This document provides a feasibility assessment to determine if harmonization of environmental performance criteria is possible and would benefit the electrotechnical industry.

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.

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.

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.

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4	CONTENTS
6	FOREWORD
8	INTRODUCTION
9	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
10	4.1.2 Economic benefits 4.2 Problem definition and reason to perform this study
11	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
12	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
13	Tables Table 1 – Ecolabel programmes under review and applied evaluation criteria
14	Table 2 – Specificity of the criteria group per ecolabel scheme
15	5.3 Geographical distribution of the ecolabel programmes Table 3 – EEE product categories covered by ecolabel programmes under review Table 4 – Geographical distribution of the ecolabel programmes
16	6 Outreach and feedback from stakeholders 6.1 Background 6.2 China 6.3 European Commission (EC)
17	6.4 France 6.5 Japan 6.6 The Netherlands
18	6.7 USA
19	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
20	Table 5 – Personal computers – Comparison of criteria of different ecolabels – Hazardous substances in products
21	Table 6 – Personal computers – Comparison of criteria of different ecolabels – Materials in products Table 7 – Personal computers – Comparison of criteria of different ecolabels – Materials in package
22	Table 8 – Personal computers – Comparison of criteria of different ecolabels – Materials in manufacturing Table 9 – Personal computers – Comparison of criteria of different ecolabels – Materials efficiency aspects Table 10 – Personal computers – Comparison of criteria of different ecolabels – Other product technical requirements
23	Table 11 – Personal computers – comparison of criteria of different ecolabels – Organization aspects
24	7.2.2 Conclusions from the analysis of personal computer standards Table 12 – Personal computers – Summary and conclusions
25	7.3 Outcome of the assessment of ecolabels for mobile phones Table 13 – Mobile phones – Summary and conclusions
26	7.4 Considerations for criteria harmonization 7.4.1 General 7.4.2 Example 1 – Reduction of RoHS substances
27	7.4.3 Example 2 – Use of recycled plastic content
28	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
29	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
30	8.5.4 Criteria that are inherently unique to specific product types 8.6 Use model for harmonized environmental performance criteria
31	8.7 IEC database for environmental product assessment criteria Figure 1 – Use model for environmental criteria
32	8.8 Business model for the standard 8.9 Potential benefits to stakeholders of the chosen approach
33	9 Conclusion and recommendations
35	Bibliography

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Status	Definitive
Pages	38
Publication Date	2020-05-13
ISBN	978 0 539 02061 8
Standard Number	PD IEC TR 63212:2020
Title	Harmonization of environmental performance criteria for electrical and electronic products. Feasibility study
Identical National Standard Of	IEC TR 63212:2020
Descriptors	Performance, Products, Environmental management, Ecology, Electronics
Publisher	BSI
Committee	GEL/111
ICS Codes	19.040 - Environmental testing

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