ISO INTERNATIONAL STANDARD 14025 First edition 2006-07-01 Environmental labels and declarations Type Ill environmental declarations - Principles and procedures Marquages et declarations environnementauxDeclarations environnementales de Type lll-Principes et modes opératoires Reference number ISO 14025:2006(E) @ISO 2006 ISO14025:2006(E) PDF disclaimer This PDF file may contain embedded typefaces. In accordance with Adobe's licensing policy, this file may be printed or viewed but downloading this file, parties accept therein the responsibility of not infringing Adobe's licensing policy. The ISO Central Secretariat accepts no liability in this area. Adobe is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated. Details of the software products used to create this PDF file can be found in the General Info relative to the file; the PDF-creation the unlikely event that a problem relating to it is found, please infom the Central Secretariat at the address given below. ISO2006 All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, no part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and microfilm, without permission in writing from either ISO at the address below or IsO's member body in the country of the requester. ISO copyright office Case postale 56·CH-1211Geneva 20 Tel. + 41 22 749 01 11 Fax + 41 22 749 09 47 E-mail [email protected] Web www.iso.org Published in Switzerland ii @ ISO 2006 - All rights reserved ISO14025:2006(E) Contents Page Foreword. Introduction 1 Scope 2 Normative references 3 Terms and definitions.... 4 Objectives 5 Principles..... 5.1 RelationshipwithISO14020. 5.2 Voluntary nature 5.3 Life cycle basis 5.4 Modularity.. 5.5 Involvementof interestedparties 5.6 Comparability. 5.7 Verification 5.8 Flexibility 5.9 Transparency 6 Programme requirements 6.1 6.2 Scopeoftheprogramme 6.3 Responsibilitiesoftheprogrammeoperator. 6.4 General programme instructions.. 6.5 Involvement of interested parties 6.6 Procedure for definition of product categories.. 8 6.7 Procedureforthedevelopment ofPcR... 6.8 Procedure for the application of LCAmethodology... 11 7 Declaration requirements.. 13 7.1 General...... 7.2 Declaration content. 13 7.3 Updating the declaration.... 16 8 Verification ... 17 8.1 Procedurefor reviewand independentverification..... 17 8.2 IndependenceandcompetenciesofverifiersandPCRreviewpanel. 18 8.3 Rules for data confidentiality .... .19 9 Additional requirementsfordeveloping Type Ill environmental declarations forbusiness to-consumercommunication... 19 9.1 General.... 19 9.2 Provision of information. 19 9.3 Involvement of interested parties 20 9.4 Verification .... 20 AnnexA(informative)Type Ill environmental declarationprogrammedevelopmentand operation scheme...... 21 AnnexB (informative)Example illustratingthedevelopment ofaType Ill environmental declaration from information modules contained in Type Ill environmental declarations of parts of products .... 23 Bibliography 25 @ ISO 2006 - All rights reserved ii ISO 14025:2006(E) Foreword IsO (the International Organization for Standardization) is a worldwide federation of national standards bodies InternationalElectrotechnicalCommission(lEC)onallmattersofelectrotechnicalstandardization. International Standards are drafted in accordance with the rules given in the ISO/lEC Directives, Part 2 The main task of technical committees is to prepare International Standards. Draft International Standards adopted by the technical committees are circulated to the member bodies for voting. Publication as an International Standard requires approval by at least75%ofthe memberbodies castinga vote Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent ISO14025was preparedbyTechnical CommitteeISO/TC207,Environmental management, Subcommittee Sc 3, Environmental labelling. This first edition of IS0 14025 cancels and replaces ISO/TR 14025:2000, which has been te