ActorRole

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Actor Role

Role an organisation or individual fulfils along the DPP life cycle, as enumerated by EN 18239:2026 4.2: economic operators and their sub-roles (oec:OperatorRole), the other value-chain actors (consumer, professional repairer, independent operator, recycler, market surveillance authority), customs authorities and DPP service providers - plus the notified actor of 3.6. Access rights to controlled DPP data are granted to these roles (EN 18239 5.2.7, 5.2.8, 5.2.23).

URI:https://ref.openepcis.org/extensions/common/core/ActorRole

Values (19)

Value	Description
AuthorisedRepresentative Authorised Representative	Entity authorised by manufacturer to act on their behalf for specific tasks (per ESPR Article 16).
Consumer	Individual member of the general public purchasing or using goods, property or services for private purposes (EN ISO 14025:2010, 3.16; EN 18239:2026 4.2(2)(a)). Reads public DPP data without authentication (EN 18239 5.2.2).
CustomsAuthority Customs Authority	Government service responsible for administering customs law, collecting duties and taxes, and applying other laws on the import, export, movement or storage of goods (EN 18239:2026 4.2(3)).
Dealer	Distributor or any other natural or legal person that offers products for sale, hire or hire purchase, or displays them to end users in the course of a commercial activity, including distance selling and putting into service (ESPR Art. 2; EN 18239:2026 4.2(1)(e)).
Distributor	Entity in the supply chain that makes a product available on the market, other than manufacturer or importer.
DownstreamOperator Downstream Operator	Entity that receives products already placed on the EU market and makes them available further downstream, subject to simplified due-diligence obligations (introduced by the December 2025 EUDR amendment).
DppServiceProvider DPP Service Provider	Independent third party authorised by the economic operator that processes the DPP data for a product to make it available to actors with a right to access it - hosting the main instance or the back-up copy (EN 18221:2026, 3.2-3.3; EN 18239:2026 4.2(4)(a)).
FulfilmentServiceProvider Fulfilment Service Provider	Entity providing fulfilment services including warehousing and order processing (per ESPR Article 17).
Importer	Entity established in the EU that places a product from a third country on the Union market.
IndependentOperator Independent Operator	Natural or legal person independent of the manufacturer and directly or indirectly involved in refurbishment, repair, maintenance or repurposing of a product - including waste management operators, refurbishers, repairers, makers or distributors of repair equipment, tools or spare parts, publishers of technical information, inspection and testing services, and trainers (EN 18239:2026 4.2(2)(c)).
Manufacturer	Entity that produces the product, including own-brand labellers per EU Market Surveillance Regulation 2019/1020.
MarketSurveillanceAuthority Market Surveillance Authority	Authority designated by a Member State as responsible for carrying out market surveillance in its territory (Regulation (EU) 2019/1020; EN 18239:2026 4.2(2)(e)).
NotifiedActor Notified Actor	Organisation or individual entitled by an authorised accrediting body or authority to fulfil a role in the DPP life cycle (EN 18239:2026 3.6) - notified bodies and conformity assessment bodies in particular. The EO may assign rights and roles to notified actors by their globally unique operator identifier (EN 18239 5.2.6).
Operator	Entity that places products on the EU market or exports them from it (EUDR (EU) 2023/1115 Art. 2(15)); the EUDR name for the economic operator placing on the market, kept for EUDR records.
Processor	Entity that processes raw materials or components into finished or intermediate products.
Producer	Entity that produces or harvests the commodity at the start of the chain (EUDR (EU) 2023/1115 supply-chain position; moved here from the former eudr:ActorRole).
ProfessionalRepairer Professional Repairer	Natural or legal person providing professional repair or maintenance services for a product, whether within the manufacturer's distribution system or independently (EN 18239:2026 4.2(2)(b)).
Recycler	Natural or legal person responsible for the collection, processing and recovery of reusable materials and applying a decontamination process (EN 18239:2026 4.2(2)(d)).
Trader	Entity that buys and sells products without significant modification or processing; under EUDR (EU) 2023/1115 Art. 2(17) the person who makes products available on the market after the operator.