BS EN 50693:2019
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Product category rules for life cycle assessments of electronic and electrical products and systems
| Published By | Publication Date | Number of Pages |
| BSI | 2019 | 52 |
This document defines product category rules (PCR) for electronic and electrical products and systems (EEPS). It specifies the process and requirements on how to conduct life cycle assessment in the context of environmental declarations.
PCR is complemented by additional product-specific rules (PSR), which further define e.g. functional units and default scenarios in the product-specific context. Therefore, it also provides guidance on how to develop PSR in corresponding technical committees.
This document provides common rules for:
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life cycle assessment (LCA), including the requirements for developing default scenarios;
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the LCA report;
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the development of product specific rules.
This document provides further guidelines for environmental declarations.
The basic LCA principles and framework are based on the EN ISO 14040 series of standards (i.e EN ISO 14040 and ISO 14044), and therefore out of scope of the standard.
PDF Catalog
| PDF Pages | PDF Title |
|---|---|
| 2 | National foreword |
| 8 | 1 Scope 2 Normative references 3 Terms and definitions |
| 14 | 4 Product life cycle assessment 4.1 General |
| 15 | 4.2 Product Category Rules 4.2.1 General 4.2.2 Functional unit and reference flow description |
| 17 | 4.2.3 System boundary 4.2.3.1 General |
| 18 | 4.2.3.2 Exclusions from System Boundary 4.2.3.3 Cut-off criteria |
| 19 | 4.2.4 Life cycle inventory 4.2.4.1 General 4.2.4.2 Manufacturing 4.2.4.3 Distribution 4.2.4.4 Installation |
| 20 | 4.2.4.5 Use 4.2.4.6 De-installation 4.2.4.7 End-of-life |
| 21 | 4.2.5 Allocation rules 4.2.5.1 Allocation between co-products 4.2.5.2 Allocation for recovery operations 4.2.6 Units 4.2.7 Data quality 4.2.7.1 Selection of data |
| 22 | 4.2.7.2 Data quality requirements 4.3 Development of scenarios 4.3.1 General |
| 23 | 4.3.2 Transportation scenarios 4.3.3 Use scenarios 4.3.4 End-of-life scenarios |
| 24 | 4.4 Life cycle impact assessment |
| 25 | 4.5 LCA report 4.5.1 General 4.5.2 Scope of the study 4.5.3 Life cycle inventory 4.5.4 Environmental impact assessment |
| 26 | 4.5.5 Additional environmental information |
| 27 | 5 Requirements for the development of PSR for EEPS |
| 28 | Annex A (normative)Additional Rules A.1 Rule(s) for extrapolation to a homogenous product family A.2 Rules applying for the aggregation of environmental impacts on system level |
| 29 | Annex B (informative)Recommended impact categories B.1 General |
| 32 | B.2 Additional environmental information |
| 33 | Annex C (informative)Correlation with the Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) Initiative of the European Commission |
| 38 | Annex D (informative)Correlation with EN 15804 standard |
| 40 | Annex E (informative)General content of a product’s environmental declaration E.1 General E.2 List of information in environmental declarations E.2.1 Information about the manufacturer E.2.2 Description of the product family, the reference product and its packaging E.2.3 Constitutive materials and substances |
| 41 | E.2.4 Information on life cycle stages and potential impacts |
| 42 | Annex F (informative)Example of a product’s environmental declaration F.1 General F.2 Basic example |
| 46 | Annex G (informative)Recovery activities: Allocation, calculation and default values G.1 Circular formula G.2 Formula without benefits |
| 47 | G.3 Formula with benefits |
| 48 | G.4 Formula with net benefits |
| 49 | G.5 Default values for R1, R2 and R3 |
