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 "url": "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/product-data/technical-file-to-governed-product-data",
 "title": "Your Technical File Holds Compliance Evidence. Which Parts Should Become Governed Product Data?",
 "description": "Decide which technical-file facts should stay as evidence and which should become governed product data, with scope, provenance and reuse controls.",
 "territory": "data",
 "category": null,
 "direct_answer": "Not everything in a technical file should become product data. A technical file is an evidence system, and a governed product record has a different job.",
 "last_verified": "2026-09-01",
 "verified_label": "Last verified",
 "datePublished": "2026-09-01",
 "dateModified": "2026-09-01",
 "legislation": [
  {
   "@id": "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/digital-product-passport/detergents#legislation-32026r0405",
   "celex": "32026R0405",
   "name": "Regulation (EU) 2026/405 on detergents and surfactants",
   "legislationDate": "2026-02-11"
  },
  {
   "@id": "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/digital-product-passport/toys#legislation-32025r2509",
   "celex": "32025R2509",
   "name": "Regulation (EU) 2025/2509 on the safety of toys",
   "legislationDate": "2025-11-26"
  }
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 "primary_sources": [
  {
   "url": "https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/product-rules-compliance/general-product-compliance/preparing-technical-documentation/index_en.htm",
   "name": "European Commission / Your Europe, Preparing technical documentation, last checked by the Commission 12 July 2026. The page describes technical documentation under harmonised EU product rules, including its compliance purpose, typical contents and retention principle. Applicable legislation remains controlling."
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.w3.org/TR/prov-primer/",
   "name": "W3C, PROV Model Primer / PROV Data Model, Recommendation family, 2013. Used as a formal provenance reference for origins, entities, activities and agents. It is not presented as a product-compliance requirement."
  }
 ],
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  "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/glossary#digital-product-passport",
  "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/glossary#economic-operator",
  "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/glossary#pim"
 ],
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 "decisions": [],
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