BS EN 50693 pdf free download

BS EN 50693-2019 pdf free download.Product category rules for life cycle assessments of electronic and electrical products and systems.
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:
a) life cycle assessment (LCA), including the requirements for developing default scenarios;
b) the LCA report;
c) 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.
2 Normative references
The following documents are referred to in the text in such a way that some or all of their content constitutes requirements of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.
EN ISO 14040, Environmental management – Life cycle assessment – Principles and framework (ISO 14040)
EN ISO 14044:2006, Environmental management – Life cycle assessment – Requirements and guidelines (ISO 14044:2006)
EN ISO 14020, Environmental labels and declarations – General principles (ISO 14020)
EN ISO 14021:2016, Environmental labels and declarations – Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling) (ISO 14021:2016)
EN ISO 14025, Environmental labels and declarations – Type III environmental declarations – Principles and procedures (ISO 14025)
CEN ISO/TS 14027, Environmental labels and declarations – Development of product category rules
3 Terms and definitions
For the purposes of this document, the following terms and definitions apply.
ISO and IEC maintain terminological databases for use in standardization at the following addresses:
• IEC Electropedia: available at http://www.electropedia.org/
• ISO Online browsing platform: available at http://www.iso.org/obp
3.1 collection
means the gathering of waste, including the preliminary sorting and preliminary storage of waste for the purposes of transport to a waste treatment facility [SOURCE: Directive 2008/98/EC]
3.2 co-product two or more products coming from the same unit process or product system Note 1 to entry: Co-product, by-product and product have the same status and are used for identification of several distinguished flows of products from the same unit process. From co-product, by-product and product, waste is the only output to be distinguished as a non-product. [SOURCE: EN ISO 14040:2006, 3.10]
3.3 cut-off criteria specification of the amount of material or energy flow or the level of environmental significance associated with unit processes or product system to be excluded from a study [SOURCE: EN ISO 14040:2006, 3.18]
3.4 declared unit quantity of the product used as a reference unit for the environmental declaration when a functional unit cannot be directly used Note 1 to entry: The declared unit might differ from the functional unit in terms of the declaration. [SOURCE: EN 15804:2012+A1:2013, 3.8, modified]
3.5 disposal operation which is not recovery even where the operation has as a secondary consequence the reclamation of substances or energy Note 1 to entry: Annex I of Directive 2008/98/EC sets 231 out a non-exhaustive list of disposal operations. [SOURCE: EN 50625-1:2014, 3.12]
3.6 energy recovery production of useful energy through direct and controlled combustion or other processing of waste Note 1 to entry: Energy recovery is a recovery operation where the material is used principally as a fuel or other means to generate energy, see R1 of Annex II of Directive 2008/98/EC [SOURCE: EN 50625-1:2014, 3.14]
3.7 environment surroundings in which an organization operates, including air, water, land, natural resources, flora, fauna, humans and their interrelationships Note 1 to entry: Surroundings can extend from within an organization to the local, regional and global system. Note 2 to entry: Surroundings can be described in terms of biodiversity, ecosystems, climate or other characteristics. [SOURCE: EN ISO 14001:2015, 3.2.1].BS EN 50693 pdf download.