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 "url": "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/guides/when-lifecycle-data-needs-item-level-identity",
 "title": "When Does Lifecycle Data Need to Follow the Individual Product?",
 "description": "See when lifecycle decisions need item-level continuity and when model, lot, part or measured condition is enough for repair, reuse or recycling.",
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 "direct_answer": "Lifecycle data needs to follow an individual product when the next decision depends on **that exact unit's history, condition, status or accumulated use**. If the decision can be made from product type, lot, part number or a fresh measurement at the point of action, item-level continuity may add little.",
 "last_verified": "2026-09-04",
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 "datePublished": "2026-09-04",
 "dateModified": "2026-09-04",
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  {
   "@id": "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/digital-product-passport/batteries#legislation-32023r1542",
   "celex": "32023R1542",
   "name": "Regulation (EU) 2023/1542, Battery passport Articles 77-78",
   "legislationDate": "2023-07-12"
  },
  {
   "@id": "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/guides/when-lifecycle-data-needs-item-level-identity#legislation-32018r0858",
   "celex": "32018R0858",
   "name": "Regulation (EU) 2018/858, Article 61: EU automotive precedent for independent-repairer access/write to central manufacturer records where those records are kept.",
   "legislationDate": "2018-05-30"
  },
  {
   "@id": "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/regulation/smartwatch-regulatory-classification#legislation-32012l0019",
   "celex": "32012L0019",
   "name": "Directive 2012/19/EU on WEEE.",
   "legislationDate": "2012-07-04"
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  {
   "url": "https://devicecheck.gsma.com/rtlapp/faqs/",
   "name": "GSMA Device Check FAQs. Used for serial-identifier lost/stolen status checks. The signal does not establish ownership or authenticity."
  },
  {
   "url": "https://devicecheck.gsma.com/rtlapp/termsOfUse",
   "name": "GSMA Device Check Terms of Use. Used for the limits on the timeliness and completeness of device-status data."
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.ivl.se/english/ivl/press/press-releases/2021-05-06-textile-waste-becomes-unique-recycling-products.html",
   "name": "IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute, Textile waste becomes unique recycling products, 6 May 2021. Used for the SIPTex direct-sensing sorting example."
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.cat.com/en_GB/products/new/parts/reman/the-remanufacturing-process.html",
   "name": "Caterpillar, Cat Reman: The Remanufacturing Process. Used for an operating remanufacturing example where original identity is not preserved through disassembly."
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.easa.europa.eu/en/document-library/easy-access-rules/online-publications/easy-access-rules-continuing-airworthiness?erules-id=ERULES-1963177438-272",
   "name": "EASA, Easy Access Rules for Continuing Airworthiness, September 2025 revision. Used for serialised-component maintenance and life-status continuity in aviation."
  }
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  "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/glossary#economic-operator",
  "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/glossary#espr",
  "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/glossary#granularity",
  "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/glossary#item-level-identity",
  "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/glossary#jrc",
  "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/glossary#qr-code",
  "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/glossary#weee"
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