MARCO DEL BORGHI

1. DICheP - University of Genoa Standardisation - Workshop on 02 December 2005, Brussels, BelgiumThe challenge of stakeholder involvement in order to integrate environmental aspects into European standardisationHow can academics and research access standardisation and promote their concepts and innovation Faculty of Engineering University of Genoa MARCO DEL BORGHI

2. Standards Standards are documented, voluntary agreements establishing important criteria, for product, services and processes. Standards help to make sure that products and services are fit for their purposes, comparable and compatible. Prof. Eng. Marco Del Borghi – Chemical and Process Engineering Department “G.B. Bonino”

3. CEN • CEN, the EuropeanCommittee for Standardisation, is contributing to the objectives of EU and E.E. areas with voluntary technical standards promoting: • free trade, • safety of workers and consumers, • interoperability of networks, • exploitation of research and development programmes, • environmental protection, • public procurement. Prof. Eng. Marco Del Borghi – Chemical and Process Engineering Department “G.B. Bonino”

4. CEN • COMPOSITION OF CEN • MEMBERS • National standard bodies of the European Union and some Eastern European Countries. • One of their activities is making up the delegates to the technical committees by finding expertise in each country. • ASSOCIATES • Broad-based European organisations representing particular sectors of: • industry; • consumers; • environmentalist; • workers; • small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Prof. Eng. Marco Del Borghi – Chemical and Process Engineering Department “G.B. Bonino”

5. Experts • The experts should be representative and come from a variety of backgrounds including: • industry, • government, • academic, • special interest groups. Prof. Eng. Marco Del Borghi – Chemical and Process Engineering Department “G.B. Bonino”

6. Academia Academia could be an important input/stakeholder for participation in the standardisation process for two reasons: • because of its innovative-technical expertise as a guide for the standardisation development; • diffusion-teaching of the standardisation contents. Prof. Eng. Marco Del Borghi – Chemical and Process Engineering Department “G.B. Bonino”

7. The standardisation process GUIDE FOR THE STANDARDISATION PROCESS DEVELOPMENT • In the University fundamental and applied research is performed and future developments of technologies and processes are traced. • The science and the academy have ever been considered “super partes”. The presence of the academia into the standardisation committees guarantees equanimity in the normation development among producers and producers and producers and consumers. Prof. Eng. Marco Del Borghi – Chemical and Process Engineering Department “G.B. Bonino”

8. The standardisation process GUIDE FOR THE STANDARDISATION PROCESS DEVELOPMENT • The standardisation process has to be an added value for a firm a not to be a constraint. The academia guarantee a standardisation capable to adapt to innovation and growth exigencies of the enterprises and markets. • The research centres open to the business are able to be observation points of the innovation processes and contributing to the standardisation processes. • The universities can be filters in respect to the enterprises privacy. Prof. Eng. Marco Del Borghi – Chemical and Process Engineering Department “G.B. Bonino”

9. The standardisation process GUIDE FOR THE STANDARDISATION PROCESS DEVELOPMENT To bring this role to the end in effective way, some exigencies have to be taken in account: • time and methods of consultation have to allow the technical evaluation of the single standardisation; • creating a structure informing universities and research centres about standardisation processes in each research field may be interesting; • an internet network or a forum where the researches results that interest standardisation processes would be advisable; • possibility of the activation of specific and dedicated research or investigations; • possibility of carrying on consultations at different levels. Prof. Eng. Marco Del Borghi – Chemical and Process Engineering Department “G.B. Bonino”

10. The standardisation process DIFFUSION-TEACHING OF THE STANDARDISATION CONTENTS • One of the institutional aims of academia is teaching. • Students are the end-users of standards and their knowledge of standardisation systems could be helpful. • The comprehension interpretation of the standardisation contents represents one of its main difficulties. • The academia, by its instruments and languages, could simplify the normation language, making the comprehension of the normation applicability to specific situations easier. Prof. Eng. Marco Del Borghi – Chemical and Process Engineering Department “G.B. Bonino”

11. The standardisation process To bring this role to the end in effective way, some exigencies have to be taken in account It is necessary to revise the normation drawing up processes and to provide intermediate/final phases of the text simplification that could be prepared by experts not participating the normation process Prof. Eng. Marco Del Borghi – Chemical and Process Engineering Department “G.B. Bonino”

12. The standardisation process The integration of environmental aspects into European standardisation PUBLIC CONSULTATION 60 written participation on the website by stakeholder from 10 EU Countries and China Prof. Eng. Marco Del Borghi – Chemical and Process Engineering Department “G.B. Bonino”

13. The standardisation process Catalogue of academic institutions involved in research and training related to standardisation Prof. Eng. Marco Del Borghi – Chemical and Process Engineering Department “G.B. Bonino”

14. INTEND Project INTEND Project Definition of an Environmental Product Declaration system that can be applied atinternational level and its implementation in two pilot countries (Sweden and Italy). Prof. Eng. Marco Del Borghi – Chemical and Process Engineering Department “G.B. Bonino”

15. INTEND Project Objectives • To identify and experiment an Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) system, according to ISO TR 14025, structured with an international scheme framework, defined by identification of coordination and harmonisation rules among national schemes. • To test the EPD international system in two pilot countries (Sweden and Italy). • To diffuse the main characteristics at European and international level, also to candidate countries. • To give the opportunity and the tools to Member States and candidate countries to cooperate in the implementation of an international system composed by national sub-systems. • To diffuse the knowledge of type III Environmental Claims and to educate technicians on them. • To increase people’s knowledge and sensitiveness on products (goods and services) environmental aspects. Prof. Eng. Marco Del Borghi – Chemical and Process Engineering Department “G.B. Bonino”

16. INTEND Project INTEND Project The INTEND project has been chosen for the 2003 LIFE funding by the European Commission. Ref. N. LIFE03 ENV/IT/000324 Prof. Eng. Marco Del Borghi – Chemical and Process Engineering Department “G.B. Bonino”

17. PCR PCR – Product Category Rules Parts of EPD information usually differ somewhat for various product groups and service types, due to variations in their inherent environmental performance, so-called product-category rules (PCR) may have to be prepared from case to case to ensure comparability between declarations within specific product groups and service types. The PCR shall define the criteria according to which a product belongs to a specific category, for which parameters are set out to prepare the EPDs. Prof. Eng. Marco Del Borghi – Chemical and Process Engineering Department “G.B. Bonino”

18. PCR The PCR document for a product shall include the following arguments: 1. Choice and definition of the product category, 2. A lists of materials or substances contained in the product, to be indicated in the declaration (content declaration), 3. Choice and definition of functional unit, 4. Choice and description of system boundaries, 5. Choice of specific cut-off criteria, 6. Choice of allocation rules, 7. Choice of underlying data, to indicate specific and generic data, 8. Choice of selected parameters for description of environmental performance (additional to the ones to be included in the general format), 9. Description of the type of information to be included in the use and end-of-life phases, 10. Choice of quantities and units in which the results are to be expressed, 11. Additional environmental parameters and information relevant for describing the environmental performance of the product category, as appropriate. If any of these issues are not considered, this shall be justified.

19. INTEND Project Evaluation of the EPD system applicability in Italy - PILOT PROJECTS Prof. Eng. Marco Del Borghi – Chemical and Process Engineering Department “G.B. Bonino”

20. INTEND Project EPD international system application in Italy

21. CE.SI.SP. CE.SI.SPCentro per lo SiIluppo della Sostenibilità dei ProdottiCentre for the development of products sustainability University of Genoa Polytechnic of Turin S. Anna Advanced School of Pisa Prof. Eng. Marco Del Borghi – Chemical and Process Engineering Department “G.B. Bonino”

22. CE.SI.SP. Centre for the Development of Products Sustainability OBJECTIVES • Exclusive tasks of the Centre are: • Research • Training • Scientific collaboration in the product sustainability sector • Particularly: • Promoting and e coordinating research methodological activities and applied to following fields: • Environmental Product Declarations (EPD, ISO 14025), LCA and ECO-Design • Integrated Product Policies • Sustainability Innovation and Marketing • Promoting activities targeting to forming researchers in this sector • supporting information and knowledge trade between researchers, also with collaboration with others Institutes and University Departments, with national and international research bodies Prof. Eng. Marco Del Borghi – Chemical and Process Engineering Department “G.B. Bonino”

23. CE.SI.SP. Centre for the Development of Products Sustainability OBJECTIVES • Promoting potential external diffusion of the acknowledgment of the Centre with scientific spreading actions, meetings, workshops, symposiums, schools and collaborations in research and development activities • Carrying out scientific support and research activities towards Public bodies and/or private structuresfor sector development • Promoting diffusion and strengthening in Italy of International System for EPD management, provisionally acting as ACB (Auxiliary Competent Body) with scientific support role. Prof. Eng. Marco Del Borghi – Chemical and Process Engineering Department “G.B. Bonino”