Article 1 — Subject matter and scope
1. This Regulation establishes a framework for the setting of ecodesign requirements that products have to comply with to be placed on the market or put into service, with the aim of improving the environmental sustainability of products in order to make sustainable products the norm and to reduce the overall carbon footprint and environmental footprint of products over their life cycle, and of ensuring the free movement of sustainable products within the internal market. This Regulation also establishes a digital product passport, provides for the setting of mandatory green public procurement requirements and creates a framework to prevent unsold consumer products from being destroyed. 2. This Regulation applies to any physical goods that are placed on the market or put into service, including components and intermediate products. However, it does not apply to: (a) food as defined in Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002; (b) feed as defined in Article 3(4) of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002; (c) medicinal products as defined in Article 1(2) of Directive 2001/83/EC; (d) veterinary medicinal products as defined in Article 4(1) of Regulation (EU) 2019/6; (e) living plants, animals and micro-organisms; (f) products of human origin; (g) products of plants and animals relating directly to their future reproduction; (h) vehicles as referred to in Article 2(1) of Regulation (EU) No 167/2013, in Article 2(1) of Regulation (EU) No 168/2013 and in Article 2(1) of Regulation (EU) 2018/858, in respect of those product aspects for which requirements are set under sector-specific Union legislative acts applicable to those vehicles.