Standards Development

Scope

This document provides product specific rules (PSR), requirements and guidelines on how to conduct life cycle assessments (LCA) to prepare environmental product declarations (EPD) for luminaires. This document complements the product category rules (PCR) for electronic and electrical products and systems (EEPS) of IEC 63366 ED1, further specifying e.g. functional units and default scenarios in the luminaire specific context. This document provides common rules for: a) LCA; b) the LCA report;

Purpose

The environmental impact of lighting products and systems has become increasingly important to interested parties like customers and regulators.

In addition to qualitative approaches such as environmentally conscious design, there is an increased demand for quantitative information about the potential environmental impact throughout the full life cycle of products and systems. This has generated the need for globally harmonized rules for the underlying Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to provide robust and consistent quantitative environmental information about lighting products and systems.

To support this quantification, ISO 14025 “Environmental labels and declarations — Type III environmental declarations — Principles and procedures” offers a high-level method for the specification of Product Category Rules (PCR), which sets minimum quality standards for LCA to create an Environmental Product Declaration (EPD). For Electrical and Electronic Products and Systems (EEPS), IEC 63366 ED1 “Product category rules for life cycle assessment of electrical and electronic products and systems” is under development by IEC/TC 111 to serve as a horizontal standard for PCR.

Internationally standardized Product Specific Rules (PSR) are needed for lighting products and systems to complement the PCR specified in IEC 63366 ED1. The present new work item proposal addresses the development of a first lighting PSR standard specifically for luminaires.