New EAA EPD programme according to EN15804

Recently, the EAA programme rules and the products category rules (PCR) have been updated in order to be aligned with the requirements of the new European standards EN 15804 “Sustainability of construction works. Environmental product declarations. Core rules for the product category of construction products”. As required by ISI14025, this update has been reviewed by an external review panel.

The new EAA programme rules define more precisely the organisation and the functioning of the PCR review panel. More precise rules for the verification of an EPD software are also defined.
Organisation of the new EAA EPD programme

The new Product category rules have been aligned to the EN15804 requirements. Additional rules mainly address:

- The procedure related to the verification of an EPD software (instead of a static EPD);
- The provision of consolidated EPDs developed in the frame of a building project, i.e. EPD calculated for a set of building products and not for a single building product; and
- The compulsory provision of scenario and data for the end of life stage, including the additional benefits of end of life recycling as reported in the so-called “Module D”.

Finally, the review statement reports the details of the reviewing procedure performed by the external review panel.

A new EPD software is currently under development in order to develop EPD in accordance to these new PCR document.