This document provides a feasibility assessment to determine if harmonization of environmental performance criteria is possible and would benefit the electrotechnical industry.<\/p>\n
This document is intended as a feasibility study report rather than a standard. It reports the possibility\/opportunity to harmonize environmental performance criteria and, with it, the feasibility for future development of an international standard on environmental performance criteria. The learnings and recommendations of this document are based on the review of a number of prominent ecolabel standards available worldwide as well as outreach discussions with internal and external stakeholders.<\/p>\n
To enable users of this document to visualize and better evaluate what such a future standard could look like, a concept for an international standard on harmonized criteria for environmental performance assessment of electrotechnical products has been proposed in Clause 8. It is not intended as a final proposal but rather a vision of how such a standard would be structured and how it could be implemented to meet the specific requirements that were identified in the study.<\/p>\n
Once again, it is important to emphasize that the potential IEC standard on environmental performance criteria is not intended as an ecolabel standard, but it is intended to be a means for harmonization of the criteria (including the verification requirements of them) that are needed for creating such an ecolabel standard.<\/p>\n
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| 2<\/td>\n | undefined <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| 4<\/td>\n | CONTENTS <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| 6<\/td>\n | FOREWORD <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| 8<\/td>\n | INTRODUCTION <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| 9<\/td>\n | 1 Scope 2 Normative references 3 Terms and definitions 4 Background 4.1 Benefits of the use of ecolabels in general 4.1.1 Ecological benefits <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| 10<\/td>\n | 4.1.2 Economic benefits 4.2 Problem definition and reason to perform this study <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| 11<\/td>\n | 4.3 Benefits from harmonizing environmental performance criteria 4.3.1 Potential benefits for regulators and ecolabel operators 4.3.2 Potential benefits for standards development organizations (SDOs) and product technical committees (TCs) 4.3.3 Potential benefits for product users\/consumers 4.3.4 Potential benefits for manufacturers and designers <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| 12<\/td>\n | 4.3.5 Potential benefits for industry 5 Selection and review of ecolabel programmes 5.1 Structure of the study 5.2 Ecolabel programmes review <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| 13<\/td>\n | Tables Table 1 \u2013 Ecolabel programmes under review and applied evaluation criteria <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| 14<\/td>\n | Table 2 \u2013 Specificity of the criteria group per ecolabel scheme <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| 15<\/td>\n | 5.3 Geographical distribution of the ecolabel programmes Table 3 \u2013 EEE product categories covered by ecolabel programmes under review Table 4 \u2013 Geographical distribution of the ecolabel programmes <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| 16<\/td>\n | 6 Outreach and feedback from stakeholders 6.1 Background 6.2 China 6.3 European Commission (EC) <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| 17<\/td>\n | 6.4 France 6.5 Japan 6.6 The Netherlands <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| 18<\/td>\n | 6.7 USA <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| 19<\/td>\n | 7 Feasibility analysis of the harmonization of criteria of different ecolabel standards 7.1 Choice of products and relevant ecolabels 7.2 Outcome of the assessment of ecolabels for personal computers 7.2.1 General <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| 20<\/td>\n | Table 5 \u2013 Personal computers \u2013 Comparison of criteria of different ecolabels \u2013 Hazardous substances in products <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| 21<\/td>\n | Table 6 \u2013 Personal computers \u2013 Comparison of criteria of different ecolabels \u2013 Materials in products Table 7 \u2013 Personal computers \u2013 Comparison of criteria of different ecolabels \u2013 Materials in package <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| 22<\/td>\n | Table 8 \u2013 Personal computers \u2013 Comparison of criteria of different ecolabels \u2013 Materials in manufacturing Table 9 \u2013 Personal computers \u2013 Comparison of criteria of different ecolabels \u2013 Materials efficiency aspects Table 10 \u2013 Personal computers \u2013 Comparison of criteria of different ecolabels \u2013 Other product technical requirements <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| 23<\/td>\n | Table 11 \u2013 Personal computers \u2013 comparison of criteria of different ecolabels \u2013 Organization aspects <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| 24<\/td>\n | 7.2.2 Conclusions from the analysis of personal computer standards Table 12 \u2013 Personal computers \u2013 Summary and conclusions <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| 25<\/td>\n | 7.3 Outcome of the assessment of ecolabels for mobile phones Table 13 \u2013 Mobile phones \u2013 Summary and conclusions <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| 26<\/td>\n | 7.4 Considerations for criteria harmonization 7.4.1 General 7.4.2 Example 1 \u2013 Reduction of RoHS substances <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| 27<\/td>\n | 7.4.3 Example 2 \u2013 Use of recycled plastic content <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| 28<\/td>\n | 8 Concept proposal for possible international standard 8.1 Introduction and requirements for the concept proposal 8.2 Scope of a possible international standard 8.3 Requirements for a possible international standard 8.4 Structure of a possible international standard <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| 29<\/td>\n | 8.5 Types of environmental performance assessment criteria 8.5.1 General 8.5.2 Common criteria 8.5.3 Criteria that may vary by product type <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| 30<\/td>\n | 8.5.4 Criteria that are inherently unique to specific product types 8.6 Use model for harmonized environmental performance criteria <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| 31<\/td>\n | 8.7 IEC database for environmental product assessment criteria Figure 1 \u2013 Use model for environmental criteria <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| 32<\/td>\n | 8.8 Business model for the standard 8.9 Potential benefits to stakeholders of the chosen approach <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
| 33<\/td>\n | 9 Conclusion and recommendations <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
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