How to perform an EPD
A
certified EPD is based on ISO
14025/TR and information from a Life
Cycle Assessment, LCA, according to the LCA ISO-standards 14040-43.
The
working procedure requires the following actions:
1.
Check whether or
not a Product Specific Requirement, PSR, is published for your type of product.
A PSR outlines how to conduct the underlying LCA and thus allows comparisons
between different EPDs of the same product type. The published PSRs can be found
on the website of the Swedish
Environmental Management Council.
If there is a published PSR for your type of product, go to 4.
2.
Contact the Swedish
Environmental Management Council to announce the interest to
introduce a new product or service into the EPD system.
3.
Outline a
suggestion for a PSR, to enable comparisons between declarations. Link
to PSR guidelines. Below find
the main actions in developing a PSR.
·
Decide goal and
scope for the LCA, e.g. system boundaries, functional unit and allocation
procedures.
·
Invite
stakeholders to an open consultation meeting.
·
Contact
the Swedish Environmental Management Council for approval of the PSR.
4.
Carry out the
LCA according to the PSR. See description of the LCA
methodology, advice on how
to perform an LCA where a questionnaire template for collecting Life
Cycle Inventory data is found.
5.
Compile an EPD
based on the LCA study and other information (information about the product and
manufacturer, recycling information etc.). Several certified EPDs can be found
on the
DANTES website and all of the certified EPDs are available on the EPD
website. These can be useful as examples.
6.
Contact a certification
body to verify the EPD.
7.
Send an
application form to the Swedish Environmental Management Council for
registration of the certified environmental product declaration. The
registration fee is SEK 10.000. The annual fee is 0,1 per mille of the net sale
of the product or service with a minimum value of SEK 10.000 and a maximum value
of SEK 25.000.
8.
The EPD is
finally published on the Swedish Environmental Management Councils homepage and
the EPD
logotype can be used.
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