scope:

This document provides product category rules (PCR) for Type III environmental declarations for:

- Building hardware products for opening and closing doors, gates, windows and shutters:

- Lever handles and knob furniture (EN 1906);

- Single-axis hinges (EN 1935);

- Hardware for windows and door height windows (EN 13126 (all parts));

- Fittings for shutters (e.g. EN 14648);

- Controlled door closing devices, electrically powered hold-open devices for swing doors and door coordinator devices (EN 1154, EN 1155, EN 1158);

- Hardware for sliding doors, folding doors and roll fronts (EN 1527, EN 15706);

- Glass door gear;

- Building hardware products for locking and unlocking doors, gates, windows and shutters:

- Mechanically operated locks and locking plates, multipoint locks, latches and locking plates (EN 12209, EN 15685¹);

- Cylinders for locks (EN 1303);

- Padlocks and padlock fittings (EN 12320);

- Mechanically operated push-button locksets (BS 8607);

- Emergency exit devices operated by a lever handle or push pad, for use on escape routes and panic exit devices operated by a horizontal bar, for use on escape routes (EN 179, EN 1125);

- Electromechanical building hardware products:

- Mechatronic cylinders (EN 15684);

- Mechatronic padlocks (EN 16864);

- Mechatronic door furniture (EN 16867);

- Electromechanically operated locks and striking plates (EN 14846);

- Electrically controlled exit systems for use on escape routes (EN 13637).

This document complements the core rules for the product category of construction products as defined in the European standard EN 15804:2012+A2:2019.

NOTE The assessment of social and economic performances at product level is not covered by this document.

The core PCR:

- defines the parameters to be declared and the way in which they are collated and reported;

- describes which stages of a product's life cycle are considered in the EPD and which processes are to be included in the life cycle stages;

- defines rules for the development of scenarios;

- includes the rules for calculating the Life Cycle Inventory and the Life Cycle Impact Assessment underlying the EPD, including the specification of the data quality to be applied;

- includes the rules for reporting the predetermined, environmental and health information that is not covered by Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) for the product, construction process(es) and construction service(s), as relevant;

- defines the conditions under which construction products can be compared based on the information provided by EPD.

For the EPD of construction services the same rules and requirements apply as for the EPD of construction products.

¹ Under preparation. Stage at the time of publication: prEN 15685:2022