Introduction

In 2013, the European Commission adopted the Product and Organisation Environmental Footprint (PEF and OEF) methods, suggesting public and private organisations to use them for measuring and communicating the life cycle environmental performance of products and organisations[1].

In adopting this Recommendation, the objective of the European Commission was to overcome the fragmentation of the internal market as regards different available methods for measuring environmental performance.

Based on the methods, the European Commission started a pilot phase in order to test:

• the development of product group and sector-specific calculation rules (Product Environmental Footprint Category Rules and Organisation Environmental Footprint Sector Rules) through a process open to any stakeholder;
  
• the development of benchmarks: this corresponds to the environmental performance of the average product/ organisation on the market and is the starting point for comparing between similar products and organisations;
• approaches to verify Environmental Footprint information;
• approaches to communicate Environmental Footprint information to consumers and to other company stakeholders (e.g. business partners, investors, NGOs, etc.).

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