharge cycles and environmental factors that influence wear and reliability.
Temperature Data Attributes
This category collects data attributes that describe temperature conditions as referenced in Table 15. It focuses on the metadata and measurements related to temperature used across data records.
Exposure Data
Quantitative information about how substances are encountered within Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) contexts. This category includes exposure scenarios, durations, frequencies, and concentration estimates used to support inventory calculations.
Environmental Indicators
Groups indicators and units used to quantify environmental effects, focusing on climate change impacts and ozone formation. Includes NMVOC equivalent measurements, CFC-11 equivalent mass, and fossil-based context for chemical precursors.
Climate Change Concepts
Groups core climate-related concepts, including total effects, measurable indicators, and fossil-based precursors relevant to design contexts. It organizes the three child categories: Total Climate Change Effects, Climate Change Indicators, and Fossil-Based Precursors.
Total Climate Change Effects
Represents the aggregate environmental impacts attributable to climate change, capturing the full range of effects on ecosystems, resources, and climate-related hazards. This category serves as a comprehensive measure of climate-driven environmental change.
Climate Change Indicators
This category catalogs indicators that quantify climate-related impacts driven by greenhouse gas emissions. It helps assess how emissions influence climate change and its effects.
Fossil-Based Precursors
This category collects information on precursors for Chemical A that originate from fossil-based sources. It highlights fossil-derived starting materials, their availability, and historical context in the synthesis of Chemical A. Useful for understanding supply chains and lifecycle implications of u
NMVOC Metrics for Ozone Formation
This category groups NMVOC equivalents (kg) with indicators of photochemical ozone formation. It links how NMVOC quantity relates to ground-level ozone, facilitating VOC pollution assessment and policy relevance.
NMVOC Equivalent (kg)
Kilograms of NMVOC equivalent is a unit used to quantify the potential for photochemical ozone formation. This category standardizes different NMVOC species into a common mass-based metric for air quality assessment.
Photochemical Ozone Formation
This category concerns the photochemical processes that form ground-level ozone from VOC precursors under sunlight. It centers on indicators used to assess ozone formation potential and the atmospheric chemistry driving photochemical smog.
CFC-11 Equivalent Mass
Unit of measurement for ozone depletion expressed as kilograms of CFC-11 equivalent. It quantifies the mass of ozone-depleting substances using CFC-11 as a reference, enabling standardized reporting and comparisons across substances.
Voltage and Temperature Specifications
This category captures electrical and thermal specification attributes for products. It includes intended use, voltage ranges with temperature context, battery voltage, and operating temperature relevant to capacity or performance measurements.
Intended Use and Voltage
Captures the product's intended use and its allowable voltage ranges, including temperature considerations, in line with harmonised technical specifications. This category links purpose with electrical operating parameters to support compliant product definitions.
Intended Use
Defines the declared purpose or application of a product as specified by harmonised technical specifications and European standards. It guides compliance, testing requirements, and safe, appropriate use within the approved scope of the product.
Voltage Ranges with Temperature
Defines voltage specifications including minimum, nominal, and maximum voltages, with applicable temperature ranges when relevant. This category captures how voltage ratings can vary with operating temperature and supports accurate modeling of electrical components and safety limits.
Temperature Specifications
This category groups temperature-related parameters used in electrical measurements. It covers the temperature range for voltage measurement and the operating temperature relevant to assessing remaining capacity.
Temperature Range (°C)
Defines the allowable temperature span, in degrees Celsius, within which a voltage measurement is valid. This context helps ensure accuracy by accounting for temperature-related variation in voltage readings.
Operating Temperature for Capacity
Covers the operating temperature conditions relevant to measuring remaining capacity. It notes how temperature can affect measurement accuracy and interpretation of capacity readings.
Battery Voltage
Battery voltage represents the electrical potential difference across a battery's terminals. This data attribute is used to monitor charge level, health, and charging status in energy storage and electronic devices.
Geography and Location in Traceability
Captures how geographic relevance and the placement of locations influence the quality and usefulness of traceability data. It covers geographic representativeness, the location of process steps or products, and the placement of temperature sensors.
Geographic Relevance
Assesses how data relate to the geographic context and whether observations are geographically representative of the area of interest. It captures the spatial correlation and alignment between data and geographic phenomena to support valid geographic inferences.
Traceability Location
Represents a location linked to a process step or product in the traceability schema. This category enables localization of events and items to facilities, warehouses, or geographic sites within the lifecycle.
Temperature Sensor Location
Locations where temperature sensors are placed influence the merit and applicability of the resulting temperature data. This category highlights how sensor siting affects data quality and the representativeness of measurements.
Acidification Metrics
Top-level category for metrics related to environmental acidification. It groups the concepts of acidification potential, acidification indicator, and hydron equivalents (mol H+ eq) used to quantify acidity impacts.
Acidification Potential
Represents the environmental essential characteristic for acidification potential, used to assess how emissions or substances may lower environmental pH. It supports comparing and ranking pollutants by their capacity to cause acidification.
Acidification Indicator
Represents indicators used to quantify acidification impacts on ecosystems and services. This category codifies dedicated metrics for modeling acidification effects in environmental assessments.
Hydron Equivalents
Represents quantities expressed as moles of hydron equivalents (H+). This unit is used to quantify acidification in chemical processes and analyses.
Bill of Waste
Represents the facility-level waste bill data within a bill-of-something data model. It encapsulates the billOfWaste element and its associated wasteDescriptor, grouping related sub-concepts such as Waste Bill Data, Facility Waste Bill, and Waste Descriptor Field.
Waste Bill Data
Describes the data element that models waste-related charges within a bill-of-something data model. It serves to capture waste bill information used in billing processes.
Facility Waste Bill
Represents the concept of organizing and relating waste charges or metrics at the facility level. It enables linking facility-specific waste data to broader enterprise waste management and cost models. This supports accounting, reporting, and traceability of waste-related costs.
Waste Descriptor Field
Defines the wasteDescriptor attribute used to describe waste in a bill of waste. This category captures the descriptive details that identify and characterize waste streams within waste documentation.
Battery Temperature Ranges
Defines the temperature bounds relevant to a battery when stored or idle, including storage range, idle upper bound, and where temperature safety limits apply. It clarifies distinctions between non-use conditions and operational conditions to support safe handling and use.
Storage Temperature Range
Defines the acceptable ambient temperature range for storing a battery when it is not in use. This helps ensure safety, longevity, and performance by avoiding extreme temperatures.
Idle Temperature Upper Bound
Represents the upper boundary of the temperature range for the battery in its idle state, as used in battery model specifications. This node supports modeling of thermal limits during idle operation and informs safety and performance constraints.
Temperature Safety Limits Applicability
Describes when temperature safety limits apply, including idle and active usage states. It notes that limits can vary with context or operating conditions.
Privacy and Data Protection
Top-level category encompassing privacy, consent, and data protection concepts across regulatory and operational contexts. It covers GDPR and EU data protection rules, explicit consent, data handling restrictions, security by design, professional secrecy, and governance of information processing. It
Personal Data Governance
This category groups governance aspects of personal data in information exchanges, including data protection rules, disclosure policies, and legitimate-interest access. It also covers health-related data elements such as copies of health records and battery status information exchanged between actor
Battery Status and Health Records
Aggregates two related concepts: battery status information (e.g., original, repurposed, reused, remanufactured) and a copy of the health record confirming the battery's performance after preparation. This category ties together lifecycle status data with its associated health documentation.
Battery status
Contains information about the current status and provenance of a battery, including whether it is original, repurposed, reused, or remanufactured.
Copy of Health Record
A duplicate health record used to preserve or share patient information. This category covers copies created for verification, archival, or data exchange while maintaining reference to the original document.
Data Protection and Disclosure
This category covers the Union's data protection rules governing personal data exchanged between parties and the policies that regulate disclosure among involved actors. It links overarching privacy safeguards with practical disclosure guidelines.
EU Data Protection Rules
EU data protection rules governing the exchange of personal data. They apply to information exchanges involving personal data, safeguarding privacy and data subject rights across the Union.
Disclosure Policies
Formal guidelines that regulate what information must, should, or may be disclosed among involved actors. The category covers when, to whom, and through which channels disclosures occur, including confidentiality considerations in collaborative or regulatory contexts.
Legitimate Interest Access
Defines access restrictions based on legitimate interest, allowing information access only to individuals with a legitimate reason. This ensures privacy while enabling necessary disclosure. The category includes subtopics on the concept of legitimate interest and on granting access under that princi
Legitimate Interest
Represents the legitimate interest basis used to justify access restrictions to data or resources under data protection regimes. This category covers how organizations may restrict access based on legitimate interests while balancing individuals' privacy rights.
Access by Legitimate Interest
Defines access control where information is restricted to individuals who have a legitimate interest. This category embodies the need-to-know principle, ensuring only authorized personnel can view sensitive data.
Personal Data Exchanges
This category covers personal data involved in information exchanges under this Article. It highlights privacy considerations and handling practices related to such data in exchange processes.
Security and Privacy
This category covers the governance of security, privacy, and data protection across information processing in customs operations and the textile supply chain. It includes data protection by design, data handling restrictions for service providers, confidentiality needs, and risk, security, and frau
Information Security & Privacy
This category encompasses information processing security, overarching security and privacy concerns, and defined confidentiality needs across the textile supply chain. It emphasizes measures to protect information in processing and to uphold privacy and confidentiality in alignment with applicable
Information Processing Security
Security measures for processing information in compliance with Union law. It covers practices to protect confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data while aligning with EU regulatory requirements.
Implement robust security and privacy measures across systems and processes to protect data and operations. This category emphasizes high-level protection, access control, and compliance throughout the lifecycle.
Confidentiality Needs
Represents confidentiality requirements described in textile supply chain representations. It covers restrictions on sharing and access to sensitive supplier, process, and commercial information across the chain.
Security, Privacy and Risk
Encompasses security, privacy and fraud prevention alongside risk management within customs operations and digital product passports. It focuses on safeguarding data, preventing fraud, and addressing risk to ensure secure and compliant cross-border trade.
Security, Privacy and Fraud Prevention
This category focuses on designing and operating digital product passports with strong security controls and privacy protections. It emphasizes safeguarding data, reducing privacy risks, and preventing fraud throughout the passport lifecycle.
Customs Risk Management
Processes for identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks in customs operations. It covers risk assessment, controls, and decision-making to support compliant, secure, and efficient cross-border trade.
Service provider data handling restrictions
This category defines rules restricting service providers from selling, reusing, or processing data beyond what is necessary. Any broader use of data requires an explicit agreement with the data owner or contracting party.
Data Protection by Design
This category covers the principle of embedding data protection into the design of systems and default settings. It promotes privacy-by-default, data minimization, and security controls as intrinsic parts of development and operation.
Data Protection and Privacy
This category groups GDPR compliance, personal data protection, and responsible data handling. It highlights anonymization, access control, professional secrecy, data responsibility, and legitimate-interest considerations in data sharing.
EU GDPR Regulation & Compliance
Covers the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the responsibilities for personal data protection compliance, and considerations related to legitimate interests. Links regulatory requirements with practical compliance practices and stakeholder roles.
General Data Protection Regulation
Regulation (EU) 2016/679, also known as the GDPR, sets EU-wide rules for processing personal data and safeguarding individuals' privacy. It defines data subject rights, lawful bases for processing, cross-border data transfers, and enforcement across member states.
Personal Data Protection Compliance
This category focuses on ensuring reporting processes comply with personal data protection laws. It covers lawful data processing, data minimization, security measures, and breach notification obligations.
Person with legitimate interest
This category covers individuals who have a recognized legitimate interest in a matter, warranting consideration as stakeholders or participants under applicable rules. It distinguishes those whose rights or duties justify access, involvement, or processing where consent is not required.
Anonymization and Access Control
This category collects criteria for ensuring data cannot identify individuals and for restricting access to sensitive information to authorized users. It includes non-identifiable data practices and access controls to protect privacy.
Non-identifiable Data Criterion
Ensures that collected data cannot identify individuals or infer their behaviour. The category supports privacy by design through de-identification and data minimization.
Limited Access to Sensitive Information
This category covers policies and controls that restrict access to sensitive information to a defined subset of individuals with a legitimate need. It emphasizes need-to-know, least privilege, and formal authorization to access such data.
Professional Secrecy
This category defines the obligation for personnel to maintain professional secrecy about information acquired in the course of duties. It covers confidentiality, non-disclosure, and the protection of sensitive information encountered in compliance activities.
Data Responsibility
Defines who is responsible for data within data exchange processes and how accountability is enforced. Covers roles, obligations, and policies that ensure secure, compliant, and ethical data sharing.
Sustainability Data Governance
This category groups the governance, quality, and verification of sustainability data in product documentation. It encompasses data requirements, data quality attributes, and processes for compliance verification and self-certification by manufacturers.
Data Quality and Completeness
Describes the quality attributes and completeness of sustainability data. It covers how data are characterized (e.g., primary vs secondary, measured vs estimated) and how complete the information set is, guiding storage and usage decisions, with subcategories focusing on data quality and information
Sustainability Data Quality
Describes quality attributes of sustainability data, including whether data are primary or secondary, measured or estimated, and their completeness.
Information Completeness
Describes whether the information set is complete and how that completeness influences storage actions. It captures the sufficiency of data elements and informs decisions about storing, indexing, or pruning data based on completeness criteria.
Compliance Verification and Self-Certification
This category covers the verification of manufacturer compliance with Article 22 requirements and producer self-certification under extended producer responsibility. It encompasses both verification activities and producer declarations used to demonstrate compliance.
Manufacturer Compliance Verification
Category for confirming that manufacturers comply with Article 22 requirements. It encompasses verification activities to ensure regulatory adherence and readiness for audits.
Producer Self-Certification
A declaration by the producer asserting adherence to extended producer responsibility (EPR) requirements. This self-certification is used to demonstrate compliance to regulators or stakeholders, potentially without external validation.
Sustainability Data Requirements
This category specifies the mandatory sustainability data to be included in the DPP and describes the sustainability characteristics of both products and facilities. It ensures that key sustainability attributes are captured consistently across the supply chain.
Mandatory DPP Sustainability Data
Specifies that sustainability-related data must be mandatory within the Digital Product Passport (DPP). Defines the subset of sustainability attributes that must be collected and reported to support compliance, traceability, and lifecycle assessment.
Product and Facility Sustainability
This category covers the sustainability characteristics associated with products and with the facilities that produce or operate them. It includes attributes used to evaluate environmental impact, resource use, and lifecycle performance.
Confidentiality Governance
This category covers obligations to protect confidential information, disclosure rules under explicit authorization, and common confidentiality challenges. It also addresses storage solutions and policy design for confidential data, including granular disclosure and authorized-access controls. It al
Confidentiality Obligations and Disclosure
This category covers confidentiality obligations for commercially sensitive information and the rules governing when disclosure is permissible. It highlights that disclosure should occur only with explicit authorization and under appropriate safeguards.
Confidentiality Obligations
This category covers obligations to keep commercially sensitive information confidential. It includes policies, agreements, and practices such as NDAs, access controls, and data-handling procedures that protect trade secrets and sensitive data, applying to employees, contractors, and partners.
Explicit Authorization Disclosure
Disclosures that occur only when explicit authorization is granted. This category captures information sharing that requires explicit consent before disclosure.
Confidentiality Barriers and Policies
Captures barriers to maintaining data confidentiality and the policies governing storage, disclosure, and access for confidential information. It covers confidentiality barriers and affordable storage policies that support granular disclosure controls for authorized bodies.
Confidentiality Barriers
This category identifies barriers to maintaining data confidentiality, including gaps in access control, weak encryption, and governance shortcomings. It covers organizational, technical, and procedural challenges that could lead to unauthorized data exposure.
Confidential data storage policies
This category covers affordable storage solutions for confidential data, emphasizing small-granularity disclosure policies and controlled access for authorized bodies. It addresses barriers and mitigation strategies related to storage design and disclosure policy enforcement for sensitive informatio
Declaration and Disclosure of Characteristics
This category covers essential characteristics that manufacturers must declare, and the rules for recording their disclosure level and accessibility status. It includes subcategories for Mandatory Declaration of Characteristics and Data Disclosure and Accessibility to manage transparency and access
Mandatory Declaration of Characteristics
This category covers essential characteristics that manufacturers are required to declare. It defines the obligation to disclose certain product attributes as part of compliance and labeling.
Mandatory Essential Characteristics
This category defines those essential product characteristics that manufacturers are required to declare. It covers characteristics that must be disclosed to meet regulatory, safety, and market transparency requirements.
Mandatory Attribute Declaration
This category promotes the practice of always stating essential characteristics for entities. It emphasizes that critical attributes must be declared to ensure clarity, interoperability, and accurate interpretation.
Data Disclosure and Accessibility
This category covers how data disclosure levels are declared and whether content is restricted by accessibility rights. It includes subcategories for Data Disclosure Level and Accessibility Restrictions, enabling consistent labeling of transparency and access constraints.
Data Disclosure Level
Defines the degree of data disclosure for each group using the disclosureLevel attribute, guiding visibility and access policies. It enables privacy and transparency by classifying data as public, internal, or confidential.
Accessibility Restrictions
This category captures content that has been limited by a disclosure indicator, signaling restrictions enforced under accessibility rights. It helps track materials that are not fully accessible due to policy or legal constraints.
Data Privacy and Disclosure
Covers privacy constraints on data collection, data disclosure policies, and confidentiality levels, plus the documentation required to demonstrate due diligence compliance to authorities.
Data Disclosure and Due Diligence
This category groups governance artifacts related to how sustainability data is disclosed and the documentation required to demonstrate compliance with due diligence obligations to regulatory authorities and market surveillance bodies.
Data Disclosure Policies
Policies governing how sustainability data is disclosed to stakeholders and the public. This includes reporting requirements, confidentiality considerations, and the timing and methods of disclosures.
Due Diligence Documentation
Documents that demonstrate compliance with due diligence obligations to Member States’ market surveillance authorities and national authorities. This category encompasses evidence submitted to authorities to prove regulatory compliance.
Data Privacy and Confidentiality
This category covers policies and techniques for protecting personal data during collection and storage. It includes privacy constraints on unobtrusive data collection and governance of confidentiality levels across data granularity.
Privacy-preserving Data Collection
Constraints and mechanisms that limit or prohibit collecting user data, particularly unobtrusive or identifying information. This category highlights privacy-by-design principles, data minimization, and consent-driven controls to reduce data collection and protect user privacy.
Confidentiality Levels
Defines the levels of data confidentiality and the policies that apply at different granularity levels. Includes disclosure-related rules and conditions for handling sensitive information.
Battery Policy and Obligations
This category aggregates the obligations of economic operators and the battery due diligence policies that govern responsible sourcing and risk management for batteries. It also includes customizable data disclosure policies for traceability data and the battery policies cited in Article 48.
Battery Policy and Disclosure
Defines policy frameworks governing battery supply chain practices, including due diligence for raw material sourcing and customizable disclosure of traceability data. Useful for organizations implementing responsible sourcing and transparent reporting.
Battery Due Diligence Policy
Policy adopted by an economic operator to ensure due diligence in battery supply chains, focusing on raw material sourcing and risk assessment. It governs responsible procurement and risk management in battery-related materials.
Customizable Data Disclosure
This category represents a policy framework for customizing how traceability data is disclosed. It defines rules, conditions, and audiences for data sharing and access control to balance transparency with privacy.
Operator & Battery Obligations
Bridges the obligations of economic operators with the battery due diligence policies cited in Article 48, clarifying responsibilities and governance expectations for battery supply chains. This category defines the boundary and relationship between operator duties and policy-driven due diligence.
Obligations of Economic Operators
Defines the duties and responsibilities that economic operators must observe under applicable laws and regulations. This category groups compliance obligations, transparent reporting, and ethical and operational duties imposed on producers, distributors, and service providers.
This category covers battery due diligence policies referenced in Article 48. It outlines the obligations, scope, and risk-management requirements for the battery supply chain and components.
Explicit Consent
This category collects explicit consent concepts related to data handling: consent to collect data, consent to store personal data, and consent prior to updates that could affect performance. It organizes policies and practices for obtaining and recording explicit consent across data collection, sto
Explicit Consent for Data Storage
This category covers the requirement to obtain explicit, informed consent from individuals before storing or processing their personal data. It emphasizes compliance with privacy laws that mandate clear permission for data processing.
Data collection consent
End user consent to collection of information. This category captures the explicit permission granted by users to collect, store, and process their data, including the scope and purposes of data collection.
Explicit Consent for Updates
Explicit consent is required from customers before deploying software or firmware updates that may degrade performance. It emphasizes informed decision-making and risk governance around potentially disruptive updates.
Product Data and Compliance
This category encompasses data requirements, documentation, and information exchange used to demonstrate product performance, conformity, and compliance with applicable articles and delegated acts. It also covers in-use data recording, mass and quantity data, templates, and the evidence needed for p
Quantities and Data Exchange
Contains concepts related to product quantity data and traceability, including raw material percentages in batteries, item lists, and the information exchanged between roles. It also covers the data exchange model and EU information requirements (e.g., Article 7/Article 18(2)).
Product Quantities and Traceability
Covers data about product quantities, battery material content, and traceability item lists associated with each product unit. This category supports regulatory disclosures and traceability by aggregating quantity information, battery material percentages, and per-unit item identifiers.
Product Quantity Information
This category covers data about the quantities of a product that must be reported to the Commission under Article 4(6). It includes the amounts or volumes suppliers must disclose to satisfy regulatory requirements.
Battery Material Content
Represents the percentage quantities of raw materials present in a marketed battery. It captures the material composition as a proportion of total battery material, expressed as a percentage.
Traceability Item List
Represents the list of individual product unit identifiers included in a Traceability Despatch Advice. This item list enables tracking and verification of each unit within a despatch, supporting traceability and auditability.
Data Exchange Concepts
Specifies the information to be exchanged among roles and the platform, and describes a hybrid data exchange model that blends traditional transactions with event-based approaches.
Information to Exchange
Lists the data elements that must be exchanged among roles and the platform. It defines what information is shared to support interactions, workflows, and governance.
Hybrid Data Exchange
A mixed data exchange model that blends traditional transactional business processes with event-driven approaches. It supports both classic stateful transactions and real-time event-based data sharing.
EU Information Requirements
This category covers information that must be provided under Article 7(2)(b) and Article 7(5), or as mandated by other applicable Union law. It groups the legal information obligations established by Union legislation.
Article 18(2) Information
This category encompasses information listed under Article 18(2). It groups the data elements and disclosures mandated by that article.
Data Recording and Retention
This category covers requirements for recording in-use data and making it visible to end users, the technical feasibility of such recording, and the specification of delegated-act content elements. It also includes standards for records and data retention (e.g., minimum 10 years) and the completenes
In-use Data Recording
This category addresses the requirements to record data about product-in-use and to make that data visible to end users where appropriate, as well as the technical feasibility of capturing such data. It integrates governance and feasibility considerations for in-use data capture.
In-use Data Recording and Visibility
Specifies that products must record data about their use and make this information visible to end users where appropriate. This enables transparency and informed decision-making by providing visibility into usage and performance.
In-Use Data Recording Feasibility
Assesses whether recording data that is currently in use is technically feasible. It examines system architecture, data capture methods, latency, and compatibility constraints that enable or limit live data recording.
Delegated Act Elements
A category describing the elements that must be specified in delegated acts, including the elements set out in paragraph 4. It groups the subtopics: Delegated Act Content Elements and Paragraph 4 Elements.
Delegated Act Content Elements
Defines the content elements that must be specified in a delegated act. This category serves as a container for the components and sections mandated by delegated act provisions.
Paragraph 4 Elements
This category covers the elements referenced in paragraph 4, first subparagraph of the article. It identifies the specific components enumerated there that define the scope of this clause.
Records and Data Retention
Defines retention periods for records and information in the battery due diligence lifecycle, specifying a minimum ten-year retention for records and a ten-year data retention period after supply.
Ten-Year Records Retention
This category defines the minimum records retention period for the battery due diligence system as 10 years. It supports regulatory compliance and audit readiness by establishing archival and deletion timelines.
Data Retention Period
Defines the retention period for information, set to ten years after the point of supply. This category governs records lifecycle, compliance, and eventual disposal.
This category concerns the completeness of the information set, focusing on whether all relevant data are captured. It guides decisions about handling pre-existing information as new information is gathered, including retention, updating, or discard rules. It supports evaluating data sufficiency and
Product Mass and Attributes
Consolidates data items describing a product's physical properties, including weight, volume, composition, and historical records, with explicit attention to battery mass where relevant. This category supports standardized labeling and traceability across the product life cycle.
Product History and Weight
Contains historical data about the product and its weight-related attributes. It includes general product weight and battery mass terminology used in regulation.
Product History
This category collects records of a product's development and changes over time, including milestones, version history, and lifecycle events that shape its current form. It provides historical provenance and traceability for the product.
Product Weight
Represents the weight (mass) of a product, typically expressed in units such as kilograms or pounds. This category groups weight-related specifications used in labeling, packaging, and shipping.
Battery Mass
Represents the mass (weight) of a battery as a fundamental physical quantity. In Battery Regulation, 'Battery weight' is an alternative term for the standard quantity 'mass', and this node clarifies that they are equivalent measures.
Product Composition and Battery Mass
This category covers data items describing a product's material composition and the mass of its battery. These attributes support labeling and regulatory requirements, including inclusion in the battery passport for traceability.
Product Composition
This category covers data items that describe the constituents and materials that constitute a product. It provides a view of the product's structure, components, and ingredients for analysis and reporting.
This category covers the battery mass attribute, a required data point for battery passports and labeling. It specifies the total mass of the battery and the unit conventions used, supporting compliance, lifecycle assessment, and traceability.
Weight and Volume
This category covers the weight and volume of both the product and its packaging, including net weight, gross weight, and volumetric measurements. It supports logistics, storage, and inventory planning by providing essential mass and size data.
Represents the weight of a product as a standardized attribute to enable comparisons across items. It defines how weight data should be expressed to support consistent analytics and reporting.
Mass and Product Details
This category aggregates quantity, mass, and product identifiers used in analysis, including facility-level production mass and per-item mass for regulatory purposes. It also covers modeling methods such as mass-balance models and representative models used to characterize product flows.
Production and Battery Mass
This category groups two mass-related concepts: facility yearly production mass (estimated annual production at a facility by product type) and battery mass (the mass quantity defined for regulatory battery compliance). It organizes mass metrics used in manufacturing planning and battery regulation.
Facility Yearly Production Mass
Represents the rough annual production mass for each product type produced within a given facility. The metric is scoped at the facility level and is grouped by product type rather than by individual articles.
Defines the physically correct quantity for a battery's mass as specified by Battery Regulation. It covers how mass is defined, measured, and used as a regulatory metric for batteries.
Modeling Methods
Categorizes modeling approaches used for product analysis, including representative product models and mass balance models. These methods enable analysis when per-batch movements across manufacturers cannot be fully monitored.
Representative Product Models
A category for the set of representative product models used in the analysis. These models act as surrogates to simplify complex products and enable consistent comparison across analysis scenarios.
Mass Balance Model
A mass balance model used when not all manufacturing organizations can monitor per-batch movements. It attributes inputs and outputs by mass across the supply chain to maintain overall material accounting even with incomplete batch-level visibility.
Quantity and Product Details
Captures the quantities of goods to be transported and the associated product identifiers. It connects the amount with the corresponding products to support accurate shipment documentation and inventory management.
Shipment Quantity
Defines the quantity of goods to be transported. Represents the amount scheduled for a shipment.
Product Identification and Quantity
Identifies products and records their quantities to support inventory control and order fulfillment. This category underpins labeling, tracking, and stock management across supply chains.
Information Requirements and Evidence
This category gathers the information and evidence rules governing product performance and conformity. It covers Articles 10–11 requirements, information sufficiency for buyers, and the need for exhaustive documentation.
Articles 10-11 and Information Requirements
Encompasses the regulatory requirements associated with Articles 10 and 11 and the information requirements for product aspects as established in the delegated acts. It is organized into two subcategories: Articles 10-11 Requirements and Product Information Requirements.
Articles 10-11 Requirements
This category covers the requirements described in Articles 10 and 11. It consolidates the obligations and standards set forth in those articles for compliance and reference.
Covers the information that must be provided for a product under delegated acts, detailing the data, labeling, and documentation required to demonstrate compliance. It focuses on information requirements tied to product aspects as mandated by regulatory frameworks.
Evidence and Information Requirements
This category collects the elements needed to demonstrate performance and conformity in technical documentation. It also emphasizes exhaustive information, ensuring all required elements are included.
Performance and Conformity Evidence
Represents the essential elements that must be included in technical documentation to prove a product's performance and conformity with applicable standards. This category encompasses test results, certifications, and demonstrations used to verify compliance.
Exhaustive Information
Represents information where every element in a list is included, ensuring no omissions. This category denotes full enumeration and completeness.
Buyer Information Overview
Outlines the quantity and quality of information available to potential buyers, helping them assess suitability before purchase. Includes essential details on installation, initial use, operation, and maintenance.
Templates and Mass Documentation
Encompasses standard templates for process documentation and the formats used to report quantity and mass data. It includes net quantity, kilogram mass units, and mass reporting units, as well as the formatting of percentage shares in technical documents.
Templates and Documentation Formats
Collects templates used in standardisation processes and the formats for technical documentation of percentage shares. It includes Standardisation Templates and Documentation format for percentage shares.
Standardisation Templates
A collection of reusable templates for standardisation processes. These templates provide consistent structure and guidance for documenting workflows, checkpoints, and compliance across standardisation activities.
Documentation format for percentage shares
Defines the required format for technical documentation about percentage shares. Outlines structure, notation, and presentation guidelines for reporting ownership stakes.
Net Quantity and Mass Units
This category groups concepts related to the net quantity of an item and the units used to report its mass, including mass reporting units for hazardous substances (e.g., kilograms and weight percent). It links the quantity value with its measurement unit in documentation.
Net Quantity
Represents the net quantity of an item as referenced in a document, with the quantity context defined by the document's purpose (e.g., order, invoice, or shipment). It indicates the actual amount of items to be delivered or billed, excluding packaging or ancillary units.
Mass Reporting Units
Defines the units used to report the mass of hazardous substances, such as kilograms and weight percent. This category provides consistency for mass quantities in safety, regulatory, and reporting contexts.
Kilogram Mass Unit
The kilogram is the standard unit of mass used to express battery mass. This category captures the kilogram as a mass unit in battery specifications.
Compliance and Traceability
This category groups regulatory obligations, lifecycle coverage, and supplier data-traceability challenges that shape SSbD evaluations. It links due diligence obligations, lifecycle completeness, and supplier traceability gaps to ensure compliant, transparent decision-making across the supply chain.
Represents the regulatory and compliance requirements tied to due diligence activities. It highlights the laws, standards, and reporting obligations that govern how due diligence should be conducted across contexts.
Lifecycle Completeness
Assesses how thoroughly an SSbD evaluation covers all relevant life cycle stages and their associated impacts, ensuring no critical stage or effect is omitted.
Supplier Traceability Gaps
This category captures barriers arising from missing traceability data supplied by vendors, which impede manufacturers' ability to collect and verify supply chain information. It highlights data collection challenges caused by incomplete supplier records and documentation.
Article 7 Data Requirements
This category consolidates the information required under Article 7 for product documentation, including data needed during the iterative documentation process and the wind jacket data points used for sorting. It serves as an organizing hub for regulatory requirements and data elements in this domai
Article 7 Requirements
This category collects the information mandated by Article 7 for product documentation. It outlines the specific data and disclosures required to achieve regulatory compliance.
Required Data
Defines the data inputs that are required to run each iteration of a process. It specifies the essential inputs, constraints, and provenance needed to progress through iterative steps.
Wind Jacket Data Points
Specifies the required number of data points to sort wind jackets. This node indicates that eight data points are needed to perform effective sorting.
Battery Performance and Lifecycle
Top-level category grouping concepts related to battery ecodesign parameters, durability, reliability, functional units, cycle life, and lifecycle metrics. It covers how batteries are specified, measured, and warranted across performance, durability, and lifecycle indicators.
Power and Ecodesign Parameters
Groups concepts related to product power capabilities, ecodesign requirements, and performance metrics. It includes data attributes for power capability and constraints (e.g., maximum permitted battery power) and parameter-based product specifications used for comparison.
Battery Power Capability
This category collects concepts and data attributes related to battery power capability, including the maximum permitted battery power. It organizes the attributes that define power capability and how they are described within specifications.
Maximum Battery Power
Represents the upper limit on the power a battery is allowed to deliver. This attribute governs safety, regulatory compliance, and performance planning for energy systems.
Power Capability Attributes
Data attributes that describe the power capabilities of a device or system. This category includes properties such as available power, limits, and efficiency used in power management and capability assessment.
Represents the data attributes describing power capability as presented in Table 11. It provides a structured set of terms for recording and comparing a system's power-related capabilities.
Ecodesign Parameters and Requirements
This category collects ecodesign concepts that define product-level criteria. It covers product parameters used to establish ecodesign requirements (including exemptions) and product requirements that a product must meet before it can be placed on the market, as described in Annex III.
Ecodesign Product Parameters
This category covers product parameters used to define ecodesign requirements, including how exemptions may apply.
This category captures the mandatory characteristics that a product must possess, as defined in Annex III, before it can be placed on the market. It covers regulatory criteria and conformity prerequisites that determine market eligibility.
Product Performance Metrics
Category for performance-related parameters used to compare products. It provides standardized metrics that enable benchmarking and side-by-side evaluation of product quality.
Durability, Reliability and Warranty
Covers durability and reliability concepts, including product longevity, battery performance thresholds, calendar-life warranties, and the warranty context in which durability data is interpreted. It encompasses durability metrics, warranty terms, and the interpretation of capacity thresholds across
Calendar Life Warranty
This category covers warranties related to the calendar life of a product, including the duration of coverage and the context in which warranty terms apply. It distinguishes the calendar-life warranty itself from the contextual interpretation used for capacity thresholds.
Defines the duration of the commercial warranty that covers the calendar life of a product. This period specifies how long the warranty remains valid from purchase under normal conditions.
Warranty Context
Defines the warranty-related context in which a capacity threshold data attribute is interpreted. It covers how threshold values influence warranty terms, coverage eligibility, and claim evaluation, enabling consistent interpretation across warranty scenarios.
Battery Performance and Durability
Defines the minimum performance and durability requirements for batteries and references the applicable durability standard (3.2.2.8). This category serves as the parent for more detailed durability properties and performance criteria.
Battery Performance and Durability Requirements
This category comprises the minimum performance and durability thresholds referenced for batteries. It defines baseline criteria that batteries must meet to be considered compliant, focusing on the level of performance and durability that products are expected to demonstrate.
Durability Properties
Represents the durability attribute used to evaluate how long a product remains functional under typical use. It encompasses resistance to wear and the expected lifespan of items.
Durability and Reliability
Represents metrics that quantify how long a product remains functional and how consistently it performs. This category uses lifetime estimates and failure metrics (e.g., mean time to failure, failure rate) to express durability and reliability.
Product Durability
This category covers how long products can be used before failure, emphasizing longevity and resistance to wear. It encompasses materials quality, construction, and design features that extend usable life.
Battery Durability & Reliability
This category gathers metrics that describe a battery's longevity, endurance, and trustworthiness of data. It covers durability indicators, cycle life, minimum duration under defined use, and capacity recovery after storage, as well as the reliability of the reported data sources. Together, these me
Durability and Duration Metrics
This category consolidates indicators of product durability, reliability, and lifetime expectancy, including minimum average duration under defined conditions. It provides the metrics used to assess how long a product is expected to perform and endure in real-world use.
Durability and Lifetime Indicators
This category expresses durability and reliability through lifetime metrics such as expected lifespan and minimum lifespan. These indicators enable comparison of longevity and dependability across products.
Minimum Average Duration
Represents the lowest mean runtime observed for a sample of batteries under defined discharge conditions. This metric helps compare endurance across battery types and test scenarios by capturing the typical minimum performance under specified use conditions.
Cycle Life and Data Reliability
Captures metrics of battery endurance in cycles (cycle life) and the reliability of data sources used to report those measurements.
Cycle Life
Endurance in cycles describes how many full charge-discharge cycles a battery can endure under defined conditions. This longevity metric is influenced by factors such as temperature, depth of discharge, and charging/discharging rates.
Data Source Reliability
Represents the trustworthiness of data sources as a reliability attribute. It encompasses how consistently data can be relied upon for decision making, including factors such as accuracy and completeness.
Charge Capacity Recovery
This category covers the recoverable capacity a battery can deliver after a recharge following storage, under specified conditions. It describes the rebound of usable capacity during recharging and its implications for performance evaluation and lifecycle assessment.
Functional Units and Cycle-Life
Defines functional units used in lifecycle assessment, including standard units such as one kWh, exceptional alternate units, and measurement conditions like 50% of cycle-life. It clarifies how unit choice relates to cycle-life and supports related subcategories on LCA units and cycle-life considera
Functional Units (LCA)
This category covers the definitions of functional units used to quantify service in life cycle assessment. It includes the standard kWh-based unit as well as any exceptional alternate functional units that may be defined for specific contexts.
Exceptional Alternate Functional Unit
Captures the possibility of using a different functional unit in exceptional cases. It documents a special-case unit without altering the default baseline.
kWh Functional Unit
Defines a functional unit as one kilowatt-hour of total energy consumed or delivered over a product's service life. This unit is used in life cycle assessment to normalize environmental impacts to a common energy basis.
Functional Unit and Cycle-Life
Defines the functional unit used in life cycle assessment and the condition for measuring performance at 50% of the cycle-life. This category groups LCA parameters that specify the unit of analysis and the 50% cycle-life measurement point, under standardized measurement conditions.
Functional Unit
A quantified description of the service provided by a product system, used to normalize inputs and outputs in life cycle assessment (LCA). It provides the basis for comparing products and processes by enabling consistent functional measurements.
50% Cycle-Life Measurement
Specifies that cycle-life measurements are taken at 50% of the expected life. The measurement uses a predefined, standardized pre-use protocol to ensure consistency.
Battery Lifecycle Metrics
This category captures metrics that describe a battery's useful life, including expected lifetime and the number of full charge-discharge cycles. It covers subcategories focused on Battery Lifespan and Full Cycle Count.
Battery Lifespan
Represents the expected usable life of batteries, typically expressed in years or cycle counts. This category informs maintenance planning, replacements, and warranty considerations.
Full Cycle Count
Represents the total number of full charge–discharge cycles a battery has endured, serving as a measure of its cycle life. This metric helps assess battery durability and expected lifespan under cycling conditions.
Energy Storage Batteries
Top-level category for batteries and battery systems used in stationary energy storage, including Stationary Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) and LMT batteries, particularly when managed by a Battery Management System (BMS). It covers both general energy storage batteries and the LMT family tha
LMT Batteries
This category groups LMT battery concepts, including standard LMT batteries and those that use a Battery Management System (BMS). It highlights the removability and replaceability obligations associated with LMT batteries.
LMT Battery
Represents the LMT battery type, characterized by removability and replaceability obligations. These obligations apply to both the battery itself and its integration within devices.
LMT Batteries with BMS
This category covers LMT (lithium-metal) batteries that incorporate a Battery Management System (BMS). It highlights how BMS enables monitoring, safety, charging control, and health estimation for lithium-metal cells.
Stationary Battery Energy Storage Systems
Represents stationary battery energy storage systems (BESS) and BMS-enabled stationary storage solutions. This category covers configurations where Battery Management Systems oversee performance, capacity, and throughput information for stationary storage.
Stationary Battery Storage Systems
Represents stationary battery energy storage systems (BESS). These systems store electrical energy for grid support, peak shaving, backup power, and load balancing in facilities and networks.
BMS-enabled Stationary Storage
This category covers stationary energy storage batteries (BESS and LMT) that operate under a Battery Management System (BMS). It specifies the data needs for capacity and throughput information for these BMS-managed storage units.
Batteries designed to store electrical energy for later use, enabling load shifting, backup power, and grid stability. This category covers storage batteries employed in renewable energy systems, buildings, and portable equipment across multiple chemistries and form factors.
Describes the core operations that define a manufacturing workflow, including generic process steps and specific manufacturing steps. It also encompasses the data strategy for identifying, capturing, and tracing information associated with each step.
Process Steps and Data Strategy
This category covers the core manufacturing operation (the process step) together with the initial data objectives and strategy for data collection and governance. It links production activities to data capture and legal value, establishing a plan for how data supports manufacturing.
Process Step
A processStep represents the single manufacturing operation required to produce a product. It captures the specific action performed and serves as the atomic unit in the production workflow.
Data Objectives and Strategy
Defines the initial goals for data collection and assesses the legal value and relevance of data to be gathered. It also establishes the overarching data strategy.
Manufacturing Steps
This category collects the sequence of operations used to transform raw materials into finished products. It covers the order, types of steps, and workflows that define a manufacturing process.
Manufacturing Step
Represents a specific stage in a manufacturing process to which operational events are traced and recorded.
Battery Resistance
Encompasses resistive phenomena in batteries, including leakage resistance, ohmic resistance, and internal cell and pack resistance. It documents how these resistances impact performance, efficiency, temperature, and safety.
Leakage and Ohmic Resistance
A category for concepts of electrical resistance, focusing on leakage resistance and ohmic resistance. It covers how materials and interfaces resist leakage of electrolytes or gases and resist current flow via intrinsic resistance.
Leakage Resistance
Measures a material or component's ability to prevent unintended escape of electrolytes, gases, or other materials. This property is critical for safety and reliability in systems requiring secure containment and sealed interfaces.
Ohmic Resistance
This category covers the concept of ohmic resistance in electrical circuits, where resistance remains constant regardless of voltage or current according to Ohm's Law. It distinguishes ideal, linear resistive behavior from non-ohmic components and supports circuit analysis.
Battery Internal Resistance
Represents the intrinsic resistance of both individual cells and the overall battery pack. This parameter affects efficiency, heat generation, and voltage sag, and is used in modeling and testing of battery systems.
Derogations and Notifications
Top-level category covering derogations from the tracking requirement (including Article 25(5)) and related exemptions, as well as the subcontracted activity notification caption.
Derogations and Tracking Exemptions
This category groups legal provisions that create exemptions from tracking requirements. It includes Derogation under Article 25(5) and Derogations from the tracking requirement, enabling focused access to each specific exemption.
Derogation under Article 25(5)
This category covers derogations permitted under Article 25(5). It outlines the scope, conditions, and limitations of such derogations, and notes how they may be invoked and overseen.
Tracking Requirement Derogations
Describes approved exemptions to the mandatory tracking requirement in duly justified cases. Outlines the conditions, scope, and procedures for granting and reviewing derogations to ensure accountability and risk management.
Subcontracted Activity Notification
A category for notifications about subcontracted activities, particularly in Unit4 contexts. It covers alerts and status updates when external parties perform work, enabling tracking, auditing, and reporting within procurement and project-management workflows. This label aligns with the caption text
Corrective Actions and Measures
A top-level category for actions and measures taken to address non-conformities identified during conformity assessment, including actions to bring products into conformity and, if needed, withdrawal or recall. It encompasses both corrective actions and corrective measures designed to prevent recurr
A taxonomy category for actions and measures to address non-conforming batteries and restore conformity. It covers both corrective measures and corrective actions, including withdrawal or recall when necessary.
Corrective Measures
Actions taken to address identified issues, nonconformities, or risks after they are discovered. The goal is to restore compliance and safety, and to prevent recurrence through planned implementation and verification.
Actions taken to bring non-conforming batteries into compliance, including withdrawals and recalls, as well as other remediation measures. This category covers processes to identify, contain, and rectify battery quality issues to protect safety and regulatory compliance.
Corrective Action
Actions required to address deficiencies identified during conformity assessment. This category covers planning, implementing, and verifying corrective measures to resolve nonconformities and prevent recurrence.
Importers & Obligations
Covers regulatory duties and information related to importers under Article 29(3), including requirements for importer information (e.g., EORI) and the designation of importers as manufacturers for the purposes of the regulation.
Importer Duties & Info
Contains importer obligations under Article 29(3) and the essential importer information (including EORI number). It groups the two subcategories: Art 29(3) Importer Duties and Importer Information.
Art 29(3) Importer Duties
Defines the duties of importers under Article 29(3). Explains compliance requirements, documentation, and accountability associated with import activities.
Importer Information
Represents information related to the importer, including the EORI number, as referenced in Article 29(3). This category collects importer-specific identifiers and related data necessary for customs procedures.
Importers as Manufacturers
This category defines the regulatory status of importers, stating that they shall be considered manufacturers for the purposes of this Regulation. This designation affects their regulatory obligations and liability.
Exhaustive Information and Completeness
This top-level category covers concepts about exhaustiveness in data, including whether information is guaranteed to be exhaustive and how completeness is represented. It encompasses definitions of exhaustive information and the option to classify data as exhaustive.
Exhaustive Completeness
Represents a completeness option that enforces inclusion of all items, ensuring no omissions. This option is used when thorough coverage is required.
Represents whether the provided information is guaranteed to be exhaustive (complete) or explicitly non-exhaustive. This attribute communicates the completeness status of data or claims, guiding users on whether additional information may be required.
This category represents an option that provides complete, exhaustive information. It signals the availability of full, non-summarized data within a system, distinct from partial or summarized options.
Electrical Charge and C-rate Units
This category groups units used to quantify electrical charge and C-rate. It includes the ampere-hour (Ah) as a unit of capacity, the Decimal [A/Ah] representation, and the A/Ah unit used for C-rate. It has two subcategories: Electrical charge and C-rate Unit.
Electrical charge
This category covers concepts related to electrical charge, focusing on the ampere-hour (Ah) as a unit of charge capacity and decimal expressions of A/Ah. It is organized into subcategories for electrical charge units and for decimal representations of charge-per-capacity ratios.
Electrical charge units
Units used to quantify electric charge and battery capacity, with ampere-hour (Ah) as a primary example. They describe how much charge a battery or electrical system can store or deliver over time.
Decimal A/Ah
Represents decimal numeric values expressed with the unit A/Ah (amps per hour). This category groups decimal quantities that are measured per hour, capturing per-hour rates or fractions in electrical quantities.
C-rate Unit
Represents the measurement unit A/Ah used to express C-rate in battery contexts. The A/Ah unit simplifies to inverse hours (1/h), since C-rate is current divided by battery capacity. This category covers data and documentation that use A/Ah as the C-rate unit.
Transparency and Traceability Reports
Groups reporting components for transparency, sustainability, and traceability within the eBIZ Document Factory, including the Transparency and Sustainability Report and the Traceability Report. Together they support visibility into governance and product provenance.
Deinstallers with DPPI Access
Defines the Deinstaller role (singular) and its plural form, deinstallers, as actors who perform deinstallation and may access digital product passport information. This category groups these deinstallation-related concepts within the digital product passport lifecycle.
Sound Exposure and Protection
This category covers the acoustic properties of sound and the protection against sound load, along with the health risks posed by sound exposure. It connects how sound behaves with safety measures and health implications.
Sample Testing and Monitoring
This top-level category covers testing performed by manufacturers to verify declared performance and conformity. It also encompasses the obligation to conduct sample testing and maintain monitoring records to demonstrate ongoing compliance.
Battery Health Information
This category encompasses the health status of batteries (state of health, SoH) and how such information can be tailored for different actors based on data from battery management systems.
Battery Packs
Battery packs are assemblies of one or more battery cells or modules encased in a housing to store electrical energy. This category covers both singular and plural terms (battery pack / battery packs) and includes standalone packs and modular battery assemblies used across portable and stationary en
Battery Manufacturer Liability and Exclusions
Covers concepts related to liability, including general infringements under national law and specific post-market exclusions where the original battery manufacturer is not liable for breaches attributed to BMS software uploads.
Initial Goods List
Represents the initial set of goods to be transported in the TRICK traceability context, including product identifiers and quantities for each item. This category defines the payload prepared for dispatch before shipment.
Transformation Events
This category captures events that describe the transformation of components into new forms or products. It includes the generic TransformationEvent concept and its TRCTransformationEvent specialization, providing a common model for representing change processes in the ontology.
Event Tracking and Traceability
This category covers the monitoring and recording of harmful events, such as counts of deep discharge events and durations in extreme conditions. It also includes the TRCEventList, a structured representation of the traceability events that have occurred to a traceable entity.
Test Modification Instructions
This category covers instructions that modify a product for testing, including manual alterations performed before a test. It also includes guidance on in-test modifications to behavior or properties and clarifies when such changes are permitted.
Market Placement Regulations
Covers rules governing when products may be placed on the market, including prohibitions on marketing non-compliant items or without required declarations. It also includes the case of individual batteries placed on the market.
Building Kits and Prefabricated Elements
This category groups products that are kits comprising multiple items and other prefabricated building components. It includes the concept of a 'kit' as a market presentation by a single operator, typically involving two or more items packaged together for modular construction.
SLI Batteries
Starting, Lighting and Ignition (SLI) batteries are automotive batteries designed to provide the high cranking current needed to start engines and to supply the vehicle's electrical systems. This category covers lead-acid automotive batteries used for starting, lighting and ignition, as well as rela
Battery Condition and Temperature
Defines data points describing the physical state of a battery (Condition) and its Temperature information within the battery passport. Formalizes Condition as a product-data concept and associates temperature attributes to enable standardized, interoperable data across systems.
Object Events
This category encompasses events that concern one or more physical or digital objects. It includes ObjectEvent and TRCObjectEvent variants, capturing object-related information at the item or event level.
Geotagged Photo Evidence
This category groups photos used as traceability evidence, emphasizing time references and geolocation data. It includes georeferenced and timestamped images as formal evidence formats.
LMT Battery Scope Extension
Assesses the feasibility and technical consequences of extending the definition of 'LMT battery' to include batteries referenced in labeling rules. Addresses regulatory scope changes and labeling compliance implications.
Internal Systems and Battery Management
Comprises two related concepts: industrial users' internal data sources and battery management systems. It covers internal systems used for data collection and the electronic control units that regulate battery current and protect against overcurrent.
Conformity Standards and Specifications
References to harmonised standards, common specifications, and other technical specifications used to declare conformity. This category aggregates the sources that support compliance declarations and enable traceability of conformity assessments.
EU Ecodesign Directive
EU Directive 2024/1275 requiring Member States to establish ecodesign-related measures for products. It mandates national actions to improve energy efficiency and environmental performance across product life cycles.
Non-Compliance with Ecodesign
Represents products that fail to meet ecodesign requirements laid out in delegated acts under Article 4. This category signals regulatory non-compliance and potential enforcement actions.
Software and Firmware Updates
Updates to software or firmware that affect product performance. Includes bug fixes, feature improvements, and security patches.
Ecodesign Delegated Acts
This category covers delegated acts adopted under Article 4 that establish ecodesign requirements. These acts specify harmonized rules to be applied within the EU for product design and environmental performance.
Emerging Technology Improvements
A category for improvements identified in emerging technologies during analysis. It highlights potential capabilities, optimizations, and strategic implications of new technology advances.
Best-Performing Tech and Products
This category highlights the best-performing products and technologies available on the market, emphasizing standout performance, efficiency, and outcomes. It serves as a reference for benchmarking, procurement, and evaluating leading solutions.
Delegated Act Waivers
This category covers delegated acts adopted under Article 4(2) that establish that no or limited requirements apply to specific product parameters. It encompasses regulatory instruments that waive or omit obligations for defined parameters.
Technical Analysis
Analytical methods focused on technical aspects used to define system performance requirements. It guides the specification of metrics, constraints, and benchmarks that shape design choices.
Ecodesign Requirements via Delegated Acts
This category documents ecodesign requirements established through delegated acts. It covers how delegated acts set and implement ecodesign rules for products, aligning with regulatory and environmental objectives.
EU Regulation 66/2010
This category covers Regulation (EC) No 66/2010 as cited in Annex II. It identifies a specific EU regulatory instrument and its cross-reference within official annex documentation.
Better Regulation Guidelines
Guidelines referenced for drafting delegated acts within the Better Regulation framework. They establish standards to improve regulatory quality and coherence in rulemaking.
Top-level category for delegated acts adopted under this Regulation. These acts implement or supplement the Regulation by granting implementing powers to designated authorities.
Regulatory Conformity
This category covers products that conform to the Regulation and the delegated acts issued under it. It encompasses compliance verification and adherence to the required legal standards.
EU Data Protection Regulation
Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 governs the protection of personal data processed by European Union institutions and bodies and the free movement of that data within the Union. It complements the GDPR by establishing the data protection roles, rights, and enforcement mechanisms applicable to EU institutio
Includes the resources, tools, and facilities required to perform conformity assessment tasks. This category covers access to the equipment and spaces needed to carry out evaluations.
Standardisation Activities
This category covers the role of conformity assessment bodies in standardisation processes. It includes participating in standard-setting activities and providing information about standards development.
Information Provision Window
Defines the required period within which information must be provided after a request. This category captures the 15-day timeframe for disclosures and informs service levels.
Digital Copy Delivery Timeline
Defines the policy that a digital copy will be provided within five working days of a request. Establishes the expected turnaround time for fulfilling digital copy requests.
Qualified Conformity Assessors
Personnel with the technical knowledge and experience required to perform conformity assessment tasks. They possess the expertise to evaluate products, processes, or systems against relevant standards and criteria.
Timely Information Obligation
Covers obligations to provide required information within a 15-day window to demonstrate conformity with regulatory or standard requirements. The category defines the deadline-driven information submission and related evidence needed for compliance.
Functional Performance
Describes how a product or system performs its intended functions under defined conditions. It also covers performance criteria and any use constraints that affect functional suitability.
Intermediate Goods
This category covers components and subassemblies used inside physical products during manufacturing. These intermediate items are inputs that are not final consumer goods but are essential to produce the final physical goods.
Product Components
This category covers the parts and components included in physical goods. It identifies the tangible elements that make up a product, such as assemblies and subcomponents.
System Requirements
Contains the required capabilities and prerequisites for a system, including hardware, software, and performance criteria. It defines the specifications used to evaluate compatibility, readiness, and compliance.
Product Information Availability
This category describes whether essential information about the product is embedded or presented directly on the product itself. It covers on-product specifications, usage guidance, and other details that enable immediate access without external sources.
Product Comparison Data
Information designed to help users compare products, including performance indicators and other key attributes. It supports informed decision-making by highlighting differences across options.
Analytical Detection Limits
This category addresses how analytical detection limits affect the enforceability of concentration limits. It considers the lowest detectable concentrations and the implications for compliance monitoring and regulatory enforcement.
Products for Climate Resilience
This category groups products whose design and lifecycle enable better resilience to climate risks. It emphasizes the potential for products to contribute to climate adaptation across their entire life cycle, from production to end-of-life.
Undermining compliance behaviour
Behaviour that undermines the regulation's product compliance, including deliberate evasion, manipulation of testing, or other actions to bypass conformity requirements by manufacturers, suppliers, or distributors.
Repairability Score
Repairability score is a product parameter that quantifies how easy it is to fix or restore a product. It informs sustainability, maintenance costs, and service decisions by capturing repairability across components and accessibility of spare parts.
Lightweight Design
This category covers design strategies that reduce product weight and conserve materials, supporting circularity and resource efficiency across the product lifecycle.
Construction Products Regulation
Regulations governing construction products, including safety, performance, and conformity requirements. This category covers legal frameworks that standardize testing, performance declarations, and market surveillance for building materials.
On-site electricity production
Represents electricity generated by the owner itself for its own use, rather than purchased from external providers. This category is used in energy mix modelling to account for self-generated energy and its impact on consumption and emissions.
Product Lifecycle Climate Risk
Assesses the potential adverse effects of climate change on a product across its anticipated lifespan, including durability, performance, and regulatory exposure. Helps inform design choices, material selection, and resilience planning.
Article 27(5)-(6) Provisions
Captures the requirements set forth in Article 27(5) and (6) as cited. This category organizes the associated obligations and conditions defined in these sub-clauses for reference and compliance.
Creation and Update Actors
Identifies the roles responsible for creating and updating data in a digital product passport. It clarifies who contributes information and maintains data across the product lifecycle.
Product Group Access Rights
Defines access rights assigned at the product group level, as specified by delegated acts. This category covers permissions scoped to product groups within regulatory delegation frameworks.
Risk Evaluation
This category covers the process of evaluating risks against all relevant requirements to ensure a comprehensive assessment of risk. It emphasizes end-to-end evaluation that verifies coverage of each applicable criterion.
Product Compliance Responsibility
This category defines who is responsible for ensuring product compliance with regulatory, safety, and quality standards. It covers accountability across design, development, manufacturing, testing, and post-market activities.
NGO Actors
This category covers non-governmental organisations (NGOs) as a distinct actor group involved in activities and initiatives. NGOs are voluntary, non-profit organizations operating independently from government, often focused on development, humanitarian aid, advocacy, or civil-society engagement. Th
Other Relevant Actors
This category groups actors other than the primary subjects that are relevant to Unit 1. It captures external stakeholders and influences that interact with core actors, informing analysis and interpretation.
Manufacturers Expertise
Represents manufacturers who hold detailed knowledge of design and production processes. This category captures the specialized know-how that manufacturers apply throughout product development and fabrication.
International Partners
This category covers external actors from other countries that participate as partners in initiatives and programs. It includes developing economies among its international partners. Use this category to group collaborations and partnerships with foreign governments, international bodies, and other
Test-Triggered Behavior
Products designed to alter their behavior or properties specifically when subjected to testing. This category covers items that pass evaluations by responding differently under test conditions than in normal use, potentially masking true performance or safety characteristics.
Product Technology Complexity
This category represents the measured level of complexity in the technology underlying a product, ranging from simple to highly complex. It supports assessments of design risk, manufacturability, and required technical resources.
Notification Scope Factors
This category captures the various circumstances and conditions that influence the extent and conditions of notification. It clarifies when notification is required, who must be notified, and under which triggers or thresholds the notification applies.
Notification Changes
This category encompasses updates and revisions to notifications after they have been issued. It covers subsequent relevant changes, amendments, or refinements that affect how a notification is presented or acted upon.
Storage and Transport Conditions
Guidelines for storing and transporting goods to ensure ongoing regulatory compliance. It emphasizes that storage and transport conditions must not compromise regulatory adherence under the importer's responsibility.
Place and Date of Issue
Metadata field indicating where a document was issued and on what date. This category captures the issuing location and timestamp used for authentication and record-keeping.
Authorized Signatories
Identifies individuals or entities empowered to sign documents on behalf of another party. Used to designate who has signing authority and can bind the principal in contracts and official documents.
Economic Operator Arguments
Represents the arguments or positions presented by the relevant economic operator, typically in procurement or regulatory contexts. This category collects statements used to justify or challenge decisions affecting the operator.
Additional Information
Top-level category for supplementary notes and metadata associated with concepts. It collects ancillary information that provides context without changing core definitions.
Approval Decision
This category covers the act of granting approval for a request or proposal. It centers on the decision-making moment that authorizes actions or outcomes within a workflow or governance context.
Quantity Reporting Period
Defines the time frame to which quantity information pertains. It establishes the temporal scope of measurements and any aggregations used in reporting.
Delegated Act Review Date
Represents the date on which the delegated act adopted under Article 4 is reviewed. This date is used to plan and assess the review process across multiple aspects.
Article 290 TFEU
Article 290 TFEU provides the legal basis for the delegation of powers to the European Commission to adopt non-legislative delegated acts. This category covers the scope, limits, and oversight of those delegated acts within the EU treaty framework.
Sensitivity Analysis
A category covering methods for evaluating how variations in key inputs, such as energy costs and raw material prices, affect outcomes. It supports risk assessment and decision robustness.
Notified Body Task Distinctions
Policies and procedures that distinguish tasks performed as a notified body from other activities. This ensures clear governance, proper role separation, and regulatory compliance.
Remuneration Independence
Remuneration independence ensures compensation does not vary with the number of assessments or their outcomes. It decouples pay from assessment results to promote fairness and predictability in compensation practices.
Consistency with Union Law
This category ensures information requirements are aligned with existing Union law and aims to minimize administrative burden.
This category covers the process of verifying that a manufacturer's operations comply with the obligations set forth in the Regulation. It includes assessment activities, audits, and documentation reviews aimed at confirming regulatory conformity.
Article 22(7) Obligations
This category aggregates duties established by Article 22(7) of the relevant statute. It captures obligations arising specifically from that provision, outlining the responsibilities and compliance requirements it imposes.
Name and Function Signature
This category covers concepts that pair an identifier name with its function signature. It emphasizes the mapping from names to callable behavior, capturing the syntax and role of signatures in definition and invocation.
Operator Rights and Obligations
Defines the rights and duties of economic operators who deal with construction products or their components. The category covers compliance obligations, traceability, labeling, documentation, and responsibilities across the supply chain to ensure safety and regulatory conformity.
All Third-Party Tasks
Represents the capability to perform all tasks delegated to third parties under Annex IX. It denotes a comprehensive, compliant capacity to execute external tasks within the Annex IX framework.
This category covers the system described in Annex IX as referenced in the notification. It collects references and documentation related to the Annex IX framework used in regulatory communications.
CAB Notification Application
Represents a specific conformity assessment body in the process of applying for notification to operate as a notified body under regulatory frameworks. This category captures the activity of seeking formal recognition to carry out conformity assessments.
Product Performance Verification
This category covers methods for confirming that products maintain consistent performance under defined conditions. It includes testing and evaluation to verify that performance levels remain stable across time and production batches.
Product Performance and Conformity
This category encompasses the processes used to evaluate product performance and verify conformity with applicable standards. It includes testing, measurement, validation, and conformity assessment to ensure products meet defined requirements.
System 3 AVS
System 3 AVS is a notified body focused on determining product types for regulatory compliance. This category covers the roles, processes, and criteria involved in product type determination under applicable standards.
System 1+ Audits
Defines the System 1+ category, indicating full oversight by a notified body. Includes audit sampling and testing to verify regulatory conformity.
Annex III Product Requirements
Annex III defines product requirements for designated product families or categories. This category groups the annex’s guidance on specifications and conformity criteria to support consistent regulatory compliance across related products.
Conflicts of Interest: Notified Bodies
A category describing potential conflicts of interest between the notifying authority and notified bodies in conformity assessment. It covers governance, transparency, risk management, and procedures to mitigate bias in assessments.
System 2+ Factory Control
Represents the System 2+ conformity assessment route where a Notified Body focuses on factory production control. This category defines the role of AVS Notified Bodies in evaluating and supervising production quality management and control processes.
Training Requirements
This category covers the training and other prerequisites required to ensure safe use of the product or system. It details qualifications, certifications, and conditions that must be met for safe operation.
Other Notified Bodies
Covers other bodies notified under this Regulation that carry out similar third-party conformity assessment tasks. These bodies may serve as alternate or additional assessors for product or system conformity.
Mechanical Risks
Risks arising from the mechanical aspects of a product across its life cycle, including design flaws, wear, and potential failures. It also covers hazards from movement, impact, vibration, and assembly or disassembly that could cause injury or damage.
European Technical Assessments
Covers European technical assessments referred to in Article 37 that are based on European assessment documents. These evaluations follow EU-standardized procedures and documentation.
Declared Uses
This category captures the officially declared uses of a product as claimed by the manufacturer or regulatory documentation. It defines the scope of permissible applications and intended use cases.
Harmonised Specs for Used Products
Defines harmonised technical specifications for used products, outlining provisions and conformity criteria. These standards aim to ensure safety, quality, and consistent compliance of second-hand items across markets.
Category for the officially stated uses of a product as defined by harmonised technical specifications. It covers the declared purposes and contexts the product is intended to satisfy under regulatory standards.
European Standardisation Proposals
This category collects proposals submitted by European standardisation organisations. It covers suggestions for new or revised standards and guidelines proposed to European standardisation bodies such as CEN, CENELEC, and ETSI.
Describes the approved application and function of a construction product, including whether it is for professional use or general consumer use. This category informs suitability, safety, and regulatory compliance decisions.
Standardisation Participation
Represents involvement in standardisation activities and coordination within standards groups. It covers contributing to standards development, meetings, and governance processes.
Terms of Use
Defines the official rules and restrictions for using the product, including permitted uses, prohibitions, and user obligations. Clarifies rights and responsibilities for both the user and provider.
European assessment document
A European assessment document is a formal report prepared at the request or initiative of a European authority. It records an evaluation or appraisal conducted for policy, regulatory, or programmatic purposes within the European context.
Category for European assessment documents, including those applied with reference numbers and issue dates, and associated European Technical Assessments (TABs).
Assessment Methods Exchange
This category covers the exchange of information about assessment methods and product testing among stakeholders, including sharing protocols, standards, and results.
Cooperative Third Countries
This category groups third countries that demonstrate exceptionally high levels of cooperation with international actors. They are distinguished by proactive engagement, compliance, and collaborative behavior in policy and security initiatives.
Simplified Procedures
This category covers the use and applicability of simplified procedures as defined in Articles 59 to 61. It outlines eligibility criteria, contexts where they apply, and the basic steps for triggering and implementing these procedures.
Exchange of Officials
A category describing the formal transfer or swap of officials between countries or organizations for diplomacy, liaison, or bilateral cooperation. It captures instances of personnel exchanges intended to foster relations and information sharing.
Article 59 Paragraph 1
Represents the first paragraph of Article 59, capturing the initial provision of the article. This node marks the introductory clause that frames the scope and purpose of the article.
Article 76 Functions
This category collects the functionalities defined by Article 76 in the applicable legal framework. It covers the capabilities, powers, and duties specified by Article 76.
Regulatory Training Events
This category contains training events organized under Article 73(2). It documents sessions and programs designed to fulfill the requirements specified in that article.
Non-systematic Exchange
This category encompasses exchanges conducted outside standard, systematic processes, permitted only in duly justified and specific circumstances. It codifies and governs exception-based transactions that require special consideration or approval.
TFEU Article 291
Covers Article 291 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, which establishes the framework for implementing acts and the procedures for their adoption to ensure uniform application of EU law across member states.
Cooperative Training Programs
This category covers training initiatives that prepare individuals to participate effectively in cooperatives, including governance, member engagement, and practical skills. It encompasses formal courses, workshops, and capacity-building activities aimed at enhancing collaborative participation.
Mandatory harmonised standard
Describes the status in which a harmonised performance standard is designated mandatory after adoption. The designation may be revised or revoked later as regulatory needs evolve.
Harmonised Product Requirements
This category identifies the requirements that products must meet as defined by harmonised technical specifications. It covers mandatory criteria for performance, safety, and interoperability, and supports conformity assessment and procurement decisions.
Conformity with Declared Performance
This category covers the verification that a product's actual performance aligns with its declared specifications. It encompasses evidence collection, assessment methods, and assurance of declared performance levels.
Article 7 Compliance Demonstrated
Evidence that a product meets and demonstrates fulfillment of Article 7 product requirements. Includes attestations, test results, and supporting documentation showing regulatory alignment.
Post-Expiry Declaration Validity
Declarations of performance and conformity remain valid after expiry or repeal of implementing acts. This category clarifies their continued legal effect for compliance assessments and regulatory enforcement.
Declaration Code
Represents the code used on the Declaration of Performance and Conformity. It serves as the identifier for the DoP document within regulatory and conformity assessment workflows, aiding traceability and verification.
Product Conformance
Indicates that a product is in conformity with the defined requirements. It serves as a formal recognition that the product meets the criteria specified in Point 10.
Regulatory Product Definition
Defines the concept of a 'Product' as established by this Regulation, clarifying which items fall under regulatory scope. It sets the definitional boundary used to determine compliance, labeling, and related obligations.
Declaration Availability Verification
Category for confirming that a declaration of performance and conformity is present and accessible. It ensures essential compliance documentation is available to verify product conformance.
Installer Training
Guidelines and materials for training installers or operators when required. This category provides instructional content to support proper installation practices and safe operation.
Adequate Staffing
This category represents the need for a sufficient number of personnel to ensure business continuity and consistent operations. It supports resilience by maintaining staffing levels across critical processes.
Qualified Personnel and Procedures
Sets requirements for personnel training and the description of procedures, with clear task delineation and standardized production processes. It emphasizes verifiable qualifications and consistent execution to ensure quality and compliance.
Liability Insurance Obligation
This category covers the legal requirement to obtain liability insurance, subject to exemptions defined by the Member State. It specifies when coverage is mandatory to mitigate liability risks.
Notifying Authority Resources
This category covers the resources available to the notifying authority, including staffing, expertise, and funding. It reflects the organizational capacity required to perform notification-related tasks.
Inter-Manufacturer Information Exchange
This top-level category covers the information that must be exchanged between the 3D-dataset manufacturer and the printing material manufacturer. It defines data types, formats, and specifications required for compatibility and correct material production.
3D Printing Datasets
Data sets used to guide additive manufacturing processes for product manufacture. These datasets support design optimization, process control, and quality assurance in 3D printing.
Single Liaison Point
Defines a single liaison point responsible for receiving complaints and, when appropriate, forwarding them to counterparts in other Member States. It supports cross-border collaboration and streamlined referral of issues.
Telephone Manufacturers
Category for organizations that design, produce, and distribute telephones. It covers companies involved in the manufacture of telephone hardware and related devices.
3D Datasets
A category for datasets that numerically describe the shape of objects in three dimensions, including outer dimensions and internal cavities. These 3D datasets support modeling of geometry in computer graphics, CAD, and spatial analysis.
Spare Parts Obligation
This category covers regulatory duties requiring manufacturers to supply spare parts for their products, including parts not widely stocked. It supports repairability and longer product lifespans.
Once-only Principle
This category covers the Once-only Principle in EU law, which requires information submitted to one authority to be reused by other Union bodies. It relates to information requirements across different Union legal frameworks and aims to reduce duplicate data submissions and administrative burdens.
Key parts
This category covers the essential components of a product that are considered key parts. It applies when the product has distinguishable parts that influence its function or identity.
Registered Trade Name
Represents the officially registered business name used by a manufacturer in commerce. It distinguishes the legal trade name from informal brand names or trademarks.
Structural Fire Resistance
Describes a structure's ability to maintain load-bearing capacity during fire exposure. This category covers how long and to what extent structural elements preserve integrity under high temperatures and burning conditions.
Fire Generation and Spread Control
This category covers methods to prevent and limit the generation of fire and smoke and to restrict their spread. It includes ignition prevention, fire suppression, ventilation control, and smoke containment strategies.
State of the Art
Represents the latest advancements and the most advanced techniques within a domain. It highlights current best practices and innovations that define the forefront of the field.
Fire Spread Containment
Strategies to limit the spread of fire and smoke to adjacent construction works are captured here. It encompasses containment and mitigation measures to protect neighboring sites and ensure safer work environments.
Custom-made Products
Items manufactured individually or to customer specifications. They are produced on demand rather than in mass quantities, reflecting bespoke or tailor-made characteristics.
Single Project Installation
Represents installations that occur within a single identified construction project. The installation is scoped to that specific site and is not intended for multiple projects or locations.
Made to Order
Products produced in response to a specific customer order. They are not stocked in advance and are manufactured to meet exact specifications.
Complaints and Recalls Register
Record of customer complaints, non-conforming products, and product recalls maintained by the manufacturer. This register supports quality management, traceability, and regulatory reporting.
Designated Heritage Environments
An officially designated environment is a geographic area formally recognized for heritage conservation by policy or law. These areas are protected to preserve cultural, historical, and ecological values, and include landscapes, sites, parks, reserves, and conservation zones.
Heritage Conservation
Products manufactured in a manner exclusively appropriate to heritage conservation, following established conservation standards to protect cultural resources.
Emergency Services Safety
This category captures safety considerations for rescue and emergency service operations. It emphasizes safeguarding responders and affected communities by integrating risk assessment, protective measures, and safe operation practices into planning and execution.
State-of-the-art Risk Reduction
Defines the current leading methods and benchmarks for reducing risk within a given product category. It captures state-of-the-art techniques, standards, and effectiveness in risk mitigation. This category guides evaluation, selection, and communication of best-risk-reduction practices.
Product Diversity
Encompasses the range and variety of products offered across categories, brands, and formats. Useful for organizing catalogs, marketplaces, and product strategy focused on diversity.
Construction Safety and Accessibility
This category covers safety and accessibility considerations across the entire lifecycle of construction works, from planning and design to operation and maintenance. It emphasizes risk mitigation, regulatory compliance, and inclusive access for workers and end users.
Special Architectural Merit
This category covers construction projects recognized for special architectural or historic merit. Such works are often afforded preservation considerations and may be subject to heritage guidance.
Emergency Services Access
This category covers ensuring clear and prioritized access for rescue and emergency services to fire scenes. It encompasses routes, permissions, and unobstructed entry points to enable rapid response.
Component-based System
This category covers the concept of a system defined as a collection of interacting components. It emphasizes that a complex whole arises from individual parts working together.
EU Market Situation
Market situation at the European Union level for the product family or category. This criterion assesses EU market dynamics, competitive landscape, and demand affecting the product's prospects within the EU.
Product Type Simplification
A category of methods that simplify content by emphasizing product type. It aligns with Point C of Paragraph 1, illustrating how product-type simplification can streamline explanations and comparisons.
First Impact Assessment Deadline
This category defines the target date by which the first impact assessment must be launched. It helps schedule and track the initiation of the initial impact evaluation within a project or program.
Sustainable Demand Criterion
This category evaluates the market demand for environmentally sustainable products and emphasizes ensuring sufficient uptake among consumers and buyers. It informs product development and procurement by focusing on demand viability and market adoption of sustainability initiatives.
Impact on Competition
Assesses the effects of the requirements on market competition. It considers potential barriers to entry, shifts in rivalry, and changes in market power.
Impact Criterion H
Impact Criterion H addresses regulatory needs across Member States and how different climate conditions influence impact assessments. This category collects requirements for policy development, standards, and adaptation measures to ensure assessments reflect geographic and climatic variability. It h
Public Contracts Value and Volume
This category captures the value and volume of public contracts awarded for the relevant product family or category. It serves as an impact criterion to gauge market scale and economic importance within procurement activities.
Access to Documentation and Premises
Defines the authorization for the notified body to access relevant documentation and the premises as required. It specifies the scope and conditions of such access to support regulatory inspections and conformity assessment.
Impact Criterion B
Represents environmental benefits that arise when products achieving the top two performance classes are adopted. This criterion links market uptake of high-performing products to measurable environmental gains.
Procedures in Paragraph 4
This category documents the procedures described or cited in paragraph 4. It explains what steps are established and how they are to be carried out.
Variants and Descriptions
This category captures the different variants that may occur for a concept and includes their accompanying descriptions. It provides reference notes for understanding and comparing variant forms.
European Commission Decisions
Category for formal EU acts issued by the European Commission, known as Commission Decisions (example: C(2015) 3261). These binding decisions are part of the EU's regulatory and administrative framework.
Water Use
A category for the environmental essential characteristic of water use. It collects data and indicators describing how water resources are consumed, allocated, and managed in environmental planning and impact assessments.
Freshwater Eutrophication
This category captures the nutrient-driven enrichment of freshwater systems, primarily from inputs of nitrogen and phosphorus. Such enrichment promotes algal blooms, reduces light penetration, and can trigger hypoxia, degrading water quality and harming aquatic life. It is a core environmental essen
Software Version Reference
A reference to the exact version of the software used, as provided by the Commission. This enables traceability, reproducibility, and regulatory clarity in documentation.
Ozone Depletion
Ozone depletion refers to thinning of the Earth's stratospheric ozone layer, increasing UV radiation exposure at the surface. This category collects environmental characteristic concepts related to ozone changes and their ecological and public health impacts.
Nominal Dimensions
Represents nominal (approximate) product dimensions and any accompanying quality grading. This category groups size and grade attributes used to classify items.
General Product Safety Directive
EU rules establishing general safety requirements for non-food consumer products and the responsibilities of manufacturers, distributors, and retailers. It governs market surveillance and enforcement to ensure unsafe products are removed from the EU market.
Photochemical Ozone
Photochemical ozone refers to ozone formed in the atmosphere through sunlight-driven reactions involving pollutants such as NOx and VOCs. This ozone is a key environmental characteristic affecting air quality, climate, and human health. The category encompasses concepts and indicators related to the
Assessment Design
A category focused on creating and validating assessment methods. It covers developing measurement instruments and testing their reliability and validity across different settings.
Permanent construction elements
Represents components and features intended to remain in place after a construction project is completed. This category distinguishes permanent, non-temporary elements from temporary works, scaffolding, or removable installations. It covers materials, structures, and fittings that become part of the
Crisis-Relevant Construction Goods
Category for construction products designated as crisis-relevant. These goods may be subject to implementing acts that set standards or requirements to govern supply, safety, and rapid deployment during emergencies.
Publishability Criteria
Defines the conditions that declarations on websites must meet before they can be published. It specifies the eligibility checks and required attributes that content must satisfy to appear online.
Roof Kits
Roof Kits are complete, ready-to-install bundles for roofing projects, combining materials, underlayment, fasteners, and accessories into a single package. This category groups products marketed as roof kits, designed to simplify procurement and installation for both DIY and professional contractors
Construction Works
Covers buildings and civil engineering projects, whether above, below, or in water. Includes infrastructure development such as roads, bridges, tunnels, dams, and buildings across varied environments.
Roofing, Lights & Windows
This category covers products for roofing, skylights and roof windows, plus related ancillary items. It groups roof coverings, roof lights, windows and compatible accessories used in construction and refurbishment.
Gas Appliances
Category for devices that use gas for heating or cooking, focusing on safety considerations. It covers installation, ventilation, leak prevention, maintenance, and compliance with safety standards to prevent hazards.
Used Construction Products
Repurposed construction products that are not considered waste. These items have been installed at least once in a construction project, indicating reuse rather than disposal.
Water-Contact Construction Products
Construction products that come into contact with water intended for human consumption (potable water). This category covers pipes, fittings, tanks, valves and related components used in potable-water systems, emphasizing safety, material compatibility, and regulatory compliance to prevent contamina
Noise Conditions for Occupants
This category captures sound level and noise condition criteria affecting people living or working in a space and in nearby areas. It addresses acceptable thresholds, disturbances, and the relationship between acoustic conditions and occupant comfort and well-being.
Machinery Safety
This category covers safety considerations related to machinery, including hazard assessment, protective measures, and safe operating practices. It addresses compliance with safety standards and risk management throughout the lifecycle of machinery.
Noise Absorption
This category collects cross-cutting acoustic properties centered on absorbing sound energy. It includes materials, configurations, and systems designed to reduce noise levels and reverberation across various domains.
Acoustic Absorption and Reflection Requirements
Defines the requirements for sound absorption and reflection in spaces where acoustics demand specific performance. This category groups criteria and standards that dictate how materials and surfaces should absorb or reflect sound to meet design goals.
Small and Medium Enterprises
A taxonomy category for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It groups businesses that are smaller in scale than large corporations, typically defined by thresholds in employees, revenue, or assets.
Moisture Intrusion
Represents the process by which moisture penetrates from the exterior into interior spaces of a building, leading to dampness and potential damage. It encompasses pathways such as leaks, diffusion, and capillary action that introduce moisture indoors.
Internal Procedure Delegation Prohibition
Policies prohibit delegating the establishment and supervision of internal procedures to subcontractors. This category promotes maintaining direct oversight and control over core internal processes.
Building Logbooks
A collection of logs and records used to document building projects, operations, and maintenance. This category includes site diaries, construction logs, inspection records, commissioning notes, and asset maintenance entries.
Diverging Practices
Practices that depart from established norms or permanent conventions. This category covers nonstandard, experimental, or transitional methods that diverge from the mainstream.
Building Information Modelling
Building Information Modelling (BIM) is a digital methodology for planning, designing, constructing, and operating built assets through integrated, data-rich models. This category captures BIM as a foundational approach to model-based, collaborative workflows in the built environment.
Applicable National Rules
Defines the national laws, codes, and regulations that govern supervision for safe construction. This category identifies statutory requirements and regulatory standards that shape construction safety oversight.
Union Market Exclusion
Defines exemptions that exclude the Union market from the applicability of the first subparagraph, clarifying when the provision does not apply within the Union. It specifies conditions under which the first-subparagraph does not apply to Union market activities.
Compatibility and Integration
Addresses compatibility with other materials and systems across electrical, electromagnetic, and software domains. It covers interoperability, interfaces, and integration within broader assemblies and workflows.
Used Products from Third Countries
Category for goods that have been previously used and imported from non-EU (third) countries. These items may be subject to harmonised technical specifications unless exemptions apply. It groups regulatory considerations related to reusing or selling used products from outside the jurisdiction.
CE Year Suffix
Represents the two-digit year portion used in CE marking events: the year the marking was first affixed or the deinstallation year for use. This compact year suffix supports labeling, traceability, and regulatory records.
Commission assessment of explanation
The European Commission reviews the Member State's detailed explanation of its implementing measure. Based on this assessment, the Commission may amend or repeal the implementing measure.
Member State Explanation
Describes how a Member State may submit a detailed justification to the European Commission when it believes a standard or common specification is inappropriate or requires clarification.
Terminate Contract on Manufacturer Breach
Defines a task to terminate the contract when the manufacturer acts in breach of obligations. It also includes notifying relevant parties of the termination.
Core Criteria Incorporation
This category covers integrating established essential characteristics, along with their methods and evaluation criteria, into a larger framework. It emphasizes preserving prior attributes and aligning associated procedures and measures as part of the system.
Carbon Binding and Removals
This category encompasses environmental features related to the ability to temporarily bind carbon and remove it from the atmosphere or system. It emphasizes the essential characteristics that enable carbon capture and subsequent removal.
Safe Product Installation
Addresses how a product should be safely incorporated into construction work, emphasizing the manufacturer's responsibility for safe installation. Outlines expectations and obligations to ensure safety during integration.
Adequacy Decisions
Covers EU adequacy decisions under GDPR Article 45 (Regulation (EU) 2016/679). These decisions determine when transfers of personal data to a non-EU country can occur without additional safeguards.
Outer Packaging Replacement
Represents the process of replacing a product's outer packaging under defined conditions, including exemptions described in paragraph 3. This category captures regulatory or logistical rules governing when outer packaging changes are permitted or required.
Lithium in Battery Due Diligence
Lithium is explicitly included within the scope of battery due diligence obligations. This category guides attention to lithium sourcing, supply chain risk, and compliance requirements across the battery value chain.
Supplier Contract Policy
Represents the incorporation of battery due diligence requirements into supplier contracts and agreements, embedding policy expectations into procurement terms to ensure responsible battery sourcing throughout the supply chain. This category focuses on embedding ESG and compliance standards within s
Supplier Contracts
This category covers contracts and agreements with suppliers that embed the organization's due diligence policy. It supports governance of supplier relationships and ensures compliance with due diligence requirements in procurement.
Due Diligence Improvement Areas
This category identifies areas where operators can enhance their due diligence practices and governance. It highlights potential improvements in processes, controls, data quality, and oversight to strengthen decision-making and risk management.
This category covers the evaluation aspect d, i.e., the battery due diligence requirements specified in Articles 48–53. It outlines regulatory obligations, risk assessment, and due diligence processes for batteries across the supply chain.
Battery Passport Evaluation
This category covers the measures and criteria for evaluating the battery passport as described in Chapter IX. It specifies how the passport is assessed, including data integrity, compliance checks, and performance verification.
Portable Battery Formats
This category lists the common formats that fall under the definition of portable batteries for general use. It highlights the various form factors and provides an evaluation-oriented view within the taxonomy.
This category captures the volumes of waste batteries (industrial and EV) that are collected and delivered within the waste-management system. It tracks the flow and quantities of batteries through collection and distribution channels, supporting performance monitoring and logistics planning.
Battery Market
The marketplace where batteries are made available to consumers and businesses. This category covers how batteries are supplied, priced, and distributed, shaping availability in the market.
Battery Passport Operations
Describes the operational aspects of the battery passport system, including creation and ongoing maintenance. It also covers verification, updating, and use within lifecycle processes to ensure accurate passport data.
Industrial Battery Delegated Act
This category covers the 2026 delegated act that sets minimum values for rechargeable industrial batteries.
EU Waste Shipment Regulation
This category covers Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006 governing cross-border shipments of waste within the European Union. It details notification, permits, documentation, and enforcement requirements to prevent illegal shipments.
Battery Waste Intake
Represents the quantity of collected waste SLI, industrial, and EV batteries delivered to facilities for preparation for reuse. It covers batteries arriving at facilities for pre-processing before potential reuse or recycling.
Battery Passport Design
This category covers the technical design aspects of the battery passport. It encompasses data architecture, standards, interoperability, and security considerations that enable reliable traceability and compliance.
LMT Battery Minimums
Defines the delegated act minimum values for electrochemical performance and durability parameters for lithium-metal batteries. These thresholds, stated in the second subparagraph of paragraph 5, Part A Annex IV, establish compliance criteria for LMT batteries.
Waste Battery Collection
This category captures the amount of waste batteries collected. It serves to monitor collection performance and inform environmental impact assessments.
Essential Technical Requirements
This category encompasses the core technical criteria that govern the battery passport, including design standards and data specifications. It identifies the essential capabilities, interoperability needs, data formats, and traceability prerequisites for consistent implementation.
Cadmium-Exempt Vehicles
Vehicles that qualify for an exemption from the cadmium prohibition under Annex II of Directive 2000/53/EC (End-of-Life Vehicles). This category groups vehicle types and components that are explicitly exempted from the cadmium prohibition by the directive.
End-of-Life Vehicles Annex II
This category covers Annex II of Directive 2000/53/EC (End-of-Life Vehicles). It lists substances and materials subject to restrictions and removal to minimize environmental impact and improve recycling under the EU ELV regime.
Battery Cells
Battery cells are the basic electrochemical units that power batteries. They come in various chemistries and form factors and serve as the fundamental building blocks of energy storage devices.
Waste Portable Batteries
Category for portable batteries when they become waste and are subject to collection targets. It covers batteries designated for regulated waste collection and recycling.
Battery Collection Containers
Containers used at take-back points for the collection and temporary storage of waste batteries. These containers enable safe handling and segregation before recycling or disposal.
Battery Handling for Remanufacturing
Provides up-to-date guidance on safe handling, storage, transport, and processing of batteries intended for remanufacturing, second-life use, and recycling. Addresses safety, regulatory compliance, and best practices across the battery lifecycle.
Battery Health Parameters
Parameters used to determine the state of health (SoH) of batteries. This category encompasses metrics that reflect degradation, capacity fade, internal resistance, and related indicators for assessing overall battery condition.
Portable batteries are compact energy storage devices within the broader category of batteries, designed to provide power on the go. They include power banks and rechargeable battery packs used to charge devices like phones, cameras, and other electronics.
Free Take-Back for Waste Batteries
Describes the obligation to collect and take back waste batteries at no charge to consumers. This category captures no-cost battery return as part of responsible waste management and product stewardship.
Battery Health Metrics
This category covers parameters used to determine a battery's state of health (SOH) and its expected lifetime, as described in Annex VII. It highlights indicators that quantify health status and projected endurance across usage cycles.
Battery Return Information
Guidance on free, user-initiated return options for waste batteries, including retailer take-back schemes and official recycling programs. Explains how end-users can access these return mechanisms and what to expect.
Harmonised Battery Requirements
Covers harmonised product and marketing requirements for batteries, establishing standardized rules for how batteries are designed, tested, labeled, and marketed. Enables consistent compliance and cross-market acceptance across regions.
EU Conformity Regulation
Regulation (EC) No 765/2008 establishes the framework for conformity assessment of products placed on the EU market and governs market surveillance. It defines accreditation requirements, procedures for CE marking, and the responsibilities of notified bodies and economic operators to ensure consiste
Article 52(3) Report
The category for the report referred to in Article 52(3), which is accessible via the QR code. It groups the document linked to that article for easy access.
Compliant Battery Risk
A battery that meets the relevant regulatory articles but nonetheless presents a safety risk. This category highlights cases where compliance does not fully eliminate hazard and supports risk assessment and mitigation planning.
Registers of Producers
Official registries of producers established under this Regulation. This category covers the lists used to identify, verify, and manage information about producers subject to regulatory oversight.
Top Management Oversight
Top management is assigned to oversee the battery due diligence policy. This category covers governance responsibilities such as supervising the policy, monitoring its implementation, and ensuring alignment with strategic objectives.
Immediate Corrective Action
This category covers actions taken promptly to contain and address non-conformities. It includes immediate corrective actions, product withdrawals, and recalls to mitigate impact and prevent recurrence.
Battery Safety Measures
Safety measures for the storage, transport, and treatment of waste batteries. This category covers practices, standards, and controls to prevent hazards such as leakage, fire, and environmental contamination when handling waste batteries.
Battery Material Supply Concentration
This category measures how concentrated the global supply of key battery raw materials is across countries. It supports assessment of supply risk and diversification needs in battery value chains.
Unaddressed Safety Hazards (Annex V)
This category identifies potential safety hazards in stationary battery energy storage systems that are not covered by Annex V. It highlights gaps in safety coverage that may require additional risk assessment, mitigation measures, or supplementary standards. It aims to ensure comprehensive hazard i
Sensitive Information
Information obtained in the course of investigations that must be treated confidentially. This category groups data requiring restricted access and protection from disclosure.
Permanent Online Instructions
Guidelines ensuring that instructions and safety information remain accessible on the internet indefinitely. This category promotes persistent online availability of authoritative guidance, enabling ongoing access irrespective of time or location.
Articles 49-52 Obligations
This category covers the obligations defined in Articles 49, 50 and 52.
Public Information Confidentiality
Guidelines for preserving confidentiality of commercially sensitive data when it is made publicly available. It covers redaction, access controls, and governance practices to prevent unintended disclosure.
Defines the processes, roles, and methodologies used to identify, assess, and respond to risks within a project or organization. It establishes the framework for risk mitigation, monitoring, and communication to ensure proactive risk handling.
Regulatory Impact Assessment
This category captures the evaluation of how a regulation affects competitiveness and investment within the economy. It supports decision-making by highlighting the economic outcomes and trade-offs of regulatory measures.
Due Diligence Scheme Evidence
This category captures documents and attestations showing compliance with a due diligence scheme recognised by the Commission in accordance with Article 53. It provides proof that an entity or product aligns with the requirements of the recognised scheme.
Penalty Evaluation
Covers evaluation of penalties for infringements, focusing on effectiveness, proportionality, and dissuasiveness as defined in A. It provides criteria for assessing how penalties perform as deterrents and remedies.
Heavy Batteries Over 5 kg
Batteries weighing more than 5 kg are grouped here as heavy industrial batteries. They are categorized as industrial unless a more specific category applies.
Risk Management Strategy
A plan or framework for identifying risks and coordinating actions to prevent, mitigate, and manage adverse impacts. It defines response options and assigns resources to reduce risk exposure.
UN Paris Agreement
A standalone representation of the international climate treaty under the United Nations, adopted in 2015. It sets out global goals to limit warming and outlines nationally determined contributions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase climate resilience.
UN Global Compact
The UN Global Compact is an international initiative that invites businesses to align their strategies and operations with ten principles spanning human rights, labor, environment, and anti-corruption. It provides a framework for responsible corporate practice and sustainable development, promoting
UN Guiding Principles
Overview of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs). This framework sets out the state duty to protect human rights, the corporate responsibility to respect rights, and the remedies available to victims, guiding governance and due-diligence practices in business.
ILO Tripartite Declaration
This category encompasses the ILO Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy. It offers guiding principles for multinational enterprises to promote social policy, fair labor practices, and responsible business conduct, formulated through tripartite pa
Human rights and labour rights
This category covers human rights, labour rights, and the governance of industrial relations. It addresses risks related to workers' rights, fair labor practices, freedom of association, collective bargaining, nondiscrimination, and safe working conditions.
Environment, Climate and Health
Categories the interconnections between environmental conditions, climate factors, and human health. It covers health risks from air and water quality, heat, extreme weather, and other climate-related impacts. Useful for organizing topics at the intersection of environment and health policy and rese
Community Life
This taxonomy category captures social and environmental risks affecting community life, including indigenous communities. It covers how community structures, livelihoods, and cultural practices interact with environmental pressures.
Battery Distributors
Distributors that supply SLI, industrial, and electric vehicle batteries. They facilitate procurement, logistics, and delivery to retailers, service centers, and fleet operators within the battery market.
EU Stock Inventory
This category covers batteries that distributors place in stock within the European Union. It encompasses inventory held by distributors for distribution or sale within the EU. It excludes stock located outside the Union.
Defines the current level of energy certification (SOCE) for electric vehicle batteries, capturing standardized measures of certified energy content and compliance. This category consolidates concepts related to the validated energy state used in EV battery certification and quality assurance.
High Energy Mobile Batteries
Defines the Product Environmental Footprint Category Rules for high specific energy rechargeable batteries used in mobile applications. These rules guide the assessment of environmental impacts across the battery life cycle for carbon footprint purposes.
Battery State of Health
This category covers information about the battery's state of health (SOH) as defined under Article 14. It includes health indicators, remaining capacity, degradation trends, and related diagnostic data.
Software Reset Function
A software-driven mechanism to reset the battery management system to a known clean state by reinitializing subsystems and clearing faults, without a power cycle. This is used for fault recovery and reinitialization of the system.
Battery Replacement Software
Software solutions that support managing obligations around replacing batteries, including scheduling, compliance reporting, and warranty tracking.
Battery Concerns
Top-level category for issues and considerations related to the specific battery in question. It encompasses safety, performance, and lifecycle aspects pertinent to that battery.
Battery Manufacturers
Producers of SLI, industrial, and electric vehicle batteries. This category groups companies that manufacture and place these batteries on the market for automotive and industrial applications.
This category covers methods for assessing the health of batteries, focusing on state-of-health (SOH) testing. It includes diagnostic tests, metrics, and interpretation used to estimate remaining life, capacity fade, and reliability.
EV Battery Exhaustion Threshold
Defines the capacity level at which an electric vehicle battery is considered exhausted. Used for lifecycle planning, warranty decisions, and degradation models to determine end-of-life or replacement criteria.
Rated Battery Capacity
Defined as the capacity value of a battery as specified under particular environmental conditions, such as temperature and humidity. This rating provides a basis for performance comparison and sizing, recognizing that actual usable capacity can vary with operating conditions.
Battery Charge Retention
Defines how much charge a battery can deliver after storage under specified conditions (e.g., temperature). It describes post-storage capacity and how storage affects usable energy.
Battery Enclosure
The outer shell that encases batteries or cells, providing protection and structural support. This category includes enclosures used for individual cells and multi-cell packs.
Delayed discharge performance
Represents metrics that quantify improvements in discharge timing, specifically the relative reduction of the minimum average discharge duration from an initially measured baseline. The baseline is the initial minimum average duration d.
Battery Module
A battery module is a modular unit consisting of connected and often encapsulated battery cells. It serves as a self-contained block that can be combined with other modules to form larger energy storage systems.
Battery Manufacturer Equivalence
This category covers batteries that trigger a manufacturer equivalence condition for importers and distributors. It groups batteries under regulatory criteria used to determine equivalence obligations in the supply chain.
Battery with External Storage
Category for batteries designed to pair with external energy storage solutions, such as external battery packs. It distinguishes energy storage that is external to the core device from integrated or internal battery storage.
This category covers the basic functional unit of a battery—the battery cell. A cell is composed of electrodes and an electrolyte (often with a separator) and serves as the building block for energy storage and release.
Electrical Batteries
A battery is a device that stores chemical energy and converts it into electrical energy through electrochemical reactions. This category covers the fundamental concept of batteries and their role in powering portable devices.
Industrial Batteries Over 2kWh
Industrial batteries with capacity greater than 2 kWh are grouped here, excluding those intended exclusively for external storage. This category covers high-capacity industrial energy storage devices not limited to external-storage use.
Battery Disposal Guidance
Provides model-specific information on the proper and environmentally sound disposal and recycling of waste batteries. It covers safe handling, disposal options, and relevant environmental considerations.
Continuity of Availability after Cessation
Ensures the battery passport remains accessible after the operator ceases to exist or ends activity, preserving continued access to product information. It covers data persistence, governance, and responsibility for continuity after cessation.
Backup Battery Unit
Defines the functional unit for back-up batteries as one kWmin of backup power capability. This standardizes comparisons and assessments of energy storage performance.
Power-to-Energy Ratio
A category describing the ratio of a battery's nominal power (W) to its stored energy (Wh). This metric corresponds to the inverse of discharge time (hours) and relates to how quickly a battery can deliver its energy under nominal power, effectively reflecting discharge rate characteristics.
Exemption for Essential Security Equipment
This category covers exemptions related to equipment that serves essential security interests. It provides allowances that exempt such equipment from certain regulatory requirements, acknowledging its critical role in security operations.
Evolution of Self-Discharging Rates
This category analyzes how self-discharge rates in energy storage devices (for example, batteries) evolve over time across technologies, environmental conditions, and usage patterns. It highlights factors that influence self-discharge and the implications for device performance and energy efficiency
Chapter VI Obligations
Captures the duties of economic operators under Chapter VI, excluding those in Chapters VII and VIII. It highlights the specific obligations applicable to economic operators within this chapter.
Space Equipment Exemption
This category encompasses exemptions applicable to equipment designed to be sent into space. It covers regulatory allowances for hardware intended for launch, operation, or deployment in outer space, distinct from terrestrial use.
Rated Capacity (Ah)
Defines the rated capacity of a battery in ampere-hours (Ah). It indicates the amount of charge the battery can deliver during discharge, helping compare runtimes and sizing for applications.
Nuclear Safety Exemptions
This category covers exemptions related to Chapters III and VIII concerning nuclear safety equipment. It documents the regulatory reliefs and the scope of applicability for these exemptions.
Metrics used to assess a battery's health state and estimate remaining lifetime. Key indicators include capacity fade, internal resistance, cycle aging, temperature effects, and charge/discharge behavior.
Engineering Design Drawings
This category encompasses the conceptual design phase and the associated manufacturing drawings and schematics for components, sub-assemblies, and circuits. It represents the engineering documentation used to communicate geometry, tolerances, assembly relationships, and production instructions.
CBD Biodiversity Guidelines
This category covers the voluntary guidelines issued by the Convention on Biological Diversity for biodiversity-inclusive impact assessment. They guide how biodiversity considerations should be integrated into environmental and development assessments.
Other international environmental conventions
This category groups international environmental conventions that bind the European Union or its Member States beyond those already listed elsewhere. It includes treaties and agreements addressing environmental protection at global and regional levels.
Battery Materials Risk Management
This category covers the identification and mitigation of social and environmental risks associated with raw materials used in battery manufacturing. It encompasses due diligence across supply chains, supplier governance, labor rights, environmental impacts, and responsible sourcing practices.
Missing Updated Closure Plans
Flags the absence of regularly updated mine closure plans and rehabilitation strategies. This indicates post-closure environmental management planning is not maintained, creating regulatory and environmental risk.
Model Year Plant Scope
Defines data partitioning by battery model, calendar year, and manufacturing plant to enable per-model, per-year, per-plant analyses. This category supports comparative and trend analyses across production sites.
Lithium Extraction Pressure
This category captures the growing pressure on lithium extraction and refining operations driven by rising demand. It highlights potential bottlenecks, cost increases, and operational disruptions affecting mining and processing.
Copy of the Mandate
A category containing copies of the mandate provided to the market surveillance authority. These documents support regulatory oversight, reference, and enforcement activities.
Aarhus Environmental Rights
This category covers the three core rights of the Aarhus Convention: access to environmental information, public participation in environmental decision-making, and access to justice in environmental matters. It emphasizes transparency, stakeholder involvement, and remedies within environmental gove
Evaluation Results and Actions
This category contains the results of the evaluation and the actions required of the economic operator.
Due Diligence Processes
This category covers the activities, processes, and systems that economic operators deploy to fulfill their due diligence obligations. It includes the methods, workflows, and tools used to conduct, document, and demonstrate compliance with relevant regulatory or policy requirements.
Fulfilment Service Providers
Entities that provide order fulfilment services as part of the supply chain, including warehousing, picking, packing, and shipping on behalf of customers. They are recognized as a type of economic operator within trade and logistics frameworks.
Body Functions
This top-level category covers the tasks and functions performed by the body referenced in paragraph 3. It encompasses physiological actions, movements, and routine processes attributed to that body as described in the document.
No Default Activity Data
This category enforces that no default activity data is used. All activity data must be specific to the particular battery model and its plan.
Battery Waste Management
Covers the regulatory measures for managing waste batteries as laid out in Chapter VIII. It also encompasses assessment of how these measures are implemented and their potential outcomes.
Smart charging functions
Bidirectional energy exchange between electric vehicles and electrical infrastructure enabling optimized charging, grid services, and load management. Includes vehicle-to-grid (V2G), vehicle-to-load (V2L), vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V), and vehicle-to-power (V2P) interactions.
Design Calculations and Examinations
This category covers the results of design calculations and examinations performed during development, including analytical analyses, modelling, testing outcomes, and the corresponding technical documentation. It serves as the repository for verification and validation evidence derived from these re
Analyses and Storage Costs
Costs for analyses, inspections and storage may be charged to producers or other parties involved in the process. This category covers who bears these fees and under what circumstances they apply.
Calculations from Measurements
Captures any mathematical computations derived from the measured parameters. It encompasses derived metrics or synthesized values produced from measurement data when such calculations are applicable.
R&D Exemption
This category covers exemptions related to research and development activities. It encompasses both product- and process-oriented R&D, outlining when such activities qualify for exemption.
Evaluation Aspect B
Covers evaluation aspects related to sustainability and safety requirements outlined in Chapter II. It specifies how to assess compliance and identify actions needed to satisfy these requirements.
Avoid Duplicate Compliance
Guidance to prevent re-demonstrating regulatory compliance for the same product across multiple submissions or checks. It aims to reduce redundancy and ensure a single, accurate demonstration suffices.
Vehicle Manufacturer
Entities that design, produce, and market vehicles such as cars, trucks, and motorcycles. This category covers automotive manufacturers and other firms that manufacture road vehicles.
Sustainability Assessment References
A catalog of references used to evaluate environmental sustainability during innovation. It collects methodological sources, guidelines, and example studies that guide the sustainability assessment throughout the innovation process.
Data Precision and Uncertainty
Addresses how data quality is expressed through confidence and variability. It encompasses measurement error, statistical confidence, and methods to represent, quantify, and reason about uncertainty in data-driven analyses.
Turnover Threshold 40M
Defines the EUR 40 million turnover level used to determine Chapter applicability. This threshold marks the boundary at which Chapter rules apply.
Scoping Analysis
Represents the concept of scoping analysis as depicted in Figure 31. This category captures methods for defining the scope and boundaries of a study or project.
Iterative Approach
An overarching category describing applying Safety-by-Design (SSbD) in iterative innovation. At each iteration, SSbD is applied at the level of detail feasible at that stage, enabling progressive refinement and risk-informed design.
Technological representativeness
This category captures the requirement that data used in SSbD assessments accurately reflect the technologies, processes, and product systems under evaluation. It emphasizes aligning study inputs with real-world implementation to ensure valid conclusions.
Process Perspective: Safety & Sustainability
This category captures framing safety and sustainability from the process perspective, emphasizing how process design and operation influence risk and long-term viability. It promotes a process-centric view that complements product- or system-level considerations.
Innovation Maturity
Represents the readiness level of an innovation for deployment and adoption, as defined and evaluated by the SSbD practitioner. This dimension informs development focus, validation activities, and timing of rollout within the Safe and Sustainable by Design framework.
Exposure Patterns
Overview of exposure patterns for human populations and their environments. This category highlights how exposure varies across different groups and environmental contexts.
Respect for Human Rights
This category emphasizes upholding fundamental human rights as a core pillar of social fairness. It guides policies and practices to prevent discrimination and oppression, ensuring dignity and protections for all individuals.
Equal Opportunities
Represents the principle of providing fair access to opportunities for all, regardless of background. Guides design and policy toward eliminating bias in education, employment, and social mobility.
Fair Working Conditions
Principles and measures that ensure safe, healthy, and dignified workplaces. It covers fair wages, reasonable working hours, non-discrimination, occupational safety, and workers’ rights to organize and bargain.
Various Applications
This category captures known uses of Material A that are described as several but not explicitly defined. It acts as a placeholder for generic or multi-use scenarios where concrete applications have not been detailed.
Iterative Tiered LCA
This category summarizes the applicability and core characteristics of the iterative and tiered LCA approach. It explains how the method iteratively refines scope and data, using tiered levels to balance detail and effort across stages.
LCA Results Interpretation
This category collects approaches for interpreting Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) results, with emphasis on isolating interpretation steps. It helps users understand how results are derived, how uncertainties are treated, and how findings are communicated.
Impact Ranges for CPs
This category documents the ranges of impact values across the 16 impact categories used to define performance classes. It provides a framework to classify performances by impact magnitude and compare different performances.
Qualitative Performance Classes
This category presents qualitative examples of the performance classes (CP) and their related scores, illustrating how performance is categorized and evaluated. It provides a reference for interpreting qualitative classifications of performance.
Right to Strike (Ordinal)
Represents the labor-right concept of the right to strike, treated as an ordinal scale that ranks levels of legitimacy or permissibility of industrial action. It captures ordered positions such as prohibited, restricted, permitted, and protected, enabling cross-jurisdictional comparisons. This node
Association Right (Ordinal)
Represents the Right of Association expressed on an ordinal scale, enabling rank-ordered measurement of this attribute. This category groups dedicated rights-scale concepts to promote clear, consistent assessment.
Collective Bargaining Rights
Defines the fundamental right of workers to organize and negotiate terms with employers. This category anchors links to labor governance and clarifies how collective bargaining is supported by law and policy.
Trade Union Density
Represents the share of employees organized in trade unions, expressed as a percentage. This category measures labor union presence in the workforce and can be used to compare union density across countries or sectors.
Gender Wage Gap
Represents the percentage difference in earnings between genders. This category supports precise mapping and analysis of pay equity across organizations and economies. Useful for dashboards and policy evaluation.
Salary to Living Wage Ratio
Metrics that compare actual salaries to the living wage to gauge wage adequacy. This category uses the salary-to-living-wage ratio to highlight affordability gaps for workers.
Hydrophilicity Property
Hydrophilicity describes how strongly a substance attracts water, indicating its affinity for aqueous environments. It is a key property in chemistry, biology, and materials science for predicting solubility, wetting, and interface behavior. This category collects concepts and measurements related t
Monthly Living Wage
A top-level category covering the concept of a wage sufficient to meet basic living costs, expressed on a monthly basis. It covers definitions and assessments of wage adequacy required for subsistence and social participation.
Incremental Data Collection
Describes methods for progressively gathering data across the supply chain and related documents. Emphasizes staged capture and integration rather than a single upfront collection.
A category focused on gathering data in an iterative, stepwise manner to enhance traceability and transparency. It supports progressively updating datasets and reports as new information becomes available.
Data Stewardship
Defines who is responsible for data that has been inserted, including ownership and accountability. This category covers governance practices, data quality, and the integrity and secure handling of submitted data.
Traceability Summary Transfer
This category covers the transfer of a summarized set of traceability data that accompanies interoperable reporting. It emphasizes concise data exchange to convey essential lineage information while supporting interoperability and auditability.
TRICK Platform
The TRICK platform is a software environment for building, executing, and analyzing computational simulations. It supports modeling, automation, and the study of complex multi-physics scenarios.
Retail and Usage
Covers the stage where products are sold to consumers and subsequently used by end users. It includes retail distribution, sales channels, customer adoption, and ongoing usage patterns throughout the product’s lifecycle.
Circular Retail Platform
An end-to-end platform enabling circular retail operations, from take-back and refurbishment to resale and recycling. It consolidates product lifecycle processes into a single system, supporting circular economy flows and serving as one of the TRICK exit points.
TRICK Platform Data
Data collected on the TRICK platform used for assessment studies. This category covers datasets, measurements, and observations gathered within TRICK experiments to support evaluation research.
Final Assembly
It denotes the final stage of the production value chain where products have completed assembly. They are then prepared for finishing steps such as testing, packaging, and distribution.
Circularity Assessment Services
This category covers professional services that evaluate the circularity of products, processes, and systems. Assessments focus on material loops, reuse and recycling potential, and lifecycle improvements to advance circular economy performance.
Offices and Retail Centers
Represents the value chain stage that encompasses office spaces, retail premises, and distribution centers. This category highlights facilities as operational hubs within the organization's supply and distribution network.
Trackable Logistics Units
Logistic units containing traceable assets in transit or storage. This category enables end-to-end tracking and visibility of those assets by serial numbers or IDs as they move through the supply chain.
TRICK Project
A 3.5-year Horizon 2020 initiative that provides a platform to support adoption, tracing, and demonstration of its capabilities. It serves as a hub for coordinating and showcasing the project's aims and outcomes.
TRICK Traceability Decisions
This category captures the decisions and selections made by the TRICK project when configuring the traceability system. It documents design choices, configuration options, and governance related to system setup.
TRICK-Defined Identifiers
Identifiers created and governed by the TRICK management system. This category encompasses all names and codes defined by TRICK's rules for consistent referencing within TRICK-managed contexts.
Product Reference Quantity
Represents the net reference quantity of a product, used as the standard unit for pricing, inventory, and cataloging. It excludes packaging and container weight to reflect the actual product amount.
Aggregation Level of Sustainability Data
Represents the level of detail at which sustainability metrics are aggregated and reported. This granularity allows data to be related to different product quantities and contexts, supporting cross-product analysis and interpretation.
Reference Product Quantity
Defines the reference quantity used to determine the aggregation level of sustainability data. It establishes the basis for aggregating metrics (such as per unit or per product) to enable consistent comparisons across datasets.
Sustainability Data Gathering
Represents the Step 4 phase of the TRICK project focused on collecting data related to sustainability performance. This category covers methods, data sources, and metrics for gathering environmental, social, and economic information to support assessment and reporting.
Traceability Data Model
Defines the data structures and schemas used to capture traceability information and sustainability metrics across the value chain. This model enables consistent data gathering, interoperability, and reporting for environmental and social governance indicators.
Data Collection Setup
This category captures the steps for configuring the data gathering process. It outlines prerequisites, roles, tools, and the workflow needed to initiate data collection.
Process Step Scope
This category covers the enumeration of steps within a process as defined by organizational scope. It aids in modeling process flow and aligning steps with organizational boundaries.
Represents the ordered list of process steps used as a data attribute in product-level sustainability data. This category captures the sequence of steps defined for sustainability reporting (as in Table 6) to support consistent analysis and traceability.
Collaborative Data Gathering
This category catalogs collaborative approaches used to gather data, including established workflows and coordination mechanisms. It emphasizes how teams reference and align processes with stakeholders to ensure reliable and comprehensive data collection.
Study Documents
A top-level category encompassing documents used for studying and learning. This includes notes, handouts, assignments, and reference materials that support educational activities.
Represents assessment study documents used as attributes in product-level sustainability data. This category captures documentation that supports sustainability assessments attached to products, as referenced by Table 6.
Organization Facilities
Represents the enumeration of facilities owned or operated by an organization, including offices, campuses, labs, and other built assets. This category supports tracking, management, and reference of organizational facilities within the taxonomy.
Fully Confidential
A disclosure level option indicating that information must be kept entirely private and accessible only to approved individuals. This category designates the highest level of confidentiality within data governance and disclosure policies. It supports classification of materials that require strict n
Information Disclosure Policies
Policies that govern what information is disclosed, to whom, and under what circumstances, emphasizing clarity and formalisation. This category covers mitigation strategies arising from well-defined disclosure policies to ensure consistent, compliant, and transparent information sharing.
Data Disclosure Policy
Policies that govern how data is disclosed within the TRICK platform. This category captures rules, constraints, and guidelines for data sharing, privacy, and regulatory compliance.
Specific Partner Category Disclosure
This category represents a disclosure level option where information is shared only with a defined category of partners. It enables selective data sharing based on partner category rather than broad disclosure.
Generic Traceability Steps 1-3
Represents the first three steps of the generic traceability process according to the UNECE methodology. This category captures the foundational actions to identify, document, and trace materials or products through a supply chain during the early stages.
Assets and Traceability Entry Points
This category represents Step 3 of the Generic Traceability Process, focusing on processing assets and identifying traceability entry points. It establishes how assets are prepared and connected to traceability data to enable provenance, tracking, and accountability across the lifecycle.
DPP Traceability Data Needs
This category covers the needs and approaches for collecting traceability and sustainability data along the supply chain to enable the DPP. It identifies data requirements, sources, and governance practices for end-to-end visibility and interoperability.
Represents a discrete operation within a production or processing workflow referenced in traceability data. Each step documents a stage in the process, enabling tracking, auditing, and provenance across manufacturing and supply chains.
Post-Consumer Textile Value Chain
Covers the flow of textiles after consumer use, including collection, sorting, recycling, upcycling, and disposal. It defines interactions with actors across the post-consumer stage and metrics to evaluate circularity in the textile system.
Linear Textile Value Chain
Represents the traditional, linear progression of the textile value chain—from raw materials and fibers to yarns, fabrics, finished goods, and distribution—as depicted in Figure 1. It emphasizes a straight-through flow characteristic of linear models, in contrast to circular approaches that loop mat
TRICK Pilots Supply Chains
Represents the supply chains associated with TRICK pilots. This category groups concepts related to the procurement, logistics, and flow of materials and services that enable TRICK pilot operations.
System Entry Points
This category covers the points where data and users enter and exit the traceability system. It identifies interfaces, gateways, and endpoints used to initiate transactions and retrieve results. Understanding these points supports access control, data integrity, and auditability.
Textile Value Chain
An overview of the stages that comprise the textile value chain, emphasizing its tiered structure from raw materials to finished products. This category aligns with established frameworks that categorize activities into distinct tiers, as described by sources such as World Resources.
TRICK Solution
Represents the TRICK solution concept. This category collects methods, strategies, and examples related to the TRICK problem-solving approach.
Mechanical Textile Recycling
Defines the channel for processing post-consumer textiles through mechanical recycling. Materials are physically opened, shredded, or blended to produce recyclate fibers without chemical alteration, suitable for reuse in textile production or related applications.
Mono-material Textile
A category for textiles made from a single material without blends or composites. It highlights material-specific properties, recyclability, and lifecycle considerations of mono-material fabrics.
Multimaterial Textiles
Textiles produced from two or more materials, including blends of fibers and fabrics made from composite components. This category covers textiles where the material composition varies within the fabric or across the material, reflecting multi-material construction.
Fibre Mechanical
This category encompasses the mechanical aspects of fibre materials, focusing on how fibres respond to forces and deform under load. It includes properties like stiffness and strength that characterize fibre behavior.
Composite Materials
Composite materials are engineered by combining two or more constituent materials with distinct properties to achieve improved strength, stiffness, or durability. They include systems like fiber-reinforced polymers and laminates. This category encompasses materials formed from multiple constituents
Textile Fabric
A broad category for fabrics used in textiles, including woven, knitted, and nonwoven materials. This category encompasses materials used to construct clothing, upholstery, and other fabric-based goods.
Mono-material Textile Product
Category for textile products that are composed of a single material, facilitating recycling and material identification. It covers items made entirely from one type of textile fibre without mixed materials.
Consumer App Synchronization
This category encompasses consumer-facing applications that perform data synchronization. It focuses on mechanisms, workflows, and use cases that ensure consistent data across devices and services.
Product Component
Represents a component related to a product within traceability information. Used to identify and trace specific parts or assemblies of a product throughout its lifecycle.
Subcontracting Processing
This category captures the practice of outsourcing processing work to a subcontractor (Unit2). It reflects transferring operational tasks to an external specialist to achieve scalability, cost efficiency, and access to expertise, while requiring vendor management and risk controls.
Figures and Captions
Top-level category for visual elements labeled as figures in documents, including their captions. This category covers items like Figure 13 and its caption.
Treatment Billing
This Level 0 category collects billing-related attributes for treatments within the primary data set. It provides the foundational financial context for invoicing, charges, and treatment-related costs across products or organizations.
Recollection Lifecycle
Represents the lifecycle stage labeled Recollection, denoting the process of recalling information as part of an entity's lifecycle. This category groups concepts associated with memory recall and retrieval during lifecycle progression.
Interoperability Barriers
This category identifies barriers arising from the lack of system integration and data interoperability across platforms. Limited data portability further constrains cross-system circularity, undermining efforts to close resource loops.
eBIZ Document Factory
A core component of the eBIZ framework used to create and assemble documents within the TRICK data model context. It encapsulates the document production functionality provided by the platform.
Traceability Granularity
Defines the levels at which traced assets can be identified, ranging from model or batch to serial number and logistic unit. This category captures granularity options used to segment traceability data.
CISUTAC Total Data Points
Represents the aggregate number of data points identified by the CISUTAC tool in the dataset. This metric provides a high-level view of CISUTAC’s coverage by summarizing the total data points detected.
Multi-layer Laminates
Materials created by laminating or coating two or more distinct layers into a single composite. These multi-layer laminates provide enhanced mechanical, barrier, or functional properties for a wide range of products.
Fabric Finishing Events
Events that represent object-level fabric treatment and finishing actions. This category groups processes applied to textiles to alter surface properties, appearance, or performance, such as coatings, softening, dyeing, and waterproofing during manufacturing or post-processing.
PESCO-UP Project Origin
Represents the PESCO-UP project as the origin of the textile recycling data model. This category records the project responsible for defining the data model's provenance and context within textile recycling.
Multilayer Textiles
Fabrics designed with multiple layered structures, often featuring coatings or membranes to provide barrier, waterproofing, or specialized functional properties. This category covers the construction approaches that create multilayer textiles.
PESCO-UP Data Model
Represents the data model used by the PESCO-UP project within the TRICK context. It defines the data elements, their structure, and the relationships that enable interoperability and analysis.
Garment Assembly
This category describes the process of combining fabrics and accessories to create a finished garment. It covers events that bring multiple components together to form a single item of clothing.
Business Services
A top-level category for services that enable and support business operations, including traceability. It groups related services to facilitate organization, discovery, and governance.
Defines the descriptor used for a single element within a product, typically representing a raw material or component. It helps identify the constituent parts that make up a product.
Facility Sustainability Characteristics
This category aggregates attributes that describe how facilities perform in an environmentally sustainable way. It covers metrics and features related to energy efficiency, resource use, materials, carbon footprint, and lifecycle resilience.
Non-exhaustive information
This category captures content that lists only some elements rather than a complete set. It signals incompleteness and may indicate that additional items exist beyond the presented list. The entry should not be interpreted as authoritative coverage of all possible elements.
Traceability Event
An Event is a central entity in the traceability schema that connects related information and relationships. It acts as a focal point for sequencing actions, occurrences, and provenance data within the model.
Traceability Events
This category covers events and activities that involve traceable assets and generate data used by traceability systems. It captures asset movements, transformations, ownership changes, and status updates to support provenance, audit trails, and lifecycle visibility.
TRICK System Boundaries
Defines the scope and limits of the TRICK system, spanning from fibre reception to the end-to-end circular retail platform. It clarifies which elements, processes, and interfaces are included within the system boundary to guide modeling, integration, and analysis.
Asset History
Represents the provenance and historical references for a single traceable asset, including its components and raw materials as recorded by the traceability system. It enables tracing lineage and material composition across the asset's lifecycle.
Headquarters Facility Code
Represents the HEADQUARTER facility code (FacilityCode_IT01606600029_HEADQUARTER) assigned to organization IT01606600029, designating the main office location. This category is used for identifying and referencing the organization's central facility in addressing, logistics, and location management.
GS1 EPCIS Release 1.2
This category centers on GS1 EPCIS Release 1.2 (EPCIS 1.259) as referenced in the approaches. It groups concepts related to event data standards used for traceability in supply chains.
Evidence Files and Footprints
This category covers the tangible digital files that serve as evidence and their traceability footprints. It includes the actual files as well as the footprints used to document provenance and authenticity.
ISO/IEC 19987
This category covers ISO/IEC 19987, the international standard that specifies the reference architecture for cloud computing. It defines the high-level components and interactions that enable interoperable cloud services.
Market Disruptors
Disruptors are agents or innovations that reshape markets and industries by introducing new capabilities, business models, or technologies. They challenge incumbents, accelerate adoption of novel solutions, and create new value networks. This category groups concepts that drive transformative change
Supply of Recycled Fiber
This category contains an activity diagram illustrating the supply process for recycled fiber, detailing the sequence of steps from sourcing to delivery.
Thermochemical Incineration
Thermochemical incineration is a high-temperature waste treatment process that uses heat to drive chemical reactions, oxidizing organic material to ash and gaseous byproducts while potentially recovering energy. This category covers the methods, conditions, and considerations for thermochemical wast
Textile chemical recycling
Represents chemical methods that depolymerize post-consumer textiles into monomers or oligomers for recycling. This category covers approaches that recover feedstock monomers to re-synthesize polymers, supporting circular textile material flows.
Waste Supply Diagram
A category for diagrams and captions depicting the supply of selected waste within process activity diagrams. It focuses on the supply-side representation of waste streams in waste-management modeling.
Product Gender
Category describing the gender classification of textile products. It includes labels such as men's, women's, and unisex to support filtering, search, and product organization.
Brand and Price
This category captures datapoints that pair brand identity with price information. It supports brand-aware pricing analysis, cross-brand comparisons, and catalog alignment.
Iterative Data Collection and Validation
An iterative process for gathering data and validating its quality. It captures workflows that refine data through repeated collection and validation cycles.
Water Resources
Core category for water as a natural resource and essential life-supporting liquid. It encompasses bodies of water, moisture, and hydrological phenomena in natural and built environments.
Treatment Plants
Category for facilities engineered to treat water, wastewater, or other liquids. These plants employ physical, chemical, and biological processes to remove contaminants and produce treated effluent or reusable water.
Water Facility
A top-level category for facilities involved in water management, including treatment, storage, and distribution infrastructure. This node groups facilities that handle water supply and related services.
On-site Wastewater Treatment
This category encompasses facilities and systems that treat wastewater within a site or building, rather than sending it to a municipal plant. It covers on-site or internal wastewater treatment plants used to process and manage wastewater on-site.
Transportation and Mobility
This category encompasses the movement of people and goods across distances, including modes of transport, infrastructure, and services. It supports transportation planning, logistics, and mobility technologies.
Recycling Feedstocks
Represents batch-level information about materials supplied to recyclers as feedstocks. This category covers the inputs used in recycling processes, captured at the batch level.
Internal Wastewater
Wastewater produced within a facility or building, originating from processes or domestic use and not drawn from municipal sources. This on-site wastewater is managed separately from external sewer systems.
Propulsion Type
Describes the method by which a transport means is powered. Includes propulsion modalities such as internal combustion, electric, hybrid, and other powering systems across various transport modes.
Non-reusable post-consumer textiles
Categorizes textiles from consumer use that cannot be reused, excluding shoes and accessories. This node captures non-reusable post-consumer textile waste destined for disposal or recycling.
Facility Description
A free-text field containing a language-specific description of the facility. It should be unique per language and provide an open narrative of the facility's characteristics.
Preferential Certificate of Origin
The Preferential Certificate of Origin (PCO) is a trade document certifying the country of origin of goods to qualify for tariff preferences under bilateral or regional trade agreements. It is used by exporters and authorities to verify origin criteria and determine eligibility for reduced duties.
Activation Messages
Messages exchanged to indicate activation or readiness in a communication between parties. These signals trigger subsequent actions in a protocol and confirm that an entity is active or authorized to proceed.
Deliverable D7.8 Inter-project Relations
Represents Deliverable D7.8, detailing relations and exchanges with other projects. It outlines collaboration approaches, data sharing, and alignment of objectives with external initiatives.
Process Step Data Structure
Represents data structures that model individual steps in a process, focusing on the processStep element. It's used to describe step-level payloads, sequencing, and relationships within a workflow.
Assessment Studies
Assessment studies are studies created through systematic data collection under consultancy practice. They evaluate a subject or process and yield findings and recommendations for clients. Organizations commonly commission them to inform decisions and strategy.
Assessment Expert
A category for professionals who provide human expertise in assessment services. It covers individuals whose role involves applying professional judgment to evaluate, certify, or appraise subjects or processes.
Notes and Annotations
Represents notes as textual information, including free-form notes and structured notes with optional attributes to organize metadata. It covers both unstructured content and structured note data within a single concept.
Consultancy Data Pattern
Represents the data collection pattern used in consultancy contexts. It defines the approach and typical workflow for gathering information during consultancy engagements.
Process Step List Attributes
This category encompasses the properties that describe a collection of steps in a process. It defines attributes for the structure, order, and metadata of the step list, enabling precise modeling of a workflow. Useful for specifying how a sequence of steps should be represented and interpreted.
Consultancy Pattern
A pattern of services that relies on intervention by human experts or reviewers. It describes service delivery where professional guidance, assessment, and oversight are central to outcomes, enabling advisory, quality assurance, and review-based processes.
Proprietary Scanning Device
This category covers proprietary scanning devices used to capture identifiers for traceability. These tools are typically tied to a specific vendor ecosystem and are required to ensure accurate, standardized data across the product lifecycle.
Technical Workwear Pilot
A category for pilot initiatives in the technical workwear sector. It encompasses early testing and validation of protective garments and related equipment in industrial contexts.
Anti-Counterfeiting Service
This category covers services that help prevent and address counterfeit products. It includes authentication and verification, brand protection, serialization, and enforcement support.
Pilot Studies
Pilot studies are small-scale preliminary trials conducted to assess feasibility, refine methods, and identify potential issues before larger research efforts. This category documents reports of such initial testing.
Supply Chain Spinner
Spinner is a designated supply chain actor. This category groups entities that perform spinning or winding tasks within manufacturing, packaging, or related production processes.
Package Unit Quantity Placeholder
Represents the placeholder value for the number of units in a packaging unit within packaging data. It marks where the actual package-unit quantity will be substituted in real datasets.
Technical Sheets & Catalogues
Provides support for standard technical data sheets and product catalogues within the eBIZ platform, enabling related business operations such as supplying and subcontracting. It encompasses the creation, management, and exchange of ordinary product information.
Consultancy Pattern Scenarios
Top-level category containing illustrative scenarios of consultancy patterns, including captions for figures (e.g., Unit1 Figure 7). It serves as a reference for understanding how consulting patterns are applied in practice.
Tier Subcontractor Management
Defines oversight and coordination of subcontractors across multiple tiers in the value chain. It covers performance monitoring, compliance, risk management, and alignment with procurement strategy.
Complex Textile Products
Top-level category for textile products that require higher sorting effort, indicated by a minimum resource threshold (unit). It includes examples illustrating advanced sorting scenarios to distinguish complex cases from simpler ones.
Textile Operations Taxonomy
This category represents a hierarchical taxonomy of manufacturing operation types used in textile production. It provides a structured framework for classifying and analyzing textile processes, enabling clearer workflow mapping and process optimization.
Incoming Material
This category covers information related to materials entering a system, including metadata and interface details associated with incoming materials. It is illustrated by examples of the analysed interfaces, notably the Material incoming and its list of information (as in Figure A.6).
Many-to-Many Relationship
Represents a relationship where multiple initial batches relate to multiple final batches in a mapping context. This category captures M-2-N connections between inputs and outputs across processes, enabling complex associations between batch sets.
Product Identity and Operators
This category captures the identification, classification, and contact information for a product and the economic operators involved in its design, production, deployment, and market introduction. It supports traceability and accountability across the supply chain.
Facility Identifier
A category for unique identifiers assigned to facilities (such as plants, warehouses, or distribution centers) involved in a value chain. This tag enables cross-dataset linkage and precise attribution of data to the correct facility, when relevant.
Storage Action Code AD
Represents the AD (Add) storage action code, used to indicate that only missing elements should be added in storage-related processes. This category groups identifiers that specify incremental addition of absent elements.
Storage Action Codes
Category for codes that define storage actions in a data warehouse. It covers operations like deleting existing elements and replacing them by writing new data.
Storage Action NA
Represents the NA code for storage action, indicating that no storage action is required. This category is used when a storage operation is not applicable.
Upsert Storage Action
Represents a storage operation that inserts new data and updates existing records without deleting any data. It combines create and update into a single upsert action, preserving existing information while adding new or revised values.
Empty Category
This top-level taxonomy node currently has no assigned concepts. It serves as a placeholder for future content until concepts are added.
Publishing Indicator Declarations
This category defines the mechanism for publishing declarations of shareable indicators across systems. It covers the standards, protocols, and workflows needed to disseminate and consume indicator declarations in an interoperable way.
TRCTRA Report XML Reference
Contains a complete TRCTRAreport XML reference, illustrating the canonical structure and elements of TRCTRA report documents. This reference serves as a primary example for understanding, parsing, and validating TRCTRAreport XML files.
Treatments List
This category groups data items that enumerate treatments. It serves as a reference hub for treatment options and related listings.
Non-Destructive Upsert
Defines a data operation that adds new records and updates existing ones without deleting fields that are not explicitly mentioned. This non-destructive upsert (merge) behavior preserves existing data while applying updates.
Data Write and Delete
This category captures data management actions that delete existing elements and write new data within organizational systems. It relates to data warehouse (DW) processes where datasets such as facility records are refreshed or replaced.
E.9.1 General
A subcategory under E.9 General that captures the general principles and overarching topics within the E.9 domain. It serves as the foundational introduction for E.9, outlining high-level concepts before more specific subsections.
Advertising and Ads
Top-level category for advertising (AD) encompassing concepts, campaigns, and promotional content. It groups topics related to marketing communication and paid media.
Italian Custom AIDA
Category represents the Italian adaptation of the AIDA marketing framework (Attention, Interest, Desire, Action). It covers localization and application of AIDA principles in Italian campaigns, messaging, and sales funnels.
This category describes how internal resistance tends to rise over time and with usage, affecting device performance and efficiency. It covers the causes, effects, and monitoring of resistance growth.
Initial Battery Internal Resistance
Defines the initial internal resistance of a battery cell and its corresponding module/pack configuration. This baseline parameter is used for modeling startup electrical behavior, efficiency, and thermal implications in performance analyses.
Battery Regulation Article 3.1(51)
Top-level category for Battery Regulation Article 3.1(51), as referenced by BattReg. This node represents the specific regulatory provision identified in BattReg.
Battery Cell Internal Resistance
Internal resistance measurements at the level of individual battery cells. This category captures cell-level resistance data for analysis of performance, aging, and safety, distinguishing it from module- or pack-level resistance.
Original Power Specs
Captures the battery's original, manufacturer-specified power capability and limits to be recorded in the battery passport. Includes rated discharge/charge power, voltage, and intrinsic constraints as defined by the manufacturer.
Cell-Level Internal Resistance
Describes information about increases in a cell's internal resistance. This category captures data and analyses related to how a cell's internal resistance rises over time, aiding battery health assessment and degradation studies.
Battery Pack Level
This category captures the level or state of a battery pack relevant to internal resistance requirements. It provides pack-level information used to assess and ensure that internal resistance specifications are met.
Battery Pack Degradation
Tracks the increase in a battery pack's internal resistance as cells and modules age. Useful for estimating performance loss, heat generation, and remaining useful life, and may involve both cell-level and module-level resistance trends.
Cadmium and Lead Symbols
Defines the standard chemical symbols for cadmium (Cd) and lead (Pb). These symbols are used when predefined thresholds are met, guiding labeling and reporting in threshold-based contexts.
Stationary Battery Storage
Represents stationary battery energy storage systems (BESS) used for grid support and backup power. Emphasizes their key characteristics and health-related parameters, including state of health assessments.
Table 2 Caption
Represents the caption for Table 2 in the Battery Passport Data Attributes document. This category encapsulates the descriptive label used to identify Table 2 and its context within the data attributes specification.
Represents stationary battery energy storage systems deployed in fixed installations to support grids, enable peak shaving, load leveling, and energy arbitrage. It excludes mobile or vehicle-based storage solutions and encompasses multiple chemistries and configurations used in stationary deployment
Charge-Discharge Rest Period
This category represents the resting period inserted between charging and discharging cycles in a test method. It defines the pause as part of the testing protocol to stabilize states before measurements.
Battery Cycle Life
Represents the expected lifetime of a rechargeable device, quantified by the number of complete charge-discharge cycles it can endure before performance degrades. Serves as a durability or lifespan metric for batteries and energy storage components.
Remaining Battery Power
Represents the amount of energy left in a battery's capacity, indicating its available power for use. This metric is used in energy management, battery monitoring, and reliability assessments.
Battery Charge and Discharge Rates
This category encapsulates test conditions and references related to how quickly a battery is charged and discharged. It ensures rate parameters are specified in test methods to reflect realistic usage and performance evaluation.
Battery Cycle Count
Represents the total number of complete charge-discharge cycles a battery has undergone. It is a key indicator of battery health and aging.
Dynamic Energy Metrics
Represents information about remaining round-trip energy efficiency that updates in real time. This category covers live energy-performance data that refreshes dynamically rather than remaining static.
Cobalt 2031 Recycled Content
Defines the 2031 target for recycled cobalt content. This category guides sourcing decisions, reporting, and sustainability planning by specifying the mandated share of cobalt to be recycled material by 2031.
Battery Status Change
Represents events where the battery status changes. These changes trigger updates to capacity fade information and related degradation metrics.
Energy Efficiency Percentage
This category captures the percentage-based unit used to express remaining round-trip energy efficiency. It expresses the proportion of energy retained after a cycle, with higher percentages indicating greater efficiency.
Remaining Capacity Update Cadence
Defines the mandatory cadence for updating and reporting the remaining capacity of a system. It specifies how often capacity data must be refreshed to support timely decision-making and regulatory compliance, with the exact interval potentially elaborated by governing rules.
Dynamic Throughput Status
Represents the live, changing state of capacity and throughput information. This category covers indicators and data that reflect real-time or evolving throughput conditions.
Battery Status Change Handling
Defines how the internal resistance and other parameters are updated when the battery status changes. This category codifies state-driven update rules for battery-condition effects and supports integration with new market contexts.
Deep Discharge Update Interval
Defines the mandatory cadence for updates on deep discharge events. This category ensures timely data refresh and consistent monitoring for battery management and safety workflows.
Self-Discharge Update Interval
Defines the cadence for refreshing the current self-discharge rate as the battery status changes. It governs how often the self-discharge metric is updated to reflect new conditions.
Figure Captions and References
Represents figure captions (e.g., Figure 5) that include cross-references and source information related to performance and durability.
Two Obligations Report
A report on the two previously mentioned obligations, including related documents. This category consolidates analysis and supporting materials for compliance with both obligations.
The current annual due diligence report for a specific battery, valid at the time the battery is placed into service. It represents the latest compliance documentation used to verify ongoing safety, reliability, and regulatory adherence.
Due Diligence Report
This category encompasses the due diligence report that is mandatory to include in the battery passport. It represents essential compliance documentation ensuring traceability and risk assessment in the supply chain.
Commission-Recognised Due Diligence
This category encompasses evidence that an entity complies with a due diligence scheme recognised by the European Commission. It includes certificates, attestations, or other verifiable proofs demonstrating adherence to the scheme's requirements.
Recognized Due Diligence Schemes
This category encompasses the due diligence schemes that are officially recognized under the Regulation. It identifies the approved frameworks that entities may rely on to demonstrate compliance with the regulatory requirement.
Power Fade Update Interval
Defines the scheduling of data refreshes for the power fade attribute. It specifies the timing and frequency at which the power fade value should be updated.
Downstream Due Diligence Info
This category captures information about due diligence policies provided to immediate downstream purchasers. It supports transparent and consistent compliance communication across the supply chain.
In-use Battery Temperature
This category defines the requirements for measuring a battery's temperature while it is in operation. It covers sensor placement, measurement methods, accuracy considerations, data logging, and safety aspects of in-use thermal monitoring.
Reference Temperature Test
Tests that accompany temperature range information, acting as reference points. They support validation and calibration of data describing temperature ranges.
Represents the upper limit of the surrounding ambient temperature for an idle state. It defines the maximum temperature considered in idle conditions.
Voltage rating temperature range
Defines the temperature interval in which the specified maximum voltage applies. Temperature values must be reported in degrees Celsius (°C).
Access for Legitimate Interest
This category covers granting access to information or resources to individuals who have a legitimate interest. It defines criteria for establishing legitimate interest and outlines safeguards for privacy and security in access decisions.
Accessibility by Legitimate Interest
Defines the conditions under which temperature information can be accessed by individuals with a legitimate interest. The category clarifies when access is allowed and what safeguards are required to protect privacy and security.
Harmful Events Tracking
Contains data and processes for identifying, recording, and monitoring safety-related events tied to batteries in the passport. This enables timely reporting and mitigation of potential safety risks.
Access to Information & Participation
This category consolidates elaborations on mechanisms for open access to information, public participation in decision-making, and ensuring access to justice (including internet accessibility). It covers transparency, digital inclusion, and accountable governance.
6.7.5.1 Overview
Provides a high-level introduction to the 6.7.5.1 concept, outlining its purpose, scope, and key components. Serves as a primer for readers before exploring more detailed subtopics within this domain.
As-built Battery
Represents the battery in its final built condition as used for reporting materials. It captures the as-built state rather than the intended design.
Disassembly Tools
This category catalogs the tools required to perform disassembly tasks. It specifies the essential tools and safety gear needed to safely dismantle equipment.
Fastening Techniques
Catalogs the types of fastening techniques and the number of techniques that can be unlocked. Used to manage progression and selection of appropriate joining methods.
Label Explanations
Explanatory texts accompany labels and symbols, providing definitions, context, and clarification to help users interpret meaning across diagrams, charts, and datasets.
Modules and Cells Mass
This category captures the mass properties of the system's modules and cells. Accurate mass specification is required for performance modeling, safety analysis, and weight budgeting.
Battery Management System
A Battery Management System (BMS) monitors and controls rechargeable battery packs, balancing cells, estimating state of charge and health, and enforcing safety protections. It is essential in electric vehicles and energy storage to maximize performance, longevity, and reliability.
Decimal Years
Represents years expressed as decimal numbers for precise temporal calculations. Useful in time series analysis and continuous time representations.
State of Charge
Represents the battery’s current energy level relative to its full capacity. It is used in monitoring and power-management systems to estimate remaining charge and guide charging and usage decisions.
Decimal Values
Decimals represent numbers with fractional parts using the decimal data type. This category covers precise fixed-point numeric values suitable for exact calculations.
State of Charge 80%
Represents the battery's state of charge at 80 percent. This category captures a specific data point useful for monitoring, thresholds, and performance analysis in battery management.
Decimal Data Type
Represents the decimal numeric data type used for exact base-10 values. It supports precision and scale to avoid floating-point errors, and is used across programming languages and databases to store exact monetary or fixed-point numbers.
Initial State of Charge
Initial state of charge (SoC) is the battery's charge level at the start of an operation or measurement. It provides the baseline for calculating energy efficiency and performance metrics, and influences charging strategies and system performance.
Decimal Kilowatt-hour
Represents numeric values expressed in decimal form for energy measured in kilowatt-hours (kWh). This category is used for precise energy quantities and calculations where decimal precision is important.
Graphic Assets
Top-level category for graphic assets and visual elements. It covers images, icons, and other graphical resources used in media, design, and interfaces.
Figures and Illustrations
A top-level category for visual elements labeled as figures (Figure 1). Encompasses diagrams, charts, images, and other graphics used to support or exemplify content. Useful for organizing references to visual content within documents.
tCO2e Data Type
Defines the data type used to express a battery's carbon footprint in tonnes of CO2 equivalent (tCO2e). This data type is used as the attribute type for carbon footprint measurements, enabling consistent storage and cross-battery comparisons.
Product Lifespan
Represents the anticipated duration of use for a product or asset, measured in calendar years. This attribute informs depreciation, warranty planning, and lifecycle management by providing a standardized timespan for expected usefulness.
String Data Type
This category represents the foundational string data type used to store sequences of characters. It underpins text handling across programming languages and data stores, serving as the primary building block for textual data.
Data Type Labels
Represents the data type label used in the table. It defines how data types are named and referenced in the dataset's schema.
Defines the opposition to the flow of current within a battery as described in BattReg Annex IV (5). This category covers the internal impedance that causes voltage drop and affects performance under load.
Internal Resistance
Represents the opposition to current flow caused by the inherent resistance inside a cell or battery under reference conditions. This parameter affects output voltage, efficiency, and heat generation, and is used in modeling and performance assessment.
Battery Fire Extinguishing Agents
This category catalogs extinguishing agents suitable for battery fires, with attention to compatibility with various battery chemistries. It addresses practical considerations such as cooling vs. smothering actions and safety cautions for different battery types.
Extinguishing Agents
Top-level category for substances used to extinguish fires. Includes chemical, water-based, foam, and other fire-suppressing formulations.
Small Symbol Packaging
This category captures packaging alternatives to use when a symbol is too small for standard packaging. It outlines requirements and guidance for selecting alternative packaging to maintain visibility and compliance.
Internal resistance is the inherent opposition to current within a battery, caused by the chemical and physical properties of its components. It is quantified as the ratio of the change in voltage to the change in current (ΔV/ΔI), reflecting the voltage drop under load.
Repair Status
A top-level category for items whose condition is repaired. It labels entities with a repaired status, indicating issues have been addressed and the item is deemed operational.
Original Status
Top-level category for concepts that denote the original or initial state of an entity. It consolidates the designation of the original condition.
Remanufactured Status
Represents products that have been remanufactured rather than newly produced. This status indicates the item has been refurbished to restore functionality and meet original specifications.
Up-to-date Status
This category captures whether the EU declaration is maintained as current and up to date. It indicates that the information reflects the latest amendments and regulatory changes, ensuring transparency about the declaration's freshness. Use this category to track currency and timeliness of the conte
Repurposed Status
This category captures items whose status has been changed to indicate repurposing from their original use. It helps track lifecycle transitions and governance around reusing assets or components.
Future Accident Information
This category documents the evolving, forward-looking definitions and standards for information about accidents. It covers scope, recording practices, and interpretation, and explores how accident data may be modeled and used in the future.
Acceleration-based Accident Identification
Defines methods for identifying accidents when measured acceleration exceeds predefined thresholds. Applicable to telematics, vehicle safety systems, and sensor analytics for crash detection. Covers both rule-based and data-driven threshold criteria.
Note 5 Adoption Dates
This category captures the planned dates for adopting delegated and implementing acts referenced in Note 5. It documents regulatory timelines and milestones for when these acts are expected to enter into force.
Creative Commons Licenses
Top-level category for licenses issued by Creative Commons. It includes licenses such as CC BY-NC 4.0, enabling use, sharing, and adaptation with attribution and non-commercial restrictions.
Cell Layout
Describes how many cells are used and how they are arranged in a grid or table. It covers both the total cell count and the spatial layout.
Authorized Interested Parties
Represents natural or legal persons who have a legitimate interest in accessing and processing the information. These are external or internal stakeholders granted rights under policy to view or use the data.
PLI Abbreviation
This category records the abbreviation PLI and its possible expansions used in the ontology. It provides a quick reference to map the acronym to its full-form meanings across contexts.
Percent Unit
Top-level category for the percentage unit (%). It defines how percent values should be represented and interpreted across data fields and calculations, promoting consistency in documentation and analysis.
Dimensionless Quantities
Quantities that have no dimensional units. This category covers pure numbers, ratios, and quantities such as angles measured in radians, where no physical unit is required.
Monthly Self-Discharge Rate
Represents the percentage of charge that self-discharges per month. Expressed as percent per month, it quantifies intrinsic loss in energy storage or similar systems. Useful for monitoring battery aging and efficiency.