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# Economic Operators

> Manage manufacturers, importers, authorised representatives, distributors, and facilities as governed master data shared across products and passports.

Economic Operators are the regulated parties associated with a product: manufacturers, importers, authorised representatives, distributors, and the physical facilities where products are made or assembled. ESPR and other DPP regulations require that this information is structured, accurate, and reproducible across every passport that references it.

**tie*back***

manages economic operators as **first-class master data** rather than free-text fields on individual
products. This guarantees consistency across the catalogue and supports clean updates when a
partner's details change.

## Operator Types

| Type                          | Role                                                                        |
| ----------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Manufacturer**              | The party that physically manufactures the product                          |
| **Importer**                  | The party importing the product into a regulated market                     |
| **Authorised Representative** | A party formally authorised to act on the manufacturer's behalf in a market |
| **Distributor**               | The party that distributes the product into market                          |
| **Facility**                  | A physical site involved in production or assembly                          |

## Master-Data Model

Each operator is a single record that can be referenced by many products. Operator records carry:

* Legal name, registered address, and country
* Regulatory identifiers (e.g. EORI, VAT, EUDR ID where applicable)
* Contact details
* Effective dates

Editing an operator updates the master record. Future mints reference the latest values; previously issued passports retain the values that were captured at publish time as part of their immutable snapshot.

## Where to Manage

* **Workspace level**: **Settings → Economic Operators** (and from the Setup Wizard during onboarding)
* **Product level**: assign operators to a product from the product detail surface
* **Tia**: Tia can audit operator coverage across the catalogue and surface products missing required operator types

## Resolution at Mint

When a passport is minted, the resolver:

1. Reads the product's assigned operators
2. Snapshots their then-current details into the passport payload
3. Renders the operator block according to the active theme and template

Subsequent operator edits do not retroactively change passports already in circulation. To correct historical data, apply a break-glass amendment, selecting the correct existing operator record.

## Related Docs

* [Products](/product-module/products)
* [Break-Glass Amendments](/passports/controlled-update-break-glass)
* [Tia AI Operations Assistant](/getting-started/tia-operations-assistant)
* [Passports Overview](/passports/overview)