Standards Development

Scope

This document provides general requirements and guidance used to structure data supporting information sharing on Circular Economy aspects throughout value networks. 

This document supports interoperability when exchanging product circularity data and information between organisations and between organizations and users.

This document will complement aspects addressed in other standards such as related to Data exchange protocols. 

This document will not overlap with aspects related to Digital Product Passport (DPP) framework and system.

This document is not addressing which information is relevant for a specific product-group.

Purpose

One hindrance for a circular economy is the lack of information on products, materials and resources throughout value networks. For an efficient and transparent sharing of circularity data and information, a harmonized understanding of the content to be transferred is needed between different industries/sectors in the value network. This will significantly increase the interoperability between (different) stakeholders and therefore decrease the burden for conforming to future product, material or resource information requirements contained in regulations such as Ecodesign for Sustainable Product Regulation (ESPR). Sharing circularity data and information can potentially contribute to improve the circularity performance of provided products and to minimize individual burdens for suppliers, acquires and users. This document is meant to facilitate and ease sharing circularity data and information in a value network effectively and efficiently. Several existing or upcoming regulations require data and information sharing. Those regulations are e.g. Critical Raw Materials Act, ESPR, Toy Safety Directives, Detergents Regulations, Packaging and Packaging waste, ESRS or construction products. To fulfil the upcoming legal requirements and avoid an increase in costs and efforts for actors in the value networks, harmonized data is needed. Harmonized data require a common understanding what the content is, e.g. how is a specific parameter measured. Common understanding and harmonized data can be achieved by leveraging existing standards as a reference for specific parameters, e.g. EN IEC 63000 for hazardous substances and IEC/ISO/FDIS 82474-1 “Material declaration - Part 1: General requirements”. To ensure machine readability and interoperability between different information sharing systems, a harmonized structure is needed. This will be ensured by following the common data dictionary approach of IEC 61360-1 (Standard data element types with associated classification scheme - Part 1: Definitions - Principles and methods). Note: The IEC 61360 series of standards is being worked on in the IEC-ISO joint working group Joint ISO/TC 184/SC 4 - IEC SC3D WG: Use of IEC CDD for ISO data dictionaries and ontologies. The parameters provided in this document include all product parameters listed in Annex I of the ESPR, are product agnostic and can be used in a pick-and-choose approach to be tailored for a specific product/product-group. The parameters will be provided in the form of modules to be easily included in IEC/ISO 82474-1, at a later stage. The product parameters will follow the structure provided in IEC 61360-1 to allow for interoperability with various systems. This document covers both, data of products and information for stakeholders within the value networks and structures those along the life cycle of a product.