ISO - DIS 14071
Environmental management — Life cycle assessment — Critical review processes and reviewer competencies: Additional requirements and guidelines to ISO 14044:2006
Organization: | ISO |
Publication Date: | 2 November 2023 |
Status: | pending |
Page Count: | 17 |
ICS Code (Product life-cycles): | 13.020.60 |
scope:
This document provides additional requirements and guidelines to ISO14040:2006 and ISO14044:2006. It provides requirements and guidelines for conducting a critical review of any type of LCA study and the competencies required for the review.
This document provides:
- details of a critical review process, including clarification with regard to ISO 14044:2006;
- guidelines to deliver the required critical review process, linked to the goal of the life cycle assessment (LCA) and its intended use;
- content and deliverables of the critical review process;
- guidelines to improve the consistency, transparency, efficiency and credibility of the critical review process;
- the required competencies for the reviewer(s) (internal, external and panel member);
- the required competencies to be represented by the panel as a whole.
This document does not cover the applications of LCA (as illustrated in ISO 14040:2006, Figure 1).