Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1778

means a token that securely transmits information about successful authentication and is used to prove authenticated sessions or delegated access between applications and the digital product passport information system;

means a structured and authoritative set of standardised terms with defined meanings with a view to ensuring consistent representation of data attributes across digital product passports;

means a structured framework through which data can be exchanged between different systems and platforms;

means a structured framework that organises elements of data, standardises the structure, determines how they relate to one another, and identifies the entities, their attributes and the relationship between those entities;

includes the battery passport established by Article 77 of Regulation (EU) 2023/1542.

means the output generated from the relevant electronic data using a cryptographic algorithm from the relevant version of the digital product passport;

means the process by which a natural person or legal person provides evidence of identity and, where applicable, of establishment;

means an automated system that records and stores information on all operations and interactions carried out in the registry;

means a set of unique identifiers, such as a username and password, that enables a user to verify its identity in order to authenticate themselves in the registry;

means the retrieval of an exceptionally large or complex dataset - typically ranging from terabytes to petabytes in scale - which exceeds the processing or storage capabilities of conventional tools or a single local machine or interferes with monitoring safeguards.

means the information system established and maintained by the Commission in accordance with Article 13 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1781;

means the extent to which the data contained in a digital product passport comply with the applicable semantic specification, in that:

means the ability of information systems and the organisations that support them to exchange data in such a way that the meaning of exchanged information is mutually understood and unambiguously interpretable by all parties, regardless of the underlying technology or jurisdiction;

means a collection of data models and semantic definitions that are composed of a structured and logically interrelated set of terms and their meanings specifying the core elements of the digital product passport, the definitions of names or vocabularies, the data elements and the ontology associated with specific data in order to ensure common understanding across all users, and cross-lingual interpretation used for digital product passport validation and for linking the registry data with the digital product passports;

means any artefact published in the semantic repository, including ontologies, data models, controlled vocabularies, and code lists, together with their versioning metadata and provenance information;

means a natural or legal person, other than the economic operator, that performs activities in the value chain of a product requiring a digital product passport and its registration in the registry, such as a repairer, refurbisher, remanufacturer or recycler;

means an economic operator that has successfully completed the identity verification process in the registry in accordance with Article 4;

means a value chain actor that has successfully completed the identity verification process in the registry in accordance with Article 5;