- authorised representative
means any natural or legal person established in the Union that has received a written mandate from the manufacturer to act on the manufacturer’s behalf in relation to specified tasks with regard to the manufacturer’s obligations under this Regulation;
- carbon footprint
means the sum of greenhouse gas emissions and greenhouse gas removals in a product system, expressed as CO2 equivalents and based on a life cycle assessment using the single impact category of climate change;
- class of performance
means a range of performance levels in relation to one or more product parameters referred to in Annex I, which is established based on a common methodology for the product or product group, ordered in such a way as to allow for product differentiation;
- component
means a product intended to be incorporated into another product;
- conformity assessment
means the process demonstrating whether the ecodesign requirements set out in the relevant delegated acts adopted pursuant to Article 4 have been fulfilled;
- conformity assessment body
means a body that performs conformity assessment activities including calibration, testing, certification and inspection;
- consumer product
means any product, excluding components and intermediate products, primarily intended for consumers;
- customer
means a natural or legal person that purchases, hires or receives a product for their own use whether or not acting for purposes which are outside their trade, business, craft or profession;
- data carrier
means a linear barcode symbol, a two-dimensional symbol or other automatic identification data capture medium that can be read by a device;
- dealer
means a distributor or any other natural or legal person that offers products for sale, hire or hire purchase, or that displays products, to end users in the course of a commercial activity, including through distance selling;
- destruction
means the intentional damaging or discarding of a product as waste with the exception of discarding for the sole purpose of delivering the discarded product for preparing for reuse, including refurbishment or remanufacturing operations;
- digital product passport
means a set of data specific to a product that includes the information specified in the applicable delegated act adopted pursuant to Article 4 and that is accessible via electronic means through a data carrier in accordance with Chapter III;
- digital product passport service provider
means a natural or legal person that is an independent third-party authorised by the economic operator which places the product on the market or puts it into service and that processes the digital product passport data for that product for the purpose of making such data available to economic operators and other relevant actors with a right to access those data under this Regulation or other Union law;
- distance selling
means the offer for sale, hire or hire purchase of products, online or through other means of distance sales, whereby the potential customer cannot physically access the product;
- distributor
means any natural or legal person in the supply chain, other than the manufacturer or the importer, that makes a product available on the market;
- durability
means the ability of a product to maintain over time its function and performance under specified conditions of use, maintenance and repair;
- ecodesign
means the integration of environmental sustainability considerations into the characteristics of a product and the processes taking place throughout the product’s value chain;
- ecodesign requirement
means a performance requirement or an information requirement aimed at making a product, including processes taking place throughout the product’s value chain, more environmentally sustainable;
- economic operator
means the manufacturer, the authorised representative, the importer, the distributor, the dealer and the fulfilment service provider;
- end-of-life
means the life cycle stage that begins when a product is discarded and ends when the waste material of the product is returned to nature or enters another product’s life cycle;
- energy-related product
means any product that has an impact on energy consumption during use;
- environmental footprint
means a quantification of the environmental impacts resulting from a product throughout its life cycle, whether in relation to a single environmental impact category or an aggregated set of impact categories based on the Product Environmental Footprint method established by Recommendation (EU) 2021/2279 or other scientific methods developed by international organisations, widely tested in collaboration with different industry sectors and adopted or implemented by the Commission in other Union law;
- environmental impact
means any change to the environment, whether adverse or beneficial, wholly or partially resulting from a product during its life cycle;
- importer
means any natural or legal person established in the Union that places a product from a third country on the Union market;
- independent operator
means a natural or legal person that is independent of the manufacturer and is directly or indirectly involved in the refurbishment, repair, maintenance or repurposing of a product, and includes waste management operators, refurbishers, repairers, manufacturers or distributors of repair equipment, tools or spare parts, as well as publishers of technical information, operators offering inspection and testing services and operators offering training for installers, manufacturers and repairers of equipment;
- information requirement
means an obligation for a product to be accompanied by information as specified in Article 7(2);
- intermediate product
means a product that requires further manufacturing or transformation such as mixing, coating or assembling to make it suitable for end-users;
- life cycle
means the consecutive and interlinked stages of a product’s life, consisting of raw material acquisition or generation from natural resources, pre-processing, manufacturing, storage, distribution, installation, use, maintenance, repair, upgrading, refurbishment and reuse, and end-of-life;
- maintenance
means one or more actions carried out to keep a product in a condition where it is able to fulfil its intended purpose;
- making available on the market
means any supply of a product for distribution, consumption or use on the Union market in the course of a commercial activity, whether in return for payment or free of charge;
- manufacturer
means any natural or legal person that manufactures a product or that has a product designed or manufactured, and markets that product under their name or trademark;
- material footprint
refers to the total amount of raw materials extracted to meet final consumption demands;
- notified body
means a conformity assessment body notified in accordance with Chapter IX;
- performance requirement
means a quantitative or non-quantitative requirement for or in relation to a product to achieve a certain performance level in relation to a product parameter referred to in Annex I;
- placing on the market
means the first making available of a product on the Union market;
- premature obsolescence
means a product design feature or subsequent action or omission resulting in the product becoming non-functional or performing less well without such changes of functionality or performance being the result of normal wear and tear;
- product
means any physical goods that are placed on the market or put into service;
- product group
means a set of products that serve similar purposes and are similar in terms of use, or have similar functional properties, and are similar in terms of consumer perception;
- product presenting a risk
means a product that, by not complying with an ecodesign requirement set in or pursuant to this Regulation other than those listed in Article 71(1), could adversely affect the environment or other public interests protected by that requirement;
- product presenting a serious risk
means a product presenting a risk for which, based on an assessment, the degree of the relevant non-compliance or the associated harm is considered to require rapid intervention by the market surveillance authorities, including cases where the effects of the non-compliance are not immediate.
- professional repairer
means a natural or legal person that provides professional repair or maintenance services for a product, irrespective of whether that person acts within the manufacturer’s distribution system or independently;
- provider of an online marketplace
means a provider of an intermediary service using an online interface which allows customers to conclude distance contracts with economic operators for the sale of products covered by delegated acts adopted pursuant to Article 4;
- Public contracts
means contracts covered by Directives 2014/24/EU and 2014/25/EU.
- putting into service
means the first use, for its intended purpose, in the Union, of a product;
- refurbishment
means actions carried out to prepare, clean, test, service and, where necessary, repair a product or a discarded product in order to restore its performance or functionality within the intended use and range of performance originally conceived at the design stage at the time of the placing of the product on the market;
- reliability
means the probability that a product functions as required under given conditions for a given duration without an occurrence which results in a primary or secondary function of the product no longer being performed;
- remanufacturing
means actions through which a new product is produced from objects that are waste, products or components and through which at least one change is made that substantially affects the safety, performance, purpose or type of the product;
- repair
means one or more actions carried out to return a defective product or waste to a condition where it fulfils its intended purpose;
- self-regulation measure
means a voluntary agreement or a code of conduct, concluded by economic operators on their own initiative, which they are responsible for enforcing;
- substance of concern
means a substance that:
- supply chain
means all upstream activities and processes of the product’s value chain, up to the point where the product reaches the customer;
- technical specification
means a document that prescribes technical requirements to be fulfilled by a product, process or service;
- unique facility identifier
means a unique string of characters for the identification of locations or buildings involved in a product’s value chain or used by actors involved in a product’s value chain;
- unique operator identifier
means a unique string of characters for the identification of an actor involved in a product’s value chain;
- unique product identifier
means a unique string of characters for the identification of a product that also enables a web link to the digital product passport;
- unsold consumer product
means any consumer product that has not been sold including surplus stock, excess inventory and deadstock and products returned by a consumer on the basis of their right of withdrawal in accordance with Article 9 of Directive 2011/83/EU or, where applicable, during any longer withdrawal period provided by the trader;
- upgrading
means actions carried out to enhance the functionality, performance, capacity, safety or aesthetics of a product;
- value chain
means all activities and processes that are part of the life cycle of a product, as well as its possible remanufacturing;