scope:

This voluntary European standard provides product category rules for Type III environmental declarations for all European construction products and services.
The PCR:
. defines the indicators and other parameters to be declared and the way in which they are collated and reported,
. includes the rules for calculating the Life Cycle Assessment, Life Cycle Inventory or the information
modules underlying an EPD, including the specification of the quality of the applied data,
. describes which stages of a product's life cycle are considered in the EPD and which processes are
included in the life cycle stages,
. defines rules for the development of scenarios,
. includes the rules for calculating and reporting any relevant additional environmental information for a product, construction process and service where necessary,
. defines the conditions under which construction products can be compared based on the information provided by EPD.
For the EPD of services the same rules and requirements apply as for the EPD of construction products.
NOTE In this standard the EPD is an abbreviation for 'environmental product declaration', which is intended to be synonymous with the designation 'Type III environmental declaration'. In the practice of developing Type III environmental declarations, programs or their declarations are referred to by various names such as eco-profile, environmental declaration of product, environmental product declaration (EPD), or environmental profile.