Hotspot means a life cycle stage whose contribution to an impact category exceeds even distribution across all stages, or all stages collectively contributing more than fifty percent to any impact category. In vehicle LCA guidelines for Global Warming Potential, hotspots refer only to the production phase and are related to parts or components representing minimum twenty percent of Global Warming Potential of the production phase. Level three requires company-specific data for at least one hotspot material or component, with primary data preferred and secondary data traceable and based on field survey data when primary data unavailable.