Environmental declaration in compliance with ISO 14025 thanks to a collaborative program of electrical and electronic industry: The PEP ecopassport program

The need for environmental product impacts information in the electrical, electronic and HVAC-R (heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, refrigeration) equipment industry has merged, due in particular to carbon footprint or Eco design directives increasing requirements based on life cycle assessments. To ensure fair market and reliable information, these environmental declarations should be in compliance with ISO 14025 [1]. Then, the electrical industry stakeholders, on a voluntary basis and with a consensus approach have developed a program called PEP ecopassport. This program, designed for international EEE, ensures compliance with the standard 14025 and provides the detailed rules for electrical equipment. It carries reflections on the harmonization of environmental indicators for the benefit of downstream users, such as the association for high environmental quality of buildings. The ambition of the program is to provide a common framework to describe the performance environment with a robust LCA. This program is being piloted by a non-profit association. The role of this PEP association is to develop internationally the environmental declaration program PEP ecopassport concerning electrical, electronic and HVAC products. In this paper we develop rules for making PEP according to PEP ecopassport and we make recommendations to achieve the goal of PEP ecopassport program in the context of a medium voltage circuit breaker.