MARCO DEL BORGHI

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Standardisation - Workshop on 02 December 2005,
Brussels, BelgiumThe challenge of stakeholder
involvement in order to integrate environmental
aspects into European standardisationHow can
academics and research access standardisation and
promote their concepts and innovation
DICheP - University of Genoa
Faculty of Engineering University of Genoa

• MARCO DEL BORGHI

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Standards
Standards are documented, voluntary agreements
establishing important criteria, for product,
services and processes. Standards help to make
sure that products and services are fit for their
purposes, comparable and compatible.
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Process Engineering Department G.B. Bonino
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CEN

• CEN, the European Committee for Standardisation,
  is contributing to the objectives of EU and E.E.
  areas with voluntary technical standards
  promoting
• free trade,
• safety of workers and consumers,
• interoperability of networks,
• exploitation of research and development
  programmes,
• environmental protection,
• public procurement.

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CEN

• COMPOSITION OF CEN
• MEMBERS
• National standard bodies of the European Union
  and some Eastern European Countries.
• One of their activities is making up the
  delegates to the technical committees by finding
  expertise in each country.
• ASSOCIATES
• Broad-based European organisations representing
  particular sectors of
• industry
• consumers
• environmentalist
• workers
• small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

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Experts

• The experts should be representative and come
  from a variety of backgrounds including
• industry,
• government,
• academic,
• special interest groups.

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Academia
Academia could be an important input/stakeholder
for participation in the standardisation process
for two reasons

• because of its innovative-technical expertise as
  a guide for the standardisation development
• diffusion-teaching of the standardisation
  contents.

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The standardisation process
GUIDE FOR THE STANDARDISATION PROCESS DEVELOPMENT

• In the University fundamental and applied
  research is performed and future developments of
  technologies and processes are traced.
• The science and the academy have ever been
  considered super partes. The presence of the
  academia into the standardisation committees
  guarantees equanimity in the normation
  development among producers and producers and
  producers and consumers.

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The standardisation process
GUIDE FOR THE STANDARDISATION PROCESS DEVELOPMENT

• The standardisation process has to be an added
  value for a firm a not to be a constraint. The
  academia guarantee a standardisation capable to
  adapt to innovation and growth exigencies of the
  enterprises and markets.
• The research centres open to the business are
  able to be observation points of the innovation
  processes and contributing to the standardisation
  processes.
• The universities can be filters in respect to the
  enterprises privacy.

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Process Engineering Department G.B. Bonino
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The standardisation process
GUIDE FOR THE STANDARDISATION PROCESS DEVELOPMENT
To bring this role to the end in effective way,
some exigencies have to be taken in account

1. time and methods of consultation have to allow
   the technical evaluation of the single
   standardisation
2. creating a structure informing universities and
   research centres about standardisation processes
   in each research field may be interesting
3. an internet network or a forum where the
   researches results that interest standardisation
   processes would be advisable
4. possibility of the activation of specific and
   dedicated research or investigations
5. possibility of carrying on consultations at
   different levels.

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The standardisation process
DIFFUSION-TEACHING OF THE STANDARDISATION CONTENTS

• One of the institutional aims of academia is
  teaching.
• Students are the end-users of standards and
  their knowledge of standardisation systems could
  be helpful.
• The comprehension interpretation of the
  standardisation contents represents one of its
  main difficulties.
• The academia, by its instruments and languages,
  could simplify the normation language, making the
  comprehension of the normation applicability to
  specific situations easier.

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The standardisation process
To bring this role to the end in effective way,
some exigencies have to be taken in account
It is necessary to revise the normation drawing
up processes and to provide intermediate/final
phases of the text simplification that could be
prepared by experts not participating the
normation process
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The standardisation process
The integration of environmental aspects into
European standardisation PUBLIC CONSULTATION
60 written participation on the website by
stakeholder from 10 EU Countries and China
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The standardisation process
Catalogue of academic institutions involved in
research and training related to standardisation
Country Number Economic Technical Research Teaching
Germany 7 3 4 7 4
Greece 2 0 2 1 1
Lithuania 2 2 0 2 2
Malta 1 0 1 1 1
Sweden 1 0 1 1 1
The Nederlands 4 0 4 4 3
U.K. 4 3 1 3 2
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INTEND Project
INTEND Project

• Definition of an Environmental Product
  Declaration system that can be applied at
  international level and its implementation in two
  pilot countries (Sweden and Italy).

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Objectives
INTEND Project

• To identify and experiment an Environmental
  Product Declaration (EPD) system, according to
  ISO TR 14025, structured with an international
  scheme framework, defined by identification of
  coordination and harmonisation rules among
  national schemes.
• To test the EPD international system in two pilot
  countries (Sweden and Italy).
• To diffuse the main characteristics at European
  and international level, also to candidate
  countries.
• To give the opportunity and the tools to Member
  States and candidate countries to cooperate in
  the implementation of an international system
  composed by national sub-systems.
• To diffuse the knowledge of type III
  Environmental Claims and to educate technicians
  on them.
• To increase peoples knowledge and sensitiveness
  on products (goods and services) environmental
  aspects.

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INTEND Project
INTEND Project

• The INTEND project has been chosen for the 2003
  LIFE funding by the European Commission.
• Ref. N. LIFE03 ENV/IT/000324

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PCR
PCR Product Category Rules
Parts of EPD information usually differ somewhat
for various product groups and service types, due
to variations in their inherent environmental
performance, so-called product-category rules
(PCR) may have to be prepared from case to case
to ensure comparability between declarations
within specific product groups and service types.
The PCR shall define the criteria according to
which a product belongs to a specific category,
for which parameters are set out to prepare the
EPDs.
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PCR
The PCR document for a product shall include the
following arguments 1. Choice and definition of
the product category, 2. A lists of materials or
substances contained in the product, to be
indicated in the declaration (content
declaration), 3. Choice and definition of
functional unit, 4. Choice and description of
system boundaries, 5. Choice of specific cut-off
criteria, 6. Choice of allocation
rules, 7. Choice of underlying data, to indicate
specific and generic data, 8. Choice of selected
parameters for description of environmental
performance (additional to the ones to be
included in the general format), 9. Description
of the type of information to be included in the
use and end-of-life phases, 10. Choice of
quantities and units in which the results are to
be expressed, 11. Additional environmental
parameters and information relevant for
describing the environmental performance of the
product category, as appropriate. If any of these
issues are not considered, this shall be
justified.
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INTEND Project
Evaluation of the EPD system applicability in
Italy - PILOT PROJECTS
Product Company Experts Certification Bodies
Transformer ABB DNV
Low voltage swithgears ABB RINA
Urban Waste landfill disposal ACAM DICheP RINA
Portable Chain Saw EMAK Consulta DNV
Wind Energy ENEL Ecobilancio Certiquality
Particle board SAIB FEBE Ecologic Certiquality
Ceramic tiles Coop. Ceramica Imola Centro Ceramico ICMQ
Copying Paper Cartiera Favini Ecobilancio DNV
Cement Buzzi Unicem IGEAM ICMQ
TDM Switch Italtel LCE RINA
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INTEND Project
EPD international system application in Italy
Product Company Expert Certification Body
Geothermal energy ENEL Ecobilancio Certiquality
Expanded clay Laterlite EHS Gestione DNV
Electrical energy distribution AEM EHS Gestione RINA
TDM Switch ITALTEL LCE RINA
Wastewater treatment service Consorzio Depurazione Acque Savona DICheP RINA
Low voltage electrical apparatus ABB - RINA
Low Voltage circuit breakers ABB - RINA
Plastic material Novamont Macroscopio Certiquality
Product in plastic Euro3Plast Ecobilancio DNV
Active principle Bracco EHS Gestione Certiquality
Transport with electrical engine Micro-Vett Macroscopio RINA
Cork stopper Company Cork EHS Gestione RINA
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CE.SI.SP.
CE.SI.SPCentro per lo SiIluppo della
Sostenibilità dei ProdottiCentre for the
development of products sustainability
University of Genoa
Polytechnic of Turin
S. Anna Advanced School of Pisa
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Centre for the Development of Products
Sustainability OBJECTIVES
CE.SI.SP.

• Exclusive tasks of the Centre are
• Research
• Training
• Scientific collaboration in the product
  sustainability sector
• Particularly
• Promoting and e coordinating research
  methodological activities and applied to
  following fields
• Environmental Product Declarations (EPD, ISO
  14025), LCA and ECO-Design
• Integrated Product Policies
• Sustainability Innovation and Marketing
• Promoting activities targeting to forming
  researchers in this sector
• supporting information and knowledge trade
  between researchers, also with collaboration with
  others Institutes and University Departments,
  with national and international research bodies

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Centre for the Development of Products
Sustainability OBJECTIVES
CE.SI.SP.

• Promoting potential external diffusion of the
  acknowledgment of the Centre with scientific
  spreading actions, meetings, workshops,
  symposiums, schools and collaborations in
  research and development activities
• Carrying out scientific support and research
  activities towards Public bodies and/or private
  structures for sector development
• Promoting diffusion and strengthening in Italy
  of International System for EPD management,
  provisionally acting as ACB (Auxiliary Competent
  Body) with scientific support role.

Prof. Eng. Marco Del Borghi Chemical and
Process Engineering Department G.B. Bonino