ISO 14020:2022
Environmental statements and programmes for products — Principles and general requirements
This document establishes principles and specifies general requirements that are applicable to all types of product-related environmental statements and environmental statement programmes. Environmental statements result from environmental statement programmes and include self-declared environmental claims, ecolabels, environmental product declarations (EPDs) and footprint communications.
This document is intended to be used in conjunction with other standards in the ISO 14020 family.
NOTE Those other standards contain additional terms and definitions, principles and requirements that are relevant to their specific scopes.
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Foreword
Introduction
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
3.1 Terms related to the environment
3.2 Terms related to environmental statements
3.3 Terms related to programmes
3.4 Terms related to life cycle
3.5 Terms related to conformity assessment of environmental statements
4 Principles
4.1 General
4.2 Credibility
4.2.1 Principle
4.2.2 Rationale
4.3 Evidence-based methodology
4.3.1 Principle
4.3.2 Rationale
4.4 Transparency and availability
4.4.1 Principle
4.4.2 Rationale
4.5 Confidentiality
4.5.1 Principle
4.5.2 Rationale
4.6 Life cycle perspective
4.6.1 Principle
4.6.2 Rationale
4.7 Environmental performance improvement and innovation
4.7.1 Principle
4.7.2 Rationale
4.8 Accessibility and avoidance of unnecessary information and administrative demands
4.8.1 Principle
4.8.2 Rationale
4.9 Interested parties and consultation
4.9.1 Principle
4.9.2 Rationale
4.10 Voluntary
4.10.1 Principle
4.10.2 Rationale
4.11 Regionality
4.11.1 Principle
4.11.2 Rationale
5 Types of environmental statements
5.1 General
5.2 Self-declared environmental claim
5.3 Ecolabel
5.4 Environmental product declaration
5.5 Footprint communication
5.6 Other types of environmental statement
6 General requirements for environmental statement programmes
6.1 Environmental statement programme
6.2 Environmental statement programme owner and operator
6.3 Involvement of interested parties
6.4 Scope of programme, responsible parties and intended audiences
6.5 Specified requirements and criteria
6.6 Quantification methodologies, data quality and reporting
6.7 Conformity assessment
6.8 Format of environmental statements, reporting and publication
6.9 Changes or revisions to environmental statement programmes, specified requirements and criteria and environmental statements
7 General requirements for environmental statements
7.1 General
7.2 Vague or non-specific statements
7.3 Statements of sustainability
7.4 Comparative environmental statements
7.5 Use of supporting information
7.6 Use of symbols and graphics in environmental statements
7.7 Other information or statements
Annex A (informative) Example of a simple environmental statement programme for a self-declared environmental claim
Bibliography
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Foreword
Introduction
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
3.1 Terms related to the environment
3.2 Terms related to environmental statements
3.3 Terms related to programmes
3.4 Terms related to life cycle
3.5 Terms related to conformity assessment of environmental statements
4 Principles
4.1 General
4.2 Credibility
4.2.1 Principle
4.2.2 Rationale
4.3 Evidence-based methodology
4.3.1 Principle
4.3.2 Rationale
4.4 Transparency and availability
4.4.1 Principle
4.4.2 Rationale
4.5 Confidentiality
4.5.1 Principle
4.5.2 Rationale
4.6 Life cycle perspective
4.6.1 Principle
4.6.2 Rationale
4.7 Environmental performance improvement and innovation
4.7.1 Principle
4.7.2 Rationale
4.8 Accessibility and avoidance of unnecessary information and administrative demands
4.8.1 Principle
4.8.2 Rationale
4.9 Interested parties and consultation
4.9.1 Principle
4.9.2 Rationale
4.10 Voluntary
4.10.1 Principle
4.10.2 Rationale
4.11 Regionality
4.11.1 Principle
4.11.2 Rationale
5 Types of environmental statements
5.1 General
5.2 Self-declared environmental claim
5.3 Ecolabel
5.4 Environmental product declaration
5.5 Footprint communication
5.6 Other types of environmental statement
6 General requirements for environmental statement programmes
6.1 Environmental statement programme
6.2 Environmental statement programme owner and operator
6.3 Involvement of interested parties
6.4 Scope of programme, responsible parties and intended audiences
6.5 Specified requirements and criteria
6.6 Quantification methodologies, data quality and reporting
6.7 Conformity assessment
6.8 Format of environmental statements, reporting and publication
6.9 Changes or revisions to environmental statement programmes, specified requirements and criteria and environmental statements
7 General requirements for environmental statements
7.1 General
7.2 Vague or non-specific statements
7.3 Statements of sustainability
7.4 Comparative environmental statements
7.5 Use of supporting information
7.6 Use of symbols and graphics in environmental statements
7.7 Other information or statements
Annex A (informative) Example of a simple environmental statement programme for a self-declared environmental claim
Bibliography