International EPD System

Outputs failing any end-of-waste criterion must be allocated as waste, otherwise as co-products; use-stage and end-of-life outputs start as waste.

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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.21-22·Circular Economy

Co-products must be allocated without double counting, by subdividing where possible, else by physical property if revenue per mass differs under 25%.

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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.22-23·Climate Health

Economic allocation must be used for co-products going into cement and concrete, such as slag, fly ash and silica fume; no other method is allowed.

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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.23·Climate Health

EPD modelling must follow polluter pays for waste, ending the product system where waste meets four end-of-waste criteria taken from EN 15804.

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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.24-26·Circular Economy

An independent verifier checks the declaration before it is published.

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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.26·Climate Health

Sets out that the EPD states the limits of its LCA results found through sensitivity analysis and the data quality check.

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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.51·Climate Health

Primary data must be used at least for processes under the manufacturer's operational control, and for other processes where available.

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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.27-28·Climate Health

The manufacturer or service provider must have reassessed and confirmed that the data are still representative and valid within the last five years.

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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.29·Climate Health

Primary data should cover at least a year and be weighted by site output; its reference year must be no more than five years old.

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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.28-29·Climate Health

Secondary data must have a reference year no older than 10 years, and database versions no older than three years at EPD publication.

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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.29·Climate Health

An upstream EPD may feed a downstream EPD only if its LCA model follows the downstream EPD's rules or demonstrably gives conservative, higher results.

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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.29·Climate Health

The LCA report must include an EN 15941 data quality assessment covering data behind at least 80% of each impact result, summarised in the EPD.

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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.30·Climate Health

The EPD owner must state in the EPD the share of primary data behind the A1-A3 GWP-GHG results (A1-A5 for services).

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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.31·Climate Health

Describes conclusions and recommendations drawn from the LCA for specific decision makers, such as how to reduce the product's environmental impact.

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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.51·Climate Health

EPDs must not use mass balance approaches to claim content, except grid-supplied biogas for energy and the rolling average percentage method.

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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.32·No CMF area

Self-generated electricity must be modelled with its own data unless certificates of its origin were sold, then as grid power; exports must not be netted off.

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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.33·Climate Health

Where a supplier feeds the site by a dedicated line and has sold no certificates to others, its own electricity data should be used.

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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.33·Climate Health

Grid electricity must be modelled market-based; contractual instruments used must be unique, tracked, cancelled, local and documented for the verifier.

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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.33-34·Climate Health

If a change in foreground electricity mix affects EPD results, the manufacturer must apply the update rules and may update before a year has passed.

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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.34·Climate Health

The EPD must state how electricity used in manufacturing is modelled, its energy source and its climate impact in kg CO2 eq./kWh.

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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.35·Climate Health

The LCA must count own or directly piped biogas as biogas unless its certificates were sold, then use the residual gas mix, without netting off exports.

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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.35·Climate Health

Grid biogas must be modelled market-based: certificates only where traceable, otherwise the residual mix, and not assigned to just some of a site's products.

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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.35-36·Climate Health

The EPD must explain how biogas used in processes the EPD owner controls was modelled and state its climate impact in kg CO2 eq./MJ.

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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.36·Climate Health

EPD owners must use primary data for processes they control and for manufacture, and justify not using it for major supplier parts and transport.

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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.36-37·Climate Health

The EPD owner must use primary data for processes it controls, describe construction-stage scenarios, and model transport to site in a set priority order.

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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.37·Climate Health

Product category rules must set how the use stage is modelled; the EPD owner must use primary data where it has control and describe any scenarios.

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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.37-38·Climate Health

The scheme allows several end-of-life scenarios, with the most probable reported in the main results and the others, plus 100% scenarios, shown separately.

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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.38-39·Circular Economy

Module D must include the burdens of processing recovered material or energy, after end-of-waste, until it is equivalent to what it replaces.

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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.41·Circular Economy

Where the declared unit is not mass, the EPD must give a factor converting its results to results per unit of mass.

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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.44·Climate Health

The scheme allows results from an older EF version to feed an EPD on a newer version if shown to be identical or conservative.

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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.45·Climate Health

The manufacturer must give the verifier an English LCA report, not made public, that cites the rules and documents used and records any verifier queries.

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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.50·No CMF area

The EPD owner must present LCA results consistently, addressing the main points on how accurate and relevant the data are.

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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.50·Climate Health

EPDs must report secondary data at the aggregation level used in the calculation; more detail may be added where relevant.

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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.50·Climate Health

EPDs must be published in English at least, and may also appear in other languages.

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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.52·No CMF area

EPDs must report in SI units where they exist; a PCR may set practical multiples such as grams or megajoules for readability.

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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.52·No CMF area

EPD results and the content declaration should be given to two significant figures.

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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.53·No CMF area

Images in the EPD should relate to the declared product and be used with care, as unrelated nature scenes can read as environmental claims.

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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.53·No CMF area

The EPD owner must use only the set list of sections and headings unless the product category rules allow otherwise.

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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.53-54·No CMF area

The EPD must include a dated version history, labelling the first as the original version and describing changes in each later one.

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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.65·No CMF area

The EPD must include a section explaining every abbreviation it uses.

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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.65·No CMF area

The EPD must include a reference list of all sources used, naming the programme instructions and the PCR with their version and registration details.

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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.65·No CMF area

The EPD's programme information section must give the programme operator's address.

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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.55·No CMF area

The EPD must state the product category rules used, and any complementary rules, giving the details the PCR specifies.

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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.56·No CMF area

The EPD must state how it was verified, giving the details the programme's verification table lists.

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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.56·No CMF area

The EPD must state that its owner bears sole responsibility for it and warn that EPDs from different programmes may not be comparable.

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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.57·No CMF area

The environmental product declaration must include environmental product declaration owner details in the declaration.

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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.57·No CMF area

The EPD must name and clearly identify the product, show an image of it, and give its UN product classification code where one exists.

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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.58·No CMF area

The manufacturer must include a content declaration in the EPD; for intangible products it may be omitted, but an empty section needs an explanation.

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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.59·Human Health

The EPD must give LCA results, any variation between products or sites, and set caveats on how impact results and end-of-life modules should be read.

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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.63·Climate Health

The EPD cover page must carry only set items, including product name, owner, programme, registration number, dates and conformity statements.

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PCR 2019:14 Construction products·p.54-55·No CMF area