ECO Plat­form: TEWOG con­clu­sion on the applic­a­bil­i­ty of data based on the Togeth­er for Sus­tain­abil­i­ty Guide­line for EPDs

ECO Platform’s Tech­ni­cal Work­ing Group (TEWOG) has been asked regard­ing the under­stand­ing of com­pat­i­bil­i­ty of the Prod­uct Car­bon Foot­print Guide­line for the Chem­i­cal Indus­try, Ver­sion 2.1 – Feb­ru­ary 2024 (referred to as TfS Guide­line in this doc­u­ment) of the Togeth­er for Sus­tain­abil­i­ty (TfS) ini­tia­tive with the Envi­ron­men­tal Prod­uct Dec­la­ra­tion (EPD) scheme as it is rep­re­sent­ed by ECO Platform.

Based on their meet­ing on of April 25th, 2024, TEWOG con­clud­ed that data that are devel­oped based on the TfS Guide­line do not qual­i­fy as input infor­ma­tion for the devel­op­ment of EPD with­out secur­ing con­sis­ten­cy with EN 15804 and the sub­se­quent documentation.

Details for this con­clu­sion are doc­u­ment­ed in the offi­cial ECO Plat­form state­ment.

IBU requests that all LCA and EPD cre­ators take this assess­ment into account for the IBU EPD programme.

About ECO Platform

The ECO Plat­form is an umbrel­la organ­i­sa­tion of var­i­ous nation­al EPD Pro­gramme Hold­ers in Europe that advo­cates cross-bor­der recog­ni­tion of Euro­pean Core EPDs accord­ing to EN 15804 and their imple­men­ta­tion. The IBU is the ini­tia­tor and found­ing mem­ber of the ECO Plat­form, which was found­ed in the sum­mer of 2013.

On 16 Octo­ber 2014, at the first offi­cial Gen­er­al Con­fer­ence of the ECO Plat­form in Brus­sels, the launch of a new EPD label was announced. The EPD label sym­bol­i­cal­ly rep­re­sents com­mon min­i­mum stan­dards regard­ing qual­i­ty man­age­ment and ver­i­fi­ca­tion pro­ce­dures devel­oped by the ECO Platform. 

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The EPD label also stands for the par­tic­u­lar qual­i­ty of the ver­i­fied life cycle assess­ment data – so that there will be a pool of Euro­pean EPDs accord­ing to EN 15804.