SVR Deci­sions from Octo­ber 2017

The IBU Advi­so­ry Board (SVR) decid­ed in its last meet­ing in Octo­ber 2017 on these topics.

Deci­sion no. 20171027‑d: The PCR “Cable tray sys­tems for cable lad­der sys­tems” is renamed and the scope extend­ed to PCR Part B: Cable car­ri­er and cable chan­nels for cable lad­der systems

PCR Part B: for coat­ings with organ­ic bind­ing agents (fol­low­ing the cir­cu­la­tion procedure)

The fol­low­ing remarks by the SVR con­cern PCR, Part B:

- The scope in the exist­ing PCR “Boards and pan­els made of plas­tic” should be changed for indoor applications.

- A new PCR is to be pub­lished under plas­tics for out­door applications.

Deci­sion no. 20171027‑f:Once the above amend­ments have been inte­grat­ed, the PCR can be published.

Deci­sion no. 20171027‑h:Out­stand­ing items from the ver­i­fi­er meet­ing (resub­mis­sion from the 44th meet­ing) have been clarified.

Reg­u­la­tion gov­ern­ing asso­ci­a­tion and sam­ple EPDs (task no. 20170712–12: Dr Werner)

The top­ics of rep­re­sen­ta­tiv­i­ty and indi­vid­u­al­i­sa­tion are discussed.

There are 2 stages of individualisation:

1. Only the cov­er sheet and poss. the enclo­sures are changed; the own­er of the dec­la­ra­tion remains unchanged. Pos­si­ble, e.g. for mar­ket­ing pur­pos­es. Asso­ci­a­tion logo remains on the cov­er sheet — not to be dig­i­talised, only a PDF is created.

2. If indi­vid­u­al­i­sa­tion is to be more exten­sive, i.e. if the man­u­fac­tur­er wish­es to be the own­er of the dec­la­ra­tion, a pro­ce­dure as for sam­ple EPDs is to be pre­sent­ed to the SVR.

On rep­re­sen­ta­tiv­i­ty:

- In the PCR, Part B, new text is insert­ed in sec­tions 3.1 Declared unit and 3.6 Data qual­i­ty as well as in Scope.

Deci­sion no. 20171027‑i: The pro­pos­al is accept­ed by the SVR; the req­ui­site amend­ments are to be imple­ment­ed in the IBU rules documents.

IBU has pub­lished all SVR decisions.

 


SVR Deci­sions from July 2017

The IBU Advi­so­ry Board (SVR) decid­ed in its last meet­ing in July 2017 on these topics.

The scope for the fol­low­ing PCRs has been extended:

PCR Part B: Coat­ings with organ­ic binders

  • The coat­ing prod­ucts can take the form of dis­per­sions, emul­sions, sol­vents, pow­der mix­tures or pre­formed, dried ele­ments for coat­ing surfaces.

PCR Part B: Bath­tub and show­ers made of steel enam­el or acrylic

  • The doc­u­ment is valid for: Bath­tubs, show­er trays, wash­basins and wash­stands made from com­pos­ite mate­ri­als such as steel enam­el, acrylic and min­er­al cast
  • Renamed to: San­i­tary prod­ucts made from com­pos­ite materials

Fur­ther deci­sions of the SVR from the last meeting:

Deci­sion no. 20170712‑h: The new ADP indi­ca­tor name is imple­ment­ed in the PCR

Deci­sion no. 20170712‑i: The prod­uct def­i­n­i­tion is changed in the PCR.

Deci­sion no. 20170712‑k: Soft­ware tools must always declare the max­i­mum scope in the first EPD (if the tool can cal­cu­late A1-C4+D incl. sce­nar­ios, the first EPD from the tool must also depict all of these cases).

Deci­sion no. 20170712‑l: Soft­ware tools neces­si­tate all EPDs to be sup­plied as XML files (in ILCD+EPD for­mat) to enable pub­li­ca­tion in IBU.Data. There is an excep­tion for Sys­tem II tools where it shall suf­fice if a ref­er­ence prod­uct pre­sent­ed to the Expert Com­mit­tee with­in the frame­work of tool approval is avail­able as an XML file (the man­u­fac­tur­er makes pro­pos­als for the ref­er­ence products).

Deci­sion no. 20170712‑n: Mod­ules B3, B4 and B5 are only of rel­e­vance at build­ing lev­el and are referred to as MNR in the IBU system.

Deci­sion no. 20170712‑o: In Mod­ule B2, the expens­es asso­ci­at­ed with main­te­nance, repair etc. are declared over the product’s peri­od of use in the IBU range. This deci­sion shall apply until revoked by the ECO Platform.