In the coming months, the group will survey and assess the existing environmental guidance on lighting products and identify existing gaps where further standardisation work would be useful. Since nearly all existing standards related to lighting are adopted at the international level, this is an important step in ensuring that environmental considerations are duly taken […]

The EPEAT programme is managed by the U.S.-based, non-profit Green Electronic Council. The EPEAT ecolabel is awarded to products that meet specific product-related and corporate-related criteria covering aspects such as energy efficiency, product longevity, chemicals, design for repair, end-of-life management and corporate social responsibility. These criteria are established by a multi-stakeholder and consensus-building standard development […]

The NGOs stress that the European Green Deal should promote an ambitious long-term vision for EU chemicals policy under the cross-cutting strategy for zero pollution or as a stand-alone chemicals strategy that integrates the topics from the promised Non-Toxic Environment Strategy – and go beyond these.  The co-signatories called on the Commission to prioritise on […]

Back in March, when the first discussions took place, NGOs were highly disappointed with the fact that the Parliament and Council significantly delayed the possibility of including abrasion information on the label, foreseen only for a future revision once “relevant test methods are available”. This is particularly distressing, as microplastics emissions from tyre wear and […]

The meeting is the second workshop in the series of eight in the three-year ENgage initiative. The capacity-building workshops are planned to take place in all the countries involved in the project: Romania, Bulgaria, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Malta, and the Czech Republic. The following days were dedicated to meetings of the […]

We are pleased that environmental issues are given priority, and that the Programme highlights the need for new European standards in support of EU legislation. In 2020, the European Commission is set to ask standardisers to develop a number of standards, in particular those relating to: Ecodesign to measure the energy performance of a number […]

A major step towards systematising regulatory discussions on material efficiency and the development of product-specific standards on reparability has been taken with the approval of FprEN 45554, a standard for the assessment of reparability, reusability and upgradeability (RRU) of ecodesign products.  The standard, which underwent a Formal Vote in October, was developed under standardisation request […]